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The New York Age. or 17.-Secrete mouth, too. He has echeod of his too honor, of troops. And placent over his pos indeed much safer to the President Roosevelt an agreement with him on object. For one brief day the Seed of War had surrendered his courage striking point in order to suspend der of discharge. But the next day courage of the big man of war had woke where "the woodbine twimeth the unburnt crytch for his first born." his high and mighty master was straining to his little hallwick of blood. States with the provascular blood his tervile and tender and man in his still gutted terrible voice all the trembling objects of his awful cause, whether in Fort Benoo or the War Department in Washington, resting under such perilous circumstances the brave and big Secretary of concluded was the better part of or. And so acting on the sapient milie principle that he who agitates and as away will live to see another day Mr. Renovset's cabinet, Secretary left but a hasty retreat from the brave on which he had occupied a short four hours before. The order using the President's order discharging sole battalion of colored soldier warred and the unarmed officer free right of way to his infamous course over the prorights of nearly one hundred and y innocent men who had served their in wars at home and in wars with signal splendor and useful- that country. happened upon the arrival of the at the White House and at his with his pet candidate for in 1908 nobody knows able to tackle with some the Philippines and, but to tackle Theo-President of a world great and glorious Ameri-vas to tackle Fillipinos and into one dynamite shellion, executive imperlouneering mastership. For lent wants he wants with wants it with the biggest sort of betrayal. Nor will the embassy minister like somebody else in the empire which he has established at home and beyond to sees, had better facilitate the easy gratification of this American autocrat's wants, or crick and crack will tumble their official heads into the basket which gapes wide under the shadow of his headman's dread are. No one escapes, not even a sick woman visitor to the White House or the honored wife of the president of the American nation, who the impassive almightiness of the President of all the Americans. Nobody was surprised, therefore, when Secretary Taft's defence of the executive order discharging with draconian severity the colored battalion of the 25th United States Infantry was given to the public. It was exactly what was naturally expected from such a man with the biggest kid of presidential bee burning with a mouth ablaze. If he had had any honest, manly doubts as to the legality or the justice of the Prepident's order when he suspended its execution, while the new American autocrat was on the high seas, all of those honest and manly doubts had vanished into thin air the moment his imperial master had set foot on terra firma and on the necks of cabinet ministers and 80,000,000 of submissive subjects. The name of a senator in theance which the big Secretary of War had rolled off for a brief day from his prepathetic barrel organ with many a sweet and elusive variation of the same old tune of how I would like to be President in 1908, ended lamely and inconsequently enough in the sharms and flats of his forces, less after all his great expectation in that regard might not be realised. Perhaps the big Secretary of War imagine that his emergent needs for the army, until the meeting of his party, convention to name Mr. Roosevelt's successor in the summer of 1908 demands an indemnable condition to his successor ship to his chief consigns in just such an resistible via a tergo an that strenuous man and master in the White House has to bring to his candidacy for Presidential honors in the sweet bye and bye. Forhawn Mr. Roosevelt's power counts for the more than 31,000 colored voters in Ohio, and the more than 21,000 colored voters in New York. Perhaps it outweighs, in the judgment of Secretary in the combined colored vote of the state, and especially this vote in doubt states. Secretary Taft, evidently so. Then let him continue to act in this assumption, as he plainly enough maintains, that this act, which sustains the President in his unprecedented act of injustice Here is the way Senator Foraker characterized the labored defence of the President by his Secretary of War. Replying to Senator Tillman in the Senate on the 18th inst., Senator Foraker said "he also had read the report (Taft's) and the Secretary did not preclude that these men are guilty, contained in the reports and the testimony that had been printed. Running through all this report is uncertainty as to guilt. I do not hesitate to say that the claim that these men are guilty, based upon this testimony, is of the most flimsy character imaginable." That is the opinion of one of the great lawyers the Senate and one of the Republican Party. It is important to note in this connection of the subject the high, the very high, estimate placed upon Senator Foraker's erase of the legal and constitutional bear- of the Rate Bill in the last session ingress when that bill was upon its ce. by Congressman McCall, of titular of the House, to be appointed for November: "Whether the tempted to delegate legislative Foraker, which in its lignous power was a much more robust constitutional point," writes Mr. McCall. "This point required little attention in the Senate, capable of the mastery of treatment of the broad legal and constitutional questions involved was the comparatively spetch of the Democratic Senate." This is the great lawyer and Senator who is of opinion that the claim of the President backed by the report of his big Secretary of War "that the colored soldiers discharged" without honor are guilty, band upon testimony accepted as gospel, truth by President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft, of the unpopular "recriminalism." And we think that the opinion of Senator Foraker on the legal aspects of this case will outweigh, in the minds of most heart, intelligent and unprejudiced men, that of an impulsive ruler like Mr. Taft. At any rate, the whole matter is to be thoroughly thrashed out in the Senate at no distant day. For both the Penrose and the Foraker resolutions, calling the first, on the President and the second on the Secretary of War for full information bearing on the subject, passed the Senate on the 6th that, the country but the truth, the whole nothing but the truth regarding this subject, though the heavens of the President's wrath fall upon the country, and the heavens of Secretary Taft's boom for the presidency tumble with rain about his own devoted head. Meantime there have appeared in this city two of the discharged soldiers of the 26th Infantry. First Sergeant Mingo Saunders and Private Elmer Brown. These men have been knocking at the door of the War Department and have made to that department their formal applition for reinstatement. Sergeant Saunders received a splendid record of twenty-six years' military service in the United States Army, and Private Brown is supported by an unsullied, a splendid record of sixteen years' service in the same army. They are the ghosts of the murdered Banquo of the colored battalion discharged without honor by an act of unprecedented injustice on the part of David Roosevelt, which he defended by Secretary War Taft. These two colored heroes do not show any white feather in the August precincts of the War Department. Both men court the fullest investigation of their records and of their conduct during the entire time the battalion was stationed at Brownville. They deny all knowledge of the affair or of the identity of the participants in the alleged riot on the night of August 31, 1916, if it was anquent compcrony on the part of the men to shield guilty comrades who are assured by the President's Draconian order to have guilty of "shooting up" the town on that ill-fated evening. Will the President and his big Secretary of War do with these men? Will they treat them as the banquetters in Macbeth treated the ghost of the murdered Banquo fly in incinnately and in confusion fly in incinnately, will they wronged veterans continue to shake their gory locks at them and to cry for justice at the hands of the Nation? We shall see. ABCHRALD H. GRIEMER DR. WASHINGTON ACTIVE IN DARKEST ATLANTA He and Former Governor Northern Speaker for Better Relations Between the Two Races. ATLANTA, Ga., December 10. The efforts toward reconstruction going on in Atlanta, among both blacks and whites received an impetus yesterday when Dr. Booker T. Washington of the Tuskegee Institute, was in the city, by special invitation, and delivered two addresses, under the auspices of the leaders among the Afro-American people, who are doing what they can to perfect plans which will mean the better lives for the people in this metropolis of the South. The plan and scope of these efforts will be set forth at an early date. Dr. Washington's visit here was to get the Afro-American people in the movement to pledge earnest cooperation. His principal address was delivered at the Friendship Baptist Church, of which the Rev. E. R. Carter is pastor. Every foot of space was taken and an outside chapel was carved to get in that Dr. Washington was compelled from the steps of the church to address this overflow audience. The address on the whole was splendidly received. After he had concluded his remarks, former Governor Northen addressed the meeting, endorsing all that had been said and pledging his heart to bring about results being sought by the Civic League and Industrial Union, recently organized associations for the restoration and furtherance of friendly relations between the races. In the evening another large audience gathered at the First Congregational Church, of which Rev. H. H. Proctor is pastor, a great man of the town attended this meeting and cordially approved Dr. Washington's address. Perhaps the most striking part of what Dr. Washington said at Kov. Carter's church was the following: "An element that has kept the two races from cooperating has been the constant threat of Negro domination. I am in constant touch with all classes of my people, North and South, and I do not hesitate to say that the Negro has no ambition to mingle socially with the white race, neither has he any ambition to dominate the white man in political matters. What the Negro is interested in, far beyond the matter of racial or political domination, is that individually he and his family shall receive justice. The score of social equality, the scale of possible racial domination, has kept many white people in the South from helping the Negro, and the fear on the part of the Negro that he will not receive fair play has kept the Negro leaders in doubt." NOT WANTED IN UNION. Afro-American Plumbers Barred on Account of Color. ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 16,—Claiming discrimination on account of their color, C. L. Pinckney, G. Pinckney and H. L. Ragan, constituting the Marietta Plumbing Company. Thursday filed a bill of injunction in the Superior Court against the National Plumbers' Union and the Georgia Supply Company of Atlanta. It is alleged that because they are Negroes the plaintiffs are denied membership in the association, and being denied membership in the association are refused supplies by the local company. Judge Pendleton has set December 15 as the date for the hearing on the permanent induction. TRYING TO KEEP HIM "IN HIS PLACE" A GS FOR A DEMONSTRATION THAT THE WHITE SOUTH HAS FAILED TO SOLVE THE RACE PROMLEM AND CANNOT ALONG THE LINES IT IS PURSUING. CHICAGO VOTERS LEFT. CHICAGO VOTERS LEFT. NO POLITICAL PLUMS FOR APRO- AMERICAN VOTERS. Growth of the Choral Study Club— First Concert of the Season Gaul's "Holy City"—Here of Onawatomic Honored by Forum—Great Martyr's Praise Sung. Regular Correspondence of The Age. CITIGO, December 17.--Following the two remarkably interesting concerts given in Chicago by S. Coleridge Taylor, of London, England, assisted by Mr. Harry Burleigh, of New York, the Choral Study club of this city gave its first concert of the season Monday, December 11, in the auditorium of the Institutional church. Gault's "Holy City" was rendered by this club in a manner that was both a delight and a surprise to a large white and Afro-American audience of music lovers. The Choral Study club is now entering upon the sixth year of its organization, under the efficient leadership of Mr. P. T. Choral, the founder of the Choral organization for the purpose of cultivating a popular taste for and interest in classic music, and the success achieved is a matter of more than local interest. It is the only organization of its kind and size in the country, excepting the Coleridge Pine Choral society in Washington, D.C. Mr. Pedro Tinsley, the leader, has a high standing among the leaders of music in this city. He has spent many years and a great deal of money in reaching his present standing in the profession. The thoughtful and art-loving people of this city feel that Mr. Tinsley has rendered them a valuable and lasting service by so refining public taste as to counteract the demoralizing effect of "rag time" and other sensuous melodies. It has required much patience to overcome its mild effect of this wanderville music. Small and chilly audiences met and froze the first efforts of the Choral Study club in this direction. Now the three annual public recitals are eagerly looked forward to as the most interesting and upifting events in the social life of the city. The Choral Study club expects to be in a position before long to successfully assume the responsibility of inviting Mr. Coleridge Taylor to Chicago under its patronage. The annual John Brown memorial and banquet by the Men's Sunday Forum was given at the "Buckingham" on the anniversary of the Perry tragedy. peculiar interests unfolded by this meeting, and the importance of race cannot be anywhere apparent. The hero opera *Autonomic* was glorified in song and speech with an intensity that exalted the occasion above ordinary events. Your correspondent has been informed that the distribution of Republican patronage has been notably parsimonious among the colored voters since the last election. Though the party swept the city and county and has at its disposal a larger patronage than it has ever had before, our folks have gotten scarcely more than a few crumbs. Perhaps it will be better in the future when it be- comes less certain just how and for whom our people are going to vote. In the meantime there is a constant increase of colored men who vote the Democratic ticket in local elections. The higher social life of Chicago has been enlarged by the marriage of Dr. John Davis, of this city, to Miss Emma Rose Williams, of New Orleans. For a number of years the new Mrs. Davis was one of the most popular teachers of New Orleans and is extensively known throughout the country for her mental cleverness and winome personality. Chicago, like other winome centers of our country, is becoming a better place to live in his reason of so many of the good people of the South seeking the free atmosphere of Northern communities. FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS. Any readers of THE AGE who are interested in assisting this grand movement by joining the to the International Labor Union, Union Ohio, and referring to this publication. We saw in *The Minnesota Trilogy* the other day that there was a project among the members of our race to collect funds to defend the Twenty-sixth Infantry. We commend the project, and we write to find out who is in the proper person or persons to send contributions for the fund. I and my brother were in the Army for a month or year as long as there is any need of money, and will also try to collect from other residents here. The Western News & Advertising Agency, Moose Jaw, Bask., December 10, 1906. A Born in Building Among After-Americas and a Promising Business Movement—Notes of the Tour Hotel City. WILMINGTON, N. C., Dec. 15.—Wilmington churches are among the most progressive in the whole South and are making preparations for Xmas. Mt. Olive A. M. E. has just completed painting the exterior of the church and has enclosed the same with a solid brick wall 20 feet high in some places. The beltry has also been completed to the height of 20 feet and adorned with a becoming weather cane. Mt. Zion A. M. E. has framed and painted her interior, has allotted furniture and changed from gas to electric lighting. St. Stephen's A. M. E. is undergoing a thorough renovation, her interior being painted and framed and electric lights installed. St. Luke's A. M. E. Zion is the most beautiful and attractive of all the churches, having spent $800 in making modern improvements. This church will purchase and install a $1,500 pipe organ by Xmas and has been added to the church by $1,000. The people and people of St. Luke believe in paying as they go, and when they plan to do anything, work harmoniously and with a will to accomplish the end sought. The other churches need to catch some of their spirit, which is typical of a true religion. Christ Congregational church has just completed a new system of lighting, has completed the chancel and altar at a well-underway, to make other needed improvements and pay off all indebtedness. The Rev. J. C. Clark has done more than well in the short year of his pastorate. Chestnut street Presbyterian church has purchased and completed payments on a $300 piano for Sunday-school use. Ebenezer Baptist is negotiating with several clergymen and hopes to secure very soon a permanent pastor to fill the place recently vacated by Rev. J. W. Sasser, resigned. St. Mark's Episcopal church has just completed and opened their St. Barnabas Guild house and will erect a memorial pulpit to the memory of the Rev. Chas. Brady Deacon, who was the second pastor and co-owner and labored faithfully for eight years in this community until his death. The other churches not here mentioned are nevertheless making progress and successfully accomplishing many things, both in a spiritual and material way. The building crane has reached the Afro-American population at last, and a number of beautiful and appropriate houses have been and are being erected. Many of these buildings are in good localities and rent to white people. Mr. John E. Taylor, late deputy collector of customs at this port, leads off with six two-story residences, averaging $1,350 apiece; Mr. A. E. Jackson, three, five-room cottages, costing $750 apiece; Mr. T. R. Mark compiled and modelled to his modious, well appointed, modern two-story, ten-room residence, erected at a cost of $1,200. Mrs. Emily Addison is living in her palatial modern home, just completed at a cost of $1,500. Mr. Dallas Chessnutt has bought and remodelled the two-story dwelling on North Eighth street at a cost of $1,900 and is residing in the same; Mr. and Mrs. John Henry Chessnutt has just completed improvements to their valuable property at a cost of $750; Mrs. Fanny Norwood, widow of an edible man, Mr. John G. Norwood, modelled the cottage Walnut street, in which Mr. and Mrs. Bentley resided, at a cost of $500, and is now building a two-story, nine-room modern dwelling, to cost $1,800. Mr. Wm. H. Moore is erecting a two-story, eight-room, modern dwelling at a cost of $1,200. Mr. G. Thomas, one of the A. C. L. R. R. is most genial porter, is erecting a nine-room, two-story modern dwelling on McLaeft street at a cost of $1,400, and will reside in same; Mr. J. W. Thompson, the genial restaurant bonfire, has purchased a modelled the two-story dwelling recently erected by Dr. Wyman on Seventh street, at a cost of $2,500, and is residing in the same. Dr. Dallas Chessnutt has built a $200 stable and carriage house in the rear of his residence on Eighth street. Mr. James W. Caraway has purchased outright the palatial tonorial parlor in Front street and is running a seven-chair strictly first-class hygienic barber shop. Dr. Prince Le Boo has bought out the drug establishment of Dr. John Thomas, and is conducting an up-to-date pharmacy at the corner of Seventh and Campbell streets. The estate of the late contractor and master builder, Mr. John Harris Howes, is to be settled at the January term of court and partition made of the same between a large number of living heirs. There large clay in the South should have an African American dentist has been proven by the phenomenal success and large practice which has attended the coming of Dr. O. H. Arnold in our midst. Race prejudice on the one hand and race pride on the other have accomplished much toward the benefit of our professional men. The case of Arthur Adams and Robert Sawyer has taken on another aspect. The men were to be hanged December 16, but the sentence, upon representation to President Roosevelt by many foremost citizens and clergymen was commuted to life imprisonment. Meantime the Supreme Court imported to grant the men a new trial on ground of new evidence, viz. the confession to the heathen Henry Scott, who was executed July 6. The Supreme Court has granted the plea and the men will have a new trial, unless Judge Purnell refuses to grant the same. Many persons are confident that the men will be acquitted should they secure the trial, sediment being in their favor on the part of both white and colored people that are innocent. Notwithstanding this fact, the are some who seem to think the men ought to be satisfied with life imprisonment. Mr. W. H. Nixon, who was in the city on account of the death of his father, the esteemed Mr. J. O. Nixon, has returned to Philadelphia, Pa. Mrs. James E. King of Raleigh, N.C. is in the city, having been called to the bedside of her sister, Mrs. Benjamin Scott, who is seriously ill from an attack of acute indigestion. Mrs. Fanny S. Scott is also in the city in attendance at the sick bed of her son, Mr. John Sampion, who is a sufferer from heart trouble. Rev. R. Robt. Bennett, doctor of St. Mark's P. E. church, has returned from Wilson, N.C. where he preached Sunday to overflowing congregations in behalf of Christian education and the Wilson Parish Hall. Rev. John Adams of Columbia, S.C. paid flying visit to relatives in this city, where Mr. Adams and young Miss Adams are at present residing. Mrs. Katie Cullar, who threatened with the loss of her mind an account of her recent serious illness, is now better, and the doctors hope for her ultimate recovery. MAJOR PENROSE AND CAPTAIN MACKLIN TO BE FRIEND. The Whole Question of the Brownsville Freemay May Be Reviewed and the True State of the Once Brought Out for the First Time—Court-Martial Order a Concussion to Public Opinion—Views of the Great New York Daily Newspapers on the New Phase of the Muddle. WASHINGTON, December 14—On the recommendation of the General Staff the Secretary of War has ordered the trial by court martial of Major Charles W. Punroe and Captain Edgar A. Mackin, of Company C. First Battalion, Twenty-fifth Infantry, under the Sixty-second Article of War for "conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline" in failing in their duty in preventing and suppressing the riot at Brownsville, Tux., last August. The specification will include, among other things, the charge that the two officers named failed to exercise due diligence in preventing the occurrence when the condition of affairs at Brownsville made it necessary that all proper precautions should be taken to prevent a clash between the troops and citizens; and also that they did not examine the riffles of the men until daylight, although they learned of the true state of affairs by 1 o'clock in the morning. Of 2 o'clock in the morning, the membership of the court and the place where the trial will be had have been left to the discretion of the commanding officers of the Department of Texas. