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NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1909. ABREAST ON THE TIMES. COMPETENT MEN IN EVERY BRANCH OF THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS. PERSONAL AND REAL PROPERTY To The Amount of 100,000,000. DOLLARS. a good time to make note that the life of the Afro- becoming noticeably bet- more variety, more gentil- ide, more intelligence and nt. Chicago is as good a in the country to make an at a single decade has done so of from twelve to fifteen retty years years ago to for- mand to stay, is a creditable our race strength. This known not only in numerical in the things that point trend and cohesion of race because of this widely di- grees, there is discernible difical attitude toward us in the press and in public opin- that can develop organiza- n own advancement is bound deserves the recognition it must have. If there is any be mild about us, the mean t to the ice was rerchasingibly relient ino longeran inition ofwomenre tweentin rigid- erty acie samea proudable ashare ofent. Inwhich wele light.1 to the the Afro-city ining butrace willust, suchnot beenhave notimunity.depart-ust positionsour men madehelped to edu-bebalf. In awhite, men andd wiring every dayne many slanderouse race haters of, the tittle of this respect fact that both of the local elections recog- of our men as voters. afford to sneer at a he organised political or defeat candidates At the same time that the colored people Prof. Pulver Man Read "The Age" Eighteen Years and is Hale and Monday—Mr. Cooper in Texas. MARSHALL, Texas, December 2. — I come to renew my subscription to THE New York Age for the eighteenth year. There is no journal or magazine that comes to my office more highly appreciated than The Age. In fact, it is the most popular periodical with my family. In my addresses I quote from THE Age more than all other journals combined, and there are many that come to my deak. It contains the latest and the best always. Col. Edward E. Cooper, ex-editor of The Process, but who now represents the Bureau of the Census, spent a few days with us last week. He visited both Bishop College and Wiley University and was highly pleased with what he saw. Bishop College has an enrollment of about 400 and Wiley University about 500, with more to enroll after the holidays. Pres. A. B. Chaffee, of Bishop, left last Thursday to spend the Christmas season with his family at Greenville, O. There was a grand reception given Pres. and Mrs. M. W. Dogan, of Wiley University, at the K. P. Hall, Thursday, December 20, by some of the best citizens of Marshall. Our good people are beginning more and more to recognise our men of celebrity and are willing sometimes to stop in the midst of their duties to cast a bonquet or so in the way of receptions, a pleasant evening spent together, speaking of the good things that our great men are accomplishing for the race and humanity. Short addresses were delivered by Prof. H. B. Pemberton, principal of the city Central High School; Prof. J: R. Reynolds, Professor of Mathematics in Wiley University, and by the writer. Wiley University brass band furnished music for the occasion. Mr. F. E. Williams was master of ceremonies. There were about sixty or seventy persons present. I wish TRUE AGE and its staff A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year! Owen A FULLER DR. LAMPTON AND THE MOB. His Argument Saved From Lynching Man Who Killed Eight GREENVILLE. Miss. December 20. Dr. E. W. Lampton, of the A. M. E. Church, here in his home town, during the present month stood in the midst of an enormous multitude of enraged citizens and pleaded ably and triumphantly for the cause of law and order. A vicious member of our race had shot eight persons, beginning with his mistress, who, in his jealous rage, he determined to destroy, two of his victims being killed onright, one of whom was an officer of the law. Feeling, of course, ran high, and there seemed every indication of a race riot and lynching; but Dr. Lampton, at this moment made his appearance, and at the peril of his own life, secured the attention of the crowd bent upon violence. By his noble, manly plea, sustained by the record he had made for himself and his race at Greenville for uprighteousness and square dealing, he secured the cooperation of the crowd and their sympathy in seeing that the law was allowed to take its course, and the prisoner taken to fall. This speaks well for Dr. Lampton and the citizens of Greenville and impress us that soon or later the two races will be equally serious in maintaining law and order and at the same time punishing the and criminal in either quite three weeks since but to date there has lynching. AFRO-AMERICAN WOMEN ARE BETTER THAN THE MEN Criminals Among Them Fewer and Be Greater Than Among White Women. From The Colored American Magazine. Unlike any other race in this country, we have a larger number of women than men, while the white race has a larger number of men than women. It is to the credit of our men that they are more and more keeping their wives and daughters at home to care for the family, but we are still behind the white people in this respect. Eight times as many Negro wives have to work out today as among white people who work. If we trained ourselves to more different kinds of work we would be better able to keep our wives home, and in order to make home what it ought to be, our wives must work at home. However, we have done so well along this line that the Southern white people complain of not being able to get cooks and house servants. They charge it to the laxiness of our people, but most of it is due to our more manly men and the poor wages paid. With Negro women, as with whites, more are, ignorant than among men, but more of our females are attending school than men also, and it is well-known that the churches and Sunday-schools are chiefly supported by our women and girls. By a careful study of the census compared with the eleventh census, I have learned that the Negro race is blessed with noble women, but the study has led me to think less of our men. Our men are not marrying as rapidly as ten years ago, and more of them are marrying women who are either very young or very old. There were less marriages and less births, and less staying together after marriage. When a white woman marries it appears that she is cared for by her husband, but marriage makes little difference with Negro women, for the per cent. of laborers remain high among them. It may be that it is on this account that our women secure more divorces than our men and more of them are widowed. It may be that these divorces grow out of immorality, but one is rather inclined to believe they rather grow out of our women growing tired of supporting the family, because the criminal record of our women is highly creditable to them. One thing that speaks against our women is the tendency to leave, the home of their youth and flock to the large cities. There are more Negroes in the country than women. In the country the female Negro increase is greatest than that for the males. Whether they go to cities to make money to acquire property, or whether on account of domestic troubles, is not evident fully, but the presumption strongly favors a purpose to make money, for they do make money, and the wealth of the race increases and there are many more women than men and the women are working more and more. At present a third of the farm laborers are women among us, and they are not to be blamed for not wishing to work on the farm. If our men managed more wisely they could let their women stay in the house and not go on the farm to work. But the crowning glory of our women is their criminal record. The Census Director, Hon. S. N. D. North, wrote me final last week that it would be impossible to furnish me with criminal statistics, or even advanced sheets, for the report will not be ready for several months yet. But from the census of 1800 I find that Nero women are an law abiding as any other element of the entire population, considering their circumstances. It is true that our men make a bad record, but the per cent. of Nero women criminals in the same as that for white women. I mean to say that white women constitute about 7 per cent. of the white criminal class, and Nero women constitute 7 per cent. of the Nero class. I am certain women also. The Negro woman is certainly tempted to violate the law, for she is port into Jim Crow cars with sorry Negroes and often bad white men, and she has no protection when she is not in that car. Her lot is a hard one, and also deserves the sympathy of the civilized world, and the fact that only 7 per cent. of Negro criminals are women is very creditable, for women have more reason to violate the law than men amount us. Negro women must resort to violence to protect their chastity, or suffer insult, and when carried to court have little show. TAFT AND THE PRESIDENCY. Frank Statement Made By the Secretary of War. WASHINGTON, December 20.—Secretary Taft made the following statement to-day concerning his Presidential appointments: "For the purpose of relieving the burden imposed by recent publications upon some of my friends among the Washington newspaper correspondents of putting further inquiries to me, I wish to say that my ambition is not political; that I am not seeking the Presidential nomination; that I do not expect to be the Republican candidate. If for no other reason because of what seems to me to be objections to my availability, which do not appear to lessen with the continued discharge of my official duty; but that I am not foolish enough to say that in the improbable event that the opportunity to run for the great office of President, were it to come to me, I should decline, for this would not be true." SOUTHERN EDUCATION. Southern Educators Emphatically Opposed to Federal Aid. MONTGOMERY, Ala., December 20.—The department of superintendents of education of the Southern Educational Association went on record yesterday as emphatically opposed to the recommendation of Dr. J. W. Abercrombie, president of the association, that there should be Government aid to the public school system. The resolution adopted says that the control of the schools of each State should be in the hands of the State government, and by that government supported. The resolution declared in favor of the industrial education of the negro, although it was argued on the floor of the convention that education of the negro in any manner was a mistake. The convention was addressed last night by Edwin B. Craighead, president of the Tulane University, New Orleans, who attacked the Government. MORE STENOGRAPHERS NEEDED. Here is a Change for Afro-Americans "On to Their Job" WASHINGTON, December 20.—The Bureau of Insular Affairs to-day made known the fact that more stenographers are needed in the Philippine service. The list of eligibles has become exhausted and another examination will be held January 28 by the Civil Service Commission. Gen. Clarence Edwards, chief of the bureau, said to-day that one of the noticeable results of the workings of the Civil Service system in the Philippines has been the advancement of young men originally appointed after passing the stenographer examination, who have demonstrated their ability and worked their way up. The position at first pays $1,200 per annum. Tatterville Noten. Miss Kelly J. Tyler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Tyler and granddaughter of the late Robert H. Landis, was married to Mr. James Herman on Christmas day at the home of the bride's parents on Bloomingdale Road, Rancho蔷薇, H. I. Rev. William Kingston of Puschill, persevered the love of his wife, Waltney and love, Robert Lapin. The bride had beautiful gown of mulie with train, topped well plumed with beard rose and carried a huge bunch of capsules. Miss Baldwin Henry was bride-mother, Mr. Walter Baldwin, greenery man, Mr. Tyler's spurnant prince was deprived for the occasion. The grieved and grumple received a large gift of many beautiful presents. After a night of business they will take up their LYNCHED IN MARYLAND WHILE THE GOVERNOR SLEPT Hob Batterys Down Jail Without Resistance From the Warden and His Assistant. ANNAPOLIS. December 21.—A mob broke into the jail early this morning seized the Negro Henry Chamberls, who amuseded Mrs. John Rold of Brownsville a week ago, and hanged him. The mob then made a target of the body. A jury of inquest met at the scene of the lynchings at 9 o'clock. State Attorney Nicholas H. Green examined all the keepers of the jail, who sware that they were unable to give any clue as to the identity of the lynchers. The jail is within two squares of the executive mansion, where Gov. Warfield was sleeping. Commenting on this lynching The New York Sun says, editorially: "The Negro who was lynched in Annapolis yesterday morning was led by the mob through the streets of the quarter inhabited by his race 'as an object lesson to the population there.' The sight must have had a tremendous effect on men of his color. They learned from it that the State of Maryland was incapable of guarding its public institutions, which are at the mercy of any 'two or three score men,' who meet at midnight to invade a community, overpower the officers of the law and do what they please with the persons committed to the guardianship of the State. "One result of this object lemon' will be to bring the legal processes of the State into contentment with the very class it is most desirable to impress with their strength and power." Speaking editorially on the same crime The New York World says: "A mob of sixty marked men, bent on lynching a Negro criminal, appears at the jail in Annapolis, within a short distance of Gov. Warfield's residence. Within are the wardens and three deputy警员. Unopposed the mob batters down the door. Without resistance, the warden surrenders his keys. The prisoner is carried out, hanged and shot to death. The police make no attempt to interfere. "The warden, of course, will plead that he yielded to superior force. The truth of the matter is he is a rank coward. His sworn duty, commanded him to protect his prisoner, whether guilty or not, and vindicate the law. There were four armed men behind strong walls to stand off a midnight mob. Not a shot was fired, not a blow struck. No alarm was even raised. "If the warden or his deputies had had a spark of courage among them the mob would never have crossed the threshold of the jail except over the dead bodies of some of its members. The whole pitiful, of law officers, were thinking only of their own precious skins, and they came off without even a scratch. Their chief anxiety seems to have been to make the lynching pass off an smoothly as possible for the mob and to render a second crime easy by their connivance." PETER A. N'KERROW DEAD. Well-Known Business Man of Nova Scotia—Premium Afro-American. Newark, December 29. On Christmas day news of the death of Mr. Peter A. McKerrow, of Halifax, Nova Scotia, the uncle and foster father of Justice J. H. E. Scotland, was received. When last heard from Mr. McKerrow was reported in good health. His death was sudden. The deceased was the oldest fur manufacturer in Halifax and well known in the United States as an exporter of raw and dressed fur. His business career was of over 50 years standing. He was the master of fur cage, rags and cape for the militia officer of the Columbia Government (Officer for many years) and prepared to his remission, relocation and pension, having been born still. A disciple and devoted Christian, past master member of the Primes of Wales, P. A. M. of Belfast, and a proud brevity in the future acceptance of his remission. Through his personal support the of the highest educated bodies of land have been built, known as the Our Nation's best schools of learning. N. E. Scotland, was received. His keen knowledge and many reflections and f American Forerunner changed Major Mechanics guided up these "Impugnatory, inquisitive and incompletes postments and碴碴 them as pencil," and it was誓ege for the Senate to know that personally he had not gotten entirely away from the influences under which he was meted. The whole question embodied a great learned principle of constitutional law, and constitutional liberty, applicable to the white troops as well as to the colored, and the Senator. To any man who accepted the testimony, who knew how to examine, weigh and analyze sentiment, he said, it was utterly unsatisfactory and insufficient upon which to find these men quality of the great crime with which they more charged. It was because of this insincerity that he insisted that the female committee should be empowered to use for these alleged witnesses and maintain the facts. Senator Forker's motion, empowering the Military Committee of the Senate to send for these alleged witnesses and accuse from them under oath and by the ideal of cross examination the facts in Brownlee affray, comes up for consideration after the holiday receipt, when great lawyer will have much more to for the realignment of the President and the country. THE NEW YORK AGE: THURSDAY, JANUARY mental in the new position at the par- ty. He predeceased, Missing Almawood, Wal- den with his own memorial and memorial to his wife. He will be arriving. Mr. Mary A. Owen of Oystick, Pa., assigned to her daughter, Mrs. Mary Hickman, has returned home after a weekly visit to her son, Mr. William H. Owen of the U. B. Maranau's office, and his daughter, Mrs. John W. Oystwick. The American Negro Academy had a very successful meeting at the Hewlett University December 20. Ben Ardishian H. Grimke was reinstated president, and so were Prof. Kelly Miller, Rev. J. A. Johnson, Dr. W. H. Orugama and Rev. Matthew Anderson vice presidents; Geo. M. Lightfoot, reporting secretary; Rev. T. F. Grimke, treasurer; J. W. Cromwell, correspondent secretary; and Ohan C. Cook, John L. Love, Arthur N. Craig, Kelly Miller, executive committee. Bence C. Bruce, Rev. William V. Tunnell and Dr. Solomon C. Fuller, have just been elected to membership in this organization. The first month of the new year is to witness two new publications. The Horizon is to be magazines edited by L. M. Kernhaw, F. H. M. Murray and William E. B. DuBois. The Moon is much below the horizon but the horizon never slinks so the continuance of The Horizon so far as the name is concerned, is assured. Tessely Foppa, Mr. Manning C. Jones assures us, will be a constant visitor, and Mr. Thomas Hope, significant name, is to guide us into light, and Foraker into the Presidency. Of school matters it is sufficient to say that the kaleidoscope is the only object to which may be compared the developments which each week, almost each day, furnishes us. The course having restored the states ques of Cardano, the proceedings of Congress may be watched for the rehabitation of other victims. PHILADELPHIA CRIMES. WOMEN—THE MUSEUM PHILADELPHIA, December 31.