New York Age

Thursday, December 30, 1915

New York, New York

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WATCH FOR FULL PARTICULARS ABOUT THE AGE'S BIG CIRCULATION CAMPAIGN VOL. XXIX No. 14 ART WORK FROM AFRICAN TRIBE Extraordinary Collection Brought by Lang and Chapin From Heart of Africa EXHIBIT AT AMERICAN MUSEUM The Lang-Chapin Expedition, After 6 Years in Africa, Brought Out Specimens of Sculptures and Pottery to Cannibal Tribe. ALSO MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS Esthetic World Knows No Such Combination of Sculpture and Pictorial Art, Not Anything Finer Than the Technical Finish—Specimens Are From the Mangbettu Tribe, Belgian Congo. On exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History are specimens of sculpture and pictorial art obtained from the Mangbettu FRED R. MOORE Editor and Publisher tribe, which lives in the Belgian Congo, Africa, and scientists say these specimens form an extraordinary ethnological and zoological collection. It is further declared that outside of this African art the world of esthetics knows no such combination of sculpture and pictorial art combined in one form, nor does it know anything finer than the technical side of these sculptures, which are exquisitely finished. Scenes on Ivory Bands. The collection was brought to this country by the Lang-Chapin expedition, which spent six years in Africa, much of the time in the Mangbetu country, and it was from this people that the finest pieces of native sculpture ever brought out of the heart of Africa were obtained. Only six of these sculptures have been placed on exhibition as yet, together with two examples of African pottery in the form of jugs fashioned in the shape of men's heads. Three of the sculptures are in the form of men's heads woven by curiously-shaped headaddresses or crowns. They are carved from a beautifully colored red wood and the heads are mounted on bases which are really hollow containers for keeping small objects, something like one of our jewel boxes. It is these bases which add to the interest of the sculptures, for each one has a sheet of ivory banded about it about five inches wide, on which are pictured native scenes. These pictures are made of incised lines filled in with black ink. They show a man fishing in a boat, attended by numerous attendants; a man having an encounter with what may be called a bull; another climbing a tree, and still another playing a harp of a type very common in Egyptian art. Evidences of Culture. The Mangbettii tribe, from which these things and many others not ready to be shown come, have only been known to the outside world since Schweinfurth published his book about Africa after his explorations of 1808 to 1871. This German found that the Mangbettii had the reputation of being the most cannibalistic tribe in the world and yet were known to cultivate that Christmas Day Was Like a Balmy Spring Day, But the People Woke Sunday Morning and Found a Semi-Blizzard Ragging-High Winds Blew Away Snowstorm and Weather Turned Fair Special musical programs, some or them very elaborate, were arranged by the choristers and organists of most of the churches of Greater New York, for the Christmas Day and Christmas Sunday services. The weather on Christmas Day was like that of a warm April day, and the Episcopal and Catholic churches were elaborately decorated for the services. Large congregations were the rule, and the choirs, augmented in some instances by extra voices and orchestral instruments, sang with splendid effect. Christmas Sandav brought a small blizzard, with rain, sleet, snow, and a high wind which attained at one time a velocity of ninety miles a hour, tying up traffic, demolishing windows, blowing down trees and wires, and causing a number of persons to be killed. Under the circumstances very small congregations were the order at all of the churches, and some of the churches could have no service at all. As a consequence, in a number of instances, the Christ-mas music will be repeated next Sunday. Church of St. Benedict the Moor. The Rev. Father Thos. O'Kesha. Priest. MIDNIGHT MASS—Farmer's Mass in B flat. Offertory—Novello's Adesta Fedalis. SOLEMN HIGH MASS at 10 a.m. Loesch Mass is G, with Adesta Fedalis as offertory. Soloists—William Jackson, basso; Herbert Sherkliff, tenor; Miss Marion Johnson and Miss Helen Sullivan, sopranos; Mrs. A. Fergerson, contralto. Mrs. O. L. Hooper, organist and chorister. St. Philip'e P. E. Church. Singing of carols in choir room. Communion service in C. (Martin). Introit anthem—"O, Holy Night", (Adams, arranged by Mack Andrews) Offertory—"Before the Heavens Were Spread Abroad" (Horatio Parker). Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Coleridge-Taylor). Offertory to "O, Holy Night" (Adams arranged by Mack Andrews) Husband, Husband, Pilot Sewell el, Mr. Slocum and Mr. Hopkins, Paul Bolin, organist and chanter. St. Cyprian's P. E. Church. At the services on Christmas Day the following music was rendered by the choir under direction of Mrs. Elizabeth H. Loguen, organist and chorister: Venite (Warren). Te Deum (C. Villiers Stanford). Jubilee (Shelley). Communion service in A (Eyre). Offertory—"Behold I bring you good tidings" (Bartlett). St. Augustine P. E. Church, Brooklyn. The Rev. G. Frázier Miller, Rector. Te Deum in E flat (Woodward). Jubilee Deo (Dupuis). Offertory—"Let us now go even unto Bethlehem." Miss Elsie Benson, organist and choirister. St. Marks M. E. Church. The Rev. W. H. Brooks, Pastor. Selections from Handel's Messian—"He Shall Purify," and "His Yoke is Easy and His Burden is Light." Soloists: Miss Minnie Brown, so prano; Mrs. M. W. Smart, alto; Chas Waters, tenor; George W. Taylor, bass. A. Aldama Jackson, organist and choirmaster Salem M. E. Church. Special music was rendered by the choir on Sunday morning, under the direction of Phao Martin, organist and chorister Solos were by Mrs. Carolyn Cullen, Mrs. J. B. Fendwick and W. Williams. At the special Christmas service in the afternoon, under auspices of the lecume, Geo W. Allen, president, and Thaoon Martin music, the folio of the special service (music sex) LESTER A. WALTON Managing and Dramatic Editor LUCIEN H. WHITE City. Editor EUGENE MOORE Advertising Agent Special to THE NEW York AGE. ITIACA, N. Y., Dec. 29—J.M. Mazie Madeline Payne, wife of Lewis T. Payne, 212 Cascadilla street, was killed in a train wreck at. Slateford, near Stroudsburg, Pa., on the Lackawanna Railroad, Thursday night, December 23, about 11:20 o'clock. Mrs. Payne was head designer for the firm of Flores- heimer & Co., dealers in women's wear, New York, and had returned from Paris only three weeks ago. She was enroute home to spend Christmas with her mother, husband and three children. The wreck was caused by a rear end collision, section 3 of the west bound train crashing into the Ithaca sleeper, which was the last car on section 2. It was a wooden car, and was split in two by the engine attached to section 3. Mr. Payne occupied lower 11, and that herth was completely demolished When extricated from the wreckage, Mrs. Payne was found to have sustained a fractured spine, a broken collar bone and broken arms. She died before the relief train could reach Stroudsburg. Returned from Paris Three Weeks Ago Mrs. Payne had been with Floeischheimer & Co. for some time, and had worked her way up to the position of head designer. She had made five trips to Paris for the firm, returning from the last one just three weeks ago. She was 39 years old, and leaves a mother, Mrs. Nannie Jones; husband, two sons, Lewis Verdelle and Alexander Wattial; one daughter, Carolyn, and one brother Alexander Jones, of Scranton, Pa. The funeral was held on Monday, December 27, from her mother's home, 212 Cascadilla street, the Rev. George Baker officiating. The body was placed temporarily in the receiving vault at Lake View cemetery The only other person killed was the porter, a young man from New York whose name, it is thought, was Miller He was in the drawing room at the end of the car TICULARS A THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1915. of The New York Ag MRS. IDA MOORE Owner MRS. IDA MAY DUDLEY Cashier 6 GEORGIA JUDGE GIVES WHITE MAN 99 YEARS Special to THE NEW YORK AGE. WAYCROSS, G., Dec. 28—Judge Somerall, of the Superior Court, sentenced Ben Higgs, a well known white man of Millwood, to ninety-nine years in the State Penitentiary for the murder of Martha Anderson, a Negro woman. The crime was committed last July. The jury, composed of white men, gave a verdict within thirty minutes after the case was given to them, at the same time recommending the murdered to the mercy of the court. Mrs. Anderson was 59 years old and had never been involved in any quarrel with Higgs. The testimony developed the fact that Higgs tried to hire her to pick cotton for him and when she refused to leave home he fired his Winchester rifle at her, killing her instantly. Higgs had been drinking "moonshine" liquor, according to his companion. DOCTOR GIVES DINNER TO THE POOR FOLKS Special to TUG New York Art. Jackson, Miss. Dec 28—Christmas among the poor colored people of this town was a joyous occasion through the instrumentality of Dr. S. D. Redmond, a successful physician and one of the best known colored citizens. He issued an invitation to all the poor people to have Christmas dinner with him. The dinner was served at 2 o'clock on Christmas Day at the Palm Garden, North Parish street, FOR FUELMAN PORTERS Special to TUZE New York Agr. Cilicago, Ill., Dec. 28.