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., December 14. Major Charles W. Penrose, whose trial by court martial was ordered to-day, received the first news of the order when the Associated Press dispatch from Washington was read to him over the telephone to-night. While he would not discuss the order it was evident he was greatly surprised. Captain Mackillin also is at Fort Reno. A Welcome Court Martial From The New York Sun. No doubt it will be good news to Major Charles W. Penrose and Captain E. A. Macklin that their responsibility for the alleged murderous raid by men of the Twenty-fifth Infantry upon the people of Brownville on the night of August 18 is to be determined by a court-martial. They were hereditary members of duty or canon who they took all reasonable precautions to prevent such a rebellious breach of the peace as that with which the battalion was charged. At present their competency as commanders of the post and battalion respectively lies under suspicion, a condition which affects their advancement. Promotion has been rapid since the appointment of a Second Lieutenant from civil life in 1884, and Captain Macklin entered the army as a private in 1889. Major Penrose is 48 and Captain Macklin 38. The record indicates that as officers they have been attentive to their duties. It was only fair to give them an opportunity to learn of their conduct when the control of the troops under their command was not to a severe test. We have the testimony of Major A. P. Blockson of the Inspector-General's Department, who made the original investigation at Brownville, that the dismissed battalion "had an excellent reputation up to the 13th of August." How it got out of band on the night of that day, as charged, Major Penrose and Captain Macklin will now have to explain to a court convened by the War Department. The commission of the Constitutional League has sought to show by collecting evidence on the spot that the battalion was the victim of a conspiracy on the part of the twonpeople: that, in fact, the shooting which resulted in the killing of one man, theounding of the child of police and the peril of men and children in their homes was not done by men belonging to the battalion. This is a startling theory to put forward, but it is true that the evidence hitherto presented is or parte and makes an incomplete case against the soldiers, as well as a case for them that is a strain on credulity. It will be necessary for the courtmartial to establish the fact that the murderous outbreak at Brownville was the work of soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Infantry before Major Penrose and Captain Macklin can be put upon the defensive. The dismemberment of an enemy officer cannot be accepted as evidence of guilt or complicity of the enlisted men. The non-comissioned officers primarily responsible for their conduct and whereabouts will have to be culled, as well as the police and those citizens of Brownville who are competent witnesses. Thus for the first time we shall have the stories and on rehearsed before a responsible tribunal the reputations of Major Penrose and Captain Macklin and the good name of a historic regiment. Truth Concerning the Brownsville Riot to Come Out From The New York Press. The court martial of Major Penrose and Captain Macklin, the senior officers of the colored troops of the Twenty-fifth infantry which were discharged without honor in connection with the Brownville riot, is the single topical thing that has been done in this celebrated case. The very premises on which was based the discharge of the troops carried with it the unescapable conclusion that the commissioned officers must have been guilty of the grossest neglect of duty or even of criminal connivance with those who are declared to have shot up the town. We do not say that this is so, of course: we do not believe it is. The Constitutional League has made a very thorough examination of the ground and the circumstances. Its report goes to show not only that the great majority of the soldiers had nothing to do with and could not have taken the facts of the riot, but that possibly the companies fired a single member of the burrocks when the firing was going on. It has been able to discover no trustworthy testimony whatever that those who shot up the town were soldiers. It has submitted evidence that the work was done by others as part of a conspiracy to discredit the troops and to have them removed from Brownsville. It has found indubitable proof that when the roll was answered, at the almost immediate call to arms and at the almost immediate call to arms, and while the firing and rioting were in progress, every man in the tanks was in progress, every report that the service rifles were locked in the racks when the onthawk began that the wrews were unlocked and given to the men in the call to arms, one rack being broken open because the key was not promptly at hand. It submits that the unblocking and the breaking were done at the command Obviously the men could not have been in the rains in the harbors answer the soil call and out in the town creating a riot at one and the same time. Obviously the riffles could not have been in the hands of the riffers in Brownville and locked in their rafts at one and the same time. Either the guns and the men were outside executing the lawless and murderous work of they were where they belonged and conducting their shamans in the riffles they ought not to have been punished as they were. If they did, in fact, take out the riffles, escape from the harbors with them and shoot up the town, the battalion records showing that they did nothing of the sort—that at the very time the riot was going on the riffles were locked in the racks and the men, assembled in ranks at the call to arms, were all accounted for—if this falsification of actual facts could be possible then the commissioned officers should be allowed offence to be punished along with the men whose evil deeds they must have covered if the men actually did go forth with the riffles and shoot up the town. The enlisted men were never put on trial. An investigation was held under the charge of an inspector general. Testimony is submitted by the Constitutional League that some, not all, of the men were questioned. Because they would not or could not tell anything about the riot the whole battalion (the enlisted men) were discharged without honor. Again, when the firing ran out, who could the firing be on, how could they tell? If some of them had, in fact, been out rioting in the town, and if their rifles were not in the racks at the call to arms, how could the commissioned officers be abolved from concealing the true facts any more than the enlisted men? We have waited, and are still waiting for all the facts in this remarkable case before passing final judgment on the executive order putting out all the soldiers in disgrace—the innocent with the guilt; if there were guilty ones. The court martial of the officers ought to bring out these facts, for while the men were not tried, and therefore could not put in the usual testimony, the officers at their trial will be able to put in testimony as to all the facts. Then we ought to know that the injustice to be committed by the greatest injustice ever perpetrated was not in truth an injustice, or at least so unpardonable a one. And we are very sure that if the brief of the Constitutional League is borne out in official proceedings President Roosevelt will be as quick to make amends as he was to punish. We can calculate the high value which he puts on discipline; we can understand the ruthless hatred he can feel for a conspiracy of soldiers or of any manner of men to shied lawlessness and crime debauching in human blood. But we are as positive that no man more than President Roosevelt realizes that the rank injustice of punishment of the innocent does not make for discipline and stability; that it works for the right of service; that the effect on our society aside there has been nothing in the character of Mr. Roosevelt as it has been revealed to the American people to warrant the assumption that, whatever the result, he would deliberately commit a wrong or tolerate the continuance of one against his fellow man once he had the proof before him that it was a wrong. The President Has at Last Taken Preper Military Procedure. From the new York Evening Post In deciding to court martial the senior officers of the Twenty-fifth Infantry battalion, accused of rioting in Brownville, the President has at last taken the proper military procedure. As was immediately preceded by this and the officers of the officers of a regiment must be held responsible for the conduct of their men. Failure to do so in this, as in many other cases in the past, would make officers still more indifferent to their duty to control their men outside their garrisons as well as inside. Major Penrose and Capt. Macklin should have been tried at least two months ago—before any of their enlisted men were punished. We welcome this more now as a sign that the stage where sober second thought is possible has been reached. Witness on the law now indicates that before long most if not all, of the discharged soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Infantry will be reinstated, one by one. The publication of the mass of evidence collected by Gilchrist Stewart of the Constitutional League will deepen the amazement that the War Department and the President could have acted so hastily and on such slender proof. The only genuine evidence against the men is the picking up of army cartridges and empty shells in the streets. But no American company commander be able to resist their unanimity; this has been and is being done steadily in the Philippines. And as for empty cartridge cases—if there is a rifle range near a post, they can be acquired with all possible ease. From the start, every official concerned went on the theory that every man was a rascal, instead of with the desire to uphold the army's good name, if possible. An Appeal for the Soldiers. LOUISVILLE, Ky., December 16.—The case of the dismissed soldiers of the 25th Infantry, like the case of the ejection of Bishop Phillips from a Pullman car, the "grandfather clause" in State constitutions, is not to be made a race fight, but one of principle, upon which rests justice and the manhood rights of American citizens. Hon. J. Donglass Wetmore, the legal advisor of the Afro-American Council, was the first attorney sought in behalf of those grossly wronged men. The principle of the council is intended for are vital, as considered by the pulpit, the press and all fair-minded people. North and South. The Afro-American Council is appealing for money to aid in pushing the case. The matter is, before Congress, we have able lawyers, but there must be money—not pennies, but dollars by the hundreds. We have quite $200 in hand ready for our attorney, but we must have $1,000. This appeal is to men and women who will give up dollars have these men firmly dealt with before the law. Send a dollar or more for the fund to the One Cent Savings Bank, Nashville, Tenn., or the True Reformers' Bank, Richmond, Va., Cashier J. C. Napier or R. T. Hill will respectively acknowledge. There are many white friends interested to the end that justice may be met out, but there are who enemies right in the United States Congress who will give the court their own authority to defeat any effort to deal squarely by these outraged, brave black men. Our friends are watching us and if we do not make a fight for justice they will grow faint hearted and slacken their interest. They reason that if the Negro himself is not sufficiently interested to give a dollar, if he can't sneak out in defense of his own, then why should we be concerned? In the interest of 150 humiliated men—soldiers who have worn the Nation's uniform in home from one to twenty-five in the Army—we must square "dare we" we call upon every friend of right to send a check or money order to one of the banks above named and ask that it be credited to the Afro-American Connell Defence Fund. L. G. Jordan, general secretary and organiser Afro-American Council. THE NEW YORK AGK: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20. 1906. Special Correspondence at the New WASHINGTON, December 15—It is pretty well known here among those who are near enough to the White House to be in possession of the real facts that the President and Secretary Iaft will greatly modify the order damming the three colored companies; in fact, the reenstatement of a me of the soldiers is now going on, and it is safe to state that the new order will be placed in a more satisfactory light and will please Afro-Americans generally. A great deal of quiet, but nevertheless effective work, has been done since the President returned from Panama, by those in position to make their influence count. There is a full set of "little fry" in Washington, as elsewhere, who want to condemn the President for what has been done, but will not couse out boldness and say, "We are not going to booker T. Washington and others." It is a well-known fact here that Mr. Washington did not know about the order until the President had decided upon his plans; in fact, had the order made out. It is also known that when Mr. Washington found out how matters stood he urged the President not to dismiss the companies, or at least modify the order. It is also well known that just so soon the President had to resign, Mr. Washington and others urged the President to rescind the order or modify it in some manner. Mr. Washington has not rushed into print or pushed himself forward in indignation meetings, for the minute that he, or any other man in his position, should do this he would not be able to share the confidence of the President, or have any influence with him in matters in the race's interest. If he were to rush into print or ranting from the housepets, his words would receive no more consideration than thousands of others who are talking all the time. It is known here also that Mr. Washington never loses an opportunity to make his influence felt in the best interests of our race whenever the occasion arises. The President is a man who does his own thinking and acts on his own responsibility. No man in the nation, not even a member of his cabinet, can influence him when once his mind is made up to act in a certain direction. It is a little less than cowardly for any one to blame anyone for what the President does and takes the responsibility for doing. And people, even people give the President the entire credit for something which he does when it pleases them, but on the other hand, when he does something that displeases them they place the blame on someone else. In this connection your correspondent is able to predict that a large number of the discharged soldiers will be reinstated. The order has just been issued by Secretary Taft to court martial the white officers who were in charge of the three companies of the 20th, and your correspondent predicts that some very interesting information will come out in the trial. Dr. Chancellor has just returned from an extensive Southern trip, and will soon make an appearance at the Royal Education giving his impressions of Southern schools. Several important positions in the schools are still vacant, and it is said Dr. Chancellor will recommend persons to fill the vacancies. Not a great deal is heard from Dr. W. T. Vernon, the Registrar of the Treasury, but it is well known that in a quiet way he is giving a good administration which is reflecting credit to the race. We are glad to note that the circulation of THE AGE is increasing here, and that the influence of this journal is becoming more and more potent each day. It is to be hoped that the circulation will increase to the extent that it will enable its owners to establish a regular bureau here. THE AGE is our one great Afro-American journal. SOLDIERS MAY RE-ENLIST. But Must Show. Complete Innocence in the Brownaville Affair. WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—The Secretary of War has sent a memorandum to the Military Secretary in which he outlines the procedure to be followed by enlisted men of the 25th Infantry, discharged from the service for complicity in the Brownville affair, who desire to reenter the army. The applicant must present to the recruiting officer evidence in writing to show that, notwithstanding his discharge, he was implicated in the murder, and thus, Brownville must provide any evidence which might lead to the discovery of the perpetrators. This evidence is to be forwarded to the department for investigation. RELIEVE DISCHARGED SOLDIERS Bill to Nullify a Part of the President's Order of Dismisal. WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—A bill introduced in the House to-day by Mr. Roberts (Rep. Mass.) is intended to relieve the soldiers of the 25th Infantry, recently discharged from the service by order of President Roosevelt, from the punitive features of the order. It provides that notwithstanding said order the discharged soldiers shall be eligible to employment in the civil service or reenlistment in the military service; and that no forfeiture of pay or other right secured by law shall ensue. Wants a Dollar for a Christmas Contribution. Sir: The people of the North have long been responsive to the needs of the many practically useful schools for the education of the Negro which have been developed in the South upon lines which the late General Armstrong so wisely laid down at Hamminton, Va. An appeal now comes from the Slater Industrial and State Normal school at Winston-Salem, N. C. The treasurer of the school, Colonel W. A. Blair, has been for many years the North Carolina State Bankers' Association and also the ident of the largest National bank in his State. Colonel Blair has done much for the colored people, and there is not in his town the least evidence of race spirit. The school now has the opportunity to obtain $12,000 from the State of North Carolina, provided a like sum is raised by the school. This is in addition to the yearly grants made by the State and county of $7,500. The $24,000 thus made could come would make it possible to increase the plant of the school considerably; for its students are ready to perform the great part of the labor. But the $12,000 remits to be raised and a New York man will take care of half of it, if $6,000 can be raised elsewhere. I wish the generous readers of your paper would send direct to Colonel W. A. Blair a Christmas present of $1 to help raise the shore amount. T. Thomas Fortune writes: "I wish the two colleges of the educational work in New York can be made to give the $12,000 needed by the Sliver Industrial school in order to secure the $12,000 offered by the State, and I have faith to believe that such friends will be found, as no good work has ever get appealed to the American people in vain." No. 57 Broadway, New York, December 11, 1006. FLOOR COMMITTEE—William H. Vaughn, William Tom Eyck, James A. Anderson, Edward T. Matthews RECEPTION COMMITTEE—R. H. Hucleon, William H. Tyora, Robert I. Dlammet, Robert D. Green, John W. Tosey, Thomas H. Wright. Wednesday Evening, December 26, 1906, 6:00 P.M. Stage Manager, W. DUNAR BULLIVAN, of Imperial Dramatic Club, Philadelphia. Admission: Fifty Cents. Doc-gt A BORROWED HONOR! PRESIDENT DEFENDS ACTION. Regrets That It Was Not Possible to Punish Gunny Soldiers. Washington, December 10. — President Roosevelt this afternoon sent a message to Congress on the Brownville affair, in which he defends his right to discharge soldiers as he did. He says: "I ordered the discharge of nearly all the members of Companies B, C and D of twenty-four infantry in the exercise my constitutional power and in pursuance of what, after full consideration, I found to be my constitutional duty as Commander in Chief of the United States Army in duty to the war effort, an opportunity afforded by these resolutions to lay before the Congress the following facts as to the murderous conduct of certain members of the companies in question and of to the compality by which the companies with other members of the companies sared the criminals from justice, to the disgrace of the United States uniform." town the President comments as follows: "The townpeople were completely surprised at the unprovoked and murderous savagery of the attack. The soldiers were well trained and well equipped. They met with no substantial resistance, and one and all who took part in that raid stand as deliberate murderers, who did murder one or more people." The act was one of horrible atrocity, and so far as I am aware, unparalleled for infantry in the annals of the United States Army. In the annals of the United States Army, we were completely taken by surprise, and at first evidently believed that the firing meant that the townpeople were attacking the soldiers. It was not until 2 or 3 o'clock that the soldiers were aware of the truth. I have directed a careful investigation into the conduct of the officers to see if any of them were guilty of the attack. My commutation of the War Department, that two be brought before a court-martial. "As to the noncommissioned officers and enlisted men, there can be no doubt whatever that many were necessarily prized, after all, for their service. Of those who took actual part in this murderous riot, I refer to Major Blockson's report for proof of the fact that certainly some and probably all of the noncommissioned officers in charge of quarters who were responsible for the gun-sweeps and other officers, were new, what men were enraged in the attack. "By my direction every effort was made to permute those innocent of murder among them to separate themselves from the justice. They were warned that if they did not take advantage of the offer they would all be discharged from the service and forbidden to sigh enter the service of justice. They were warned that if the warning I accordingly had them discharged. If any organization of troops in the service, white or black, is guilty of similar conduct in the future shall follow in consequence and may in consequence will I consent to keep in the service bodies of men whom the circumstances show to be a menace to the country. Incidentally they may and are the position who suffered because of the order, so far from being those who deserve most sympathy, deserve least, for they are the very men upon whom we should be able to rely to prevent mutiny and murder. "People have spoken as if this discharge from the service was a punishment. I deny amphibian punishment. It is utterly inadequate. The punishment meet for mutilated and murderer such as those guilty of the murders, and for murderer with a mental ment only less severe ought to be meted out to those who have aided and abetted mutiny and murder and treason by refusing help to them. It is not possible for me to have punished the guilty man. I regret most keenly that I have not been able to do so." The murderer of procedure for his action in discharging the Negro soldiers, and declares that the discharge would have been made bad the men been reiterated his well-known position on the race question. IN MEMORY OF DR. RAY Action Taken by the Kings County Pharmaceutical Society. Oscar C. Kleine, Jr., was elected treasurer of the Kings County Pharmaceutical Society to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. Peter W. Ray, who was a career member of the society and held the office of treasurer for many years. The following minute was adopted: "In the death of Dr. Ray this society has lost an active, faithful and enthusiastic worker, a man whose sterling character and integrity serve as an example to those who are identified with the profession of pharmacy." Dr. Ray was a well-known physician and druggist, who had been in business at, outh Second and Hooper streets for fifty-three years. He was born in New York, City eighty-two years ago, and studied at Bowdoin College, Maine, and later at Custleton College, Vermont, from which he graduated in New York. He is a member of St. Phillips' P. Church and was a vestyman at one time. He was also one of the founders of the Brooklyn College of Pharmacy and the Kings County Pharmaceutical Society, of which he had been treasurer for twenty-three years. He was a thirty-third degree member of the Masonic order. RACE QUESTION AT MONTGOMERY. Street Car Company Against Order for Separate Cars. The race question has entered into the street car service of Montgomery in such a way as to likely crumble it badly. The council has ordered that separate cars be provided for whites and blacks, beginning last Tuesday. As the traction company has only the cars now in use, the service will be cut in two, as one car will be used for one color and the next for the other. The law was vigorously opposed by Mayor Teague, who tonight directed the police department to strictly enforce the law, beginning at 9:30 o'clock to-morrow morning by arresting every motorman and conductor or other persons who moved a vehicle off the law. Officials of the company, relying on public assistance, declare they will not undertake to comply with the law, as it would be a physical impossibility. Mayor Teague vetoed the ordinance, but the council passed it over his veto. Now, he says, he will enforce it to the letter. The law requires separate cars, whites and blacks, distinctly marked as such. Counsel for the car company says they will not defensively and will not try to restrain the city. A Social Comedy Drama, in Four Acts By PROF. W. MENRY THOMAS Dramatic Club of Manhattan, at Murray between Third and Lexington Avenues, A Church Dispute Settled with a Split —Mr. Stewart—The School Trouble —Hissed the Player and Then Applauded Him. WARNING, December 18.