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THE NASHVILLE GLOBE. Vol. IV. GIANT CRACKERS AND TOY PISTOLS PLAY CONSPICUOUS PART, MEN AND WOMEN IN THE NUMBER—FRIEND KILLS FRIEND WITH PISTOL — NUMBER OF DRUNKS NOT AS NUMEROUS AS IN YEARS—PAST CASUALTIES DUE TO RECKLESS USE OF FIREWORKS—SHOOTING ON SIXTEENTH AVENUE, NORTH—ALBERT ROSS STABBED IN NECK BY UNKNOWN PARTY. Out of thirteen casualties that have come to public notice in this city since the eve of the holidays, eight are Negroes. The most of these cases were the result of the reckless use of fireworks, and shows the danger there is in these annoying articles. The list of injured and dead is as follows: George Spratt, 229 Third avenue, South, burned about face by explosion of toy cannon. Henry Davis, age 23, 1813 Sixth avenue, North; accidentally shot in abdomen, condition serious. Alice Spratt, aged 12, 1009 Eighth avenue, North, accidentally shot in hand with toy pistol. Albert Ross, age 39, living near Jefferson street and Sixteenth avenue, stabbed in neck. Luther Williams, shot in leg. William Crosby, shot in leg. Christmas day yielded its annual crop of casualties. The list, as compiled from the reports of the various local hospitals, shows one death and a dozen injuries. The giant cannon cracker, as usual heads the list of destructive agents, and it is followed closely by the pistol and toy cannon. At the police station the day was past with but few arrests recorded, and while most of these were for drunkenness, still the officers state that Nashville's first "dry" Christmas exhibited a considerable improvement over previous December twenty-fifths. TRAGEDY AT CHRISTMAS GATHERING. The tragedy of the day was enacted shortly after noon at the home of Goo, W. Robards, at No. 1135 Gay street. Jim Milam, the victim of the unfortunate affair, had come, with his wife, to eat Christmas dinner with Robards, the two being old friends. It was after the two had gone out in the back yard to indulge in target practice with Robards' pistol and had returned to the house that the owner of the weapon pointed the revolver at Milan and shot the latter through the heart. They had been awaiting the call to the dinner table. "I thought the pistol was empty and pointed it at Jim in a spirit of fun," Robards told the officers. "I snapped it a number of times and it didn't go off after we had gone back into the house, then the last time it fired and the bullet struck Jim in the heart," continued Robards. Robards was arrested by Detectives Norton and Vaughn and Patrolman Hodre on a charge of murder. Henry Watson, a waiter at the Watauga Club for more than twenty-three years, sustained the loss of his right hand yesterday morning through the careless handling of a giant cracker. Watson was on his way home, and had lighted the cracker and thrown it into the street. As it failed to explode promptly, he walked to where it lay and picked it up. Just then the explosion took place, and three fingers were torn off by the concussion. The victim of the accident was hurried to Mercy Hospital, where his lacerated hand was amputated by Dr. Stewart. George Spratt, 229 Third avenue, South, was seriously burned about the face and eyes by the explosion of a toy cannon. Henry Davis, 1813 Sixth avenue, North. lies in a serious condition at the City Hospital as the result of a bullet wound in the abdomen. The shooting was accidental, and according to all reports, Davis shot himself. NASHVILLE, TENN., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1909. In spite of an operation, which was performed last night, the victim of the shooting is not expected to live. Little Alice Spratt, 1009 Eighth avenue, North, was injured Saturday afternoon by a flying cap from a toy pistol. Albert Ross was stabbed in the neck and painfully injured at a late hour Friday night by an unknown party. Ross was set upon near the corner of Sixteenth avenue and Jefferson street. Luther Williams and William Crosby are at the City Hospital suffering from bullet wounds in their legs as the result of an encounter with Will Hodges on lower Broadway Friday night. Hodges was arrested Saturday night by Patrolmen Howington and Burns, and was arraigned in the City Court Monday. SIDE WITH WHITE STRIKERS. Resolutions adopted by Brooklyn Citizens Against Negro Girls Taking Places of Striking Shirtwaist Workers. A meeting of the Negro citizens of Brooklyn was held at the Fleet Street A. M. E. Zion Church Friday evening pursuant to a call issued by the Cosmopolitan Club, at which the part the Negro women are playing in the shirtwaist makers' strike now in progress was discussed. The meeting was well attended by both men and women of color. Three of the white girl strikers were present and told the story of their difficulties in picketing against a number of Negro girls who have been brought in under guard by the employing shirtwaist makers. The chief speaker was Mr. Malley of the Consumers' League, who is an organizer and who is helping the strikers in their efforts. He told of his thrilling experiences in 1894 while organizing the Negro miners in Alabama. He explained some of the things for which the striking shirt waist makers are contending, and brought out two main points: First, that the women in this great strike were having to organize all workers in the shops; secondly, that they would welcome the Negro women into their ranks, since it was a fight of wage earners without regard to race, color or creed. The meeting was then thrown open for questions and discussions. After several remarks pro and con and some pointed questions, to which the principal speaker responded, a resolution was introduced as follows: "Resolved, That the Negro citizens of Brooklyn in mass meeting assembled protest and urge the women of color to refrain from acting in the capacity of strike breakers in the shirtwaist making concerns of New York City, because we regard their action as antagonistic to the best interests of labor. "We further urge that in the event of the successful termination of the strike that organized labor exercise a proper consideration of the claims and demands of the men and women of color who desire to enter the various trades in the way of employment and the protection of the various labor unions." The discussion on the resolution did not bring out clearly that should the colored women take sides with the strikers instead of with the employers that they would be helped in the matter of work in case of success of the strikers. However, when the chairman called for a vote the resolution was adopted by a decided majority vote. Dr. Reverdy C. Ranson, who was scheduled to speak, sent a letter of regret, owing to a previous engagement. He raised pointedly the question as to whether the strikers would give a return, if successful, to the colored women, who now should give co-operation. Miss Mary White Ovington presided during the first part of the meeting until the arrival of the chairman, Attorney D. Macon Webster. MARRIAGES. Joseph Baugh and Lena Gleaves. Jack Davis and Mattie McGuire. James Buckman and Addie G. Bills. William Shoffner and Anna Cannon. Ed Davis and Laura Rutledge. Ike Pergeor and May Rankin. George Franklin and Stella Coleman. West Harris and Lula Dorris. Wade White and Lucy Hunt. Tom Watkins, Jr., and Ida Kling. Robert Weakley and Fannie Spence. William Hamlet and Eula Kidd. Isaac Mays and Josie Battle. Mrs. Louis D. Bumbrey spent Tuesday in Columbia, Tenn., the guest of her nieces, Little Loutrell and Odell Taylor. READY AND WAITING BUT NOT AS THE MOB HAD ORDERED. Sheriff of Belleville, Ill., Stands His Ground. DEFIES MURDEROUS MOB THAT WOULD LYNCH HIS PRISONER—ARMS FIFTY DEPUTIES AND STATIONS THEM IN THE JAIL—SENDS SPECIAL INVITATION TO THE WOULD-BE ASSASSINS—THEY TAKE THE HINT AND REFUSE TO ACCEPT HIS HOSPITALITY—GOVERNOR INFORMED OF SITUATION—ACTION OF SHERIFF SUBJECT OF MUCH PRAISE. Special to the Nashville Globe. Belleville, Ill., December 24, 1909.—A regulation mob had formed at Belleville, Ill., recently. It was an "orderly" affair, duly organized according to Hoyle, with all of the attendant accountrements: the rope, butcher knives, coal oil and matches. In its personnel was the proverbial interspersion of "the best citizens" to heighten the tone of "the public sentiment" vouchsafed by the enterprise. Invited witnesses, noncombatants and innocent bystanders were duly in evidence. A Negro engaged in a drunken melee with a street car conductor, killed the white man, and righteous indignation was to take formidable effect in a lynching and burning. The stage setting is now complete, and the first act has begun. There is the usual tin-horn oratory haranguing the mob, and it seems that the law, so frequently sullied, is again to be forced to abdiate its throne. Rife into the air goes the word to the sheriff that the mob is coming, and for him to have the keys of the jail in waiting and the prisoner disarmed, so that the program of the lynchers can be proceeded with "without a hitch" and with expedition, in order that the mob of "best citizens" may perform their purpose and "disperse quietly." And then something happened for which the mobocratic playwright had not provided. The sheriff of Belleville did not like the part assigned to him; he balked right down in the middle of his lines, and insisted upon becoming himself the star performer. Instead of assuming the role ordinarily assigned to sheriffs, that of "resistance being useless in the face of the determined men," he made a part for himself, broke up the play and incidentally made the shrievalty of Belleville the cynosure of the admiring eyes of the world. His reconstructed lines were these: "This is not Cairo. The law is supreme here." He did not take the prisoner away for safety. He did not stand and deliver the keys. Neither did he eloquently adjure the mob "to let the law take its course." Not he; not the sheriff of Belleville. Here is what he did: He swore in sixty deputies, and distributed to each arms and fifty rounds of ammunition, and placed them in the jail. He then telegraphed to Governor Deneen to hold troops in readiness, because he was of the opinion that something was going to drop down in Belleville, but it wasn't going to be the majesty of the law. After disposing of these preliminary precautions, he sent this characteristic message to the mob of the "best citizens:" "I AM READY AND WAITING!" The mob of "best citizens saw the point at once. The leaders were not slow in comprehending that this was not to be the usual bloodless victory. It was apparent that this sheriff was not only intent upon protecting the prisoner, but that he meant to uphold the law. This was more than the "best citizens" had bargained for, so the lynching party "quietly dispersed" and all is truly "orderly at Belleville. All hail the sheriff at Belleville. He is a peace officer, first-class and fit, a man who knows his duty and has the courage to perform it. He furnishes an approved cure for weaker men, and lynch law would be destroyed forever if in the bond of every sworn peace officer there should be embodied the precise, succinct and potent expression of the sheriff of Belleville: "I am ready and waiting." INVENTOR ATTRACTS ATTENION. Benjamin Franklin Jackson, a Negro, Has One of the Main Exhibits at Gas Show. At the Gas Show at the Madison Square Garden this week one of the inventors who is attracting no little attention is Benjamin Franklin Jackson, a Negro who has a gas candy cooker on exhibition that is said to do twice as much in half the time as any other gas candy cooker. Thirty years ago, when Benjamin Franklin Jackson was a ten-year-old Negro boy running barefoot along the docks of the Appomattox at Petersburg, Va., he got an idea about boat building. It is just about the same idea that they are making use of now in the biggest ships. The youngster set out to build a boat of his own on the usual lines. He laid a keel, matched up a lot of ribs in the shape of a semi-circle and nailed them to the backbone. He didn't know how to bend the ribs. He merely sawed the semi-circle out of a pine board, and when he tried to nail the sides of the boat in place he split the ribs. So he made his ribs solid all the way across. The boat when it was done had six or seven compartments in it, and the youngster found that when he punched a hole in one of them the boat didn't sink. That was the find that matches up with the way they build ships now. Neither the youngster nor his father knew enough to patent it. This is what Jackson says about the building of a matrix dryer of the sort that is used in newspaper pressrooms. "There used to be a man named Keller in Boston who ran a weekly newspaper. In the corner of his pressroom there was a steam furnace for drying a matrix. It was as big as a printing press. I dropped in to see Keller one day, and he said to me: 'Jackson, I want to get a new press and I can't because that damn steam volcano'—those were just his words, excuse me, please—'is in the way. What can you do about it?" "I told him I could make a little one that would do the work just as well. 