—The Pullman Company announced yesterday that on January 1 salaries of porters will be increased 10 per cent. Conductors and other employees will receive a similar increase. Five or six thousand porters will be benefited. Present salaries for porters range from $27.50 to $10, so the increase will be from $2.75 to $4 per month. ABOUT THE AGE 1. LEWIS P. WILLIAMS Reporter TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE GREETING TO MOTON Major Robert R. Moton; recently chosen to succeed the late Booker, T. Washington as head of Tuskegee Institute, has received the following letter signed by Warren Logan, treasurer and acting principal, and J. H. Palmer; secretary of the executive council of the Institute: The executive council of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute sends you hearty greetings as the newly elected principal of this institution. We welcome you to our residence and recommend that await you in this position, and pledge you our earnest support and loyal labor, each in his separate sphere, to make your leadership of this great work all that our trustees and friends hope for, teachers, and students alike stand with you to serve the highest interests of the institution NEGRO CONVICTS MAKE XMAS TOYS Special to Turk New York Ac Special to THE NEW YORK ACE. COLUMBUS, O., Dec. 28—II W. Cross, serving a life sentence in the penitentiary from Fayette County for second degree murder, has made a stage with several mechanically-operated figures, which he sent as a Christmas present to Governor Willis through Warden Thomas last week. On the miniature stage are seen a couple doing a graceful hesitation waltz, a dancing girl and a buck-and-wing minstrel man, while over in a corner sits a piano player, who, to all appearances, is furnishing the ragtime to which the others sway and glide in wonderfully realistic style. Cross has put in several weeks designing and perfecting the gift. It is operated by clock mechanism. Another gift fashion within the prison walls, not as complicated as Cross's manikins, but alike indicative of the resourcefulness of the convicts, is a small express wagon made by James Wilson, also colored. It will be given to James Woodward. JAMES W. JOHNSON Contributing Editor GILBERT MOORE Head of Printing Department CHRISTOPHER J. DUDLEY Mailing Department Northern African Negroes Served With Italian Army During Italo-Turko War When the Black Tribesmen Volunteered for Servio Italy Feared to Use Them, but Finally Sandwiched Them In, One to Every Four Italians—Returned from War Laden With Honors. James A. Rivers, who used to be a sparring partner of Jack Johnson, and who went to Europe in 1905 with the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show as an interpreter, returned to America about three months ago. For the past four years he was stationed at Rome, Italy, in the employ of the Italian government as instructor in boxing to the Italian policemen. He tells the following interesting story of the use by Italy of black troops from the northern part of Africa in the Italy-Turko war of 1911: "During the war of 1911 between Italy and Turkey, there was a tribe of Northern African Negroes, called Ascari's, numbering about two hundred thousand or more, having their habitation in Tripoli on the border of the Mediterranean Sea near Egypt. This tribe volunteered to the Italian government for military service, but fearing treachery, the Italians hesitated for more than two months to accept them. Finally, it was decided to use them, putting one Negro soldier to every four Italians. Black Troopa Lionized. "The achievement of the Negro soldiers was the most important factor in the campaign. The Italian government, to show its appreciation and pride in their activities, placed these men in all the different branches of government service. They were also taken on trips to all the important cities of Italy, thousands of them making the trips at the expense of the government. Everywhere they went these black troops were idolized and lionized by the breathless and hitherto raking families. "The tribe is of a large, raw-boned species, quite muscular, wearing sandals or going barefooted, and accustomed only to hot climates and sandy regions. The tribe has volunteered -its services in this present war, but the government refused to accept them on account of the cold climate." Mr Rivers speaks six or seven languages, and after leaving the Buffalo Bill show was interpreter for four,years at the Folies Bergere, Paris, one of the largest theatres in the world. He will open a school of languages at the colored Y. M. C. A. January 1 in the evenings, starting with classes in French and Italian. WOUNDED AMERICAN IN FRENCH HOSPITAL Dr. Daniel T. Brantley, lately returned from the Philippines, visited the Hospital for Convalescents at Nice, France. He found an American Negro, J. H. Montgomery, in the hospital, badly wounded, having lost a leg, besides other injuries. Montgomery was a member of the French Foreign Legion and told Dr. Brantley that he was wounded at the battle of Marne. Montgomery was a chauffeur in Paris at the outbreak of the war, and going into service was assigned to the ambulance corps. He has relatives in this country from whom he has not heard in a number of years. A brother and some cousins were last heard of as living in Baltimore. He can be reached by a letter addressed to the Hospital for Convalescents, Nice, France. CAPTAIN'S LICENSE TO R. J. SALISBURY Special to The New York Age. Special to THE NEW YORK ACK NORFOLK, Va. Dec. 28—After undergoing a test examination submitted by the United States local inspector, renewal of his captain's license was granted to R. J. Salisbury, who has served eight years as captain on a passenger steamer on the Tar and Pamlico rivers. Mr. Salisbury is the only Negro in North Carolina who holds this position, his license empowering him to command vessels of one hundred tons or less, or to act as mate on river steamers of any tonnage. He is a native of Tarboro, but is in the railway mail service with headquarters at Norfolk NEGRO RED CAPS IN WHITE MEN Special to The New York Ac. OGEN, Utah. Dec. 28. For the first time in history, Ogden Station is now manned with colored Red Caps. The change was made recently when the four white men who had been employed were dismissed and four Negroes employed in their stead. L. Clarence Jones, of Chicago, is in charge, with Felix Paskett as his assistant. The men are paid a salary of $60 per month. Their service has been so satisfactory that already the railroad management has commended them for their impartial and obliging manner to the traveling public. PRICE FIVE CENTS HAITI OFFERS OPPORTUNITIES Possibilities That Are Ogan for the American Negro in the Negro Republic. Schools That Will Give the Untrained and Ignorant Lower Classes Education and Training Will Help the Whole People. Trained Agriculturists from the States Can Secure Land Concessions at Little or No Cost—Land Is Rich and Needs No Fertilizer—Up-To-Date Agricultural Machinery Needed. Haiti's greatest need just now, according to Dr. Raymond Vilaire Cabeche, formerly a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Dr. Raymond Vilaire Cabeche Haiti, can be provided for by the settling in that country of American Negroes with sufficient capital to develop the agricultural resources, and by the establishment of schools for industrial education. Dr. Cabeche declares that the native Haitian will give a cordial welcome to the American Negro, realizing that there is a kinship through color and blood admixture. Haiti's agricultural possibilities are unlimited and the man with a knowledge of modern methods of cultivation, possessing sufficient capital to install modern machinery, can lay the foundation for wealth. The land is rich and there is no need, says Dr. Cabeche, for fertilizer of any sort. Cultivation of crops is of the crudest kind. Cotton matures quickly, and corn peas and potatoes make two crops a year. The islanders know nothing of plowing. Corn is simply dropped on top of the ground and the grain comes to maturity in four months. The only cultivation it receives is the cutting away of the grass, when the corn is twelve or fifteen inches high, and for this the natives use the machete and hoes. Land can be easily acquired under lease, and if naturalization papers are taken out, the land can be purchased. Dr. Cabeche believes that the Haitian government will give to the American Negro the most favorable terms of lease, probably not making any charge at all in consideration of the development of the country's resources. Then, too, says he, labor is very cheap. There are at present in the island, white men enjoying concessions under ninety-nine year leases. The establishment of schools for industrial education will be of immense benefit to the lower classes. The upper class Haitian is highly educated, having, as a rule, graduated from the leading colleges of Haiti and the universities of France. He has not enough points in common with the lower class Haitian. As a consequence the Haitian of the lower class remains ignorant and undeveloped. An industrial school, smaller than Tuskegee, but modeled along similar lines, will help to raise the masses and develop their ability to take advantage of Haiti's natural opportunities. Dr Cabebe says it would be necessary for a native Haitian to be at the head of such an institution, that the government might be induced to grant necessary concessions, but the faculty should be composed of trained American Negro teachers. Haiti's main products include coffee, cotton, cocoa, large quantities of which are exported every year. There are many varieties of native hard woods, mahogany and lignum vitae among the and there are opportunities for financial concessions also. Some white men are owners of concessions now by which they have the privilege of prospecting for copper, in the Mine de Pierre Neilux, and Dr. Cabeche says that these men have been shipping out quantities of copper. Inland are to be found gold, silver, coal, iron, and other precious metals, and the American Negro would be gladly welcomed and granted concessions. The improvement of Haiti's co can be brought about, says Dr. by a combination of the best and American influence. He tain requirements, embodied in the following statement: 1. A good and patriotic President, assisted by ministers well determined to work for the benefit and welfare of the Haitian people. 