—The historical Long Bridge, which for 100 years has connected the city of Washington and Virginia, gives place to two more modern structures. Unless a deficiency bill of $16,000 is promptly passed by Congress the completing of the New Freedmen's Hospital will not only be delayed, but erected at a decided over the $500,000 originally appropriated. Dr. W. E. Chancellor, superintendent of public schools, has returned from his two week's tour of inspection of Flik University. Dr. W. E. Chancellor, superintendent Normal school. His formal report to the board of education is awaited with interest. One of the most ambitious projects in the contemplations is a demand for a trades school for the Norton. The mission of Mr. Gilchrist Stewart in behalf of the damified battalion of the 1st Cavalry was to be the needed to keep up the local interest, yet both at the Capitol and round about Washington he has been a most interesting character. He was a man of great charm chagged because the report made by Mr. Stewart as representative of the Constitutional league first reached the general public. He was a man of great interest through the White House, where it might have been emasculated. Senate Document No. 107, which is the title of the printed document, was sent to the Senate, and the first edition is already cyphusted. Congressman Green of the Fall River, Mass., district, has presented a bill, the consideration of which will clear up many of the difficulties of the local school situation. He has also proposed a law as to the tenure of the school teachers, and the only way in which they can be dismissed. It is interesting, because of the opinion from Judge Anderson that the present management has seen one year of service, and that if Cardozo does through the courts he will by act of Congress. Last Friday night, after a session lasting until 3 o'clock in the morning, Rev. J. Milton Walldron, now of Jacksonville, Fla., was pastor of the II School Baptist church. Rev. J. Walldron directed the court. D. J. Warris, judges by order of the court, conducted the election. Attorneys, William Calvin Chase and Thomas L. Jones married director Taylor forces, and Joseph H. Stewart directed feat. This is a victory for a pure pulp, and the moral influence will be felt in other of the close corporation churches who shield a minister whatever his moral delinquencies. He was 25 for Walldron and 36 for Taylor. It was not expected that those who adhered to Rev. J. Anderson Taylor would yield gracefully to defeat, for they have organized another Hill, The Truth, and organized full quotes of officers and church Taylor as their pastor. They held their initial services at the True Reformers' Hall in which a movement for the establishment of a new A. M. E. church has also been started. Rev. J. Harvey Hill of the First Baptist church of West Washington, died Saturday after a brief illness. This church, better known as Sandy Alexander's church, one of the very strongest in the District. Mr. J. Gerald Tyler was recently invited by the principal of the Eastern High School here to give a solo before the pupils of his school. He was the Capital Hill and is one of the schools that figured conspicuously in the school hearings before Congress last year and whose principal, Mr. Smartell, was brought to book against the school's lack of tact. The appearance of Mr. Tyler was a signal for hisses and other uncompensatory action by the pupils, which the Teacher took and attempted to check. When Tyler took his soul in the effect was electrical, the attention was rant, and the applause enthulastic, even doofing as he was. The audience was famous victory, but it exemplified prejudices still prevalent at the National Capital. Mr. Joseph Douglas and his wife are to give a concert at the Metropolitan in the city of New York. The many adults and the prices are popular ones, there is no doubt that he will be greeted with a very full house. Mr. Douglas will give his favorite instrument, the violin, while the composer Coleridge-Taylor accompanied at the piano. This was at a dinner given by the distinguished Anglo-African Composer. Napoleon B. Marshall, Esq. has opened a law office at 100 F. arrest, N. W. taking the case by former Congressman George H. White. Mr. George P. Taylor, janitor of the Armstrong Manual Training school, dropped last Friday. Though he had been in some day of funeral services were conducted at the Third Baptist church, Rev. J. H. Lee pastor. The deceased was a member Social Lodge, E. and A. M. and of the M Street Jackson School, a widow, Mrs. Funnell Ware-Taylor, and one hldt. While the Manual Training School was depressed by the loss of their janitor, the principal of the M Street Jackson School, the Jackson Jackson, was housed by the death of his father in Alexandria, Virginia. Mr. Archibald H. Grimke speaks at the M Street later, both at the Metropolitan Subject Fulfillment of the Nation's Best Medicine. "The American Negro Academy holds the ninth annual meeting Wednesday, December 10 in the small channel of the Howard University in the city of New York. The Economic Condition of the Negro" "Inners" will be read by Prof. Kelly Miller Riffle, William H. Ferris, Mr. John R. Cifford, Prof. Roscoe C. Brune, and Dr. E.B. Candler in the North. "The Negro Labor is Foreign Immigrant Labor in the South." "The Local Industries of the Negro Laborer in the South." "The Negro as a Cotton Producer." "Southern Negro's Economic and Industrial States." The president, Mr. Archieald H. Grinke, also offers a special address. The Foreign board of the National Baptist Convention, through Dr. L. G. Jordan, corresponding secretary, asks for an after collection on Watch Meeting night to aid in liquidating the indebtedness of the board in Africa and South America. The lock of funds has necessitated a suspension of the work of the church house in Africa and South America. Seven hundred dollars will relieve this situation. Will you not, as a member of the great Baptist Zion, send at least fifty cents to Secretary Jordan, at 726 West Walnut street, Louisville, Ky. on or soon after January 1, you possible, to aid the struggling workers in foreign lands? Who will help raise this amount? ```markdown ``` A NEW WEEK OF FESTIVAL "LOVE AND VENGEANCE, OR LITTLE VIOLA'S VICTORY." A White Story by a Black Man. Lauque for Holiday presents and highly recaptive of famous and the only book of romance in the South and the only book of its kind written by a Negro, offered to the reading public. Round in cloth only, all offered to the author, the other cover. One receipt of one dollar and ten cents postage, book will be sent in return mail. Will not be responsible for money ment other than by express order, money order or registered letter. THEO, E. D. WASH, Author and Publisher. 120 Union Street, Jeremy City, N. J. dec 6-4t Joseph Karlinsky PHARMACIST 2231 Fifth avenue, corner of 186th street. Relief Stand For Pure Drugs, Prescriptions and Fine Toilet Articles. Moderate Prices. TAYLOR the TAILOR 178 Willoughby St. Brooklyn, N. Y. Invites attention to his new stock of Fall and Winter Woolens for Suits, Trousers and Overcoats. Make your money count to the Best Advantage. Call on TAYLOR the TAILOR Phone: 37691 L. Main. nov 22-3m. F. G. MINSHALL FURNITURE, CARPETS, RUGS Photographs and Bicycles, Trunks and Bags, Picture Frames made to order. 719 8th Ave. North of 45th St., New York Cash or Credit May 21st TO LET respectable Colored Families only. Apply to WM. M. SMITH REAL ESTATE BROKER 218 West 64th Street Cleanest and Cheapest 3-ROOM APARTMENTS FOR QUIET PEOPLE 174 East 77th St. APPLY JANITOR dec 9-41 159 W. 61st Street TO LET Fine Apartment of 4 Large Light Rooms and Bath. Hot Water Supply. Latest Improvements. 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Cafe connects patrons to lot for reception. criminal element can read and write, writing is not an de by Mr. Williams ple to enter into that that makes a well- t the time will soon write (p) will not reflash, ignorant and of our race, but a dis- between the good and between other peoples. Firth, North Retreat, v. Ossetia. 1 (Ore.) Advocate. intained its original in of it. The North and and has yielded firm, unbroken front along this line the because the North and lonely that we live in southern army of evan. in the national sen-house the voice of the be fable, the uncertain moderate is well nigh n it is raised it sounds ologetic, insincere and in the worst subject of the colored on the sub-eded manner abilities and ad is thickly heal finally difference in the loved question. In order to satisfaction of the South in finds that the less said and wrongs of the race Washington Bee. publicans in this country ag themselves. They are which of the two most latees should be supported ought to be an easy quez of the two men as a latee of the other Republic I not considered in the equa even given a considera is eliminated, these are omnially mentioned—Mr. F. Banks. Either would car a latee of the concern. They 1 stick to him. By imministration candi he colored Republi learn some sense. It vate Ownership of and. S. C.) Southern Sun. with a friend the other that Mr. S. H. Alexander section had purchased a large tion on which there are several ten- tions and had paid half the purchase price, which was high in the thousands, cash. Contemporaneous with that information, we also learn learner A or B. of Marlton county, had purchas- ed a fine plantation which would require four or five figures to denominate its price and had paid all cash. A few months previous, last year, we think, Mr. William Webber this year, will have purchased a very fine plantation adjoining his previous land possession, contiguous to the fertile farm of Mr. L. C. Scott, making the combined possessions of Scott and Webber the most creditable in the folk. And these few do not begin to acquire the prosperous slave Negroes in the matter of farm and home getting. From the fraction of an acre to many thousands of acres owned by colored people in South Carolina it would require volumes to relate. In fact, one new slave would be the race in progressing or what it possesses in taxable values. In reciprocal recognition from the commonwealth of which we are substantial supporters, there is nothing encouraging to land getting or permanent identity to the man who is in the first object in getting possessions is to receive the personal enjoyment and individual benefits accruing therefrom and the civil rights growing out from these are subsidiary. Buy land, because of the comfort, convenience and benefit it belongs the purchaser; same as a man who invests in orces, cereal and the like, because of the profit and convenience it is to him. This being a commercial age, men will sooner or later be measured by their commercial values. If it be that in these quiet moments, when there is no great or greed, our people can quietly bring preoccupation of land owning per to their of the balances t in a they Taf Nor ful thir EDITORIAL OPINION. ```markdown ``` it practiced above are not the spiting of deportation more reminds me to be alarmed in that. As every inducement is held out while foregather to bring out the enemy, we may not offer inducements to, why not offer inducements to, owe and appropriate to thousand dollars a year, or even similar to that spent import, written to, get Negroes to go arrangements could be effected when Negroes are allied to the West Coast of Africa could be secured for a certain number of Negroes may twice a year and each adult Negro who would consent to go should be given his passage and R50, and each one of his children under age 12, and pass, and be given the character here suggested would result in the removal of quite a number of Negroes; it would be only a beginning, but once begun it would grow to such proportions that we believe Senator Tillman the Hon. J. Temple have ever the Negro deporters would be killed to death. It is certainly worth the effort and if the Negro is so great a burden and need as he is represented to be it is certainly worth the money. And moreover it is fair; if it is just to use Negro taxes to import white men it certainly is just to use three paid by whites to export or deport Negroes. It is not long before the General Assembly will be in session and we hope New York will continue urging deportation will bend their urging toward the passage of a bill making practical a start toward deportation. We also hope Governor Hayward will recommend such a measure. Sample of Georgia Justice From The Bulletin of Atlanta University. We have been watching with much interest to see what punishment would be inflicted upon the rotters who disgraced Atlanta by their murderous crimes September 22-25. As far as we have observed, the rotters were not more severe than thirty days in the stockade. In this one instance a fine of three hundred dollars was imposed. Of the colored men arrested under the charge of killing a policeman, in connection with the attack of the mob upon the colored settlement of Brownsville in South Atlanta, the police were to be impeded to imprisonment for life, and about twenty others are awaiting trial under the same charge. Fortion of the Message Should Be "Discharged Without Honor." From The Nashville Globe. Considerable space was devoted to the Negro question, but Mr. Roosevelt said nothing new, and in the light of the President's actions in the case of the Twenty-fifth infantry in the war, he called for a formal quotation with his approval, of Gov. Jelk's views on the Atlanta massacre, makes us think that the whole portion of the message relating to the Negro should be discharged at once and without honor. Mr. Roosevelt is a nationalist and his power to the central government. In this we agree with him and hope that some of his demands will be enacted into law. White People Slap Bishop Turner in the Mouth. A number of white people sent us word at the Macon Conference, which met in Sanderville, that they would be glad to attend our service. We set apart a number of sites for them, and told the marshals to let no one occupy them, but our people defended the marshals and crowded the space before the whites arrived, but when they did come we luckily met them at the door and we told them the large church was packed and they were not allowed to enter them. They replied by saving; "All right; we are glad to see it; with pleasure, we surrender the saints you set apart for us and do not blame the colored people for wanting to hear the gospel; we are glad to hear the gospel; we are glad to entertain them to enjoy good preaching, and we resued them higher than if they vacated them for us." Wants More Industrial Education at Once And if the Negro cannot make a good domestic or common laborer then he has not in blim the stuff to make a skilled workman or a professional man, or an educator or a teacher, or an intellectual and of the grade to destroy our usefulness, and the Negro ministry of the city have in mind a plan to correct these early defects. You can say what you please, but industrial education is the only education which will give black masses. If the white man with all the wealth and intelligence of the South is doubling the opportunities for the industrial education of the white boys and girls of the South what ought we for the white industrial education to good for the white man why is it not good for the black man? The Negro must be taught to connect blae education with the hands. He must be made to see that the best results are obtained from an educated hand. The President laid great stress in the importance of the black massaen. The average educated Negro has understood that a college education meant no more work with hands, and we must plant industrial schools in every community to expel these false ideas from the minds of the young. Let the Executioner of the law be with the youth, aapoint a committee to go to Tuskegee and confer with Dr. Washington about the scope and work of the school, and then submit their plans to the white people of the community and ask that we be given as many Indian schools in the state under the public funds with warrant. This can be done and will be done if the matter is properly presented. We will not believe until it is demonstrated that the authorities will establish eleven agricultural schools for the whites and refused fairly to make any provisions to give the Negroes very education he is required to give with both nature and institution. If the whites maintain down then let us establish and maintain a school ourselves. Let us do like the white citizens have done in the congressional districts render the state such help as lie in our power. Is It a Hopeful Hope? Do The (Good) (Bad) The history of this Nation is so lurent with the story of the black man, the forming of the Constitution to the idle message of this week, that it is he who body. Were one to attempt to write a history of America with suchupon upon the influence the black man had upon it, the history would be body without bones, limp as a drag, in some way this Nation can anatomize, so that we can learn more than the Greeks or the Romans, then were no more desirable spot on earth all for life's short day. If the Alligator will accept it, our people are to forgive the past and continue to for the advancement of the whole if given justice or the patriotism; there is a lot about our justice. The question is to the fact that, 12,000,000 strong, we not the proper comprehension of length, or, having the comprehension, not the proper organization to utilize length, Japan and the United States, the patriotism, nationale and organization, and she may do not shedding one drop of blood. Jun-preferred. Clay Gray Sports at Nightmare Riders. um The Houston (Texas) Witness. t Southern excuses for statemen like t Tillman and Bailey. Governors an. Davis and Smith, taky of their people's group the great of pro- he actions of pro- sible Negro attest t Negro wish can be c' We are glad to see John Mitchell, Jr., and T. Thomas Fortune fighting so nobly at this time for the race. The Aight they have made in behalf of the wronged colored people in the war, they have poured powers to overlook some of the derelictions of the past. The Aight is now being made with all shoulders to the wheel. Even Booker T. Washington is speaking for the soldiers, after they have been dismissed from the war, and when he had the opportunity to do so before. Yet he is to be commended for speaking at this time for an outraged number of the citizens of the republic. Enabranchment of Riichen From the Pythian Advocate The Negro is receiving so much advice just now as what is best to do, and so many, different propagandas are, offered as a solution for the so-called race problem that we ourselves become weary at them and wonder what it is all about. We advise the Negro to stay right where he is. We advise the money he hands on, acquire all the property possible, register and vote and try to live uprightly before the law. Africa: American 9500m a Benedict. As a remedy for the evil the President would regulate—fet the South make colored men a part of its legal machinery. Appoint colored detectives and patrolmen. Confinne their operations among Negroes. Make them feel their responsibility. Let the Negro be assured of a square deal. This would lesson the tendency among the Negroes to conceal their criminals and would put an end to the very ridiculous suggestion—that when a Negro commits a crime, every special officer Negro must have him, hisisches, and dount everything to run this Negro criminal down or be considered giving him moral support if he does not. In Tillman a Meeting in Disguise From The Richmond Planet The Richmond Times-Dispatch has been vehemently defending Senator Tillman in his right to speak in Chicago and elsewhere. This was before the speech was delivered. After the publication of his remarks, it makes the following observation: "Of course, Senator Tillman, must not be suppressed by Negro intolerance, but we wish he would suppress himself. He is getting a good bit of free advertising by the Negro, making a sorry spectacle of himself prancing up and down the country abounding the Negroes, calling them natural born Hars and thieves, and declaring that "lynch law is all we have left." In structuring and mouthing in this slick and disgusting way, he is not only the white men of the South, and they are growing very tired of his antics. No possible good to either race can come out of his violent and incendiary speeches, and if he does not stop advertising himself in that he is doing it for revenue only." We do not see that there should be any doubt about his doing it for revenue only, "for he himself hath said it." One thing we know, the Republican managers could have already furnished that party with enough political ammunition to keep its artillery and small arms in service for a long while. Ren Tillman may be hitting the Negro hard, but then he is hitting the Southern contingent in monocular. The member of that party will be trying to explain away his utterances for many months to come. Not a Race of Rapiat. Hoping to get the public mind in such a state that any treatment accorded the colored man will be tolerated, the most violent Negro haters have endeavored by falsehood and slander to impress the Nation that we are a people, who as whole parenthood and White parenthood pleading the cause of righteousness the President by stating that we are particularly addicted to the commission of the crime of rape gives his official endorsement to as base a slander as was ever uttered. There are no reasons for its assertion. In parts of the country where colored men get something like a fair trial while our percentage of criminality is higher our percentage. In the conclusion of the crime of rape is not higher than that of the white race. In not more than three percent of the population there is even the accusation of rape alleged as the cause. During the years of reconstruction we heard nothing of this cry of raping; Negro domination was a sufficient rally cry for those days. But the Negro condition in which he had no rights while a white man was bound to respond. To accomplish that the black servant was to place us under the rule of civilization. The charge is false, and the President has placed upon an unwarranted alimna. President Roosevelt a Changed Man. From The Philadelphia Tribune. Since Mr. Roosevelt's trip to the South has become a changed man. If we were a believer in occult science we would say that while in the South he was played under some hypnotic influence. One of Mr. Roosevelt's great weaknesses which we find is constantly increasing in his desire to poke in the limelight or to play to the gallery. The plaudits he receives from this class are pleasing to his ear, and has had his audience delighted with the right—the most generous mistake that a man in public life could make, as there is nothing more sickle than the plaudits of the populace. Mr. Roosevelt has become so imbued with this idea that he feels himself infallible. Incapable of doing wrong; so much so that he has developed another latent talent, that of obstinacy, and has been labeled as a man who is the dishonorable dischairman of the men of Companies H, C and D of the Twenty-fifth United States Infantry. Mr. Roosevelt shows this obstinacy in a very great degree in his refusal to withhold his now famous order until testimony could be produced that would establish the innocence of these men. Not satisfied, he states that these men shall not be employed in any of the work of the war. This is far from illustration of this obstinacy, or something worse; but he forgets that none of his acts in this direction will be binding upon his successors in office. Another unfortunate trait in the President's character that has developed within the past year is his mandatory, or, what is worse, his autocratic order—a most dangerous feature for the public real in the face of a republican form of government. Mr. Roosevelt has done many good deeds in the past, but these have been awakened by the many bad ones he has committed recently. J. P. Bourke, no yon'th with J. T. & J. A. Paley J. Palmer Bourke George T. Bourke J. P. Bourke'& Sons REAL ESTATE AGENTS, BROKERS AND APPRAISEERS All kinds of property for sale, rent or exchange. Fire Insurance. 22 West 99th Street. 99-99 Artistic Homes A new company has been organized to manufacture cement block and brick—the coming building material. This company will build scores of houses on the island and manufacture their own material for building at Worcester County, which would range from $100 to $5,000. Stock $5.00 per share. Houses built upon easy terms. HORACE RANDALL MILLER, Promoter 57 W. 184th St., New York city. apr26-1yr WILLIAM HENSON BUTLER, Real Estate Broker [58 West 135th Street. Tel. 2093 Harlem. Houses and Apartments For Sale and To Lot. Also Lots For Sale. J. H. Adams & Son 16 West 132d Street. REAL ESTATE BROKERS Houses for Sale and To Let. Money to Lend on Borrow and Mortgage. Call on us when you need apartments in a good locality. nov 13-8 MELVIN J. CHISUM REAL ESTATE BROKER 308 W. 119th St. Fine apartments to let at all times in desirable localities. Telephone. 6655 Morningside. oct 25 1y. PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO ALL COMMUNICATIONS. 216 West 50th Street. NEW YORK CITY. Telephone 4352 Columbus sep6-3m Walter F. Craig's FAMOUS ORCHESTRA 321 West 59th Street NEW YORK. Phone 1479 Columbus novS-3m The New Amsterdam Musical Association (Incorporated) Will furnish COMPETENT COLORED MUSICIANS for all functions W. A. Riker, manager, 562 West 57th Street, R. F. Douga, secretary, 10 West 134th Street, Headquarters, 216 West 59th street. sep13-3m WILFORD H. SMITH COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW AND PROCTOR IN ADMIRALTY. 150 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. Rooms 905-6-7. 'Phone 5574 Bookman novl-3m Damage Suits a Specialty. Office 'phone, 6222 Cortlandt. Res. 'phone, 4691 Col J. DOUGLAS WETMORE Attorney and Counsellor at Law Rooms 108-9-10 Temple Court Nassau & Bookman Streets Loans and Real Estate New York City Sept. 20, 1911. MME. GEARMA Wonderful Hair Grower and Straightener Makes the Hair Soft and Silky; Cures All Scalp Diseases, Prevents Baldness. 207 West 40th Street, New York nov15-3moa he utters: "A square deal to everyone." We are more sorry than indignant that the man from whom the Negro expected most has proven false to the great trust we reponed in him. Afro-American Journalism Has "Get There." From The Baltimore Afro-American Ledger. There is every indication that Afro-American journalism is fast passing out of the realm of an experiment. There are a number of Afro-American newspapers these days which compare favorably with the white newspapers. By this we do not mean to say that in matter of news and as a matter of fact in mechanical make-up, but in the fact that they are up-to-date in many particulars. There was a time when you could pick up an Afro-American paper and read all that was worth reading in ten minutes by the watch and there need be no hurry about it in that time, but now that thing is largely of the past, and a number of exchanges come to this office which are well worth reading. We have a number of the mechanical make-up equal to most of the daily papers. They have even risen to the dignity of cartoons, as was noted in the last week's issue of The Boston Guardian. True New York Ang and The Indianapolis Freeman, and, what is more, they were by colored artists. We are coming. And now we are to have a daily newspaper in Philadelphia. The Hon. Chris J. Jerry, that veteran of newspaper journalism, is to bring it out in the near future. It is to bring it out in the near future for if there is any man who can make journalism a success it is the redoubrable "Chris." May it be a success and a power for good for the Narrary. This Company has as its principal object the better housing of the Negro Tenant Class. As a result of its operation for a period of a little over a year, it can point to the control of twenty-five (25) New York City Apartment Houses, valued at over Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars ($800,000). Bine (6) of this number the Company own, and the other sixteen (14) are held by the Company under long lease. These houses rent for Ninety Thousand Dollars ($800,000 a year. This fact will tend to indictate the unplanned possibilities in the way of Dividends in store for stockholders in this Company. What this Company is doing in New York City it intends ultimately to do in every large city in the United States where its people are found in any considerable number. Invest now and help this great movement onward. PHILIP A. PAYTON, Jr., President and General Manager. EDWARD S. PAYTON, Vice-President. FRED R. MOORE, Secretary and Treasurer. DIRBOTORS: Bemort J. Scott, Joseph H. Bruce, William Ten Byck, James H. Garner, Edward S. Payton, Stephen A. Bennott, Sandy P. Jones, Henry C. Parken, John R. Nall, Fred R. Moore and Philip A. Payton, Jr. 334 WEST 59th STREET NEW YORK CITY Announcement The old-established firm of Edward 603,605,607,609 ward V. Kraus 603,605,607,609,611,613 Ninth Ave. Edward V. Kraus 603, 605, 607, 609, 611, 613 Ninth Ave. Corner Forty-third St., New York City announces hereby the opening of a magnificent No. 705-707 Third Ave. hereby the opening of a magnificent branch at No. 705-707 Third Ave. announces hereby the opening of a magnificent branch at No. 705-707 Third Ave. where a large assortment of Furniture, Carpets C is ready for your inspection. In both stores the old policy will be pursued every man or woman a Dollar's worth for every hu Both stores will sell on credit. Terms low em every man, be he ever so poor, if he is honest. Both stores give Gold Saving Stamps. EDWARD V. KRAUS large assortment of Furniture, Carpets Oilcloths, etc., your inspection. Which stores the old policy will be pursued, in giving or woman a Dollar's worth for every hundred cents. Stores will sell on credit. Terms low enough to suit be he ever so poor, if he is honest. Stores give Gold Saving Stamps. EDWARD V. KRAUS, where a large assortment of Furniture, Carpets Oilcloths, etc., is ready for your inspection. In both stores the old policy will be pursued, in giving every man or woman a Dollar's worth for every hundred cents. Both stores will sell on credit. Terms low enough to suit every man, be he ever so poor, if he is honest. Both stores give Gold Saving Stamps. EDWARD V. KRAUS. 