'How little?' said he. I measured with my hands. "That little,' says I. "He told me to go ahead. I went home and worked it out on paper that night. That was Friday. A machine shop built the new furnace for me and on Tuesday night I started to set it up. "Linus M. Child's butler, who was a friend of mine, helped me. We slung the old steam furnace out into the alley. At midnight Keller came in and looked around for the new dryer. I pointed to where it was in the corner. It was about as big as a six-inch pipe. "Where is it? says he. "There it is,' says I. He looked again and saw what I pointed at. The old one is out in the alley,' I said. "He couldn't stand it. He said I'd ruined him and that he'd got to go out and get some drinks. "Pretty soon the butler and I got the thing set up. I turned on the gas and couldn't raise a pound of steam. The butler went away thinking we'd busted Keller. But I knew the principle was all right. Early in the morning I got a junkman to take the drier back to the machine shop and have the holes drilled again. By 10 o'clock we had 300 pounds of steam. "It wasn't such a very long time after that," Jackson added, "that I put in some of those matrix driers for the Sun. And they're using my gas metal melting furnaces, too." All the rivets on the Queensboro Bridge were heated in oil forges that Jackson designed and so were the rivets for the battleship New Jersey. "Each one of these forges can get out 3,000 rivets a day," he said, "and the oil costs 27 cents." Just now Jackson is working on a new gas water heater. It will be good enough, he said, so that you can light the gas, turn on the tap, and get boiling water without any delay at all. MAYES-BATTLE. The marriage of Mr. Isaiah Mayes to Miss Josie Battle, of Glen Haven, was solemnized at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Battle, Sunday night, December 26. Rev. S. R. Reed performed the ceremony. No. 52. GENSUS Examination to Simple But Positive. DISTRICT SUPERVISORS MEET AND RECEIVE INSTRUCTIONS WORK MAPPED OUT IN SYSTEMATIC WAY-MAKING OUT OF SCHEDULES TO BE GIVEN SPECIAL ATTENTION PROBABLE THAT SPECIAL AGENTS WILL BE ASSIGNED TO CERTAIN DISTRICTS-INDICATIONS POINT TO PAINSTAKING CAMPAIGN. Washington, D. C., December 29, '09. By January 25 all applications for the positions of enumerators in the Thirteenth Decennial United States Census must be filed with the supervisors of census for the supervisors' districts in which the applicants reside. Between that date and February 5 the supervisors will send out cards to applicants informing them where they are to report for the "test" to be held in every one of the 330 supervisors' districts on February 5 only. Census Director Durand emphatically states that persons desiring to hold such positions should not stand in fear of the "test" to be made. Any person of average public school education who can write plainly and reasonably fast will go through the "test" with "colors flying." In fact, the "test" is tendered simply to help the supervisors pick suitable persons and to enable the Director of the Census to exercise intelligently his power of approval of those whom the supervisors designate for appointment. It will involve the filling in of either a sample population schedule, by those who will make the count in the cities, or of both a sample population and agricultural schedule, by candidates who will enumerate the country. To prepare the way and to insure every applicant being given a far chance, the supervisors will send in advance to each and every candidate a set of printed instructions for filling in these sample schedules. "We consider that a very important point," said Acting Census Director Willoughby to-day, "not only in treating these candidates fairly and giving them a chance to answer the questions properly, but also as a means of education of the candidates who are afterwards to be appointed. "They will study more thoroughly the instructions for filling in these schedules if they realize their chances of appointment depend upon that study than if they were appointed first and had to do the studying afterwards. You will see, therefore, that this test is not an appalling thing. It is not for the purpose of keeping people out of the places. It is applied simply to enable the Director to eliminate those who are plainly incompetent. Any person of good judgment and ordinary common-school education—for the work requires some little thinking power—can easily pass the test." Between February 5 and February 22 the supervisors will go through the "test" papers, satisfy themselves as the qualifications of those who have passed, and make their destinations or recommendations to the Census Director. The next step will be the Director's approval, and then the supervisors will issue the commissions to the enumerators. Director Durand expects to have the army of 67,000 or more enumerators picked, tested, designated and commissioned by the middle or latter part of March. From then on until April 15 the supervisors will send the enumerators circulars and books of instructions concerning the meaning of the schedule questions and the way the enumerators should write in the answers obtained from the people of the country. It is very probable that census special agents may be assigned to certain supervisors' districts for the purpose of meeting the enumerators personally (Continued on Page 8.) [Oval portrait of a man in formal attire]. 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C., December 27, 1909.—Any person of good judgment, who has received an ordinary common school education, can readily and easily pass the test to be given applicants for Census enumerators' places on Saturday, February 5th, the date finally set by United States Census Director Durand, according to an announcement from the Census Bureau to-day. This will be a comforting assurance to the several hundred thousand who are believed to be contemplating application for the places. It was emphatically stated at the bureau that the test will be an eminently reasonable and practical one, similar to that applied to applicants at the Twelfth Census. It will consist of filling-out a sample schedule of population from a description, in narrative form, of typical families; and, in the case of enumerators whose work will be in the rural districts, they will be called upon to fill out an additional sample schedule of agriculture, from information furnished by the Census Bureau. All persons, whether women or men, who may desire to become Census enumerators must be citizens of the United States; residents of the supervisor's district for which they wish to be appointed; must be not less than 18 nor more than 70 years of age; must be physically able to do the work; must be trustworthy, honest and of good habits; must have at least an ordinary education and must be able to write plainly and with reasonable rapidity. Those who can comply with these requirements are invited to put in their applications, as there will be at least 68,000 enumerators' places to be filled by the middle of March in preparation for the enumeration beginning April 15. Application forms, with full instructions for filling in, and complete information concerning the test and the method of appointment, can be secured by writing to the supervisor of census for the supervisor's district in which the applicant lives. All applications, properly filled in must be filed with the supervisors not later than January 25 as any received after the date cannot be considered. THE NASHVILLE GLOBE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1909. RETURNS FROM NOUNCEMENT. Last week there appeared an invitation to the public to visit the Palms, Mr. J. Frank Battle, a member of the firm, reports good results. He said: "In response to our Christmas greeting published in the last issue of the Globe, wishing our patrons and friends a Merry Christmas and showing them in a small way our appreciation by asking them to come and have a free drink on us, not only did the readers of your wide circulating paper, the Nashville Globe, come, but, we are proud to say, they told their friends. Owing to the incipency of the weather, many did not come who would have to enjoy some of the one hundred different drinks dispensed from our mammoth fountain and hot-drink urn. From the time the Globe reached the homes and the business part of the city, we served seven hundred eighty-nine free drinks valued at from 5 cents to 20 cents each. The Globe is our medium to reach the people. Our saying is: 'Once a visitor, or purchaser, always a customer.' We are satisfied with the returns of our ad." HONORS HER SISTER BY ENTER TAINING AT DINNER. Mrs. Sam Streater delightfully entertained a number of friends December 25 in honor of her sisters, Misses Alma and Sallie D. Burkeen, of Shelbyville, Tenn. A four-course menu was served. Those present to enjoy the pleasant affair were Misses Mary Alma and Sallie Dryden Burkeen, Bessie L. Rhodes, Jennye V. Anthony, Celia Henley, Ora B. Wade, and Mary Agnes Cheers, Messrs. Sam Rhodes, McRuffin, Gordon, Dix and Coit. Mrs. Streater was assisted in serving by her sister, Mrs. Eddie A. Tilman. Mrs. Streater will accompany her sisters to Shelbyville, Wednesday, December 29, to spend a month with parents and other relatives. CHRISTMAS DINNER. Mrs. Tennie Rhoads entertained a limited number of friends at dinner Christmas day. Those who enjoyed Mrs. Rhoads hospitality were Messrs. Alexander Davis, Johnson Cockrell, Frank Davis, W. J. Norman and J. L. Douglass, Miss Lena Booker, Mrs. Mamie Bell, Mrs. Eliza Green, Miss Clay, Mrs. Martha Nelson, Miss Susie Caldwell and Little Beatrice Hunter. Mrs. Rhoads was assisted in receiving by Mrs. Green. CHRISTMAS EVE ENTERTAINMENT. A number of their friends gathered at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Douglas on Third avenue, South, Christmas eve. The entire evening was spent in games and tempting delicacies of the season. At an early hour in the morning the guests began to wend their way homeward each, having spent a most enjoyable evening. DINNER PARTY. Mr. and Mrs. Hall, of 306 Fourth avenue, North, gave a delightful dinner party in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Hughes and son Frank, of Kansas City, Kans., who are here to spend the holidays. A four-course menu was served, Mrs. Ewing, Mr. Vinson, Mr. and Mrs. Temple. ELLISON-MAHAFFEY. The marriage of Miss Beatrice Mahaffey and Mr. William Ellison took place Wednesday evening, December 15, at 8 o'clock at the home of the bride. The ceremony was performed by Rev. B. F. Ferrell. About eighty-five guests were present. The wedding music was rendered by Mr. Jas. Rorinson, of Fisk University. The bride was very becomingly attired in a lemon colored princess with a rear lace yoke and carried a bouquet of white carnations and maiden hair fern. The attendants were Miss Carrie McGavock, who was gowned in white organdy princess elaborately trimmed in lace, and Mr. Herman Ellis. Miss Cassie Dodson, who was handsome in black silk costume, and Miss Kate Polk, who was costumed in a white voile, assisted in receiving. A delicious ice-course was served in pink and white tones. The table was covered in pure white linen and in the center of the table stood a cut glass pitcher filled with pink carnations and malden hair ferns. The table was lighted by a beautiful shaded lamp. They received many handsome and useful presents which came with cordial good wishes of their many friends. Mr. and Mrs. Ellison will be at home to their many friends on Eleventh avenue until the first of the year. GOOD BANK SHOWING A remarkable showing has been made by The Alabama Savings Bank of Selma, Ala., which made its initial bow before the public November 1, 1909. It is domiciled in splendidly furnished quarters in the Hudson-Irby Building. On the first day of business the deposits amounted to $2,012.45. At the close of business December 8, 1909, the deposits were $15,259.16. The volume of business transacted within the same period was $28,995.63. The officers of the bank are Henry A. Boyd, president; R. B. Hudson, cashier; R. H. Hunter, bookkeeper; W. H. McAlpine, paying and receiving tealer. Four per cent. interest is paid on all deposits. The Freeman says: "Mrs. Ida B. Welis-Barnette, at her own expense, hired two detectives and went to Cairo, Ill., and in person investigated the causes that led up to the horrible lynchings of recent happening in that city. She found a lot of cowards and 'poolitons' in the race, but that didn't daunt our Ida, for she ferretted the matter out and marched herself boldly up to headquarters at Springfield and as boldly demanded that the sheriff be not reinstated, and the Governor has refused to reinstate the derelict sheriff. Why wouldn't the race be proud of such a woman. She is fit to be a queen. Here's to you, Madame Barnette, and may your days be long upon the land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee."—The Southwestern Christian Advocate, New Orleans, La. NEGRO BANKS. Colored Men In Mobile Determined To Operate. A Bank. Special.—A deed was filed in the probate court Monday transferring to the Safety Banking and Reaty Company a three-story building at 256 St. Michael street, from Albert Boyd. The building, now occupied by the Boyd Undertaking Establishment, will be fitted up for use of the new banking concern, which was incorporated Saturday by a number of well-known Negroes. The purchase price of the St. Michael's street property is given in the deed as $8,000.