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In Washington Mines Note of the First That This Is Outdoor-Sitting Time When Our Parmaite Move Boops of Money and Spend Moneys, and Given Them Some Good Advice Through The Age—Advocates Better Schools and Wants Southern Whites Recouraged to Take More Interest in Ridges of the Races. TOUGHNESS INSTITUTE, Ala., December 20.—There are certain matters of vital interest to the masses of our people in the South, especially at the present time, when they are getting money from the year's crops, which I wish, through the medium of your paper, to call to their attention. If these matters are not called to the attention of our people now while they have money in hand, it will be too late for them to secure any benefit from the suggestions herein outlined: In many cases, during the months of November and December, our people receive and spend thousands of dollars. In many cases this money is worse than thrown away. My object in writing thus directly and frankly to our people is to help lead them to spend their money in a way that will be of permanent benefit to the entire race. I know that there are many other elements in our present condition that very much concern us, and rightly so, but we can succeed in no line of endeavor, materially, educationally, morally, religiously, or in civil life, unless the fundamentals exist. Eight-five per cent. of our people in the lower part of the South reside in the country districts. An examination will show that in many cases while the public schools are in session in the cities and larger towns in the country districts, in many cases, our people have elected school facilities. If we fail to educate our children there will be no hope for us in any line of endeavor. We must keep constantly before the race the importance of educating the masses of our young people. Comparatively few can go to the large colleges, universities and industrial schools. If the average boy and girl does not receive education in the country schools will suffer. At any cost, our lender should see to it that every cent of money is secured from the public school authorities in the country, but be secured to make the public school what it should be, our people should go into their own pocket and tax themselves in their own supplement, the extent of the public school to the extent that every school shall be in session at least six or eight months out of every year. In many cases at present, in the country districts, the public school is in session only three or five months. This means almost nothing in the way of educating the entire race. We will go backward at this rate instead of forward. It is not enough in that way for our children to fulfill the public school fund. Wherever this is true, we should make complaint and secure, as far as possible, whatever is due us; but, at the same time, if we do not receive what is due us, we should not let our children grow up in ignorance. We will never be forged for such neglect if this is permitted. Not only it is important that the school term in every community be extended to six or eight months, but it is equally important that every community have a good, comfortable school house. In many cases the school that our children are being broken down in the child care or broken down, uncomfortable houses that are not fit for cours to live in. The school houses in many of the country districts are a disgrace. Our leaders in these communities should see to it that our people are enraged to come together and erect good, decent, comfortable school houses. Another element in the situation that often hinders the progress of the public school is that we let the denominational spirit enter into the public school education of the children. There should be no place in the public school system for this spirit. The teacher is not expected to teach the spirit of the Presbyterian doctrine. The harm of denominational contention is often shown in the fact that in many communities there will be a Baptist school, a Zion Methodist school and an African Methodist school, each with a teacher of his own denomination. This means three poor schools that ought to be united in one first-class school, where the question of denomination would not enter. We must have a great forward movement in the matter of every part of the South in the matter of public school education for our people, and we depend upon the minister, the teacher and the parents to take the lead in this respect. I know many communities where school farms have been cultivated by parents, teachers and children, so that the school term might be extended to six or eight months. If communities have not the cash with which to extend the school term, they can raise cotton or some other crop to answer the same purpose. Ignorance always invites injustice. Ignorance, in the last analysis, means inefficiency and crime. Ignorance strikes at the very heart of the race. So interests of the race may perhaps be positioned but in the matter of educating our children, it is now or never. We are to decide now whether we shall have an ignorant generation or an intelligent one. In addressing this letter to the Negro people of the South, I cannot omit one other suggestion. I believe that nearly every community in the South will be greatly helped if the ministers would resume the habit which existed some years ago, of inviting their white brother miniatur to preach as often as possible in Negro pubs. In this way the leaders of the white people would come into contact with the progress of our people, come into contact with the men of the community, who would let the white people see the progress we are making, and they would also come into contact with our needs; and since the interests of the two races are so deeply connected, this kind of cooperation would go far in maintaining peace, happiness and justice in every community. I should advise that not only the white ministers be invited to speak from our pubs, but whenever it is thought wise, some of the leading public men who are either municipal, county, or state officer, should be led to come among our people and address, so that they, too, may and to come among our people and addressems, so that they, too, may avail themselves at the service 'me they can hear from us in and conditions are. "BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA." Nothing is ever gained by getting discouraged, by sitting down, crying or whining. The race, like an individual, that succeeds is the race that is determined never to become discouraged, but is constantly going forward in making material, educational, moral and religious progress. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. A Call to Celebrate It January 1, 1897. To Afro-Americans throughout the world: We are approaching the forty-third anniversary of the imance of the Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln, and we believe that it ought to be more generally observed than heretofore. It is right and proper that we should lay aside the ordinary duties of life, and don our best clothes, congregate in our churches and halls and show to the world our appreciation of the greatest boon which has ever come to us as a race of people—our freedom. When we do so we, but follow in the wake of the patriotic and aggressive people of all nations. The ancient Jew took delight in commemorating his deliverance from Egyptian bondage. The Greeks celebrated their most illustrious events by the Olympian games which became famous the world over. The Romans too delight in celebrating the founding of Rome. The English celebrate the wrestling of Magna Charta of King John (1215). The French celebrate the fall of the Rastile; Germany the founding of the Empire under the Iron Chancellor, Rismarek. We, of America, about ourselves hone on the 4th of July, because we had courage, grit, and endurance enough to throw off the British yoke, under the masterful leadership of George Washington, the Father of our Country. Should Afro-Americans fail to assemble on the birthday of their freedom and with the power of their magnificent issuance of their Magna Charta would show themselves lacking in appreciation of the great gift bestowed upon them. It is meet and proper that we should assemble and seize the achievements of the past forty-two years. Let the world know of the progress we have made along moral and religious lines, for we are not a race of criminals, as some in high places are striving to make the thousand and thousand. This is evidenced by the intelligent, honest, sober and law-abiding citizens that to be seen everywhere, who have the confidence and respect of both white and black. We should tell of our material progress, as is shown by the accumulation of personal and real property to the amount of more than a $1,000,000,000. We should proclaim to the world our educational progress, tell the world our educational progress than per cent, of our illiteracy and should cry aloud against the injustices that are being perpetrated against us by the enactment of "Jim Crow" car and disfranchisement laws on the part of the South. We should let the world know what an injustice has been done the race by the dismissal and condemnation of innocent Negro soldiers without "due process of law"—men who have for years been denied the right to vote and honor of the country. Let us swank of our wrongs until they are righted. We should pass resolutions thanking our friends, North and South, for the encouragement and aid given us. We correctly appeal to the churches and societies, benevolent and otherwise, to take a collection, and let it be a creditable contribution, to help the Afro-American Council to prosecute its work. Send the amount collected to the Hon J. C. Napier, president of the Penny Savings Bank, Nashville, Tenn. It requires money if we would fight our enemies powerfully, honoring every member of the race should contribute something towards our Expense fund. We evoke upon all men everywhere the blessings of Almighty God. A. WALTERS. President National Afro-American Council. L. G. Jordan, Corresponding Secretary Jersey City, N. J., December 24, 1906 A Washington Lied Killed by Auto-mobile WANTINGTON, December 20. — Joseph Leiter's sixty home-power automobile accidentally ran down and instantly killed Samuel West, a 14-year-old Afro-American boy, and Mrs. Leiter asked the parents nearly identical names, parents had been found, expressing a desire to do whatever they could to help them. TWENTY THOUSAND LABORERS DIGGING THE PANAMA CANAL Afro-Americanism Not In It—West Indiana Descended a Culture—Chinese to be Tried—Spaniards. In his message to Congress on the Panama Canal President Roosevelt had the following to say of the manual labor force, its efficiency, housing, food, and the like: Of the nineteen or twenty thousand day laborers employed on the canal, a few hundred are Spaniards. Those do excellent work. Their foremen told me that they did it twice as well as the West India laborers. They keep healthy and no difficulty is experienced with them in any way. Some Italian laborers are also employed in connection with the drilling. As might be expected, with labor as high priced as at present in the United States, it has not so far proved practicable to get any ordinary laborers from the United States. The American wageworkers on the Isthmus are the highly paid; skilled mechanics of the types mentioned previously. A steady effort is being made to secure Italian, and especially to procure more Spaniards, because of the very satisfactory results that have come from their employment; and their numbers will be increased as far as possible. It has not proved possible, however, to get them in anything like the numbers needed for the work of the main occupation, in the main to rely for the ordinary unskilled work, partly upon colored laborers from the West Indies, partly upon Chinese labor. It certainly ought to be unnecessary to point out that the American workers man in the United States has no concern whatever in the question as to whether the rough work on the Isthmus, which is performed by aliens in any event, is done by aliens from one country, from another country with a knowledge of one business is to dig the canal as efficiently and as quickly as possible; provides always that nothing is done that is humane to any laborers, and nothing that interferes with the wages or lower the standard of living of our own workmen. Having in view this principle, I have arranged to try several thousand Chinese laborers. This is desirable both for the laborers and for the laborers are most efficient, and furthermore, because we should not leave ourselves at the mercy of any one type of foreign labor. At present the great bulk of the unskilled labor on the Isthmus is done by West India Negroes, chiefly from Jamaica, Barbados, and the other English possessions. One of the governors of the lands in question has shown an unfriendly disposition to the laborers in the way of our getting the labor needed; and it is highly undesirable to give any outsiders the impression, however ill-founded, that they are indispensable and can dictate terms to us. The West India laborers are fairly but only fairly, satisfactory. Some of the men do very well indeed; the better class, who are to be found as formers, as skilled mechanics, as policemen, are good men; and many of the ordinary day laborers are also good. But though those who are brought over under contract (or our guardians into the jungle to live, or loaf around Colon, or work so badly after the first three or four days as to cause a serious diminution of the amount of labor performed on Friday and Saturday of each week. I questioned many of these Jamaica laborers as to the conditions of their work and what, if any; changes they wished. I received many complaints from them and we regard most of these complaints they themselves traded one another. In all cases the complaint was as to their treatment by any individual it proved on examination that this individual was himself a West India man of color, either a policeman, a storekeeper, or an assistant storekeeper. Doubled there must be many complaints against Americans; but those to whom I spoke did happen to make any such complaint to the police housing. I saw but one set of querries for colored laborers which I thought poor, and this was in an old French house. The barracks for unmarried men are roomy, well ventilated, and clean, with canvas bunks for each man, and a kind of false attic at the top, where the trunks and other belongings of the different men are kept. The clothes, are hung on clotheshouses, nothing being allowed to be kept on the floor. In each of these rooms there were tables and lamps, and usually a few beds or papers, and in almost every room there was a Bible; the books being the property of the laborers themselves. The cleanliness of the quarters is secured by daily inspection. The quarters for the married Negro laborers were good. They were neatly kept, and in almost every case the men living in them, whose wives or daughters did the cooking for them, were far better satisfied and of a higher grade than the ordinary bachelor Negroes. Not only were the quarters in which these Negro laborers were living much superior to those in which I am informed they live at home, but they are much superior to the huts, but they are much superior to the nama itself, beside the railroad track, which the lower class of native Panamans live, as well as the Negro workmen when they leave the employ of the canal and go into the jungles. A single glance at the two sets of buildings is enough to show the great superiority in point of comfort, cleanliness and healthfulness of the Government houses as compared with the native houses. The Negroes generally do their own cooking, the bachelors cooking in sheds provided by the Government and using their own pots. In the different camps there was a wide variation in the character of these cooking sheds. In some, where the camps were completed, the kitchen or cooking sheds, as well as the bathrooms and water closets, were all in the same building, and the sidewalks, leading from building to building. In other camps the kitchens or cook sheds had not been floored, and the sidewalks had not been put down, while in one camp the bath-houses were not yet up. In each case, however, every effort was being made to hurry on the construction, and I do not believe that the delays had been greater than were inevitable in much work. The laborers are unmistakable to do their own cooking, and much complain specially among the bachelors, as to the quantity, and some as to the quality of the food they got from the commissary department, especially as regards yams. On the other hand, the married men and their wives, and, be more advanced among the bachelors, almost invariably expressed themselves as entirely satisfied with their treatment at the commissary stores; except that they stated that they generally could not get yams there and had to purchase them outside. The chief trouble that the men were too high. It is unavoidable that the prices should be higher than in their own homes; and after careful investigation I came to the conclusion that the chief trouble lay in the fact that the yams, plantains and the like are rather perishable food, and are very bulky compared to the amount of nourishment they contain, so that it is costly to import them in large quantities and difficult to keep them. Nevertheless, felt that an even more sample supply of their favorite food, and so directed; and I believe that ultimately the Government must itself feed them. I am having this matter looked into. The superintendent having immediate charge of one gang of men at the Colon reservoir stated that he, endeavored to get them to substitute beans and other nourishing food for the stringy, watery yams, because the men keep their strength and health better on the more nourishing food. Inasmuch, however, as cultivated they it difficult to get them to eat the more strengthening food, and some time elapses before they grow accustomed to it. At this reservoir there has been a curious experience. It is off in the jungle by itself at the end of a couple of miles of a little toy railroad. In order to get the laborers there, they were given free food (and, of course, free lodgings), and they were difficult to cause they wished to be where they could reach the dramshop and places of amusement. I was struck by the superior comfort and respectability of the lives of the married men. It would, in my opulation, be a most admirable thing if a much larger number of men had their wives, for with their advent all complaints about the food and cooking are almost sure to cause. I had interview with Mr. Mallist, the British Consul, to find out if there was any just cause for complaint as to the treatment of the West India Negroes. He informed me most emphatically that there was not, and authorized me to give his statement publicity. He said that not only was the condition of the laborers far better than, had been the case under the old French company, but that year by year the condition was improving under our own routine. He stated that complaints were continually brought to aim, and that the company had said that for the best six weeks he had failed to find a single complaint of a serious nature that contained day identification whatever. AFRO-AMERICANS CAN BUILD THE BIG CANAL A Disciple of Lincoln and Summer, Who Studied Slavery in the South in 1867, Speaks His Mind on the Present Condition of Affairs. To the Editor of The New York Age: There appears upon the surface a difficulty in obtaining war-canners to construct the Panama Canal. This is only an apparent difficulty, or rather a difficulty in minds of those who are determined not to see, and in this class, as its leader, is the President of this Republic Theodore Roosevelt We have 10,000,000 Afro-American citizens within the boundaries of this Republic upon this continent. As