9th Avenue, corner 43d St. 1895 TWELFTH GREAT RECEPTION AND OF THE S SONS OF NORTH Tuesday Evening, January First AT PROSPECT HALL, Prospect Avenue John H. Dickerson, Chairman John B. M Under J. EDWARD WINT UNDER W. E. A. QU 638 Sixth Avenue, Telephones 462 and 463 30th C. FRANKLIN CARR Telephones CARR & HOWIE 350 West Fifth HARLEM BRANCH, First-class Work. Prompt Service. Rea- Chair TWELFTH GRAND ANNUAL RECEPTION AND VAUDEVILLE OF THE SOCIETY OF OF NORTH CAROLINA Evening, January First, Nineteen Hundred and Seven CT HALL, PROSPECT AVENUE NEAR FIFTH AVENUE, BROOKLYN, N. Y. n, Chairman John B. Mosceley, Secretary W. H. Lucas, Treasurer Dec. 11-18 1895 TWELFTH'GRAND ANNUAL RECEPTION AND VAUDEVILLE OF THE SOCIETY OF SONS OF NORTH CAROLINA Undertakers WARD WINTERBOTTOM & CO. UNDERTAKERS W.H. S. A. QUINN, Manager Avenue, above 37th Street, New York 463 and 463 28th CARR Telephones 2935 Columbus 2892 Harlem & HOWELL FUNERAL DIRECTORS 350 West Fifty-third Street HARLEM BRANCH, 21 WEST 183D ST. Prompt Service. Reasonable and Reliable. Coaches and Cams Chairs to Hire. 28th St. Tel. 2804 Columbus. J. EDWARD WINTERBOTTOM & CO. 638 Sixth Avenue, above 37th Street, New York Telephone 642 and 643 38th JAMES C. THOMAS UNDERTAKER & EMBALMER 493 Seventh Avenue Between 30th and 17th Streets [CAMP CHAIRS TO HIRE Be sure to send to above address, as I have no connection with any other Firm. Mar 21 tyr Telephone Call, 4521 Bryant. Night Calls promptly attended to CHARLES H. GRAVES, Undertaker and Embalmer Office, 319 W. 41st St., bet. 8 and 9 Ave. Residence, 115. W. 40th St., New York City. Every requisite for Burial Furnished on reasonable terms. aug 24-19 ```markdown ``` THE TRUE REPORTERS BURIAL CO. UNDERSTAKERS & EMBALMERS Is one of the cheapest and most reliable Undertakers' establishments in the State. We guarantee satisfaction and arms to suit all. Phone Calls promptly attended to. 90 West 134th St. Tvl. 1593 Harlem Brunch 322 W. 688 et. Tvl. 3061 Col. pohlly EPPS & BROTHERS, PROPS. Orlander L. Daniels FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER 100 West 134th St. Tvl. 7926 Merringdale, New York City Prompt Service and Moderate Rates. Nov 1 3:m Between Birth and Seventh Avenue. Lady attendant at all Funerals. Camp Chairs and Coaches to hire at all hours. sept18-3mos Not connected with any other firm. Rev. Robert R. Mont's services can be held for Sickness. Funerals Preaching and Marriges, at any hour in the day or night. Not connected with any other firm. Rev. Robert R. Mont's services can be had for Sickness, Funerals, Preaching and Marriages, at any hour in the day or night. REV. ROBERT R. MONT, Undertaker and Embalmer, 200 West 63d Street, NEW YORK Branch Office, 8 Lawrence Street, Telephone 4627 Morningside op 18 Undertaker and embalmer. 60 West 80th street, near Columbus avenue. Everything furnished on reasonable terms. Striately first class. Lady embalmer and attendant. No connectic any other firm. Brooklyn branch Bridge St. i. SRR: NEW YORR.AGE: THURSDAY, DECEMBER: 20, 1906. mw 7. aa on | Me 2 ih. QRNED TO. Ta Wal _ Lk mew ot a Wjchenené =Poegte Angrr—Sres se srepind Mesene-—iin Foal Got +, Canesest tor Jumestows Paltéing. Racumons; Ve,: December 17.—T> ‘comaauntes thos PL tect Werehigtal Loses i Free and acpi Mace e met in the ut the sy -emeciation last st fee he Se eae sorrarren, s the grand ath ering, w was @ weet representative que, was also one of the = end most swfana Lodge. sos benive ot the Vin Grand Lodge, = ‘Much of business was transacted look: jag to the es of the craft. The Ly decided to 1 fe ee ert enn comments tion something guite unusual. 1¢ also to call a iftmoaic Congress to be at the Jamestown Exposition some time dur ing ext, sumumer. ap oe : n, the election of grasid efiicere there was but one contest, that for the a8 of RB. W. Junior Grand Deacon, be- ing.our candidates for that office: The Rev. Dr. L. L. Downidg, of Roanoke, a polisbed Christian gentleman and a thor- ough crafteman, was tne successful can- diate. - M. W. Grand Master Gaston, who bad completed his second term. was pamed and the other officers moved-up as follows: Harris Barrett, Hampton, BM. W. Grand Master; George W. Ramsey, Nor- folk, R. W. Deputy Grand Master; J. Cornelius Carter, South Boston, R, W. Senior Grand Warden; Rey. Dr.P. F. Morris, Lynchburg, KR. W,, Junior Grand Warden; J. W. Barnes, Portunouth, R. W. Sevior Grand Deacon; Rev. Dr. L. L. Downing, Roanoke, K. W. Junior Grand Deacon;'H. G. Warren, Tazewell, and Prot. J. F. Grosty, Danville, -R. W. Grand” Lecturers. ‘Douglass "Jobnson, Petersburg, aod Dr. Harrison L. Harris, Richmond, who for a number of years ave been K. W. Grand Treasurer and R. W. Grand Secretary, respectively, were re-elected. Mr. D.. ‘Chris Jackson, the popular ng barber, died in his bome in West [righ strect ‘lsat Wedaseday. Faneral {rom Ebeneser Baptist church Sunday af- termoon. Mr. Jackson was a 52d degree Mesen and a member uf the Independent Besaficial cheb. He was buried with the honors of those organizations. Dissatisfaction is. general among Afro- Americans ~of- Htichmond with President Roosevelt because. of his “discharge with- owt honor” order issued in connection with the three companies of the Twenty- fifth Infaotry. His annual message to Cengress but increased that dissatisfac- tion, as in it be put his stamp, of ap proval upon the lie circulated against ¢ Afro-American people of the South, thar the lynching of them was principally for amaults upon womanhood, as it was » crime peculiar to the men of their race. The Afro-American people of Richmond are sorely incenred at this gratuitous in- ult of the President and to show their dimmpproval they have in their private residences taken down portraits of him which Lung upon their walls and in the club houscs and other public places the picture has keen turned tothe wall, and nll talk about the once “open door of pope, ay ‘sunk into “inuocuous desue- tude.” Captain William Isaac Johnyon, the Rev, Dr. A. Bina, Jr, “7. Hill, Esa. Pref. Robert Kelser and Col. Giles B. Jackson, the executive committee of the Jamestown Negro Development and Ex- voaition Co,, met lat week and awarded he contract for the erection of the Negro Administration building. | The success: ul bidder was Frank 3. Ferrell, formerly f thin city. but now of New York. Mr. Ferrell's bid wan $20,000, $30,000 being be amount which the goverament com- nition Ned set aside for the erection of he building. N.C. Dadd, of this city. he next lowest bidder, will’ be made fore- nan of construction. “The contract calla or the completion of the building some ime In March, Work will be begun in few days. Mr, Lewis Thomas, formerly of thin ity, but now a remident of New York, x visiting relatives in the city. The >eople's Real Estate and Investment Co. f this city, has purchased for the Inter- ban Sicht Seeing Co. of New York val- able nuburban property adjacent to Rich- mond. Mew, Francia Scott, the widow of he Inte Capt. Benj. Scott, died Inst Mon- lay night. Hon. A. W. Harris of Din- riddle, was in the city Inst week. Dreal- ent James Hugo Johnston and H. B. luclea, treasurer and busines manager f the Virginin, Normal and Industrial natitute, were in the city Iast week. hey report the work of their school in oat excellent shape. ‘Qne of the mont brilliant social events f the winter season was the reception iven by the Lyconian Art and Literary sembhy at Pythian ball on Friday even- ag, December 14, ut which time the offi- era for the ensuing year were installed. “he newly elected officers are: Mra, Nan- ie Frazier, president: Mrs. Mattir praxton, viow-president: Mra, Nannie ‘urner, secretary: Mra. Ora Ammonda, ssintant secretary: Met, Zenobin. Knox, reamurer: Misx Edith Williams, journal” a: Dr. ‘Tenant. critie: and Mrs, Lula thomas. moderator, ‘The installation ad- rest was delivered by Mr.. James A. arkson, the real estate ‘avent of New ork City, and son of Col. Giles B. Jnck- on of this city, and resp inded to hy the ersident of the Assembly, Mrs. Nannie razier. Among the representatives: pres: nt from other clubs were Miss Mary mith, president of The Corenellas’: fixe Ross James, vresident of the Violet rt Circle: Mr. Nevesin Lewis, of the hebuns: Mi, Fauntleroy, from the “As: rians.” and Mr, MeCoe from the Din ar Literagy x.ciety of Manchestér. The vening was plewsantly spent in. dane: re until 12 ofelock, when oll joined in 1 grind march Ind by the officers af the sembly, after which supper was served. ANEW INVENTOR. Fron ‘The Topeka Paindeater, Mr. Charles S.Ruker of St. Jowph, Mo.. ee ee geen Cen ge caniaet winter Lae Mr. Charles S$. Riker of St. Jowph, Mo.. feo tn the eity “exhiniting hie wondertol Seletion Mester) "Pula fe the moat re: marknble invention of the present axe, and nelentiete eeerswhere have, been puzzled. Tt Is a devtes for heating railrond cars, sfrect cars atid restdeners, and cag le rin for the xame pries that if casts to burn an ordinary slectrle ight. “Thin iwachine fe ko artanzed That sticks of weed. placed In Wt nevee acereh or tern, but will Test from seven fo ten verre, Me. Raker ts here for the purpose af? cquipplog the Santa Fe and” Tock) feand) ronds” with these heaters, and tx accompanied. by his heather, Me. Peter Maker, whe looks nfter the petting np ard testing af the inachines At some fiture tone we will publish @ de. feriptlin nnd pletvres of this nest wonder fal of aie inventions. ‘Tie Rakert are Tetcht and Inteliizent fellows. perfect gen flemen. and take great pride in explain Ing. the workings of the machine to All wha call to wee Wt. It 8 on exhibition at 116 EF Sorenth «treet. Mr. Peter Huker wae avalted In, kotting. un the machines be WIMiam Coleman, one of ont local colored mechanics, Me In a good workman, and we would be pleased fo see Mr. Haker take a place for him, Phil After Cy. Beam he Washingion Rerars. Mr. Phil Waters. who for a number of yearn was corporation clerk In the Secre: Tare of State's office of West Virginia, made & fiving vint to thix city Inst werk. Te pent a arent deal of hie time in comautte- Tian with Senators Rikins and Sent In reference to thelr indoreement for the po- sitton of Ansintant Regtater-of the Treas- wry. hi Mr. Waters, ;eho im more familiarly town by yb!" “frienda ae: “Pht.” ne Rnetler In Virginia politics, and it ta more than, thar he received mnch eacenras or Me candigacy tor, the postion, < all omthva when sakes as 30 « Tas FAT Come Oat I” ee teen tein Ve te on Tontnc’ Servants, |) | Pupepensnre, Pa. December 17.—Aafvel Goariehing © vell of bile, leaded reveivir and a binckjeck im the restgumst of Hb lard: Malena, at Clifwe and Beladeidgs streets, ‘last night, J. Si. Wilitedia,) white, | aged O65 years, of Ne 108. Meath! Toate street, lost the reli ef bile and Bot. jand arrested. Magistmte! ‘ie charged Holland, whe ts an rican, this morning, as the evidence bins was too Simsy.. Thereupen W! be came abusive, and Was arrested for (carry: tag @ concealed weapon. “Willams. weat Into Holland's rectaurant and, Sourishing the roll of bill, which he said peatained $300, lald the revolver and the hisckjack om the table and defied aay one to take the, money, He left the piteg sm, fut came back Inter anq”caig’ be toed. bes robbed while im the? restaurant. tye chest of 2 Sargiah big asd bold “zea chest of a bargiar, of one he remained thereon, (Cooks are famous for thelr avolrdapola, this cook had her abare.) Though the burglar wished to rise, be coulda't—oatll the cook rose. ‘The ‘cook was Lucy Brooks, “aa Afro- American, preparer of delicacies In the home of "Mr. aud Mas. 4, Margula 2119 Green “atreet. “The ‘burglar wae Ueotgy U'Nell, uo. home until yesterday; present home,’ where be will ‘remain for three montha, the House of Correction, After a bearing at the 23d and Brown streets Ss. lice otation thie home was declared his by virtue of law, {and Lucy smiled). Lucy bad vowed tbat, if she ever ‘saw | tbut rgiar she be ugon bim good and Nard for, Bis iinpedence.”” For thie rea: nou: Last ‘Thursday a pair of equabe were placed Im the refrigerator In the kitchen exer mich Lucy presides. hls was in the morning. | When, ‘in the ening, Lucy went to gel ome ual to prepare the dinner to which ane kaew ade Marquis was coming bere, there were no squahe, it was embarrassing to tell this to Mre, Marquise. Last Saturday a pair of yung and tender chickens were placed in the -wame refrigerator, this, too was in the moraiug. Again, im the. evening. there Tete ne chickens. Again Lacy was forced to explain to Mre ‘Marquis. ‘This time it wa more than embarrassment; it was an- noying. Yesterday Lucy was in the kitchen’ when the back gate was nolselessly opened, but opened while Lucy's“eyes were upon It. Aman entered. “My borgiar,”” ea claimed Lacy, clasping er bands lke our in prayer, And she hid bebind the refrig- frator: |The man stood very atlll ana looked all around very carefully. Then he moved to the kitches door. There wast plece of carpet In front of the door. Tne man stood upon, this for its nolersabdulng qualities and looked very carefully ail around, Whilp’ bebind’ the icebox Lucy PEyet that Re’ might be delivered Into ber ands. He was delivered. There was a can of cora on the icebox. O'Neill ap. Prosched. reached for it and—bepold, the id burglar on the ground, Lucy on bie chest, and the house. resomding with Lucy's cries of “Harry! Harry!” Harry Manters fe the duties, alep.an Afro-Amer- can and = genereua | of romeetion, He Anawered ber cries quickly” “ais you wehamed of yourself?" be arid to the ia: «! “Sit till,” “be sald to Lucy, Then be went to ‘the ‘telephone and asked. thar police be sent to the house. When they arrived they found Lucy at!il holding the fort. Only when the police stood above her did whe consent to arise, The burginr Wan so chagrined that at the bearing he refused to talked. But Lacy In Dappy. un in hor mintress, for the one bas proved herself worthy of a trust and the other knows hgr squabs and chickens are nate hereafter with anch a guardian. Jack Johnxon of this city. from present Indications. will bave a chance to battle for the iearywelght champlonshin, and, so the critics here figure, will be the frat Afro-American who hng had anch an op- Pertunity, The great Teter Jackeon necer het the chance, beenuae John L. Sullivan failed to meet him. Sullivan and Jnckeon wonkd have fought at that, and arrange. ieutx were na good an rettled when the game wan temnorarity killed on the Pacific -to ntl thig match among others, wits ruined, Speecniation wan rife in those day« nm to what the lithe and sinewy Jackson woul have, dane ngainet the brawny ‘and fmpetuods Sullivan, Jackson bad height rench. a perfectly coal head, and wax > wonderful Judge of diatance. Sullivan haa bull strength and a mighty watlon. Vie miht have rahed and beaten Jackson down, or he might bave bad ble bead shot off at long range by Jackson. In ‘any event, It would have been one of the greatest battles of the ring, and it fe a pity It wan never consnmmated. Jackson was a model for Afro-American fghtera to follow. Little George Dixon was 90 great that be came nearer blotting out the color line than loads of documents and lecturcx There bas been a general change of sen timent regarding Tommy Burns within the pant few weeks, It {a pow felt that al- though he may be a Dit of a bioffer avd a would-be fox as a matchmaker, be bax mome goods to deliver, and has really grown Into quite bulking heavyweight. yon think that his probable match with Jobnson will result in a victory for bim. Burns says be can ullp ander Johnson's ong deliterien, Burns ta overrated ee a little, and Jobnaon is the type of fighter 10 demonatrate it In a burry, We are] | waiting eagerly the signing of the articles. } | and when they do meet Jobnnon then will] | havea chance to ahow the aporting world | what he. fe made 0 Mrx, W. 8, Layton. one of Philadelphia's | | weniniest Afro-American. women, lectured Friday moraine at the Induatrial Exhibit. ut Horticultural Hall, before reveral thou: and white ladles, Her eabject, “Which | 4 better Protection or Hencue?? She | atN the Vasoeintion for the Protection of | ‘alored, Women rtands ‘for a higher xtan- lard of xervants and. gervice and. better ay. “It niwo xtanda for better consider: | Tee nf gervante. by employers, On the raining “of Afro-Aineriean xervants whe | cud: “rhe advocacy of the training .of Afro |. Aineriean women Is nut salely for the. pur- eve lot Keepliie her ie a RereANe o athern ut for the purpose of helping Afro-Amert || an women to better aeree themselves and | verve the uplifting of the ree, Invex: Heaton af the homes of the mines re. | filet xadte neglected homie Ife and enre ithe hantehold,— The homes among. the Meher chines WIN weed clltte or ne ba | Mrotement. bat the Nomex of. the tansses | SIDE INS AppAlIO. Heed of Joatruetlon ind training. to step fhe ravages of dis: || awe and make tmmune Ta members fram 7 tie tfection of vice and erlue, Another Ming beregnticn fewtere. mang. Influences | hat force these conditions apen eur peo. |. Mee Mey are preseribed t) Hee In eertatn | elonin aid these sections ate geperally | fold, wort-out quarters where hawaes are | Miaphlated atid without the mecexsnre «ny | Mare ceanditionse for elenn and. bentth tal | King, Atether pen we tnake for xervant sree Mint haweekeepees. reaiee thee wivants to remain over ofeht and pravite ey wor necoumedationc for then. Some | camen have. te deep Th cherries nnd cata | mirrete and others din chilly, damp cellars, Tiina ccost the assechition abant S125 | wre eanitn to have. given: proteetian te | | Here. You, De You Want a Jopt J the Fdltor of Tie New York Aan: There are mang minds working upon the race prohtem, and many methods of rolntion are offered, ‘Ann mubscriber of your valuable paper. I tnke the Wberty of auegenting that If cond warkmen or mechantcn or able bodies men would accent fobs which they can All with credit to themactren' and famitien, we would add to the well being of our ‘neo: nie. «Tt amume the reqponaibility. of ravine that there are not epongh of our men In jhe labor field. nod too many of onr able-nodied men are fle, not for lack of work. Lat hecauee they will Bot accent work such ax they are able to get and do. 1 wonld be, giad to have yon and alt othern whe Bave the Interest of tbe race at Aeart, 1 hare. all, the ahie boied men whom yon find Idekire for work to concalt me pt the above eddreen dave T. Warsace, 164 Bast Séth strest, New York, Lec. 14. } ‘ Tae a; Tae og oO, : . : - Greenberg's |. Ladies’ Hatr Dressing Parlore ' "Afro-American Halr Goods » Specialty ' §89 Eighth. Avenue =r : Ah SOTn STERGT 10 Pil it webs tae. a | Mme. J. L- CRAWFORD Scere fs rospass a Soe soe hae eee se ee eee C. H. KING and JOE YOUNG porter Shows 100 Went aba Serect. 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OF NEW YORK CIT Thursday Eyen “At TAMMANY Manic by New Amnterdam Orcheat 2 - TICMET OF HAT CHECK, 18 ete NOMKR Ta Wee Bath A Hanéoo So 1E NEWS OF GREATER NEW YORK. Jennie Walker of Jamestown, R. L. Virginia Inn, Mary Tabor, her daughter, of Winston path street. Baptist Church church, Rev William T. Williams, 49 East 20th Street, Will presch each Sunday at 11 a. and 8 p.m. Literary society meet Tuesday prev week. Presch every evening. Factor be bed at all times for marijuana, funerals or the sick. The Two Talent Club's open, handkerchief and cap hanger was a success financially. The object of the club is to establish a home for old people. Miss Vangna and Harris, Batee Newcomen every Wednesday evening, 110 West 80th street. Puny dress reception, Palm Garden, Wednesday, January 2, (Ladies' day), 1907—adv. The lycum of A. M. R. Zion church directed by Mrs. M. W. Gibson president; Jo. Sullivan, vice-president; Miss Frances Demary, second vice-president; Miss Edith Harder, treasurer; Mr. Herod Davis, secretary; Mr. William Gibson, assistant secretary; Mr. David McCormick, secretary. The editors were installed by Mr. J. E. K. Williams, who has been acting president and reviewer of the lycum. At the annual communication of Mystic Chapter, No. 11, Order of Eastern Star, of this city, held Thursday night, December 16, 1907. Worthy matron; Mrs. C. A. Brown, associate matron; Mr. B. W. Gibson, worthy patron; Miss Jane Powell, treasurer; Mrs. R. W. Gibson, conductress; Mrs. R. W. Gibson, conductress. The installation will be St. John's day, December 27. Shell Bros.' restaurant, 450 sixth avenue. Table: three dinner with claret wine. 50 scones. Monday lunch. 11.80 to 2 11. m. 8 o'clock breakfast. 7 to 12 a. m. 30 o'clock - 6 p.m. The house of Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Hobson, 347 West 145d street, was the scene of a very attractive wedding on Monday among parting parties whose daughter, Miss Georgia, to Mr. Oliver Robertson, of Charleston, S. C. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Bishop of St. Phillip's church. Miss Georgia was the bride and the bridemaids were the Misses Bertha Hudson and Marion Robertson, sisters of the bride and groom. The best man was Mr. J. Beiles of Mt. Kisco, the best wife of the bride and groom. The bride was a princess gown of white silk enfilmed and trumped with embroidered flowers. Her vell of tulle was held in place by a cluster of orange blossoms. Her bouquet was a white rose and carried bouquet of white silk. The maid of honor wore a white princess gown of mercerized pongee, while the bridemaids wore gowns of pink and blue silk and carried bouquet of white silk. The maid of honor partied in the strains of Mendelson's wedding march and took up a position under an arch of laurel with the bell extended. The bride and groom were in mirrors. Only the relative and few of the more intimate friends were present. After the reception and wedding supper the bride and groom, amid showers of rice and confettis, left for their home, where they will be at home December 25. Wednesday, November 28, at the residence of *Mrs. Bingham,* 63 West 98th street, Miss Alberta Jackson was married to Mr. John Upbahr by Kevin Crawford. Mr. Upbahr is from Washington, D. G., and Mr. Upbahr from Atlantic City, N. J. The happy couple will reside in this city, and in the spring of 1907 will go to Atlantic City, their future home. *Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Gollaborn will give their wedding heir residence, 124 West 53d street, on Friday evening, December 21. Sunday at the Union A. M. B. church, Hard 52th street, Rev. J. C. Fernandera, pastor, quarterly meeting was held, beginning morning services at 11 o'clock Rev. Carter, pastor of Bethel church, Fall River, Mass, preached, taking as his theme "The Fixed School was in the afternoon. The Sunday school was largely free, and the shoes were very interesting. Rev. Carter gave a very practical as well as instructive talk to the scholars. At 3 o'clock community meeting were held by Rev. T. W. Henderson, D. D., of Bethel church, West 25th street. The subject of his discourse was "The Solid Book Foundation. Quite number of Bethel students attended the Obstetric Endorsement meeting was led by Rev. DeVernay. The pastor, Rev. J. C. Fernandera, took as his theme for the event the story of a woman who was very eloquent as well as logical. Several joined with the church in full membership. Christmas exercises will be rendered next Sunday by the Sunday school over the direction of Mr. William H. Nimor. Strangers visiting the city for sightseeing and shopping during holidays will find the Clarendon House, 115 West 27th street, the proper place to stop—adve. de 13.27 The Young Women's Christian Association interment area and a memorial on Sunday, regardless of the inclement weather. The program, consisting of an address by Mrs. T. R. Keyser on the "Spirit of Organization," and an address by Dr. Christine Brooks, on the "Doubt Dr. Christine were among the most addressed ever delivered before that body. So, too, were the musical numbers, solo. "Jesus Miserer," by Misa E. Fox, and "Forrever with the Lord," by Mr. Charles Burroughs, are the evening classes in cooking, sewing, embroidery, elementary branches and Bible study and the employment burrow. On January 1, 1907, the perpetual committee will hold an AT. That committee will be responsible receive on that day between the hours of 4 and 10. Dr. Rell's mouth wash will be presented in sample form to every applicant between this and Christmas. This is done to test merchandise and to your many comforts of the house. Dr. Rell, Dentist, 435 sixth avenue—ady. Mrs. H. H. Stewart, Mrs. Jordan and daughter, Miss A. J. Jordan, are forming a donation for the benefit of the Lincoln Home, at 11st street and Concord avenue. Christian morning at 10:30. Such articles as aprons, head hankerchiefs, pipes, tobacco, candies or fruits will be gladly accepted from persona desiring to contribute, and can be left at the Young Street. The total number of lunettes at the home is 180, and among those are seventy men. Metropolitan Dancing 'Masters' class Monday and Friday (reception) nights. 114 and 110 West 53rd street. Our new Christmas 'Greet' also the Orford Minuet. 