—Florida Sentinel, Pensacola, Fla. THE SEVENTH EDITION. Volume Seven of the National Baptist Sunday-School Lesson Commentary is Now Ready With clock-like regularity there appears for 1910 volume seven of the National Baptist Sunday-School Lesson Commentary. The book contains Sunday-school lessons for 1910 complete in every phase. As usual, it is in a class by itself for several reasons. The one that interests the race in general is that it is the only Negro Commentary edited, prepared, printed, published, bound and mailed out without the help of any other race on the face of the earth, so far as we know. It is interesting because of its originality of matter and valuable contents. It is the only Baptist Commentary in the world, comprehensive, suggestive, and it is said by the editors to be thoroughly Baptistic, and its doctrine has not made it obnoxious to the other denominations any more than the Bible. The associate editor seems to have been very careful in his preparation of each lesson, exposition and the introductions for 1910. As a teacher's help this Commentary argues still to keep its supremacy. On opening the book, one is greeted with a calendar for 1910, so that the teachers can prepare special lessons, rallies, of lectures, announcing the month, day of the week, and date of the month to their classes; there is also a teacher's memorandum, where notes may be written. The preface of the Commentary for 1910 shows that the lessons for the year will be taken from the Gospel of Matthew, and that the authors have consulted varied and valuable literature with but one aim in view in the preparation of the book, i.e., that the lessons be so simplified as to attract the attention of the reading ones, who in turn would attract the younger ones, drawing them closer to the plan of salvation. Our Modern Sunday-Scvhool Methods, by R. H. Boyd, D. D., appears again in the first of the book in five chapters. Then comes a list of the books used and referred to in the preparation of the Commentary, with a teacher's class record. There is an introduction for each quarter, and a beautiful colored map—"Radial Key Map of Palestine." The usual amount of high-class instruction and information abound throughout. The book is three hundred and ninety pages, well bound in velum de lux, with the name printed in two colors. A copy was received in our office, the compliments of the National Baptist Publishing Board. LUCIUS MASSEY DEAD. Information has just been received in this city of the death of Lucius Massey. He was killed in a recent mine disaster which occurred at Pratts' Mines in Alabama some few weeks ago. It seems that Mr. Massey's mother does not know this and Mrs. Lizzie C. Mills, Wylan, Alabama, conveys the information to the Nashville Globe. She said in her letter that the young man was five feet high, 22 or 23 years of age and that his mother should know this wherever she is. Complete information can be had by writing to Mrs. Lizzie C. Mills, Wylan, Ala. It is supposed that Mr. Massey's mother lived in or near Nashville. And ALL KINDS OF HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS. We can furnish your home on easy payments. TELEPHONE MAIN 701 No. 318 Broadway. NASHVILLE TENN THE A. B. HOOPER FURNITURE COMPANY. 1201 CHURCH STREET, DEALERS IN FURNITURE, STOVES, CARPETS and QUEENSWARE. We exchange New for Old. Easy payments. Phone 4359-Y. FROM THE OLD NEWSPAPER FILES. History That Has Been Preserved by a Woman of Nashville. Almost fifty years old and yet full of good reading matter, facts that have never been taught in the schools are found in these papers. The New York herald of Nov. 12, 1860, contains what few, if any, historians have put in book form; it was a news item from Springfield, Ill., dated November 11, 1860, giving Mr. Lincoln's opinion on the secession movement. INTERESTING FROM SPRING- FIELD. Mr. Lincoln's Opinion of the Secession Movement—Immense Receipt of Letters by the President Elect, &c., &c. Springfield, Ill., Nov. 11, 1860. The republican Mecca is comparatively quiet to-day. Mr. Lincoln is getting some repose. His mail is immense. Most of his letters are from impolitic men, who have thrust themselves forward in the campaign in order to become prominent, in hope thereby to induce Mr. Lincoln to believe that they had done immense service, and consequently that he was under great obligations to them. He would have been better on without them. Among the letters he has received since his election are two or three from prominent republican politicians in the country who did all they could to defeat his election for the Senate and secure that of Douglas. These demagogues have the audacity to suppose that Mr. Lincoln has forgotten their treachery to him and their party and that he will now accept them as his advisers, they will find themselves mistaken. Greeley can hardly be counted in this boat, as he more than compensated for the political sin he committed in fighting against Lincoln for the Senate, by his enorts to secure his nomination against Seward at Chicago. Not so with others, some of whom, like Wilson, of Massachusetts, secretly whisper in the ear of Garrison sentiments that he dare not utter to the public. Mr. Lincoln has been cheated by them once and will never trust them again. A gentleman who had a private interview with Mr. Lincoln last evening, says he conversed with the president elect about the secession movement South, and the latter expressed his regret that the South, having always been so loyal to the Union, should be the first to manifest a disposition to break it up, and especially under a democratic administration, and before the policy of the new (Lincoln) administration is thoroughly tested. Advices here indicate that the present excited state of feeling in the South will soon give place to more politic movement, perhaps a national Convention, to be composed of the best minds of all the States, to consider and settle peacefully the question of Union and disunion. The conduct of the present administration is closely watched with reference to the existing state of affairs in the South, and by no one with more interest than Mr. Lincoln himself. Springfield still continues to be crowded with people, and the inferior hotels here do not half accommodate them. PHONE, MA IN 1090 E BROS. LIVES AND CARPETS MIT EVERYBODY. Complete from Parlor to Kitchen. ment; Balance Weekly or Monthly. NASHVILLE, TENN. urniture Co., WELL, MANAGER. E, STOVES HOUSEHOLD FURNISHINGS. come on easy payments. E MAIN 701 NASHVILLE, TENN. ENTERPRISE RESTAURANT OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. Orders Promptly Filled. — Neatly Furnished Rooms, Telephone, Main 2830. ROBT. L. MILLER, Prop., 714 Jo Johnston Ave., Nashville, Tenn. PERRY & LESTER COAL CO. Wholesale and Retail Dealers In HIGH-GRADE STEAM AND DOMESTIC COAL PHONE MAIN 29 606 Second Ave., N., Nashville, Tenn. CREOLE HAIR A SPECIALITY C. R. BADOUX, MANUFACTURER OF HAIR GOODS, 220 Fifth Ave., N., NASHVILLE. - TENNESSEE. Ten per cent discount to all who present this advertisement. MOORE-GLENN. Mr. Melvin Moore and Miss Etta Glenn were married on Christmas evening. The ceremony was performed by Rev. S. Jackson. The bride and groom are at home on Jefferson street. SPECIAL SERMON AT ST. PAUL SUNDAY. Special New Year service at St. Paul Sunday at 11 a. m., Bishop I. B. Scott, of Africa, assisted by Bishop Evans Tyree; 7:30 p. m., Rev. G. L. Imes, of Howard Congregational Church, followed by communion and New Year hand circle. INSTRUCTOR IN LOUISIANA. Again Nashville talent has been drawn upon by the ever-increasing demand ior competent teachers. Another one of the well-known young ladies of the city has left to take up her work as assistant principal and musical instructor of the Bunkie Academy, located at Bunkie, La. The young lady is Miss John D. Thompson, daughter of Prof. W. S. Thompson, principal of Meigs School. Miss Thompson left Thursday, for her new field of labor. DR. AND MRS. GANAWAY. Visiting Nashville during the past holiday season were Doctor and Mrs. Canaway, of Decatur, Ill. They were the guests of Prof. and Mrs. W. S. Thompson, of Demonbreun street, and while here were the recipients of much social attention. They are both well known in the city, Dr. Ganaway being a graduate of Meharry Medical College, class of '03. Since that time he has been in Illinois. 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. ```markdown ``` 4 The Nashville Globe le Nasnvire . catalan eng ipeceecee aiiingeoreein tin Published Every Friday tn the Year, Room 1, Odd Fellows Hali 447 Fourth Bus, Nority Naabvilig Tenn. AY BY THE GLOBE PUBLISHING CO. D, A. HART............... President C. H. BURRILL...........Secretary H. A. BOYD.......Business Manager ‘Telephone Main 4732. sian neeaiapinamnc D. A. HART.........0-.00+++-Ebditor Entered as second-class matter January 19, (006, at the post-office at Nashville, Tennes- vee, under the act of Congress of March 3, ist. No Notice taken of anonymous contribu- tions. SUBSCRIPTION IN ADVANCE, ORG Veer co ivens dans assacaess 8h 50 Pix -Monthia <scrisesssssbacetyss, 0480) Phres Months, vseeeavessGsese. 40. Gltigie Copyysctvcveesebicssvecdea S05 Notify the office when you fail to get your paper. ADVERTISING RATES FURNISHED UPON APPLICATION, READING MATTER RATES. 5 cents per line for each Insertion. ph cents per ine for each Insertion (biack face). Advertising copy should be in the office not later than 9a. m, Tuesday of each week. TO THE PUBLIC. Any erroneous reflection upon the charac- ter, standing or reputation of any person, firim of corporation, which may appear in the columns of THE NASHVILLE GLOBE Will be gladly corrected upon being brought to the attention of the mzaagement. Send correspondence for publication so as to reach the office Monday. No matter in- tended for current issue which arrives as late as ‘“hursday can appear in that number, as ‘Thursday 18 press day. \}\ news matter sent us for publication m, * be written only on one side of the pa- Per, pd should be accompanted by thename of thé contributor, not necessarily fer publl- sation, but as an evidence of good falth. ” —————— FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1909. THE OLD AND THE NEW. | We are now standing upon the threshold of a new. year, and a ret Tospective view of the last twelve months might be of some benefit to some people, Many things that con cern all the people of Nashville and the State of Tennessee were begun in this year, 1909, that will have to be finished in 1910, and while we have cause to feel proud of the progress made this year, it is imperative that no idle bread be eaten if the things that should be accomplished in the next year be kept before the people. Nineteen hundred and nine has been an eventful period for the Volunteer State. Her “Negro citizens have be- stirred themselves as never before, and indications point to greater accomplish- ments in the incoming year than there have been in any twelve months of their freedom, That such a happy lot may be ours, it is essential that three things be done speedily. First, the Negroes of Tennessee must get together. There must be a united effort in all things that pertain to the uplift of the people. This must be true of the churches, the lodges and the business men. We do not mean that any church should change its creed, far from that; but we do mean that all the ministers should ‘agree that the welfare of the Negro race in Tennessee, generally speaking, is paramount to everything else. We do not wish to be understood as advocat- ing the merging of all.lodges and so- cleties into one great secret organiza- tion, but we do alm to impress ay leaders in secret and benevolent so- cleties and lodges with the obligations they owe the people. What is true of the churches and lodges is also true of the business men in every vocation. Conditions are such in this day that unless the man doing business In Chat- taridoga is friendly to the man en- gaged in a like vocation in Memphis, the success so much desired will not come, Second, there must be an understand- ing between the leaders in every sec- tion of the State—in the church, the lodge and in. business—in the things that affect the people. If the people in the eastern section of the state want to accomplish something for the bene- fit of the people of the entire state, they should make their wants known to the people in the middle and west- ern sections. If such a course is fol- lowed, there will never be a conflict and much good can be accomplished. THE NASHVILLE GLOBE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1909. ‘Third, there must be mutual help. ‘The strong must help and nurture the weak. Competition is the life of any- thing. There are more people idle, or who are not connected with any regu- lar organization than there are con- nected. The point we want to show is that the churches in Tennessee could not accommodate the people if all of them who can should on nest Sabbath morning attempt to attend services somewhere. So there is plenty for all to