bondmen, ill-fed and ill-clobed and abettered, they grew cotton in the swamps of North and South Carolina; Georgia; Florida; Alabama; Mississippi; Louisiana and Texas; rice in the swamps of North and South Carolina, and sugar cane in the swamps of Louisiana. They have never committed a disloyal act as a race to this Republic. When crime has been committed by Afro-Americans, as a rule, it has been done by the sons of planters of the white educated, civilized, Christianized race. What does the term multitio mean but that a child a white father and scolded mother? Who taught the Afro-American to assault white women but the ex-slave-holders? Who taught the Afro-American to steal but the white masters, who stole their labor from their wives and children? During the Civil War who protected the wives and children of the rebels at the front, trying to destroy the Republic but the Afro-American slaves? Who saved this Republic from destruction in 1846, and the greatest and noblest information of the Spirit of the Sermon on the Mount, delivered by the Son of God, expressed in legislation and the administration of justice the world has been called to. With the Afro-American With the Ku-Klux and Cameroon-Buffy the North, aided by perjurious England and the Orangemen and United Empire Loyalists of Canada, the Republic would have been lost but for the courage, fidelity, perseverance and persistence of our Afro-American freedmen. Where was the maternal grandfather of Theodore Roosevelt in those days? With Lee and Johnson or with Grant, Sherman and Sheridan? Give the Afro-Americans an opportunity and they will construct "the great waterway of the nations" as a sea level with the five cities in which man William C. Van Horne has sole control of the constructive work of the Canal and is given the money as rapidly as he will do the work. The work on the Canal is now in a disgrueful condition. Mr. Poutyong Biglow told the truth. No matter what the Canal costs, even if it is $500,000,000, it will be built as a sea level canal. We have worse than squandered $1,000,000,000 upon the subjugation of the Christion Filipinos to provide benevolent assimilation and the spread of Christian civilization, but we are not bankrupt, but have accumulated wealth to the value of $110,000,000, we have paid in gold equivalent more than $10,000,000 in principal and interest and pensions as the cost of the Civil War and have at the same time invested $15,000,000 in railways within the Republic and shall invest a like sum in the not distant future. The era of deep sea canals, canalized rivers, water powers, electricity, as light heat and motive power, irrigation, drainage, dykings and intensive agriculture has arrived. Electricity developed by, water, power or gravity will supply light, heat and motive power for all purposes and displace steam and animal power, and human, except when required to guide. If Theodore Roosevelt can suspend the law of gravitation or reverse the current of Niagara he may delay the progress of humanity as set forth above. His disloyalty to human liberty is being made more and more apparent. visited Missouri in 1857 and bemaimed for months to study Afro-American slavery. In 1858, the day after William H. Seward delivered his speech at Rochester, known as his "irrepressible Conflict" speech. I left for Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina and Georgia, and studied slavery for two months again. I was in Augusta, Ga., the day that the immortal John Brown was executed. My father met him at the house of Gerrit Smith in Peterborough three months before he emigrated to Virginia. I have studied slavery at his home, will study monopoly and Morganism—as unholy FRANCIS WAYL Brooklyn, Dec. 20, 1808. THE PRESIDENT AL. SENATOR FORAKER DEN PRESIDENT WAS LED IN BRUTAL INJUSTICE. The Message Taken Up Section by them—No President to Justify charge—Cause of Sergent Laude. President Mihonovserved Him Cons- titutional Powers and the Truthine. —Senator Scott of West Virginia. Think That There Would Have Born No Rough Rider Left If the Tenth Cavalry Had Not Born At The Battle of Lee Guidesman. From The New York Times. WASHINGTON, December 20.—Not within the recollection as a Senator of any man now in that bday has a message from the President received such treatment, as Senator Foraker gave this afternoon to the reply of Mr. Roosevelt to the resolutions of inquiry into the discharge of the three companies of the Tyenty-fifth Infantry. Mr. Foraker took up the message section by section, and challenged the accuracy of statements made by the President with characteristic emphasis. He declared that several of these statements were incorrect, and said that the President had been imposed upon and misled into ordering the dis- charge without honor of the Negro sol- diers. Senator Lodge briefly defended the President, and then Senator Scott declared that if it had not been for the Negro soldiers of the Tenth Cavalry at San Juan "we might not have the gallant soldier and square deal President in the White House." Practically every Republican Senator in Washington listened to the speech from beginning to end. Some Democrats were absent, but those present paid the closest attention. After the adjournment of the House, Speaker Cannon entered the Senate and took a seat near Senator Mavery where he heard the end of the sentence where he represented Longworth, the President's law, sat near Mr. Foraker and listened with attention. Almost immediately upon the opening of the session Mr. Foraker called up his resolution for an inquiry by the Committee on Military Affairs. He told the Senate that he had read the message for the third time last night, and was convinced that the President misconceived his constitutional powers and misconceived the emotion on which he had based his action, distrusted the men. He caused very thoroughly the constitutional powers of both Congress and the President, pointing out how carefully and specifically Congress in framing the military statute had provided for the trial and punishment of every offense, in order to prevent automatic exercise of power. He contended that under the military laws of the country the soldiers should have been tried by court-martial, and the military-sensitive article of War to show how it governs the good of punishment for all kinds of offences that may be committed by soldiers. Mr. Foraker also cited cases from the work of General Davis on military law, where refusal to give testimony was an offense under the head of "Disorder" and was punishable by court-martial. "The President says there are plenty of precedents for his action," he went on. "I do not know where he gets them. He does not send anything from the Judge Advocate General that warrants that statement." Turning to memorandum prepared for the Secretary of War by General Ainsworth, Senator Foraker quoted this: "A protracted examination of the official records has thus far resulted in failure to discover a precedent in the regular army for the discharge of those members of the three companies of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, who were present on the night when the affray at Brownville took place." Sentiments will in vain to find any connection with the United States Army," continued Foraker. "The nearest approach to it is the action of General Lee in discharging a regiment of Confederate soldiers; but what may have been done by General Grant or General Lee during the Civil War would not apply here, not only because it was done during the time of war, but because it was done before the articles of war in the form in which I have endured were placed in the statutes of war were famed and promulgated as they are to-day, no man can be convicted of an offense without first having a chance before a court-martial to make his defense, face his accusers, and cross-examine the witnesses who seek to disguise him before the world." "How about the 352 cases submitted in this record?" interrupted Senator Lodge. "I am glad the question is asked," replied Mr. Foraker. He then explained circumstances under which discharges are given upon such deserts and where boys under age have enlisted against the will of their parents and for similar offences. "But when you come to a case like this, he went on, "where men are not seeking a discharge, but where they are protesting against it, where men are charged with having committed a heinous crime, or, as the President said yesterday, the most atrocious crime that was ever committed in connection with the army, where we have a case of that kind and the men are protesting their innocence, it is not a case for discharge without honor." Foraker then took up the President's assertion that "Major Blockson's report is not a careful, is based upon the testimony of scores of eyewitnesses, testimony which conflicted only in penessentials, and which established the facts beyond chance of successful contradiction." Referring to the documents submitted with the President's message, Mr. Foraker declared that the only testimony to which this quotation could be connected was that of the citizens of Brownsville, who were examined by a Brownville committee the morning after the murder. "There is no protense of any testimony against these soldiers except that." he said. "These witnesses were not aworn. They appeared before a self-constituted committee and simply stated what they knew or had seen or heard. How many of them claimed to be eyewitnesses? N counted their names and (found them to be) twenty-one in all. O CYRUS FIELD ADAMS. Missor of the St. Paul Appeal, President of the National Afro-American Press Association and Assistant Register of the United States Treasury. The White Man in Africa. From The Macon (Ga.) Baptist Truth. There is talk here and there of African emigration as freely as if the counties of that vast continent were open to the race in America and invited settlement, when in truth the continent has been apportioned among the powers of Europe which are planning to improve the chosen sections and settle therein representatives of their respective countries. Now in South Africa there is objection to the presence and labors of the Negro preacher from America on the ground that he teaches the doctrine of the African religion, and terreting with the policy of promoters who desire to hold the native Negro in subjection, and in the Congo such a reign of terror exists as calls for inquiry on the part of enlightened, humane nations of the world. The experiments making at settlement-by the whites in Africa may not end favorably, but they may be but preparing the way for another people for whom He has a mission. It can hardly be doubted that the regeneration of the people through men of the race, but it will require a long time and much training to fit them. The Christian civilization requires on the part of the plonkers who lay them considerably more than a knowledge of the elephant house building and trades, important as these are, there must be a clear comprehension of the Christ and his religion, but the people must be able to plan broadly and execute wisely. Without these indispensable qualifications no people can be prepared to join a state. During the long residence of the race in America thousands upon thousands of its people never brought into close contact with Anglo-Saxon civilization. They were kept as it were at its outer limits, taught enough only to do satisfactorily the greatest drudgery in a new country. The descendants of people are known and are racheted to help before they can undertake the most elementary work in human betterment. Did You Everl White Immigrants in Jim Crow, Cars. In allowing Italiaans, Swedes, Hungarians and other European immigrants to ride in the coach provided for colored passengers the Atlantic Coast Line Railway is violating the Jim Crow Car Law. The above mentioned immigrants all claim to be white people, and as such they have no right to be forced into the coach in which colored people are compelled by law to ride. The coach is not in the colored coach on this road the other day were filthy and dirty. They were possessed of boxes, bundles and bags without number, and they were as dirty as the people who need the coach. The condition of themselves and their belongings was the reason why they were put in the Jim Crow car. It seems to us that a white man is a white man. It matters not whether he is an American or European, and if the race South must be separated on the railroad trains, then we insist upon it that these European immigrants, with all their filth and dirt, and disease bearing baggage should be put in coaches intended for white people. From The East St. Louis (Ill.) Sentinel. Senator Foraker is all right. Labor Opportunities in the North and the South. From The Chattanooga Herald. During all the momentous discussions on the race question, and with all the strong language that is used to bear upon this great topic, the disjointing of the many parts for consideration by all the great minds of this age, very little is brought out to bear upon the many advantageous sides of it. We discuss through the press and from the public rostrum only the unjust, the prejudiced side and leave all the other sides uncovered. Now the Negro as a laborer and a professional man has many advantages in the South that are so far superior to those of the North, East, and West that they will never be able to state their advantages we know whereof we are speaking, for we have lived in the East and in the West and have a clear knowledge of what the Negro's advantages are in those different situations as compared with that of the South. In the city of Chattanooga Negroes who with whites in every capacity of labor. We are any more favorable to the Negro than the South. In the first place, it must be considered that the South has not yet become "the Negro nation," but that "the South," East and West, hence the splendid advantages for Negro labor. We do not want the Negro inhabitants of the South to be in Negro mechanic work, but of the North, Negro mechanic goes North, East and West, that first thing he encounters is the union or brotherhood controlling every kind of labor. We pass the chief for white he is kept off the wall, as a brick or stone mission and out he must go from the manufactories and found a moulder. Back to the South he must go. It has been demonstrated in more than one way that the Southern white people in the South, give the Negro more chinuses and blackness than in any other section of this country. Over five hundred Negro molders are employed in the city of Chattanooga by the largest and richest manufacturers and founders of the industry, the capacity of labor from the elevator boy on up, and he doesn't have to have a political backing to get a job. The trouble has been in the fact that so many people only see through one eye just to the end of their life, and so they are Negro in the South, accusing him of being too cowardly to present, the cruel inflictions set upon him by the white people where these very Negroes who are making the South and were too cowardly to stay in the South and were too cowardly to stay and help the other Negroes fight it out. This bitter prejudice and unjust sentiment toward the Negro from the whites in the South will be a great obstacle and in spreading from center to firepower in magnitude and velocity. The Negro will do as well in the South as anywhere in the United States if he will stand firm and protect the freed slaves and privileges everywhere if he is the tart to grasp them. From the Petitioner John A. K. The Pullieman Car Company has many jobs vided up $200,000,000 of surplus profits, and in making not position of many millions a year; and yet it cannot or will not pay its employees on basis, and they have to depend on the public for the large part of its expenses. This is a very small piece of business, or so rich a company, that though its business, has increased personal feel during the last quarter of a year, and never relapsed to the same position, or raised the written of its employees. It might not be necessary or reasonable to prevent Palmman carports from taking pay of passengers in the company pay enough by the company to entitle them to those services without extra pay, for most passengers in the company pay less than the company pays to porters, and the pay of the latter would not in any event be manifested; but so rich and great a company is, it would be well as to the public, and it would seem, with its $100,000,000 or more to itself, to pay them decent and living wages, even if they could tap a few quarters and half dollars beetles. The work of those men, if not arduous, is invaluable. They always take some risk of life and limb; they must be prompt, neat, and careful. They should be grateful, and they should be paid accordingly. Looking After Erring Youth in Louisville From The American Baptist. One of the most convincing evidences of the growing interest of our people in reform movements was furnished last Sunday afternoon when Mascaron Temple was crowded by a large and enthusiastic audience to give endorsement and encouragement to the efforts of the Colored Board of Probation cancers of the Juvenile Court of the State of South Carolina, the youth of the race through that agency. The weather was against the success of the meeting, but despite wind and rain the great hall was filled and the audience was excited and responsive audience. To show their interest in the movement the work of the Juvenile Court was warmly endorsed and the history steps looking to the establishment of a Detention Home and Parental School as an adjunct to the good and wholesome work which is being done in the case of the question of the great good the Court is destined to do, and while the care and responsibility of the heads of families should not be beseted, yet in the case of the question of the great good the home for their good. The movement deserves the support of good people and when plans are matured there should be a liberal and open attitude to the agencies for passing of the youth of the race. Labor Competition in the South. From Work and Wages. The competition which immigrant labor will bring about cannot hurt the cause of Negro labor in the South. The law of "the survival of the fittest" is inexorable. We are willing to be tested by it, and if found wanting must expect to give way to a superior laboring class, with the hope that our friends will help us develop, environments and conditions so intelligent as to improve the context for surrogacy. If the time does come when we can feel the pressure of imminent competition, we must be so well disposed that so serious problems will fall on us. The Southern white man, as a rule, has been used to address of laborers whose ambition has not risen above the opportunity to migrant laborers. They will want and demand social considerations that the Negro has not desired or asked. These people will not be willing to kill the ranks of the hardworking laborers. To take advantage of their ignorance of the country's laws and institutions and deny them the rights and privileges for which all Anglo-Saxon claners, and all servants and laborers, are in a greater problem than the Negro. In such a case, the foreign "rift-riff" will either fit for a higher place or sink into a lower place, or the immigrant will come into keen commercial business, professional and public competition with the native Southerner, and therefore endanger the welfare of both. In such a case the immigrant will come into keen trouble that disturb the peace and contentment of the North. But even with all reasonable consideration of immigration as it touches the life of Negro labor, some things stick out prominently. It is an undeniable fact that there is a woful lack of industry and thrift among many of our laboring people. Indifferent to the need of industry in the lives of of-ing people. In many communities, members of our race stand out as unreliable labor factors. Some plead the excuse that the white employer is the main cause. But the black employer is the main cause. I found that it is the inherent disposition of some of our race to shun, sham and shirk when they have an opportunity to earn their "daily bread." The spirit is strong. Now and then it sticks out prominently as the prime characteristic of the children of some Negro minister, teacher or some other successful professional or public man. This spirit is strong. Now and then it sticks out prominently as the prime characteristic of the children of the hard working people whose arms toll enable our public and professional class to prosper and fulfil their mission of leading the great mass from despair to light. The result is dissatisfaction around. We need higher education to supplement industrial training. We believe that it should not be the subject of our education "to make men carpenters" and "to make carpenters men." Yet in spite of this no one should be Negro should be carried away from the highest institution he can reach; "Industrial education"; "Industrial education." Unpreparedness of Young Folks for Practical Work. If a coness of the Negro business men were made, it would be found that their most dreadful grievance is lack of competent help, and this is not confined to any particular branch of business, but is found to be most fragrant in all. We stop and wonder sometimes just what is the cause of this profound incompetence in the young man whom we have been helping. When we say incompetent, say it in all clarity and use the term in the broadest and most literal sense toward the thief. We shall not another would be able to resist in this respect. And if one of them were innocent and were willing to help, but with this gross handhelp for their crimes and their employers, they refuse to the crimes and assert that they are just the proper career. And no amount of perseverance are not out for the particularly calmer. Or which they may be temporarily employed. And if one is taken into a particularly ill-defined idea, he or she as the case may be, forthwith sits down and never thinks of books again or never tries to evade in that situation, and will log along content of life or business. "The President Honestly Wrong." From The Charleston (W. Va.) Advocate. The idea of the respectable colored people harboring criminals is a notion conceived in error. The Negroes who commit the white crimes of which they are accused would no more try to hide among the better classes without wings. There is actually less sympathy between the respectable, honest, better class of Negroes and the vagrant crime class, and the whites. How the President ever could have got the idea that the resonant classes among us have got the seed thoughts on his trip South, and the seed matured through the idea, however, the President is honestly wrong. Suitable for clubhouse or light business. Will rent on favorable terms to right parties. 