—The Rindick's ball, far-famed for its exclusiveness, took place last Friday evening at Odd Felolws' Temple. It was a brilliant affair and the decorations were of an elaborate nature. Charged with selling large iron girders and selling them for $25, Robert Moshy an Afro-American of 927 Locust street, and Walter Roberts of 1237 South Third street, were held under $500 ball each this morning by Magistrate Mooney at the Fifth police station. They will be given a further hearing Wednesday. A two-home team was used to haul them away. The crimes and tragedies of the city are being gathered into a budget for the annual report of the Coroner. The biggest tragedy of the season was the fire panic in St. Paul's Baptist church, when seventeen Afro-Americans were crushed or trampled to death. During a service in the church on January 21, a heater set fire to the floor of the building. Someone shouted fire, and the congregation fought its way to the doors. Scores were injured, and when the dead were counted they numbered seventeen, mostly feeble, old women and children, who had fallen under foot during the stampede. The inquest led to walking up the Fire Marshals and the Building Inspectors, and churches, theatres and public meeting places were examined and made more safe than they had been before. With a bullet wound in her neck Lena Green, an Afro-American woman, 38 years old, of 5351 Alfred street, Germantown, is in a critical condition at the Germantown hospital. The wound was accidentally inflicted by Dr. William Warrick, an Afro-American physician of 31 West Harvey street, it is claimed by the injured woman's daughter. Dr. Warrick was called to the Alfred street house last night by Lena Green, whose husband lies ill there with la grippie. In the room where the shooting occurred were Green, his wife and Dold davistick. Pat Mick Green was in a room below of Isaac Campbell a visitor. In the room where the patient was the convention turned to rabbit hunting, and it is said Lena Green produced an old hammerless revolver which had been used for that purpose. It was loaded in six chambers. She extracted bullets from five of them and had difficulty with the sixth. She handed the revolver to Dr. Warrick, who thought she had emptied all of the chambers, and he began to snap the trigger. The sixth time he snapped it there was a loud report and Lena Green fell to the floor with a bullet wound through her right shoulder and neck. Dr. Warrick administered first aid and then called for the ambulance from the Germantown hospital, whither the woman was taken. Both Green and his wife are too ill to be interrogated and Dr. Warrick could not be seen. THE VOTE FOR MR. BARNETT. Afro-American Stood by and Mr. DePriest. To the Editor of THE NEW YORK AGE: Please allow me to say a word in defense of Chicago colored people, who were recently shamefully slandered by a Chicago correspondent in the columns of the Portland (Oregon) New Age. You quoted the article which stated that our colored people at our recent election, contributed to the alleged defeat of Mr. Barnett, candidate for judge of the Municipal Court, and also caused County Commissioner DePriest to run behind his ticket. After quoting the statement you accept it as true and then comment on it. Please allow me to assure you that The New Age correspondence is notoriously and maliciously untrue. Every truthful colored person in Chicago will tell you, and the election returns clearly prove that both Mr. Barnett and Mr. DePriest received the solid support of the colored voters, both Democratic and Republican. It is estimated that there are three thousand colored Democratic voters in this city and the colored candidates polled nine-tenths of that vote. So far as the colored Republicans are concerned, neither Mr. Barnett nor Mr. DePriest lost one vote in a hundred. Never in the history of our franchise were the colored people so united as in this election. Personal differences, old fruds, selfish rivalries were thrown to the winds and the colored voters united as one man to elect their representatives on the ticket. These candidates were supported by mass meetings in hall, in churches, by meetings in social clubs and even by quiet missionary work in fraternal organizations. On the Sunday night before the day of election, nearly every colored pastor in Chicago preached upon the subject of race loyalty and urged our people to stand united for the men who had been accepted as our chosen representatives. In fact, the colored people by stump speaking, newspaper writing, mass meetings and even prayer meetings, did all in their power to elect our candidates. We succeeded in the case of Mr. DePriest and Mr. Barnett was first declared elected and then counted out. He refuses to stand for that kind of a deal, and has begun his content which we are sure will yet place him on the Bench. The contemptible and malicious falsehood sent to The New Age was sent there no doubt because no colored paper in Chicago would print such a manifest lie. Our people look pride in the allegiance shown on all sides to our candidates. I worked through all the campaign, and I know that not a single meeting of colored citizens was reported as opposing either candidate and not a single colored meek was reported in any meeting of theaign as speaking against our candidacy. I suppose there were a few polit- local guerrilla who carried on their outlawed mission as tough, but no one is in two from his profession, bishopship and our-day politician, but they did not contribute to our defiant. One mainly opponent voiced his sentiments in a frank, manly war" in the early campaign, but even he, for the good of the race, agreed to make it unanimous." No, Mr. Miller, we were loyal to our own, they were honest, capable representative men, well worthy of our support and they resolved it. Please give us a credit for our mall, our unselfishness and our nice loyalty. TOWNSMAN, Nov., January 1—Joe Gans, of Baltimore, lightweight champion fighter of the world, knocked out Kirk Herman of Chicago, in the eighth round of their fight before the Casino Athletic Club here to-day. Gans' share was 60 per cent. of the $20,000 purse. It was patent from the beginning that Gans was the better fighter, and it could easily be seen that he knew that he could land the winning punch almost at will. When they came out of their corners in the eighth round, Gans' style was entirely different from what it had been in the previous sessions. Gans wore his old, alert, determined look and he went swiftly but deliberately to work to knock his younger opponent unconscious. In the second round the men were milling fiercely when the long sounded. Herman stepped back from a clench. Gans, not hearing the bell, landed a hard right on the nec. The crowd hissed and booted. Gans faced the crowd and made a public apology. Not content with this, Gans went to Herman's corner and explained that he had not heard theong. Hismes changed to cheers as Gans returned to his seat. After the fight Herman said: "There is no getting away from it, the best man won. I made the best fight that was in me against a superior man. I cannot deny that he is the best man, and I do not begrudge him his victory." Gans bore his easily won honors with the best of grace. "It was just as I expected," said the champion. "I had Herman outclassed. He was game, but he never had a chance to win. Gans scored his first knockdown in the third round, when he sent Herman to the flor with a stiff right to the neck. The Ghetto lad was up in an instant; and fought back so hard that Gans smiled at his efforts. It was like a schoolboy trying to compete with an indulgent master. 15. JUSTICE BLIND? Disquieting Sigma Found in Recent Occurrences in the United States. From The New York Times. Down in Alabama recently a judge, in discharging a jury which had acquitted a white man who had killed a Negro, said that if the murdered man had been a white man the jury would have found the murderer guilty. The judge, right, might maybe it would be safe to say that our President would not have discharged a troop of white soldiers by so questionable a method as that which he made use of in dealing with those Negro battalions the other day. These are two disquieting signs for us of the United States. They are not the only two. In a journey through the South some time ago, Mr. Roosevelt assured his ex-rebel soldier auditors that they were entitled to as high honor as were the soldiers who had saved the Nation from destruction. Certainly that is a new plank in ethics, and a sinister one, that man's highest duty is to fight well. The dough-face temper of our Northern press has found nothing to condemn in it, while little caressing touches of the "proud South," the "delightful Southern accent," the "gentle, honorable, sensitive South," the "chivalric Southron," the "knightly Southern gentleman," and so on, bristle upon the pages of the newspaper. The revivification of the old dough-face sentiment that filled the South with contempt for the "Northern mudsils" and made the rebellion inevitab le. And all the while spread an entirely brutal order of animosity for the Negro based on color ground as its o nly avowed foundation. But that is not o nly its real foundation, as the enormous p roportion of mixed bloods among the so-called Negroes clearly proves. The Negro question is then eliminated, as The New York Tribune complacently announced some time ago, and we have instead, in genuine manhood question confronting us. Our Southern medieval oligarch cares no more for the poor whites of his accession, or curses less, than he does for the Negro, and no more for either than the Russian noble carrs for his peasant. He curses the great of whose toil he may live as lordier; of what order of men he curses not the The blatant proclamation of the Varduan dauan-Tillman-at all tribes of their contempt for and their nullification of sections of our National Constitution, and the practical acceptance of their rulings by our President and National Congress and our Northern press generally—all this shows plainly what road we are on, as does much more of a like character which might be cited: the growing spirit of Jawlessness in every quarter of our land, for instance, which may well enough find sufficient warrant in the disregard by our highest officials of their oath of office. In view of the goal at which peoples of the past who were relatively much more powerful than we are have fetched up, our noisy concern about our moneys and their nuisances, while justice for our poor and ignorant goa-begging, is enormously sinister for our future; for the people that will not do justice shall perish. Let us be just and the money questions will come right of themselves. Indianapolis, December 15, 1906. Lynch Law Principle. Have genuine and far-sighted patriots pondered adequately the characteristic conclusion pamages, full of ardor, conviction and certainty of Mr. Rooney's recent message on the Brownville troubles: "I will誓定我 in unaltered forms the crime of lynching perpetrated by men and I should take instant advantage of any opportunity whereby I could bring to justice a mob of lynchers. In precisely the same spirit I have now acted with reference to these colored men who have been guilty of a black and dastardly crime. In one policy, as in the other, I do not claim to or but challenge as a right, the support of our country, whatever his color, provided only in him the spirit of grudine and far-sighted patriotism." Lynch law is punishment with or without trial by a body of men having no legal right to try or to punish. It is punishment by a self-appointed court, outside and within a power of law, white-canning and harrowing and law-making milder, but scarcely less popular, forms of similar arbitrary punishment. Disregard of the law, the substitution of the will of a mob for the law and its orderly proceeding, in the spirit of genuine Lynch law, and so forth. If soldier is murdered without a court martial, without a trial provided by the law; if they, or some of them, are convicted by the President. In his good pleasure, of "a black and dastardly crime" and all are punished, the innocent with the guilty and the essential spirit of Lynch law found in the punishment. No infrequent Lynch law, except most cases, concludes them of a black and dastardly crime. From the Southern States. If all the political positions new held by Negroes (both North and South) were taken from them and the race accounted the privilege of voting and the safety of life, liberty and property were guaranteed them throughout the United States, and a fair show given them in the labor world, therage would be a thousand times better off than at present, and in the course of a few years many opened citizens would have no impoverished themselves, along all lines that their white fellow citizens, North and South, would willingly divide the governmental positions with them. As a proof of this we cite this instance: In Daytona, Fla., a few years ago there lived a prominent member of the Negro race. He was an intelligent, thrifty and conservative citizen. He owned considerable property in the town, and, was constantly doing what he could for its improvement, and being a minister of the gospel he frequently speaks to his people upon the necessity and duty of being good citizens and of voting for the best men for office. He urged them to be law abiding and chirly, and encouraged them to make friends with the white people of that town and to become property owners, but this man never sought political recognition at the hands of any party. The white citizens of that town became acquainted with the good work which this colored minister was doing, and without his knowledge, nominated him as a candidate for the city council and over his protest elected him for several years in succession to that position. Such instances as this, of course, are rare in the South, but they exist, and they prove, we think, the correctness of our position, and also show that if some such suggestion as that made by Walter B. Miller, in Maryland, was adopted by the Republican party in every State in the South and lived up to by them, and by the Negro Republicans in this section, the race problem would soon be solved and the South would in a short time take her rightful position in the political and commercial world. For, as we see it, the South is destined to lead this republic in business and in politics, and the only reason why she has not begun to do this already is because of the "Solid South," and the reason why the South has remained "solid" so long is because the Negro has been so solly Republican from the beginning of his citizenship in this country. THE CARDINAL AND THE CONGO. A Suggestion That His Conclusions Are Unwarranted. It is interesting to note the defense being made of the present Congo rule. King Leopold's defense is natural. When an American reporter asked him if he were really a plunderer and murderer, he denied it. He could hardly have admitted it. But it is a pity that Cardinal Gibbons should be defending him. The Cardinal takes two grounds: First, that the King's rule is being attacked because of "religious jealousy and commercial rivalry"; second, that Belgium is a small nation and the United States and Great Britain powerful ones, therefore and interference on their part is bullying. The Cardinal is an American, and should remember that we have sometimes interfered with a nation weaker than ourselves, humanely, and righteously, when that nation was acquiring a weaker nation still—as the Congo natives are infinitely weaker than the King's Government. As to the Cardinal's "fear" that the accusations are "animated partly by religious jealousy and partly by commercial rivalry," that is not a reason for discrediting them. One piece of positive evidence is worth much negative evidence. One Roman Catholic missionary admitted last Summer that his vindication of King Leopold's rule was based on ignorance of facts, since ascertained. No one man can know all about the Congo, with its area of nearly 1,000,000 square miles—as large as all Western Europe—and a population of 25,000,000, reduced by Belgian "wise" rule to 15,000,000. It was hardly necessary for the Cardinal to defend himself against charges of selfish motives. His reputation lifts him far above any such imputations. But he seems, in spite of opportunities for information, to have arrived at an unwarrantable conclusion. His "sense of justice and fair play" should enable him to conceive of a great nation acting chivalrously, even against a small one, and for a Protestant to be a sincere and disinterested witness, even against a Roman Catholic King. Loyalty is a great quality, but hasty judgment is not. There is no question of international bullying or of religious jealousy, but of righting a great wrong, if it is proved to exist; and the Cardinal should be foremost in trying to discover the truth in the E. J. WHEELER. New York, December. MERRY TIMES IN HARTFORD. Lage Bunch of Holiday Visitors and Entertainments: Mr. and Mrs. Harry A. Plato entertained the North End Whist club at their very pretty house on Garden street, on Wednesday last. Dr. and Mrs. Preston M. Edwards were guests of the club. Mrs. William Harris captured first last prize, Mrs. P. M. Edwards, second. Mrs. Louise Monlaugh, third. The children's prizes were taken by Mr. Charles E. Taylor, Mr. James Jackson and Mr. William Harris. The next meeting of the Club will be held at the house of Mrs. Charles E. Taylor, 15 Warren street, Tuesday, January 8. The Sunday school of Saint Monlon's Mission held their Christmas tree exercises at the home of the rector, Rev. Alonso Johnson of Center street. The children delighted with their presents. Mr. Blake, of Waterbury, delivered an address, also our. We are proud master Mr. William S. Bell, who are proud indeed to have among those who are teaching holidays in our city three school thursdays,elle. M. J. Edward, of Atlantic City, N. J.; M. J. Martle, E. Lewis, of Trenton, N. J.; and M. Miss M. Wheeler, of the Institute for Youth, at Cheyney, Pa. Other candidates are Mrs. John W. Ross and Mr. and mrs. Solomon L. Herb, of New Haven; Mrs. Nancy J. Jones of New York; the Misses Bernie Park and Edith Thompson, students. Chyney, Pa.; Miss M. Hines, of Bristol; Miss Lelivery, of Philadelphia, Mrs. Warren Brooks, Miss Estelle P. Freidman, and Mr. Gordon, of Springfield, Mass. The Miss Fa and Mabel White, of Walkill, N. Y.; Ms. Gibeon L. Young, of Jersey City. The dance given by Messrs. Thomas Wheath and Eugene Sevmon on Christmas Day in Hall, was a thourough- benjoyable affair, for young men de- fering much credit for their alphas, for promising our own most excellent alphas, for refusing to allow anyone to leave and re-enter the hall—hence order valued. The Bika will give their annual ball on February 21. 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Wight, Miss Dora Phillips, Miss Hattie William, Miss Dora Fowler, Mr. Howard Fowler, Miss Florence Sponn, and Mr. Abraham Williams. A most beautiful repast was served and the loveliest hostess was at her best. Mrs. M. E. Hornaby street, and as guests of honor at her Christmas dinner, Mrs. and Mrs. Briggs, of Dorchester, Miss Idia suffering from a fall received white on her church last Wednesday evening. A Christ-cantata by a company of fifty young people at St. Mark's Congregational church was presented last Wednesday evening. The church was crowded, and the affair was a financial success. The Young Men's Bible Class at Charles street A. M. E. church, met in the pastor's bed as usual last Sunday at 1:30 p. m. Dr. Johnson was exceptionally lucid in the handling of the subject and the hour spent with the class as he studied and instructive. Mrs. M. Hamilton Hodge, the dramatic soprano, who has been abroad during the part twelve years, is at home her's residence, 73 Camden street. Mrs. Hodge toured England, South Africa, Australia and England, Little Cristobell Sutton, 80 Camden street, five years old, died from the effects of being involved last Wednesday and was buried from St. Paul's church, Dr. Ferris, officiating Mrs. Mattle Parker, died Thursday evening at the age of forty. She widowed and had been afflicted for some time. She was a member of four societies, and was buried from the New Twelfth Baptist church; Dr. N. A. N. Shaw officiating; Mr. one of Charles street church's stanenche members, lost his faithful wife Saturday afternoon, at their residence. 