'Christmas Eve reception' next Monday night...ndr. Frida and the public will be pleased to know that Mr. Theodore Drury, who has been coedited in the Mary Fletcher Hospital Juries received in a railroad collision at Kutland, on December 1, has been discharged from the hospital, and in getting well. Other members of the Drury Opera Center were Miss Rosetta Faulk, Richard H. Brooks, M. E. VanHouten, Mrs. VanHouten, Oscar J. Engklin, Edun Simpkins, William Scudder, Miss T. Drury, the First Storm, Hitchley, Harry Paynes, the Mitchler, Hitchley, Harry Paynes, Harry Jackson, Mrs. Annie Green, Mrs. Catharine Johnson and Miss Daisy Allen. Third annual fanue dress reception of Entre Nois chas, Wednesday, January 2 at 6:30 p.m. in the 50th subterption, 50 cents; boxes, $2.00; now on sale. W. H. Vaughn and E. C. Harris, directors, 116 West 63d street.—adv. Rev. James H. McMullen, D. D., the pastor of Mother Zion church, has just rented three conferences in North Carolina and in Virginia, in the interest of the missionary department of the A. M. E Zion connection. He reports a pleasant tree weed vacation and a cordial reception. vival is in progress at the A. M. B. Kirch, conducted by Key, Mrs. Annie Five conversions Sunday even the Thanksgiving services of United Order of St. Luke in union of thanksgiving. Dr. Midnight presented the program, which was followed by the ovation. Ben Brown, with pinyin edits, Thursday evening, a program of New York, entitled "Shoes in Punishment." The Masters star Order and guests will have their Christmas performance by Mr. Mullet. The Sunday school was addressed on that Sunday by Mr. Marshall, of Mr. Mark's M. B. church, and Mr. Boit, of Mr. Mullet. The Sunday school Thursday evening, December 27, Special Christmas music on Sunday by the choir. Tango to skate on rollers at the Broadway Holder Shating Rink. The Broadway holder Shating Rink is the location of the rink is under the sole management of Mr. T. B. Parley, a young man of real business integrity, who guarantees satisfaction to all. Special seduction in Lady's Tallering for Jillian Brown,ady 834 West 21st street, New York - adj. dec 20-18. Young's Hat Removeting and Tailoring Establishment, 334 West. and street. Phone 1447 Bryant—adv. dec20-31 Last Sunday afternoon the exercises at Mark's Lyceum were largely attended. A short address to the Coach, William H. Johnson delivered a very instructive address on "Tuberculosis." The choir under the direction of Prof. Epp, of Montclair, N. J., rendered a couple of selections, Mrs. Lile M. Harris and Mrs. William H. Johnson, of Pepple their Relations to the Church." Christmas exercises will be held the coming Sunday. Bosco Cunkling Simmons will deliver the Christmas oration. Arrivals at Clarendon House are follows: M. E. Thomas, St. Mary's College, J. H. Perkins, Conn.; Rev. W. J. Johnson, city; H. H. Rutherford and wife, Baltimore, Md.; E. Beedwood and wife, Mauch Chunk, Pa.; George C. Green, city; George Perkins, Augustus, city; John Clark, Conn. Arrivals at Hotel Macco are: Mr. and Mrs. M. Washington, Long Branch, N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Coleman, White Plains; Mr. and Mrs. E. Chatman, Greenwich, Counn.; Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Grillin, Tarrytown. Will forget the reception of Coachman's Union League, Tammany Hall, Thursday evening, January 10—adv. dec20-31 Headquarters for automobiles for all occa- tions. Hotel Macao. "Phone, 803 Columbus. Prices very moderate. adjv. dec. 2-4t. After a week, you can return again after a severe illness of six weeks, but is still under the care of her physician. The Abyssinian Bantat Young People's Union announces the following program for the week of December 20-27. Thursday, December 27-30. Friday, December 31. Saturday, Society; unbect. Resolved, "That it would benefit the Afro-American should a portion go to Africa." Sunday, December 23, special Christmas program, arranged by Miss Cora Carter. Thursday, December 31, special Christmas program, arranged by Miss Cora Carter. Thursday, December 31, special Christmas program, arranged by Miss Cora Carter. At 51 St. Pascale's P. E church at 11 o'clock service on Christmas day a special musical program will be rendered by the vested choir of thirty voices. The soloists will be: Soprano, Mrs. I. Jackson; alto, Mrs. Jackson; tenor, Mr. W. W. McKenzie; basso, Miss McKenzie. The Broadway Roller skating Rings opened on Monday evening last and was largely attended. This is the first risk of its kind in New York for Afro-Americans, and proved to be a popular venture. A full band of 150 people indulged in by more than 150 people, among whom were many beginners. Mr. E. A. Singleton, representing the Atlantic City branch of the Metropolitan Mercantile and Health Co., will spend the holidays in New York city. Dr. Roberts' White Rose tooth powder of the best known preparations for whitening teeth, is sold by H. Roberts, D. D. S., 242 West 53d street, New York city, -ady. BROOKLYN. J. Thomas Turner was the speaker at the men's meeting at the Carlton-Avenue Irrain School. Young Men's Christian Association Irrain School. His subject was "Character Building." Rev. James H. Gordon, superintendent of the Howard Orphan Aylum, and a double graduate from the annual visit to the Bridge Street church last Sunday evening. Dr. Gordon reported on an interesting way the dolosage of the children was handled. The audience gave $45 for the institution. Jefferson Hall was comfortably filled last Friday evening at the first musical and literary entertainment given by the Nazarene missionary acting pastor, for the benefit of the building fund. The New Amsterdam orchestra enlivened the occasion with selections. Mime, Samuel DeNight caused much good laughter. Dunbar, Madam Harper of Jersey City was recalled several times in her vocal selections, as was also Mime. T. Jupiter Greece. The Misses Agus and Dalkey of Jersey City were invited to perform. Curry airpressed the expectations of the audience in her vocal solo. There was a mandolin solo by Mr. J. W. Withey, a piano solo by Prof. Samuel DeNight, and a one-string guitar by Miss L. O. Fairleigh and Mr. Foote, Master Prince. William Smith, the boy tenor, was the star of the evening. His singing called forth storms of applause, and he was recalled several times. The committee, which was headed by Mr. Moses E. Lofwich as chairman, were Mosses, William Wellington Smith, R. I. Jackson, J. K. Edmond, John Taylor, S. F. Edmund, and W. H. Taylor, Madames M. E. Henry, W. A. Washington, M. E. Miller, L. O. Smith, S. N. Edmond, R. L. Jackson, N. S. Wellington, H. Road, and Mrs. Charles Williams. In connection with the regular peer meeting of the Concord Baptist church last Friday night there was a lecture under the supervision of Dr. John H. Fishburn. The lecture was very instructive. Mr. Fishburn sold among other things that the saloon was in politics and that politics was the duty of the church to put its hand both upon the saloon and the board of education. Ingster Dixon preached at both services of Concord Baptist church and taught with attentive and preparations for the Christmas program and proclamations to the scholars are moving upward smoothly, under the able leader by Meadnes H. L. Brown, M. J. Faulcon and S. F. H. Russell. Chorister Charles F. Murrow is in charge of the music. Her arrangements are under the superintendent committee, Mr. J. Crowder, chairman. The celebration of the crystal anniversary of Ruth Tenth, No. 19 at Granada hall, last Thursday evening, was attended by a number of guests out of town. The welcome address was made by the Rworthy National Grand Selebrat Matron, Martha W. Yldette, of New York, and the Grand Selebrat Matron program were Drs. A. R. Cooper, W. T. Dillon, W. R. Lawton, F. M. Jacobs, R. J. Booker, Mrs. F. Graham, Mjss Hutte, Mrs. J. Lawton, Mrs. N. Gale, secretary, Lawyer E. R. Hayne. Those in charge of the arrangements were Mrs. Caroline Ingram, chairman; Mrs. Esther Brady, Miss Laura Ingram; Mrs. N. Gale, secretary. Supervisor was served the test, the index wearing white. At the Bridge Street A. M. E. church Dr. Coffey preserved at the Sunday morning services to a fairly good sized number. The Sunday school session in the afternoon had a large number of children. Mr. L. Coffey Smith, superintendent, said that the old form of giving extensive presents to the school would be abandoned, as the wholly unanticipatory and this year the school would be given to the scholars with refreshments, all sharing Mike. This change is designed to teach the children to give to others at Christmas time instead of receiving at all times for themselves. The Concord Baptist Sunday School will be held at 10:00 a.m. and will aid the Mothers' Day Surgery at 10:00 a.m. touchy street and the Roxon Institute Orphanage at Botton, Va., this Christmas. The scholars, however, will be remembered by the school with small token. Thursday evening of last week at the Fleet Street Memorial A. M. E. Zion church there was given what purported to be the sacred opera of "Paradis," in thirty-six positions in which the life of Monsigny may be pursued. Junior Chancellor, established, 1900 and head of outstanding motion systems known and a bachelor of Christian Belgium. Received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the board of treasures of the church who had hoped to run some financial benefit from it are thoroughly disgusted. Dr. Jacobs presented at both previous Sunday school meetings and the Sunday school and Christian Endeavor Society. Next Sunday evening superintendent Gordon and children from the Howard Colored Orphan Aylism will make their audience. The December meeting of the Union Degree Chamber of the True Reformers of Brooklyn Division was held at the hall on Waverly avenue on Monday evening, at 10:30 a.m. and preparation was made for a special monto to be preached to the division on next Sunday evening at the A. M. R. E. Rise Mission by the Rev. R. C. G. Jones Chief Minister of the Division and degrees by Mr. B. J. Johnson and Mimie Marie L. Burwell and two guides. On Tuesday evening Secretary R. P. Hamlin and some of the members of the committee of management of the Y. M. C. A. Bedford branch, which was preceded by a dinner at 6:46 p. m. The speaker was FleM Division Secretary Fred. B. Smith of the Unglobal Department, the inter national committee, which was full of new ideas to those in change of the religious work of the various branches of the Y. M. C. A. At the Carlton avenue of the New York Conference of the A. M. R. Zion church, will celebrate his fifty years in the ministry on half years in the ministry on Monday, January 7, at his residence, 215 Ruffalo avenue. The parlor social given by the Church of the Redeemer of Mary Mrs. Robinson was a success. Miss Williams and Miss Dickinson rendered selections on the piano during the evening. Cards are out for the wedding of Miss Sadie Caulk to, Mr. Robert K. Coleman, Mrs. William C. Coleman, Mr. Ernest R. Daniela, December 27. Mrs. Lucy Taylor has moved to 354 South 2d street. The Sabbath school of Union A. M. M. Zion church will give a concert and exhibition Thursday and Friday evening, Devotion Sunday, the fundraiser fund, Bimma, the baby wonder, will slug. Mr. Frank Brooks and C. Herbert Waters contemplate visiting Providence Christmas week. On last Friday evening the members of St. Mark's choir of St. Mark's M. E. church, the children of the gift, to Mr. and Mrs. John A. Thomasp, a very handsome game set, consisting of fifteen pieces, beautifully designed. After a very pleasant evening they left the happy couple to recover from their surprise. Mr. and Mrs. F. R. D. Allston of 134th and Mr. and Mrs. F.-V. Fisher of 62d street, Dominico of 223rd Marion street, Brooklyn, on Sunday last. The first meeting in Brooklyn of the Local Union of the Allen Christian Endeavor League of Greater New York, since reorganization was held in Union Bethlehem, the schiefer church, and street, Monday night of last week. Owing to the absence of Miss Kate A. Bradford, the president, the meeting was conducted by State Superintendent Perry. Four guards were present, a fifteen adoption of the November meeting, minutes, the evening was given to singing and impromptu speeches on the work. Among those speaking were Miss Adolele Williams of Chapel; Jamalah; Miss McKeeley of Warwick, and W. D. Wilson, district president. A large and appreciative audience assembled t St. Phillips' P. E. church Sunday, December 9. to witness the laying of the cornerstone of the new rectory and parish church on the avenue. Rev. N. Peterson Boyd, pastor of St. Phillips' church, made a few remarks in which he said that he had been in charge of the pulpit of St. Phillips church for Brooklyn long before he saw the work had a great future. Mr. J. J. Burnell of Brooklyn, who has been a member of the Factual Supply Co. of New York, arrived here Monday, and will make arrangements for the meeting, and Mr. G. W. Farrish of Brooklyn. Secretary Hamlin, of the Carlton Avenue Branch, Y. M. C. A., has returned to the city from Asheville, N. C., where he attended college. He is now the management support Colored Men's Department of the Young Men's Christian Association. The conference was held under the auspices of the International Committee of the Y. M. C. A. composed of fourteen city secretaries, four international secretaries and eighty-one delegates from cities and colleges. There were twenty-one city associations represented. The cities and the District of Columbia. The Colored Department of the association work in this country has thirty-five city associations for ten men and women of 0,000 holdings to the amount of $150,000. The conference was held in the Colored Institute, a very fine building, built by George Underhill for the improvement of the city. The building is now being bought by the colored citizens for less than one-third the cost for association purposes. The work which has been done there under the management support Mr. Underhill is similar to the association work. At the suggestion of several of Rev. A. B. Baker's countrymen, who knew of his work and service as a churchman in New York, he and his wife, a conference was called to plan the organization of a Westervian Methodist church in Brooklyn and to put him in charge of the movement. The work grew rapidly under the guidance of the admonishing islands, in Brooklyn, readily took hold of the idea, and to-day they have an organized church with a substantial membership and a good congregation. The church was organized by the duties of Rev. Mr. Baker that the officers of the church united with him in requesting Bishop W. B. Derrick of the African Methodist Episcopal church to ordain a minister in the Macedonian A. M. E. church. Flushing, L. L. The bishop was assisted in the service by a number of ministers. Bishop Potter's Latest Parables. "I crossed the North River with a friend of mine, a Columbia College professor, one day," said Bishop Potter at a public meeting in Brooklyn recently. "We were deep in conversation and continued our talk when we got in the depot at Jersey City. Finally, we arrived at the train, and when I got to the steps of my car, I was blocked by a woman on the steps. "Mindame, said I, I wish you would either go up or down." "Be you the conductor? she said, calmly. If you be, I think you nir the easiest conductor I ever see." (Laughter and applause). "That should be a parable for all of us," said the Bishop. "I was rebelled justly, and I took the time to tell the woman that the truth a great horror that I had to make her aware of the impending death and that I was truly sorry for having offended her." Bishop Potter closed the meeting with another store. He said that one of his friends, a Southwestern Bishop, opened a little coloured coloured minister was preaching and wacking the polite with hammer-like strokes of his massive hand, his preaching consisting mostly of the repetition of one phrase. "He gives us more power. More power. O'ford." "And that," concluded Bishop Potter, "was the only viable at which there was gentle appliance." THE AGE IN CHARLESTON. Copies of The New York Agr can be curried from Mr. Charles R. Winthrop, 9) Short Street, Charleston, S. C. After a Visit to Minneapolis Lodges of Kingman Falls. RIVER J. B. TREVENY BISHOP J. B. THORNTON. Bishop J. B. Thornton, of 157 West 133d street, spent last week visiting King Solomon and Gideon lodges A. F. and A. M., of Niagara Falls. He also met in attendance of the meetings of the same lodges, brethren from Halifax, N. S. The lodge at Rochester he found in a prosperous condition. H Baker in Cutting Teeth RELIGIOUS NOTICES BETHBL A. M. M. CHURCH. West 29th Street, between 7th and 11th avenues. Sunday Services—11 A. M. and 7:45 P. M. H. P. Church meeting 1:30 P. M. Sunday School 2 P. M. Prayer Meeting 6:30 P. M. Weekly Meetings—Clam Meeting on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday nights at 8 o'clock. Prayer meeting on Friday night from 8 o'clock to 9:30. Pastor's residence, 248 West 199th Street. At home from 8 to 10 A. M. The Pastor can be seen at the Church every day from 12 to 3 P. M. oct 12 11 am MOTHER A. M. B. ZION CHURCH. West 89th St., biv. Columbus and Amorat. Rev. J. H. McHullan, Pastor. Sunday Services—Practicing at 10:45 A. M. and 7:45 P. M. Habitat School 2 P. M. Young People's C. H. Prayer Meeting every Sunday evening at 6:15 o'clock. Pleas invited. ST. CYPRAN'S CHAPEL, PROTESTANT BISHOP'S CHAPEL, REV. JNO. W. JOHNSON, Print in charge. Sunday Services—11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Sunday School 3:30 P. M. A CORDIAL WELCOME TO ALL. jun 29 lyr. UNION A. M. B. CHURCH, 230 Bent 80th street; Rev. J. C. Perandera pastor; Bun- dock, Md. 12000; School; Meeting, 12 m.; School, 1:20 p.; Preaching, 8 p.; m.; Holy Communion every third third Sunday 8 p.; W. day service; Lyceum, Wednesday, 8 p.; Chan Meat- ing, Thursday, 8 p.; All are welcome. MISCHLANGEOUS HELP WANTED AT ONCE. Wanted— Several colored cooks, useful man, waitresses and general workers, city and business workers. Welcome to New Colored Mission and Employment Bureau, 60 West 134th street. Tel. 1882 Harlen. oct 25-8m FURNISHED rooms to let, all conven- ences, with or without table board. K. L. Wright, 1479 Bergen street, Bklyn. FURNISHED rooms, all convenences, 457 Gold street, Brooklyn, near Fulton. Mr. H. L. Williams, nov 22-47 FOR RENT—A large pleasant room for two persons; private house, all conven- ences, 55 Grove street. TO LET—Unfurnished door and furnished rooms with every convenience. Monroe street, near Throop avenue, Brook- lyn, nov 29-47 TO LET—Newly furnished, light rooms; hair and skin improvements. Conven- tion to care. Terns moderate, 403 Waverly avenue, Brooklyn. ADAMS Sick Nurse by the week or month. Lorms reasonable. First-class references. Mrs. C. A. Fisher, 560 East 158th street. dec 9-48 TO LET—Two large, neatly furnished front rooms; private, with conven- ences. Mrs. G. A. Hamilton, 211 West 90th street. dec 13-41 TO LET—A single furnished room for gentlemen. A. V. Mrs. W. H. Ran- dolph, 486 Sixth avenue, near 29th street. MASQUERADE AND FANCY Dresses costumes to hire, very reasonable. Inquire of L. Nery, 17 Doyer street, New York, top floor. dec 13-41 TO LET—A large furnished parlor: run- ning water and cooking store for light homekeeping. Apply Mrs. Lundt, 761 Third avenue, near 47th street. TO LET—A large light neatly furnished room for one or two gentlemen. Apply M. M. Ranald, 73 West 133d street. dec 26-21 TO LET—Apartments of two or three rooms. 140 West 19th street. FOR SALE-Grocery at No. 223 West 60th street, including stock and fixtures, J. Edward Lindsay. LARGE furnished rooms to let for light housekeeping. Mrs. Harrison, 230 W. 15th street. TO LET-Front parlor, furnished or un- furnished; bath. Apply Greenlee, 125 West 27th street. TO LET-Large front room, furnished, heat and gas; for two gentlemen. 389 Cumberland street, Brooklyn. TO LET-Two nicely furnished rooms or unfurnished front. 310 East 80th street. Ring four times. Armored bell. dec.20-21 TO LET-Furnished rooms, large and small. E. Thecklin, 251 W. 20th street. dec.20-41 ROOM TO LET-Gentleman entry; furnished Mrs. R. H. Scott, 122 West 134th street. TO LET. Neatly furnished rooms for gentlemen or man and wife; private house. Apply Mrs. G. Williams, 33 West 133d street. -462-20-4t TO LET.-Large furnished front room; bath. Mrs. D. Funn, 182 W. 134th at. TO LET.-Steam heated furnished room. Apply Jackson, 28 West 160th street. 3 New-Law Houses (Just Finished) 3 and 4 Rooms and Bath. Hot Water Supply. $14 to $24 per month. 49 AND 51 EAST 133d STREET 3, 4 and 5 Rooms and Bath Rents, $16 to $22 per month. TO LET—65 and 67 West and bath. Steam heat and the $19 and $20 per month. Also Apply Jan PHILIP A. PAYTON, JUST O 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 W 5 Rooms and Bath. Hot Water 6 to $22 per month. —65 and 67 West 134th Street. For Steam heat and hot water supply $20 per month. Also store to let, re- Apply Janitors or PHILIP A. PAYTON, Jr., 67 W. 134 ST OPEN 8, 10, 12 and 14 West 136th St 3, 4 and 5 Rooms and Bath. Hot Water Rents, $16 to $22 per month. TO LET—65 and 67 West 134th Street. Four roo and bath. Steam heat and hot water supply. Ret $19 and $20 per month. Also store to let, rent $35. PHILIP A. PAYTON, Jr., 67 W. 134th Street JUST OPENED CHEAP RENTS TWO WEEKS' RENT FREE. Elegant apartments of 5 large, light rooms, bath and in first-class condition. 153 WEST 153d STREET. Handsome light rooms and bath. Hot water supply. steam heated. 252 and 258 WEST 154th STREET. Elegant large, light rooms and h. Only two hours having colored tenants. Rents only $23 to $26 Apply CLARENCE E. HUTCHINSON, OR SUPERINTENDENT ON PREMISE WEEKS' RENT FREE. Elegant newly of 5 large, light rooms, bath and all imp a condition. WEST 155d STREET. Handsome flats and bath. Hot water supply. Halla d. 238 WEST 144th STREET. Elegant apart rooms and h. Only two houses on red tenants. Rents only $23 to $26 per mo ARENCE E. HUTCHINSON, 5 W. OR SUPERINTENDENT ON PREMISES TWO WEEKS' RENT FREE. Elegant newly renovated apartments of 5 large, light rooms, bath and all improvements, in first-class condition. 153 WEST 133d STREET. Handsome flats of 5 large, light rooms and bath. Hot water supply. Halls and baths steam heated. 252 and 258 WEST 134th STREET. Elegant apartments of 6 large, light rooms and h. Only two houses on this block having colored tenants. Rents only $23 to $26 per month. Apply CLARENCE E. HUTCHINSON, 5 W. 134th St. OR SUPERINTENDENT ON PREMISES TO BE LET 63 West 133d St.—5 Extra Large Rooms and 7 West 133d St.—5 Extra Large Rooms and 305 West 119th St.—5 Extra Large Rooms and 74 East 119th St.—5 Very Large Rooms, Light 44 West 135th St.—4 Cosy, Light Rooms, Water Supply. 40 West 135th St.—4 Cosy, Light Rooms, Water Supply. 306 East 122d St.—3 and 4 Rooms and Bath, Apply SAMUEL A. KELSEE Telephone 4213 3 Morningside 1876 Saturday Young People's Music COMPLEMENTARY TO THE Mando's Mozart Conserv 2195 Madison A. ALBERT F. MANDO. PIANO AND VIOL ASSISTED BY THE CONBEN ON FRIDAY EVENING, D At Acollan Hall, 5th Avenue and Doors open at 7.30. Admission The Music on this occasion will be of the the finest heard at any similar recital by the pure beautiful Music Hall; showing the advancement to the highest Classical Department. Mr. Mando's many years (40) of experience Conductor of Chale Music, enables him to prod success as teacher. The American OF RAILWAY EN Will Hold The Second Annual Rec ON Thursday Evening, J At MANHATTAN CASINO, Eight Music by Miss Hailie L. And Admission Including Hat Ch THE SIMS UNION REALTY 224-26-30-32 W. 64th St., also These apartments are for rent In the apartments in 64th Street every r meters for gas. St.—5 Extra Large Rooms and Bath, Hot Water Suit St.—5 Extra Large Rooms and Bath, Hot Water Suit St.—5 Extra Large Rooms and Bath, Halls Heated St.—5 Very Large Rooms, Light, First Floor. St.—4 Cosy, Light Rooms, Rear, Halls Heated, Supply. St.—4 Cosy, Light Rooms, Rear, Halls Heated, Supply. St.—3 and 4 Rooms and Bath, Extra Large, Light. AMUEL A. KELSEY, 363 LENOX Morningside Dr. Janitor SEPTEMBER 1908-1907 Young People's Musical Festival COMPILATION TO THE PUPILS OF Mando's Mozart Conservatory of Music 2105 Madison Avenue ALBERT F. MANDO, Director. NO AND VIOLIN RECITA ASSISTED BY THE CONSERVATORY SENTETTE DAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21 Aeolian Hall, 5th Avenue and 34th Street, New York 300. Admission—50 Cents Recital on this occasion will be of the highest order, and no at any similar recital by the pupils of the Conservatory, Hall; showing the advancement from the Elementary Classical Department. American Association OF EWAY EMPLOYEE Will Hold Their Annual Reception and ON Day Evening, January 17 ENHATTAN CASINO, Eighth Ave. and 155th Music by Miss Hallie L. Anderson's Orchestra On—Including Hat Checks—Fifty UNION REALTY CO. have for in 1932 W. 64th St., also 207 and 214 W. departments are for respectable people. Treatments in 64th Street every room is newly decorated. 63 West 133d St.—5 Extra Large Rooms and Bath, Hot Water Supply. —$23.00 7 West 133d St.—5 Extra Large Rooms and Bath, Hot Water Supply. —$23.00 305 West 119th St.—5 Extra Large Rooms and Bath, Halls Heated. —$26.00 74 East 119th St.—5 Very Large Rooms, Light, First Floor. —$19.00 44 West 135th St.