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As we look around us we see Kennedy Hall, the first building erected; then the first building erected; then Wright Hall, and Parker Cottage, the home of several teachers, one of the most beautiful buildings on the grounds, which she started to build with $25; Booker T. Washington, the first building to be latter day shaffer added to her monument. They are in keeping with the age, commodious brick structures. The humber for a large training school in a building are latter day shaffer added to her monument. Wright Monica's motto for her Although tired, weary and heart sore on curtail and racked with bodily pain, she charged up the woodland at Denmark and followed them each year. But we must not forget the barn behind which she scans and which guards her much-loved cattle. Her face numbered lighten, all having the spirit of the pioneers, and she piles in being taught to use their heals in thinking, their hands in working and their hearts in praising God for his merry campaise in paying the last tribute of respect to her on Tuesday, December 18. The sister schools sent representatives to the funeral and many doral tributes came from friends far and near. Among the representatives were President Thomas E. Prescott womens workman, State College President Wanda L. Larson, Woman College Penny, Tuskegee Institute; Miss Linda Lolander, Chatha University; Miss Willa Mills, University; Augusta, Miss Sarah Woodill, Suffolk; J. H. Powery, Peach Haven School, Black Hills; E. R. Roberts, Florence; M. R. Libbey, Maysville Institute, Maysville; Bon Braitham, Maysville Institute, Honrteira Noah, a former teacher, Columville, Mrs. J. H. Walker, Blackville, Mrs. Mabel Keith Howard, Woman Club, Columbia Emancipation Celebration. 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BRAMBILL, Ladies' and Gents' Tailor 187 W. 134th Street. LLDRESS SUITS TO HIRE 7. GRANT'S 'c Servants' Exchange Help a Specialty. 9th STREET. NEW Captain Macklin. attempt to rob and assassinate ain E. B. Mackill, of the Twenty-Infantry, at Fort Reno, by a black n. it is alleged, is to be regretted all more, at this time, as it will be naturally supposed that the crime was committed by one of the men of the discharged, battalion, although the reports from Fort Reno, up to this writing, discredit this view of the matter. Already we have reports from Washington that the attempted assassination has prejudiced the case of the discharged soldiers. The crime is regrettable, on broad general grounds, as any such crime would be, but it is of the greatest importance that nothing further should occur, or should have occurred, to confuse the case of the discharged soldiers, which is hanging in the balance in the Congress for more thorough investigation as to the facts and as to legislation upon the facts and equities involved. Captain Macklin has been ordered to stand a court-martial along with Major Penrose, for alleged neglect of duty in connection with the Brownville raid and the alleged participation of members of their command in it. It is not conceivable that any member of the discharged battalion, when all of the circumstances are weighed, would undertake, for revenge, to injure either of the two officers, neither of whom has given any testimony, as far as we have seen, prejudicial to their men; and, even if they had done so, that would not be a sufficient justification, for a display of violence toward either of them. That the President's order disbanding the battalion without honor has gone far to demoralize the rank and file of the army there can be no dispute. Aside from the great injustice done, in which a fundamental principle of law has been violated, the bitter and captions spirit which the order has aroused throughout the country has and will serve no good purpose. The people will not stand for it that trial by competent authority shall be dispensed with by executive or other order, we believe. --- Is the White South Falling Down? Is the white South falling down on the supreme matter of respect for their womankind? A very short time ago a white woman in good standing, in Atlanta, shot her sister to death because, she alleged, she was intimate with her husband and had alienated his affections. Only last week, in Atlanta, a respectable white woman, engaged in selling articles from house to house, was assaulted by a white man when she entered his home. Then came the case of Mrs. Birdsong, in Mississippi, who shot Dr. Butler to death because, she alleged, he had scandalized her good name and reputation. A jury of her peers did not agree with her and found her guilty, and the unfeeling judge sentenced her to serve a term of five years in the penitentiary. She is a relative of United States Senator McLaurin of Mississippi, and everything possible was done to save her from the consequences of her act. And then came the highly sensational mixup of the Strothers and Bywaters, white people of high social standing in Virginia; the facts of the mixup being that Mr. Bywaters, who had been paying attention to Miss Viola Strother, got her in trouble, and in the effort to get the matter straight went to Washington walt her, where she underwent a criminal operation. The facts were suspected by the brothers of the young woman, and they insisted that Bywaters should marry her. This he did in the sick room. After marrying her, Bywaters considered that he done all that could be expected of him and desired to leave the house. When he undertook to do so the Strothers opened fire on him. Eleven shots were fired, and Bywaters got ten of them in his body. He fell out of the window, through which he had attempted to make his escape, and was allowed to lie there for a half hour, while he slowly died in agony. And these things, and others of their character, justify us in asking, Is the white South falling down on the supreme matter of respect for their womankind? Right Way to Hunt Criminals A section of the Italian population in New York appears to have banded together for purposes of personal revenge or blackmail, and have adopted dynamic and sittatives as weapons of terror or destruction. So general have disorders become among the Italians that it is a cold day, when the police are not called upon to get busy in a Black Hair affray of some sort. And the police have had trouble in tracing out Italian criminals to such an extent that the ends of justice have been often thwarted or attained to the utmost. A short while ago, upon the suggestion of influential Italians, the Police Commissioner of New York instituted a detective bureau composed of Italians, which rendered such good service that it has just been determined to increase force materially. This is a wise course to pursue and will accomplish toward stamping out lawlessness in Italians than any other course could be adopted, as Italian police detectives who would make THE NEW YORK AGE: THURSDAY. that they should take down criminals of "their race." The Independent World, as quoted in the last week of June, in announcing the monstrous and impossible expansion of President Roosevelt that Afro-Americans bent down the criminals of "their race," says: "Let the South make colored man a part of its legal machinery. Appointed detectives and perroters. Define their operations to among Negroes. Make them, feel their responsibility." Now, this is really the first step in the evolution of the criminal question in the Southern States, although it would be difficult to confine the operations of much officers to any sort of criminals; but the South will hardly, at this time, adopt the idea, although there used to be such officers in most of the cities of the South, and with the best results. But the South should be urged to adopt it again. And in the large cities of the North and West, especially in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis and Chicago, it should be invited upon as a matter of principle and in the interest of law and order. The principle would work good in the The principle would work good in the case of the Afro-American as it does in that of the Italian. Come, Now, Look on the Hopeful Side of Life. Come, now, you, readers and correspondents of THE AGE, let us begin to look on the hopeful side of life more than has been the case, and when we think and write let us lean more than we have done to this hopeful side. We desire that the correspondents of THE AGE—the regular and special and occasional ones—do this. We shall all feel and be the better for it, and the world at large will get a better view of and have a higher opinion of us. There is a great deal of the emotional in the Afro-American temperament; we are very much inclined to be absorbed and carried away by the thing of the moment that most concerns us—to be exalted to the clouds or crushed to the earth, as the case may be, to give way to wild waves of joy or of depression—when the happy medium is the safest and the most course to pursue under all conditions. Our new Wilmington correspondent has the right idea about it. He sees the bright side of the life of the people, sees what they are doing that commands the respect of mankind, and writes about it in a cheerful way that is bound to carry encouragement and inspiration to all who read about it. We are all under obligation to him for letting us know what a valuable and prosperous lot of Afro-Americans there are in the great Tar Heel City; we had not suspected that was the case, especially after the horrible massacre that took place there a few years ago, which Charles W. Chessutt has embellished in a most pathetic and eloquent story. "The Marrow of Tradition." We are sure that the Afro-American people are making like progress in the other large cities of the country; in fact, we know that they are doing so in most of the cities. We want a record of this progress, of this hopeful and encouraging side of life, to appear in the writings of our correspondents. And we hope in the early part of the new year to present many illustrations of this progress, what the people have done and are doing, in the columns of THE AGE. Let us all get busy, and display as much industry in showing up the bright as we have the dark side of Afro-American life. We are not going to be driven to the wall in the race of life, and we must produce the evidence as we go along that we are making headway against the tide of opposition which is inseparable from all progress, all healthy growth. The South Losing Its Best People. There has been a great change in recent years in the population of Charleston, S. C., the whites increasing over the blacks and yellows to a remarkable extent. Indeed, there is a prospect that Charleston will become in time almost entirely white in population. This is due to the fact that Charleston Afro-Americans are a very superior people, particularly high strung in their notions, and resenting the conditions of life and living which the whites seek to impose upon them, and leave the city in large numbers, for other and better points of the country. There are enough Charlestonians in New York to make a small city by themselves. They are to be found also in large numbers in Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago, and wherever they are found they are a self respecting and industrious body of people. The South has been losing for a long time a large percentage of its most intelligent and thrifty Afro-American people, and it will continue to do so, as the race lines continue to be drawn against them in all of the relations of life. And it will be found upon investigation that the South has lost and is losing not only the flower of its Afro-American people but of its Anglo-American people as well. Indeed, the professional and business life of the North and West, especially New York and Chicago, are crowded with white Southerners, who find better conditions of life and opportunities in business in the North and West than in the South. The Afro-American newspapers which complain of the attitude of those of us in the North who were born in the South toward the condition of affairs in the South, because it tends to make those conditions harder for them, as they claim, should remember this fact, as well as the further fact, that Northern Afro Americans resent Southern conditions because they affect them in their living at home as well as in the South, whether they ever go into those conditions or not. It is largely a matter of 'defense. A citizen of the United States should be as free in the enjoyment of his civil rights in one State as her, and as long as inequality is any of the States all of the United States are affected interfere for he will do it, any bowl and ing it. Justin Edgard is in by getting the open concession in Minnesota, and the diversity that helps the school the greatest amount of white women has had a fall. Nine high schools, a relative of United States university Marianne, that had killed Dr. Burke, teaches she believed had had died but. After a commotion trial, she was convicted, and Judge Miller has sustained her to two years in the penitentiary. Think of them, go and little else! The case has been appealed, however, and she may yet escape the challenge, but that she should be convicted and sentenced? A syndicate of American capitalists, at the head of which is Mr. Thomas P. Ryan of New York, has secured a valuable concession of forest and mineral lands in the Belgian Congo. The conceded district is rich in rubber, a commodity which sells for from $2.50 to $3 per pound in the open market, and for which the natives are paid but ten cents a pound to gather. No marvel that there is destructive loss of plant life in the gathering of the crude rubber and trouble in getting the natives to gather it. AN AUTOGRAPH OF VALUE Something About the New Register of the Treasury. It will not be long, remarks the New York Tribune, before every one will be reading on their new twenty-dollar bill the signature of a new Register of the Treasury, W. T. Vernon, whose name is now being printed. "Those who prefer not to handle the larger bills will a little later see his name on all ones, and "twose of recent issue, and that will be the most important of a Negro "will be among the most highly prized autographs in the world." Afteren-larging upon this facetious conception, this bill will be the life and personality of our new register. Vernon is a quiet, unassuming man, who bears in complexation and feature not a trace of the personality of the character of the man who writes it: straightforward business is in his heart. He is a man of ink. It will make in size nearly two of the signatures of Judson W. L. Lyons, who stepped out of the Register's office last week to attend a feminine, almost microscopic autographs of Blanche K. Bruce, the noted Senator from Mississippi, who held the place before him. Vernon was born thirty-five years ago in a log cabin on a plantation near Lebanon, where parents no longer had to work, and went to school in straining day eight years. When fifteen years old he began his education at a State school for Western Missouri, finishing his course of state when he graduated. Missouri for six years, and then took charge of Western University at Quandara, Kau. Vernon was the only teacher. His Register points with pride to the fact that upon his retirement as head of the college there fourteen teachers employed and two hundred students. His property consisted of one hundred and thirty acres of land, with buildings valued just been ordered under approval of $100,000 from the State Legislature. Mr. Vernon is affiliated with leading New York professors of Master of Arts and Doctor of法学. THE CRESCENT IN THE SUDAN Sprend of Mohammedanism in Central Africa The country was originally settled by migrations of Nigroes, who settled in pagan villages with their children and brought people. With the advent of the Mohammedans however, there entered an interest that has kept the country in a constant emigration. Having a policy enforced by the Kotan, either to convert or enslave the pagans, their presence has resulted in potential bloodshed as such as the bloodshed of local regions, and left a housing wilderness in their wake. This constant strife made it well enough impossible to create a successful mischief work and to maintain such a policy. It looked upon as closed. Since the slaughter of the Arab families at Oudurman, the city of Mosul, the city of Mosul, and stable government from Egypt southward to Uganda, and under the administration of this enlightened government the whole of the Sudan is becoming quiet and safe. But, Mohammedan traders and miscellaries are pushing forward with such energy and passion that they are leading the country to a new state of progress it is computed "there will surely be a heathen village on the banks of the Niger by 1914." This means that the Nigerian people are very much less accessible to the Christian missionary than if they had remained heathen. In other words, while we heathen Mack Office Located Over the Stormline On the New State Road. Be it in a Garden Court. From The Tupelo Philadelphia. The