do. The lodge halls would not seat one-tenth of the people if all the Negroes in this state shoul apply for admittance the first of the year, 1910. The business men should especially see the wisdom in helping each other. Few are there among the successful business men of Tennessee who did not start at the bottom rung of the ladder, and they can remember what it meant to them for some one to say a word of encouragement or to suggest a plan, whereby a certain undertaking might be accomplished. No better method could be adopted, to our mind, than the organization of business leagues in every city and county, for in the meetings of such organizations often a thought is dropped that helps some one present. Tennessee is a great state and is peopled with a great people. ‘They have done things in the past that prove the assertion to be true. We believe the incoming year will witness a general move on the part of the leaders in all things that stand for the uplift of all the people. Let the slo- gan for 1910 be uniting of forces, un- jerstanding of purpose and persistency in undertaking. | A VICTORY WON. Again, the Globe has cause to feel proud to know that its efforts to serve the people are not entirely fruitless. ‘We contended in the matter of taking the census that if the Federal Govern- ment desired to have the accurate status of the Negroes of the country, and especially the South, where the howl was set up by the daily press that Negroes would not be allowed to take the census of white people, that the fair way to do would be to pay so much per head and have whites to take the census of the whites and blacks to take the census of the blacks, The Negroes of the United States only want fair play. They know they are entitled to some of the money paid for such service; again, they object to white men -going into their homes in the absence of the head of the family. They do not feel that their wives or daughters will be free from insults. The announcement in the local press states that no Negroes will take the census of white people. The officials might as well accept the fact that the Negroes of the South will not ad- mit white men to their homes as cen- sus enumerators. This is the tune of the music and the dancing will have to be conducted to it. We are glad that the matter has Leen partially adjusted and hope that every detail will be so arranged as to guarantee an accurate census in 1910. If President Taft succeeds in estab- lishing one law for all the people, ten million cftizens in this country will say, amen. For thousands of Negroes are sentenced every year without the law even being consulted. We recall one case in Tennessee where a man de- clared himself the whole court and sen- tenced two Negroes to be hung in less than an hour, Tennessee and North Carolina are up before Uncle Sam endeavoring to settle a dispute over a portion of the Alleghany Mountain system. We want our Uncle Samuel to search the record closely, for we need all the land we can get, especially if it contains any coal, We invite attention to a communica tion on “Simplify the Christmas.” The number of casualties reported in this city as a result of the careless hand- ling of fireworks and the excessive use of liquor suggests that some steps shoult be taken in the direction quoted herein. And now a celebrated Russian sci- entist has discovered that sour milk is conducive to long life. The subject of the “Great White Father” is an elegible candidate for the “Grand Bx- clusive Order of Royal Investigators.” os EDITORIAL CLIPPINGS. Old Vs. New. And now it has come to pass that the students at Howard University ob- ject to the old plantation songs and insist upon having the new—new songs. They want to forget the song of their fathers and grandmothers for something new. Dr. Thirkield likes the old songs. Ah! but this re- minds The Bee of what its sweetheart wrote in years gone by, “Old tunes are the sweetest and old fiiends the surest.” The Bee was inclined some time ago to believe that Dr. Thirkield was inimical to the colored American. After having heard this great Thanks- giving sermon, The Bee is convinced that Dr. Thirkield has been misrepre- sented. Why not sing the songs of our fathers and mothers? What Howard University is in need of at this time, is a cleaning out of the disorganizers. There are enemies within. Let us have the songs of our fathers. —The Bee, eee Do you know that there ere 12,000,- 00 acres of unoccupied and valuable land in Missouri, suited to farming, stock raising, fruit culture and garden- ing, and located within two hundred miles of big cities, along and closely adjacent to good railroads, and that these lands can be had for from $3 to $10 an acre?—The Central Afro- American. A Deputy Assistant. The appointment of Cornelius W. McDougald as a Deputy Assistant by (District Attorney-elect Whitman {is cause for general satisfaction to the Negroes of New York. This is only another of the successful efforts of our strong and sturdy political leader, Charles W. Anderson. We have had occasion many times in the past to accord to the genial and aggressive collector our grateful praises. But sel- dom has he rendered the Negroes of this city a larger service than in se curing the ee of a capable Negro to the District Attorney’s staff. Mr, McDougald is thoroughly compe- tent, we believe, and will refiect credit both upon Mr. Whitman and himself. We wish to congratulate both; Mr. Whitman for his good choice and Mr, McDougald upon his recognition and success.—New York Age. COMMUNICATION. Simplify the Christmas. To the Nashville Globe: Assuming the chronological calcu- lus of Dionysius Exiguus to be cor- rect, the annual recurrence of the resent Christmastide is the 1910th, and the responsibility, patience and heart-strength of Christian-kind have been taxed nineteen hundredfold. There were times when the com- memoration of the birth of the lowly Jew wag a festival to which the able might abide, when the faithful might, to precedent returning, forgive their debtors in reciprocity for their debts; when the despondent were privileged to look to the first Christmas tree— the cross of Calvary—as a conscience- conquering sign of peace and good will, But is it so to-day? The daily dispatches depict the many tradegies of this glorious Christmastide. We read of a colored woman in Philadelphia who took her life because of her disability to an- swer the Santa Claus letters of her fledglings. The little ones knew their mother’s: poverty, but they had graduated from her gentle teachings into a love for the humble Nazarene, and into a material faith in his birth- day agent, Santa Claus. The poor mother had strugled and hoped that she might redeem the ideals she had, from time-honored custom, instilled into her babies, and lacking the courage to meet them in the universal Christian myth, she commited suicide, leaving her chil- dren the victims of their childish hopes and bereaved by custom. A Negro man arrested in a toy store in Chicago during the holiday rush, with sundry jumping-jacks, tin horns and dolls concealed about his person, gave as his excuse: “The kids; I couldn't disappoint the kids. I've been sick and out of work, but they expected Santa Claus.” ' Who of the readers of The Globe is there who has not struggled through this glorious Christmastide? Who of you is there. who has not Booker T. Washington on Semi-Centeunial. Mditor The Nashville Globe: } House of Representatives and an ae att _ T have received so many letters re- cently regarding the proposed cele- bration in the year 1913 of the fit- tieth anniversary of tne freedom of the American Negro that I deem it wise to ask you to permit me to use your columns in making some reply to these rather than in trying to an- swer each one individually. Attention has already been called to the importance of some kind of a celebration to take the form of an ex- Position or something else. Of course, in order to have such an ex- position, it is of the first importance that it have the recognition and sup- port of the United States Government as well as that of as many states as possible, for without the influence and help of the central government it would hardly be possible to have an exposition that would reflect credit upon our race. Having all this in mind, the whole matter of such an exposition was carefully put before the President of the United States, and after consider- ing the whole subject with great care, manifesting the deepest inter- est, it was thought best by President Taft and others who consulted with him that in order to secure the con- fidence and support of the American people that the whole matter ought to be taken up in a dignified, orderly way and that this could best be ac- complished through tne appointment of a preliminary and temporary com- mission by the President, authorized by Congress, such commission to be composed of men of such ripe and experience and reputation that their recommendations would carry weight. It would be the purpose of such a commission to study carefully the whole subject, and if deemed wise to recommend the holding of such an exposition, to map out a general and comprehensive scheme for the same. This would prove the basis for an appeal to Congress and to state legislatures and philanthropic individuals for such support as would create an exposition tnat would com- mand the respect and confidence of the world. ‘Accordingly, a bill has been pre- pared and introduced into both the breathed a sigh of relief that the time is waning? Who is not beset by the regret of Christmas failures and disabilities? Who is not haunted by incentives to do that which he is unable to do? Happiness unshared is empty. Who has enjoyed his Christ- mas in the face of the suffering, dis- appointment and the 4oss of faith by his fellow-creatures, and especially the children, who have been taught the Santa Claus and chimney ethics of the Christmastide? Now, there is a problem for the church in general, and the Negro chureh in particular, to solve, inas- much as its communicants are poorer, and by necessity creatures of cireum- stances. Simplify the Christmas. Bring it back to the jbordpinay pur- Pose of Christ himself. jo away with the personal “impoverishment which custom entails. Canonize the memory of Christ and Him crucified, but make it abnegation of the heart rather than of the purse, Remove the expectancy for material gifts into the higher realms of bless- ings that come in the commemoration of the birth of the Savior. Christmas has degenerated from the blessed festival of Christ’s birth- day into a season of disability, shat- tered hopes and regrets, and it re- mains for the church to reduce it to its lowest terms and bring it within the ken of the meekness and simplic- ity of the Master, whose birth it chronicles. Give us a Christmas simpler in hardship and it will attain a more Christian effect. OBSERVER. Sound Doctrine, To the Nashville Globe: Mr. Editor—Please allow me space in your valuable paper to speak a few words to the people of my commu: nity. . The time has come when the Ne- groes must think and put their best thoughts into action, then if time de- mands the best thoughts and best ac- tions it certainly demands the best people to represent the community as a whole. A thinking man or woman will do any community a deal of good, while an unthoughtful man or woman should seek knowledge from every available source. ‘Now then, almost a year ago this grand old Negro paper known as the Nashville Globe came into our com: munity. Many of you were happy to receive such a grand old Negro pa- per and when you read the first Cul- leoka Notes you were more. than happy. Then the good work must go) on, and the good thinking people must push forward the good work. Please call and see the reporter, pay up for’1909 and renew your subscrip- House of Representatives and the U. 8, Senate carrying out the sugges- tion of providing for the appointment of a commission, President Taft fur- ther manifested his interest in the proposed exposition by referring to it in the most complimentary way in his recent message. It is belteved that the bill introduced into Congress will pass early in the present session. In order to insure the success of the exposition, it is important that We proceed carefully and systemati- cally. No hasty, ill-considered plan will command the respect and confi- dence of the American people. I wish to say in this same connec- tion that it is important that the race be patient while these plans are ma- turing. In the end it will be found that every element of the race will receive proper recognition and be given an opportunity to take part in the expo- sition. So far as the selection of in- dividuals to take the leadership in the matter is concerned, nothing defi- nite has been done; only preliminary committees have been selected with a view of getting matters in shape to present to the President. After the passage of the bill now before Con- gress and the appointment of the commission by the President, there will be plenty of time for all organiza- tions, denominations and institutions to receive proper recognition, and I am sure that this will be done. Nothing can be gained, but much lost, by any attempt to take short cuts and by doing those things that call attention to little side issues that have no possible chance to succeed. We need in this matter the united ef- fort of all elements of the race, and the evidence so far points to the fact that the race is more united on this project than it has ever been on any other of similar magnitude, and we hope that this union of the masses of the people will continue. I wish also to add that most care- fu leonsideration, before any decision is reached, will be given to the claims of every city or locality that is in- terested in having the proposed expo- sition located in its midst. Other information as progress is made from time to time will be given. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Tuskegee Institute, Ala, Dec, 21, 1909, tion for another year, because the time has come when the Negro must think and then put their thoughts into action. Allow me to say, since your agent was kind enough to ap point a reporter for your community, please do not hesitate in telling her of any news that you would like to have appear in the Globe. Do not think that each one must send sepa- rate news each week. Just think what a deal of trouble you wiil give the editor of the Globe should each one send news in that manner, No doubt he is proud to have your sub- scription, but one reporter can and will send news for the entire commu- nity. 1 know that many of you do not know that you have a reporter, so I find it necessary to speak thus. Here- after please see the reporter and send the news in one letter and you will build up the community and help enlarge the paper. Remember the appointed reporter for this commu- nity, BELLA M. HUNT, Culleoka, Tenn., Dec. 26, 1909. Our Own Negligence, Editor of the Globe: We, the Negro citizens of Murfrees- boro, realize that we must be up and ‘we were asleep when Dr. Booker T. Washington and his party toured the state, at least our watchmen were, and fafled to beckon them to come this way. So the writer feels that Murfreesboro lost a great treat. We cannot blame any one but ourselves. And hereafter we will look, listen and learn, that our great educators are to travel through our state we will extend an invitation. We need ad- vice of all thoughtful men and wom- en. This is a century of peace and culture. If we have doubted and de- layed in the past, we will do so no longer. Some men shrink from re- sponsibility, some court it. Bvery one is bound to share in it. Just as we choose to accept it, will its bur- den be a pain or.a pleasure: It is a wise thing to look ahead, especially in the right direction. Let us get together and live in the present, that the future may be bright, and mis- takes, errors and sorrows of the past be forever forgotten. Dig up the golden nuggets of truth wherever they are buried; they are slaves that fear to speak. Now, let's be talking about that State Normal School. If the cen- ter of the state is the place to have the school, we are about on the spot. Drive the stakes by making a strong bid, or we will miss it. If ever a. community needs a school of that kind it fs Murfreesboro, and we ought to have it. Let's get busy! We can move and I know it. MRS, VICIF, BUFORD. Murfreesboro, Tenn, Dec, 28, 1909. Mrs. Sarah Flagg, who came to the funeral of her son, the lato Rev. Wm. Flagg, will leave for her home, Athens, a., next week. Mrs. M. S. Peach, of Helena, Ark., sent in a year's subscription to the Globe for a friend. Mrs. Peach has sent in a number of subscriptions this year. Mrs. Cassie Greer, who for some time was at Mercy Hospital, is at her home in Waverly, where she is slowly improving. Messrs. Thomas and E. H. Starnes, of Chicago, are in the city visiting relatives and friends. Mr. Howard R. Thompson, who finished from the Knoxville College, class 1909, and who is pursuing a medical course in the University of Indiana, located at Indianapolis, spent the Christmas holidays with his parents in this city. He will remain here until January 5 before going back to resume his studies. Mr. Aldridge Lewis, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Lewis, of Twelfth avenue, North, is in the city visiting his parents. He is a member of the Senior Medical Class of the University of Indiana, located at Indianapolis. Dr. and Mrs. R. H. Boyd entertained at dinner Christmas day. The following is a list of those who were present: Dr. C. V. Roman, Mrs. George B. Jackson, Miss Bessie Martin, Prof. J. D. Crenshaw, Mr. and Mrs. J. Blaine Boyd, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Boyd, Mrs. Ann Dickson, R. H. Boyd, III., Katie Albertine Boyd. Mrs. Elna Thornton is able to be out again after eight weeks' illness. Mr. Jack Gordon, of Chicago, is in the city to spend a while. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Jordan, of 21 Tennessee street, entertained Sunday afternoon Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jordan, Mr. and Mrs. Henderson Spence, Mr. and Mrs. George Williams and Miss Flora Jordan. A four-course menu was served. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Knowles, of 912 Jackson street, are all smiles over a big fine bouncing baby boy. Mother and son are getting along nicely. Miss Willie E. Bryant, of Wilder, Tenn., is in the city to spend the holidays with her aunt, Mrs. Rebecca Andrews, of 1039 Fourteenth avenue, North. Master William M. Stringer spent the holidays at Franklin, Ky. Mr. and Mrs. George Drapper, of McFerrin and Mile-end avenues, entertained a limited number of friends at dinner December 26, 1909. A five-course menu was served. In the center of the table was a beautiful battenberg piece decorated with the holiday schemes with the old pyramid style, laden with various kinds of fruits. MORROW-GREEN NUPTIALS. One of the prettiest weddings of the Christmas season was that of Prof. Lucian Morrow and Miss Ora E. Green. The wedding took place at the home of the bride's parents, 450 East State street, Murfreesboro, Tenn. The home was beautifully decorated with Christmas greens. The marriage ceremony was performed at high noon, Rev. R. T. Weatherby officiating. The bride and groom were unattended. The bride wore an imported dress of light blue penia, trimmed all over in lace. It was a gift of her brother, Lieutenant John E. Green. The ceremony was performed in the presence of their most intimate friends, several of whom had come from a distance to witness the nuptials. Among the out-of-town guests were Mr. and Mrs. Morrow, of Princeton, Ky.; Mrs. Long; Misses Berry and Bertha Green, of Chattan nooga; Mr. Robert Green, of Muskogee Okla.; Miss Ganaway, of Paducah. Maybe that Headache is caused by defective eyesight or badly adjusted Better See C.V. ROMAN, Ph. D., M., Oculist and Aurist Nashville Tennessee. REMEMBER THAT THE Textile Coloring and Dry Cleaning Company Cleans all kinds of Laces, Silks, Velvets. Gloves, Fur, Feathers, Garments, Etc. Phone Main 1965 U. S. MORTON, Mgr. 421 Cedar Street, Boyd Building. For Men, All Men, Only Men GREAT MAMMOTH MEN'S MEETING AT ST. PAUL A. M. E. CHURCH, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1909, At 3:00 P. M. BISHOP I. B. SCOTT, presiding in Africa, will deliver a strong address to men. Special music by male voices. THE NASHVILLE GLOBE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1909. Ky.; Misses Pinkard, Lillian Bass, Sadie Williams, Hill and Mr. and Mrs. Hillard Green, of Nashville, and Miss Allie Green, of Dayton. The bridal party was served to dinner. The bride's table was decorated with ferns and cut flowers and laden with all the delicacies of the season. The bride and groom left on the six o'clock train for Nashville, where they were entertained by their friends in that city, both being well-known in social circles there; Prof. and Mrs. Morrow are both graduates of Walden University of class '09. Prof. Morrow is at present principal of the public school at Dresden, Tenn., where they will be at home January 1, 1910. WASHINGTON-McLAUGHLIN WASHINGTON-MCLAUGHLIN. Mr. David Washington and Miss Tennetta L. McLaughlin were happily united in marriage Wednesday evening, December 22, 1909, at the home of the bride, 446 Houston street, Rev. J. C. Fields officiating. When the beautifully decorated parlor was silenced and nothing could be heard but the clear sweet tones of Mendelsohn's wedding march, the bride, most beautifully adorned in white satin, handsomely trimmed in real imported, Irish-point lace, with her naid, Miss Ellen Morris, gracefully marched in and quietly took her stand beside the groom, who was elegantly arrayed in full dress suit. They were married 'mid the storms of the "Flower Song." After the ceremony was read and words of congratulations spoken, the bride, groom and their party were escorted to a lovely decorated table with snowy linens, ferns and flowers. A delicious menu, consisting of fruits cakes and icees, was served, which every one enjoyed. The young couple retired to their future home, the home of the groom, 909 Warren street where they will cheerfully receive their friends at any time. NEGRO ENUMERATORS ONLY FOR NEGROES Harry A. Luck, Supervisor of Census for the Sixth Supervisors' District of Tennessee, has returned from the conference held in Atlanta by Director of the Census E. Dana Durand and William C. Hunt, Statistician of Population, with the Supervisors of the States of Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Florida and South Carolina. There were forty supervisors present, and the entire work of gathering statistics for the coming census was gone over and discussed with the Director. "Upon the subject of appointing Negro enumerators," says Mr. Luck, "it was the unanimous opinion of all present that some Negro enumerators should be appointed, to take the Negro population—that is, in enumerating districts where Negroes preodominate, Negro enumerators will be named. All applicants for the position of enumerators will be required to undergo an examination consisting of filling out schedules, and will be graded thereon and appointments made according to the grades attained. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. "New Year's Resolutions" will be the subject of Rev. W. S. Ellington's discourse Sunday morning. The literature for the Sunday-school will be distributed Sunday morning and the B. Y. P. U. Quarterlies will be distributed Sunday night. All are invited. BISHOP SCOTT—Y. M. C. A. AT ST. PAUL. More than two hundred men listened to a powerful address by Bishop Scott Sunday afternoon on the "Opportunities and Needs of Africa." The address was full of instruction concerning the dark continent. The singing was led by Dr. S. S. Caruthers. Dr. Townsend officiated at the organ. Rev. W. S. Ellington assisted in the meeting. Dr. G. W. Hubbard, Bishop C. H. Phillips, Rev. G. L. Imes and Rev. Sampson Brooks, pastor of St. Paul, were present. Bible study class—Wednesday at 6:30 at Association rooms, Rev. W. S. Ellington, teacher. WHY NOT RAISE POULTRY THAT WILL PAY? CHICKEN Hens that will give you on an average of 200 eggs each a year and guaranteed to lay at a time when eggs are at a premium (during the winter). Broilers that you can send to the market in six weeks, is the breed you want. This is what my Rhode Island Reds and White Plymouth Rocks are doing for me, and will do with the proper care and treatment the same for you Either will fill the bill, so let me tell you the difference of color and not the bird. Lego shipped to all parts of the country, they hatch just the same, distance not considered. Eggs for sale at our order on an early shipment we are doing for me, and will do with the proper care and treatment the same for you. Either will fill the bill, so let your selection be only a matter of color and not the bird. Eggs shipped to all parts of the country, they hatch just the same, distance not considered. Eggs for sale at all tin es. Let me book your order for an early shipment, as earlier the hatch better the results. Write for prices and catalogue, also information as to stock for sale if wanted. THE LANDERS POULTRY PEN, 1503 Fourteenth Ave., N., NASHVILLE, TENN. THE NEGRO OR COLORED DOLLS. This is a subject that has agitated the minds of thinking people for a number of years, especially the people of America. The word Negro almost throughout the civilized world in all the languages means black. In the United States, however, it has taken a very different meaning. African or Negro slavery in the United States has brought about so much controversy and such a social condition that the different states have attempted from time to time to legislate upon this subject. A number of the Southern States has defined it by statute, and the word Negro means in law the black descendants of Africans, or any amalgamation of these black descendants of Africa with any other race to the third and fourth generations, even though one of their ancestors be of the Cau 1 Dressed in Oriental Style. casian race. That is to say, if a child is born whose mother is a mulatto, or only half Negro, and its father is pure Caucasian, which would make the child only one-fourth Negro, and then if the descendants of this child intermarries with pure Caucasian, leaving the progeny of these