—4 Cozy, Light Rooms, Bear, Halls Heated, Hot Apply SAMUEL A. KELSEY, 363 LENOX AVE. CARD The Music on this occasion will be of highest order, and no doubt will be the finest heard at any similar recital by the pupils of the Concertory, given in this beautiful Music Hall; showing the advancement from the Elementary Department to the highest Classical Department. Mr. Mando's many years (40) of experience as Instructor of Violin. Piano and Coach of the Music, enable him to produce the best results; hence his great success as teacher. RAILWAY EMPLOYEES Will Hold Their Second Annual Reception and Ball Thursday Evening, January 17, 1907 At MANHATTAN CASINO, Eighth Ave. and 155th St. Music by Miss Halle L. Anderson's Orchestra Admission - Including Hat Checks - Fifty Cents dec 20 8t THE SIMS UNION REALTY CO. have for inspection 224-26-30-32 W. 64th St., also 207 and 214 W. 61st St. These apartments are for respectable people o In the apartments in 64th Street every room is newly decorated. meter for gas. We are still selling stock at $5 per share. All persons who are desirous of a safe Company. Incorporated under the laws of New G. W. BAPTIST, Pres. V. TAYLOR, S Tel. 472 Col. Main Office The Fad of the Town and the Great Fall in Line at Broadway Roller 127-129 Columbus Ave. who are desirous of a safe investment should be corporated under the laws of New York State. STIST, Pres. V. TAYLOR, Secy. J. E. YATES Main Office, 202 West 63d St. the Town and the Greatest Sport of To Fall in Line at the way Roller Skating 29 Columbus Ave. All persons who are desirous of a safe investment should invest in this Company. Incorporated under the laws of New York State. G. W. BAPTIST, Pres. V. TAYLOR, Secy. J. E. YATES, Treas. Tel. 472 Col. Main Office, 202 West 63d St., New York Nov. 25 3pm The Fad of the Town and the Greatest Sport of To-day. So Fall in Line at the 127-129 Columbus Ave., bet. 55th and 56th Sts. Sessions Monday and Friday Evenings of Each Week. Full Orchestra in Attendance. The Best of Order Guaranteed. "L," Subway and Surface Cars Pass the Door. Admission, 50c., including Skates T. B. PURSLEY, Prop. dec 20-3m WILL OPEN About January 1st, 1907 A Large High-Class Apartment House On OLD BROADWAY. Near the Subway and Surface Cars Apartments of four and five extra large rooms and bath; tiled halls; porcelain bathtubs; hot water supply; hardwood finish throughout, with every known improvement, with the exception of electricity and elevator service. This will be the only house of its kind tenanted with Afro-Americans. The rent will be very reasonable A big and select stock of PURE WINES and LIQUORS to choose from at rock bottom prices. Christmas and New Year's Eve we give a HANDSOME SOUVENIR to each customer whose purchase amounts to $0.00 and over (exceeding case goods). CHARLES STAUDENMEYER WINES and LIQUORS 794 9th Ave., between 52d and 83d Sts. NO BAR. Mail Or Jarm Receive Prompt Attention. July 30-31 p.r. For a Holiday Rift THE AGF • DREAMS OF LIFE was called to report, $45.50 all, the $45 but forget the $50. Mr. as Henry was requested to make him and he reported $45.25 thinking he a quarter ahead. Mr. the books made reports but sales were not as well beforefore. Mrs. Jones, aunt of Mim victoria Jenkins, was buried Sunday, at 3 m., the service being held by Rev. Mr. Edwards to assist in the service. Rev. Edward to assist in the service. Rev. Edward asked another friend and acquaintance to make some remarks. Jacey conducts the Thunel workers at 4 p. m. to Lone Island City. Mr. Birdwell Evans and Miss Francette Vanolier were married Sunday, night at the A. M. B. church before the close of regular service. The church cut off the usual affairs and guard occurred on Grove street Saturday night. Mr. Thomas Taylor's tenant son has been taken to the hospital for treatment of a most critical case. Mr. Orbey Tankard, of Bermuda, was the first to arrive. The Sunday school teachers will give a school reunion on Friday night, next. PATTERVILLE NOTES Tottowille, N. Y., December 18.—Miss Jennie Bishop, youngest daughter of Mrs. Susan Bishop, was married to Mr. William H. Pedro, of Port Richmond, and Mrs. Susan Pedro, at 15 Bishop avenue, Roxbury, Boston Island, on Thursday, November 29. The room was hand-somely decorated with christian-themed furnishings and tropical plants. The room was performed by the ceremony. Miss Mamie B. Bishop played the wedding match. The bride wore an elegant Chiffon, cut Princess and carried a large bouquet of cherry blossoms. The best man was George W. Bishop. The bridesmaids were Dora Pedro and Nacalia Walter, who were dressed in white silk and carried bouquets of pink carnations. The best man was George W. Bishop. The happy couple left on the five o'clock train on a honeycomb trip on Long Island. The bride, of Rosville, B. I., and Miss Brielle Lawrence, of Port Richmond, B. I., were united in marriage on Thursday, November 29, at the home of the bride. Only a few of the immediate family were present. James 8. Dicker performed the ceremony. They will make their home in Rosville. TROY HAPPENINGS MIDDLETOWN NOTES. Middletown, N. Y., December 18, ---Serves at Zion church last Sabbath were well attended, catered to "Light Weight" in the evening on "Substitution." Rey. John Warner preached at Bethel church in the evening and being at Warwick, Mrs. William Hasbrock spent a few days with her husband at Montclair the past week, but she is rapidly recovering. Miss Hasel Quarterton is improving in health. Mr. Stell had the misfortune of being wounded on the foot, caused by a glancing pick. It is healing nicely. The thirty-fourth annual fair and basassar this week Sunday will be dollar day. TARRYTOWN NEWS ASTORIA NOTES Astoria, L. L., December 18, Mrs. Williams has returned from a two weeks' visit in New Jersey. The Stephen Baptist church on December 16, and the Stephen church on December 27, for the benefit of the church. There will be a parlor social at the residence of Mrs. W. E. Madison, 69 Ridge Dr. Irving, Indiana. For the benefit of St. Stephen's pastor, Rey, A. L. McKee. FREESKILL NOTES. Peekskill, N. Y., December 18. Mr. Caleb Peterson, who has been anFFERENCE from bach bad burn in him, and Mrs. Oscar Demond is quite ill. Mr. John Hutchinson and family have removed from Park street down, from the street where Mr. J. has been on the sleek list for the past week. Mr. Charles Hickens has been on the sleek list for a few days. Rev. Stukeley, from the church, and Rev. Crussette, in Rev. Crussette's place, Mrs. George Peterson is improving, but is still in the hospital. Mr. Harry Trudell, Peterson, Jr. is spending in few days in New York city with his grandmother, Mrs. Trendwell Hickes, Stanley Peterson, who is in the hospital. The Imperial Dancing Club will hold its first annual dance on New Year's evening at Assembly Hall. Committee, Robert Hard, P. H. Peterson, H. Peterson, Moehler has been on the sleek list for the most few days. Herbert Hickens has been quite ill, and Mrs. O'Neill will be well attended last Sunday afternoon. Sales, dues and renditions by Jennie Alonso, Louise Hickens, Lily Hickens, and others were very interesting. Edith Hutchinson is recovering from her illness. WHITE PLAINS NOTES. WHITE PLATAN, N.Y., December 18—Mr. James Miller of Chesterfield county, Va., and Miss Lily Hobson of Cumberland county, Va., were invited to the residence of the grocer's cousin, Mr. J. Martley, of No. 6 W.chester street. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Thee. Mistlethorn, Va. where they will meet the remainder of the winter, by the Jessephine of New Bernesville presided in Plains at the Westchester Avenue A. A. in New Bernesville will be presented given by St. John's Hall December 20 by Mr. Godman of Yonkers. Mr. Godman is a fine musician and performs militantly on many instruments. The program will be presented by the paring for a Christmas concert to be given on the 5th of December. Mrs. C. H. Benzzel will give one of her many and also famous catatons, called The Growl. The Growl will be presented by the Browns street, was ill at her home last Sunday. Miss Irma Hatfield of Winchester street visited friends in Tarrytown last Saturday. Miss Irma Hatfield of Winchester church will give a Christmas concert at their church on Westchester avenue Monday night, December 24. Last Sunday was Cradle Roll day at the Baptist church. The Zion church will give a Christmas concert at their church on Westchester avenue Monday night, December 24. Last Sunday was Cradle Roll day at the Baptist church. The Zion church will give a Christmas concert at their church on Thursday last proved successful. Many useful articles, such as sugar and sour, were presented to Miss Irma Hatfield. He wishes to thank Mrs. L. Brown, Mrs. H. Smith and others for their generosity. AN IMPOSTER EXPOSED. To the Editor of The New York Asn: I have received reply from Graniteville, the city where I grew up, in the story which he tells. The pastor of the A. M. E. church there says that the name of kt. Pierce is not known around ever, therefore the kt. W. Willisme, which is on the 'handmade' card, as being from the P. S. of Graniteville, G. O. Y. Lodge, the Y. O. Lodge, the New York lodge, the number 2001 as being his, South Carolina lodge; and on investigation I and Dr. Cooper three days ago he stayed with Dr. Cooper three days and that Dr. Cooper of Bridge street A. M. E. church, knew him in the South, Dr. Cooper three days ago this man; and that he took one meal at his home in Brooklyn, but never stayed there. He claimed to have preached for Cooper three days ago, and knew him in Bethel church, though he went into the Sunday school when he knew the pastor and Knight of Pythian and is drawing on all these lodges and the churches. I ask everybody to aid in checking such matters. RBV, WM. H. LACEY. Finishing N. Y. NEW ROCHELLE NOTES NEW ROCHLELL, N. Y., December 18.—Rev. and Mrs. Adam Jackson attended the quarterly meeting at Zion church, White Sulphur Springs, N.Y., on Friday, cleyet, of A, M. E. Zion church, gave a dime social, Monday evening, at the parsonage, Winyah avenue. A pleasant evening was held at the church, recited some of her comic selections as also did Mrs. Sarah Batson and Mrs. George Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Forester, of the church, recited some of her comic selections as also did Adam Jackson at dinner Tuesday, Mrs. Carlo L. Williams, of Morris street, assisted by Miss Amina Billups, Miss Rosa Flowers, Miss Roberta Browne, Miss Mossers, Rooker and Sheppard gave a musical at the Baptist church, New Haven, Conn. Wednesday evening, to a large audience, they are asked to return to New Haven ROCHESTER NOTES. ROCHESTER, N. Y. December 20 - The services of the A. M. E. Zion church were given at the new church the dedication of the new church the Christmas Tree exercises of the A. M. E. Zion church will given at parish residence with the parishioners of the Missionary Church. October 24. Miss Champ, of Skanatania, who was the guest of the man, and Mrs. George, of the man, was the guest of the man, and Mrs. Alfred Sprague, of the man, who was the guest of Mrs. Ruth Hill and family for a few days in Oakville, Canada. The man spent last week visiting friends and relatives in New York and adjoining towns, and Mrs. J. W. Brown were the guests of the man and Mrs. George Wright at teak Sunday. ALBANY NOTE. ITHACA NEWS Rev. T. A. Auten will deliver an address at the Emancipation Celebration at George hall, Roachier, N. Y.; January 2. The thica coloration of the dress, preparing it for the winter in January, will be Jennie Clark of Amsterdam, N. Y. will spend the winter in Ithaca. George Kelly will spend the holdings at his home, Troy, N. Y., also color Calla who will be given the dress of Mr. Martin's concert at the residence of Mrs. George Martin to raise funds to pay for the plane. Penguinsple Mrs. Frank Johnson, of East Mansion street, is on the skirt hat. Miss Annie Potter, sister of Mrs. D. Rowman, was the guest of Mrs. D. Rowman. Miss Potter is in William Half left for New Haven to spend the holidays, as the guest of her sister, Mrs. S. A. Manyard, of Orchard street, Mr. William Hawkins, of New Hamburg, left the seat west of Florida. Florida is a member of Bremen, Band of New Hamburg, has Mt. Vernon Mr. Peter Hammard has been visiting his friends and relatives in Delaware. The friends of Miss Alice White rendered her a birthday party on December 11, at the residence of Mrs. Peter R. Hammard. Games and music were held by Mrs. Hammard, and Mrs. William James and Miss Sarah Carmon were the guests of Mrs. James Showers Sunday, December 9. Mrs. John Fugenorm, of Fortitowa, and Mrs. Eva Fugenorm, of Fortitowa, were their sister Mrs. Charles White, of Sherwood Park. Miss Pheba An younger, of South Eighth avenue, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Mary Harrold, of Sherwood Park. South Eighth avenue, is on the slick list, also Mrs. Mary Harrold, of Sherwood Park. Seratore. At the Dyer Fhelps stemorial A. M. E. Zion church, last Sunday, the pastor, Rev. E. The Christian Endorse Society was 0.50 led by the Christian Endorse Society by Mr. Ella Jackson, at 7:45 the pastor baptised Mine Hattie Frances Freeman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Freeman, son were sponsors, Mr. W. H. Mooney and daughter attended the evening service. Mine Rebecca Green has returned from an eight day visit of the University of Boston, will arrive in this city Wednesday to deliver an address. While here he will be the guest of Rev. and Mrs. Rebecca Anderson, Mrs. Anderson spent Saturday in Albany, she was the guest of Mr. Myers. Sag Harbor Notes Sag Harbor, December 17.—Mrs. Henry Coffee and Mrs. M. Randall were entertained by Mrs. E. Rugg on last Thursday evening. Mrs. Mary Atkins died Saturday morning. Mrs. Mary Atkins died Tuesday, December 18. The Society of Associated Sisters, of which she was a member, held a memorial service for her, C. H. Toneyck dined with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Coffee Saturday and with Mr. Crippen on Sunday, the daughter Randall, Mrs. Coffee, the daughter Randall dined with Mr. E. Crippen on Sunday. HACKENSACK NOTES. ASDURN PARK NOTES I should like to thank the editor for his hold and rebellion, yet conservative attribution of the recent outrageous action of the President in discharging the Afro-American soldiers. Would you be glad we had the Editor of Turt Ack to champion the cause. A Sussexurian. Salary Park, N.J., December 1, 1906, Episcopal friend and friend of Episcopal church in Syrian avenue of this city, are趴bliant over the fact that, they are soon to have their chapel in a modern church, and they are now Jenson, now rector of this church, two and a half years ago came here and founded a mission with less than fifty communicants, and is in every way self-supporting. The membership has clearly doubled. Those improvements will cost $1,000, the money has been raised to now in hand, is ready to be raised over when they shall have completed the Job. Bed Bank Notes Red Bank, December 18—The third annual quarterly meeting of Red Bank Zion church was held on Sunday. A large congregation was present, Rey, E. M. Stanton preached an interesting sermon in the afternoon. The total for the day was $60. The following ministers were present: Reed, Vincent, Stanton, Heathe, Davis and Blyde, Rey, A. R. Jackson, pastor, The Ministerial association met on Monday, December 17. Newark. NEW BAY COUNTY PUBLIC Chief of Police Written Summary "The Chandown" to No. Prosecutor. New Bay County, December 31—A man meeting who had but two of Rev. Dr. Lorenzo daughter to file a proclaim with Mayor J. P. Sandley did the proclaim in this city of "The Chandown," to be pro- duced in the city of an early date. Mayor Sandley sent the presenting committee to his present proclaim with Chief of Police Writen, who has said jurisdiction in such matters. Chief Writen said he would get the lines of the play as it will be produced here and have a competent man, good judgment in name, and if the objections to it are not valid he will leave the permit. Mr. Charles Stanley of 77 Webster street, a veteran of the old Wooster Guard, died Saturday of a complication of disease. Mr. Biddley has been ill for the last year. Deceased leaves a wife and one son, Phillip, of Hartford, who arrived Saturday night accustomed to the city. Mr. and Mrs. James E. Fenderson held their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary last Monday evening at their residence, 28 Boote street. Every room in the house was decorated with flowers. The presents are handsome and magnificent specimens of silver. There were guests present from Brooklyn, Waterbury, Hunt and Meriden. A fine collection was served. Rev. J. W. Davis of Zion church closed the second rally since the beginning of the building fund and raised $700, which was used to help the children. Frelingid elder E. George Biddley has returned home after a month's trip in the "tar-bell" State. The elder started on his third quarterly itinerary through the New York district soon after he reached home. BOSTON NOTES Your correspondent visited the Ruth Circle of King's Daughters, in session at Charles street church, Sunday at 3 p. m. The speaker of the occasion, Dr. H. G. MacKenon of Worcester, spoke on "Our Birthright." It was an excellent address,ably delivered and well received. Other members, Mrs. Ruthin, the founder of the order, Mrs. Ruthin's son and others. The meeting was called to order by Mrs. Bush, the president, Mrs. hartlotte E. France gave some good advice to Mrs. Bush, the president, "The You and I" Society had its regular meeting at its splendid hall, 607 Shawmut avenue, Sunday, at 7.30 p. m. Edward Avenue, Sunday, at 7.30 p. m. Edward Avenue, among the more prominent of whom were: Mr. and Mrs. George Briggs of Dorehertle, Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Clark, Mrs. and Mrs. A. N. Clark, son, the evangelist, Mrs. Terrell. The next meeting will be on Wednesday evening, when the society resolves itself into a mass for the study of the evolution of humans. WORCESTER NOTES Mrs. Howard Grant, Miss S. Ella Wilson and Miss Bertha M. Anderson attended the concert given by Coleridge Taylor in the Charles street church in Boston, last Thursday. The Question Box which was started at the Young People's Lecarum that last Sunday, Monday evening last the Women's Progress club held their monthly business meeting at the home of Mrs. Ella Edwards. The young ladies who gave the costume party were Mrs. Edwards and her dollars, which was turned over to the club at this meeting. The Coleridge-Taylor独儿 club will present the Oratton. The young ladies who gave the soloists are Miss Hattie Spofford, Miss Nellie McNorton, Mr. F. Nelson Rates and Mr. George Cooper, Mr. George E. Stewart, both of the Home, Miss Agnes Vandersse, of Marlboro, was in the city Sunday. ATTLEBORO NOTES. iicey, W. H. Taylor, who has been con- naught by the police, preached Sunday evening, though he has not entirely recovered. Mrs. J. Walter, David Brown, the pastor, with relatives and friends in Boston, Mr. Wren and family, counts of Mr. G. Stewart, arrived in town last Friday, from Nova- calia. PROVIDENCE NOTES Old Home Night was celebrated by Douce can be covered of J. Minton Anderson, 316 West 50th street, New York Telephone 4653 Columbus. This being my FWELPTH ANNUAL REFERTION and RALL, I shall endeavor to seize in magnificence and splendor all previous receptions given. Our guest will be well known for any comment here, but just a word as to the new FALM GARDEN, Fifty-Eighth Street, between Lexington and Third Avenue. During the summer months the PALM GARDEN has undergone extensive and elaborate design. It is the most and most desirable hall for Occupants and Balls in Greater New York. The entire interior of the Hall, together with the Batrocas and Bath, has been designed to accommodate the needs of the guests. The accommodates FOUR: THOUSAND PERSON, twice its former capacity. The path of the Innsame BALL BOOM are decorated with great French Mirrors of huge dimensions which enchance, in brilliancy the grandest electric display of modern things. The hall as it is well known, is centrally located; congregation is all earl hall equipment. It is beautifully decorated in white and gold (seating fourteen persons each). Beautifully decorated in white and gold (seating fourteen persons each). THE FOLLOWING RECEPTIONS AND BALLS WILL BE GIVEN BY MR. ANDERSON: Anderson's Dancing Academy THE STANDARD ACADEMY OF AMERICA Established 14 Years. At 114-116 West 52d Street, New York. Class Seminars Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Evening ADMISSION ... 36 CHANTS Special attention to beginners. Private Lessons Given. Pond street F. B. church Monday evening. December 10. in the vestry. The Willing Workers, the oldest connected with the church, took the responsibility of the renovation of the vestry with all other societies assisting. The opening of the vestry was celebrated by the Holy Night. There were speeches by some of the oldest members of the church. Those pre- ent enlisted a musical and literary program. Refreshments were served by the Willing JNO. C. DANCY STIRS UP HARTFORD Dr. Sunderland Rips Up "The Cham- man"—Rev. McCallum Raleen $1,900. HARTFORD, Conn. December 16.—November 18, at the A. M. E. Zion church. Rev. William Andrew McCallum pastor, a roo- ing rally was held and over $1,200 raised. Hon. John C. Dancy, Recorder of Deeds of PORTSMOUTH NOTES The Friday Night Club hold their regular meeting last Friday evening. December 14 at the residence of Mr. Reed in Glasgow the club held a special mention was one by Mrs. I, C. Norcom, Mrs. Williams, a former member of the club but recently of Washington, was present and said many more things by Johnson concerning the club's excellent work. NEW HERN NOTES Mr. A. Y. Ranks successfully passed an examination as mail carrier, being one of four appointees, two Afro-American and two white. E. P. Church arrived in the city with his family. Don't forget to call at Jackson's bakery for your Christmas goods. Lawyer on the property. He has erected a new home on Queen street, Dr. J. H. Hunt, and has reappointed as pastor of St. Peter's church. Miss Lillian Davia has taken a position as clerk with the Durham Insurance Company, prof. J. T. Barber in the office at New Bern. MORROW NOTES Morrow, La., December 19—During last week, Dr. William Johnson, of Patterson, La., was the guest of Rev. D. B. Gibson, Misses Carrie Ridley and Aurelia Belle of Palmetto, were the guests of Mrs. M. G. G. and Mrs. A. G. G. agreeably surprised by the students of the Industrial Academy. The Academy orchestra under the leadership of Prof. H. Bl. P. Johnson, was present and furnished the preached on The Sermon at the preached on a able sermon at the Plymouth Rock Baptist church. An educational mass meeting will be held in the interest of the students of the Academy, on October 31st. Many prominent educators of our State will be present. The President's Vicious Doctrine From The Detroit Informer Then the doctrine that he advances that colored people are in duty bound to aid the officers of the law in hunting down colored criminals in monstrous and full of evil for colored people. A crime is committed in a Southern community that (unless the criminal is caught in the act) will be beaten by the mob or ratified to the gallows, which would be a legal lynching, for乔豌wed practically, become a crime away from persons accused of crime when they happen to be Negroes, for he has little publicity as possible." Unless some Negro is thus delivered up the whites will raise the Atlanta cry that colored criminals and a monster will follow. ANNOUNCEMENT AT PHONIX HALL, Grand Street and Summit Avenue, Jersey City, N. J. NEW YEAR'S NIGHT. TUESDAY EVENING, JAN. 2, 2007. Admission ..... 35 Cent> AT SAKERGEBUND HALL, 50 Sarnowitz Street, Philadelphia, N. & THURSDAY EVENING, JAN. 2, 2007. Admission ..... 50 Cent> AT LYCHUM HALL, 301-308 Plane Street, New York, N. J. LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY NIGHT. TUESDAY EVENING, FEB. 2, 2007. Admission ..... 