40 Holyoke street. They had just married their daughter the week before and all seemed sunny until the sudden breaking of this cloud. The funeral book place at Chas street church Tuesday, 1 p. m.; Dr. Reverdy C. Ransom officiating. Cambridge News The Cambridge Men's Form, which meets, at the St. Paul A. M. E. church, is getting ready to celebrate its seventh anniversary by a banquet some time in February. It is said that Dr. W. T. Vernon P. of the Treasury, will be the guest. The Ladies Charity club, of Cr. Id their regular meeting a room at the usual honor will be Mrs. Agnew Adams. Wha was in the parson. Snelson, a white queried his serv. correspondent The happy and Mr. Chrl me Hand class A menent W. 314 an Fifty with he by the rooms it oct 20 GI. 354 EUROPEAN FIRST-CLS Prompt and ensure weaken Location conve either Permane respectfully solicite nov 2-3 mos. and Dini 48 WEST 18 Good food, quick ser Regular dinner, 25 cen P. M. WM. FOREMAN AND nov 15 3m. THE VANDERBY B. R. TRAINHA Desirable rooms most permanent or transient, weddings or reception, mainm. Turses reasonable avance, near Fulham street ANDERSON CAFE AND RESTA 790 & 794 Fulton St., B Nearly furnished Rooms for Transient Guests. Remodeled and under new Ball Room attached. Duncan ings from 8 p.m. to 1 CHARLES F. ANDERSON. THE CLIFF H Cafe and Re 810 West 85th BOARD BY TEST CLASS F ad business which has been true of past few years among Afro-Americans, so failure of the Freedman's Bank was identity to the race from which it did recover until the generation affected had been replaced by another generation, and we are just now reaping the fruits of the thought and efforts of new generation. It is of the utmost importance, therefore, that the men now head of our banking development be extremely conservative in their gesture. It was in view of the sb condition on this point that the r suggested quite a year ago that listing banks form a trust, by which resources could be centralized and fere most beneficially handled for general good; and while the sugar did not meet with general appeal at the time it will be ultimately into effect as an imperative necessit the situation. Afro-American bank, like the american newspaper, is needed at stage of the development of the and the stronger and better we these the stronger and better will be in the work immediately be- Color Idae in the Army. Copper Lane in the Army. The North American Review for ber 21, Captain M. F. Steele of oited States Army, discusses "The Line in the Army" in a broad and betic way calculated to attract the in of those interested in the sub-specially at this time, when the the subject of very general disain Steele asks if the time has lived when the four Afro-Ameri-iments authorized by law should done away with; the law being the only one upon the statute of the National Government which he Negro citizens as a class apart sets up a "Jim Crow car" for it were, and requires them to it or in none. No more exclusive be found in the codes of Ala-Misrajianni. in the army itself," says Capelle, "there is no prejudice against red regiments" * * * * "The against the Negro is found the army. It is no more of the an of the North." It is seldom find a writer on the subject of American's rights so broad and Captain Steele; indeed for the comfort it will afford them,duce the article in another col-The Age to-day. ree with Captain Steele that line in the army should be worn. The undeniable fact that American regiments are not any of the garrison towns in a of the country is one of the arguments against the exist; but not the strongest argue maintenance of the color line partment of the Federal serviary to the letter and the spirit deral Constitution, and should ly-combated wherever it is exist. The Federal Governed set an example to the States ality of treatment of its citi- tion which President Rooseen, that he has a right to diontion of the army, and there-ole of it, for whatever cause or the good of the service, the process of law," he is sus- no law or precedent, it has to be accepted the best and he has arrayed the best portion of the country against the proposition, and invited an este contest in the Congress, rentals to divide the Republican thus jeopardize the success of next Presidential election. It lieved anywhere that the President acted in what he considers under the law, or that he was otherwise than for what he rehe good of the service, and heed in most positive terms that influenced at all by the color. It is unfortunate that question is mixed up in the and it is equally unfortunate should appear a big possibil- he question of politics would part of the main question- ated, the question is one of and it is to be hoped that it confused by the introduction d largely selfish questions, or interjected into it for selfish The Minneapolis Daily Trit tated the question fairly in a editorial opinion: mollers are not under the rule muble deeppot. They were cilt they were soldiers and remain under the rule of law. Mitl not the same as civil, but it completely the powers of ommand and the rights of men is not clear how far the comparatienes protect men under ilpine, unless enforced by the of pure justice. The bill of in invoked in behalf of the who suffer money loss and action by the President's or that no citizen shall be liberty or property without law. They are deprived of if the right to a life pension is service, which some of a few years of completing, visible legal rights which it possible to enforce in the fair statement of the case, a already drawn attention bility that Congress may ny legislation which would rights of those concerned, time adopt legislation, turning like questions the future, because able to get the Conch to act upon the actively or negat obably be to thoughly in de litte, perhaps definitely. In that case, it appears to us, an appeal to the courts would be the proper course. Indeed, if we had been in the position of either of the discharged soldiers, my Sergeant Mingo Sanders, for example, we should have carried the case to the courts in the first instance, and leave Congress to act or not, as policy should dictate. Meanwhile, it is well to remember that it is human to err, but that there is always a way to correct error. One way is to put down the cash to contend the question, and we notice that the Afro-Americans are not breaking their necks doing this. What are they waiting for? and they are apparently not expected to resort such treatment, but to act the out, to accept it all with a grim. Bah! They have not done it in the past, and we should disguise them if they did it in the future. And the country does not seem to appreciate the fact that the Southern whites so far recent Afro-Americans in the uniform that they will not allow them to become a part of the State militia. What will the New Year bring forth? Secretary William H. Taft has announced that while he is not a candidate for the Presidency he would not decline a nomination if it were tendered him. Mr. Bryan has made a like announcement, which was War With Japan War with Japan has been discussed so persistently and seriously in the United States and Europe of late, or since the trouble over the school question in San Francisco was started, as to attract thoughtful consideration, not because of immediate possibility of such a calamity, but as an eventuality. The San Francisco question is admittedly only a sort of opening wedge between the good relations between the two countries, which have been of long standing, but which were ruptured in fact when the United States took over the Philippine Islands from Spain. The Japanese government resented this obtrusion of the United States in the Orient, because it upset all of its schemes for acquiring the Islands, which it has long desired, and because it brought a new and dangerous influence into the politics of the Orient. The white race does not love the yellow race any more than the yellow race loves the white race. Diplomacy may make things appear what they are not, but the facts underlying any given political situation will ultimately make their appearance. War between the United States and Japan will always be a possibility as long as the United States dominate the Philippines. Do All Southera White Folks Look Alike? The New York Sun has rendered a public service in directing attention to the myth, propagated by Southern newspapers and the agencies controlling the news gathering and distribution in the Southern States, that "the best people" are always the victims and avengers of alleged lawlessness, and like rot. We reproduce the article in another column of THE AOK to-day, under the heading, "White Ruffianism and the Best White People." We shall begin to see some light in the darkness in the Southern situation, if it will be honestly shown in the news dispatches that white ruffians and black ruffians stand on one side of the situation and decent people of both races on the other, for the most part, in all of the disorders reported from the Southern States. To make of all of the whites "the best people" and all of the black and yellow people "the worst people" as is generally the case, is not only false but misleading. A white ruffian is no better than a black one, and they should both be treated with like severity. It is done that way everywhere in the country except in the Southern States. Bolglan Congo Abuses. It is in accordance with the fitness of things that the United States should cooperate with the Powers of Europe in an effort to bring about a better condition of affairs in the Belgian Congo. The natives have some rights of life and humane treatment which have been ignored by the Congo authorities and which the Nations of the World should compel King Leopold to accord them. The bad treatment of the natives has been set forth from time to time in the columns of THE AGE. It is appropriate, also, that the British government should take the lead in efforts to ameliorate the condition of the natives of the Belgian Congo; but, when this has been effected, it will be in order for the British government to pay some attention to the treatment the natives of British South Africa receive from the local governments under which they live. The natives of British South Africa have a few rights of citizenship, and the heavy hand of local government rests upon them to the point of downright oppression. Atlanta on the Bum. We wish to direct attention to an article in THE AGE 10-day from The New York Evening Post by a reputable New York lady interested in the Afro-American question who is studying conditions on the spot in Atlanta, headed, "Aftermath of the Atlanta Massacre," which is full of sad significance, and which should appeal more forcibly to Clark Howell, the peeksniffian editor of The Atlanta Constitution, than to any one else, as he seems to have his eyes shut tight to the fact that Afro-American freemen cannot be treated as slaves, by the law and public opinion, while they are left free to leave Atlanta and go to other sections of the Republic, where there is same public opinion and some equality of the laws and the administration of the laws. But it is hard to teach Clark Howell, and the likes of him, any sanity and common sense in dealing with the race questions. He and his sort are convinced that Afro-Americans have no rights which white men are bound to respect, and as long as that belief is regnant there will be unrest and trouble of all sorts in Atlanta and in all of the States of the South. There will be no change for the better in Southern conditions until there is a change in the policity of Southern white opera. said of the duty of soi- he life and property of aborhood where they are has been said of the give decent treatment among them. Afro- subjected to all sort crimination, fibes, it especially when th southern community' and they are apparently not expected to resort such treatment, but to act the ear, to accept it all with a grin. Bah! They have not done it in the past, and we should decide them if they did it in the future. And the country does not seem to appreciate the fact that the Southern whites so far recent Afro-Americans in the uniform that they will not allow them to become a part of the State militia. What will the New Year bring forth? Secretary William H. Taft has announced that while he is pot a candidate for the Presidency he would not decline a nomination if it were tendered him. Mr. Bryan has made a like announcement, which was quite unnecessary, as Mr. Bryan is a perpetual candidate for nomination, having the Presidential itch as badly as Henry Clay or Daniel Webster or James G. Blaine had it, and with as little prospect of ever being President! On the top of all of this the Roosevelt Third Term League has been formed, and issued a remarkable pronouncement that looks like it meant to have Roosevelt run anyhow, because he is "a public necessity, an essential part of things." And it is proclaimed from the housetops that the Old Line Republicans are getting themselves together to fight the Roosevelt program to a standstill and a knock-out, if possible. They have no candidate. It is said, but will pit the field against Roosevelt, starting off with the solid Republican South, which we have supposed was defunct. We should think the Old Line Republicans would have nothing more to do with the "pitting against the field" nonsense after the monstrous faco in the first McKinley campaign for delegates. But there is plenty of fun ahead for everybody. The statement is made that Chief Justice McIlvie W. Fuller of the Federal Supreme Court may retire before the end of President Roosevelt's term. Why doesn't he retire now? He can be spared. Although he pays taxes the same as white men and has the same theoretical rights of citizenship, the Afro-American may yet have to fight for participation in the public school benefits of the Southern States. Will he do this if the issue is forced upon him? It is a disgrace that such a question could be asked in seriousness, but it can be, and we ask it. He appears to have more of the Quaker than the Spartan in his make-up. Sailth the Good Book: "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." Very good. It is the normal way of the world, and the races which ignore the principle in contact with other races invariably get it where the rooster got the hatchet. Races that will not fight for what is their usually have it taken away from them; it is even so with individuals. NEWS IN BRIEF. At San Antonio, Texas, from 130 to 150 members of the Brotherhood of Railway Firemen walked out this afternoon at 5 o'clock on the San Antonio division of the Southern Pacific Atlantic system. Afro-Americans are being substituted for the striking firemen. The firemen have no grievances against the railroad company. They claim that it is a test strike to determine whether they or the engineers shall have control of the switching crews. The engineers claim they will win out, and they say they will hire Mexicans, Chisamen and Afro-Americans to do the work. Wilbert G. George, an Afro-American, the only eligible for a clerkship in the Post Office at Hattiesburg, Miss, has been advised by white persons in that place to remain away from the Post Office or be mobbed. George recently advised the Civil Service Commission that the postmaster at Hattiesburg had freed the inmate in position and he had arrested him but failed to apprehend for duty on account of the mob threatening him. "I contend for the position or something equally as good in the Civil Service as per my examination," says George, in his letter. It is not even safe for me to stay there, but if you can address me for the next few miles, Miss. As I have not heard from you I feel at liberty to take this action." While the commission refuses to outline his probable action, it is thought that should George insist on performing the service of clerk, the Hattiesburg Post Office he will trained to some other place where the race question does not figure as now in Mississippi. Lord Delaval de la Poer Beresford, youngest son of the fourth Marquis of Waterford, was killed in the Soo Railroad wreck in Dakota recently. Beresford was a peculiar character, and, although worth several hundred thousand dollars at the time of his death, dressed in the simple garb of the plains and lived in the simple garb of any of the Mexican peons who wore for him his last though were for the welfare of an Afro-American woman, Flora Wolff, and he left $10,000 to her that she might pass the rest of her life in comfort. There is a story told by his friends that she once nursed him through yellow fever in New Orleans, and he made how to take care of her as long as he lived. She always came to El Paso with him when he came for supplies, and he was once arrested and fined for appearing on the streets with her. She professed to be married to him and called herself "Lady Flo," but the will calls her Flora Wolff. Bereford would never talk of his attachment for her. Congress will be urged by the War Department to repeal the law which directs the Secretary of War to enlist four Afro-American regiments in the army. A measure is now pending in the House for murdering out the Afro-American soldiers, and many officers of the army would be pleased should is become a law. There is a strong sentiment among Southern members of greens in favor of mistering out these troops, but it is believed that the pending measure will not be adopted until after a bitter fight. The South Losing Money. Everybody knows something about the scarcity of labor throughout the country and not merely in this country. The Manufacturer's Record thus depicts the situation down oath: "The stringency as to farm labor, due to the demands at better wages from the railways, the mines and the factories, is indicated in the suggestion at Augusta that public and private schools be suspended for a short time in order that the children may help to save the cotton crop, while in towns and cities the greatest difficulty is had in securing cooks, washerwomen and common male labor." The situation is certainly deplorable, but, to a great extent, it is the direct result of the South's short-sighted policy in dealing with the laborers and also largely to the increasing intelligence of the laborers themselves. It ultimately and stupidly adheres to the old slavery regime. It fails to notice the fact that the Afro-American hip access to many other fields of labor besides "the ole plantation" and can command much better the millies, factories and mines, unless about social quality and notion are costly; the South slaves. IN THE PUBLIC EYE. REX. WILLIAM J. TAYLOR REV. WILLIAM President of Grand Fountain Uni President of Grand Fountain United Order of True Reformers. NOTE AND COMMENT BY BISHOP J. W. SMITH WASHINGTON, December 30.—"Secretary of War William H. Taft will be a candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1908. If it shall appear that there is a demand for his candidacy, Mr. Taft's future, politically, is in the hands of his friends in Ohio and throughout the country." This statement, regarded as authoritative, was made to-day by the Washington correspondent of The Cleveland (Ohio) Leader as a feeler. Now, unless the Republican party has a cataract in its eye, and does not want to be led as a lamb to the slaughter, it will have the courage to let Mr. Taft neverly alone as its standard bearer; and if Mr. Taft is built so as to heed the warnings of common sense, he will not try to above himself as a candidate on the party so that the Democratic party with Mr. Bryan or some other logical leader can have a walk-over. Like a flash of lightning following the announcement of his tentative candidacy, came a denial from Mr. Taft, saying, "My ambition is not political; I am not seeking the Presidential nomination; but I am not foolish enough to say that in the improbable event that the opportunity to run for the great office were to come to me, I should decline it, for this would not be true." The statement is ambiguous; and yet reading between the lines one can see that he wants the Republican party to know that, like Mr. Bryan, he is a receptive candidate. If he is nominated he will not refuse it. He is simply feeling the pulse of the Republican party. That's all. Since the Afro-American as a voter in the doubled Northern and Western States holds the balance of political power, and will be very much in evidence in 1908, and was grossly insulted a few days ago by the cruel, blood-and-thunder utterances of Mr. Taft against the discharged colored soldiers, words too volcanic for a farce and too prejudicial for a melodrama, it would be political death to the Republican party to make him its Presidential candidate. In standing by President Roosevelt for brutally kicking, without trial, without honor, the colored soldiers out of the army, he says the soldiers who did the shooting are guilty of murder in the first degree, and those who were not actually involved were engaged in a conspiracy to shield the criminals, and that it is virtually treason; both crimes being capital offenses. These heartless words of Mr. Taft passed upon these soldiers, since he had no military or judicial power to pass sentence of death upon them for either or both crimes, have now passed into history. And President Roosevelt, a few days later, when Congress ordered him to send it the facts, uncorked his vial of wrath, emptied it upon the heads of the colored soldiers discharged, and said he regretted that he had not executive power to order their execution. Will the Afro-American voters forget the words and actions of these two high officials whom they have vomited out and return and swallow one or both of them and swallow one or both before 1908? Walt and ace. Mr. Roosevelt, who before his Draconic order on the colored soldiers was fairly idolized by the Afro-American people, could not be elected again if he could be nominated, for he has slitted his jugular vein with them not only on the soldier racket, but