more we see of Oklahoma the more we are convinced that this is the garden spot of those United States for the Utility black man. The colored people own the manners of a race of great magnificence. We are at a level to know why no many colored people hang on to the South when they can enter the territory, get land reasonable, be free and unmolested and become men. If a few men would organize a little capital and through the bell they would get rich. Fifty cotton gins would pay in this State. Cotton, buyers are needed. It does no require capital to do this. If a man is honest and uses good judgment he can cotton the backling be needs in buying For God's sake, Negroes, wake up! Here is the country to establish banks. dry goods stores, general merchandise, in fact, everything will make money. The colored man's money while we-salt idly and look on and complain. After leaving Hennessy our first stop was Kingfisher. Here we found a few small groceries and restaurants, one grocery store we will buy, two real estate churches, two lawyers, two real estate dealers, one doctor. The colored people have not taken on new life as yet. Good opportunities. Our next stop was El Reno. This is an island in the 22nd Bay, discharged. The ranks are being filled with new recruits and transfers from other companies. We found a few colored people in business—a good second-hand store making money. This kind of business pays, but the race don't engage in it. We also found a barber shop, saloon-restaurant, good hall, two churches, one school-house with three teachers, one lawyer, one doctor, one large hog raiser. The didn't get much farm land in this country. We arrived in Oklahoma City, the chief city of the State, at night, and to our surprise thought we were entering Kansai City, full of life and everybody there. Some day will be the equal of some of the largest commercial towns in the country. You find a few thousand colored people, a lot of them prospering, restaurants, hotel, grocery stores, pool halls, doctor's rooms, pool halls, and one school which is crowded and overflowing. Children have to walk too far over dangerous highways to school. We were told that the school board are going to build three new schools, the whites are much better provided for. If our women don't look after this school matter nothing will ever be done. The colored people own several pieces of good business property, brick fronts, and building more. The whites should put more vim and push into himself. Opportunities for business were never better than at Oklahoma City. A millinery store, drug store, shoe store, dry goods store, in fact, any business would pay. We never single undertaker since we left Touken. We arrived in the capitol city, Guthrie, where the constitutional convention is in session, presided over by "Alfalfa Bill" Murray of Tishamingo, who styles himself a farmer, but has the appearance of the other fellow with his hands behind his back. His mustaches are a dark brown, and his fists and curls them, and has a slight idea of being stuck on himself, and carries an air of importance. He never was heard of until he began to underestimate the Negro (as most ignorant and vicious white men do when they want to get before the footlights of the world. The general talk over the new State at this time is, that Murray did not have the brain or manhood to cope with the new form of the People. Human Page of Lunestone in behalf of the school in presenting to the convention a beautiful desk and gavel. We talked to Caillid, of the 50th district, a Kentucky Democrat. He said he was with the colored people and would do what was right for them. We asked about Jim Crow laws. He said he was against them, no cane and no such measure would be passed Representative Conge, of the 4th district, Republican, said that the Democrats had about got over their foolishness and were bossy scraping over boundary lines. Hill Murray ordered a discussion with the Democrats. "These Seats for Negroes" about seven seats on the east, a small aisle between, Nobody is paying any attention to the ignorance of Bill and his kind. We sat on the main door and looked on completely. We said nothing; no one interfered with us. The sign in the gallery was for the class of Negroes who think the white man first and Jesus next. The colored merchants of Guthrie are doing well, although the colored people have not kept pace with the times or taken advantage of their opportunity. Two good physicians making money, restaurants, one shoemaker—the second one have seen on our trip. A cotton gin would get set and a cotton mould would get down to business Guthrie would support them. We shall write of those we saw in business about Lunston and her great school, in our next issue. Cantale Robert Garden Woods Captain Robert Gordon Woods. Captain Robert Gordon Woods of the Philadelphia Eagles first vacation after five years of service, was the guest, of Mr. Fortune last week, returning to Washington last Sunday. Captain Woods accompanied Mr. Fortune through the Philadelphia in 1902. He will return, at the last of January. IN THE PUBLIC Receiver of Public Money at New,Orleanna and Republican Leader of Louisiana. NOTE AND COMMENT BY BISHOP J. W. SMITH President Remoevelt's Position qn President Remoevelt's Restated- nation-Legal Face in the Fight WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—The Afro-Americans are still red-hot from the ground up and are giving President Roosevelt some mighty hard and heavy knocks, not only for his unjust treatment of the colored soldiers, but also for his ugly, mischievous and groundless accusation that while "a great many white men are lynched, the crime is particularly frequent in respect to black men; that the greatest existing cause of lynching is the persecution, especially by black men of the bibleous crime of rape." Bah! There are plenty of dirty swans that cover their black meat with white feathers. A receding of Mr. Roosevelt's message to Congress, shows that he took special pain not to accuse the lynched white men guilty of committing rape nor of any other crime. He simply says they were lynched, and instead of telling why, he grows as silent as the grave. But when it comes to the lynching of black men, he, without any twinge of conscience or blush of shame, without any facts or figures to prove his odious and damaging assertion which makes hotter the fires of race prejudice, drives from the Negroes many of their best white friends and encourages mobs to laugh and shout with ghoulish gloats at courts and sheriffs, wickedly proclaims to the civilized world that the greatest existing cause for their lynching is rape. Is this what he calls giving each class of citizens a "square deal"? No President of either party, good, bad or indifferent, ever before slandered and stained the Negro in this particular. What's the matter with one thing? President? An assertion is one thing; proof is another. As the President is the accuser, the burden of proof is with him. As facts are stronger than arguments, let him shell them out. Until he does so, he will find that his opinion of black men relative to rape is not the standard opinion of the world. The President says that lynching and mob violence are "epidemic." Epidemic means common, general, affecting large numbers. This is true, so far as the Negro is concerned. He says it is due to the "delays of the law. This is not true, so far as the Negro is concerned, for when he is caught, he is subjected to a harsh opportunity to face a judge and jury and establish his guilt or innocence by the process of law. After speaking clear epitaphs of lynching and mob violence, declaring their greatest cause to be due to the particularly frequent committal of rape by blackmen, the President distracts contradicts himself by saying that "two thirds of the lynchings are not for rape at all; while a considerable proportion of the individuals lynched are innocent of all crime," his is queer logic, contradictory statements, and generally characterizes the eating agitators whose goal to air their opinions before the public when deactivate of facts dull their sense of justice. They may irritably bite off more than they can chew. In his argument on lynching and its causes, which shows that it was beyond his range of reasoning because of his wonderful lack of facts and the taffy and blows he wittingly or unwittingly gave to both races, he must undoubtedly imagine that he is as charming to the white and black people as the artistic maiden who holds on to two sweethearts and endeavors to make each fellow believe he is the favored sutter. It was Abraham Lincoln who said, "You cannot fool all the people all the time." Mr. Roosevelt says, "Two thirds of the lynchings are not for rape at all; while a considerable proportion of the individuals lynched are innocent of all crime." The above statements are great admissions. The "considerable portion" that he speaks of are Negroes, of course; for he admits that more black men are lynched than white. The Memphis News Sefairt (October 28, 1906), a prominent white daily, after collecting lynching statistics, published that 4,000 lynchings have occurred in the United States, without the warrant of law, in the last 25 years; that Georgia, since the Atlanta riot, now holds the largest record, and that Texas, in 1893, set the example of burning at the stake. The Richmond Planet, feastlessly edited by John Mitchell, Jr., who has given the mob many a stunning blow, as far back, remember, as December 7, 1898, published that 40,000 Negroes had, bea't brutally murdered since the close of the Civil War. And then there are thousands of cases that these two journals have never heard of. -Great Scott! What a horrible chapter of bloody butchery of Negroes disguisefully stains American history! And President Roosevelt says that a considerable portion of the people lynched are innocent of all crimes, and that two thirds of the lynching are not for rape at all. This is a sad commentary upon this civilized and Christianised country, especially when every mob goes unwhipped of justice. "O Justice! how many crimes are committed in thy name." Since President Roosevelt says many innocent have been lynched for no crime at all, and two-thirds are not lynched for rape at all, then what are the "greatest existing cause?" The Chicago Tribune (January, 1802), says some were "lynched for rape, attempts at rape, robbery, suspected of robbery, murder, incendiarism, burglary, rotting, miscognition, race prejudice, making threats, self-defense, being desperados, for fraud, assault and battery, quarrelling with white men, insulting white women, and others for no cause given." The New York Press a few years ago gave the following reasons: "For confessing, on suspicion, knowing who did the deed, knowing not who did the deed, being surprised when seized, not being surprised when seized, wicked self-control when seized, for the reason that he might do such a deed, on general principles, for looking like the suspect, for being a 'niger anyway.'" How have the hellish mobs, which quickly and fendishly cry, "Get a rope, kill the nigger, lynch the darker, burnt the black brute," snuffed out the lives of black men accused of rape or any other crime? This way: Cut, carved, hanged, dimboweled, broke their necks, skinned them alive, cut their throats from ear to ear, cut out their tongues, loppedoff their cars, dug out their eyes, broke their arms and legs, let mad bloodhounds bite and suck their blood, awoken them to limbs of trees, riddled their dangling bodies with bullets, dragged them along the road over sharp and rough stones, hitched them to horses and galloped with the speed of a race horse, cut their backs raw with wagon whips, knocked them dead with clubs, saturated them with coal oil and other heartlessly roasted them over a slow log fire or burned them at the stake in the public square in town, and punished them in any other diabolical way that their devilish hearts and intellects could think of. Thousands of people gather and excursion trains run to witches the massacre of Negroes. The people scarble for the charred homes for souvenirs. The coroner meets later, investigates, and renders a verdict by saying that the mob that did the lynching is "unknown to the jury." In view of these appalling facts, and the fact that justice for the Negro in the States is a sham and hollow mockery when he is accused of any grave crime against the whites and the Federal Government armed with the U.S. administration claims to be powerless to protect him because of the doctrine of State rights, would not the Negro race be more justified in harboring its criminals than the white race is in harboring its criminals? While some black people, like some white people, harbor their criminals, the sweeping charge that the whole Negro race is guilty of doing so is, beware falsehood bluer than the smoke of hell. The haughty, supercilious Pharisee who is so stuffed with prejudice and bigotry as to condemn the whole Negro race for the sin of its scalawag and criminal element is blind and hardly amenable to argument. Dr. Johnson Real Angry With President Brownell From The Chelation Recorder Encyclopedia is the Presidency message to Congress, as usual. There is scarcely a phase of National life or welfare not touched upon almost exhaustively. In the past, the Presidency question and issue the Rooseveltian policy of shedding, humptiness, impatience, diplomacy is observed and on the surprise Nation might be thought to have rounded the Cape Horn of public judgment. But the day seems to have passed when the President, in the name of the advice of safe counsellors, and the result is that unless he returns to his old谋言 of a "square deed" he will House a deformity If not exerciated idol. < . ORR: vi ee ten, }¢ " tes - Ieee * atin tial. petbuhased a Pita. ' Tike pore eanounctaens is “$6 -epetta a. otirring . beturdat “ghewsnads <f American ‘renders. whe: Marve learned to, - SOM Sa Tree De. Wakinewen ‘Our Waret_ impression to reading the qancencament {8 sew publication joe "alin (ot ian prectical efaice can Son lark write books. The man who ia always golug somewhere, who ie al- ways" trying and succeeding in doing mene big thing, and who is always being Diamed for not doing more, je not the sort-of man from-whoa we expect much Taithe form of lIteretare. a ares, race problem is y , nt and commanding that tt. takes held ot every Afro“A man ‘and woman in the country, and-will not allow Them to ‘pursue an even tenor of life, “however each. ther may long to dd 00. No" black. man is big enough oF strong ‘guoarh to Tealat it of be independent ol ft. ‘The race problem demands the heart “and sop} of every man or woman, though they be fashioned for. other, things than the solution of race. problems. The Digger -the. man in oul and in gifts for practical scblavements, the more he be- fomelce Woe everythiog Dat ls aaid tles for everythin, oi eee ee ier auneld acd undone, “It is the habit of the American people to Aaaten thelr attention, on one man ats time as leader and load him down with all ‘Kinda’ of ceeponaibilities, | But, esterday it was rick Douglass, now it ix Booker T. Washington, to-morrow it will be someone else. Cana man thus over- Yoaded with duties towanl a backward race malntain his xanity qud be wise and just in all bis utterances? ‘This little volume bearing the attrac; tive title of “Putting the Most Into Lfe, is an interesting unfolding of the, subject. The title well fits the man, for his whole life and achievements are a wonderful ‘exemplification of the title of the book. ‘This new book by Dr. Washington in @iseppointingly small, but ite largeners in subject matter grows in the mind of the thoughtful reader. ‘The volume contains Dut thirty-five pages, but everr page ix overflowing with the most kindly philow- spay of everyday lessons for successful living. ‘They are in the nature of moral eneays and ary made up of the Sunday ‘evening talkx to the Tuskegee students. In the beief preface Dr. Washington apoloretically states that “these Sunday evening talks are ent out in responne to repeated requexix, to a larger audience than that to which they were first spoken.” The titlex of the five chapters Of the book are ax follows: 1. "Health a_ Requisite for Effective Living.” 2. “Some of the: Qualiticn hanential to the Most Succesaful Life.” 3. “A Worw to ‘Proapective ‘Teachers About Putting the Moat Into Their Work.” 4. “Indur trial efficiency an Aid to the Higher Life" 5. “Making Religion a Vital Part -of Living.” 6. “Making Qur Race Life Count in the Life of the Na- tion.” There ix nothing theoretical or merely’ cademic in these themes. Dr. Warh- agton's life with and for the multitude {your men and women who have come = hin cuidance and inspiration during thd past_twenty-fise- peare,—ie—reresiod is this book mote touchingly than ip ans- thing that he, bas written. | Iiin heart, soul, life, and indeed, the sey honor of big ‘career, arc all’ center in these young people on whom the burden of the Face problem. to rome extent, must de yolve for the next fifty years. Here he reveals his apxiety that cher be right On the near aud fumlamental thing of life and living. Duties here and now must first be learned and felt as # vital part of everyday life before the larger things can be understood and under. taken. — Hence alinost. bis first word goes fo the heart, of-all that he coritends for: “The inlividuat who puts the most into hin life is the ong who gets the most out of life,” Following this is an epyn- ext plea for “Strong, healthy wor.ins bodies.” the Teal yalue of frevh nig. cul- tivating a love for wood and Tores\, sys- tematic exercise, xuitable clothlag ant temperance jn all things. Why so much stores on these cominonplary thing? Because tphe end of all living ix xtronz working bogs to be use® as tole to serve therewity their fe"sws and their Maker, thia is the en’, of all leving.” These things may stem commonplner ina community of free schools and equa) of portunities, but to the young men and women of the “Black Belt.” they have a reeenerative yalne to soul and bods that cannot be over-satiinated. Unless in some positive and distinet: way the speliins bok, the multiplication table.the grammar Wie physiology nad the geography can make for character, clean conscience and thrift chey are of ttle valve. Dr, Washington has a wholesome dread for anere book learning. If in eduented man None bet ter in eharieter, general efliciepey an usefulness than the anedvented min, then wdyention ix 4 failure, Let ne one be- lieve from this xtaterent that Dr. Wash ington louks npn a man’s life as one of joyous tasks and uverloaded respons:bil- MY; on the vwhtrare he says: “ldo not believe it is possble for a student to ne omplich very taneh unless he ean, be puppy, in all the relations of his. nei! life, ‘There inst be jay in werking our the ideals of Tuskegee,” He aptly says that “the student must hot use hig cllieation ax same people nse their Sunday clethes, on extra occasions: only Bducation myst not be a mere | zarment, but st vital and everyday part of the man and woun. Tf we are ain: hitious to make the world if which we jive better, we must first be anxious to || nake ourselves better. So it is iterated |: und reiterated in this lite volume that al improvement of the world about us, | he beflerment of those we know and love. |, ‘amnot be achinved unless we keep itt |, nearts, Our eyes and our whole selves (8 fit examples of righteous living. ' To ‘bring school life and real life into || ower contner xhawid We the xpecial nite | of every tencher in the South. How does | eee See _ ones my ee ef * aneerai: he of then RE, ecteee ics teagan” of “De, ane Sy ent ‘in Eee er seen oe a a | “Makiag * cot igi Dr. Winlitten tia 19 saab St te those who lok to bine ‘that religiim te fife not o . Af religion ts really a man's higher life, then the, man, who al lors to, bacosee careiame abuat oe things yields to & tion w sure .to rag, bi ftown® ie is mvt urgeat that is