parents to be only one-eighth or one-sixteenth of Negro blood, still the children are claimed by the laws of a number of Southern states to be Negroes, or to belong to the Negro race. These drastic laws have created such social conditions as do not exist in any other part of the civilized world. There may be no presence or no trace of Negro blood to be found in a gentleman or lady of the highest moral, financial and social standing or circle, yet if they can be traced backwards to the fourth generation, if there is any trace of African blood in their veins, they become os tracised and driven from white society. This has in the public mind brought about such a social stigma that it has discouraged in many instances the efforts of a higher elevation of the Negro race in America. But there still remains those of the Negro race that cannot take favorably to this idea of social ostracism, or of inferiority of brain because of social ostracism by such a small minority of the civilized world. Sociologists of the highest class, who have dug deep into the intellectual development of the African, have long since decided that the African and his descendants with the same environments may rise as high as any other race or nationality intellectually, morally and socially. It is the belief of this same class that the Negro's environments are all that is against him, and that a race, like plants, cannot grow, thrive, or develop alone with external agencies. These external agencies can assist, but the development must come from within. Emancipation from slavery, enfranchisement to citizenship, a knowledge of the science of letters and figures were not only external agencies NOTICE. The stockholders of the Pythian Hall Association are hereby notified that the annual meeting of the Association will be held Friday night, January 28, 1910, at the office in the Pythian Temple. The purpose of the meeting will be to elect directors for the ensuing year and for the transaction of such other business as may be brought before it. S. P. HARRIS, President. J. THOS. TURNER Secretary. Miss Bessie Mayberry spent the holidays in Centerville, the guest of her sister, Miss Sophronla Mayberry: Have You Been To The "Palace"? AN UP-TO-DATE STORE FOR UP-TO-DATE PEOPLE WE CARRY A FULL LINE OF Phone No. 4834. 824 CHURCH ST. to raise the Negro from this lower environment brought upon them by the degradation of slavery. But they also believe that the real development of the Negro race in America must come from an inborn and innate self or race pride. That so long as the Negro is taught to believe that any race is his superior, just so long will he feel that he is an inferior, and hence will crave to be removed from his inferior, social, moral and financial condition. Our churches, schools, colleges, etc., may be great agencies, but there must be a still greater agency to raise the Negro to this higher plane. We must begin at the cradle. The mother must begin with the little infant and that infant must be taught that it is from a superior race rather than an inferior race. It must be taught by both precept and example that the race with which it is identified is capable of becoming a model in beauty, virtue and in moral development as any other race. The National Negro Doll Company is composed of men of this class of thought. It was not the financial or mercenary consideration that brought into being the National Negro Doll Company. The founders of this enterprise had reason to believe, and do believe that the kindergarten idea of teaching the little ones great lessons from small objects, is the idea that must develop the race. For instance, they believe that so long as the manufacturers of toys will picture a hideous object, black, blared-eyed, flat nose, red lips, with great tusks, with wooly, knotty or kinky hair, all out of proportion to any human being, and modelled after the lowest form of the monkey, orang-outang, or gorilla, that it would be impossible for the parents of Negro children to use these as object lessons, as they serve for nothing but to create a stigma and thought of inferiority in the little child that must be the future mother. But, on the contrary, it was the belief and is the belief of this company that if the real American Negro woman could be portrayed in waxen form with all the graces and beauty that come with a well-developed and refined American Negro woman, if this kind could be put into the arms of the little tot, and when she grows into womanhood she will feel that she and her descendants belong to and are a part of the greatest of God's creation. It is indeed a mistake, yes, almost a crime for any intelligent mother of the Negro race to take her little girl in its tender age, and place in her arms a flaxen-haired, blue-eyed, rosy-cheeked waxen figure of the pure Anglo-Saxon race, and teach her that all that is virtuous, beautiful and great is to be found in the race represented by that waxen figure; for when the child grows into womanhood that early impression will still linger in her breast, hence the future can predict nothing but a further mixing and mingling of the races. This Negro Doll Company, however, found itself confronted with another more vexatious problem when it undertook to manufacture or to prescribe for the Company a representative American Negro. The Anglo-Saxon can be traced by certain characteristic features, the natives of China the same, the Japanese, the French, the Hindoos and the East Indians, and even the American Indians are to be traced by their characteristic features. But the American Negro after two hundred and fifty years of slavery, steeped in the school of immorality and degradaton, has become so intermixed with other nationalities that there is no one feature nor color nor one characteristic by which he can be traced. Their colors are as numerous as those of the rainbow, and their features and charac teristics are almost as numerous as the individuals themselves. However, it is a fact that a real black Negro of to-day is an exception rather than the rule: and a kinky, wooly-haired Negro woman is only found in the insane asylum. The National Negro Doll Company, therefore, has for two years attempted to find these features. They have not been able as yet to thoroughly advertise these dolls, and it is only where these dolls have been exhibited that they have taken a strong grasp upon the people. It is the idea of the company to sell only a few of these beautiful dolls in the different states, and scatter them among individuals, and by the exhibition of these by the individuals to bring about a demand for them to the point where it will become general. It is surprising, however, that since the passing of the first resolution by the National Baptist Convention at Lexington, Ky., in September, 1908, this company has sold and distributed more than 3,000 of these toys, ranging in prices from 50 cents to $8.50. In fact, it has been impossible for two Christmas holiday seasons for this company to meet the demands We are informed by the managers that they have set to work already to lay plans for another year's trade. They propose to prepare a lithograph or A Dressed in American Style color-print catalogue that will portray the colors as well as the features of these beautiful toys. A few days ago in company with the manager of one of the largest daily papers in Tennessee, we heard him make a noted expression. After standing and gazing a few moments on the artistically arranged shelves, and seeing the faces and features of possibly more than one hundred of these toys, he asserted, "Here are the features and colors and representatives of all the races of the earth, but there is something about their features unlike the average Caucasian doll that I have been accustomed to look upon and handle. They look to be real live persons. That dead or corpse-like character is missing." To give the reader some faint idea of the features of this toy, we herein attempt to show an exact photograph that was taken by a young lady who had dressed two of these toys to send to two little nieces in Pennsylvania. The first is dressed in oriental stlye, and the second in American style. Both of these dolls were taken from the Company's Class A. THE REVIEW will from time to time attempt to give photographs of these, and give the readers the benefit of a better description. These dolls can be had at a very reasonable price by writing or calling upon the National Negro Doll Company at 519 Second avenue, North. Nashville, Tenn. For some reasons, unknown to the writer, the dry goods and toy merchants among the white race have not seen their way clear as yet to handle them. But such Negro merchants as have put them in their show, cases report flattering success. In fact, the manager of the Negro Doll Company informs us that he had urgent orders for forty-two dozen from merchants who could not be supplied. But he hopes to be able to overcome this financial impediment by another season, and to fill the country with these toys. —The Review. Special attention given to boxing and moving pi- anes, Packing furniture, pictures, glass and china ware, etc., for shipment. WE MOVE, PACK, STORE AND SHIP. I am Daily Found on Bandariek St., Between Fourth and Fifth Aves. Tissue Wagons for Neir. TELEPHONE, MAIN 2181 Louisville & Nashville R. R. G. Newton Station, City Ticket Office, 220 Foxes, North, Telephone Mam 708 Leaves. Arrives. Louisville & Cincinnati. *3:47am. *2:15am. Louisville & Cincinnati. *7:55am. *8:27am. Louisville & Cincinnati. *8:00pm. *8:55pm. Louisville Accomoda. *a12:30pm. *a3:05pm. Evanville & Chicago. *3:87am. *4:05am. Evanville & Chicago. *7:40am. *8:10am. Evanville & St. Louis. *7:40am. *8:05am. Evanville & St. Louis. *7:30am. *8:10am. Evanville & St. Louis. *7:40pm. *8:10am. Birmingham, Montgom. ery, Mobile and New Orleans.....*2:25am *1:37am Birmingham, Montgomery, Oklahoma.....*8:45am *7:25pm Nashville & Scottsville Accommodation.....3:10pm *10:18pm Nashville & Hartsville Accommodation.....5:10pm *17:50am Hopkinsville Accomoda...a.5:45pm *10:00am Nashville & Clarksville Accommodation.....4:15pm *18:17pm Nashville & Decatur Accomodation.....8:50pm *10:10am Columbia & Mt. Pleasant.....8:50pm *7:25pm Columbia, Florence, Sheffield, & Tuscumbia.....7:40am *5:00pm *Daily. Daily except Sunday. a Stops at North College-street station. Train arriving at 4:55 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 leaves—West and Northwest—Arrives 7:00am—Memphis, Hickman, Pa. *3:30pm duchea, St. Louis, con- nects for Centreville)* 2:15 —Paducah, Hickman)* 1:25 —Jackson)* 5:30pm—Waverly, Accommodation, 8:00am 8:00pm—"Dixie Flyer" solid train *9:00am to St. Louis. 11:30pm—Memphis and Hickman *6:50am SOUTH AND EAST. 2:44am—Chicago and Florida *3:13am Limited. 9:20am m—St. Louis, Jacksonville *6:55pm "Dixie Flyer." Con- nects for St. Louis. 12:17pm—Chicago, Jacksonville... *3:20pm "Dixie Flyer." Gros- tin, Dining cars. 3:30 pm m—Chattanooga and East. Connections (1) for Shelbyville, Sparta, Fayette- ville, Huntsville, Tracy City, South Pittsburg. 4:00 pm m—Tulahoma, Accommodation, 18:15am Connections for Shelby- ville. 9:00 pm m—Chattanooga, Atlanta *6:35am Augusta and points be- yond. LEBANON TRAINS 100am-Lebanon Mixed ..... 12:10pm 100am-Lebanon Express..... 12:10pm 100am-Lebanon Accommodation ..... 14:40pm 100am-Lebanon Accommodation ..... 