because he says the crime of rape is peculiarly frequent with black men, that the Negro race harbors its criminal element, and that black men should in earnest assist the officers we running down every infamous offender. The Cleveland Leader says Mr. Taft stands for the policies of President Roosevelt. Certainly. And the Negro in the last two months has had a taste of those policies. Any candidate with the Rooseveltian brand will meet with political war to the knife from the Negro. Mr. Taft, who, in his unseemly naire, charged the soldiers with murder and treason, has shown his hand. The Negro will show his political hand in 1908. In his unwarrantable strike at the soldiers Mr. Taft has clumsily used a two-edged sword, which has accidently succeeded in cutting a gaping chasm in his carotid artery which will be fatal to his hopes of preferment. The announcement says his "future, politically, is in the hands of his friends in Ohio and throughout the country." The 50,000 Negro voters alone in Ohio will defeat him in that State, and the thousands of Negro voters in the other close, doubtful States will bury him so deep that no political trumpet will be able to resurrect him. It is not likely now that there will "appear any demand for his candidacy"; therefore, it will be wisdom to let his "future, politically remain in the hands of his friend," for in his dept. of his candidacy for President he says: "Do not expect to be the Republican cee. If for no other reason, because o. seems to me to be objections to my availability, which do not appear to lessen with the continued discharge of my official duties." Anti-Roosevelt Republican sentiment and Negro voter piled mountain high against him if nominated are the strong objections to his availability. Since his political ambition is not lusty but still in its infancy, let his friends, while handling it, remember that a milk bottle of a two months' old baby is too strong for it. THE NEW YORK AID and The Indiana Institute World, with fire and force, struck the bull's-eye when, in answer to President Roosevelt's silly suggestion that colored men should help white officers run down colored criminals, they said if he wanted Negro criminals hunted down by Negro men, "let him suggest to the South to make them a part of its legal machinery, as once did with good results, and in large cities of the North and West let it be insisted upon as a matter of principle and in the interest of law and order. Appointed colored detectives and patrolmen. Make them feel their responsibility." For the President to fail to recommend such a remedy, but to sit down cross-legged in the White House, guarded by detectives from the shots of white would be unsatisfactory, and expect colored men of all professions, business and jobs to quit work, lose time and money, with no detective or police authority behind them, and help white officers down criminals, is inhuman and ridiculous. The colored men, without any authors and pay behind them, would be the biggest living to jeopardize their lives by being shot to pieces by these criminals. The colored people pay taxes to employ abler detectives and policemen to do this work and they should do it or quit. They has no more right to run after Negro crimin than have the white people who are officers to run after their criminal tough Reform, like charity, should begin at home a fact that is suddenly forgotten by the who should be the first to remember I since they are so feverish to preach it to the Negro race. A wise heathen once said "Every man carries two wallets with him and hangs one before and the other behind him. In the front wallet he puts the fault of others; in the one behind he puts his own. In this way he never sees his own faults, but in the front wallet he always sees the faults of others." If some of the Negro-haters, who at the present time a very liberal with advice to the black ra would just turn their wallets to the gaze the world, they would pull their hats down over their eyes and become speechless. Material Independence Basis of Go and Efectual Citizenship. From the Atlanta Independent. The prejudice existing against the race the South is largely the logical result of our own folly, and superficial disposition on part to reach out after the unattainable in the expense of the attainable. We have mistaken the superficial for real and constructive progress. We have too largely be allowed that political emolument and recognition would outweigh tangible wealth and character. To begin with, we undertook to erect our civilization upon ignorance and ahead of intelligence and of underlying our racial progress with economic independence and industrial efficiency, we staked all on politics, and undertook to rule our former masters who were two thousand years ahead of us in the world's civilization. The white man did not begin this great republican fabric in politics. It was after he had felled the forest, laid the foundations for our great cities, that he undertook to wring the government from British rule and declare himself a free man. There can be neither permanent nor constructive progress among us until our early errors are corrected. We must begin at the bottom and lay our foundation firmly in the soil. We must become producers of wealth as well as consumers, if we would reach its highest civilization. The habits of thir industry and economy must be the direct element of our lives. It will take drastic measures to br massage of us to a full realization and responsibilities of citizen of us realize that the nation only what the citizens contril that it is incumbent upon e contribute something valuable intangible. So many of us ex tribute nothing and extract a sooner the Negro realizes that no greater factor in the body he contributes to the national real worth and character, just our permanent and construc ment begin. The man who attends to business is bound to neglect the goodding woman and those who tou PRO-AMERICAN EDITORIAL OPINION ```markdown ``` Apply the Blanket From The Frederick Hornet The strumens and impetuous life is in all right, but sooner or later we must pay quite clearly for it. Strumensity and impetuosity do not do for all things. There are bridges and weak places where the fastest trains have to pass over and it behooves them to slack up, or pass through the draw into the river. We fear President Roosevelt's failure to go slowly over certain bridges has been a major problem. One life is all right, boys, but don't forget to apply the brakes sure and often on the turn and curves of life. Discrimination in Pay of Teachers in Louisiana. From The Colored Teacher. We note with a great deal of regret that many of the school boards of Louisiana have led to increase the pay of colored teachers to meet the increased cost of living, although a substantial advance has been made in the salaries of all the white teachers of the State. Such gross injustice cannot be too strongly condemned. It only reveals the fact that the welfare of colored teachers receive but scant consideration from the average scant. In many other things, there is something radically wrong with the white man's notion of justice. It is certainly neither fair nor just that nearly all of the school funds should be diverted to the maintenance of white schools. The colored people pay taxes directly and indirectly and have a right to a fair share of public school moneys. Consequently, there is no excuse for poorly paid colored teachers, whose mutual appointment of school funds will justify an increase in their salaries. The recent action of the New Orleans School Board is a fair illustration of what is going on in nearly every section of the State. In that city an additional sum of $130,000 per annum was appropriated for an increase of teachers' salaries. The salaries for every white public school was raised. The public schools intended themselves received a large increase in their pay. And yet not one cent of this money want to the increase of the pay of colored teachers! One might well ask what right has the New Orleans School Board to appropriate its surplus revenues to the pay of white teachers only when the colored teachers are paying more taxes for public education? That the School Board of New Orleans has discriminated against the colored teachers of that city is too clear for argument. It is sufficient to say that it had no reason to do so. There are 71 colored teachers in the public schools of New Orleans; and an additional 110 teachers would call for an annual expenditure of only about $10,000, or one third of the fund set trade for an advance in teachers' pay. If the School Board could afford $180,000 for an increase in the pay of white teachers and $2,800 for an increase in the salaries of three superintendents and another official it could also afford $10,000 for an increase in the pay of TI teachers the their fares to act can only be explained from the fact that the New Orleans School Board is composed of men who apparently believe that they are appointer to serve the best interests of the white race only. However, such incidents an these are very discouraging to the school district in presenting indications do not point to any remedial measure that might bring about a change for the better. Room or Ten From The People's Recorder The young Negro of to-day has a very bright future before him, if he will only put forth efforts in the right direction. With schools and colleges within the reach of all, there is no excuse for anyone growing up in ignorance. Even those who have not the means to pay for an education need to be educated, because they are amount of grit and determination, they can easily work their way through college. But getting an education is not all of it. After school what? Go out and prove to the world that you are a worthy factor by making a place for yourself and doing something to increase the moral and material worth of the community in which you live. There is no time for idle dreaming, but work, work, work is what is required of the young Negro. Industrial and Business Education. From the Richmond Negro Criterion. Only that education is practical which educates the head, the hand and the heart, and fits one to fill some important place in the affairs of life; all other is a mockery. The question has often been discussed in these columns and by the public as to whether the Richmond school's authorities are giving to the colored children in her parish the education they need, as will at them to meet the various requirements essential for young people starting out in life. It was pleasing for us to note that in- ing had been introduced into normal school, a training for competent officers to educate the hand to become strong and useful, and a means by which our boys, after reaching manhood, could earn a competence through manual labor, while at the same time they would have a head sufficiently educated to work for the work of the hand. So far so well. But all of our boys will not be mechanics, nor will all our girls become teachers. Some will seek employment in the many business professions prepared for them, and these positions acceptably they must needs have a thorough training in business methods. The Racor Slaughter From The Charleston Messenger. Just three days more and a fast fleeting year shall surrender its claim to life unto Father Time and a new year shall be ushered in. How serious has been the visit of 1906, ye let only memory tell! In vain do we think of the terrible strains that shall rest upon her. Say it only in a super, that the crimson monster that stalked in the field and killed and mowed in his own some of the greatest good and purge of our day and Wars have redened the world's brought sorrow to many a heart The terrible race slaughter at a still a standing shame in the 1906 for this happened in boasted In the field and free more been laughed by the scores; tender still mourn because of man's in- and oppression still in rife. Let that all this shall cease and that long year will bring larger oppo- and rights to all mankind. Let us peace shall be the heart and ter- minal shall be the hope and factories shall respond to and nothing The family shall fruits. Let us hope that men be kind and good and true, that hate, envy and malice, oppres- and good wrong shall die and justice and good shall applaint them. Let us hope for a larger claim, of bethlehem and more abundant provision of the Holy Spirit's beauty. Let all our resources be devoted to the mercy of God and to all in their power the God and humanity. Such an endeavour can fall to give to all who try in this life a happy and prosperous year and a joy most abundant. A Laboratory and Program Base for Clinical Research There is a certain laundry in this city, the name of which ludictees progressive, from which a timely lesson can be drawn. The company is controlled by young men with up-to-date ideas. They are in the business to please their customers. They are also making money made them friends. In the first place, the work was well done. In fact, they made it a point to do a little better work than the other fellow. Finally their wagons began to increase in number. Then their place of business became too small and they made no longer building. All the time they were turning out good work and giving special attention to complaints. One day they discovered that the increased cost of producing first-class work was more than the prices they charged could stand, so they hired a new manager. This was done, but few if any, of their customers complained. They knew what kind of service they were getting. But those young men wanted to add something more to their efficient service. So they employed several young women to perform the special duties, working closely together actually to the backends, and their business increased. When one is in business it pays to cater to the wishes of the people. The people know a good thing when they see it and are willing to pay for it. There is no profit in being indifferent. It is a sorry attitude for a business man to assume. A special knack of pleasing the people is capital of the most desirable kind. Characteristic Estimate by Southern Courta. From The Birmingham Ledger. A jury in the circuit court here held that it is no humiliation for a Negro man, although wrongfully arrested, to be kept in jail, and that he is not injured unless he suffers actuarial financial loss as a result of his imprisonment. The decision came in the case of Early Power, colored, vs. William Chandler, sheriff of Etowah county. Mr. Chandler, according to the evidence in the case, arrested Posey in Birmingham under the impression that the Negro was Ernest Whaley. Posey was confined in jail five days before the mistake was discovered. He subsequently sued for damages for all alleged acts. The jury awarded him a verdict of $30.10, the actual financial loss sustained by him through his imprisonment and his efforts to be released. But a few moments were spent by the body in delilah. Self-Help. From The Western Christmas Accent The Negro has reached the conclusion that self-help is the paramount issue in the solution of the race problem. Hence in the recent riots there were some of the other fellows left on the ground, when the crack of the Winchester had died away. God helps him who helps himself. Has the Afro-American in Politics Been a Failure? The white Republicans North are an imminent to the colored man as the Democrats are in the South. We do not advise the colored citizen to do anything that will put his friends against him. There are some men in the Democratic party who do not want the colored man at all. When he is in the city, the colored man should not go where he is living. It is unnecessary. When he is wanted he will be invited to participate in the laurels of the government. To obtain such an invitation he must show that, he is, worthy and competent. The great mistakes that colored office holders make: we mean those who are given representative places, are in promoting all white persons in the same office over worthy and deserving colored persons, are entitled to position and presuming their inferior to their white neighbors. When administrations place colored men in representative places, it is for the purpose of taking care of worthy and deserving colored persons. But, to a great extent the colored office holder does not see it in that light. The colored man in politics has been a politician's failure, a failure of office, not to act. If you tell one what his duty is, he will say that you are endeavoring to dictate to him. Many of these new school politicians would make better cornfield overseers than they would make chiefs of departments. A small colored politician is as bad as a second-rate white man who does not make colored positions of head master over body of colored laborers. We shall be glad when President's Democrats and Republicans will select men and not cowards to fill responsible positions. Higher Education in a Wild Flight in Wisconsin From The Natchos Weekly Herald. Rev. A. N. Stevens brought up the rear. As was Cadmus the African poet, an Aesop the world's greatest fabulist, as was Tercene among the grandest of Rome's Ilycea as Ruskin of Russia, and as Alexander Dumas the great French novelist, so was Rev. Stevens before his audience. Another African Emigration Scheme. From: The Saranah Tribune The readers of The Tribune are well aware of its stand on the emigration question. We are totally against wholesale emigration to any clime, Africa or elsewhere. Wholesale emigration causes privations, distresses and other lilies that follow, for ninety per cent. of those who migrate do so more on account of feeling than their ability to finance the journey. The Tribune is reaching individuals, nor, in fact, any number of well prepared in a financial way with a fixed purpose and an understanding as to where they are going to migrate. Such persons would no doubt benefit themselves and the place where they dwell. Our contention against wholesale migration of purposeless, peethyless people has been upheld by the several bodies that left within the country with them for Africa. Many of them dled on their way, others died at their destination, and many of the survivors were unable to make a living and thereby starved, while others wrote back to friends to provide them with return transportation. It was only a few months ago that a destituted family passed through this city for Fitzgerald from Africa and was able to provide them with and whose friends had mortgage everything that they had to provide them with return passage to this country. We are informed that another organization involved in the capture a number of侵 窃犯. 10, 19, 20, 21 Swipe the Baleen and its Patrons. From The Little Book Encycl. The saloon is the curse of curses and does more to damn mankind than all other wicked institutions. So strange is it that some people think these hell traps necessary to the prosperity of a community. Authorities who license saloons know that they are opening deeds for the breeding of vices the men and women do in the saloon acter. The men who run saloons know that they are in a dirty business, and would give up the job did they not prize the almighty dollar above the ever living soul of man. The people who petrison saloons know that they have fallen from their heart and become slaves to a habit low and degrading. Afro-Americans Deserting Charleston, From The Charleston Messenger. From The Charleston Messenger. As shown by the News and Courier, there has been an increase of 14,000 new people in Charleston since 1800. A marvelous leap for Charleston. And what is most im- THE NEW YORK AGB: THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1907. wrestling about. Christophson's possibility according to present which will be given out in the Wellington City Directory for 1961, is that set of the different persons who inhabit the city are white and $1.740 are black. They given the white a privilege over the blonds of $2.12. Who could have ever dreamed of such a bad when in the city they were so many and so many when were two blonds to every one what when we face the majority increase of the white population and decrease in the blond we must reason with the opinion that brought them conditions about. We cannot conceive but three ways by which the great increase of the white population over the colored has been brought about; namely: 1. The establishing of the Government Navy Yard