youne peaple “should ot Irae the spirit of reverence for the Most high’ os in the mon and women, In the dpening ‘fower, the evtting sun and the soag of the bird. ‘ ‘He warns his pupils not to, be merely negative Christians, He aptly compares the, “negative Chretien, to. the -lamp- post; the negative Christian does not lie, neither dows the lamp-post : he does not cheat, the lamp-poat does not : he does not teal, the -Iamp-post has never done any of these things. Ido not want the Tuske- atudents to be lainp-posts in their re firious lives, but I uree them to tura thelr beliefu Into energies that shall work into every, detail of their-lives.” It is Ittle wonder that the Tuskegee graduate in every walk of life le almost withou! exception found to be superior to hin en vironment. ‘The final chapter of thix precious little volume is a fitting conclusion to these lay sermons on practical living in a way to, ret mont out of life by “yatting most into life,” The theme jx “Making Oar RRuce, Life Count in the Life of the Na- tion." Whatever other people may think of chi race Of our, Dr Wavhington ie full of faith that in the fulnew: of time it will make a peculiar and lasting contribution to the nation of ‘which be forms a part. Hix increasing strength will become “the strength of the nation: ‘The author fs no mere theori«t in this prophecy, He nat only Tewgnizes the awful wronge still aiflvred by his race, but believes that the race. like, the individunl, xhould be. swift 0 protest against the wrongs, but xiow to lexprir, for a race that can miffer can alto triumph, and toward that triumphant nour he always bids them look, Ag a weulinr peonle he insists that the first and nost important Wusjness of the Face in tO In what their hands find to do so well lat no one else of any race gan do it yetter. What ix known as the race problem ‘an never be solved until the individual ae Relved hiv own peculiar problem. ‘No race wak ever lost that was worth diving,” and no race needy be lust that Kanty to save itself, “Nobody can de- rade a big race or a big man.” Hix losing admonition ‘ix, “Lat us ax a Face ecognize the fact that we are a part of a reat nation which we are bound to erve. 4 : Thus throuch every line of those all- oo-briet chaptegy there runs m mont help ul “optimiam. “Iie knows all “too well hint thern in no short cut to the solution fa reat race problem, Work, intelli- ence and faith are needed crerywhere ind all the time. Ife does not scold oF ret or despair. There in. xomething #0 vonderfully interesting And absorbing In he constructive work of race building. bat he has no time to give beed to com: Inints, ‘They who are engaged jo the ig tank of helping 10 rehabilitate @ race nto Atrength and self-sufficiency Have bu ime to waste 9-4 fanlt-findera and doubt a ie ‘The one “infallible rule in that thes who put the mort into life are sure to et the most out of it.” Thin rule ix as nfallible an God's laws and God's pur es for mankind, ‘Waccucw Sinaia: Mihincesuce TILLMAN SHALLOW. AND BRUTAL. Mis “Short Way" Wh Afre-Amerteans pmo Sy Menus of the theless *y Means of the Shetgus From ‘The New York Times. Seoator Tillman bas been reiteratihg in the West his particular recipe for the treatment of the Negro question, Tt {a what used to be called in theological con- troversies a “Short Way" that he advo- cates, Tt is mercly an attack upon the Negro rave. ‘Thos are linrs, thes are thieves, they are drones. And they are progressively deteriorating. ‘The sounger generation are worse than their elders, ‘The thing to deo with them ix to disfran- chise them, texally ax well as practically, and then when trouble comes to “resort to the giitsun.” ‘Tiits is Senator ‘Tillman's “Short Meth- oe” which has already excited the horror of the country 19 a considerable degree South ag well as North. What must strike everybody is That Senator Tillman does not seem to perceive that if the black race in the South ix deteriorating, the niain fault and the main responsibility are npon die superior race. ‘That the Mack man is naturally inferior is the postulate af his while argument. The answer is obvious, Why. swe nat the superior rave improve him so far ag be ia improvables What is the xe of @ South- erner’s acknowledging in one brewth that Mis race bis made a hopeless failure of thie Negros question, siyd in Tie next call: ing upen the Nerth te leave it to the Santh, where unty i: is ubderstood The fact js that Senator ‘Tilinan's are gument ix as shallow as it ie brutal. Thanks os Southern whites of a very dif ferent way of ghinking and feeling from his, hanks also ty Southern blacks as diferent ax possible from the sweeping Hihel he publishes wpon their whale rare, the number af self-supparting Negroes, of self-respecting Negros. of provident and progressive Negrows ig increasing. Dr. Adler, who never helped “Kill a nigger” in ‘his life, and whom on thay account Senator Tillman would disqualify as a witness, on Sunday suggested mme con- tributions taward the xélution of the ques- tion whieh at Teast are less revolting and inhuman thin Senator ‘Tillman's, That the greatest good an educated Negro can do ix to put his education at the Kervice of his own race, tint the greatest good a Southern white can do ix to give himself ty the advaucement of the blacks, these are suggestions which have alrendy in many cases of good blicks and good whites heen acted upon. But still “the harvest indeed iz plentéons, but the labor ers are.fow." ‘There is need of many mis: sionariryzn the blacks, Senator ‘Tiliman’s ease shows-tluit there are whites alko who are much in need of, evangelization: And, the two taces in the South moat tive and work out their own salvation together, at We peril of bath... We cannet contempiate auch “A separation of the races as. would reduce the luck helt of the South to the, state of the black Repubtie of Tiniti, where, in the mbrence of the whiter, the placks are reverting to more African aay ngery. It behooven every white Ameri can, enpecially every Sonthern white American, to do bis utmont to avert that catastrophe. But evidently those who are doing their utmost to avert it-will get Ro help from the Senator from South Care ina, 3 ha 2 Petite 0: dame Besos, Che A** Sane teas Bveny eoet of So Soe : of 0.3 Sie ame te rere are Phindelphia ey Molded. and the amusement and mesic amon were all to bear ber. ler Grex Goeay waa at Musical Pend Hall, and by eeoin "ot ‘the dvertiing methods ex ceed & es rnageed Boe Sxteat of baw! “al ‘Flos ‘pateoa' Bad's. peralar ‘voles, both ‘as (to range and quality, and, although untatored, she possessed. a manner which Heat value to: her ork aaa singer. Ber: a, a New ‘manager, -caw Sein $tere tion and started @ con- cert. e, covering many cities, built on unique ‘lines of management. He offered premiums in money, and ticker selling became a fad, mostly by church members, who worked sealously to ‘add to the coffers ‘of their respective churches. Bergen lived up to his pledges: and never once defaulted,-either in a promise ‘alter that fashion or in bis Amosements. Later on he married bis Protege, who became stepmother to # white son by a ‘prior marriage. Flora Batson’s xtyle seemed-to meet the desires Sf the average public, who, put her on & pedestal. where she held sway for many pears, Deraea's plan was to eocourage ome talent, at whatever place his. star was billed to sing, and, not only that, bur whenever he beard of skilled talent, gave the chance for ita exploitation. In this. Palladelpbia worth got recognition Among hix prescatations were Louis L. Brown, Richard Strange, and the Am- phion pinging Society, Emory Jones and ix wife, Madame SavilleJones were put on for hearings. Madame Virginia Mont- gomery of New York was usually the Accompanist for Flora Batson, It is within the memory of scores the advent of a Baltimore male chorus. After a whilg new fields were explored. ‘Then Bergen died, and his wife was left with- out inheritance and had to depend upon her own rewources. Flora Batwon was & profitable drawing card, and it Ix sad to think Mow little of the Gnancial success xhe made’ was diverted out of bet hands, In many axpects her career was greater than that of any other singer since the | days of the Black Swan, whore real careve, like that of Flora Batson's, began in this city, + MAY AFFECT RACE QUESTION. Case of Japancee Excinacd Frem Calt- hethn: Scaaen, From The New York World. If the San Francisco Board of Educa: tion can exclude Japanese children it can exclude -Englinh or French or ‘German children, regardiess of treaties entered into with the United States- Government. Presumably it would never undertake to do such a thing, but the principle is the vame. ‘A decision of the United States Su- preme Court on this inxue might bave an important bearing on all the laws and or dinances adopted in various States on ac count of race or color prejudice. For example, if the city of San Francisco can- not lawfully exclude Japanese children trom the public schools, can the State of Routh Carolina compel Negroes from the ‘West Indies who are British subjects to tide in “Jim Crow” cars? An entirely ‘new aspect of the relations of the Federal Government t6 the race question is pre- sented by these California proceedings, and it is conceivable that the decision of the court may. be of very great political importance, domestic as well as foreign, entirely apart from tbe mere commercial considerations involved. CONVICT KARNS A PARDON. Ry -Saving Life of Guards tm = ‘seehakeabee’ Mhod:: Jackson, Miss., December 15,—In a riot_at the State farm at Onkiey thir afternoon, followed by a hand-to-hand fight, Sergeant Jobo Dodds and Sergeant eM. Buckley" were seriously wounded. The (rouble started in a fight between two convicts in which others son joined. The two sergeants stopped the distarte noee and drove Ben Cooper, said to be the Auzresor. inte his cell. ‘They then en- tered (o ‘administer punishment and he attacked them with a knife, Buckley wan sinbbed and fell to the floor uncpnscions, ‘The conviet seized a billet of wood, felled Dodds and was preparing to klil_ both when a trusty: namea Crzekiah Planter interfered, — Other convicts ran to help Cooper, but a aauadenf guards quelled the riet. Gov. Vardaman, with tweaty men Were of the State militia, went to the Seene in a special train, bat when thes arrived quiet had been pestared, Cooper ant Che seven other ringleaders of the Fiat were whined, Sergeant Doods, i Spite of a broken arm, dealing fifty: blows feet "The Gayerner. as. soon ats he Iearted of Planters action. gave him ot fall pardon PROMOTION FOR RESISTING Mon. MASH INGTON, Te, 1.——The President her nent the fotliwiis Inter to Atrer hey: enteral Hanaparie Some three Meare age Sherif 1, Morrill of Caroll counts. Gay lect his ehaues fag reelection b6 Wis aetia it eating oft a mol of several Iandevd Aahise people whe were trying te tke 2 Newro ont of jail and gut hin te death Sheri’ Morritf cad hig deputies fired on the tnd, killing and wonnding several men and beating the athiers off Be: femiye cof lis he was defeted fer re: blgetinn ‘ SCongressinan Adamson brought the matter to my attention, saying that he hated to sete man who had done sucht service as a amblic officer defeated be cause ef the very fact.that he had ren dered the sereiew. Te told me that Ges. ‘Terrell had offered. Morrill a place, ‘the best he Jind to giva, whieh carried a, sal ary of $50 per month. T told the Con gresstnan fo thewzht U contd beat that, and got hii a place at $1,200 a sear a custodian, of the grands. of the Federal prison at Ationta. [hear he has doue well Tf he hit done well, can't we give fim a promotion?” hia ia For the first time in the history of the University of Vermont, an Afro-Nmerican, stident ‘hag been tlectod eaptnin of at athletic team. ‘Phe football sauad has almost wnani- mousty elected Fenwick TL. Watkins as taptain of the team for next season, Watking ix a graduate of the Burlinztors high school, where he made an excellpat record, proving one_of the best all around athletes the preparatery achoolx of the State-ever produced: Later he attended Exeter, Last year naulo.the football and bas kot halt te snd wae ns sothatitite catcher on + =, team, ‘hia fall he layed ‘get kame at ltt halfback. © 4 tinny long runs and? - awe He ie os “Ver and fn ge Wale thn ul the van cy Po O< F eauas ro bete FER DOLLT-mousrr, 215 W. exn’o Tm. ae. 208 West Cora St. THE VENICA, sie Wen ist O. 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He has worked ‘as hich ax thirty and forty handy a day. Mix bid for the erection of the Admin- istration billing of the Negra depart= ment of the Jamestown Exposition was $29,000, Mr. Ferrel promises to complete and deliver the building to the Nezro De- velopment aod Exposition Company of the Enited States of Amezina on. March: 15. Mr. Ferrell brought with him ree ommendations from mnay Of the leading citizens of the State ot New .York, in- cluding sovern): Congrrsamen. Ife has selected as his foreman on the building N.C. Dadd, {he other bid der far the building, and the work will cymmence in a few dave. Mr. Ferrell hing requented all AfilyAmerican me: chiniog vt of employment to apply. at: the \headquarters of the Negro Develop: men” and Exporition Company, U. 8. A. Hf." free ‘to pnt to work mt once one men, ‘The government of the han apr’ 7 Ant aor, ee ee & ™ . 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Tel. connection. ty G: Overton’ * embahmer, 69 West 60x bus, avense, liver” ,Teasowable tor, * \patewer THE IMPORTANCE TO POPULAR amalgamate the Purdue researchers of Iowa, Wise an investigative People Company Justice in Sewer by a National Demon- sion a Celebration of Harvest time—The Venerable Preacher a Championous Figure in appreciation of the Post village of the School Chil- al Correspondence of Tun Amir a Prism, Mayday, December 16—On of October, 1808, the people of them a new-born nation of native cars' existence, committed a crime, not awful, the most horrible, a nation permanent. here had been a man—a Negro, a slave, unattended and uncoath, and his name was Jean Jacques Desalinne. This man dreamed a dream, and his dream was this: That it was not right that multitudes of men, women and children, because dark of hue, should be dominated, oppressed and torured beyond the limit of all endurance by other men, women and children, because too much perilous to do, because this complexion was white, and be held in himself in his dream that what was so manifestly wrong it could not be right to endure and tolerate. Waking, the dream still haunted him, and looking around him he saw none to right this great wrong; then he vowed a vow that he would blimself undertake and achieve the task, a faith as daintess and wheeled hills that encircle the earth and wheeled he was born, saved and suffered untold angels, he entered upon his lifework. He was then just thirty-four years old. Against the trained battalions of Napoleon, whose every soldier was a hero, this fearless slave opposed a disreputable conglomeration of creatures already debased by three long centuries of slavery; against the purest Caucasian blood of Europe the darkest black of the African continent; against the gunnery of conquering civilization the purest agricultural implements of the merciful and stores wrested from the tropical forests, all these disadvantages notwithstanding this rebellious slave, who had dared to measure his stature against that of Napoleon, won the contest. The army, disordered forces routed the world-famed soldiers of Europe till the proud but divalvivalon Rochambeon, great minor bravery wherever found, bared his proud head in homage to the courageous This slave leader of slaves who, by his own great faith and untiring soul, had, during, fourteen long years of struggle, led his fellow companions through hardships and encounters to a final victory the most unparalleled in the history of the world, what would they give him of the world, what recompense for him would gift of freedom? At first, he named him Governor for life, but they soon felt the honor not important. Then they made him Emperor. That was better, but was it enough? Would a regal crown surface such a kingly spirit? No; that were not rare enough, perhaps, so they crowned him—A Martyr. Oh, that so sad a deed should be our record, so foul a crime need be our just without the northern green of the capital the savannah of Dessaline, the avenger of Toussaint L'etouverture, the lioness of his race, the founder of the independence of Hayt, was treacherously murdered by the very men whose liberty he had but just achieved at the cost of truly superhuman efforts. It would always it requires the life of their savour, to cement their great unselfless decals in behalf of suffering and unfulfilled humanity. The hardened particles dragged the body of their late Emperor through the streets of the capital, flinging it to the tremors mob they would commit. The prince named since in connection with the event the Pont Rouge—the Red or Bloody Bridge—and all day the desecration of the body had been going on. At last, their orgyre was repaired, and were reinterred to the shelter of their homes, driven thereto by fatigue and by hunger presumably. The desecrated and mutilated body, the spot now called and scattered, lay on and abandoned whatever fate the dogs might choose to inflict. It was about 4 p.m., the early tropical twilight would soon be closing in, when there appeared, forcing her way through the throng of the indifferent criminals and the criminally indifferent, one woman, in poor, lone, wandering creature, known as defilee Tolle, the mad, insane, in name, the craaked creature, turning and twisting in mad gratitude, and suddenly, spied the woody. Shuddering at the light the woody, the drew murder and murder, gassing still, as if attracted by some awful fascination. The poor disordered brain, by some latent gleam of light, recognized the late Emperor, gathered the full import of the terrible crime and, with one wild shriek of horror, Defilee the Crazed fell on her knees beside what to her, as a sacred corpse, but first cry of horror the clouds which heretofore had darkened had been rent saunter and now more the light of reason dawned her eyes. Knuckling she wept and moaned in anguish as might a mother over the sad reminis, then reverently gathering them in her poor tattered skirts, straight to the graveyard she went, tottering under the weight of her burden, and then after a former companion came in, she had been—a man, Dumphin-together the scarer unique in the world's history, the conqueror-slave. Desolations the Great. Every day they after Dessiline the Mint would go to the humble tomb and lay a tribute of flowers culled here and there in her wanderings. But though some found on none follow her, some still left Dessiline in dismay and disappeared, no one knows where her grave may be. Then some twenty years after Dessiline's death the wife of one of his lieutenants, Madame Inglaine, in grateful recognition of favors long ago received, erected a modern monument, bearing the simple inscription: "People read it and passed on." Eighty years went by, and from his private foundation President Hypolite erected a more stately manseum. The nation commented, but remained indifferent. Ninety years later, and a group of patrons stood forth, under the title of "Association of the Centenary of the Independence," to form a tempestuous group of the great states on our national history by memorial services, conferences, lectures, publications, processors. At the inaugural fete one of our peers, Massillon Colein, in a poem written for the occasion, in a sublime apostrophe to the ancestors, eroded out. "You are the living and the dead," he said, "and the unhappy and the unhappy are few. The majority remained indifferent and sadled; but the few who remembered and cared would not be disheartened. Then came the celebration of the centennial of the independence (1904), to which the government congruded, the entire nation. To this fete some came