2. A Chamber of Deputies and a Senate composed of patriotic members. 3. Honest men in the financial administration and at the head of the Customs House (there are many such men in the country). 4. An agricultural bank to help the owner of lands. 5. A good organization of rural and urban police. 6. The lower class people must be educated and trained in industrial and agricultural work. 7. Freedom of the press to criticize every wrong thing in the administration, and to advise concerning the best interest of the country in everything that pertains to its advancement. WHITE PALLBEARERS Special to THE NEW YORK ACE. East as Vegas N. Mex. Dec. 29—At the funeral of Montgomery Bell, one of the wealthiest men in the state, the pall bearers were all what, some of the most prominent business and professional men of the community. This is the first time in the history of New Mexico that white pall bearers operated at a Negro funeral. Mr Bell came to New Mexico in 1866 from Missouri, working as a waiter and cook. Later he became a messenger in the First National Bank of Santa Fe. Acumulating some capital he went into the sheep business with Mexican partners, with headquarters at Las Vegas. He became very wealthy, and possessing plenty of ready cash, he increased his holdings by making loans. He was called Bell, the money lender. Four years ago he became interested in the banking business with John W. Harris, a white man, and financed the People's Trust Co, but remained as a silent partner. He was reputed to be worth in the neighborhood of $350,000 when he died. The funeral was held from the American Methodist Church, J M Ireland, of the Christian Science Church, having charge of the service. The pall-bearers were John W Harris, president of the People's Bank and Trust Co; George H Hunker, lawyer and banker; Nicassio C deBaca, merchant, R K. McClanahan, physician, William Frand and P L. Pinard, ranchmen. Mr Bell's wife died two years ago, and his only surviving relatives are a sister and one niece. NEGRO FINANCIERS AND MERCHANTS NEEDED Speech to the New York Age. Baltimore, Md., Dec. 29. That the Negroes of this country need a large class of eminently successful financiers and heads of mercantile establishments in order to support their educational and other interests was asserted by Dr. D. S. S. Goodloe, president of the Maryland State Teachers' Association, at the opening of the annual session of that body last night. He said the theory was erroneous that an industrial labor class was the primary need for the adequate support of colored men and women engaged in the professional walks of life. The late Booker T. Washington, he said, evidently had in mind the need of the race being engaged in the higher lines of business and finance when he organized the National Negro Business League. City Councilman Harry S. Cummings, Superintendent of Schools Charles J. Koch. William Anderson and George B. Murphy were among other speakers. The needs of the colored schools of Maryland were discussed at Morgan College this morning and afternoon The Rev. C. A Tindley, of Philadelphia, addressed a large audience at the Metropolitan M E Church tonight The meeting will close with a reception and an interpretation of Paul Lawrence Dunbar's poems by Archald H. Grimke this Thursday night. HEADWAITER'S WIDOW LEAVES $10.0 Special to THE NEW YORK AGE. Baltimore, Md. Dec. 29.—Bequests amounting to $10,000 are made by the will of Mrs. Ellen Sorrell, just admitted to probate. She was the widow of the late Hiram Sorrell, for many years a head waiter here. BALTIMORE PASTOR GOES TO YORK, PA Special to The New York Ack. Special of the New York Age. York, Pa., Dec. 29—In the presence of a large congregation, the Rev Dr W. Edward Williams was formally installed as pastor of Faith Presbyterian Church last night. He has been pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, for more than eight years. COLORED MEN WANTED ```markdown ``` to prepare as Sleeping Car and Train Porters No experience necessary. Positions pay from $60 to $100 month. First Class Eastern Roads. Railroad passes from your home to position and uniforms arranged for if necessary. Write at once. NEGRO DOCTOR HOME FROM PHILIPPINES Dr. Daniel Troy Brantley, for the past fifteen years located in the practice of medicine at Albay, Luzon, Philippine Islands, reached New York on Friday, December 24, on the French mail steamer Patria, from Lisbon Leaving Manila, he touched enroute at Hong Kong, and took the Japan steamer for Morocco, coming to Malta. The steamer was a careful taut strait course, dearing its purpose to enroute in the led Cross service, he was able to get across to England. He went then to Madrid, Spain, and to Lisbon, from which he enbarked for New York. I Brantley was attached to the United States army as a member of the hospital corps, and in 1900 he decided to locate in the islands. He finished his medical course at St Thomas University, the Spanish medical college at Manila, and was the first Negro to be granted a license as a doctor in the Philippines. He located at Alley Luzon and has a good practice. He is in the States to take a postgraduate course in surgery. He was born in Lelma Ala, but made Chicago his home prior to settling in the Philippines. Negro Judge at Albay. There are only three colored Ameri- ters at Alias, the others being Judge Alice Somersille and Chas Walker, an counselor, who is a blacksmith. Judge Somersille went from New York as a sculptor in 1902 but some of the wages in the Mamla office connected to him because of color, so he was assigned a private secretary to A.U. Bettis and Lunion. Somersille so sequently took up the practice of law and enjoy the largest clientele of any lawyer in the state. He has been chosen as a city of the district court and has degree of business in the Court. Prince declares that there is a land opening for a National Association as an autobiographical limit to open a garage and repair patients. At present there is no co-qualified, and not owners or autos to a large num- ber are put to considerable expense and delay in case of accidents. Speaking of conditions in the islands, Dr. Branley thinks the present administration's policy has not the Philippines lack at least a generation. The offices have been filled by thinkers with democratic politicians to attention being paid to their qualifications. Governor General Harrison lacking experience of a broad and general nature has not been able to measure up to the standards to be laid and Wright, and this has created the entire archipelago. As to the states, it the native is not read or settled government, out the Philippines that he is capable of handling the reins and he wants the government turned over to him. Dr. Branley purposes to take his postgraduate course either in New York or Chicago and hopes to return to the Philippines in the spring. He will not return through Europe, but will sail from San Francisco. CHARLESTON FOUGHT VICIOUS PHOTOPLAY Special to The New York Ave CHARLESTON, W. Va., Dec. 28.-The photo-play. The Birth of a Nation, which was shown last week at the Burlew Opera House, this city, was butterly taught by the leading colored business and professional men of this city, in fact the manager of the play said that they had never been given such a battle before. As soon as the colored citizens learned that the play was booked for Christmas week, a committee consisting of the Revs. F. H. Gow, B. R. Reed and J. S. Carroll, Profs. J. F. J. Clark, W. W. Saunders, C. W. Boyd and R. Cheeks, L. O. Wilson, state librarian, C. H. James, wholesale produce and commission merchant, Drs. H. F. Gamble, W. L. Jones and B A Criclow and T. G Nutter, attorney, waited upon the manager of the Burlew Opera House and registered their protest against the play, and not being satisfied with the audience with Mr Burlew, took the matter up with Mayor George E. Breece and City Solicitor George McClintic, and insisted that the best interest of the city demanded that the picture should not be shown here as it would tend to disturb the happy relations existing between the races. The mayor immediately called a conference consisting of the above named gentlemen the manager of the Burlew and the traveling manager of the photoplay to see it some understanding could not be reached. The conference proved unavailing as the committee insisted upon the elimination of the entire second part of the play, to which the management would not consent as the elimination of the second part would have destroyed the picture. Failing to bring the parties together, Mayor Breece decided to go to Parkersburg to witness the play, and was accompanied by the city solicitor, city manager, T. G. Nutter, C H James, the Rev F. H Gow and J F J. Clark. Mayor Restrained by Injunction. Returning to the city, the mayor announced through the papers that he would not permit the play to be shown in this city as he considered it immoral and obscene and a gross misrepresentation of the colored people, and that if necessary he would use the police force to prevent its presentation here. On last Friday the manager of the Burlew applied to Judge Samuel D. Littlepage, of the Circuit Court, for an injunction, restraining the mayor and chief of police from interfering with the production of the play, and the case was argued by W I Byrne, for the Burlew and T. G. Nutter and City Solicitor McClintick on behalf of the mayor and chief of police. It was a forensic battle long to be remembered. Mr Nutter made the principal speech against granting the injunction. The temporary injunction was granted and the case was rushed to the Supreme Court of Appeals Saturday morning in hopes that a decision might be had before Monday. A petition was filed for an appeal and supersedeas and the case was argued at 10 o'clock Saturday morning. The appeal was granted, but the supersedeas was denied by a divided court. Judges Mason