Station. b. Immigration of whites to our city. c. Migration of the Negro to Northern America. If the records were left as to the migration of the Negro to the North, East and West it would startle all Charleston. Each year the Negro has been pulling out of Charleston and the whites moving in. If it has been doing so in the proportion that it has been going since 1908, Charleston will soon become a city with almost an entire white population. Southern Hog Should Flock by its Longevity. From The Baltimore Afro-American Ledger. Senator Morgan wants the next Democratic convention to declare that it is a "White Man's Party." And if the convention refuses to so declare for the Southern contingent to draw out and declare for itself. That would be a good idea for the Southernmen to get together and stay together; it would relieve the country of a good deal of embarrassment at times. Theor Women Have Public Spirit. From The Columbus (Ga.) People's Ledger. From The Columbus (Ga.) People's Ledger. One of the best movements ever started among our women was the one started November 29 at the Odd Fellows' hall, when about twenty or more of our good women met, and organised themselves to do charitable work among our people. They will do all in their power to add to our people the bright side of life and to life life worth living. They will do all in their power to wage against the bar rooms that surround our two principal churches and the high school of the city. They have strong conviction that the environments have in them a kind of enabling people. The following ladies are office this movement: Mrs. J. W. McRae, president; Miss L. F. Cantey, vice-president; Miss Belle Kimbrough, secretary; Miss R. Hawkins, assistant secretary, and Miss A. Viville, correspondent secretary. Quite a number of hold minor offices. The Ledger will do all in her power to help foster this movement. Charitable Estimate of President Rosevelt. The President's position is in a hard one and it is hardly possible for him to avoid some mistakes in reaching conclusions or in administration. President Roosevelt appears to be thoroughly honest and sincere in whatever he does, and because of this we are not inclined to criticise him harshly where our views do not accord with his and where we do not agree as to administration. An old adage declares "all is well that ends well, and our earnest hope is that the president Roosevelt in matters about which he is in agreement, will with the unfoldings of time, his righteous judgment and freedom from those prejudices along racial lines that at this time so largely prevail. Time alone can tell the tale. The Way of the Moh. From The Fisherman's Net Riots are to be deplored in any form and under all conditions, but the most disgraceful part of their settlement is seen by following their history. State troops are called, who in their efforts to quell the riots take the opportunity to kill Negroes only; while the white increase fury as the Negroes are disarmed, and palust illite across the Nation's history by their inhuman and uncivilised treatment of the disarmed as well as peaceful. And there always a paper that attempts to paint the law as unjustifiable. Where the laws are impartially admissible, lynchings and race riots will be less frequent—there will be no need for self-protection. CHRISTMAS FESTIVITIES WITH THE TENTH CAVALRY The Officers Attended Some of the Social Functions—A Rich Banquet and Happy Hearts. FORT BOMBINSON, December 27.—The represented holiday celebrations have left the entire community here with a feeling of good cheer and happiness with which to begin the New Year. Soldiers being naturally of a merry and happy disposition the Tenth Cavalry is no exception to the rule. For the layman, who knows but little more than he hears and presumes all he doesn't know, to have been in this vicinity during the holidays, and to have seen the real Afro-American soldier his impression would have unquestionably been far different from the general ideas entertained by casual readers of the blacks of Turtle Sam's army. Despite the many adversities of the colored soldier he never grumbles but is a consistent fighting part of the army and is grateful for his existence. If for nothing more, Christmas eve and Christmas day were as beautifully woven into each other that As usual on legal holidays around military posts, all duties except the necessity guard and fatigue are suspended. The weather man was very kind, giving us clear weather and the thermometer registering about 60 degrees with the sun and there in shaded ravines and slightly capping the buttes, which stand as natural decorations to the western plains. The formal celebrations began Christmas eve with the younger population who are all assembled numbered months ahead. With all assembled members of the team, Teeth Cavalry band playing Christmas alpine excitement among the little ones was intense about 4.30 p.m. when Sergeant Buck, impermanating old Kris, arrived on the scene and began his annual distribution of the presents from the exquisitely decorated alpine tree. Every youngster who claim citizenship in order Robinson was given a present of some kind made to feel the soldiers' ally of Christmas. Christmas day each organization tried to excel the other in barrack and dining room decorations and with their men. The dining room display of several of the troops were particularly noticeable for their excellence, and especially the entire decorations, and especially the more congratulatory comments than any of the others. With a strong infusion of evergreens decking the walls and ceiling, made in stars, letters and emblems, hanging paper work of calvary, infantry and artillery colors, paper chains of the national colors—red, white, and green—incidentally supporting banners, shrouded in kernels flag, the rare ability and artistic tastes of Privates Springs, Joseph and Williams made it possible for Troop K to rightly claim the first honors in that line. The brilliant showing made by the respectful troops of the South Cavalry during Christmas day on the hill, the calimax to be reached by Troop K the evening to follow. Its barracks, as above depicted, were cleared for its annual hall and banquet. This proved to be the crowning feature of the holiday celebrations. The society manifested itself as never before. If it was not so, the calimax is obviously well known, for the social functions of the enlisted men of the army to be attended by the officers, even on holidays, but the suspendous efforts of Troop K could not be given a mere passing glance. Their respects were paid in accordance. The boo-ooater, as tall: Rattnest—turkey caryer; Roast—pork; Worcester casser; chicken salad; Pantry—mince; apple pie; sponge and pound cake; Dermert—oran or grape; apples; nuts; strawberry crm candy; Drinks—fruit pan; wine; wine with candy; Radda rehearsal Toy. Special Compensation to the Acm. Philadelphia, December 18.—The original grand convention of the United Grand Chapter of Holy Royal Arch Mission, of the State of Pennsylvania was held in the 18th street, Philadelphia on Tuesday, December 18. A 344th. The following grand officers were only elected and subsequently installed. Compensation, John & Allen, No. 4, M. R. G. High Priest; Joseph L. Thomas, No. 2, M. M. B. D. G. High Priest; William H. Rustley, No. 2, M. M. B. G. King; William H. Rustley, No. 2, M. M. B. G. King; John F. Cornhill, No. 2, M. M. B. G. King; William H. Milly, No. 2, M. M. B. G. Secretary No. 931. The M. E. G. High Priest then announced the following appointments: Grand Chapelain, Biebus Lovl, J. Cuppia, 0; Mar Prestache H, Hill, M. Grand Lager, William H, Pisher, No. 1; James W. Grant, William H, Hill, M. Grand Lager, Wilhelm Carter, No. 1; Grand Royal Arch Captain, Philip H, Ehwarne, No. 1; Grand Master Sd Vell, Charles W. Walker, No. 4; Grand Mastor Sd Vell, James Yarbrough, James Yarbrough, Jacob Bokhman, No. 2; Grand Captain of the Host, William D, Pisher, No. 18; Grand Senior Steward, John A, Wigginia, No. 18; Grand Junior Steward, C. J. Cooper, No. 16; Grand Master Dilbert, A. Robbinson, Robbinson, Todd Fletcher, District Deputy Grand High Prison: First District, comprising Counties of Philadelphia, Chester and Delaware, reserved to M. E. G. High Priest, 811 S. Camac street, Philadelphia, Second District, comprising Counties of Lebanon, Dauphin, Lanier, Borks and Backs, Companion Joseph W. Warner, High Priest, Harrison, Third District, Companion Counties of Cilton, Lycoming and Blair, Companion D. C. Johnson, 413 Altoona, Fourth District, comprising Counties of Erie, Venango, Warren, McKean, and Crawford, Companion John B. Hickx, 19 Erie, Fifth District, comprising Counties of Allenberry, Wattes, Warren, McKean, and Crawford, Lawrence and Beaver, Companion William R. Lewis, 20, Pittsburg Most Excellent Grand Serbia. Committees: — Landmarks: Companion Joshua D. Kelley, 1; William A. Durnall, 18; Robert W. Jackson, 11; John L. Harkleen, Companion Googus, 20; John L. Jurimprudence, Companion 10; John L. Hicks, 19; Robert Brady, 13; C. G. Boyert, 18; William H. Miller, 6; James B. Johnson, 6. Foreign Correspondence: —Companion W. I. Underwood, No. 1; William H. Fackett, I. Underwood, No. 2; John H. O'Dannell, No. 13; F. A. Geyman, No. 4; Appeals and Griances: —Companion John F. Cornalb, No. 4; Jeremiah Hutchin, John F. Cornalb, No. 4; James W. Bell, No. 2; John H. Pernick, No. 4 Pristing: — Companion William H. Miller, No. 6: Fielding Ford, No. 9: Chas. H. Burna, No. 11: James A. Burley, No. 1: James W. Grant, No. 26. Finance: — Companion Joshua D. Keller, No. 1: William G. Jones, No. 8: Joseph D. Brinkley, No. 2: William E. Fisher, No. 6: George A. Howard, No. 4. George A. Howard, No. 4. Grand Lodge of the State of Pennsylvania, Free and Accepted Masons, was held in Masonic Hall, 409 South 11th street, Philadelphia, on Monday, December 19th, A. L. 5806. The following grand officers were duly elected and subsequently installed in the respectively positions: Brother James W. Nichols, No. 46, M. W. Grand Master; Brother James W. Grant, No. 43, R. W. Deputy Grand Master; Brother Winfield Carter, No. 12, R. W. Grand Senior Warden; Brother John W. Lee, No. 13, R. W. Junior Warden; Brother Joshua D. Keller, No. 14, R. W. Grand Junior Warden; Brother William H. Miller, No. 11, W. Grand Secretary, 731 N. Uber street, Philadelphia. After which the M. W. Grand Master then announced the following appointments: Brother P. A. Robinson, 74, W. Assistant Grand Secretary, Grand Chaplains, Blakeo Chapel, No. 47; Rev. John B. Stranberry, No. 47; and Rev. Charles A. Tindley, No. 52. Grand Lecturer, Brothers Joseph E. Thomas, No. 43, P. S. U.; William H. Beekott, No. 21, P. G. U.; William R. Barney, No. Brother Philip H. Edwarda, No. 62, W. G. Senior Deacon; Brother John W. Elser, Jr. No. 44, W. G. Junior Deacon; Brother John W. Smothers, No. 21, W. G. Marshall; Brother James M. Auter, No. 43, W. Grand Sword Bearer; Brother Cornellus Ridley, No. 61, W. Grand Puruslant; Brother Committee—Landmarks, Brothers John L. Harkess, No. 47; John B. Hicks, No. 68; William H. Miller, No. 11; Joshun D. Kelley, No. 48; Joseph L. Thomas, No. 43; Jurisprudence—Brothers William H. Miller, No. 11; Wilson L. Underwood, No. 12; Robert Brady, No. 36; John R. Moore, No. 21; Lennel Googus, No. 13. Finance, Brother Wilson L. Underwood No. 12; William C. Grobes, No. 39; Lucke Johnson, No. 61; Lewis N. Minteas, No. 44; Joseph D. Brinkley, No. 8. Foreign Correspondence, Brothers Lemmel Googius, No. 13; C. J. Wilson, No. 46; William H. Miller, No. 11; J. Wiltred Holmes, No. 13; James M. Auter, No. 43. Appels and Grievances, Brothers Igs S. Anhe, No. 3; Joseph M. Stafford, No. 14; William H. Webster, No. 40; W. H. Jenkins, No. 52; Samuel J. Porter, No. 9 By Laws, Brothers William H. Headley No. 74; Morton P. Hicks. No. 5; George A. Howard. No. 12; Joshua B. Williams. No. 21; John B. Allen. No. 11 Printing, Brothers William H. Miller. No. 11: Thomas J. Lund. No. 4: Walter S. Digas. No. 12: James E. Thompson. No. 57: George Sorrells. No. 52. Charity, Brotheren, Stewart, McCard, No. 55; George M. Ross, No. 46; Robert Donaldson, No. 63; Robert Barbour, No. 64; John H. Moulson, No. 72. 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The mob was the government of the city; that is, Atlanta is under representative rule, and the people who vote are the ones who govern the city. The colored man are their subsoft. In quiet times this means injustice in court, sentence on the word of a lying policeman or a jealous neighbor, who would like to see the "dude algrer" in convict stripes; in times of riot it means death. A benevolent despotism would last imperil the colored man's personal liberty. In twenty years, the Colored people here have had but fourteen new school agendas, not one new building. The Negro sees himself denied education, laws are passed humiliating him when he takes a public conveyance, and his personal liberty is always in danger. If he has little and is careless and happy-go-lucky, he will stay in such an environment; but if he is prosperous and intelligent, he finds his position increasingly precarious; and reluctantly, for he loves his friends and his old surroundings, he seeks a new home. And in the meantime Atlanta sadly needs labor to carry on her business enterprises. M.W.O. THE GRAND OLD ARMY OF THE ANTI-SLAVERY CAUSE Mr. Glen Gives a Partial Roster and Recites an Incident of, Frederick Dongman and Joosewer Truth. To the Editor of THE NEW YORK AGE: On Sunday, December 23d, The New York World published a page of letters from men of reputation upon the meaning of Christmas. Among other writers there was a letter from the Right Rev. Henry C. Potter, Bishop of the Metropolitan diocese of America. In the fifteen I knew his father, Alonso Potter, Bishop of Pennsylvania. He was an earliest, persistent, patient, progressive worker for the uplifting of humanity, bond and free, white and Afro-American. He was one of my father's supporters in the agitation to promote the abolition of human slavery within the Republic. He, with Lucretia Mott and her husband, of Philadelphia, was a great trio in Pennsylvania from 1845 to their death. Only the brave were Abolishionists in those days. Men like Gerrit Smith, James G. Birney, Myron Hally, Beriah Green, Samuel Green, Lewish and Arthur Tappan, John P. Hale, John G. Saxe, Owen Lovejoy, Benjamin Ward, John R. Giddling, S. J. Chase, James M. Pitch, Chan G. Finney, W. A. Seward, Henry Ward Becher, Lyman Becher Archbishop Hughes, Frederick Denglau, Charles L. Remond, Samuel Ringgold Ward, Harriet Becher, Stown, Gee, W. Curtis, Calvert E. Stowe, Sojourner Truth, Theodore Parker, Ellen Wright, Horace Bushnell, F. D. Huntington, Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, Charles Summer, John A. Andrew, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Baldwin, John G. Whittier, H. W. Longfellow, John Pleymont, W. C. Bryant, Gee, B. Chever, E. H. Chapin, Dr. Bellquette, Daniel Anthony, Susan B. Anthony, H. B. Stanton, Elizabeth Cady Antionton, David Cody, Gertrude L. Sarah E. Grimke and her leagues ormed, gross December filling an Atlanta, ny of a the men This er prince Omae , but ; and the evi- spec the gods has nur THE NEW YORK AGE: THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1907. SPARTANBURG, S. C., November 8. I arrived in this city about three weeks ago, before the schools had opened, and spent two weeks of my time in getting hold of conditions here relative to establishing manual training in the city colored schools. I found that our superintendent, Mr. Evans, had given the establishment of this work his personal attention, and that a great deal had been done. School opened on September 17th with an enrollment of twenty-two boys and fifty-four girls in the four higher grades. The manual training goes on very smoothly with the literary work. It took about four weeks to get our benches and other needed equipment ready, and all of the equipment was made by the small boys under our direction. Now the work is well under way, and interest and enthusiasm are high among both boys and girls. I believe the work will succeed very well. I shall write you from time to time and let you know of the progress of the work. Teaching in the Philippine Islands. APALIT, Pampanga, P. I.—I am teaching blacksmithing in one of the many insular trade schools at Apalit, which is about 35 miles north of Manila, in the Province of Pampanga. This school is located in a very fertile agricultural district but for the lack of labor and draft animals, due to the late insurrection, much of this land for miles around is not cultivated. With this exception, I find everything to my liking; in fact, I have never lived in more pleasant surroundings. My appointment as a teacher in this school was received as a result of an application, with which you are familiar, and a recommendation which was sent me from Tuskegee. I am endeavoring to fulfil the expectations of my superiors here, and my friends at Tuskegee. I have two classes, numbering about twenty boys, in iron work and mechanical drawing. Each class devotes three hours to shop work, and two hours to mechanical drawing. I also teach arithmetic between the periods of shop work. Of the four American teachers here, all are white except myself. I get along nicely with them. JULIUS LANE. A MACHINIST ON THE INTERMUNICIPAL CENTRAL, Republic of Panama, November 12.—Ever since I left Tuskegee, I have been working at my trade, machinist. For the past six months I have been here working as a machinist on the Isthmus. I find the conditions much better than I expected they would be. My salary at present is $175 United States currency a month. At the end of ten months' service I am to have six weeks' vacation with full pay. My work seems to give entire satisfaction. I attribute my success to the training I received at Tuskegee. AUGUSTA P. CLAYTON. A School in the Cool Wines for and by Milwaukee. OBSONA, Ala., November 29.—I am sure you will be interested to know how two are getting along since your visit here last May. During the summer we gathered from this and adducing canadian 'twenty-five rural', teachers into a Summer Institute for two weeks. We have since had letters from each of these teachers expressing how they were helped by these two weeks' work. The Corum Industrial Institute opened in September and our enrollment to date is 280. The Girls' Dormitory, the cornerstone of which we laid the day you were here, in now closed in and we have purchased half of the flooring and ceiling, which is being put in by the boys under the instructors. Mr. Driver, from Hampton, and Mr. Fentress, from Tuskegee, are our Industrial Instructors. The money for the shop which you saw was raised entirely by the colored miners. For the Girls' Dormitory, the people, colored miners, have raised $1,450. For shop and dormitory, all within eighteen months, the colored miners have given above $1,600. We must raise during the winter and spring about $800 or $1,000 more to complete and furnish the Girls' Dormitory. This the people plan to raise themselves. The building is frame and will cost about $3,000 when completed. The boys are using the dormitory now, closed in as a large hall. I should mention, also, that the women by club work have purchased an organ and piano. The piano is not quite paid for yet. They also purchased a fifty-dollar range for our cooking department. We have a literary club among the students which, in addition to their society work, raised money to purchase 00 hymn books last spring, and now they are purchasing a set of encyclodias for the school. The hymn books I this set of encyclopedias are the and only books owned by the school. y cent of the money for building the and dormitory his come from the 4d people themselves. teachers are paid by each miner $1.00 of his wages monthly to out at the office. This is not but we make out the rest by etc. we crops on our 100 acre farm, cotton patch this year will wo or three bales of cotton, and the other lady teachers five lady teachers and five ave taken the girls out and nearly two bales already, and girls have been glad help make our work go, are here. I think I told home Improvement Assoc caused a large number I a larger number still homes. setting, held by Mrs. cially helpful. It is how much the homes result of these moth- n finish the girls' begin to make a g the past year d for this build- has come from r more money and current er, that the fairly sup lent and means to chase obl ling, which of land. of about ng $400 ars now to clear outting ole re if I off. han Handsome Apartments with all improvements at Madison Ranch, in THE DOLLY-MOUNT, 211 W. 60th St. THE SARATOGA, 200 West 60th St. THE VENUS, 210 West 61st St. THE DORIN COURT, 217 W. 60th St. Above houses have First-class Janite service and are always in good condition. Apply ROBERT CARTER. 