13:30am Daily, 'Daily except Sunday. M. HUNT, G. T. A., Maxwell House. POWELL PHILLIPS, P. A., Maxwell House. L. DANLEY, G. P. A., Union Station. NN. CENTRAL R. R City Ticket Office, No. 1 Arcade, FOURTH AVE., N. PHONE, MAIN 209 station, foot of Broad street. Effective March 14, 1908. Depart. Arrive. knoxville to Hopkinsville 8:05 a. m. 7:05 p. m. knoxville to Hopkinsville 5:00 p. m. 9:30 a. m. ebanon 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. conterey Shopping Train 4:00 p. m. 10:00 a. m. ebanon Accommodation 6:10 p. m. 7:50 a. m. Daily I daily except Sunday. train leaving Nashville at 8:30 a. m. carries day bath through to Knoxville (via Southern Railway & Harriman), connecting at Knoxville with north sleeping cars to point East. train leaving Nashville at 8:30 p. m. carries car to Knoxville (via Southern Railway & Harriman), connecting at Knoxville with north sleeping cars to point East and South- H. W. TYSON, C. T. A. ERIC TATOM, P. A. THEO. A. ROUSEEAU, G. A. P. AVID J. KUHN. DRUGGIST. All to your home with a complete line of icles, etc., etc. Call him, PHONES M 15 when you wish to see him. He will sure in showing you his line of goods. '99, of Chattanooga, Tenn. Dur- lady's stay in the city she is st of Professor and Mrs. Daw- 73 Wharf avenue, who are'spart- time in making her stay an one. L. Samuel, of the class of has recently passed the Illle- Medical Board, is now prac- Normal, Ill. ```markdown ``` THE NASHVILLE GLOBE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1909. Next Saturday, January 1, 1910, being Emancipation Day, we will lay aside everything in honor of the Immortal Abraham Lincoln. On this day appropriate exercises will be given at the auditorium. Come over and help us celebrate one of the greatest days down for evolution since the birth of Christ. Exercises commence at 10 o'clock a. m. sharp. All are urged to be there on time. A Barton Sliding Micootone has been recently purchased for the use of the classes in histology and pathology. This is a useful addition to these scientific departments. THE NEIGHBOR. By Theodosia Garrison. At first cock-crow The ghosts must go Back to their quiet graves below. Against the distant striking of the clock I heard the crowing cock, And I arose and threw the window wide— Ah, long before the setting of the moon. And yet I knew they must be passing soon— My neighbors who had died— Back to their narrow, green-roofed homes that wait Beyond the church-yard gate. I leaned far out and waited. All the world Mysterious and beautiful and still; The crooked road seemed one the moon might lay, The little village slept in Quaker gray, And gray and tall the poplars on the hill; And then far off I heard the cock and then My neighbors passed again. At first it seemed a white cloud, nothing more, Then suddenly each separate face I knew— And little children-one whose hand held still And here I saw one pausing for a space To lift a wistful face Up to a certain window where there dreamed A little brood left motherless; and there One turned to where his unplowed fields lay bare; And others lingering passed. But one there seemed So over glad to haste—she scarce could wait To reach the church-yard gate. The farrier's little maid who loved too well And died—I may not tell How glad she seemed. My neighbors, young and old, With backward glances, lingered as they went; Only upon one face was all content, A sorrow comforted—a peace untold. I watched them through the swinging gate—the dawn Stayed till the last had gone. —From McClure's for January. DEATHS. DEATHS. Sarah Caruthers, 1510 Hamilton street, 21 years. Robert Trabus, City Hospital, 21 years. Joseph Dobbins, 2224 Batavia street, 73 years. John W. Brown, 2324 Batavia street, 69 years. George Caldwell, 620 Twelfth avenue, South, 63 years. Infant of Mollie Anderson, 607 Seventh avenue, North. David Knight, 634 Wetmore street, 101 years. Andrew White, County Asylum, 57 years. Infant of Will and Laura Campbell, 323 Second avenue, North. Maggie Haynes, 28 Tennessee street. Henry Bell, 415 Fourth avenue, South, 78 years. Frank Milam, 1116 Gay street, 39 years. Owen Porter, 1500 Alberta avenue, 48 years. Infant of Martha Love, 2400 Harding street. Walter Johnson, 26 years, 1021 Douglas avenue. Chillie James Watkins, 11 months, 1033 Grundy street. Henry Williams, 20 years, 433 Ninth avenue, North. C. G. Jones, 29 years, 1307 Jo Johnston avenue. --- FAMOUS FISK QUARTETTE AT HOME—TRIP THROUGH THE EAST A SIGNAL SUCCESS. The Fisk Quartette, consisting of Messrs. J. W. Work, J. A., Myers, A. G. King and N. W. Ryder, is spending the Christmas vacation at home. This organization has been representing Fisk University in the East, principally in New York and New England, since last September. In some ways they have gained recognition enjoyed by no other band of Negro singers, and were given testimonials such as any artists would envy. Mrs. Clinton B. Fisk gave an evening to them in her drawing room, where they sang to a very select audience, among whom was the daughter of Jno. D. Rockefeller. At the meeting of the Armstrong Association they were upon the program with Andrew Carnegie, at a banquet in Hotel St. Denis, they furnished the music, where the speakers were Dr. W. H. Ward, of the "Independent," and Dr. Charles Jefferson, of Broadway Tabernacle. Ten days were spent in Boston and vicinity and at the meeting of the American Missionary Association in Burlington, Vt., they furnished music for the whole session. The demand for this quartet has come from church, Y. M. C. A. chamber, hospital, insane asylums and settlements, giving a varied experience. At Martha Washington Hotel in New York they sang where Dr. Booker T. Washington was to speak. Dr. Henry E. Krebbiel, the "Dean of American Critics," heard them sing and among other things stated that "A concert-goer might live a lifetime and never hear such beautiful homogeneity of tone as that which they produce, nor such euphony, perfection of unance and precision. Save for its vital human quality, which lifts it above all musical products, this harmony sounds like that of a well-tuned organ. A quartet of instinctively excellent artists are these Fisk Singers." Dr. Krebbiel is an expert in Negro folk song and writes for the New York Tribune, in which paper the foregoing statement appeared. The quartet had the interesting experience of singing before the "Friars," an exclusive social club of New York, before whom no Negroes have ever appeared. Mr. Morris Rumsey, leader of Lyceum Orchestra and choirmaster of a large Episcopal church, had this to say after the entertainment was over: "You could not produce better results from any four voices picked from all the professionals in New York. This work was the best I ever heard of the sort. This is a great deal to say when at the very time he was speaking there were in New York at the Manhattan and Metropolitan Opera Houses the very best singers in the world. At that same entertainment it was announced that at the next meeting the guest would be Bonci the great French Tenor, second only to Caruso. One more distinction which came to the quartet was that they were employed by contract to make records for the Victor Talking Machine Company for the next year. Ten records have already been made, among which are two readings, "When Melindy Sings" and "The Banjo Song," poems by Dunbar, by Mr. Myers, who, in addition to singing in the quartet, reads the works of Dunbar, as probably no other person can. Taking it all in all, the quartet has won a triumph. They leave within a few days for Boston to take up their work again, which will continue until May 1st, 1910, when they return home. CELEBRATE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs. Durant Houston celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of their marriage recently, at their residence, 713 Ninth avenue, South The house was beautifully decorated with red and white carnations, smilax and holly. Mr. and Mrs. Houston were assisted in receiving by Mrs. H. T. Noel, R. B. Hardiman, A. J. Dodd, J. B. Batte, E. Curtis and T. A. Williams, of Franklin, Tenn. The bride was beautifully attired in steel gray messaline silk, with steel trimmings. The marriage register was kept by Mrs. Fred L. Reed. A delightful menu was served. There were more than two hundred present. They received many handsome and valuable gifts. There were presents received from the following cities: Portland, Ore., New Jersey, Kansas City, Mo., Cincinnati O., Columbus, Chicago, Ill., Louisville, Ky., and St. Louis Mo., Franklin, Tenn., Columbia, Tenn. Mt. Pleasant and Murfreesboro, Tenn. The out of town guests were the bride's sister, Mrs. Sol. Joyce, of Columbia, Tenn., Mrs. Williams, of Franklin, Tenn., and Mrs. Tlbitha Partee, of Franklin, Tenn. DOWN ON THE FARM (In the Barn Yard.) Never feed corn alone to hogs. It is false economy. Carelessness in handling pigs is a bad habit to acquire. Even on cold days hogs should hone 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. Does a regular banking business. Interest paid on all time deposits. Only institution of its kind in Tennessee. 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 Business Solicited. M. E. CONNER, M. D. President. J. G. H. BOWMAN First Vice President. THOS. D. LION Second Vice President. T. G. EWING, R. Cash. 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. B. H. CRESWELL. ALABAMA PENNY SAVINGS BANK. BIRMINGHAM, ALA. CAPITAL STOCK, $25,000.00. W. R. PETTIFORD, President. B. H. HUDSON, Cashier J. O. DETTAY, 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. plenty of good fresh air. The idea that anything is good enough for a pig is a mistaken one. Some corn-stalks may be fed to the porkers every day. They are sweet and do the hogs good. Some farmers sell their corn shelled and others dispose of it in the ear, but western farmers find it most profitable to sell it in the hog. Nowadays draft horses must be matched to sell well. Choose for the breeding mare a solid color,—dark bay, black or chesnut. In countries where colts run out the year around, the mature horses have much stronger legs. Horses off color and with peculiar markings never sell so well as those of solid colors; besides they are most difficult to match. Look out for bad habits in your colts. It is so much easier to keep them out than it is to get rid of them if they once get a hold on the young horse. All good farmers watch the condition of their colts when put into winter quarters. A colt allowed to lose flesh and become thin, will never make the horse he would if kept growing from the start. SPRINGFIELD NOTES. Mrs. Lizzie King entertained at a six o'clock course dinner last week com- 7 St. Luke Penny Savings Bank New York and Foreign Drafts issued. Bankers' Money Orders payable in any part of 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 Trust 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. Ask't Cashier. Savings Bank of the Grand Fountain. United Order of True Reformers. Capital and Surplus ..... $ 185,000.00 Deposits ..... 306,902.00 Loans and Discounts ..... 444,732.00 Total business to date ..... 13,028,800.00 Interest paid on deposits. "The Automatic Saving hal it is an anchor of safety to every man." Deposits so licited. W. L. TAYLOR President THE PENNY SAVINGS BANK. COLUMBUS, MISS. CAPITAL STOCK, $10,000.00. Strict Attention Paid to Business. Selections 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. Shumpert, E. S. Evans, O. H. Campbell, E. S. Jones, W. W. Cox. W. I. W. AV, M. D. Press, W. W. COX, Cashier, W. I. COATS, Vice President, M. D. BURNETT, Assistant Cashier. Delta Penny savings Bank INCORPORATED OCT. 1904. CAPITAL. $ 85,000. 0 RESOURCES OVER. $ 100,000. 0 Does a General Banking Business. Makes it on Approved Security. Pays Interest on Deposits. Collects Rent. Pays Taxes. Handles Real State. Erc. Come pond with us. Your Business, however small, is solicited. We Pay Four per cent Interest on Tire. Deposits. INDIANOLA, MISSISSIPPI. Lincoln Savings Bank VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI. Authorized Capital, $25,000.00. First moneyed institution managed colored men in Mississippi. Constantly growing, constantly dota- good. Does a general banking business. Stock for Sale, $5.00 per Share, W. E. MOLLISON, President. B. F. LACEY, Vice-President. M. Z. MOLLISON, Cashier. plimentary to her brother, Mr. Shelby Woodard and wife. Quite a nice crowd attended a concert given at the A. M. E. Church Monday night. Dr. Henry Lucas, of Oklahoma, is visiting his mother, Mrs. Jane Lucas, on Lucas street. Prof. F. G. Carney, principal of the city school, is spending Christmas at his home in Murfreesboro. Prof. D. L. Dunlap, of Princeton, Ky., is visiting friends and relatives. Mrs. Pearl Bell is spending Christmas with her mother in Franklin, Ky. Mrs. M. J. Butts is visiting Bowling Green, Ky. Misses L. M. Bransford, Martha Bell, Anna Bryant and Mr. Thomas Bell are attending holiness meeting at Knoxville, Tenn. Mr. Humphrey Bowling spent Monday here on business. Mr. I. A. Henderson has moved to his new home west of town. Miss Ida Lucas will give a concert at the M. E. Church during the Christmas. Berry Cole lost two fingers while shooting fireworks this Christmas. The funeral of Mr. Joe Banks, of Louisville, Ky., will be held at the M. E. Church Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. Mrs. Amy Porter is a little indisposed. --- YOUR ATTENTION IS CALLED TO A NEW RELIGIOUS PUBLICATION, A WEEKLY JOURNAL KNOWN AS THE NATIONAL BAPTIST REVIEW A PAPER THAT WILL ACCOMPLISH WHAT OTHER JOURNALS HAVE NOT ACCOMPLISHED. IT WILL BE A Sunday-School Superintendent's Guide. An Educator's and a Missionary's Information Bureau. The University, the College and the Academy Reference. A Complete Directory of State Conventions Every pastor and superintendent may have this paper free for one year, if he will send in two paid subscribers at $1.00 each for one year. The departments that the National Baptist Review will carry embrace the following: First, General Reviews—Composed of editorials, editorial comments and denominational questions. Second, Sunday-School Reviews—This will be devoted to superintendents, teachers, their work and the Teacher-Training Service. Third, Pastoral Reviews—Which will embrace the work of the pastor at his church with a Homiletic Review each week. Fourth, Educational Reviews The work of the University, College, Academy and High School will be treated and kept up with in this department. Fifth, Missionary Reviews Will contain a list of the time and place of meeting of all state and territorial conventions, the names and addresses of their officers and reports from the mission fields. Sixth, Publication Reviews-The books, magazines, newspapers, and especially religious journals, with what is in them of interest to the religious world, will be reviewed weekly. SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION TO THE Nat'l, Bap. Pub. Board, R H. BOYD, Secretary, 523 SECOND AVE., N., NASHVILLE, TENN. THE NASHVILLE GLOBE, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1909. CENSUS. (Continued from Page 1.) and giving them additional information concerning the character of their duties. Application forms, with complete directions concerning the method of preparing them, can be secured by writing at once to the supervisor named in the list appended whose district embraces the place of residence of the applicant. ALABAMA—First District, Laurence W. Lucklin, Mobile, Mobile County; Second District, William C. Swanson, Montgomery, Montgomery County; Third district, Joseph H. Adams, Ozark, Dale County; Fourth district, George W. Parsons, Talladega, Talladega County; Fifth district, William P. Cobb, Tuskegee, Macon County; Sixth district, Simeon T. Wright, Fayette, Fayette County; Seventh district, James J. Curtis, Haleyville, Winston County; Eighth district, Thomas P. Wood, Hartseells, "Morgan County; Ninth district, John T. McEniry, Bessemer, Jefferson County. ARIZONA—One district, Franklin F. Towle, Globe, Gila County. Arkansas.