and Lynch favoring the appeal and supersedeas, while Judges Poffenbarger and Miller favored the appeal, but opposed the su- persedes because there was some question as to whether or not the City of Charleston had the authority to pass the ordinance upon which the city authorities based their action, and as the court would adjourn at 2 p. m. for the holidays, it would not have time to make a careful examination of the subject, hence the temporary injunction of Judg. itelle remains in force until passed upon by the Any Bruce e and City Policiter Me it to stoneurned in their efforts to comply with the wishes of the colored citizens. There was not a dissenting voice among the colored people—men and women were unanimous in their condemnation of the play and were ready to spend their last dollar in order to keep it out. No such unity of action has ever been witnessed before in this or any other city. They were backed in their efforts by every Republican officer-holder in the city, from the governor on down, all of whom contributed what they could to the efforts to eliminate the play GEORGIA'S DIVISION Served to the New York Ace. Washington, D.C. 28--The legislature's construction bills provide more than a half million dollars for the international institution of the tariff including the public schools, which is an appropriation of just $100,000. The Georgia school, the Georgia College for Colored Peas, is an institution of which R R Wright is a member. A matter of fact this $8,000 does not all come from the state treasury, but the sum accruing annually from the land scrap and which must be for Negro education. Forced by Atlanta University received a proportion of $8,000 but when the legislative vesting committee saw the white children of members of the faculty in the same classes with Negro students a demand was made on the university authorities that the white children be taken out of the classes and sent to other schools. Members of the faculty refused to do so, and the legislature then withheld the appropriation from Atlanta University. But the money could not, under the law be diverted to any other use, or given to any of the institutions for white students, and so, after a considerable sum had accumulated in the state treasury, the Georgia State Industrial College was established and Major Wright put at its head. The state has THE ORIENTAL TEMPLE of BEAUTY has opened 420 Lenox Avenue, entrance 79 W. 131st Street. All Branches of Beauty Culture taught at reasonable rates. Under the able instructor, Mme. HENRIETTA ALLEN, formerly of the Beauty Shop on Seventh Avenue. Hairdressing, Manicuring, Facial Massage, Scalp Treatment and Chiropody. 'Phone Harlem 1361. Dec16-tf Open Evenings. FREE! VIOLET RAY TREATMENT Beginning December 15, and ending January 15, every Tuesday at Mme. Louise Hill's Beauty Parlors, 2295 Seventh Ave., ladies will be given the famous new Violet Ray Treatment FREE OF CHARGE. This new and popular method is used for skin bleaching and the removal of warts, moles and superfluous hair. Mme. Hill has remodeled her parlors refitting with wicker furniture and all modern devices for an up-to-date parlor. A cordial invitation is extended the ladies for her big Christmas opening. 2295 7th Ave. New York City ESTABLISHED 20 YEARS MRS. IDA WHITE-DUNCAN HAIR WORKER 19 Prescott St., Jersey City, N. J. Wigs, Hair, Beauty, Impounders, Transformations, Combings made up?In any style. Scalp Treatment, Shampooing, Hair Dressing, Face Massage, Manicuring. Colored peoples' combings bought. Lessons taught In Hair Work. Diplomas awarded. 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Remember Kink-no-more is sold under a guarantee. We claimled for it or money refunded. We will send to anyone on the receipt of $1.00 a regular size box of Kink-no-more, enough to straighten from one to two heads of hair. When ordering send registered letter, postal money order or express money order. Liberal inducements offered to agents. Write to day care center or stamp to reply. Agents wanted everywhere. Address Shelton & Jones, 1019 Springwood avenue, Anbury Park, N. I. KINK-INE Removes dandruff, stops falling hair and itching scalp. With each bottle of Kink-ine we will give you FREE two imported French Hair Nets. Get Kink-ine to-day at any Riker-Hegeman Store, or your nearest druggist. He will order it for you. Out of town orders filled by Parcel Post. QUINADE GROWS HAIR REMOVES DANDRUFF QUINASOAP THE IDEAL SHAMPOO SAFE QUINACOMB HAIR OF THE CITIES SHAMPOO SERIES SEEBY DRUG COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY. N. Y. WOLF BROTHERS Hair Straightening Outfit No more breaking of lamp chimneys. With one of our Patent Alcohol Stoves you can heat your Straightening Comb or Curling Iron quickly and safely. Sanitary and just the thing for traveling GIANT 8 oz. 9 Inch Comb 50 Cent Solid Brass Add Ten Coats for Postage not increased the appropriation by one penny, but the white institutions are given $1,537,673, with $2,700,000 added for the common schools. SPELMAN BAP ROCKEF" The W. L. Rockefeller who died in 1875, was made public this week. After he passes to the various members of the family and to certain in institutions, the will provided that the residuary estate he divided upon eight institutions, among which Spelman Seminary, Atlanta, Ga., which school is named for Mrs. Rockefeller's sister. But power is given the executors to exclude from sharing in the estate any of the institutions, and under this authority the executors have excluded four of the institutions. Spelman Seminary being one of them. No reason is given for excluding Spelman, and the action is the more surprising as that school has always been considered as a Rockefeller institution. The first building erected of the present plant was made possible by money from the Rockefeller family. The executors named in the will are John D Rockefeller, Sr., the husband; John D Rockefeller, Jr., a son, and Mrs Alta Rockefeller Prentice, a daughter. No reason is given for this action by the executors. DIRECT STEAMSHIP Special to The New York Aor Washington Dec. 29. Officials of the theatre of State are watching with depart interest an attempt to establish a direct steamship line between this country and Liberia. A few days ago the stormer Noun found from Boston reached Monrovia. The news was imme- nially flashed to Secretary Lansing, in turn, notified Dr. Christ Loon, the Liberian consul-general to this country. The European war has crippled European trade with France England and German and many have been attracted by the possibilities of trade with this country. Liberian mahogany, rubber of other products could be used to ad- vantage in this country, while mea- chinery, their clothing and other products could find a ready market there. The attempt to establish a line between this country and Liberia is being backed by a number of colored men. McNICOL REPUBLICAN ENDORSE MOVIE PLAY Special to The New York Air Special to THE NEW YORK ACE Punishment Pa Dec 29 -Thomas McNeil Republican Representative from the Third Ward to the lege- lature was one of the sneakers at the celebration of the 150th performance of the 'Birth of a Nation' last week at the Ritz Carlton Hotel New York H.1. of its constituents are Neerco- and it is believed that he will be called to account at the next election ```markdown ``` For four years "Rudolph Weinkopf," a young Negro, worked as waiter at the boarding house, A South Portland avenue. Brooklyn, old during that time he associated with the mezzanin boys in the titan avenue curtain, smoking, draining and playing cards with them. He even kept company with a young girl, and he would be seen with her occasionally at the theatres and moving picture shows. Death revealed the fact that "Rudolph" was a woman. In the Christmas Season just ended we were glad to greet many Readers of this Newspaper, whom we have known in former years, and count among our steadfast friends. "Rudolph" was found on Christmas night by his employer, Mrs. Markel, laying sick on the kitchen floor. She called an ambulance and he was taken to the Brooklyn hospital, where he died an hour later. Coroner's Physician Geo. W Tong conducted an autopsy, necessary because of the sudden death, and so it was discovered that the supposed man was a woman We appreciate their purchase of HAIR GOODS and COMBS and TOILET ARTICLES of us, and we hope that each Present will confer the lasting pleasure the Giver intended. Mrs Markel employed "Rudolph" on the recommendation of an employment agency at Kingston, N. Y., and two sisters at that place telegraphed Monday to have the body sent to them for burial. Naturally we are encouraged by the widespread Public Response to our Offers to sell HAIR GOODS on Enlightened Modern Principles. Florida Fighter in Pennsylvania. South BETHLEHEM, Pa -Kid Lightning, a colored featherweight hailing from jacksonville. Fla. met and defeated Barney Dugan in six rounds a few nights ago. The Kid drew first blood in the first round with a power- ful left hook, and in the fourth session laid Dugan on the floor Our GUARANTEE is a Protection as to Quality. Industrians is running high in Athletics, crads in anticipation of the Milltrav trail meet to be held in Mashion Square Garden January 26 when Howard Trow Re Norse and Jow Loos will measure crades. Our Common Sense Policy a Saving of every Customer's Money. We do not buy of Middlemen, but whatever we do not make in the busy Factory on our Premises we buy Direct of the Makers. Parents Are Your Children IDLE? CUT HAIR we import direct from all over the World in quantities and on terms that enable us to mark them at Prices as tempting as the Beauty of the Goods themselves. And a Business like MME. BAUM'S HAIR EMPORIUM may be sustained and expanded, as ours is on a Modern Profit. Why not start them out-like children of other races? Let their minds be occupied along business lines while they are not in school. I can start your boys and girls in a