209 West 60th Street. ALEXANDER CROSBY, 217 W. 60th St. MR. BOLYARD. 210 West 61st Street. PHILIP A. PAYTON, JR. REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE. My specialty is the management of Colored Tenement Property. AGENT, BROKER APPRAISER. 97 West 184th Street. Downtown Office, 324 West 59th street. Telephone: 917 and 918 Harlem jan25-1y J. P. Bourko, 32 years with J. T. & J. A. Purley J. Palmer Bourko George T. Bourko J. P. 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The girls' dormitory, with thirty rooms, which is a two story and a half brick house and heated by steam, lighted by electricity, and all other modern conveniences, will be the best equipped dormitory in the State Arkansas when completed. Mensur. Dobbins Brothers be a tailoring establishmen avenue. There are two co in this city, viz., Dra. G. J W. F. Cowan. The only shi lishment in the city is American. Mr. Nat. Dar planing mill and grist. There is also a This Company has its principal object the better housing of the Negro Tenant Class. As a result of its operation for a period of a little over a year, it can point to the control of twenty-five (25) New York City Apartment Houses, valued at over Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars ($900,000). Nine (9) of this number the Company own, and the other eleven (10) are held by the Company under long lease. These houses rent for Ninety Thousand Dollars ($900,000 a year. 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In both stores the old p every man or woman a Dollar s Both stores will sell on cre every man, be he ever so poor, Both stores give Gold Savi EDWARD 9th Avenue, 1895 TWELFTH GRE RECEPTION AND OF THE S SONS OF NOR Tuesday Evening, January First AT PROSPECT HALL, PROSPECT AVE. John H. Dickerson, Chairman John B. M. Under J. EDWARD WINT UNDER' W. R. A. QU 638 Sixth Avenue, Telephone 488 and 488 20th C. FRANKLIN CARE Telephone CARR & HOWE 350 West Fifth HARLIM BRANCH, First-class Work. Prompt Service. Ben Chairman Edward V. Kraus 133, 605, 607, 609, 611, 613 Ninth Ave. Corner Forty-third St., New York City hereby the opening of a magnificent No. 705-707 Third Ave. Between Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth Sts. An assortment of Furniture, Carpets On our inspection. The stores the old policy will be pursued a woman a Dollar's worth for every hu- res will sell on credit. Terms low end he ever so poor, if he is honest. res give Gold Saving Stamps. EDWARD V. KRAUS 9th Avenue, corner 43d St. TWELFTH GRAND ANNUAL RECEPTION AND VAUDEVILLE OF THE SOCIETY OF OF NORTH CARO Evening, January First, Nineteen Hundred and HALL, Prospect Avenue near Fifth Avenue, Brook Chairman John B. Moseley, Secretary W. H. Edward V. Kraus 603,605,607,609,611,613 Ninth Ave. Corner Forty-third St., New York City announces hereby the opening of a magnificent branch at where a large assortment of Furniture, Carpets Oilcloths, etc., is ready for your inspection. In both stores the old policy will be pursued, in giving every man or woman a Dollar's worth for every hundred cents. Both stores will sell on credit. Terms low enough to suit every man, be he ever so poor, if he is honest. Both stores give Gold Saving Stamps. EDWARD V. KRAUS, 1895 TWELFTH GRAND ANNUAL RECEPTION AND VAUDEVILLE OF THE SOCIETY OF Tuesday Evening, January First, Nineteen Hundred and AT PROSPECT HALL, PROSPECT AVENUE NEAR FIFTH AVENUE, BROO John H. Dickerson, Chairman John B. Moseley, Secretary W. 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TOL 1000 Between Sixth and 8 Lady attendant at al Chairs and Conches to sept18-Buses ```markdown ``` Congress Stocks of the Regular Army Hold a Strong Free Against Burying Conditions and Suggests That the Law Authorizing the Poor Regiments Be Repealed and Recruits Be Played on the State Fortress Without Regard to Color, as in the Case of the Navy. From The North American Review (Dec. 21). Is it not time to do away with the "color line" in the army of the United States? Sections 1,104 and 1,108 of the Revised Staratus require that "the enlisted men of two regiments of cavalry" and "two regiments of infantry shall be colored men." The Ninth and Twelfth regiments of cavalry and the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth of infantry are the four upon which the ban of color to be held; by implication, colored are, and always have been, included in the ranks of all the other regiments. This law is to-day the only one upon the statute books of the National Government which treats the Negro citizens as a class apart—which sets up a "Jim Crow car" for them, as it were, and requires them to ride in it or in none. No more exclusive law can be found in the codes of Alabama or Mississippi. The law was passed in 1866, at a time when the Negro, and his welfare were occupying a large place in the thought of the nation's lawmakers. The country had just emerged from a terrible war of which the Negro had been the main, if not the only real cause. The purpose of the law, unquestionably, was to assure a civic right to the newly enfranchised citizens; its very enactment bespoke a fear in the minds of the lawmakers that the colored man, endowed by the Constitution with all the rights and privileges of the white man, would, nevertheless, be deprived of the privileges of entering the ranks of the regular army. The fear was a mere bogey then, and to-day it would be altogether forgotten but for this law which has kept it alive. There are Negro enlisted men in our navy, and also in the hospital corps, the commissary and the quartermasters' departments, and the ordinance corps of the army; but in the line of the army there are none save in the four regiments—two of infantry and two of cavalry—set apart for them. From the ranks of the artillery they are as firmly barred as from the railway coaches of the whites in our Southern States. This limitation, however, is true only of the enlisted men; the law does not prescribe that the commissioned officers of those four regiments shall be "colored men." and, therefore, does not by implication exclude colored men from the commissioned grades of other regiments and corps. There is, in fact, nothing in the law of the land to prevent a full-blooded Zulu from becoming the colonel of any one of our regiments, or the chief of any corps. Of truth, the law which places the mark of color on four of our regiments is out of date now, if it ever was timely. It is contrary to the spirit of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution, and to the good sense of the twentieth century. There is no good reason why blacks or whites should be excluded by the law of the land from any troop, battery or company in the service. Recruiting officers should enlist the best men to be had, without distinction of color, and each man should be assigned to a regiment according to his choice and the best interests of the military service. The law fixing the tant of color upon four regiments does them an injustice and an injury; and in so much does the military service an injustice and an injury. It is to-day, forty years after, a recognition by act of Congress of the national prejudice against the Negro. The morale of a regiment depends much upon its traditions and upon the esteem in which held by the people. The heard by the people. The few persons, no matter howation, do not counterbalance within a regiment that it is upon by the people. Within self there is no prejudice colored regiments. The fine ave done is known and apre, without any claim, howey have done better work it regiments. The quality is work depends mainly upon if its officers, and no better be found in the service the colored regiments. The e regular army, white and always given a good account in campaign and battle. color of a man's face cuts ing as it be not pale. is no prejudice against the ents within the army. it tied that nothing is rarer than an officer who prefers mument to a colored regi- Because, when an officer his home, he wants to be with pride of his regiment and he wants to hear them th respect and esteem; he will not be the case if his red. The prejudice against nent is found without the confined to any particulie country. It is no more than of the North. Thereger proportion of officers regiments from the South other equal section of the pop and Smith, who laid heroically leading their at San Juan, were both and there are scores of ers in the colored regig the splendid soldierly mind by those two men as tion in their regiment. against the Negro and nent is national; it is territory. There is, for ry post in Vermont; but has ever been, or is stationed there. The ont do not want them, have always peculiarly but they do not love it; they prefer him away couisiana, whither they seir sympathy by mail. go, a fine troop of the was stationed at Fort way from the National ward for specially good indian campaign. Never aint was made against his troop; yet it is well again will a colored to that post for sta- of Washington do not a notorious fact in political clique which one Park, the great na- ound in the hollow of r allow colored troops in the park. They are pr/ American d to the now ille. Dir lodg min national project has followed the flag across the Pacific coast. Five years ago, the colored regiments on duty in the Philippines were returned to the States at the demand of the Civil Governor, of the Islands. No charge or misdoubt was made against them; from a military point of view their service had been perfectly satisfactory. Where, then, are the colored regiments going to serve hereafter? The ring of prejudice seems to be growing narrower all the while. Its geographical center appears to be somewhere in the mountains of western Colorado at the present time; its circumference touches the Pacific shore in the west and reaches nearly to the Missouri river, in the east. No protests have as yet been heard from Nevada or Idaho. Truth to tell, our regiments should not be classified as white and colored. The legal stigma of color should be lifted from the four regiments upon which it rests; the legal restriction that compels the assignment of colored recruits to one of four regiments only should be removed. Sections 1,104 and 1,109 of the Revised Statutes ought to be repealed. THE JEWISH PEOPLE Well, They Are a Live Not a Dood People, and They Keep Their Children Alive and Care for Their Poor. From The New York Evening Journal. The Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum held its twentieth-eighth annual meeting and casually announced, among other interesting and encouraging facts, that not one single child had died in the institution during the year past. We call the attention of the managers of institutions in general, and of the managers of the public charitable concerns especially, to this statement of the Jewish orphan home. The success of the Jews has irritated some foolish people, puzzled many wise men. But it should neither irritate nor pusule. The man who knows how to take care of his own health, how to take care of his children's health (the death rate is lowest in our country in the Jewish quarter), and who has enough conscience to take care of his poor as he does of his own, deserves success, and is pretty apt to get it. Contrast the absolute lack of a death rate in the Jewish Orphan Asylum in the past year with the death rate in most of our public institutions. Remember what a horrible death rate was formerly reported from New York's city asylum for abandoned infants. Something like ninety out of every hundred died—it was a place for children to die in, nothing else. Remember also that frightful death rate was diminished—thanks to a member of the Jewish race, Mr. Nathan Straus—who gave to the public institution a plant to protect the health of the children through pure milk. Remember also that the same Nathan Straus, at his own expense, and a very great expense, for years past has given a pure milk supply to the poorest babies in this city, reducing the death rate enormously. Alone among the successful men of New York City he has thought it worth while to use his money and his intelligence for the benefit of the pathetically helpless babies of the very poor. As long as we have to go to the Jewish race to find a man who will say to a poor woman, "Here is pure milk to save your baby's life," we ought to be pretty glad that there are Jews in New York. We ought to be irritated at their success. We ought to wish them more success, and wish that we of another race had more of that particular kind of impulse which provides for Jewish children. Phan asylums in which orphans do not die, and which provides for children of all creeds, from a Jewish source, the only pure milk supply in this land of the Milk Trust. For twenty centuries the Jews have fought the injustice of the rest of the world. They have survived for two reasons. First, because they would not be beaten or discouraged. They could get up as often as overwhelming numbers could knock them down. Second, because they knew how to take care of themselves, how to take care of their children and of their poor. And now, that they have succeeded, that they have "arived" in spite of all that hatred, bigotry, ignorance and jealousy, could do against them, they are setting us a good example in their charitable institutions, and shaming us with real charity in our own public streets. More success to them. ALLEGED "RACE WARS" AND "PROMINENT CITIZENS" The Reporters Color the News to Save Themselves Trouble at Home—The Southern Gentleman. From The New York Sun. We note in the press reports of the latest Mississippi "race war" the introduction of a new and very interesting style of narrative. Hitherto, almost without exception, the person at the Southern end of the wire has seen fit to refer to the rioters and lynchers as "prominent citizens," and we can say with a perfectly clear conscience that while we have frequently if not always dismissed his accuracy to the limbo of contempt, we have never doubted the frugal and far seeing quality of his wisdom. The telegraph operators who expect to live in the lynching districts for any great length of time are well advised when they pay homage to the cutthroat class. In the case of Scooba, however, we are told over the wires that the murdering mob was composed of toughs and rowdies and not of prominent and influential citizens. The disclosure is entitled to respectful consideration—not because it introduces us to a new condition, but because it constitutes the vanguard of a new and much needed era of truth telling. The fact is that what our press reports have just disclosed as to the character of the Kemper county infamies of last week might have been said with equal justice and propriety of nineteenth of the lynchings, butcheries and persecutions that have occurred at the South during the last forty years. Southern gentlemen do not hang, shoot and burn Negroes, or even give such horrors their condonation. On the contrary, as Southerners all know, they deplore these abominations as sincerely as country could possibly deplore them, any philanthropist in this part of the And we may add that If all the so-called 'race ward' of the past had been treated in the press reports as conscientiously and intelligently as the Scocca affair, the mischevlious conceptions which now prevail on this side of Mason and Dixon's line would never have found lodgment in any honest and enlightened mind. THE NEW YORK AGE: THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1907. 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Hopeless cases and those that others cannot cure solicited to consult Dr. ELLARSON. Beware of a man going around selling corn cure, and representing himself as Dr. ELLARSON. DR. ELLARSON is a woman, as you may see by her picture above, and does no business outside of her office, 86 Putnam avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. Is now, and always has been a true friend to the colored people, and has always had a large patronage from them. ways had a large patronage from them. Please read the following: I went to Dr. Elliarson when I was so sick I thought I would die. Dr. Elliarson cured me, and made me feel like a new person. I am thankful to the Good Spirit that led me there, and to God for pointing me to such a good friend to give me such relief. Mrs. Mary E. Harrison, 472 Hudson avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. Dr. Elliarson can show many such as the above, and will take pleasure in doing so, to any who call at her office. Hopeless cases, and those that others cannot, cure especially solicited to consult Dr. Elliarson. Office hours, 1 to 7 p. m. Also by appointment. Sundays from 3 to 6 p. m. HOW TO REACH DR.'ELLARSON Take Putnam avenue car at the Brooklyn Bridge, on the New York side. 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 isorder subsided coincident- it we now have for the first and accurate description who impulse and conduct By the same token, an- tter it should not be dif- mitate the decency of its scum and refuse. a lesson in this inci read it. Mme. J. L. CRAWFORD 341 West 59th Street, New York City Wigs, Switches, Ranges and Pompadours made of natural hair; also made of combings. Hair Dressing, Manicuring, Scalp Treatment, Facial Massage, Shampooing and Hair Straightening a Specialty. Combings bought. up 27 S. MME. S. BOFIRD formerly with Mme. Plandora. LADIES' HAIR DRESSING PARLOR, 727 8th avenue. Afro-American Hair Goods a speciality; also hair straightening. Your patronage solicited. sep 27 8m W. W. HART Successor to R. H. Bundy my WEST 3rd STREET Hygienic Tonsorial Art, Vibration Massage, Manicuring. First-class Artists.. Popular prizes. FORD'S HAIR POMADE Formerly known as "OZONIZED OX MARROW" STRAMKETS The Connell Ox Harrow Co. (New publisher without my signature) Charles Dock Bank 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 ales, very cheap. Estates taken in chs Rents collected. Flata to let at reason prices. THOMAS TUCKER, Gen. Mg 2134 Madison Avenue, S. W. c Tel. Com., 4405-Harlem. TAMMANYH 141, 148, 145, 147 MAST 14TH Bet. Third Ave. and Irving Plac the Academy of Musl Telephone: 5578 Gram Centrally and conveniently cellent surface, subway and to the door. Largest seatir any ball room in the citi- maple dance floor, brilliant ination. Adapted for b banquets, faire, conventio capacity, 2,500 persons. six seats in each. Battey @ Photos 509 EIGHTI PHOTOGRAPHY TELEPHONE Photographs 1 Mile also portraits outdoor. Papar WH The image provided is too blurry and low-resolution to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale photograph with a rough texture, possibly from a document or a screen. The content is not clearly visible, and no text can be identified. After much effort, I am now able to off 9 HIGH-CLASS APART These are "New-Law Houses rented to our people. They are si blocks in Harlem, and the rent is within Nos. 24, 26 @ 28 Wes Between Lonox @ 5th Nos. 24, 26 @ 28 Wes Between Lenox @ 5th 3 Six-story Apartment Houses; wide. Has 4 apartments on each flo one of 5 rooms and bath and two of Nos.24, 28 30, 34, 36 6 Six-stor inches wide. and bath an F Thes and elec The ste Thes and elec The ste and ar is of Larg ful s m s ed a "Watch evening. The services all this 50 Sixth avenue. a claret wine, 50 11.20 to 2 p. m. at, 7 to 11 a. m. 327 West 35th only ill for the past till under the care of who has built at Bluefields, W. in the interest of established in his ing one. adler's Tailoring for Young, 284 West adv. dec. 29-31 s of Wilton, Ulster eks ago underwent a eration at St. Luke's ent at 32 West 99th of Greater New York reception to John C. Auditor-elect, on Friday 8, at Bethel A. M. E. er-elect W. L. Houston C., Grand Secretary m of Philadelphia and Edward H. Morris of Chil- t. The lodges will march A banquet will follow ce: Anderson's Dancing standard Academy of Amer- fourteen years at 114 and street. Class sessions every day and Saturday evenings on to beginners. Private adv. A. Summere, after a short life, member 18th, aged 59 year, from Bethel A. M. E. church, Thomas is now residing at Emancipation