gravely, with hearts that beat true and high; some came protecting and skipping and gartering, but long line of school children thousands of them, in the cool morning air of a day in January, marched from the "Place de Independence" to the "Champ de Mars," singing the "Desseldulieu," as they went; when the aged Chelfain, Dansetoguerian, with Madame Nord on his arm, passed up the long line of people, and kneeling at the foot of the stairs, the cannonas thundered an imperial salute of one hundred and one guns, something swept over the people, and they returned home thoughtful and already wisher. The spirits of the ancestors had indeed met and commanded with the spirits of the great states that had never occurred to them that they interrupted stons and hatreds, their many bitter humiliations, were but the explication of the crime of October 7. From that first act of dital homage dered in 1904, has the national awak- ed. To the least observing in Italy is evident that light has been poured into the city. In every possible department society of a prudent person. The administration of the Government, including the army, is in constant agreement with the laws and regulations of all the Army, the Navy and the Maritime Fleet. The Army, the Navy and the Maritime Fleet are under the Ministry and jurisdiction of the Government. Outgoing when printed from its offices, were taken from its parish parishes and issued all over the province, and many were in circulation at that time, the subject, the post-Munition October, designated the great in a play called "K. Burgess, Demonstration." All the government departments were put in operation, competition were formed in a serial program was drawn up, printed and circulated, with the result that on the 17th of October last multitude of officers of the Army, Navy and the Maritime Fleet were of white or black, the contrary of the Republic. Let us relate, as briefly as possible, the event as it took place at the capital. It had already been officially announced that "by decision of the government a memorial service would be conferred on October 17, 1906, in every city of the Republic, accompanied by solen military honors, in commemoration of the death of the Illustrious Founder of the Hayton National Museum days in advance, with great invitations and programs" in the Name of the Nation "to the various foreign diplomatic and consular representatives. Every department of State and civil institutions and their personnel had been notified. Promptly at noon of the eve of the day a salute of seventeen guns was fired. It announced the opening of the manifestations. From then on at short intervals minute guns and the tomahawk bell reminded the long event and of its importance character. Almost at daybreak on the morrow the first manifestation in the great act of reparation began. At 6.30 a.m. at Holy Trinity church, Protestant Episcopal Bishop Holly, assisted by Reva Battiste, Jones Christian and affiliated in a memorial service before a crowded church of fifty voices had been trained, for the occasion. The government had sent a bust of Desalline and a brass band. The President had sent two officers from his military staff to and the Secretary of State of Public Worship had been representative. At 8 o'clock the center of the institution was centered on the Cathedral (Roman Catholic), where every functionary, civil or military, was assembling. The sarcophagus, draped with the national flag, bears the bust of the queen of Public Worship and the floral tributes on the surface are artistically grouped and the center of it all is a stately young palm—the national symbol of liberty—gracefully always its glossy fronds. During the mass—the imposing mural of Roman Catholic chapels and floral tributes still telling the minute guns re-coaching at the palace band, under the leadership of the Mastoro O. Yeanty, home of the Conservatoire de Paris, executes for the first time his new funeral march. The impressions of Desalline. The pilgrimage demonstrations are over and the cortege is The celebration of the centennial of the independence (1904), while commendable, could not be at best but a selfish manifestation. The rejoicing of a people in acquired liberty does not necessarily manifest the liberty of our independence of that freedom. The manifestation of October, 1906, marks the dawn of a higher sentiment gratitude. The Haytians until now infancy knew not the extent of their indebtedness to the ancestors, but with the coupling of her first centennial Haytian spirit, she began to take her origin into consideration, with all its terrible drawbacks, ten decades have not been a long infancy, and it is a hopeful sign that with the first dawn of her self-consciousness, her first feeling has been one of honor in the portion of her faith, in the commitment, in her desire not the confession and the mourning of her guilt and the expression of her repentance. May not hope that he who commanded "Honor thy father and thy mother" will receipt of this her repentance and grant that the ordeal may be long in the mind, and that he may to give her: God it! in his mercy THEOPORA HOLLY PERIGORD William G. Matthews, the former Hurford baseball and football players, has been settled on as coach of the Noble and Coughlin school track team this winter. 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Get off at Ormond Place, Brooklyn, and walk down to the fourth house, 86 Putnam avenue. FOR RENT All light rooms. In excellent condition, to a small, respectable colored family. Rent $16.00. Immediate possession. Near Grand Central Station. Apply to 800 Second avenue, near 42d street. HENRY HOUSE Has Removed from 262 West 40th Street to 586. Seventh Avenue, near 41st St. Newly furnished. First-Class O Mme. J. L. CRAWPORD 231 West 90th Street, New York City Wig, Switches, Range and Prompedeons mode of natural hair; also made combings, Hair Dressing, Manuring, Scalp Treatment, Facial Manuring, Shampooing and Hair Straightening a Speciality, Cambings bought mp 27 5m. MME. S. BOFIRD formerly with Mrs. Flanders. LADIES' HAIR DRESSING PARLOR. 727. 8th avenue. Afro-American Hair Goods a speciality; also hair straightening. Your patronage solicited. sep 27 Pm W. W. HART Succesor to R. H. Bundy my WEST and STREET Hygienic Tonsorial Art, Vibration Massage, Manicuring. First-class Artists. Popular prices. FORD'S HAIR POMADE Formerly known as "OZONAZED OX MARROW" BO KINKY or CURLY HILL that it may be in any other condition will be satisfied. The Orenized Ox Harrow Co. (New premises without any signature) Charles Park Park 70 Wabash Ave., Chicago, M. Agents wanted everywhere. The New York Age $1.50 THE YEAR The Colored American Magazine and The Age, $2.00 Address FORTUNE & PETERSON 4 Cedar St., New York TUCKER'S Suburban Realty and Leasing Co. Houses and lots for sale in city and suburbs. Also fruit and poultry farms of all sizes, very cheap. Estates taken in charge Rents collected. Flats to let at reasonable prices THOMAS TUCKER, Gen. Mgr., 2134 Madison Avenue, S. W. corner, Tel. Com., 4405-Harlem, oct 18:3p TAMMANY HALL 141, 143, 145, 147 BART 14TH STREET. Bet. Third Ave, and Irving Place, adjoining the Academy of Music. Telephone: 5578 Gramercy. Centrally and conveniently located. Excellent surface, subway and "L" facilities to large largest seating capacity of any ball room for white mall cake floor, brilliant electric illumination. Adapted for balls, reception, banquets, fairs, conventions, etc. Seating capacity, 2,500 persons, 20 private boxes, six scars in each. H. KRHYKENBOHM, Lessee. Books always open. Committees are invited. 509 EIGHTH AVENUE, N. Y. Telephone 3344-38th Photographs in sepa gravure and carboo life size portraits in oil, pastel and water colors. Popular prices oct 4 2m Dr. E. T. ST. JOHN General Practitioner, Specialist in Dia- cines of Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. Clin- ical Assistant at the New York Ophthalmic Hospital. Office hours—9 to 11 A. M., 7 to 8 P. M. Telephone, 3392-Harlem. Residence, 351 West 133d street. vol 1-8t The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale photograph of a room with a desk and a chair. The desk is partially visible, and there is a chair in front of it. The room has a dark background with some indistinct shapes that could be furniture or decorative items. After much effort, I am now able to offer to my people for rent 9 HIGH-CLASS APARTMENT HOUSES These are "New-Law Houses" of a class never before rented to our people. They are situated in two of the finest blocks in Harlem, and the rent is within reach of all Nos. 24, 26 @ 28 West 140th Street 3 Six-story Apartment Houses; each house is 41 feet 8 inches wide. Has 4 apartments on each floor; one of 6 rooms and bath one of 5 rooms and bath and two of 4 rooms and bath. RENTS $20 TO $32 PER MONTH Nos.24, 28, 30, 34, 36 & 38 West 136th St. 6 Six-story Apartment Houses; each house is 37 feet 6 inches wide. Has 4 apartments on each floor; two of 5 rooms and bath and two of 4 rooms and bath. RENTS $20 TO $29 PER MONTH These houses have all modern improvements, except elevator and electric lights. Refrigerators, Dutch Dining Rooms, etc. The steam heating and hot water plants are of the latest type and are guaranteed to give thorough satisfaction. The plumbing is of the finest sanitary construction, with porcelain fixtures. Large open courts make every room in these houses light, cheerful and healthy. These apartments will not be long vacant, so don't delay making your inspection and paying your deposit, that you may secure the rooms you desire. Write, telephone or call 1—106 and [108] West triple Flats. 4 room apply, open plumbing, $22 per month. 106 and 108 West 137th Street Table Flats. 4 rooms and bath, stealthy, open plumbing, tiled halls and tiling $2 per month. TO LET 133d STREET.—2 private houses, four improvements. Rent $1,000 per year each STREET.—Private house, eleven rooms, rent $75 per month. STREET. 5 rooms and bath, hot water tats. Rents $21 to $23 per month. STREET.—5 rooms and bath, hot water tats. Rent $23. STREET.—Third floor. 4 rooms and room heat. Rent $24. STREET.—Three and four rooms and bath rate rent. STREET. Five and six large rooms and more. EST 62d STREET.—3 and 4 rooms per month. Just Opened—106 and 108 West 137th Street 2 Five-story Triple Flats. 4 rooms and bath, steam heat, hot water supply, open plumbing, tiled halls and tiled baths. Rents $20 to $22 per month. TO LET ST 133d STREET.—2 rooms all improvements. Rent STREET.—Private h Rent $75 per month. th STREET. 5 rooms clients. Rents $21 to $23 th STREET.—5 rooms clients. Rent $23. th STREET.—Third team heat. Rent $24. STREET.—Three and moderate rent. STREET. Five and sable. WEST 62d STREET per month. 60 AND 62 EAST 133d STREET.—2 private houses, fourteen rooms and bath, all improvements. Rent $1,000 per year each, 73 WEST 134th STREET.—Private house, eleven rooms. all improvements. Rent $75 per month. 185 WEST 134th STREET. 5 rooms and bath, hot water supply, all improvements. Rents $21 to $23 per month. 168 WEST 135th STREET.—5 rooms and bath, hot water supply, all improvements. Rent $23. 311 WEST 119th STREET.—Third floor. 4 rooms and bath, hot water, steam heat. Rent $24. 46 EAST 132d STREET.—Three and four rooms and bath, hot water supply, moderate rent. 8 EAST 133d STREET. Five and six large rooms and bath. Rents reasonable. 248 AND 250 WEST 62d STREET.—3 and 4 rooms. Rent only $11 to $15 per month. SAMUEL SINGLETON, SUPT. ON PREMISES. A. PAYTON, Jr. 67 WEST 134th STREET PHILIP A. PAYTON, Jr. Telephone 917 and 918 Hartem 67 WEST 134th STREET 1864 THIRTY-THIRD 1907 GRAND ANNUAL RECEPTION OF THE Coachmen's Union League Society OF NEW YORK CITY Organized Oct. 17th, 1864 acted not to accept any more ap- for the company after December was the company's intention to inspiring Afro-Africans after eal or Nail Bren' restaurant, 450 Sixth avenue. Table photo dinner with claret wine, 50 counts. Monday lunch, 11.30 to 2 p. m. 30 count. special breakfast, 7 to 11 a. m. 30 count—adv. Mr. Charles H. Taylor of the Hartford H. B. Cow spent Christmas with his family, the first time in forty-two years, he having brought the water every Christmas during Yuleide. He left for Cambridge, Mans., on 18th of December. The Grand Commandery, Knights Temple, State of New York, held its thirtieth annual convalesc at 160 West 29th street, New York city, Thursday, December 20. The following officers were elected: Sir George Fallison, re-elected Grand Commander; Peter T. Drummins, Deputy Grand Commander; John Swan, Generalissimo; Augustus Richardson, Captain General; Thomas Dyer, Treasurer; Levi Williams, Responder The Colored Men's Branch of the Young Men's Christian Association is about to close another year of work and service. The institution will the year will show up as well if it does better than, they have done for any year since the establishment of the branch. The educational department above has fewer registrations this year than last. The office of the branch conducted a five hour hearth last week. Next Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock the monthly public meeting will be held at Bethel A. M. B. church. West 25th street, to which the entire public is invited. Third annual fancy dress reception of Enter Nous chan. Wednesday, January 2 a the milking of New Year's Day a large sitting and reception will be held in the hiding, in celebration of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Everybody is invited. The emancipation address will be delivered by Mr. Roscoe Conklin Simons, and the famous Mallory Sisters quartet of Newark, N. J., will reader music, assisted by mr. W. H. Holland, tenor. At the Clarendon House are: Ms. W. B. Thompson, Washington, D. C.; Miss M. K. Klater, Kingston, N. Y.; Willie A. Wilcox and wife, Easton, Md.; W. M. Norwall and life, Annapolis, Md.; Mrs. M. P. Pitchwalt, orfolk, Va.; Mr. and Mrs. William Hawna, Trenton, N. J.; John Clark, Omaha; b. W. J. Cummings, New Haven, J. S. Johnson and wife, Roxbury, N. J.; J. R. E.eres Center Fall, N. J.; W. H. Wilson and e. Philadelphia; J. H. Douglas and wife, Philadelphia. the firm of Anderson & Robertson, at 28 t 135th street, are possibly the only American dealers in new and slightly mature that we have in the city. politan Dancing Masters' class and Friday (receptions) nights, d 116 West 53d street. Our new "the Grenadier"; also the Oxford .t. Christmas Eve reception next day night.—adv. Sherrian Ball, president of the Metropolitan Mercantile and Realty Company, is making his home at the Hotel Maceo. Mrs. Agnes Jones of Peterburg, Va., is now with her son, Sandy P. Jones, of 6 West 134th street. Arrivals at Hotel Macco are Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Brooks, Washington, D. C.; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Robinson, Hartford; Mr. and Mrs. John Williams, E. L. Thomas, Boston; Mr. and Mrs. W. Jackson, Washington, D. C.; Albert Kearney, Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Mrs. A. Belle Henderson left the city Monday evening to spend Christmas in Philadelphia, Pa., and Woodbury, N. J., her former home. Special reduction in Ladies' Tailoring for January and February. Young. 334 West 13rd street, New York, adv. dec.20-8t Miss Florence E. Marsh of Orange, N. J. has gone to Washington to spend the holiday and then for an extended trip through the South. Mrs. Mary Harry has been very ill with gastrointestine at her home, 131 West 53d street, and desires to inform her many friends that she is improving nicely. Mr. Earl Patterson of Selma, Ala., will spend the winter in New York. Mr. Patterson has the honor of being the only Afro-American graduate of Yale College who made the senior class in one year. Miss George Jackson has returned to the city from Baltimore. She will spend the winter at the home of her brother, William Z. Jackson, 7 West 134th street. Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Mounserone of Cape May are spending the holiday week with their sister, Mrs. W. H. Randolph of 486 Sixth avenue. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Walker are now residing at 142 West 28th street. a Sunday evening, December 23, Mr. Crawford and Mrs. Susan Brown were nursed in holy matrimony by the Rev. E. E. Jackson, D. D., of Zion Baptist church, at residence of the bride, 341 West 59th street. The presents were numerous and refitting. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. L. Carr, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Diggs, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Diggs, Mr. and Mrs. E. Holland, Mrs. Briggs, Mrs. Floida, Miss E. Johner, Mrs. Ellia Gaston, Mr. George Boll, Mrs. Nancy Carter, Miss Mary Brown, Miss Lille White, Miss Colla Laws, Mrs. Jones, Miss Johnson, Mr. Burd, Mr. Wm. Booker and Mrs. Joseph Frank. The Welcome Social Club held their first orlar social and installation of officers for coming year at the residence of Mrs. Sillin Payne, 217 East 88th street. The are: J. Slimmonds, president; F. vice-president; Misa Ada White, sec- tr. D. J. Francis, recording secre- tion. Thompson of Orange, N. J. Mrs. Henderson acted as install- eress of the evening were: lions, speeches, music and friends from Brooklyn and ent. Mr. Davis, Monsa- v spoke in behalf of the BROOKLYN. Miss Anna M. Jackson of 1919 L street, Washington, D. C., is the guest of Miss Bertha Pierce. The concert given by the A. M. E. Zion Sabbath school Thursday and Friday evenings was a success. Those who took part were the Misses W. Mitchell, R. Johnson, Ellith and Ethel Miller, E. Williams, B. and V. Waters, L. Johnson, M. Miller, F. Johnson, T. Gardiner, Masters C. Robinson, J. Waters, J. Gardiner, H. Williams and S. Gardner. Mrs. E. Heyward and sister, Mrs. Towler, left for Ashland, Va., to spend Christmas with their mother, Mille Brown. The Church Aid Circle No. 1 presented Rev. J. F. Waters with a barrel of flour as a Christmas gift. Mrs. Juliana Briggs is on the sick list. Mr. Francis Hicks, the oldest colored citizen of the Eastern District, is ill. She is with her brother, Mr. George McCampbell, of 356 Marcy avenue. A New Year's reception will be given at the Carlton avenue branch, Brooklyn's Young Men's Christian Association, Tuesday, January 1, from 4 to 10 p. m. The following committee of ladies will receive: Minesa Margaret Avery, Fannie Avery, Helena Alexander, Albrada Bentley, Irene Burke, Eina L. Larr, Irene A. Desarte, Laura H. Davin, F. V. Hodgen, Rosa Lee, Edna Milligan, Abbie Milligan, Corn McKenny, Edith Smith, Helena C. Taylor, Frances E. Voderry, Evelyn, Wiley, Nina E. Wilson, Ethel Washington, Matrons—Mrs. Richard I. Jackson and Mrs. Fannie Howe. At the regular meeting of the Society of the Sons of Virginia, held on Thursday evening of last week, the committee of the recent reception reported $17.50 through chairman J. W. Winters, making the total amount received from the reception committee $217.50 clear of all expenses. This has been the most successful year in the society's history. The annual election of officers for the ensuing year took place at the conclusion of the regular business, and resulted as follows: N. Barnett Dodson, president; R. Lincoln Powell, vice-president; Arthur Durrell, Jr., financial secretary; Graham H. Carter, treasurer; Alexander Brown, chaplain; Peter Henry Fisher, Jr., recording secretary; Wyatt Rugene Tylier, corresponding secretary; James B. Walkus, surgeon-at-arms. Three members were also elected to the board of directors for three years; viz. James W. Gatewood, Jalson N. Boone and Philip R. Swan, M. P. H. Fisher, Sr., first president of the society, presided over the election. The installation of officers will take place on the first Thursday in January, at which time Dr. J. Francis Blair will deliver the oration of the evening and install the officers. At the Concord Baptist church Sunday morning, Dr. W. T. Dixon preached an able sermon. The session of the Sunday school at 2:30 was attended by nearly 400 scholars. After the lesson Chorister Charles F. Murrow led the school in the final rehearsal of the Christmas musie. Miss Eleenora M. Bonagass conducted the special Christmas program of the Christian Endeavor Society at 6:15. Those who took part were Mrs. Ida C. Carter, Miss Edna Sprigg, Miss Simmons, Mr. Andrew Vanburen, Miss Sue Stewart, N. B. Bodson, Dr. Dixon and a quartet of small children. After the session in the evening Dr. Dixon administered the ordinance of baptism to two candidates. The pastor also referred feelingly to the death of President Gregory W. Hayes of Lynchburg Seminary at Lynchburg, Va. The Ladies Superior Club will receive the many friends on New Year's Day from 3 12 p. m. at 1684 Pacific street. Brooklyn, near Schenectady avenue. The Brooklyn Division of True Reformers with Mr. J. H. Yancy as chairman, are arranging for a big concert at Jefferson Hall on the evening of January 17, with the Junior Tennessee Vocalist Company as participants. The Christmas exercises of the Concord Baptist Sunday school on Tuesday night excelled in interest and timeliness that of any held for many years. Instead of the usual program of songs, recitations and such like by individual classes, a cantata entitled "General Santa Claus or the Merry Christmas War," was rendered by a company of scholars directed by Miss Fannie M. Perkins, who was ably assisted by Mendances Harrelt, L. Brown, Sarah E. H. Russell and Mary J. Faulcon, Mr. James Brown, Prof. Possimist; Mr. Harry Foster, General Santa Claus; Mr. Charles Henenson, Candle Sam; Miss Walker, Columbia; Mr. W. S. Jordan, Father; Miss Dolly Crum, Death Angel. There were fairies, brownies, money lovers, children, mothers and grandmothers. Mine, J. S. Parsons was the planet. Stage settings were by Mr. Lewis A. Jeppe, assisted by Monsur, Charles J. Crowder, W. E. Tyler, J. S. Parsons and others. Each scholar received a box of candy and an orange. The distribution of presents from teachers to scholars and vice versa was generous. Mr. N. Barnett Dodson, the general superintendent, was presented with a purse of twenty-five dollars, fourteen dollars and ninety-five cents of which was given by Mrs. M. A. Warfield and her class and the rest from other classes and teachers. Mr. Dodson completed his fourteenth year as superintendent on the 22d of last October. A pretty home wedding was celebrated at 141 Prince street on Wednesday evening, December 12, the contracting parties being Miss Emily J. Robinson, formerly of Charleston, S. C., and Mr. Frank J. Grant, formerly of Orlandoburg, S. C. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. William T. Dixon, D. D., pastor of the Concord Baptist Church of Christ, Miss Sarah Mitchall was maid of honor and Mr. William H. Robinson was best man. After receiving the congratulations of their friends a splendid collation was served and the happy couple left for their new home at 813 Myr the avenue. THE AGE IN CHARLESTON. Copies of the New York Age can be received from Mr. Chavica R. Wintrop. 29 Short Street, Charleston, S. C. and then at Albany. At the latter place he collated a weekly journal called the Albany Patrol, an anti-slavery paper. NOTICE. J. L. Croft is not connected with any other business in New York city except the Dumbar Palace barber shop, 418 West 52d street. Agent for Hoff's German Liniment for rheumatism, etc., Pollard's Perfection Dandruff Cure and Tonic and Pomade; also New York Age--ady. dec27-29 OBITUARY. Mrs. Marphuela Allen, known to her friends as "Tena," and wife of J. Thomas Allen, died Christmas Day, at 4 p. m. She was conscious to the end. Funeral services from Mt. Olivet Baptist church, Friday, 25th inat. Interment at Kenalo Cemetery. Philadelphia papers please copy. MARRIED Humphrey-Fex At 1 Cooper Place, Jersey City, on November 24, Mrs. Rev. A. J. Fox, of New York, was married to Mr. Lee Humphrey, of New York city, Rev. A. M. Harris, officiating, Mrs. Humphrey will give a Christmas dinner at her residence, 18 W. 136th street, to a few near friends on Christmas day as a celebration of her recent marriage. NEWS IN BRIEF. Patterson and other New Jersey towns are in a ferrisland state of mind this week because "The Clanman" is booked to appear among them. —The War Department has not been informed of the reported action of artillerymen at Fort Barancas, Fla., near Penacola, in bring on a train. The commanding officer of the fort has been asked for information. The troops there are the Seventh, Ninth, Fifteenth, Twentieth and Twenty-second companies of Coast Artillery. According to the reports received at the War Department the conductor of the train said that he had trouble with an artilleryman in regard to his fare just after the train left Penacola for the fort, ten miles distant. Other soldiers came to their comrade's assistance and the conductor drew a revolver and held them off. There were about twenty soldiers in the party. When the train started back for Penacola and was near the fort a volley was fired at the conductor, he allege. He jumped off the train, he says, and returned the fire. His assistants, he says, fled when he shot at them. The soldier who caused the trouble was arrested by the civil authorities. December 24.—The Federal Supreme Court to-day decided adversely to Sheriff Shipp of Chattanooga, his seven deputies and eighteen citizens of that city in their contentions that the court was without jurisdiction to hold them liable for contempt in connection with the lynching last March of Ed Johnson, a Negro, whose appeal was before the court at the time. The opinion of the court, delivered by Justice Holmes, was unanimous, except that Justice Moody took no part in the consideration of the case, and in addition was an interested party, he having, as Attorney-General, filed the original information upon which the proceedings were based. The opinion also branches aside the other questions raised by the defendants and directs that the case proceeded to trial on its merits. No indication was given as to the procedure to be taken, but as the Department of Justice took the initiative in the matter the court will probable wait for Attorney-General Romparte to make the next move. By order of Mayor Woodward the Atlanta saloons were ordered to be closed from Tuesday afternoon last to Wednesday morning, because of rumors that there might be trouble between the races on Christmas day. Several "K, K, K" notices were posted about the city last Saturday and a reward of $200 was offered by the Mayor for evidence that would convict the offenders. The Jamestown Exposition Commission met in Washington December 24 to receive a report from L. W. Johnson, president, and G. R. Jackson, director general, of the Negro Development Exposition Company, as to what is being sold to prepare an exhibition of Negro progress at the exhibition. The Commissioners are not satisfied with the situation. As Congress appropriated $100,000 for the Negro exposition, the Commission demanded to know what is being done. Director Jackson had submitted a bill for $20,000 salary due him, he says, for two years' services, but it was rejected by the Comptroller of the Treasury, who held that the appropriation was for prospective services and a prospective exhibit, and not for past service. At the request of Merrill Johnson and Jackson, the Commission adjourned over for a week to enable them to prepare a detailed report of the Negro Development Exposition Company. "A conductor on a Mobile & Ohio train had an alteration with an Afro-American near Wahnihaka, Miss., last Monday, and after the latter had shlashed the conductor with a razor he was shot to death and another person was wounded. An alleged race war was threatened and the Governor was appealed to and sent troops to the scene, where two white men were reported to have been killed. "It is declared that Henry Davis was lynched at Annapolis, Md., December 20 by a mob of 40 applicants for the Naval Academy and students of St. John's College. A State can import laborers, though an individual may not. Even a State, however, cannot import laborers for any one mill; it can import them, provided it distributes them. Neither can it so import them as to interfere with their theory of choice as to the place in which they want to work, nor import them in any way which will prevent their rejecting any offers made to them by anybody. It cannot prevent them from going anywhere they choose. These are the principal points made or suggested in the decision rendered yearday by the Department of Commerce and Labor in the question of the laborers im- UNION A. M. E. CHURCH, 230 East 85th street; Rev. J. C. Fernandera pastor. Sunday services: C. P. Fernandera, 11 a. m.; Clam Meeting, 12 m.; Sunday School, 1:30 p. m.; Preaching, 8 p. m.; Holy Communion every third Sunday 8 p. m. Week day services: Lyceum, Wednesday, 8 p. m.; Clam Meeting, Thursday, 8 p. m. All are welcome. MISCELLANEOUS HELP WANTED AT ONCE. Wanted— Several colored cooks, useful men, waitresses and general workers, city and country. Wages, $16 to $35. Apply Southern Colored Mission and Employment Bureau. 60 West 134th street. Tel. 1882 Harlem. oct 25-8m FURNISHED rooms to let, all conveniences, with or without table board. K. L. Wright, 1479 Borgem street, Bklyn. FURNISHED rooms, all conveniences. 457 Gold street, Brooklyn, near Fulton. Mrs. H. L. Williams. nov 22-4t FOR RENT—A large pleasant room for two persons; private house, all conveniences. 55 Grove street. TO LET—Newly furnished, light rooms; bath and all improvements. Convenient to care. Terms moderate. 403 Waverly avenue, Brooklyn. ADIES' Nick Nares by the week or month. Terms reasonable. First-class references. Mrs. C. A. Fisher. 569 East 158th street. dec 6-4t TO LET—Two large neatly furnished front rooms; private, with conveniences. Mrs. G. A. Hamilton. 211 West 60th street. dec 13-4t TO LET—A single furnished room for gentleman. Amely Mrs. W. H. Randolph, 486 Sixth avenue, near 29th street. MANQUERADS AND FANCY Dresses costumes to hire, very reasonable. Inquire of L. Nerv. 17 Doyer street. New York, top floor. dec 13-4t TO LET—A large light neatly furnished room for one or two gentlemen. Apply Mrs. M. Randall, 73 West 133d street. dec 20-2t TO LET—Two nicely furnished rooms or unfurnished front. 310 East 80th street. Ring four times. Armatead bell. dec 20-2t TO LET—Furnished rooms, large and small. E. Tacklin, 251 W. 20th street. dec 20-4t TO LET—Nearly furnished rooms for gentleman or man and wife; private house. Apply Mrs. G. Williams, 33 West 133d street. dec 20-4t 107 WEST 134TH ST., 5 large rooms and bath; rent $22. Apply Janitor, or Joseph F. Felst, 408 West 42d street. TO LET—Nearly furnished room; heated; bath; two gentlemen preferred. Call evenings and Sundays. Van Dyke, 131 W. 133d street. dec 27-4t FURNISHED room, one or two gentlemen. 45 W. 66th street. Lewis. T $ ^{0}$ LET - Desirable rooms, furnished or furnished. 761 Third avenue. Top floor front. T $ ^{0}$ LET - Large furnished room, suitable for light housekeeping. 230 W. 17th st. T $ ^{0}$ LET - Nicely furnished rooms, large, light, comfortable; excellent locality. 107 West 133d street. ENTRA LARGE front room to let for two persons. Mrs. Irving. 308 W. 39th st. T $ ^{0}$ LET - Neatly furnished rooms to mar- ried couple or two or three men. Apply S. Sipple. 73 West 133d street. CLAYTON'S EXPRESS and Moving Vans. Telephone, 1773 Columbus. Trunks, Pianes and Furniture Carefully Removed. E. Lee Clayton, Owner. T. C. Hewlett, Managre aug 16-19 DOING BUSINESS AT THE OLD STAND Telephone, 1897 Harlem. OHIO VAN COMPANY Licensed Plano Holsting. Furniture removed to City or Country. Packing. Boxing. Shipping. Storage with care. Office. No. 1 W 134th St. nor. Fifth Ave., New York. F. WISE. Proprietor. nov 15 Sm TO LET 609 TO 615 WEST 130TH STREET Two and three room flats for respectable colored tenants. Two rooms $9.00, three rooms $1 Apply to Janitor on premises nov 22 Sm --- Thursday Evening, January 24th, 1907 MUSIC BY PROF. W. F. CRAIG Cards of Admission (Including Wardrobe Check) 50 Conts BOXES, Seating 10 Persons, 8:00 The same can be secured by addressing William H. Tyera, 328 West 53d Street; James N. Anderson, 413 West 52d Street, or Jansie Wheaton, 413 Broadway. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE—William H. Tyera, Chairman; Betsy I. Frostner, Secretary; Robert D. Green, Alexander King, William T. Anderson, Samuel R. Houston, James Cutler, Charles B. Walker, James N. Anderson, James R. Williams, Peter R. Smith, Adalio F. Palacio, G. Haus De Forster, James T. Bohnson, William H. Burr. Thursday Evening, January 17, 1907 At PANHATTAN CASINO, Eighth Ave. and 153th St. Music by Miss Hallie L. Anderson's Orchestra Admission Including Hat Checks Fifty Cents THE SIMS UNION REALTY CO. have for inspection 224-26-30-32 W. 64th St., also 207 and 214 W. 61st St. In the apartments in 64th Street every room is newly decorated. Quarter meters for gas. We are still selling stock at $5 per share. All persons who are desirous of a safe investment should invest in this Company. Incorporated under the laws of New York State. O. W. BAPTIST, Pres V. TAYLOR, Secy. J. E. YATES, Treas. Tel. 472 Col. Main Office, 202 West 63d St., New York The Fad of the Town and the Greatest Sport of To-day. So Fall in Line at the Broadway Roller Skating Rink 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 UPTOWN, NEAR 125th STREET 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 For particulars apply SAMUEL A. KELSEY 363 LENOX AVENUE, Near 128th F WINES AND LIQUORS FOR THE HO' A big and select stock of PURE WINES and LIQUORS to choose from at roc SOUVENIRS Christmas and New Year's Eve we give a HAND to each customer whose purchase amo (excepting case goods). WINES and LIQUORS 794 9th Ave.. NO BAR. Mail Orders. Receive Prompt Aler NOW IS T a uniform, fee for all all legal holidays are to be observed half-day. So far the Afro-African trade has a monopoly of the trade in this city, and on the whole is best, represented by body of men. The public has accepted the verdict that the barbers quite graciously, and the trade expects to do a better business and give even greater satisfaction under the new scale of prices. new Hats off to Messrs. Otis Sedgwick and Garnet Hargrave, our young real estate dealers. These two young men, more boys in point of age, have done more, the latent business capable, the race than hundred of our so-called well-to-citizen men, have bought a large tract of new the city limits, had it surveyed and laid out in lots, which they are offering for sale on the easy payment plan. The youths are burglers, having several sales, and several purchasers for all remaining lots. They determine for all containing lots. They determine cent of profit which is certainly coming their way. Not long ago the firm of Mark & Taylor made just such a deal and realised a handsomeprofit, these are old, experienced burglar, man, and tried handsome but about success. Sadgwick: Hargrave; boys; real estate Good! Hats off! dear Mrs. A. J. Clement, who was the agent of the People's B. and M. A. Society, has accepted the position of general inspector of the N. C. Mutual Insurance Company, at a fixed salary, and will remain at Charlotte, where he will remain for future. Mr. Robert of Turkegue, Aia., and Mr. Robert Taylor of Howard University, Washington, are both in the city, called here by the sad death of Mrs. Sarah Whitman. Mr. Eugene Norwood of St. Paul's School, Lawrenceville, Va., is the guest of her grandmother, and will spend her our midst. Mr. Troy C. Chemutt, professor in the Temple Will Baptist College, and manager of the printing department, Kinston, C. is in the city to spend the holiday with his parents. The Rev. William Thurber Wood, minister in charge of 88t. William's Episcopal mission, Washington, and will present at 8t. Mark's relatives, and will present at 8t. Mark's CHECK A dignified entrance to Maria Masonle Hall has at last been erected. The outside stairway, always dangerous, has been removed, a door cut in the brick wall and inside hall and stairway protected. The hall has recently been reinstalled, and modern toilet facilities installed. We congratulate the Masonle and hope other fraternities will admire. Friday afternoon, Dec. 21, Arthur Adams and Robert Sawyer were removed by Marshall Dockery and deputies from the New Hanover County jail, where they have been incarcerated since November 21, 1905 and taken to Atlanta, where they will be their term of life imprisonment. A large crowd of people of both races crowded around the car in which the young men were placed and comments on their youth and belief in their innocence were freely made. Adams is 22 and Sawyer is 24 years of age. Gifts of fruits, food and money were given them freely. The case of those men is not yet considered closed. The United States Supreme Court named the motion for motion as made already been stated in these columns. This motion must, however, be filed in the United States District Court at its next meeting and can be denied or granted by the presiding judge. All that prevents this action on the part of the lawyers for these men is the lack of funds. Now, if ever the opportunity presented to them of illimitation to a worthy cause, The bazaar being conducted at Ruth Hall under the auspices of Cheanut Street Presbyterian church, closed suddenly on account of the death of Mrs. Whiteman and the prominence of that family in Presbyterian circles. An act of deep courtesy which we are glad to say has entailed no decided loss. Mr. R. I. Drew is convulsing. Mr. Loyal Mitchell, night watchman at the Q. A. L., has been seriously ill, but is now on the road to recovery. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Story have our sympathies in the loss of their newly-born baby girl. We wish it is our Merry Xmas and Hapen New Year. In celebrating try to remember that policemen are extra watchful and need Xmas change. Don't get arrested. What fun is there in breaking and violating the law and ordinance? Don't get drunk. Don't try to get on the outside of all the whiskey you sober, discreet, and bear the threat of common crack. Carrying concealed weapons means a $50 fine and six months good. Be good. A word to our renders in Wilmington. The age correspondent, having a thorough knowledge of conditions in this city, and appreciating the literary ability and thought race unity that exists, as the desire for representation in some good race journal, giving and receiving news of interest to ourselves as well as to the thousands of our friends and relatives residing there, has undertaken to provide a better chronicling of the progress and our people in church, business life. He is aware that we are a and more that we are a. He is also aware that we are dead and buried, as it with no voice to tell of saying and doing, these conditions with believes you will under. A people worse off than world knows less than Aus. Let are 000 informed, has removed the door her residence, has had the same torn down and will erect a modern two-story nine- room dwelling, at a cost of $1,500. LIKEN, ROOSEVELT TL, NERO. Boston Afro-Americans Accee President of Inciting Race Hatred and Men Violence. BOSTON, MASS., December 22.