35 Cent> JNO. C. DANCY STIRS UP HARTFORD McGinty: Morning for December The Gallant 25th, U. 8. Infantry (colored), "From the Mastering In, to Mastering Out." In McGirl's Magazine for December, 10c per copy. In this number, among other interesting features, appears a full review of the dissalus of the Afro-American troops from the U. 8. Army. Their deeds of bravery are illustrated, showing them in act, scenes of conduct on the battlefield, performing unselfless lips the highest modes of praise. There also appears a full page drawing by H. G. Tanner, the famous artist. This picture can be cut out and framed so that our girls and boys can look upon a product and thus be inspired to nobler efforts in the great field of human endeavor. Our Christmas Gift Offer--Persons ordained will receive a present one copy of McGirl's latest book of poems, "For Your Sweet Sake," published by John C. Winslow are giving away usually for one dollar. I will also allow you 50 per cent. on all yearly subscriptions taken. Send all or two of McGirl's 428 South 11th street, Philadelphia, Pa. Mr. Whitehurst Approves. For the purposes of the New York Code. To the Editor of-Time New York Age: I congratulate you on your editorial, "What a hell you are!" and my views exactly. Nearly every time bell rings, some one is there requesting to interact yourself in case a of which you never hear him. R. D. Wu. that a consent of Europe is allowed interest of humanity grant the opinion whether the to be in an Independent State, or it be unseek such. King of the Bengalans, attention toward Africa. Sir Richard Burton, Grant had discovered sources of the Nile. The great discoverer Stanley had just copied new in the t for the manfa- nish is not only one populated of coun- ntriely for subsistence of its manufactures in 1876 King Leopold inographers of International place at Brussels. Calling Brussels Geographical by the National Committee 12, 1876. In 1883 they International Association expiration and Civilization of Africa." It consisted of an International Commission sitting in Brussels by Dependent National Committee each of the countries taking the executive power of the International Association was vested in an Active Committee of which King Willem was appointed president. The principal countries of Europe, as well as the United States, were represented in the association. Working in the interests of King Leo- ld, Henry M. Stanley began to travel lough the Congo region, buying land, establishing stations, and making treaties in the King's name with native chiefs. This around the distrust of other Euro- pean nations, which at that period were looking with longing on the few promising places for colonization left unoccupied by the British. The French raised their flag at Brassaville, on the Congo; the Portuguese set up a claim to the Congo Elver because a Portuguese navigator had discovered the mouth of it 400 years before; Germany, too, began to look long- ingly at the Congo region. Alarmed by these encroachments, King Leopold conceived the idea of a Congo State, with himself as sovereign ruler. But first of all it was necessary to secure the assent of the great powers interested. Matters were made more complicated for Leopold by the Anglo-Portuguese Conviction made on February 18, 1859 in which England abolished the Portuguese claims to the Congo. But, fortunately for the King of the Belgians, this conviction was not only unpopular on the Continent of Europe, but in England itself. A British mission dispatched to the West Coast of Africa to investigate the validity of the treaties made in Leopold's name with the African chiefs in that part of the Congo which Great Britain proposed recognize as Portuguese territory, relied the treaties against and the allegations of the Portuguese baseless. Thereupon the Anglo-ortuguese Convention died a natural death. Short-lived and unimportant as it had this convention, showed that there and a growing necessity for giving Congo region a definite political status. On April 22, 1884, the United States officially recognized the flag of the International Association as that of a friendly government (a course adopted soon after by France and Germany. The power, on the very day that she gave recognition to the association, invited all the powers interested to a conference on African affairs in Berlin. Fourteen nations accepted the invitation and formed the Berlin international Conference. The conference was held over November 15, 1884. The principal business at the first sitting was to decide what territories constitute the basin of the Congo and its affluents. Eight experts, selected by the eight powers chiefly interested, reported at the third sitting of the conference as follows: "The basin of the Congo is delimited by the crests of the contiguous basins, to wit, the basins in particular of the Niari, the Ogwe, the Scharl, and the Nile on the north; by Lake Tanganyika on the east; by the crests of the basins of the Zambesi and the Loge on the south. It comprises consequently all the territories drained by the Congo and its affluents, including Lake Tanganyika and its eastern tributaries. At the tenth edition and last sitting of the conference, the field on February 20, 1885, the representatives of the powers assembled at Berlin formally acknowledged the International Association as a friendly and sovereign State whose flag—a golden five-pointed star on a blue field—they agreed henceforth to recognize. In the anti-Belgian campaign which has since arise one of the main contentions of Leopold's enemies is that the Congo Free State was created by this act of the Berlin International Conference. Those arguing on the other side maintain that recognition of a State implies its existence already. The foundation of the Congo Free State, they say, really dates back to the beginning of the organized work of Comité du Duit Haitien on November 25, 1878. Between that date and the convening of the Berlin Conference stations were established, treaties concluded, administrative and police service organized, and other essentials of an actual government established. Another fact which the pro-Belgians do not fail to point out, is that the British, who are active in the campaign against King Leopold in the Congo, have territories to the north and south of the Congo State, which tends to make any change in the status of the latter advantageous to themselves. Leopold I., who is also King of the Belgians is foreign of the Congo. Romania there is connect in between the Government of Belgium and that of the Congo State, except through the fact that one man is head of both. King Leopold has willed his sovereignty over the Congo to Belgium, to whom it will pass at the King's death. LEOPOLD'S ATROCITIES. Converted Congo Into Plantation Run by Slave Labor. From The New York Sun. There are at last strong indications that the national conscience of Belgium has been aroused to the atrocities which have been committed in the Congo Free State and that a determined effort will be made to put an end to them by the Belgian Chamber of Deputies in its approaching session. The day has gone by when Belgians were disposed to regard the revolting crimes imputed to the agents of their sovereign as British calumnies. That they have awakened to the shocking truth and recognized their duty in the premises is evident from the testimony, collected exclusively from Belgian sources, which is presented in the October number of The National Review. The main document relied upon is the report of the commission of inquiry which the Government of the Congo State was forced by international indignation to despatch in the autumn of 1004 to investigate the condition of affairs on this quest and to preserve remnants for such cells so might be found to exist. This report, which was published in November, 1888, constitutes the greatest achievement of the O'Rigan administration, and the documentary effect of it is increased by the summation and conclusions of consequent Belgian authoritition, and especially by members of the Belgian Chamber during the debatte which took place in church of this year. These representatives of Belgian sentiment include Catholics as well as Librarians, Conservatives as well as Socialists, professors and Deputies from the French speaking as well as the Finnish speaking portions of Belgium, and we should add that many of them were originally seated defenders of King Leopold's colonial enterprise, which was launched with the protended philanthropic aim of suppressing slavery and improving the physical and moral well being of the native tribes in Central Africa. The first question dealt with in the report of the commission of inquiry is that of land tenure, which, in truth, is fundamental. Of the huge area of the Congo State, computed at 900,000 square miles, about one-half forms the domaines价, or, as King Leopold has lately rechristened it, the domaines national. Another large slice, containing some of the most valuable rubber forests in the State, forms the domaines de la couronne, and is practically treated by the King as his own private property. Other tracts of land, almost equally vast, have been handed over to chartered companies styled societies concessionsaires, in which however, the Congo State retains a controlling interest as the holder of more than half the shares. The point to observe is that under whichever of these categories a given section of the Congo State may happen to fall, the method of administration is the same. Everywhere the rights of the natives in the land have been eliminated ruthlessly, except as regards individual ownership of huts in villages and the small cultivated plots immediately adjoining them. The consequence of this wholesale confiscation are thus described by the commission of inquiry: "As the greater portion of the land in the Congo region is not cultivated, the interpretation of the laws of the State an absolute and exclusive ownership over virtually the whole of the soil, with the result that it can itself dispose solely of all the products of the soil, prosecute as a poacher any one who takes from that soil the least of its fruits, or as a thief any one who takes the least of its celves such fruits, and finally it can forbid any one to establish himself on the greater part of the territory." The iniquity of this system will be patent when we recall that the Congo State practically depends for its financial existence on the exploitation of the rubber forests which cover a great part of its area. The National Review points out that for some years past more than 80 per cent. of the exports from the Congo have consisted solely of rubber; and as the natives have been robbed of all their rights and there is no legitimate incentive left to induce them to work. The State has been driven to fall back on forced labor and coercion of the most revolting character in order to secure the exploitation of the forest. What means are employed to raise coercion were set forth by M. Vanderveide in the Belgian Chamber of Deputies. The means are, first, the chicotte, or hippopotamus whip, which leaves bloody weals on the bodies of those upon whom it is used; secondly, servile labor imposed upon the chiefs; thirdly, the seizing of hostages, and, what is more terrible than all, the black soldiers of the force publique, whose intervention is indispensable to the working of the system. The report of the commission testifies that these black auxiliaries, especially those who are stationed in the villages, abuse the authority given to them, make themselves into despoils, and claim the woman and food, not only for themselves but for the bands of parasites and ruffians which the love of rapine associates with them; they kill without pity all individuals who attempt to withstand their exigencies and whims. The worst lot of all is that of the unfortunate natives of a village which offers resistance for the moment successful. Such a village becomes the victim of a so-called punitive expedition whose weapons are wholesale conflagration and massacre. The commission of inquiry was inclined to attribute the worst outrages to the absence of effective white supervision over the black troops. M. Lorand, however, a member of the Liberal party, was constrained to produce in the Chamber of Deputies the instructions sent by a commandant to a subordinate white official, who was ordered to inform the natives of a particular village that if they cut another rubber vine they would be exterminated to the last man. The report of the commission of inquiry itself showed that the blame for the frightful abuses should not be placed solely on secondary officials, but that higher authorities were involved. It acknowledged that the administration of justice in the Congo State has failed lamentably to exercise restraint on the perpetration of execrable crimes. The commission found that often prosecutions began against white men accused of ill treating natives had been quashed through administrative interference. As regards remedies, the commission of inquiry recommended a broad and liberal interpretation and application of the laws affecting land tenure, the enforcement of the law limiting the imposition of forced labor to forty hours a month, the suppression of the system of sentences and the carrying of arms by the black guards, the withdrawal from the trading companies of the right to employ coercion, the regulating of military expeditions, and the abolition of military interference with the judiciary. Practically nothing has been done by King Leopold to carry out these recommendations. The report was referred to a packed commission of fourteen members, nine of whom were officials of the incriminated administration or corporations. The sole outcome of this commission up to the present time has been a letter signed by three implicated members, in which the recommendations of the commission of inquiry are either ignored or whitted down or rendered illusory by conditions and reservations. As a matter of fact, the Congo State—which only by a ghastly misuse of language can be described as "Free"—has ceased to be a State in the ordinary acceptance of the term, and has become practically a huge "plantation," recklessly exploited, for King Leopold by methods which differ only in name from slave labor, and which are far more atrociously wasteful of human life than THE NEW YORK AGE: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20. WHITE ROSE Working Girls' Home 217 East 806th Street Between Second and Third Avenue. I am most temporary lodgings for working way that ever were followed in the British or Spanish West India. Experience has shown that nothing is in the way of amendment can be expected from the sovereign, to whom in 1863 the Berlin Conference imagistically conceded a private legal position in Central Africa. He is inscrivable by appeals to humanity and democracy. It remains to be seen how the Belgian Parliament will deal with him in the session now close at hand. If it fails to hold him to a strict account for the inquisition which he has upholded and by which he has precluded, it will remain for the civilized nation which took part in the Berlin Conference to act. As King Leopold was warned not long ago by a French Deputy belonging to the most conservative and enthousial wing of the Government party: "The day will come when the light of truth will be thrown upon the Congo and you will be plunged in darkness. For truth is comparable to steam, which when compromised acquires greater force. Beware of the explosion, for it will destroy you." NEGRO SAILLED WITH COLUMBUS. Historian of the Great Navigator Tullus of Diego, the Cahabian Boy. To the Editor of the New York Aux: The inquiry, as I understand it, is as to whether or not a Negro was included among those who accompanied Christopher Columbus upon his voyage of discovery. Columbus made four voyages to the New World, and each was a voyage of discovery, although it is to the first voyage that we generally apply the term. Upon the first voyage there was no Negro. I am aware that some have asserted that there was a Negro upon the eventful voyage when Columbus found the New World, but it is an erroneous impression and arose in this way: The pilot of the smallest of the three ships employed by Columbus was named Tero (or Pedro) Alonso Nino. This Nino in the year 1400-1500 went on a voyage to what now is the coast of Venezuela and on his return his adventures were written in the Venetian dialect, and to give the Spanish name "Nino" its proper sound in the Ventian dialect of the Italian tongue, the word was written "Nigno." The printer turned the word into Negro and from that time (1504, the date when the book was printed) the man was called "Alonso el Negro," or Alonso the Negro. But a Negro did accompany Christopher Columbus on his fourth voyage, which I consider next in importance to the first voyage, for it was on this voyage that the great sailor learned that his discovery was really a new world and not the shores of Ocathay. Sailing with Columbus on his own ship, the "Capitana," was Diego el Negro, or in English, James the Negro. He shipped in the capacity of cabin-boy, the ship sailing from Ocadis May 11, 1502. The records show that he escaped the perils of the sea and of the land (for not one of the four ships sailing on this voyage ever returned to Spain) and went with Columbus from the island of Jamaica, where their last ships were destroyed, to the island of Santa Domingo, where they arrived on August 13, 1504, but we do not know if Diego el Negro returned to Spain or cust his lot with the Spanish colony on the latter island. Thus, while history does not tell us of any of your race sailing with Columbus on his first voyage, it does assure us of the fact that a representative was with him on the important fourth and last expedition and rendered willing and faithful service to the greatest captain of his age or of any age. JOHN BORD THATCHER. December, 1909. FIREMEN HEROES From The Tuskegee Student At this time when we are hearing so much adverse criticism of the Negro, the following clipping from The Mobile (Ala.) Register (white) is of interest: "Captain Danner and his son, Mr. Paul Danner, manager, were called to the scene of the fire by telephone and on arrival at the Mobile Coal Company's property, assisted in organizing a fire fighting corps for the protection of the property. The fire was in the north, then to the west and then to the south, all at the same time, and the heat very great. The building and hoists caught fire a score of times, but the flames were fought and extinguished. It was a long and courageous fight, and was successful, as the valuable plant was saved. Captain Danner made this statement yesterday: "We are always talking about the Negroes and their shiftlessness, but I want it to be known that when the emergency came our Negroes were there; and that they worked with unflagging zeal and it was their work that saved the Mobile Coal Company's property. There were fifty or one hundred white men spectators, doing nothing to help, but these Negroes never held back a minute. Once there was a fence to be pulled down because it was aiding the spread of the flames. It was a hot situation. I asked the white men to help, they did not respond. I sent the Negroes in and they pulled the fence down. There was one Negro who stood on the trestle, using the hose, and with much discretion, too. He stayed there all through the fire, and at times was in danger of his life. I say these things because they ought to be known. They are a credit to the colored race." Saved Their Money and Go Into Business. Messers, I. L. and W. H. Poddrew, two Afro-American young men well known in New York city, are soon to leave for their home in Summerville, S. C., where they have purchased and will operate a back and conveyance service. The former, I. L. Poddrew, has been employed as valet and hallway in New York for the past six years. Mr. W. H. Poddrew has lived in Buffalo for the past three years. They have saved money and are now ready to enter their own business. The resolutions were written and read by Mr. William Dillon, a relation of the famous Irish family of that name. The whole effect of the meeting showed how impossible as well as shameful and shallow were the shrieking fears of Tillman. Those scores of splendid Chicago men, not only did that in heat in the city, not only confessed to abuse of shame in their unavoidable race kinship to the Carolina Senator but pledged themselves and all that belonged to them in behalf of a more coral and Christian-like relationship between the best of both races. RUB-AWAY Rheumatism and all Palms LAWMAN'S RHEUMATIC OINTMENT The Greatest Pain Allayer on Earth Instantly cures pain of all kinds, such as Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Toothache, Lumbago, Scoliatics, Sore Throat, Cockle on Chest, and all superficial pains. Once used you will never be without it; worth ten times the price asked. 25c. at druggists or by mail. HOWARTH PHARMACAL CO. 1784 AMSTERDAM AVENUE Dept 5 NEW-YORK. dec 13-38 Atlantic Servants' Exchange Colored Help a Specialty. @ WEST 18th STREET. Near Fifth Ava. NEW YORK CITY sep 27 Sm. CLAYTON'S EXPRESS and Moring Years Trunks, Plates and Furniture Carefully Removed. R. Lee Clayton, Owner, T. C. Newlett, Manager 809-129-129 DOING BUSINESS AT THE OLD STAND Telephone, 1887 Hartland OHIO VAN COMPANY SUCCESSORS TO THE J. AIKEN MOVING VAN CO. Licensed Plano Holsting. Furniture removed to City or Country. Packing. Boxing. Bin-liner Storage with care. Shipment. Bottle Storage. Office No. 1 W. 114th St. cor. Fifth Ave. New York. F. WISE, Preprior. nov 15 3m TO LET Two and three room flats for respectable colored tenants. Two rooms $9.00, three rooms $11.00. Apply to Janitor on premises nov 22 3m SCRIPTURE FOR THE PRESIDENT. A Woman Thinks Matterers Must Get Worse Before They Get Better. To the Editor of the NEW YORK AGE: Many things have been said about the President's treatment of the soldiers of the 25th United States Infantry, but many of these things have not been well or wisely said. The impulsive Roosevelt has repudiated the soldier murderer, and has cast him out. What did he say to their accusers who cast the first stone? The tell-tale newspapers tell us that these most outrageous crimes, lynchings, murders and burnings at the stake are committed by gentlemen murderers, the best citizens of the city, town or state in which they are perpetrated. When these gentlemen murderers took their oaths they were taken away when the oaths as did these soldiers when they took their oaths of allegiance to protect lives and property to the best of their ability? I have in mind now a sheriff, who, while he was on trial for being involved in one of these murder cases in Chattanooga, was received with open hands (and I might say with open heart) by the man who repudiates murder and stands at the head of this most glorious country. One might say that the sheriff had not been, but rather that he was guilty; this offense; but neither have these soldiers been proven guilty. Now, Mr. Roosevelt, please repudiate the gentleman murderer. God is just. He asks us to be patient in our long sufferings, and says "vengeance is mine. I will repay." We are long sufferers, without a doubt, but I question whether we are as patient as God would have us be. Black in itself is a crime, and that makes our long sufferings hard to bear. But about so-called rededication of America to the patient and peaceful, and remember that silence is golden. In the 12th Chapter of Acts, the 21st verse, says "Upon a set day King Herod, arrayed in royal apparent, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto his people;" and the 22d verse says; "Immediately angel of the Lord smote him, and he was eaten of worms." I hope that this will not happen to Mr. Roosevelt, because upon a set day (the 23rd verse) upon his people his decision in regard to the soldiers of the 25th United States Infantry." In dealing with the black man most people do not realize that he can be white on the inside; in fact, I would vouchease to say that the majority of them are white on the inside. 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The Republican party in Cook county, Ill., depends very largely upon the Afro-American voters for any success it may have in any appeal it makes for the suffrages of the people; because of this fact, and the further fact that the Afro-Americans of Cook county know what they want and ask and fight for it, the Republican party has in past years placed an Afro-American on the elective ticket for one or more of the high and responsible positions in the gift of the people. The Chicago correspondent of The Portland (Oregon) New Age has the following to say about the outcome of the recent election in Cook county: Mr. George DePriest, a colored man, who was elected county commissioner on the county ticket pulled through by a small majority. He was knifed at the polls by a large majority of colored voters because he is very unpopular in this city, and the Republican party has got through putting such unpopular people on the ticket. Mr. F. L. Barnett, another very unpopular colored man in Chicago, who was one of the candidates for municipal court judge, was defeated by a thousand votes. A large number of prominent colored men worked against him at the polls as well as a large number of white men. It is no doubt that he owes his defeat to the strong and bitter opposition that was made against him at the polls by a large number of prominent colored men in this city. Now, the discouraging thing about this statement of the case is that, in the main, it is true. It has happened before in Chicago, and it will probably happen again. But why should it happen? What is at the bottom of the cur-dog disposition among Afro-Americans all over the country not to let the other fellow have a good thing even when they cannot get it themselves? Mr. Barnett rendered the Afro-American people of Chicago good and valuable service as editor of The Conservator in other days, when it was a real newspaper and not a mud churn, and he has been an Assistant State's Attorney for many years, and is still one. He has faults and has made mistakes, as most men have, but his good abilities and qualities outweigh his mistakes and bad qualities, and he should have had the honest support of all the Afro-Americans of Cook county, who have no representative on the judiciary of the county. Nominations on Republican tickets are hard to secure. If we continue to knife our men when they are nominated it will become harder still to secure such nominations. Those who make up party tickets seek for strength, not weakness, in the personnel of them. Afro-Americans do not seem to realize this fact. The Church And Politics. Should the churches take an active interest in political affairs as the saloons do, and seek to obtain the legislation that they think to be wise and good? There should be an affirmative answer to this proposition, if the activity of the saloon and other evil influences in our political life is accepted as reasonable and fair; but experience has shown that mankind have given a negative answer to it, in ancient and modern times, because the church, like the saloon, is dominated by mere men, and mere men, however good and disinterested their motives, remain mere men, and when they get the advantage use it as mere men. At any rate, the Confederation of Evangelical Church Clubs, in Greater New York, is to be formed for the purpose of "advancing Christian citizenship, as against partisanship," and will seek to send representatives to Albany and Washington when it is deemed necessary to secure, through legislation, the accomplishment of the objects of the Confederation. It appears to us that this movement will not commend itself to the American people at a time when the German Reichstag has been dissolved by the Kaiser because of the defeat of the Government's policy to hold and extend its influence in German Southwest Africa by a combination of the clerical and socialist vote in the Reichstag, and provoking the threat that the government may take measures to lessen the influence of the Catholics in politics; when the French government is proceeding vigorously with the execution of the policy to separate entirely, the church from the State, placing the Catholic church upon the same footing in the State as the Protestant and other church denominations; and when the Italian and Spanish governments are seeking a way to do likewise. Indeed, there is a tendency in every direction to divorce religion and politics as much as possible. Much of the trouble which now and for some time has convulsed the Russian government is traceable to the alliance of the church and State. The framers of the American Constitution very wisely decreed a separation of church and State while guaranteeing freedom of religious opinion, and in times past the people of New York have stoutly resisted the influence of the Catholic church in politics, even though there was no open alliance between the two. It cannot be reasonably claimed that the religious forces behind Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst have lifted themselves in public calimation or accomplished much for social purity or reformation of police department abuser by their sort of incidental political activity. The activity of the Morning Church in politics has provoked in the Republic, as we have observed, it during the past quarter of a century. They meant well enough, but there is a well-defined prejudice among the people that the preachers should stick to their religious work and leave political work to others. The preacher who teaches civic righteousness from his pulpit, without feeding partisan politics into his teaching, will always command public