meeting, January 8, Cooper Union. Dartist church 210 joy- the per- pre- The prise blags pro- Eliza- urray. F. S. P. D. Nous West 134th day, De- t were: Mrs. D. Handy, and Mrs. fay Lee, s. Tomp. class nights. Our new ie Oxford d at their ober 28, Mr. Madge and Cora Carl, Willey, Mr. lee, Walter wark, N. J.; Loguen of ober 29, the t. Samuel E. set, was cel- The presents after refresh- n many more detroit, will be oper Union to- the 53d Street Rian Association, Murray Hill Lry- ing, December 28, e four-act drama or." The cast of and the plot half he finale brilliant. Mr. G. W. Butt, Meadames E. C. tie 'deserve much the play, as well club of this kind for those who is in the local field sidering the many drama being the na, the effort was a ```markdown ``` GREATER NEW YORK. music will be changed. A rare treat in are two floors of classical music. Watch the services were held Monday night, rising at 8.30 a.m., Dr. W. T. Dixon weding. Rev. Mr. Ackworth filled the pulpit of the Bridge Street A. M. B. church at the morning services and presided an able sermon. Mrs. L. Cuddy Smith was in charge of the Sunday school at 2.30 in the afternoon, which was well attended. Dr. Osprey presided at the night service to a large congregation. This week is being celebrated as a week of prayer preparatory to the revival services which will begin next week. Dr. Frederick M. Jacobs continues to hold out the word of truth to the congregation of the Fleet Street Memorial A. M. H. Zion church, where excellent services were held last Babatha. The Sunday school's Christmas festival passed on smoothly and new schools are, being added to the roll at nearly every session. At the Holy Trinity Baptist church on Classon avenue, hear LeFertle place, Rev. W. Timson prescheduled morning and evening. The Sunday school Christmas exercises on Thursday evening were brilliant and the nature of the songs and recitations showed careful selection. The Lyceum had a good program Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock, which was enjoyed by a large audience. The Men's meeting of the Carlton Avenue Branch of the Young, Men's Christian Association Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock was addressed by the Rev. B. W. Timma, pastor of the Holy Trinity Baptist church, whose subject was "The Resistance of Religion." The address was interesting and helpful. The New Year's reception at the building on Tuesday, beginning at 4 o'clock p. m.; in charge of the following receiving committee of ladies: Miss-Margaret Avery, Miss Alfreda Bentley, Miss Irene Adela Deisarte, Miss Edith Smith, Miss Frances E. Vodery, Miss Fannie Avery, Miss Elima L. Carr, Miss Bda Milligan, Miss Helena C. Taylor, Miss Ethel Washington, Miss Helen Alexander, Miss Laura H. Davila, Miss Abbie, Milligan, Miss Evelyn Wiley, Miss Irene Burke, Miss Rosa Lee, Miss Corn McKenny, Miss Nina Wilson, Miss F. V. Hodgus, Matrona—Mrs. Richard I. Jackson, and Mrs. Fannie Howe. The regular reception committee of the branch was headed by Mr. W. Eugene Tyler. The ladies' souvenirs were small nickel-plated bells tied with red ribbon, which were plinned on the lapel of each gentleman's coat. Between 250 and 300 young men called. The birthday of Mr. George Franklin, of 84 living place, was celebrated on Christmas day at his home. Quite a number of friends were present. Vocal and instrumental music was rendered and a most enjoyable evening was spent. Among those presided were Mr. and Mrs. Prior and Miss Patty Horace, of Montclair, N. J.; Miss Dean, of East Orange, N. J.; Mrs. E. McCallough, Misses D. Logan, L. Patterson, Margaret Ella, Mrs. S. Parson, Miss Jefferson, of Jacksonville. Fla.; Mrs. F. E. Graham, Messrs. G. W. Gary, Wert Lacey, Robert Lewis, Mr. Racks, Mr. and Mrs. Davis and Mr. Hayne. Mr. Hayne presided at the piano, and solos were sung by Mr. Lacey, Mr. Dean and Mrs. F. E. Graham, Mrs. George E. Franklin, the hostess, spared no pains in making the affair enjoyable. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Solomon, of 154 Prince street, entertained a party of friends New Year's morning. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Duncan, Miss O. Price, Miss Spalve, Miss Girard of New York, Mr. Cato O. Granady, Mr. Henry Dunlop, Mr. Robert Wilson, Mr. F. C. Staupers. At the regular meeting of William Lloyd Garrison Woman's Relief Corps, No. 33, Department New York, G. A. R., held at 61 Henry Street, Friday evening, December 28, the regular business was transacted. The election of officers resulted as follows: Mrs. Mary J. Zono was re-elected president; Mrs. Rachael Lewis was re-elected senior vice-president; Mrs. L. E. Miller, junior vice-president; Mrs. Katherine Johnson, mentor; Mrs. Mary Jackson, chaplain; Mrs. Anna Kennedy, conductress; Mrs. Mary E. Greene, A. A. conductress; Mrs. Rosa Dipa, guard; Mrs. Anna Shaw, A. A. Id; Mrs. Frances M. Johnson, patriotic instructor. After the election of officers, business was suspended and Commander Pierre Zeno and Commander Townsend of William Lloyd Garrison Post, 207, G. A. R., were admitted and made encouraging addresses. Joint installation will take place at Sumnur Hall, Monday evening, January 28. Mr. A. Thompson is on the sick list. Mrs. W. H. Warrick and Children of Germantown, Pa., and Mrs. F. C. Dickerson of Boston spent the holidays visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Smith of LaFarette avenue. Miss. Lydia B. McClain of Philadelphia, who has been spending the holidays with Prof. and Mrs. Charles A. Dorsey, left for home on Tuesday. On Tuesday evening the marriage of Miss Sadie Caulk to Mr. Robert E. Coleman of San Francisco, Cal., took place from the residence of the bride's parents, 14 Mesercole street. At the hour appointed the bride leaning on the arm of her stepfather, Mr. Joseph Asche, was escorted to the parlor, while Maime M. Smith, pianist, and Mr. C. Herbert Waters, violinist, played Mendelsohn's wedding march. She was followed by her mother leaning upon the arm of the groom, then came the bridesmaid, Miss Daley Middleton, escorted by the best man, Mr. George Moore. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. F. Waters, after which a host of friends congratulated the happy couple. The guests were entertained at a wedding feast. The bride wore a white taffeta silk with bertha and cuffs trimmed with lace; her veil was white not. She carried a bouquet of roses and pinks. The bridesmaid wore a white lace robe, colored, silk lined; she carried a bunch of chrysanthemums. The presents were very handsome. Col. Pierre Zeno was the guest at dinner Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. Guston, 100 Lexington avenue. Mr. Nicholas Chisholm soent Christmas with her sister, Mrs. J. Richards of Orange, N. J. The funeral of Mrs. Amanda Harris took place from her residence, 63 Hookingham street, on Thursday, at 1 p.m., Rev. J. F. Waters offckling. One of the leading social affairs of the past week was the marriage of Miss Emma G. Bowman to Mr. Ernest R. Daniels, of St. Vincent Layou, W. L. at 8 p. m. on Thursday evening, at the residence of the bride's mother, 400 Decatur street. Miss Bowman was given away by her uncle, Mr. J. Laprince of Jersey City. Her maids were Miss Kara Halley and Sara Pearson. Mr. Sidney Sargent acted as best man. A feature of the wedding was that Miss Bowman was married under the American flag. Madame L. Buck and Mr. C. Herbert-Waters played Mendelssohn's wedding march as the bridal train entered the parlor. Rev. J. Francis Waters was the officiating clergyman. The bride's costume was princess white silk cere after of rice aw street. vere: Mrs. n.: Mrs. J. Green and Clark. THE NEW-YORK AGE: THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1936. the dinner there was a suitable gift for each one. Concord Baptist church and the Bridge street A. M. M. church remembered the poor of their congregations with a dinner Christmas day. The children of the Howard Otphan Aylum were entertained and made happy Christmas day. Christmas experiments were held in the chapel in the morning, at which there were a number of visitors present. Dr. Vernon, the African explorer, who brought to this country Otto Vonga, the "briery," who was an exhibition in Brexx Park, was present and spoke to the children. The Christmas Club, which was formed several years ago by a number of gentlemen interested in the children, the leadership of the charity, and the children with excellent clarity and in the creativeness of the chapel served them with cream and cake and presented them with presents suitable for children. Otto Vonga enjoyed the day's entertainment and feast. Superintendent Gordon said he is taking hold of English readily and his general improvement is very encouraging. Mrs. Amelia Phillips, widow of the late Dr. George B. Phillips, who previous to his death, nearly two years ago, conducted a drug business for over fifty years at the corner of Fleet place and Johnson street, died last week, aged 70 years, at the residence of her stepdaughter, Mrs. Jarvin, 857 Clanston avenue. She had been a communalist of Silloum Presbyterian church for about forty years of life of the faithful member. The funeral services took place at that church Friday night. Dr. W. A. Alexander conducted the services, assisted by Dr. W. T. Dixon and Rev. W. R. Lawton. Drath of Mr. Taylor. Through the sudden death of Mr. B. Taylor the Afro-Americans have lost a friend who was always ready by word and action to help them or their cause. He was a subscriber of The Ama and Owled American Magazine. For thirty-five years he held the important position of cashier with Earl & Wilson, and the Afro-Americana employed there feel his loss keenly. He leaves a wife and son who, like himself, are great friends of the Afro-American people. MARRIED. FLETCHER-PRICE.—On Wednesday evening, December 19, Martha P. J. Price, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Price, was married to Mr. H. E. Fletcher, at the home of the bride's parents, 163 West 133d street. Rev. Cullins performed the ceremony. The Age in Wilmington, N. C. Don't forget the headquarters of THE AGE on 11 Grace street. Bring us your news items, and subscribe now. THE HUMORIST. Gallant Kensan in a Hospital.—A sense of humor and a delicate compliment was that of a Holton boy who, was lying in a hospital. The pretty nurse overboard him exclaim: "Oh, my Lord!", Wishing to rebuke him blindly, the came to his bedside and said: "I think that I board you call upon the name of the Lord. I am one of his daughter. Is there anything I can do for you?" He looked up into her lovely face and with every mark of respect and admiration remarked: "Yes; ask him how he would like me for a son-in-law."—The Holton (Kan.) Recorder. --- A very good story is current anent the recent visit of Japanese naval officers to England. . . . A certain hostess, we will not specify exactly at which port, where the shipe's companies of the Katorib and Kashima spent some time, had done all in her power to make the visit of a group of officers, with whom she came more prominently into contact, of a pleasant nature. With helplessness of gratitude her guests came to express their final thanks, and the spokesman of the group, after recording their united appreciation of what she had done, expressed the fear that they had "cockroached" much on her valuable time. The kindly hostess had made them so much her friends that she had arrived at suggesting corrections in occasional lapses of the English language. She gracefully acknowledged the thanks, and intimated that far from "encroaching" on her time, what she had been permitted to do had been to her great pleasure. The correction was noted, and her guest with profuse apologies said he was greatly sorry that in addressing a lady he had overlooked to use the feminine form.—Times (Bangtok). --- Two men were sentenced by a self-appointed court to be hanged for horse-stealing. The place selected for the execution was the middle of a trestle bridge spanning a river. The first noose was insecurely tied and the prisoner dropped into the river. He swam to shore and made good his escape. As they were adjusting the rope for the remaining prisoner the latter drawled: "Say, pards, make sure of the knot this time, will yer! 'Cause I can't swim."—Everybody's. This note puzzled the druggist who received it: "I have a cute pane in my child's diagram. Please give my son something to release it." Another anxious mother wrote: "My little babey has eat up its father's paris plaster. Send an anecdote quick as possible by the enclosed little girl." "I did my best to be entertaining." said the young man, in a voice of sorrow. "Did you succeed?" "I'm afraid not." I recited Hamlet's soliloquy. She looked at me reproachfully for several seconds, and then exclaimed, "I don't think that's very funny!" "—Was Mington Bier. A man who is always on the lookout for novelties, says The St. James's Budget, recently asked a dealer in automobiles if there was anything new in machines. "There's a patented improvement that has just been put on the market," replied the dealer. "A folding horse that fits under the seat for use in emergencies." Booth Tarkington tells of an old colored man who appeared as a witness before one of our commission. In the course of his examination these questions were put to the man: "What is your name?" "Calboon Clay, mah." "Can you sign your name?" "Sah?" "I ask if you can write your name." "Well, no, sah. Ah nebah writes me name. Ah dictates it, mah." "Can any little boy," asked the new teacher, "tell me the difference between a lake and an ocean?" "I can," replied Edward, whose wisdom had been learned from experience. "Lakes are much pleasanter to swallow when you fall in." A company selling mare sent a quantity man, requiring him to write a puff. note that he had a dog that got inches of his tail cut off. He alive to the wound and the natural length. He applied piece of tail and a whole Women's Home Com- old: 'The short member's argument of the councilor, licence, our in Dr. Sutherland and Bride in Newark On last Sunday Dr. William H. Sutherland and bride, Mrs Hein Lacinda Thomas, of Washington, D. C., were the guests of Justice and Mrs. H. H. Scotland. A quiet dinner was served in their honor coupled with a few personal friends. Among them were Dr. W. P. G. Weling, Mrs Marie Polhems, Rev. O. M. Donsfield and Mrs. Ellen Hartmann. JUST OPENED Nos. 2227, 2229 and 2231 Fifth Avenue Corner 136th Street 3 New-Law Houses (Just Finished) 3 and 4 Rooms and Bath. Hot Water Supply. Rents, $14 to $24 per month. 49 AND 51 EAST 133d STREET 3, 4 and 5 Rooms and Bath. Hot Water Supr Rents, $16 to $22 per month. Mrs. WINDOWS' Soothing Stuff has been used for over sixty YEARS by MILLIONS of NORTHWEST girls, their CHILDREN WHILE TEETHING, with PERFECT SUCCESS. It SOOTHES the CHILD, SOFTENS the GIRLS ALWAYS all PAIN; CURBS WIND COLIC, and in the best ready for DIARRHOSA. Sold by Dr. Durgle in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for "Mrs. WINDOWS' Soothing Stuff," and take no other kind. Twenty-five cents a bottle. TO LET-67 West 134th Street. Four room bath. Steam heat and hot water supply. Re per month. RELIGIOUS NOTICES PHILIP A. PAYTON, Jr., 67 W. 134th Stro MOTHER A. M. R. CHURCH. West 30th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenue. Sunday Services—11 A.M. and 7:00 P.M. Holy Communion every 11 A.M. and 8 P.M. Class meeting 1:30 P.M. Sunday School 2:30 P.M. Prayer Meeting 8:30 P.M. Weekly Meetings—Clos Meeting on Monday, Sunday, and Wednesday nights at 8 o'clock. Prayer meeting on Friday night from 8 o'clock to 9:20. SHATE FRIER. ALL WELCOME. Rev. T. W. Wardrobe Enclosure. D. D. Pastor. Pastor's residence. 200 West 130th Street. At home from 8 to 10 A.M. The Pastor can be seen at the Church every day from 18 to 8 P.M. at 13 lyr. MOTHER A. M. R. SION CHURCH. West 90th St., NW Columbia and Amherst Avenue. Rev. J. H. McMullen, Passon. Sunday Services—Praying at 10:45 A.M. and 7:45 P.M. School Meeting 2 P.M. Young People C. R. Prayer Meeting every Sunday evening at 6:18 o'clock. Public invited. ST. CYBERIAN'S CHAPEL. PROTESTANT BISHOPAL, 111 W. 90th Street. Rev. JNO. W. WILSON, Pastor in church. Sunday Services—11 A.M. and 8 P.M. Sunday School 8:30 P.M. A CORDIAL WELCOME TO ALL, jun 29 lyr. A SPLENDID CHANCE Suitable for clubhouse or light business. Will rent on favorable terms to right parties. Apply to AARON COLEMAN, Owner, 170 BROADWAY UNION A. M. B. CHURCH, 290 East 88th street; Rev. J. C. Forandura, pastor. Sunday services: Preaching, 11 a. m.; Class Meeting, 12 m.; Sunday School, 1:20 p. m. Preaching, 8 p. m.; Holy Communion every third Sunday 8 p. m. Week day services: Lyceum, Wednesday, 8 p. m.; Class Me ting, Thursday, 8 p. m. All are welcome. On Monday Evening, Janua y14,'07 MISCELLANEOUS BOXES can be obtained at the Club Rooms: 131 West 26th Street. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE:—A. F. Spencer, Chairman; F. A. Lewis, Vice-Chairman; Samuel S. Tittle, Treasurer; Fred. D. Alston, Secretary; H. L. Tolks, Assistant Secretary; George W. Washington, John H. Christopher, James Chamberna, George W. Montague, Charles Gilmore, Edward T. Matthews, Jos. B. Wyatt, Benjamin L. Bipp, Edward A. Lewis, Charles H. Payne, W. H. Townsend, John H. Duckett, James A. Rilley, Moses M. Mimma. HELP WANTED AT ONCE. Wanted— Several colored corks, useful waltresses and general worelrs, city and country. Wages, $16 to $25. Apply Southern Colored Mission and Employment Bureau, 60 West 134th street. Tel. 1883 Harlem. oct 25-31 FURNISHED rooms to let, all conven- tions, with or without table heard. K. L. Wright, 1479 Borgen street, Bklyn. FURNISHED rooms, all conveniences 457 Gold street, Brooklyn, near Fulton. Mrs. H. L. Williams. nov 22-4t TO LET—Two large, neat furnished front rooms; private with conveniences Mrs. G. A. Hamilton. 211 West 60th street. dec 18 4t TO LET—A single, furnished room for gentleman. Aly Mrs. W. H. Randolph, 486 Sixth avenue, near 29th street. MARQUERIA AND FANCY DREAMS costumes to hire very reasonable. Inquire of L. Nery, 17 Dover street, New York, top floor. dec 13-4t Tickets, including Hat Check, 50 Cents. Boxes seating eight person Box tickets can be secured from William T. Hooper, 419 West 36th street York Russell, 317 West 36th street; Walter B. Harris, 156 West 43rd street Sanders, 31 Lexington avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE—P. N. F. James H. Sanders, Chairman; Walter O. Smith, Vice-Chairman; P. N. F. William T. Hooper, Secretary; B. H. Harris, Assistant Secretary; P. N. F. Calvin H. Brooks, Treasurer; Bo. J. Stanley, Assistant Treasurer; P. N. F. Major Morgan, P. N. F. Thomas Benj. Brown; P. N. F. James O. Stovall, P. N. F. Oscar Storrs, P. N. F. George W. Tayl. Bre. William Hassbury. TO LET-Furnished rooms, large and small. E. Tacklin, 251 W. 20th street. dec20-4t A CHARITY FAIR O LET—Nearly furnished rooms for gentlemen or man and wife; private house. Apply Mrs. G. Williams, 35 West 133d street, dec-20-4t Woman's Loyal Union of Greater New York MIM FLORENCE T. RAY, President Will be Given for the Benefit of the TO LET—Nearly furnished room; heated; bath; two gentlemen preferred. Call events and Sundays. Van Dyke, 131 W. 133d street. dec27-47 at JEFFERSON HALL, 4-5 COURT SQUARE, BROOKLYN, N. Y. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, January 9, 10, 11, 1907 TO LET—Nearly furnished rooms to married couple or two or three men. Apply S. Sipple, 73 West 133d street. TO LET—Nicely furnished room to couple. C. E. Smith, 5 West 133d street, 4th floor West. TO LET—Large furnished front room, suitable for two men or couple. 35½ West 133d street. LARGE furnished room, suitable for two or three gentlemen or man and wife; reasonable, 77 West 11th street. Over office. Call evenings. TO LET—Rooms and all conveniences, furnished or unfurnished. Mrs. Allen, 4 Downing street, Brooklyn. TO LET—Large alray front room, furnished, all improvements. Apply 14 Downing street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Thursday Evening, January 17, 1907 At PANHATTAN CASINO/Eighth Ave. and 155th St. WANTED-A first-class manicure at White's barber shop. 150 West 53d street. Admission - Including Hat Checks - Fifty Cents dec 20 94 TO LET- Furnished room for one or two gentlemen: railroad men preferred. Address 154 West 62d street. Top floor rear. Call afternoons. THE SIMS UNION REALTY CO. have for inspection 224-26-30-32 W.64th St., also 207 and 214 W.61st St. TO LET- Two nicely furnished rooms to respectable people. H. Henderson, 850 Ninth avenue. TO LET—Strictly private furnished room for light housekeeping: running water, cooking store. Apply 761 Third avenue. Near 47th street, in store. 