—First district, George T. Breckenridge, Paragould, Greene County; Second district, Charles G. Henry, Newport, Jackson County; Third district, Elisha E. Ammons, Jasper, Newton County; Fourth district, Robert J. White, Paris, Logan County; Fifth district, Tom D. Brooks, Russellville, Pope County; Sixth district; John W. Howell, Hot Springs, Garland County; Seventh district, Samuel R. Young, Hope, Hemstead County. FLORIDA—First district, Henry W. Bishop, Eustis, Lake County; Second district, Le Sueur Gaulden, Jacksonville, Duval County; Third district, Thomas D. White, Chipley Washington County. GEORGIA—First district, Francis X. Douglass, Savannah, Chatham County; Second district, Eugene L. Rainey, Dawson, Terrell County; Third district, George E. Ricker, Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County; Fourth district, Edward T. Moon, La Grange, Troup County; Fifth district, Livingston F. McClelland, Atlanta, Fulton County; Sixth district, Harry Burns, Macon, Bibb County; Seventh district, Louis H. Crawford, Dalton, Whitfield County; Eighth district, Willis B. Adams, Elberton, Elbert County; Ninth district, James R. Allen, Talking Rock, Pickens County; Tenth district, Joseph M. Lee, Augusta, Richmond County; Eleventh district, Alexander P. Perham, Sr., Waycross, Ware County. MISSISSIPPI—First district, Samuel D. Chamberlin, Shuqualak, Noxubee County; Second district, Rufus F. Gillespie, Coldwater, Tate County; Third district, William A. Shelby, Rosedale, Bolivar County; Fourth district, James E. Landrum, Kosciusko, Attala County; Fifth district, Samuel F. Thigpen, Bay Spring, Jasper County; Sixth district, Nathan B. Boddie, Gulfport, Harrison County; Seventh district, Lennuel P. Conner, Natchez, Adams County; Eighth district, James B. Yellowley, Jackson, Hinds County. TENNESSEE—First district, Samuel II. Thompson, Chuckey, Greene County; Second district, Alfred J. Agee, Jacksboro, Campbell County; Third district, John H. Early, Chattanooga, Hamilton County; Fourth district, Reese Q. Lillard, Lebanon, Wilson County; Fifth district, John B. Stong, Shelbyville, Bedford County; Sixth district, Harry A. Luck, Nashville, Davidson County; Seventh district, Marion Richardson, Lawrenceburg, Lawrence County; Eighth district, Sidney E. Murray, Huntingdon, Carroll County; Ninth district, Vincent A. Biggs, Martin, Weakley County; Tenth district, John W. Farley, Memphis, Shelby County. ANNUAL CLASS MEETING An interesting meeting of Class No. 16 of the Mt. Olive Sunday School was held Tuesday afternoon from 4 to 6 p.m. at the residence of the teacher, Rev. H. A. Boyd, 1603 Harding street. The purpose of this meeting was to organize and elect officers for 1910. The following officers were elected; President, Miss Willie Mai Hurt; Vice-President, Mr. A. J. Hollinsworth; Treasurer, Mrs. Amanda Drake; Secretary, Miss N. E. King; Assistant Secretary, Miss Mary L. Hinton. Plans by which the membership is to be increased from fifty to one hundred were laid, as well as steps taken to increase the treasury. Mrs. H. A. Boyd, who is a member of the class, served refreshments. ONE LAW FOR ALL MEN AND SPECIAL FAVOR FOR NONE. In view of the natural interest felt towards action which Congress may take on President Taft's recommendations that "the law's delays eliminated as greatly as possible and the costs in litigation be minimized," the Publishers' Press has gathered views of Representatives, Supreme Court Justices and Attorneys General throughout the country. These eminent jurists united in declaring favorably towards the stand taken by President Taft. Especial interest is attached to the statements of jurists in those States where, it is alleged, the systems of procedure deserve immediate attention. One law for the rich and poor alike, is the slogan of the general movement. In the South where, it has been said, there is one justice for the Negro and another for the white, particular interest is attached to the authoritative statements. In the West, where the frontier so recently existed, the same need has been felt. THE POULTRY YARD. Gather the eggs several times a day. Clean out the nest boxes and burn the old straw. Start right by getting better hens; end right by keeping them better. A good grain mixture for winter evening feeding is two-fourths whole corn, one-fourth wheat and one-fourth oats. Increase the supply of corn in the evening feeding as the weather grows colder. Corn is an excellent heating food. Ventilation that comes in everywhere through the cracks is not ventilation at all; it is cold shivers up and down the back and lots of discomfort. Don't let it be that way in your houses. I never crowd too many into one house; six square feet of floor space for each bird is about right. I have found double-board floors, up off the ground, the best. I keep plenty of straw on the floors and throw the grain in this so they must work to find it. Changeable weather this month is apt to develop colds. Keep a close watch on the stock, and at once remove an ailing bird from the flock. A warm, dry coop or cage, and a one-grain quinine pill each night for three nights in succession, will soon bring the bird back to good health. I keep close watch of my flock, and the hens that began to lay first after molting I put into separate pens. From these pens I gathered my eggs for hatching, and by so doing I have wonderfully improved the laying qualities of my flock. This mating has also been the means of rearing birds with stronger constitutions—more hardy and vigorous. In cold weather I feed oats and bran mixed with milk or warm water. I allow the mixture to stand over night, and feed warm in the morning. In the afternoon I fed corn. I keep ground bone in a box where the fowls can have free access to it. Occasionally I also supply oyster-shell. The chill is taken off the drinking water. The floor of the coop is bedded with straw or other litter. I have pullets that were hatched in July that began laying in January. One pullet is particular began December 20th, and is still laying. Before scalding the chicken cut off the soft, downy feathers about its tail. Separate all feathers in picking and allow them to dry. Make the amount of lime water required to immerse the feathers by decanting the mixture from a pound of quick lime to a gallon of water. Stir the feathers well in this for two or three days. Then skim and lift them out upon a sieve for draining. Rinse in hot water, and again in cold water, and allow to dry. Spread on the floor in a warm room with mosquito netting covering. Once a day tap the cover with a stick so the air is changed. The dried ones will flutter, and can be collected after a few days. AT GAY STREET CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Sunday being the first Sunday in the year 1919, there will be the annual roll call of members of the Gay Street Christian Church. Every member is earnestly requested to be present to respond to his or her name. It is our purpose this year to keep in touch with every member and also to build and strengthen the membership of the church. Every member and friend will be asked to join heartily in co-operation in this work. We feel als o that there are many members of Christian churches or Disciples of Christ in this city who are not identified in any church. The hearty invitation is given to such to come and worship with us. SAMUEL HOLTING, Pastor. SAMUEL CHANDLER, Sec. CARD OF THANKS. Mrs. Sarah Flagg, mother, and Mrs. Julia Flagg, wife of the deceased, wish to thank their many friends for the kindness shown them during their recent bereavement. BEAUTIFUL CANTATA. Beautiful Cantata given by the girls and boys of Mt. Gilead Baptist Church on Monday night was quite a success. They rendered a cantata entitled "Santa Claus and His Falries." Miss Mary L. Page received many compliments from members of the church, friends and parents, for such excellent work in training the children. We, the members of the church, feel proud of such an excel- lent young woman in our church. She deserves much credit, also the ones that performed so nicely. MONK AND LAYMAN AS COMPETETORS IN BUSINESS. (Percival Gibbon in the January McClure's.) Although I was not personally, acquainted with Ferrer, I lived for a considerable time at Barcelona while I was studying the growth of the anarchist movement in Spain, and I was able to follow closely the results of his work there. To gain a clue to Ferrer's share in Spanish politics, it is necessary to understand the position of the Anti-clericals. The diocese at Barcelona, to select one instance, has a total population of about a million souls. Within this diocese there are not fewer than five hundred religious houses—monasteries and convents—and some sixthousand minor institutions forming centers of clerical propaganda and influence. It is not known how many monks, nuns and priests these figures represent; Spanish statistics are incomplete and inaccurate; but they stand, at any rate, for a very large body of people—individually poor, but collectively controlling enormous wealth—who have no share in the life of the community and the duties of the citizen. If this were all, it would yet be a serious burden to Spain's most enterprising and prosperous province; but the matter goes further. The orders engage in business. They have special advantages in the way of securing labor and custom, and they are exempt from all taxes. They manufacture liqueuers, chocolates, candy, and linen; they work farms; they undertake printing and laundry work; and they are able to do all this on terms with which the layman cannot compete. They control the schools of Spain, and in politics their influence is paramount. There is a general belief throughout the country that the Queen Mother, the most unpopular figure in Spain, is the tool of the Jesuits. Whether this be true or not, the effect is the same: clerical influence and clerical wealth shut off all hope of reform and progress; and thus it is that in Barcelona all disorders begin with the burning of a convent. There is a story of a newly appointed Governor whose first report from his district began: "The convents are still being burned quite regularly." ALABAMA PENNY SAVINGS BANK. Statement of the Condition of the Birmingham Bank at the Close of Business Nov. 16, 1909. RESOURCES. Cash in Vault ..... $ 20,371.39 Cash in other Banks ..... 26,879.12 Loans and Discounts ..... 134,320.69 Stocks and Bonds ..... 100.00 Real Estate ..... 90,009.88 Furniture and Fixtures ..... 3,386.02 Overdrafts ..... 1,429.45 bash in Vault ..... $ 20,371.39 bash in other Banks ..... 26,379.12 banks and Discounts ..... 134,320.69 stocks and Bonds ..... 100.00 real Estate ..... 90,009.88 furniture and Fixtures ..... 3,386.02 overdrafts ..... 1,429.45 Total ..... $275,996.53 LIABILITIES Capital Stock ..... $ 42,018.50 Undivided Profits ..... 3,773.83 Due Depositors on Demand 143,212.88 Due on Certificates ..... 70,262 Rediscounted Notes ..... 10,693.39 Dividends Uncalled for ..... 435.65 Bills payable ..... 5,330.95 Savings Account ..... 269.15 Total Account ..... $275,996.53 W. R. PETTIFORD, Pres. B. H. HUDSON, Cashier. ENTERTAINED FRIDAY EVENING. Mr. and Mrs. John Wendell, of 16 Miller street, entertained on last Friday. The house was beautifully decorated with Christmas decorations. Progressive whist was played. The winners of the prizes were as follows: First prize, Miss W. C. McGavock; second, Mr. T. E. Taylor, and the booby prize was won by Mr. W. Burney. Dancing was the main feature of the evening. An elaborate menu was served, consisting of, first course, oysters on half-shell; second turkey and cranberries; third, chicken salad; fourth course, peach sundae; fifth, coffee and cheese. The table was daintily decorated with some of the season's prettiest flowers. Those to enjoy the evening were Misses Sophia Garner, L. G. Gaines, Mabel Smith, Lady B. Stringer, Willie McGavock, Fannie Hayes, Mrs. Mason, of Chicago, Ill., Messrs. John and Arthur Givens, James and Harold Sawyers, John and William Burney, T. A. Garrett, T. E. Taylor, T. Galant, G. W. Mourzon, E. D. Clarke, T. Hightower, G. Hamilton Francis, J. A. Lyles. Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 29, 1909. 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