dignified profitable business. Write me for further information. Christmas is gone, leaving its Gifts and its Happiness as Memories, but the New Year will be full of occasions for visits to MME. BAUM'S HAIR EMPORIUM. Tuskegee Institute, Ala. There will be Birthdays, Weddings. Domestic Anniversaries, Lodge and Society Celebrations, and other occasions for the giving of such Goods as the name of MME. BAUM has so long been associated with. GROW BEAUTIFUL HAIR Girls! Don't let that thin dull, scraggy hair mar your appearance any longer. Make it fluffy, soft, glossy—and grow a lot of beautiful new hair. Simply get a 25c. bottle—begin applying it this very night, and you will be surprised how—even one application brings out the glazing lustre and freshness. By bringing the scalp and scientifically fishing and stimulating the root produces conditions for the growth of fine, luxurious new hair. We shall be pleased to serve you on any occasion, and we wish you A HAPPY NEW YEAR K-INE ing hair and itching scalp. With each you FREE two imported French Hair Riker-Hegeman Store, or your nearest 1. Out of town orders filled by Parcel LY COMPANY Open Daily until 9 o'clock.. Saturday until 11 o'clock, P. M. THE ONLY AND OLD RELIABLE Mme·BAUM'S·HAIR·EMPORIUM 486 8TH AVENUE NEW YORK CITY INCORPORATED NEW YORK CITY NADE S HAIR DANDRUFF ASOAP Printing We are in a better position than ever to give you the very best in printing, as we have entirely refitted our plant with the very latest in type faces. 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Geaet [© GS onan Whites Ge Nigasts UPallg| Aiweeke pt prayer “cominencing Yamuary’3):092% Spee! NOS TIAS SHE GET s 28 Bon ares a etre RU SS 82 Al INOS S975 q shana NO Gees |e aren er ahee aan | uti" ANG at Wa aus Recetas ee erees eae ‘arty,was diven at the reakdence of Mrs | Musical directress;"and acting organist; .| N. Y.. were the holiday, guests.of -Mr.| Chulren.2\, Oy. oat asic See ca Teer it Te = = = NT aE OTT asic Rastns! ") Domglasa’ streets The| 2 Ste o'clock prayer meeting’ Christmas| and Mfrs, Geo. HoWeight. 87 -York| qyavheung, Mimi Monty Eucgacentartained | 6°), | oe lage z PUB Sie eee FE RRS Rf (guests, were Mile’ Catherine: Rantus‘of Soceming was well-attended! 5” is patrect. ~"-*) Lyndon Caldwell vand- Mr. Bronson of}! - te § gh abagly SEs ay aed tists REESE vette a TRS Mace Simotgs Cotte Sree eaae | ening, “vars weicnane ee FO] asAuegy lab lat Walacrieyteree | MEE eee a ipcans, tel feo eye OMG. Ls PIE amare “Mame . Simons. Corine? Simmons, ‘evening, “All, are. welcoine e jul ‘last ven-| TAB ORY A ony! invapending the 7 Mian “RAs, Y NAT EES ‘rm Stengan” Debcaw Rantas’ Garde, The. sinual” Chritiaas “exercises of| ing at tacit residence, 168, Garson wve-| notdverig aaelto” ey menaine * aI he Kind of Hair Y ou. Want: Pied ‘Brow’ and’ huiband Maras‘Brown, arid | the Smith’ Street!AM. E. Zion Sab-| nue. After the business sessions they| , Sebrun Bummore.of Nochcster wae the| | . J : : = pe Oe Rms J Bh 2 Caleb: Edwards, ‘of: NewsXorks. at School ‘were: held Sundiy evening. fetired to ahe dining room where cov- Siege ant fem, mir send Mra: Dect ee veo sowie 2a 2 ys PES ea. + 4) The main “auditorium: wasfiled -with| ers were laid for fourteen. | The din-| | athe tauline, Biers ot suracite mati! >. Ts the: kistd that keeps stnoothand.kéeps °° 2.03/33 SU TMACA, UN.. Y——The. first’ annual. ba- ‘zea ‘held’ by ‘the Herman‘ Lodge, No’ 30 KC Of; Plas. week, was a. seceess finan ‘cially. The hall:and booths. were’ beav- fiftlly. decorated: with .the colors of the Jodge The Dutch itches was in chive igi Mr di Noten the ion booth "Mrs Edw. Naylor; ‘novelty:\booth, ‘Mrs. J ‘Nalentisie;\ candy, booth; Mrs.’ L. Hane. ‘chance’ booths ES Kestby? tarts booth ‘Mrs:R Waller.” : “The 'reembers of Civic Club made a ‘Christmas donation, of '= ton of coal gadis gall tater ig ra Cara Fic “comnmittee’ i were T. F Hawken CA: Johasee S24 5. Jackaon she, Caritas ereies, of the Ca vary, Baptist! Sunday School were id \auditorimm of the .church last “The waters of the New Ithaca Hote ave, their ‘head waiter, E.R. Gibbons 2. eae Christmas present, a travel. Miss ‘Mildred Banks éntertained a few ‘Tiersday, December 22°” Asong hos ‘peesent'were: Misses Maomi.and Bea ;mice-Payne, Annie Robbins, Dordth; Shame Alsi Robison, Francis Soa an i Master’ Kenneth Small. ° SFascber, the Sanday Shag! dren 6 AT MLE Dow’ Goel ean” ; Christmas program on Christmas even Sirs. EZ Atwell, of Brooklyn, anc : Mex Florence Manes, of New You Gity, were im fonday to at food the fuel of Mrs Lent Bayne souion Ph wavs tie Gg a to at - Sead the fanetal of his sister, Mrs, Mia zie Payne, “At the fimeral services of Mrs. Lewi Payne, held at.the home of her mother Monday altcnoon! many benuttl for ¥ beautiful flora Bart ean Pte given by friends. BINGHAMTON. N.Y. Garson, of New York, Gay, is spend of New 7. ig spend: ing the holidays visiting her sister, Mrs. Gee Witams, 11 Yanick sect lerryweather is ‘spending two weeks in Binghamton, visiting friends Mr. Glasgow left last week for Sa. Vannab, Ga, and Jacksonville, Fla, Miltoa Lée is spending the holidays in _Brookiyn, N.Y. ~ Geo. W. Hill, of Atbany. is the gues of BM. C. Davis at the Eineka Hotel ‘ini, Batter and Richard Bevill of frou were guests at ‘the Emeka Hotel. Mr. and Mrs. Fields, of Wilkes-Barre Pa, are guests at the Emeka Hotel, The Sheba Chapter No. 3, 0. E. S. lected the, following officers’ last week Mrs. Hattie Day, worthy matron; Harr Bryan, worthy patron; Mrs. Florence “MeDaniel, associate matron; Mrs. Anni Jackson, "treasures; Mrs.’ ” Levanchs Floyd, secretary; Mrs, Eva Reynolds conductress: Mrs. Julia Lipscomb, as sociate conductress; Mrs. Martha Dor: sey, warden; Adam Day, sentinal: Mrs Carrie Lipscomb, Adah» Mrs. Bessi Wallace, Ruth; MrsDora Bryan. Es. ther; Mrs. Lama McCoy, Martha; Mrs Elizabeth Wallace, elector. A. J. Brown and Allen B. Jones, o Ithacd, were in Binghamton attending the waiters’ ball Monday, December 27 Powell Lewis is visiting in Bingham ton. . Emancipation Day will be observes “at 2Ae M:,E: Zion Church, Sheflax ips aneany 3 ‘Mr: and “Mrs, James Thomas held ; “family Christmas dinner at their beauti ful home Sunday, December 26, at ‘which time there were four generations pres “ent, including Mrs. Amser, Mrs. L = Thomas. Mrs, J. H. Washington, Mas. “ters; Alton, Augustus and Dudley L: ‘Verna. Others present were Mr. an “Mrs. F. Hancett, Archibald Smith, Mrs Tda Anderson, of Scranton, Pa, and th ‘Rex. J. Hi, Washington. The A: M. E. Zio’ Church is step ping to the front ‘The. Christmas exercises held Wed ‘aesday, December 22, were the fines Age Young Mevs Progressive Clu S TRE en's essive Clu presented the A.M. E Zion Chute 2 Christmas present of half a ton o “eoal POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. ; Podcuxexrstr, N. ¥.—The Men's Ciob Jat ithe ‘Smith Street A.M. E, Zion ‘Church held a banquet in the lecture ‘room’of:the-church December 21. The "roomna :were decorated with greens of “the:'season. also, many pretty lights Lakis;:D.",Dixon’ was assited by th ‘chet of Vassar:Inn.” G. McGill serves the banquet. Clarence Anderson was oastmaster, ‘The following spoke: The Rev. C. Van Butm and Elder Walker, of ‘Catharine Street Ghurch: Thoma: ‘Sorts, "N. Wye, 'S. Bostic, W. J: Elf “D. S, Godfrey and Mrs. Margaret Pat stemon,” A paver was Sead by Ww. M «ygitt Slarings of James Wiens a5 Miss Jeanie Fie, of akon N.Y. ‘taok place Twesdiy at high noon, at, the paronae, of, the Ebenezer | Bagtis ‘Chreh, 1 Winnikee arene, the, Rev }S:'Fariess offciating in the, “GE 3 few frends. They left Trursda for, x vist ‘Souths: " .., Sunday, services were well attendes ;wot withetanding the storm, the pastor ‘the: Rey. ‘Chas, S. Farsess, ‘preached a "10:45" a.'m.; text ‘Slow. to to Ange ‘aad Abandant in Loving Kindness” A IZAS. py m, text, SAnd the Holy: Ghos “Was Upon. Hie” " « * ZAN* were ruck: enthused when thi ‘choir’ sang their ‘Christmas’ music, under the directions. cof sMra:Cc'S. \Faresy ‘usieal directress/-an OTeAnish EPSix oclock prajer, mecting Christos morning was ‘well'attended!) 0. 3, piWatch’, mectirig= at .9° oSclock Friciy evening. “All, are welcome; ~The anntal’ Christinas, exercises. of the Smith” Street!-A.'Mf. E. Zion Sab- ‘bath School ‘were: held ‘Sunday. evening The | main ‘auditorium was’ filled “with trically lighted; beautifully decorated ad laden with gifts, surrounded. with’ fifty children, formed: a ‘sight long'to be re- membered.’ A cantata entitled’ “The Word: Fulfilled” was: rendered. ‘The. third quarterly_conference .and the’ Watch Night service will be held Friday evening. Presiding Elder Mason ‘will be in charge. ice + ‘The third’ quarterly meeting will be observed next Sunday, Evangelist Har- ten and the Rev. Mr, Mason will pea Beginning next Monday evening ion annual revival will open in ‘charge o! the Rev. T. S. Harten, of New Ro- chelle. 8 For the success of the Christmas ex: excises credit is due Supt. Abbott, Clar- ‘ence Anderson, Miss Sadie Rhodes and Mrs. Josephine Lee. Among the sick of the city are: Mrs, Georgiannz Bowman, Mrs. Sarah Glas- by, Mrs. Minnie Van Alstyne, Mrs, Nan- nic Gray, Mrs. Sarah Gould, Mrs. Jos- ephine “May, William Kelly, Henry ‘Schooomaker and William Deyo. Christmas at the Shepherd's Haven was one of exceptional cheer and Pas- tor VanBuren and family are grateful to all for their many kind remembrances FLUSHING NY. lof. Maryland, is spending ‘a soupie ct of. Maryland, is spending. ‘couple of weeks with his_son, W. Boston, For- rest avenue. The ‘Rev. Mr. Boston preached at the Macedonia A.M. E Gharch 39 Christmas morning and Sun- yy morning. The Rev. A. Worst, pas- tor of the A. M. E. Church at San Pedro DeMacoris, San Domingo, preached at Macedonia A. M. E Chareh junday evening. The Christmas serv- ices at the Macedonia Church at 4:30 2m were largely attended.” Mr. and Mrs, J. Stéwart entertained at‘ dinner the Rev. S. V. H. Gumbs Mr. and Mrs. Boston; Jr, W: J. Boston, ‘of Maryland: Dr. Worst, from San_Do: mingo and Miss L. Snowden from Cam- porole, Md, sister of Mrs. Hester Stewart. ‘Mr, and Mrs. J. Williams-entertained the R&S. V. H. Gumbs at luncheon ‘Sunday afternoon. iMss Lizzie Williams spent the Christ- mas with relatives. ‘The Sunday School of Macedonia A M. E. Church rendered its Christmas exercises on Sunday afternoon. The Christmas Tree was Held on Monday evening. ‘The members and friends of Mace- donia Church ‘did’ not forget their pas tor on Christmas, A box, containing everything wearable .was given : Funior Stewardesses, Miss B. Witham president. The Progressive Circle fur sighed the entre Christa dianer, com prising a large Turkey and everything fo go with ts Meg ET" Johnso president. The’ Pulpit Guild presented the pastor with an overcoat: Mrs. G ‘Young, president. Individuals person: presented gold pieces 2s well as other useful articles, IE ROY NY. . Le Roy, N. Y.