respect and confidence. Judging by the past, then, and, the present tendency all over the world against clerical activity in politics, it is a fair conclusion that the Confederation of Evangelical Clubs of Greater New York has a stormy future before it in politics, and that before it gets through with the undertaking it will wish that it had left the job alone. --- Are Afro-Americans a Sick Race? The man who has a grievance is apt to forget all of the substantial blessings he enjoys and constantly lay stress upon his grievance. Sometimes people listen for awhile patiently, and then they tire of the iteration of the thing and shun the person, on the theory that they "have troubles of their own." As it is, with an individual so it is with a state or race; and this will become pronounced, and the aggrieved be left all the more to flock by himself or themselves if proper effort on their part be not made-to counteract the grievance. A good friend of ours, T. McCanta Stewart, used often to quote the following lines, with a sigh: For every cell under the sun There is a remedy, or there is none: But, if there is none, then, don't mind it. The lines are rugged, but they convey a very great truth, by which those who follow it out greatly benefit, be it a person or a race or a state. Mapkind admires those and gives them its sympathy who do all that they can to overcome the disadvantages under which they labor, who minimize rather than maximize the grievances they have, who resolutely refuse to allow others to do for them the things that they can and should do for themselves, and who, whatever the ills they have, still look the world squarely in the face and smile bravely, even through tears, in the determination to fight valiantly and deserve success and sympathy, whether they succeed or fail. We would not be understood as discouraging that seriousness which is inseparable from responsibility; we would but emphasize the necessity of self-reliance, of not forgetting all other blessings because of one grievance, or many; for, in our condition of society, in many respects the best in the world, there are few people who have not more blessings than misfortunes to their credit, and who have not themselves to blame for the misfortunes that they have, and which they can overcome of themselves if they will but act wisely and resolutely. For more than thirty years of freedom and citizenship the Afro-American people have been a sick people in all the important matters of life and living. Legislatures, State and Federal, and individuals have been constantly concerned in doctoring them in one way and another, striving to get the dear invalid on their feet, but they refused to get well. Wherever they gather together—in social life, in fraternal organizations, in church, in conventions—the grievances they have as individuals or as a race are the burden of their conversation or "few brief remarks," or frenzied orations, or prayers to Him who helps those who help themselves, and who leaves to the Devil those who idly "wait" upon Him or other forces to help them. In these conversations and orations and prayers of the head the brave promptings of the heart are awallowed up or pushed into the background as insufficient to lean upon "in times of trials and tribulations." They have not allowed the world to forget that they are a sick race by their incessant wail of sorrow and despair. Mankind at large are beginning to believe that we are a sick race, with some possibility of not getting well, and therefore not a good race in which to invest sympathy or capital. A distinguished reader of THE AGE has sent us the following remarks upon the subject, which our readers will find instructive if not edifying: The more I think of it the more I am sure that the very best service you can render the race is to use the influence of your newspaper in the advocacy of constructive work for the race. We spend too much time in chronicleing our small tills, and in complaining of our wrongs. I fully agree with you in your feeling of disgust because of the wrongs inflicted upon us, but, in my opinion, the way to cure them is to follow the example of the Jews and the other persecuted races; that is, to push forward commercial, educational and other interests in such a way that they will overshadow the wrongs of the race. For example, almost every convention or meeting of any character that is held by Afro-Americans is for the purpose of "indignating" or passing resolutions to condemn something. Before long we will acquire the reputation of being a race that is continually whining and crying, and then the world will shun us. I wish Turk Aye would become so strong an advocate in our matter that it could influence our people to acquire in the habit of calling commercial conventions in all our cities for the purpose of advancing their material interests, instead of always advertising their sickness and other troubles to the world. We have striven to give both sides of the shield in our editorial work during the past quarter of century, and it may be that we have laid more stress upon the grievances that we have than the benefits we enjoy and the opportunities we have, but do not always avail ourselves of. We have not, however, intended to do this; we have simply "caught the manners living as they rise" in the effort to counteract the tide of adversity which has flowed in upon the race in certain directions; ignoring the fact, perhaps, that a river can rise no higher than its source, that a people are the architects of their own fortunes, and that in case that there may be shaped for the whisk and the long people must put forth a self-windmill and self-dispersence and chemical voyage which turn chemically into stealing atoms to higher things. It is never too late to mind; it is never, evidence of weakness or vaccination to admit error and to seek to correct it. And we shall strive in the future to cleave closer to the lines indicated by our correspondent, because the wisdom of his suggestions commends itself to us as we feel that it must to the readers of THE AOK. Let the Afro-American people show in their words and acts that they are not a sick people, but a people full of health and vigor of mind and of body, and determined to make the most of the citizenship and opportunities which their fellow-citizens possess equally with them; nor is it necessary in the least to cease a manly contention, a determined protest, against what is wrong. But let us picture as well the progress we are making in all directions, exalting these as justification for better and juster consideration of us and a giving to us a more equal and generous chance in the race of life. We are not a sick race. There is evidence on every hand that we are healthy of mind and of body and that we are strictly in the splendid American movement of intellectual, moral and material advancement; then let us show in word and speech more and more that this is the case, which cannot be disputed successfully, and the world will think better of us and be disposed more than ever to sympathize with and assist us in all of our good and honest efforts. Cash for the Cause of the Soldiers. Cash for the Cause of the Soldiers. It is highly probable that neither President Roosevelt nor the Federal Congress will take any action that will restore to the army the discharged battalion of the Twenty-fifth Infantry. The President is not given to backing down when he has taken a position, and the Republican Congressional majority is not likely to come to a rupture with him by voting to reverse his order, even if it should be found to have power to do so. It is probable that the discharged men will not have a fair interpretation of their rights in the premises, as to the law, the equities and the facts, outside of the courts. We should begin now, then, to get together the money necessary to prosecute the matter in the courts. Law is a tedious and expensive thing. The fact that the President has ordered that Major Penrose and Captain Macklin of the Twenty-fifth Infantry be court-martialed for neglect of duty in connection with the Brownville fracas should materially affect the case of the discharged soldiers, as the fact of the fracas and the participation of the soldiers in it are accepted by the President and the War Department, and must necessarily be comprehended in the investigation of the court-martial. The fact of the fracas, however, and the participation of the soldiers in it, as well as the provocation leading up to it, which has been questioned, should be something investigated by the court martial or a congressional committee. But the possible failure of all the agencies at work to get at the facts or to benefit the discharged soldiers will still leave the courts open to them, and that procedure, if resorted to, will cost a lot of money. This money should be raised to meet the emergency when it arises. All of the existing agencies for the establishment of the facts and for a vindication of the truth should be exhausted. Vagarics of Vagrant Laws. There is a concerted howl all along the line in the Southern States for the adoption and enforcement of vagrant laws; that is, laws to make people work who do not need to work or who do not care to work, provided the people are black and yellow, for such laws are never intended to cover white men. Georgia has a vagrant law. There are very few mean things to oppress and suppress the rights and the manhood of the Afro-American people which Georgia has not formulated into laws. That is the nature of the beast. The Atlanta Constitution recently carried a cartoon which illustrates the workings of the Georgia vagrant law, as far as Atlanta is concerned. An Afro-American dressed in the latest fashion, in loud clothes, a real dandy in makeup, a "gent" of leisure, is shown taking it easy in one picture; then, when the police got after him, he is shown, in another picture, in overalls and with the tools of an honest son of toil, whom the police will not readily suspect, pursuing still his life of lordly leisure. That sort of subterfuge, any Afro-American dressed in fine rament, with or without visible means of support, and with no signs of toil or soil about him, makes the brains of The Atlanta Constitution tired. If all Afro-Americans were clothed in overalls and had implements of toil in their hands, the brains of The Atlanta Constitution would be happy in all of their anatomy. They would then have the Afro-American in what they consider as "his place," a "hewer of wood and drawer of water." We are opposed to these vagrant laws, because they are intended for black men and not for white men; and because it is not the prerogative of government to make people work if they do not want to work or do not need to work, or to compel them to prove that they do work or do not need to work. If a man prefers a life of leisure, and can afford or manage to have his preference, the government, the State has nothing to do with it. The power of the State affects him only, and only, when, in the effort to maintain his life of leisure he includes the rights of others and commits crime. As long as he commits no crime, as long as he attends to his own business and does not invade the rights of his fellow citizens, the State has no right to interfere with him. Every man should work and have visible means of support; if he does not work and has no visible means of support, the State has no right to introduce with him unless he reintroduces the rights of others. The much government is so bad as no government. We Humphreys Dr. Morriss' Position. A short while ago we referred briefly to the declaration made by Rev. Charles B. Morriss, D. D., of New York City, in a public address that he was done with fighting members of the Afro-American race, and that, instead, in the future, he would devote his time and thought to building up the fortunes of the race and to defending it from those who were seeking to defame and tear it down. We refer to the matter again, not to bring Dr. Morriss into prominence, it is not necessary that we should do that, but to emphasise the lesson contained in his declaration which it is so necessary for the race throughout the country to appreciate and to act upon in good faith. In the present condition of affairs it takes a man of great courage and generosity to take the position that Dr. Morris has taken, because the requirements are' no great and urgent. The fortunes of the Afro-American people at this time call loudly upon their men of brains and character to get together and stand together for the common good. There is no escaping this fact. There are a great many Afro-Americans, we regret to say, going up and down the country declaring that they are interested in the race and are willing to do anything they can for it; but when it comes to a question of putting their declarations in practice they fail very generally to do it. And it should not be overlooked, in this connection, that there is a class of white people who find it to their advantage to keep the Afro-American people divided in thought and act, and in a condition of hysteria, who need to be watched and restrained as much as possible. Dr. Morris has shown himself to be a strong man, with the courage of strength, the sort of man the Afro-American people should heed and follow, and we believe that they will do so. The Demoralized Democratic Party The Southern Democrats have been clamoring for a Presidential candidate two years hence who shall be a Southern man, and we have been hoping that they would get what they want, because we believe that there would be nothing easier under the sun to knock the bottom from under. If there is a genuine Southern stateman anywhere in the South who measures up to Presidential size we do not know of him. The whole of them are tainted with the heresies in our politics which the people have been walloping at the polls for fifty years, and will keep on walloping, unless there is a radical change in the mongrel breed of Southern statesmanship. There has been some talk of late about Woodrow Wilson as the possible candidate of the Democratic party. He would be formidable, but as far as an Afro-Americans and their interests are concerned we should just as well have Hoke Smith or James K. Vardaman in the White House, for, although he is President of Princeton University, he is a Southern man with the prejudices of race of Southern men. He is clean enough in other respects, but it is doubtful if Hearest and Bryan would allow him to be nominated, and what they say will very likely go at the next Democratic convention. If the Democratic party had any sense if it were not a chronic fool and jester in politics, it would nominate William L. Douglas of Massachusetts for President and Joseph W. Folk of Missouri for Vice President, on this platform: A tariff for revenue, with incidental protection; equal rights for all, special privileges for none; turn the rascals out and give the grafters of all sorts the full limit of the law. This would be a ticket and a platform which would commend itself to the American people. But the Democrats will very probably nominate two demagogues, as usual, on a platform of bluff, asininity and insanity, which the decent voters of the country cannot support. Why don't the Democratic party die, anyhow? --- Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who has brains in his head and character in his backbone, as well as more American Eagle than he can count, is the happy possessor, also, of a Bible class. The class had its tenth annual banquet in New York last week, at which feed-water held the thirst of the participants steady to their feet. Mr. Rockefeller explained the matter in this wise: "To drink a glass of beer is not in itself more harmful than to eat some kind of indigestible food. The single action is not a sin, but it is the abuse that the first glass leads to that is the sin. I believe not only in temperance but in total abstinence, and this for two reasons. First, because both my father and his father, as well as my mother's father, were strictly temperate; second, my mature judgment is that while there may be no harm in one glass, that one glass may lead on to more. Therefore, I say that one glass is one too many." If everybody could look at the matter in this philosophical way there would at once be a great deal more happiness and prosperity in the world; and it would be a great gain to right living if the sale of all liquors, except for medicinal purposes, were prohibited by law. The age of poetry has been submerged in the flood of prose; thought upon material things has taken the place of thought upon ideal things; we no longer live in the clouds but upon the earth; and sentiments of generosity and tenderness have given place to sentiments of selfishness and condescension. And yet the moderns imagine that they possess more culture and refinement than the Greeks, who excelled in poetry and art. Congress has decided that it will not tolerate the simplified spelling movement, but it is announced, President Goosevelt will stick to the movement and spell as he pleases. So, we presume, will Mr. Andrew Carnegie, Professor Brander Matthews, and others who are stuck on the innovation. And the movement for the gradual simplification of the spelling of certain words in the language will continue, as it has done, until we reach as near perfection as it is possible to do it. A great many correspondents of The Ace have a system of spelling IN THE PUBLIC MRS. MAGGIE WALKER. PRESIDENT OF ST. LUKE'S BANK, RICHMOND, VA. of their own, which conforms to no rule, and which often puts us to our trumps to find out what they are driving at. a barn door ten miles away wit the barn. Secretary of War Mr. Willis NOTE AND COMMENT BY BISHOP J. W. SMITH Former Editor of The Star of Sien Pays His Respects to President Roosevelt, Secretary Taft and Congressman Slayden. WASHINGTON, December 15.—The blue streaks of lightning and muttering thunders of indignation, occasioned by the dismissal without honor of the three Negro companies of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, because some were charged with outbreaks at Brownsville, Texas, last August, refuse to be silent and depart at the bidding of President Roosevelt. They, like him, can rough ride, too. In his forceful discussion of lynching in his annual message to Congress, the President does not think it right for the innocent to suffer with the guilty. And yet in his dismissal of those black troops from the United States army he seems to think the other way; for the innocent were punished with the guilty. They all looked alike to him. In preaching one thing about the "open door" and "square deal" in the matter of human and civil rights, and practicing the opposite, the President seems to have forgotten that familiar maxim, "Consistency, then art a jewel," or the words of the blessed Christ, who said, "But let your communication be, Ye, ye, ye; Nay, nay; for whatever is more than these someth of evil." When an eminent leader and moulder of public thought loudly and courageously becomes the foremost champion of these fundamental questions that stir the world, he ought to know that the world will watch with an eagle or serpent eye and score him very severely if his precept and example become extraordinary. It was Cato the Elder who said, "Honorable actions ought to succeed honorable sayings, lost they lose their reputation." While nearly every prominent newspaper in the North has been industriously broiling the President on the gridiron for the ugly way he has treated the colored soldiers, nearly every prominent newspaper in the South, while voicoforously applauding him, has been cunning a fine tooth comb through the country to find a precedent to justify his marvelous and extraordinary performance. Imagining that a precedent or corker has been unearthied, The Charleston News and Courier tries to go into costumes and hysterical screams that in October, 1864, General Robert E. Lee of the Confederate army ordered a whole battalion of his army to give up its colors, march to the rear and be dismissed in shame and disgrace "for cowardly conduct on the battlefield from Gettysburg," and as "unworthy a place as an organization in the Army of Northern Virginia." Gen. Lee, in his order, is quoted as saying, "The general commanding the Army of Northern Virgina! a regrets that there are some brave officers and men belonging to this organization who must share in this common disgrace, but the good of the service requires it, and they must bear it as brave soldiers." The laughable and reprehensible thing that this wonderfully little historic item handed out by The News and Courier is that it abrewdly falls to sell the name of this battalion and the nature of the conduct of which it was so guilty. Were these white troops guilty of leaving the battlefield in the day or at night and going into towna shooting white or black people? Did the innocent and loyal soldiers who stayed on duty or in their tents refuse to squelch on these rowdies when the matter was investigated? If Mr. Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States and the commanding general of the army in gray, take unto himself the authority to dismiss this battalion instead of leaving it to Gen. Lee? Until these points are made clear, those citizens of the country that believe in justice will give only a contemptuous smile and pay no attention to the frantic warrials and torgiverations of The News and Courier, of which they are well acquainted by now. If Gen. Lee did dismiss the innocent with the guilty, he like Mr. Roosecelli, did wrong; and two wrongs do not make one right, even if they are committed, one by a President and the other by a general. If the editor of that South Carolina newspaper cannot yet see that the two cases in point are not identical, he must have a peculiar intellect and vision which will cause him to see a fly on a barn door ten miles away without seeing the barn. Secretary of War Mr. William H. Taft, seeing that the President has stirred up a fierce hornets' nest because of his quarerious towards the colored troops, who not only fought at their country's call but also helped to save from Spanish bullets the of the very man who now dismisses th, without honor, and that the hornets' a, hard to kill, last week rushed to the rescue of his beloved chief and gave both to the associate press and Congress his answer, in which he sternly excoriates and heartily approves of the Presiden, course. The Secretary, a lawyer, knowing that the law presumes every man innocent until he is proven guilty by sufficient evidence, losing sight of that fact while working his brains for conclusions and providing his pen, determines that the man who dui the shooting are guilty of murder in the first degree, and that their comrades who were not actually involved were engaged in a conspiracy to shield the criminals. He says it is virtually treason; that both crimes are capital offences. All this is cruelly said in the face of the fact that there were men in the Infantry who sword that they were not in the raid and know not the guilty ones. That there were innocent men in the battalion the Secretary of War somewhat admits; for in his report he says: "It may be that in the battalion are a number of men wholly innocent, who know neither who the guilty men are nor circumstances which will aid in their detection." And get these innocent soldiers, spoken of here by Secretary Taft, with honorable records of many years best bet them which would have entitled them to pensions and a place in the Soldier's Home when they had reached the age limit and would be honorably mustered out, are kicked without a trial of any kind out of the army without honor and with a forfeiture of these rewards that await them, is this just to the innocent? Justice is justice, but this is not, particularly to veterans who in time of peace or war never deserted or disgraced the American color. Somebody has made a cruel blunder, and it is hoped that Congress, led on by the gallant Senator J. B. Foraker, which proposes to consider the question not from a racial but from a constitutional standpoint, will and the blunderer to see if he were guilty of grotesque and contemptible abuse of power. If the President has power to dismine these companies of soldiers, he has power to dismiss the entire United States army. It will be a positive misfortune should justice be defeated in this matter. It is hoped that Congress will not retire, except in good order, until every inch of ground is contested, constitutionally. Whenever some little backwoodsman possesses more egosim, prejudice and Negrophobia than brains and common sense comes to Congress from the South and finds that he cannot, like the eminent statesmen of the past and present, win National fame discussing great questions, he becomes disappointed and feels it his paramount business to jump with both pedals on the poor, struggling Negro. He lashes himself into an unnecessary foam while billingigate nozes from his lips in traducing and vilifying the Negro race. Representative Shayden of Texas, tickled over the blows that the President and Secretary Taft have dealt the colored soldiers, has introduced a bill in Congress to discontinue the enlistment of Negroes in the army. Did ever arrogance and erroneity go further? This Nation may be a fool at times, but it will never be fool enough to pass a bill preventing the Negro from enlisting, especially when there are so many wars and rumors of war going on. This Nation from past wars knows full the value of the colored troops, and the infamous bill will pass when chickens have teeth and elephants have wings to fly. While the Negro is patriotic and ready to fight and die for his country, if the white people desire to excuse him and have their bodies plugged and bored with hot lead, let them drive on. The day they go to war without the Negro will be the day when the enemy will make them either bite the dust or run out to the rear that their swallow costtails will become almost invisible. Gen. Sherman once said, "War is hell." That's the very thing the American white man does not want. Will one who wears pants quietly call Mr. Shayden aside in a corner and whisper in his ears that for this reason he had better pigment-hole his bill, as it will not pass?