—At a meeting of the Afro-American Suffrage League of Boston and vicinity, held Wednesday evening, December 19, resolutions in relation to the message of President Roosevelt on the Brownerville affair were passed. The resolutions are in part follows. "We desonuce the language of the President in his official answer to the Foraker resolutions as the most extraordinary language used by a president in the military republic. We must be more familiar with the nature of the past would blink it was the language of Nero or the Duke of Alya. "In his message, inciting race hatred and mob violence against 10,000 of innocent citizens, he has shown himself to be a mere politician, and not a great stateman." "In accusing all colored persons who object to his unlawful and summary punishment of 170 colored soldiers, without trial or court-martial or examination by a tary court of inquity, of being shielded murderers, the use of a lawabiding and patriotic native-born American citizens as the country possesses." NEW YORK STATE The A. M. E. Zion Sunday School had their Christmas Tree exercises Christmas night in St. George's Hall. A large audience was present. The school will have a sacred concert next Sunday afternoon in St. Gregory's Hall. The Emancipation Celebration will be held at St. George's Hall on January 2. The Trinity Prebysterian Sunday School had their Christmas exercises Monday evening, December 24. Ranta Claus remembered many little girls and boys on the tree. the evangelical meeting will commence in the Presbyterian Church in January and last through the entire month in Raleigh. Williams of Pennsylvania will officiate. Miss Viola Powells left Saturday for Williamaport, Pa., where she will spend Christmas and New Year's, visiting friends and relatives. Mr. Gordon Ragland left Sunday morning for Bell-fonte, PA., where he will spend several Miss SSade Miller left Tuesday for Genova where she will spend Christmas. Nrack Noise The concert given in St. Phillip's A. M. E. Zion Church last week was a success. The arrangements were under the management of Miss C. E. Aldridge, assisted by the orchestra of the Reform Sabbath School, Mr. A. E. Seaman, leader. Mrs. Jarley's Wax Figures, given under the management of Mrs. C. E. Singleton, assisted by Mr. W. C. Myers and Mr. F. Smith, on the 21st inst., was a success. Miss Francis L. Avery, a very popular young lady of this place, the daughter of Mr. W. C. Avery, won the Woman's Christian Temperance Union medal for an occasion recently, delivered before that society in Livingstone College, where she is a student. The revival held in Pilgrim Baptist Church recently was successful. Mr. W. H. Myers has been much indlapsed for the last two weeks. Mrs. E. MaMyo in convalescent in the Nanok Hospital Miss Martha Johnson is visiting her brother, Mr. G. Johnson and family, in Washington, D.C. Mr. W. F. Pitta and Mr. J. T. Sabbattie expect to sail for the South soon, where they will spend the remainder of the winter. Mrs. M. N. Grant has gone South to visit friends in Savannah, Ga. Poughkeepsie Notice. Mrs. L. W. Bollin is on the sick list. The Rev. Crook and family, of Providence, R. I., are the guests of Mrs. A. A. Bollin, of 35 North Clinton street, for the holiday. Mrs. Daniel Bowman is on the sick list. Miss Lorinda Harden is quite ill with poultry. Mrs. L. Colden is able to be out after the dinner in the kitchen of Calpheen Va. is the guest of her nominal law. Mr. H. Francis, of North Hamilton street. Miss Justian Porter, of 10 Jawett avenue, was removed to her home on the 21st on account of illness. A big surprise party was tendered to Mr. J. Turner, better known as "Uncle John" on the 22d at his residence, on North Hamilton street, enjoyed all the Jolly Eight will hold a dance on New Year's night at Kirchner hall. Rev. C. Fairfax, A. M. D. D. pastor of the A. M. E. Zion church, preached on "The Prince of Peace" at 10:45 a. m., and at 7:45 p. m., "The Lost Man." third in the series of the lost and found. Rev. C. Fairfax, A. M. E. Zion, preached in the service. Mrs. Sanmutha Devo was received into the church at the close of the service. The church is handsomely decorated with greens and Christmas bells. The Sunday school of the A. M. E. Zion church will hold their Christmas tree exercises on Friday evening. The funeral of Georgia Johnson and first bearer of residence 45 yr. street. Saturday at 2:30 p. m., Rev. C. Fairfax officiating. A father, grandmother and a number of relatives survive the deceased. The Varick Christian Endeavor held an interesting meeting at the residence of Mrs. Emmet Jackson, No. 8 Holmes street. The series sermons, illustrated by large images being taught by Dr. Fairfax, a large attendance. Sunday will be singing sermon in the series. Glen Cove, Noten. Shay, who has been quite ill, it his mother several days M. M. E. Zion church and Episcopal will hold a union watch meeting at the diapstat church. Last year the meeting was held in the same way only at Zion church. Perley S. Peterson, Jr., is on the social yet, but is improving the entertainment given to the Willing Workers of 18k was a success in every way. It was held in Assembly Hall. There was a penny social at the Baptist church on Thursday evening last. Captain Eddie Lois Lone Stars, was in attendance one day and business trip. The Husted Zion social club will hold its 26th annual election of officers the first Monday night in January. Miss Frances Peterson spent Sunday in White Plains with friends, Mrs. Fred Douglas Peterson is still at the kill hospital, but is improving the Herbier Hickens, who is a boy, is able to hit his route again. Joseph Rastas, Jr. John Hutchinson and Lilly Hickes were the guests of Irene and Bertha Peterson on Christmas day. Schenectady Notes. Archer's Fillipinos, headed by Harry Reed, played here last week and were well received at the Mohawk Theatre, Mrs. Charles West is ill at her residence, Spring Lane, in New York. Mrs. Ralph Jenkins, Mrs. Hill entertained Misses Leon Morgan, Pauline Hackley, Mattie Morris, Minnie Evans, Stella Wiley and Harry Reed of the Fillipino Company, and Mr. and Mrs. Jinka, Mr. and Mrs. Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Phoenix, Misses Sarah and Jones, Misses Robert and Beaver, Mr. Mitchell, Two delightful evening were spent Friday and Saturday; one of the features of Saturday evening was a viola solo by Mrs. Phoenix's little daughter. Mr. Wendel Robinson, after a number of performances, Werner Werner played a better position at the Killis Hospital. The Crescent Club will give a bell of the 10th. Tarrytown News Mt. Vernon Noten. Mrs. Grandville Hunt and Miss Eather Smith gave an entertainment for the benefit of the Christmas tree of Grace Baptist church, Thursday evening, December 20. It was a light and bright evening with a fair attendance. Those who took part in the exercises were: Miss Elanora Cousin, Mrs. Leille Henry, Miss Eva Hasket, Miss Mollie Thompson, Ms. Mary Pryor, Miss Merle Thompson, Ms. orrion, Ressie Hunt, Master Clarborn, James Summerville, Harv matter for the home but by his playmates, for he was well liked. The funeral will be held Monday, December 24. Mr. Karel Phillips returned home to spend Christmas with his mother. Mrs. James Clark has been conned to her room. Mrs. E. Zion Church was decorated for Christmas by Mr. L. Brown and Mrs. H. Smith. The Sunday School Christmas exercises will be held on Wednesday evening. A nice programme has been prepared. On Thursday, December 25, the latter baptised their children. Id their children. Mrs. Emanuel is going to make this one of the finest that ever was given in their church. Yankees Notes. The Golden Leaf Society of the A. M. E. Zion Church gave a turkey and dunkey supper last Thursday night at the church. The turkey was present. The feathers were all gold. Mrs. M. Armstrong of New York City was the guest of her brother and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Ryson, on Sunday. At the A. M. E. Zion Church Sunday prescheduled an inspiring sermon to a large and appreciative audience. The music by the three choirs was good. The Sunday School hour was spent in rehearsing the Christmas music. The day after the concert hour. In the evening the pastor preached to a large congregation. Mrs. Tamar Lane, who has been ill for the last few weeks, is improving. Mrs. Mary A. Smyer and baby daughters, Mrs. Mary A. Smyer and turned from a two-weeks' visit to Birmingham, Ala., and vicinity. Mrs. Smyer went to visit her parents and friends. They received a very warm reception on their return from a boat of friends. Mrs. Mary A. Smyer leading a few weeks in the South visiting friends and loved ones. Ithaca, Nesca. Mrs. W. W. R. Williams, bf 529 West Green street, gave a party in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Steward, of Escanaba, Mich. Miss Cora Smith is home visiting her parents during the holidays, at 627 West Front Street. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Orie, December 9. Mr. George B. Spandling went to New York to spend the holidays. A. M. E. Zion church had their Christmas exercises last Monday night. The musical program was under the superintendent of the T.A. and Edith Gray. Mr. Grant Canon is superintendent of the Sunday school. Mrs. Hannah Adderton, of Asheville, N.C., is spending the holidays at the residence of Mrs. William Bell, 510 West Clinton street. Saratoga Springs The annual donation held at the Dyer Phillips Memorial, A. M. E. Zion church on Friday, December 21, for the pastor was a financial success. A lecture was given in connection with the program. The pastor received groceries, turkey, ham and chickens, and the following named persons presented the amounts requested by their name: Morgan Manigand, $5.29; Mr. George Washington, $21; Mrs. Minnie Nelson, $5; Mrs. Ella Holmes, $10; Mrs. Carrie Allen, 16 including supper, $6.25; Mrs. Lucy Green, $2; Mrs. Lena Wicks, $1.25; Mrs. Hirr rlett Jennings, from ice cream, $2.10; Dr. H. J. Cattill, A. M. M. D. D. Boston, take the pastor, at 10.30 a.m. and 7.30 a.m. the Christian Endowment society is increasing rapidly. The Christmas Tree was held Tuesday, December 25. Mrs. Louis Freeman and daughter Hattie, were in Baldstown and Schenectady last Friday shopping. Mr. George Van Ranken is very sick at his residence on William Street, and he is asking that Mr. Ira Nash of Howard University, has gone South to spend Christmas with his relatives. The parlor recital given by Miss Grace E. Grief at the residence of Mrs. Elliza Hurde, 47 Henry street, December 17, for the benefit of the Baptist Sunday School, was as follows: Singing, by audience; prayer, Rev. A. T. Johnson; opening address, Miss Grace Green; piano solo, Miss Gertrude Green; recitation, Miss Anna Brown; solo, Miss Anna Oliver; recitation, Mrs. Eli Jackson piano solo, Mrs. M. Ellison singing, Mrs. Williamley; solo, Mrs. Judson Jackson Refreshments were served. Ag the Union Baptist mission religious services were held Sunday. Rev. A. T. Johnson, pastor in charge, preached soul-tiring sermons both morning and evening. A. T. Johnson, pastor in charge, goodly pursue for Christmas. The celebration by the Sunday school of their Christmas Tree took place Monday evening in the chapel. The tree was loaded with preshrubs and made in beautiful appearance. A chapel was made in beautiful appearance to heat the exteriors and see the lilies on repike over their presents. The program was splendidly rendered, each number being enclosed, consisting of recitation, solos, duets, trios and quartets, and Johnson made an address which encouraged the teachers and scholars alike and commended them for improvement and profiled in their work. J. H. Hilton, the superintendent, deserves great credit for the entire school renamed its exercises. Middletown Notes. Last Sabbath the services at the East avenue. M. F. Zion church were very Philadelphia Yates After repeated and bitter quarrels John Taylor, an fro-American, 22 years old, tried to murder Henrietta Pritchard, also an Afro-American, with whom he lived. He first shot her in the hip, then mashed the face with his knife. He rasped the raiser across his own throat. Both are at the Polyclinic hospital, where little hope is entertained for the woman's recovery. Taylor and the woman lived at 2117 Clymer street. Taylor has been in the employ of John Blake at 10th and Christian streets for a number of years, and his empathy says he was a man of exemplary habit. The 25th anniversary of Bishop and Mrs. Levi J. Coplin's married life took place at their palatial city residence on Rainbridge, street on Friday evening last, 1,500 profile availing themselves of the opportunity to congratulate them and with them a continuation of their prosperity and health. The deat hot Rattle Beats, an Afro-American, of No. 424 South Quince street, on December 17, was due to heart disease, recordd in Corner's Physician Wadaworth at to-day's request. On the strength of a rumine that the woman's death was due to heart disease, Thomas Cranshaw, her husband, and several others, but the jury rendered a verdict of death due to heart disease. In an address delivered last night before the Southern club, Governor Duncan Clyckeyeward of South Carolina, made a plea for increased immitation of white labor because their fields were left more and more in the cultural incarcerate by Afro-American labor, which is incapable of adaptin itself to manufacturing pursuits. Nor is this all, for an experience of the past 40 years has demonstrated that Afro-American labor on the farm is not as asfecive as it should be; that the Afro-American has failed to meet his responsibilities in a field where he had little or no competition, and that the South can not afford them solely as an agricultural imme Scranton, Nebraska Shiloh Baptist Church, Key, J. R. Bodden pastor, has just closed its year's work with a splendid financial showing. Service was held at 5 o'clock a.m. m. Christmas morning. The pastor will be meeting with watch meeting. Plans will be issued for 1997 by the pastor and trustees about renovating the church. The pastor preached twice, Sunday, the 23rd inst., 11 a. m. and 5 p.m. The second annual ball and reception to be given by Anthractite Lodge, No. 57, I. B. P. O. P. of W. Seranton, Pa., will take place on Tuesday, February 12 at Finley's Large Hall. The chairman, E. L. K. Joseph P. Anderson, assisted by the entire Reception team, has not done anything to make the ball successful. Seranton lodges have been invited, including Brooklyn No. 32, Manhattan No. 45, Progressive No. 35, Newark, N. J., Washington, Pa. and all distant lodges in general, as well as the Bristol Church Club and their families. The Bristol Church Club will hold their annual ball and reception in Finley's Large Hall New Year's day and evening. Progress in Little Rock. To the Editor of Per New York Anz: I think it is of interest for the general public to know that here in Little Rock the Afro-American men who they have two Afro-American jewelry stores, one bank, the dealers, stone mason and算算师, printing and job printing others, painters, contractors, who do stone, brick and wood work, shoemakers, tailors, somnambres, and eleven physalina, five two drug stores, two understaking establishments, twenty or more Afro-American men who keep stores, doing a grocery or general merchandise business. They own three large balls which are let for balls, parties and other events. There are two colored balls for the men, the men's, men's, colored blacksmiths, brakemen on the railroad without numbers all the freight in the railroad, freight houses and large wholesale establishments is handled by Afro-American labor. All the hotels of the city and restaurants as a rule, employ the Afro-American men, the color men, who does oil painting. He is located a Prebysterian, Baptist, Methodist and other well-built and substantial and Mrs. John W. Merri- 59 Broad street, attended the ( wedding anniversary of Mrs. Joseph Noel, labor of, No. 126 West Fifty- 1 New York City, last Frid- December 21. Mrs. Englea L. H. Henderson of No. 56 Crown street, and Mrs. Joseph B. Henderson week to the bedside of their sister, Mrs. Adolphus Howard, who is seriously ill. Mr. Walter Barclay of No. 198 Adams street, has gone to Philadelphia to spend his Christmas vacation with friends. Bienjamina F. Baldin, secretary of the Gode Biret Y. M. C. A., let the passing be a blessing. He will welcome his be will spend the holidays with his F. W. Grats Pederson will fill the passage at the Y. M. C. A., during his absence. Your correspondent wishes to say that The Age is being well received in Boston and high compliments are being paid to it The Arnett Memorial Memorial held its regular services last Sunday evening at Lloyd Edward H. Wright preached the sermon on Sunday, 15 July, 1915. He set before them good and evil life die before them good and evil life die; choose therefore life that they an thy seed may live." Subject: "Two Woman—Eve, and Mary." One the mother of race accused, the other the mother of race accused by grace and saved by faith. Wright was presented with a homily by Mr. Wright, of Lowell, Mr. and Mrs. Briggs of Chester, made the mission a present of set of Moody & Sankey, some books, and Miss Nellie Waters presented Mr. Wright with a handsome church Mids. Mr. and Mrs. Clark remembered the mission with the mission a Christmas present of 20 Wednesday day at 8 p. m. The same in the Publication of Expression meets Memorial Hall. Great good by these sessions as they Miss Neile Wilson has left . . . illin. to spend the holidays. The talented plotter, Miss Annie Hodgson, has consented officiate at the organ for the Arnett Memorial mission. Miss M. R. Hornsey and Miss C. Phillips also to be congratulated for the public spirit displayed in concluding to the service of others Boston will have. The line of a dramatic and Shakespearean critical by well-trained and artistic reader in the near future; particulars will I given later. Hackenpack Notes Rev. W. T. Johnson of Parkrid preached at the A. M. E. Zion Church S day evening last. Rev. J. S. Garris, par of M. Olive Baptist Church, has been listing at a revival meeting in the Br during the last week. The Christmas ercles in connection with the tree wi during the last week. We are at day evening and at the M. Olive I Church Thursday evening. Mr. J. J. R. Dillard, Mrs. L. L. Parr. M. J. Ratcheler were in New Y day and Wednesday. Mr. and M Hassell and Ms. Marle Cornellou nship on Mornings and P. F. Saturday for Philadelphia spe mans. Her daughter, Mrs. Lucy Hen companied her to Jersey City. Mr. Porter will spend Christmas with Mr. Porter in New York. Mr. H. L. Parl the Afro-American Realty Company. N. York, was in town Tuesday on a busines trip. Miss C. V. Taylor was in New Y ork, visiting her brother and friends and attending a celebration. Mrs. have returned after an absence of a few ye nths in Philadelphia. Mr. L. L. Dowman will leave Monday night to attend the grand seminon of the F. and A. M., to be held in Camden, N. J., during the week. He will visit friends in Philadelphia before returni ng home. Mrs. Nina Heard and little daughter Ellen Ellen will be at the residence of Mrs. F. Nettle, on Railroad avenue. Horace Porter is convalescent. Newark, N.J. The charity ball given on the 6th at the new auditorium for the benefit of the Aged Home, proved to be a success and was very creditable affair to the managers. The Lady directress, Ms. W. Owen paid to them from the amount realise. The lady directresses will give a New Year's dinner to the inmates. All friend, and well wishers are invited to patronise them on Tuesday next. The colored branch of the charity was Thursday evening last at Wallace Hall, Halsey street. The bad weather kept the audience down. The lady participants were out in full force, however. Mme. M. H. Walker, J. W. Holmes and the female quarrelers held their particular parts in the affair. The present secretary benefited of the second branch of the association. Miss Grace Stearts presided at the plano and the general secretary. Rev. Paul Thompson, acted as master of ceremonies. Miss J. W. Johns a M. A. church. Academy street, have closed the annual grand bazaar on Friday evening. The week of the affair proved quite unfavorable. Flainfield Notice The Missa Mitchell, teachers in As Park, are spending the holidays with 1 parents, Dr. William J. Parks of Ast Park and Dr. Wormley were their gue over Sunday. Alfred Haynes is the gue of Mr. George Mitchell. Mr. A. J. Ca spent Christmas day in East Orange wi West End social club, was organized at home of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart of W. Third street. Mr. A. J. Cary, presiden. Miss E. Roon, vice-president; and Miss N. Jones, secretary. Thursday night in Christmas tree night at Mt. Olive Baptist chur there will also be a Christmas cantal "the beat of the Wilderness," closed out at Friday night was a notwithstanding the weather.