—Mr. and Mrs, Ralph Alexander and little Ralph spent Christ- mas and. Sunday ia Lima with Mr. and Mrs, Arthur Gale. Miss Esther Steyersort, of Hilburn, N.Y. is spending the holidays ‘with hher parents. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Stev- erson: of “East avenue, : Mr, and Mrs. Ciyde“Lane’ are spend- ing the Christmas in Virginia. ‘Mrs. Emma Alexander entertained Christmas and Sunday Jas. E. Rose, of Rochester, and Mr. and Mrs. William ‘Clark, of Mumford. ‘Mr. and Mrs, Phillip Sellers, enter- tained Christmas and Sunday Mr, and Mrs. Joseph Brooks. of Honcoye Falls Richard Price,’ East avenue, spent Christmas with his “daughter, Mr. and Mrs, Chas. Dade, of Ithaca. Mr. and’ Mrs.'J. P, Sellers, of Pa- vilion, N.Y. entertained on Christmas at their regular family reunion. Abou! twenty-eight were present. The dut-of- town guests were Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Price and daughter, and Miss Marth Price, of Caledonia: Mrs. A. L. Price and family, of Wheatland; Mr. and Mrs William Sellers and family, Mr. ani Mirs. LF. Alexander, Miss’ Anna Sel iers. Miss’ Esther Lewis, Miss Madge Price, ‘Chas. Alexander’ and Brook Perry, of Le Roy, and Mrs. John Lewi and family, of South Bridge. After ; dinner was served by the Miskes Sel lers, Lewis and Price, all hearts wer made glad because of a raid made on ; ichly Iaden Christmas tree. The ga garty was next entertained through th rendition of an impromptu progran which was as follows: Reading, “Th Willing Workers,” William and Nei Sellefs; duet, “Someone is Coming To night,” Misses Martha and Pearl Price ‘reading, “One Niche the Highest,” Mis Martha’ Lewis; instrumental duet, Wil ilam and Neil Sellers; vocal solo, Chas Alexander; reading; ‘Tom Twist, Wil liam Sellers, Sr.; reading from Dunbar Roosevelt Price;‘chorus, Building, Dal sailding. ~ Rogie NY bates Ledge N ._Rocriesrex, N, ¥.—Eureko' Lodge No, 4%, Puand ‘A.-M, held the annual elec- tion of officers last Thursday: R. Jacob Carter, Jr M. W.i Geo. Chesteut § Wi $. Ball JW. Henry Thomas 8, Di Chas. H. “Price, J. D.: John G. Lee, “secretary: Stockton’ Tyler, treas- uret: W._J. Smith, chablain;. Ha Harden, SM. Gi Robert Martin, 9 M. C;.Edward De Holland, , 5.: Geo Duatann Ings Henry Lovey aba "About fifteen Knight" Templars greeted Sie H._A. Spencer, P. 6. M. State of New-York, at his home, 17 Oregon street, Saturday event. 4’ Més Jotin”-White;: Qf ‘Niagara (Falls, ands Ais) Lr, cTetiys tote Watertowe Ne iy here the holiday guestscof Ae and Mrs, Geo, Hos, Weight: 87 York street, « wey es Mr. and. Mrs. J. G. Lee enterfained the ‘Allegro Club last Wednesday ‘even- ‘ing at their residence, 108, Garson ave- nue.” After the business-sessions. they retired to ahe dining room where cov- vers were {aid for fourteen. ‘The din- ing room anda were decorated with ‘galore. of thetseason, ee Degember'23 the ‘Matron Whist’ Clab were. enterlained by Miss Marion’ Cot- toms, 168 Mohawk street. Prize was won by Mrs,."J. T, Roles. A dainty luncheon was served, after which gifts were exchanged, 4 A. S, Jamason, superinténdent of A. Mi. Zion ‘Sunday School, entertained the Sunday School Board ‘at a seven- course. dinner. Christmas Day" at. his home, 38 Danforth street. Covers were laid for fourteen. Mrs. R. L. Kent and daughter, La Belle Mase, entertained at a fine course dinner on Christmas Day the following guess: | Me_and Mis. Flemming shorts, Miss, Clestine Kearney, Miss Marion Cottoms, Miss Lillian Jackson, te Rev. Mh, Brown, William Henry veen and RL. Kent. The table was beautifully decorated, the centerpiece be- ing. 2 large cut glass bow! of assorted rai. _~Miss La Balle Marie Kent entertained ager home, 125. Ford. street, Christ ‘mas evenign. About twelve guests were Present. A delightful time was spent in music and games. j The services at A. M. E. Zion Church were well attended, The Junior choir fendered special musjc in the morning. ‘The Sunday School and the Senior chott at the evening service. "A fiverdays" conference of Christian workers will be held beginning January 4, closing January 9, and among the speakers will be the Rev. Charles H. Rust_and Dr, Brown, of the Asbury M. E. Church, and the Rev. P. James Bryant, ‘pastor of the Wheat Street Baptist Church, Atlanta, Ga. The con- Serence will consider religious, moral ‘and educational questions, especially. as pertaies ott eu oe ree Dy ryant will speak Tuesday, January 4 at Bp. m, at Me. Olivet Baptist Chgrch, and on Sunday, January 9, at 3 p. m. Dr. Bryant will address the conference at the First Baptist Church, Church and Fitzhugh strects. The conference. will close with a joint meeting of the Bible classes and clubs of the white churches, with the People’s Rescue Mission work- ers, Rochester Mission. Corps, Liberty Mission, and the Salvation Arimy unde Major Norris. The meetings are free, and any church or Christian club may secure reservations by applying to Mr Mudg, chairman board of trustees of First Baptist Church, or to the Rev. L. B. Brown, pastor’ Mt, Olivet_Bap- tist ‘Church, 133 Adams street, Phone M. 2024-W_ y = MUMFORD, N. Y. Muinford, N. ¥.—The Rev. M. W. Johnson left for a brief visit to. Chicago Saturday morning. Frém there he will 80 to Paris, Tenn, to visit his father. ‘The praise service at the Second Bap ist Church was lead by Mrs. JY. M. Lucas. The Rev. Jas. E. Rose.”of Le Roy. preached at the evening gervice. Mr. and ‘Mrs Russell Carpenter en: tertained at a Christmas dioner HT Carpenter and family, of this town: Mr and Mrs, Geo. Gatewood. of Massillon Ohio: Mr, and Mrs. Wm, Lucas, 0 Garba. N.Y, and’ James” Lucas, | Rochester, N.Y. Mes. Chas, Ainger is visiting her sister in Pittsburgh, Pa. : Miss Mamie Wheeler, of Rochester fpent Sunday and Monday swith Mis Lucy Carpenter. Mr. and Mrs. Minor Poles are visit ing friends and relatives in Virginia. ‘Mr. and Hrs, Charles Coles entertain ed at Xmas dinner, Mr. Charles Anin ter and family, Miss Gertrude Johnson of Geneseo, Miss Lucy Carpenter. of thi town, and Messrs, William and Elwoo Coles. of Rochester, N.Y. Mr. William G.’ Beck,’ of Culpeper Va. is visiting his nephgt, Mr. Russel Carpenter. Mrs, A, L. Price-aind family. and Mr Lewis’ price”and family spent Xmas i LeRoy. ‘The Missionary Socicty =.ll meet a the house of Mrs, John Jackson Me. Clarente Alexander, of Geneva vigited friends here last week, - Mrs. William Blake spent Xmas a the house of her mother, Mrs, Emm Alexander in Le Roy. aliss Bertha Simms is on the sic ist. Miss. Madge Price visited her_hom in Wheatland Sunday. James Bund! ot-La Ray wens '&. Visitor tre Sandan "1 AUBURN, N. Y._ distura Tosiabhen, Sbiray, sho naa’ been ai einplaves of ‘the "Auborn Bett te io DonEabe ot hatte Ee a es oP ate rt Te haa Seite es Hetctaatenc os anton Hiker tal iS aia te tag Mew, Welsh ot Geneva ‘ere ge ants SPS SE OETA Te ‘OM. and Dre. Biliaon of Watkins were Pe erat ig ee riya tion earri eattta Seb a Pi Be ete aca Niogen ar. aati Ba pHiiss Mabel Reed was the Thanksgiving pipieecne sy Mctanatahe Ba ech ap havo er, bas, ental [Margaret and Jacot "Richardson,’ Monday 2 from ito §'p. m The itt folie greats Foe, Rea aaliade Misi are luncheon was served by Mr. Lucas. dre ema res sireed br Me Las ae HSM MEE Boa btrsteaa totes isle ‘ech od, Vireo caer antineg Shoes Sees, ene thoes entra Sine, Sat. he Meh RL ties alte Cape agate ta? ong, Hane Pail "Caped Great Danae Ba Piiverions Slarle und Winittod ierane aoa Haire, rier So gota, erick and Laverne Richardson, Maurios igus eae? ahaa Baa Sits anit L, Biltewen wi pra Mahe eetanee atk ee Bening che ne Se nee ‘Aiweek'$t prayer ‘commencing Jamiary 3 ‘illsbe ‘fold unden the direction of; the ilevi Bs cRe ones ads Arsh 2lon igen iso pita resan ca toe wena Mand ‘Sted teary. Ba ged ihe’ Sisane oicta Lucan, Vivian. Gatton Undons Caldwell and Ain: Brousan at Sas renee daahe ot eee Rica inops AutKong! ieyapending ihe hoktdnya in Lauteviltg kyo Hae Daa All wan gunday "quest af Ste and” Séra” Bante Sime Pauline. Dlega ot" Syraciise. was ane etn het iaehy Suning the Cait ag bollaaya. 2 ee wiarysonta, A. A. T'S 1918; won, tie ‘prick elven by. chs, Arrow. the, ech Raper, or welung aoc’ entiued "A tise, Mabel Fieed and Mr Ray of Mar- ootes, Attended. ‘the Bily ‘Sunday, seOntine Sibyrmouse on Bungayy nny ‘rhe ‘regular monty, meeting, of 'the Mileulonery Sooty ayaw held ae the homme ore Ciarenee” Cannan. ‘The omeors Sing Heid. the offices last "yen" Ware re" Clected, aa follows: Mre. ©. 'G, Cannon, Sreidents Mra. Aired Pater, vice-presl Seat Mina All’ Glorart agcftary, Sirx ohn, Hanoile, 'netretary: “Mra. Clarence Btewart, tretauter “Atorthe business wer trinaacted "a: social hour was 'eh= Beat ‘ 7 ~ YVONKERS NY Png he gp tn gy Bho Zion ‘Church ‘Sunday services were, con Stiver, who preached Tho choir Tendl on of "rhe king ia Born evoked mul onthe, Sunday | ‘School In. ye, afternoon was ‘attended ‘with the ueual Tereat and ‘hunter. pits, Chzittmas exercics of! the Sunda ‘gphoot rit ke pitce ne the church Aisin" atfeet, “on Pnireday evening, ‘Be The! Stewardess Board of the Nes zion ‘churgh-eenerounly gemembared” th few. Str. Bryer, the, pastor, and, family With, two turkeys and ‘al the hecessarie fro'a Chrtetmaa “atnner ohn Ae Mogers, who bag been i hinchome. 