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 LET-Furnished room for gentleman, with reference. 32 West 133d street. Miss Owens. G. W. BAPTIST, Prev V. TAYLOR, Secy. J. E. YATES, Treas. Tel. 472 Col. Main Office, 202 West 63d St., New York UP-TO-DATE MAGIC OIL Is relieving pain quickly and making wonderful cures among those afflicted with rheumatism, swelling, stiff joints and all manner of paints that attack the body. The Fad of the Town and the Greatest Sport of To-day. So Fall in Line at the Send for testimonial circular. No relief. no pay. Try a bottle prepared and for sale by William H. Jackson, 232 West 61st street; third floor, west side, room 6. Broadway Roller Skating Rink 127-129 Columbus Ave., bot. 68th and 66th Sts. A New Year's Tea Given by St. Cecelia's Guild of ST. PHILIP'S CHURCH At Lyceum Hall, 201 Plane Street, Newark, N. J. THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1907. Admission, including supper, 35 cents. Music by Prof. Van Dyke. NOTICE. Sessions Monday and Friday Evenings of Each Week. Full Orchestra in Attendance. The Best of Order Guaranteed. "L," Subway and Surface Care Pass the Door. Admission, 50c., including Skates T. B. PURSLEY, Pre Dec 27 WINES AND LIQUORS FOR THE HOLIDA A big and select stock of PURE WINES and LIQUORS to choose from at rock bottom pubs. SOUVENIRS Christmas and New Year's Eve we give a HANDSOME SOUVENIR to each customer whose purchase amounts to 50c. and (including cost goods). J. L. Croft is not connected with any other business in New York except the Dunbar Palace harbor shop, West 521st street. Agent for Holf's German Liaison for rhinematism, etc. Perfection Dandrm Cure and New York dec27-2t OUT-OF-TOWN CORRESPONDENCE Birmingham, December 30th Mt. Mor- ral Lodge, No. 21, P. and A. M., attended Birmingham Star, No. 11, in honor of R. M. John's Day, at Hamilton Street church. Roy. Professor promoted the community at 8:30 Prof. C. M. M. au Baron, grand master. Susan L. Lee, agent of Tunkhua, who has been in and about the city since Robert Burwell and soo, Herbert, of Cam- bridge, Maa., are visiting Mrs. Burwell's mother and sister, R. R. Harding, and R. R. Burwell of Bay Shore, the guest vector for the holidays, Mrs. Lavin of Binghamton, N. Y., is visiting Mrs. Burwell of Bay Shore, the guest Pauline Bowman is spending the holidays with relatives at Yonkers, N. Y., Mrs. William Richardson is very ill at her home, N. Y. Street, Mrs. Edward Johnson is improving. Saratoga Series. White Plains Mrs. John Scott of Boston is visiting her sisters and brothers on Westchester avenue. The Christmas cannata in the Bethlehem market, the Christmas pudding, the rendered their parcels nicely. Mrs. C. H. Emanuel is well adapted to train the children, and she always makes her entertainments a success. Mrs. James Clark is able to teach her children how to feed to her bed by illness. The A. M. E. Zion Sunday school hold their Christmas tree on December 26. Every child had as much as it could carry away, and they were Moody spent Christmas with his father, Rev. and Mrs. C. R. Moody, Rev. C. R. Moody and Rev. Pace will proach in A. M. E. Zion Sunday. The Second M. E. Zion hold his Christmas tree Friday evening. Middletown Nets A very inspiring summer prayer meeting was enjoyed at the East Avenue A. M. E. McKinley, M.D., Mrs. Ally Miller entertained about forty-five of their friends at their home, the occasion being Mrs. Miller's birthday. She received a wonderful gift. Thursday evening the twenty-seventh Christmas exercises were held at with the Zona and Beth Churches. Miss McKinley was present in operation a few days ago. Miss Mabel armer is now rapidly recovering. As at on the Christmas tree from the Nabah, Mrs. McKinley presented with beautiful potted prismine plants in bloom. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Beaurey of New York city were present. Mrs. McKinley Free of Newburg was town recently. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bally at Christmas at Rowellla. Bet. and of town to the Browns of Mr. W. states who are in Chicago. Mr. of Bentleigh spent Occasion with his family in the city. Lest Matthews at home and Mary Wiley at work. Matthews spent a service of such congregation of Occasion music was conducted. Matthews quarterly service was held at the Mary Wiley Taylor of Kensington will be present and compare spiritual service, Mr. Paper Warmer, Mrs. Mary Hobbsbush and Mrs. Margaret Hale are on the side list. Dev. Matthew Hale was on the side list. Hobbsbush was undertaken by he Mr. and Mrs. Lerl Hobbsbush Sunday evening. Miss Van Koezen, and Dr. G. was Home at 5 p.m. at Kensington. Miss Watson, and Dr. H. beautifully enjoyed. Miss Mabel Broughton came under the watch care of the church. Fooball Fieldhouse Chara Turner is in town making a visit with her brother, W. H. Harron. Mrs. Groom of Baston retreated to make her home in Pembroke. She went again to Baston where she went away to applaud all who were present. Mrs. Charles Huns received a beautiful watch for her Christmas. Mrs. Harron visited friends. Robert Jenkins was on the sick list last Sunday. The Christmas tree at Mount Olive Baptist Sunday was on the tree. The Christmas tree at Mount Olive Baptist Sunday school was celebrated on last Thursday evening with an interesting program. The Christmas tree at Mount Olive Baptist Sunday school was celebrated on last Thursday evening with an interesting program. Claus Mrs. Laura Schaeffer received the news of the death of her brother last week. Mrs. Jenelle Alafre was presented from the choir members. Sunday afternoon from the choir members. Rev. Singleton occupied the pulpit at Zion church Sunday, evening. Rev. Crume belonged at Flashkill. Garald Jackson and Wm. Connell were members of New York city. Mr. Fred Douglas Peterson moved from the hospital to her residence on Park street. The Christmas tree of Zion Sunday was born Friday evening with a fine program. The program was beautiful Christmas music. The Loycum man well attended Sunday, and an excellent program was rendered. Gertie Crawford's realization was received and accepted. Mr. Crawford was elected Rev. Crume and L. Hughes were elected for first and second chaplains. Sax Harber. The children's Christmas tree took place Tuesday evening with appropriate exercises. The pastor, Rev. C. H. Treneyck, received from the members and friends, through the Lilly Halley, a well-dified purse, Mrs. Lacy Coffee is in the city the guest of her son, Mr. Fred Coffee, Mrs. Randall, after having spent a few months with friends in the city is returned to the city. Mrs. Lilla Halley is visiting friends and relatives in the city. Rochester Biopica. Ongoing Notes Mrs. Veronica Nickelson entertained the following friends on Christmas afternoon: Miss Anna Papino, Miss Bonnie Davie, of Rhodes, Ernest Fogg, and Frank Thomas. Among those who attended Prof. Anderson's reception at "alm Garden on Thursday" at the University of Rhodes, V. Prime, V. Nickelson, Miles Dafy Hawkins, Ernest Fogg and William Crawford, of Osinling, Miss Mae Wholeer, of and Mr. Carl Phillips, of Baltimore, Md. Tarrison News THE NEW YORK AGE: THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1907. the work of his honour by of writing or which he will not not any apologise. Although shown up very much he was not carefully illnamed and will come return to work. O. H. a. of Oxford University, Leeds. O. H. a. of Oxford University, Leeds. Mobilisation of enquiry to Toughest country. January 7. O. H. a. Household of Bath will bed there on Monday. January 7. Mr. coach A. O'Neill made an address to the coach on Monday. January 7. After afternoon; the coach stopped for the coaching team were installed by Messrs. John A. Porter and William P. Kingland. Mt. Vernon Noton Nyack Notice Golden Wreath House of Ruth. No. 723. G. I. O. of O. F., will hold a public installation of officers on Thursday evening, at 10:30 a.m. in the library of Abby. Mrs. M. J. Dugger entertained at New-Years dinner her sister Mrs. H. Thompson, of Conyers, and two daughters, Mr. and W. Fisher, Mr. Harrison and Mr. J. Fisher. Mrs. Harrison and Mr. of prayer Mid in St. Phillip's A. M. E. Zion church. Rev. W. F. Bowden, pastor, beginning December 31. Mr. J. F. Salatille will have gone South where they will spend a vacation among relatives and friends. New Bechle Natee Mr. and Mrs. J. Howard Harper, of 42 Avenue E. entertained a house party during the holidays at a champagne dinner from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. breakfast Wednesday morning. Also, 30 guests were present from New York City, Nutley, N. J.; New Haven, Conn.; Tehama and Camden were delighted with the Christmas festival at the hostess and hostess many happy returns. Troy Tenice The Christmas tree exercises were very enjoyable at both the Liberty street Presbyterian week, Mr George K. Kelley spent his Christmas holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. Kelley. He was accompanied home from school who was his guest during the holidays. The Rev. and Mrs. Cole, of the A. M. E. Zion church were presented with a large basket of Christmas decorations in the church under the direction of Mrs. Robert Taylor. On Christmas evening the Red Cross directed the direction of Miss Gortrude Evans, held a very successful plano rotational at the church. The concert and reception given on Wednesday was held in the Woman's Progressive club, was a grand success in every respect. The boating attraction of the concert was Prof. Seaman's several selections from leading operas to a large and appreciative audience. A drama entitled Her Huy Day was presented by Mr. George Kelley, who was danced in allowed to the small wee hours. Miss Edith Bullsey, of Upper Troy, in visiting her uncle, Mr. Walter Bullsey, in New York City, and Miss Matilda Martin, of the North End, spent New Year's in New York city. Miss Mabel Davis, of Philadelphia, spent the winter at New York City, Davis, and family of Upper Troy, Mrs. S. A. King entertained Messrs. H. Arthur Callis and G. B. Keller at dinner, on Wednesday, September 28; while Mrs. D. W. Dixon attended New York City, at dinner on Sunday. The Annual Private reception of the Book Lovers' Club at Ruud's hall on Friday evening, as one of the chief social events of the holiday season, handmade decorated in purple and old gold, the colors of the club, and together with the pretty contours of the ladies and gentlemen of the party, presented pleasing appearance. During the evening refreshments were served and dancing enjoyed. A large number of guests from both the city and the country. Music was furnished by the Kenneth Orchestra of Albany. Mrs. R. Kelley was called to Norwegian Opera House of her father, the Rev. Will Decker. Mrs. Ingrams Hall he is nigl. Mrs. Ingrams Hall of "Norwegian Opera House" party evening Bronx, New York, August 14, 1916. The city was the first to be settled in Philadelphia. The first Dutch of Philadelphia, his son Waver, was born quarrying the bell- ings in Philadelphia and came to New York. Food Health Nutrition Newark Notes. In all probability most of the inhabitants of Newark were able to enjoy a hearty Christmas dinner of some kind during the winter holiday. The spirit of charity was evident in the gifts and holiday host by individuals, societies and habitats them. Many green wreaths were seen in the windows, even among the percent of people, and Christmas trees of all sizes were displayed, and toys, showing that Santa Claus had articles to the children and youth for their special sport and amusement. The theaters and other places of enjoyment were generally crowded to the doors by all classes determined to have a happy time to the holiday. A birthday and Christmas party was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Armstead Mattei at the Hartton street, on Tuesday, in honor of Mrs. Armstead Mattei, the youngest daughter. The guests present were: Mr. and Mrs. Baiters of indeeda, Mrs. and Mrs. J. E. Walton and another, Mrs. Philip M. Baiters of Olive A. Matthews, Rev. Onque of Lincoln University, Rev. O. M. Boundell, Rev. I. B. Treshrock and others. Coveres were laid for On Sunday before Christmas the churches held special services and were largely attended. Some of the pastors presided special services, and Mrs. Philip M. Baiters of Sabath schools of the several churches all held exercises for the benefit of the children, and St. Nicholas appeared to many to attend. St. Philip M. Baiters of will give a New Year's tea January 10. See advertisement. and Mrs. N. N. Holmes, of 108 Sheffield schools, held the twelfth wedding anniversary Wednesday, December 26. Many valuable presents were received. Those who attended were Mr. and Mrs. Armstead Mattei, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dyke, Dr. W. R. Dyke, T. H. Moore, Mrs. A. V. Jefferson, Mme. H. Ilanche Harris, Messrs. D. Griffin and H. Ilanche Harris, Emma Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Herbert, Mrs. City. The evening was enjoyably entertained. Hockeymask Death claimed an old resident of Bergen county, Mrs. Sarah Dickerson, who was suddenly called to her reward on Saturday, suddenly born in Hackensack 74 years ago and was respected by both races. The funeral was largely attended on Monday afternoon from Ephelia Dillard, on Beach street. The designs were handmade and numerous. Rev. R. slak of the First Baptist church and Rev. R. slak of the First Presbyterian church officiated. The leaver two one son, one brother, sixteen grandchildren, six great-grandchildren and a host of other quarterly conference was held at the A. M. R. Friday evening and quarterly meeting Sun. Presiding Elder C. D. Havel preached morn- ing at the Church of the Gate of Mr. M. Olive Baptist Church provided a Watch meeting was held Monday evening, to be followed by a work of prayer, "The Saint Joseph of Beside Hire, want to visit New York Friday." Mrs. Helen Gans was in town spending Christmas with Bev, and Mrs. L. J. Makrow, Mr. Walter Gans, and President of the Irondead School Bordentown, New Jersey, where he with Dr. and Mrs. G. W. Hood, will illustrate the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jane, meet with an accident last Thursday by day, be spending the winter in New York, was here Friday and Saturday visiting her with relatives, Anna Billings, Mr. and Mrs. Robt, Minor and Mr. and Mrs. James Dangerfield, and about 40 of their friends at dinner. Mrs. Jansen Miss Mary Williams of New York spent mornings with Mr. and Mrs. Hug An- honor. Prevalence News JUS'1 66 & 68 V Elegant Apartments of 6 Large, Lig 5 WEST 5 Large Light Rooms and Bath 230 WEST 1 6 Large, Light Rooms and Bath, All Inx Apply Jennifer, or CLARENCE B. HUTCHINS Telephone 364-4 Norham BENJ. O. H REAL ENERGY AGENT Main Office, On Warehouse Street Rooms have rooms and get one month's worth for 4 perennials. May be seen to be appointed. Might discover agents. I can arrange you your supply's needs. Call on 8-6-6. Mobil No. 200-200-2000. Un reprise the cel mation At January 8. the visit of our race. was one of the advancem- meble holding which in addition to a the Banc- gage, government Union will give discharged soldier- fancy. The disch. the race for a long a matter of the soli- dary involving the of the cel. of the government of the rights of all must take the to Congress and take it to the 8 the utmost import- ance of those of our people. Ivolved. The princi- was the principle of the tentative citizens of it to succeed in its work by the general public this appeal until at hand. Judge D. August been heard in this ci- speaker at meeting. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. ( Wedding On Friday evening, L. and Mrs. J. T. Gollahor twenty-fifth anniversary at their house, 124 West occasion brought together were pre- their congratulations to me. Mr. and Mrs. Gollahor beautiful and costly silver handmade for the event. The band shectra furnished music elaborate banquet was made George Major. The band Bottlou People's A. M. B. Bain church met in the assembly room. After prayer and song, they proceed, numbering about 180, were served with ice cream and candy, after which the Breyton member received a present. Breyton member who had attended school, during the year received a present. Minehill Bultz or North Bultz had returned to Breyton and spending few months in Baltimore and other cities. New Haven, CT. The annual Christmas Tree celebrations were held last week beginning Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014, Rev. Dr. A. C. Powell, pastor; Friday evening, by the children of Zion church, footo street, Rev. J. W. Davis, pastor, and Bethel church, Rev. A. C. Powell, pastor, and St. Luke's church, Rev. M. L. Henderson, pastor. At the respective churches a gala and nightly gathering put on by the Attic of the children of presents, the children were served with refreshments. At St. Luke's P. E. church Christmas day there an early celebration of the holy communion at 7 a.m.; morning prayer, sermon and high celebration at 10.30. Rev. Eugene, pastor, celebrated at both services; also preached. The chancel was decorated with Christmas greens, and on the altar natural flowers and lilies. The offering for the day will cost $100. Miss Ruth Cohen of Springfield was the guest of her father, Mr. Joseph F. Cohen of New York, who was brought from New York seriously ill with pneumonia by his mother, Mrs. Mary Fellon of 14 Eaton Street, who was returned to sw耳 York Christmas morning. Mr. Thomas W. Taylor of 32 Foote street is spending the holidays with his son-in-law, Theodore M. Harris, of Williamsburg, Va. Norwich The annual Christmas festival of Mr. Calvary Baptist Sunday school was held in the verity of the church Monday evening, in the church of the church of the Young Church. A Christmas exercise, "King All Glorious," was held in the school assisted by a choir. The committee, consisting of the Young, Meadams Rosa Mallinson, Ambees Wilson, Louise Coblin, and Miss A. Frances Scott, saw that the handmade tree yielded fruit to the pupil. Chocolate was prepared Wednesday evening. The McKinley avenue A. M. E. Zion Sunday school gathered to give their Christmas concert and witness the unloading of the tree. Hattie Reed, Superintendent; Mrs. David Hall and other teachers. The decorations were in charge of the following young men: Jam Hall, Joseph Howard and Joseph Serery. Among the pastor's presents was a purse of gold. The Grace Memorial Baptist Sunday school held their Christmas enterance. The audience heard the Christmas carols. Prof. Geary made a fair representation of Santa Claus in costume, and distributed gifts to the students. A.W. Adams, was especially remembered by his members, receiving among other articles a suit of clothes and derby hat. Mrs. George, president of the fair committee, received a toilet set as a mark of appreciation. NEW BEDFORD NOTES New Bernou, Mass., December 18.—The Mother's Club held a business meeting at the residence of Mrs. W. Becker, 202 Cedar Lowe, and Mrs. J. Ryan read a paper on Santa Claus and Mrs. W. Becker sang a solo. The Mother's Club will tender a reception to the husband of a father on Mrs. Louise Douglas. An excellent program was given at the entertainment at the Bethel Union Baptist church. Miss Annie Lee a one act, entitled Cosas, Rev. and Mrs. Whittler, duet; Miss Bertha Jackson, solo; the Union League held a race meeting at the home of Dr. Robert B. Hancock, an large number attended the 8 Coleridge-Taylor concert in Boston, among whom were; Mrs. F. Douglas, Miss E. C. Carter, Mrs. F. Douglas, Mrs. E. C. Carter, Miss Flosse Freeman, Mrs. E. White, Martha Mehee, Mrs. Annie E. White, Mrs. P. Carter and Mrs. E. Carter. Miss Annie Lee will spend Christmas in Old Bernou, Mrs. E. C. Carter, will spend a day verbally burned last Saturday evening while extinguishing a blaze in his building. Presiding Elder Sammons preached twice Sunday. Colleen Johnson died on a Wednesday evening one of the oldest residents of this city. She came here in 1852, was married to Mr. Edward Johnson in 1853. She leaves six grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. Attleboro Notes. The Bazzar given by the Sunday school last week did not prove to be a great loss. Mrs. George Stewart, W. Sullivan, Mrs. N. Saddle (Cla) Ash, over Forest ing. W at the A. the annu Shepard there N. wit