20. Calver street, haw. improve Suinclently to return to buniness. » ‘Mrs Anna Johnson and Miss Srey J Epauerd “entertained at ainner (Mia Bis Garvie" Ryerson" and” Miaw™ ren Sumer’ W, Evans of White Plains wa fgcthe ty Visiting hia’ brother, C8 Piha’ Her. SEY Henderson, pastor 0 shiloh Baplst, Church, Newark, ‘NJ. Preschsd_at. the ewan Church orn ‘Ene following members, of Measia gnuren ‘are"gn® the sick “ust” Deacon $0 Wood’ piace, Feepectiverr: 3.7 Lam Bert Stra” A. rent and Stem, Wilson TERSEY CITY Nf. PETROS Savers eis eer man: toe Brooks, 100 Egé avenue, is convalescent. ‘Ag’ 4 ofclock. sChristmas morning Bethel A. M.'E. Church was the scene cof many worshippers that had conte out to enjoy the celebration of the birth of Christ” The Rev. A. L. Murray, pas- ton, preached “irom” Numbers g241 theme “Prophesy.” Music was. fur- nished by the Senior Choir. An infant Else Wheaton, was baptized. Sunday morning the. pastor preached from St Luke 27. Text, "There ‘was no. root for them in the Inn” ‘The Sunday School was largely attended. A splen- ‘aid program’was presented at the Allen CE. In the evening the Rev. H, Ivery delivered a sermonette, after which the Senior Cheir rendered a cantata .en- titled, “Prophesy.” Dr, W._H. Beck, superintendent of Bethel A. M.E. Sunday School. and his corps of teachers entertained the schol Sts Monday evening. After the: litte ones had rendered thelr exercises, they were fed ‘tothe lecture’ room. where Santa Claus presided in the midst_of two. beautifully decorated. trees and profusion of presents. 3 Services at Bethel for Friday. Decent ber 31—Watch meeting: sermon, Evan- gelist Nora F. Taylor. Sunday, January Monthly commiinion services: 6 3 im, Allen C. E. Sunrise. prayer weet Ings Iasm, sermon by pastor; 2:3 p.m Sunday School; 4:30. p.m Al: fen. EE. address-by Evangelist Nora FE Taylor, ‘remainder of program by irs. Ethel Blse; 8p. m,. sermon :by Evangelist Nora F. Tavlor. . ‘Miss Rosell Lee of New. York“and Jesse Johnson of Scotch Plains were i the city, Sunday and. worshipped a Bethel. : Mrs) Edna Kelly, 671 Comunipaw avenus, is. spending the holidays wit felatives and friends in Baltimore, Md. and will remain there for a few weeks. ‘St Mark's A. ME Zion Church Monmouth street, between 7th and 8t streets, ‘The Rev, J. Me Haggard, pas tors residence, 63 Vroom street. Phone Bergen. 287R, : Wits, Ray Frazier, one of St, Mark's alto singers. was called. suddepiy hom fon account of the death of Her sister Sirs: Cassie Osborne, assistant chorister is quite il,_ The children of the organ ist! Mrs. S, McCants, are quite sick Bresiding Elder Coffey. though still in disposed, is improving. ‘Phe Sabbath School held their Christ mas exercises last Tuesday evening Riter ‘an interesting program present were, distbuted "and refreshment ferved to children, ne ‘Watch meeting services Friday’ even ing after the sermon, Meeting will bs conducted by varfous auxiliaries of th church, ; “The Rev. Florence Randolph is ex pected to bold a series of meetings fo wo, weeks beginning January 3. ‘The ‘pastor, received a bounteou Christmas, basket from his members. |“"Me, and Mrs, Walter C. Quing. Sr. enterained-a. family party on. Christ Jimas day, which included seven children Jive ‘grandchildren, two -daughters-in Jin, nd ong sominlaw.. Other ce tives were Mn and Mrs’ S. 1, Cole | Mrz. Rebeca Jashson and the Mist ste, | “Sir. and Mrs, George Morzis, Mr. ané | Mex: E. Quinn, Mrs. S.T. Cole anc | iss W. Quinn motored to “Tarcy town Wednesday evening to attend th | wedding of Miss Sara fames and Mr John Mitchie. | °Me.'and Mrs. 1. D. Jimes_(Blanch: | © Quinn), and children of Tarrytown | xed few days. wilh Mr, and Mr 1). C. Quien, St and family., | iiss Dorothy A. Quinn of Plainfel hasbeen visting Ber grandparents an | was also ‘the guest of Mines Jeannet and Eleanor Cole. _TEAINEIELD, N. J, Puatnrm, N, J—Mrs, Gordori, Fil- ‘more avenue, after a visit with relatives and-friendsat her old home; ‘Peters- ET ra OE a, Lee _ The Kind of Hair You Want." 7 | = ee ae ete wee et. aaa ° «Is the kind that keeps stnooth:and.kéeps 7. *F}} ve + e ge Rake ee ts weer BRET SLSR » .j' growing; arid to keep-growing the roots», SS" Sale ‘> "> must. be. properly nourished —otherwisé, '. _[':@: * they “diy up. - ene Dt ens Lo? RR Bite IR ce, tani “eR Po _.” wets Rae PRR OE . A} XG: el : j WI SR ON: aa \ HAIR TONIC -¥/. es “keeps the little hair. sacs from drying up... * “a Re ot \\ . * is'an excellent remedy for dandruff. ~ “ap Ce | DA Don’t soak yourself with a lot of so-called: Ky el ee hair restorers, Use VASELINE HAIR Ys |: eee] Ge TONIC, known everywhere for its pur- F SNA ity and the-results it brings. : A fYo.§ eee] IN In 25€ and 50c boules at druganddeparmentstores. Pf. meee? | kan \ B, ~ Mlomrated booklet on’ “Vaieie"” prodvets mailed free on, g . : a] | he = ee : ig / (a Hoek CHESEBROUGH MANUFACTURING CO. + HT BS i re : an eS f, fgg iS dA AN A | AY Sate Set Depts G, Now York @) = es. A fe, ee 5 > ce On [Less Mer= SG , , (7 ae. burg, Va. has returned. ‘Mr. Reid's birthday party Christmas Eve was-held at the home and Sr. and Mrs. Cary, Filmore avenue, and was well attended. Joe Madoza and wife, from New York, were guests. H. and~R. Fields, of Summervill, N. J. nephews of Mrs. W. H. Jones, i-ast Third street, are the holiday guests jof their aunt. ‘Mr. and Mrs. Williams, East Third sureet, are happy parents,’ made so. by the government releasing their little son who recently arrived from the West Indies and was technically held by the authorities, es Young vamnen Williams is home from the City College of New York for the holidays with his parents and will speak at the Emancipation exercises to “be held ie Benet ‘Chapel Saturday even- ing, January I. . Miss Eva Williams, West Third street, after a three-weeks" visit with her aunt Mrs, Cannon, South 19th street, New: jack, N. J.. has returned, Members of Mount Zion A. M. E Church, West 4th street, the Rev. J. P, W, Colier pastor, on Christmas Day jand Sunday, December 26, made. the ‘church a Christmas present of $100 aside from the regular collection o more than. $23, Mrs, S. Vanburen, of Smith's Land ing, Pleasantville, N. Y., is among. the visitors here during the holidays, the guest of her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. EB. Maynard, North’ avenue. Mrs, B. B. Bailey, Plainfield ‘avenue left to spend the holidays with relative and friends in Philadelphia, Pa, and Washington, D.C The funeral of Jas. R. Carnett was held at Shilo Baptist, West th street Thursday, December 23, at 35. m. The /Rev. Mr. Roberts, pastor, officiated. The deceased was a thirty-second degre Mason, member of Stone Square Lodge Quite "a large number of. member: turned out in full regalia‘and carrie yout the ritualistic demands of the order Tnterment was in Hillside Cersetery. The Rev. Wm. E. Jefferson, lecturer of Winchester, Va, who manifests z deep interest in the Methodist churche: land Sabbath schools, is here, the gues ef Mics. Height, Painield avenue ala |his wife. : Miss Dorothy Thornton, Plainfiek Javenue, has relurned. rom a few days x: with: her father in East Orange ‘Mrs. R. Lewis, Spooner avenué, afte lewo weeks! illness with Tagrippe, is con | valescing. : airy | Mrs. Walte? Ford, Berckman street |who nursed her little daughter Hate through her attack of lagrippe and aft lerwards was stricken with the same |fias recovered sufficiestly to be aroun [her ‘rooms, | “Miss "Marjorie "Verable, West _3¢ Jstreet left to Spend Christmas week wit |her /friend, Miss: Lorena Johnson, o eRe’ Rep Scruggs, Ber | ie aay iS ian street Jireached at the Woodbridge Baptis |Church Sunday, December 25. | Mrs. Johnson, Plainfield avenue, afte Ja long visit with relatives and frjend in Gatesville, N. C, has returned.» ‘The Nerabie brothers, Arthur and a ma, made a fiying business trip to 1 | De sen vila ist’ Y Sunday ‘eve |. At Shilo Baptist Church’ Sunday ‘even erts preached a special sermon oa tht Shee “Proper Use of Religion.” Miss | Tempie | Burgess, Berclama street, has returned ‘after’ a. short "ab Pleasant stay with, her friend, Mis Wootson, Springtield avenue, of New ark, at whose side she stood’ as brides maid, when the nuptial knot was tied Mrs. Wm, Burton, Berckman strect will spend the holidays accompanied by her-daughters, Hellen and Dorothy wit Ms, Bridgeford, Wood sireet, Trenton Mrs. Scruggs, Sr.St. Marys avenut is spending a few days with her daugh ter, Mrs. Cabbell, of Brooklyn, N.Y. ‘The funeral of Mrs. C Manning, wi dow of the late Jas, Manning, ‘wes 4th. street. was held Monday afternoon December 27, at 2:30 p.m, at Mt Olive Church’ The Rev. EE Jackson ex-pastor of Mt Olive, officiated, as sisted by the Revs. E. W. Roberts, Mr Bailey, ‘of Elizabeth, Mr. Crowns’ an Mr. Johnson, who is preaching for th Rex. Mr. Vanghair. Mrs, Elizabeth Hobson, of Montclair Ni Ju, is the guest of her son and hi wife, Dr. C. G. Hobson, West 4th street Mrs. C."G. Hobson’ left for a fex days to visit with her sister in Spring field, Mass. ‘Mrs. FD. Durrah, Plainfield ave tue, has a slight attack of lagrippe. Leave your orders, advertisements news items, etc, at the agent and cor respondent. Headquarters, 325 Plain field avenue. (a . NEWARK NI Newark, N, J.—At the annual com- munication of Alpha Lodge No. H6, F and A. M., which was held Wednes- day, December 12, in their lodge rooms 481" Broad street, the following officer: were elected for the ensuing year: Worshipful master, Joseph H. E. Scot- fand; senior warden, Charles L. Nevins; junior’ warden, Stephen T. Brooks; treasurer, Past Master Emanuel Jack- soni secretary, Past Master Louis A ears: proxy to Grand Lodge, Willian H. Vanblake, ‘Ses trustee for. thre years, Past Master Edward S. Lynch The elected officers were installed by Past Master Louis A. Sears, who also Presided at the installation of the ap- ointed officers named by the ‘newly elected master. The appointments were as, follows: Chaplain, Paster Master William 1. Clawson; senior deason William H. Smith; junior deacon, Ster- ling Hinton; senior master of cere- ‘monies, Henry Wentworth; juniot mas- ter of cretion George E Sherer eward, John W; Dias; mahal Pore steward, Joha W. Dias; F. Tembrook; organist, John P. OTF ake tyler, William Jones. : Newaax, N; J—Miss Olivia Taylor 68 Warren street, entertained at-din per on Crista night Miss Margare Sutton, of 420: West .524 street, New York,’ Lillian Scotland, Wilbam "Shell sad Viola Harold, of Newark, N. J. iss Lois’ Lathrop [Woodson to". ‘Curtis Colston wal the Bethany Baptist Church, the Rev. R D. Wynn offciating. ‘The bride ‘wor a gown of ivory sathi and tulle. vel ‘The maid of booor, Miss Haloe Wood Srotaded ant, "gold"siopert cued Se satin, gold si and : pic ture‘hat to match, “The bridesteasd Misses Tempe Burgess and Clara Car J of; Plainfield, . Stella -Sentt “af “Mow Ad Not 3575220) clair, Viola Vander Vere, Anna Mo- of net over silk or satin and pictere ats. Mr. Thornbill was best maa. Escorts were William ‘Thobbs, Plato Woodson, a brother of the bride; Sampel Baugh, William Bowen, George Taylor and Leroy Slocum. Little Misses Mildred .Morris was flower girl, and Reta Sutherland was ring bearer. ‘Mrs, Casselena McRory and daughter, Miss Anna McRory, were guests of their aunt, Mrs. M. Lowry, East 10lst street, New York, Christmas day. Miss Haloe Woodson entertained at her residence Sunday evening, Miss An- na MeRors, Messrs. R. Webl, R, Haw- thome of Montclair and E. Oiphin. Miss Adelaide Richardson will en- tertain at her residence, 7 King street, New Years frpm 7 to 12. . Mr. and Mrs. A.C. Coleston will be gt home at their’ residence, 116 For- est street, Montclair, N. J, Tuesday, January 11, from 4 to 11. Those who will assist in receiving will be Mme. Louise Woodson, Misses -Haloe Wood- son, Anna McRory, Sara Allen, Viola Vander Vere. Stella Scott, Clara Caty and Sempie Burgess. NEW BRUNSWICK. N. I. New. Brunswick, N, J—-Mr. and Mrs. Alfred* Mason of “Philadelphia spent the week-end with Mrs, L, Ma- son, Lee avenue. "as aie nee ‘Mr. Hauston and family and Mis8 Bertha Ceamie left Wednesday tp spend the winger in the South. Miss Clough. Handy street. spent her Xmas vacation with relatives in Philadelphia. L J..E. Moody, Delevan street, spent Christmas with Miss Ida Goodwyn of Pleasantville, No J. |_Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Moody of Fair- haven, N. J4 were the Sunday guests of Mrs. L” Moody, Delevan street. | Messrs. Lord and C. Ivy spent ‘Christmas in New York City, "A large audience listened to_the sermon preached by the Rey. Paul ‘Hayne, pastor of the Livingston Avenoe Baptist Church, at the Eben: ‘ezer Baptist Chorch, Christmas morn- ing. The pastor of the church, the Rev: E. Elias ackéon also spoke.’ On Sunday night cach member of the church received a present from the pastor. SOUTH ORANGE. N. Seats Grenee I. I Teee Sarorte. Visadle éf-Piainfielé, N. J. spent part Uertne boliaays: with her drteuas here, ‘Om Bungay Ming Vials Jordan eater! talbed’ Mine Venstie and iene At te Those present wers: the ‘Misses ,- La ‘Rema Johnson ‘of Hilton, Merica Fos- ferrcinonny. Henderson’ "and" Hartiet Socoan Measey" Sse Venable wes et'Puncheen-erc hiss Ex Mame Younes Fowttome IAwitton. Guews tainted c. Miswes ‘Viola Jordan "and seston Feotar'oft South, Orange’ Eieen ane | Vera Childe, Jans Ruseell, Fanny Fin- Nmevie party ad on Weasentay evening oven fhe bid er frends Taner? She’ wil Fecerate Piainaeed ad” on ‘Savarday wit leave ‘for Jamaica. N.Y. Brand ‘rs. Aled: ¥. Hoover, 108 Bickery: street,:.Orange,..N. J. .an- Ieomnoed. the’ apeageront’ of” thel |Ganghter, Miss eg ‘Reeves, ‘to (Qrmmend Oncar Burn of Oranne he weeting will take” place the Iattet: part of January. " =F eae. xb xe - er a e . . - .. a iam ME we om a oe yoke Qe _ op, . 2 + s ox =<wemie os ee eee ES SRE erat eee : Ee ie y AsSehare + SSSA aoe acm Ags User ge one orm x _ et 7 SNe Seeminiil penaiees - veel. Penney crass Sense Re peter te sere Auer Yh DRE. 90, AON ee ras oath — 5 nee OMe. at Naw, York i eo eed Water ta Phe Teeabaa, Mt ce 2Wamw BR. Moons: :1.....,-Publleher and Kalter “kaerme A. Watton,” epee)” Mataging and Dramatic Editor ‘Lverme H. 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THE AGE presents its com- pliments and wishes its friends and large corps of readers a Happy and Prosperous New, Year. | fHE AGE'S BIG CIRCULA LATION CAMPAIGN. The Age is soon to inaugurate a great circulation campaign, the greatest ever conducted in the history of Negro journalism. The Age realizes that there is a great and growing field for a great Ne- gro newspaper, and among the “niaiiy progressive steps to be taken by this publication during the year of 1916, the first will be to increase its circulation to 100,- 000. Taking into consideration the present good-sized circulation of The Age and the fact that it is more widely read and is sent to more different parts of the world than any other colored newspaper published, we do not think our plans to increase its circulation to 100,000 copies weekly is an idle dream. . The feature’ of the circulation campaign will be that articles of value will be given free to-all who become personally interested in boosting the circulation of The Age. Just what the articles are and how they may be secured free will be told-in another issue. However, it can be said at this writing that the things to be given away during this campaign ex- traordinary have been carefully selected from hundreds of arti- cles, and «will be yery useful as well as valuable, The Age cannot be accused of immodesty when it makes the statement that it enjoys the repu- tation of being the most influen- tial of all Negro publications. Commencing with the first of the year it is going to make an honest and energetic effort to become one of the leading weeklies of this country, not the leading Negro weekly. 30 watch for further information about the big circu, lation campaign, for it is bound to excite your interest, be you a subscriber or non-subscriber. For months past the New York American has been covering its editorial page with articles printed in bold type, in which it calls upon the United States to perform its duty and stop the war. This effort on the part of the American to stop the war does not appear to be prompted so much by a desire for peace as it is by some vague and ominous fear that a continuation of hostilities will result even tually in the overthrow of the white race. In its mind the American pictures Japan and China and India and, perhaps, Africa, as watch- fully waiting until the warring countries exhaust themselves, when they will jump in and do to the white nations of Europe just what these white nations have becn doing to them. Listen to the following wail clipped from a recent article: ‘There Will Come an End Some Day to Europe's Bloody jusiness, Husiist Side Will Be Exhausted Before VERY Long. Both Sides Perhaps Will Discover Simultaneously That Their Sup- plies of Blood and Money Are Drained—Then Peace of Some Kind MUST COME, Before Peace, and After Peace, There Will Be Much ‘Talk: of Brotherly Love and the End of Armament. Old Ladies and Gentlemen, Very Young People, and Cripples—Not Killed—Will See a Rosy Future Free from War. BUT LET THEM REMEMBER ASIA AND LOOK OUT FOR ASIA. While the Whites Have Been Butchering Each Other Asia Has Been Waiting and Grinning. Behind the Fatalistic Buddha Stands the Modern Japa- nese with Knowledge of War and Cunning to Lead the Asiatic Hundreds of Millions. LOOK OUT FOR HIM! ‘This is nothing more or less than a nightmare, a nightmare resulting from guilty conscience. Why should the white races of Europe fear the darker races to the east and south of them except for the fact that they know deep down in their hearts how unjustly they have dealt with their darker brethren? What reason would there be for such misgivings if these white races did not feel that. according to their own code of ethics, these dark races, once possess- irig the power, would érush and hold them in a position of inferior- ity? It is simply the question of a thief believing that everybody else will steal, 4 . Listen again and hear the editor of the American rave: Eventually, white intelligence, the Hitle of it that this war may leave, will undoubtedly rule the earth and come into itg own again. oo But it is quite possible that the immediate result of this wae, the actial ending of the battle begun by vicious, jealous avaricious rulers, will be a vast Asiatic conquest, 2 period of darkness and of misery over Europe and the whole world sa succession of centuries more miserable than the Dark - Ages; thése.European Middle Ages-of superstition black as ; night, followifg upon the conquest of barbarlans from the north wiping out tke,civilization of Greece and Rome. THE NEGRO HOUSING PRORLEM. An article in the New York “Times” gives a report of a series of conferences betwéen represen- tatives of the A@visory Council ‘of Real°Estate interests, the City and Suburban Homes Company, the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, and the Property Owners’ Improve- ment Corporation, on the question of providing proper housing con- ditions for colored people in New York City. ‘ These conferences appear to have covered many, points. The questions of cost of rent, crowd- ing, and lodgers, and the possibil- ity of the erection of a Mills Hotel were discussed. r Of course, many of the prob- lems arising out of conditions among colored people living in New York, especially ini the crowded Harlem section, will have to gradually adjust them- selves; yet, there are others that can be remedied by the proper kind of assistance. The one greatest evil is the compulsory mixing of the good and bad elements of the race; any- thing done to mitigate this evil would be a blessing. However, it Seems to be the most difficult of all¢o handle. +. Ene eavibigrins Cl Crees Cae ee ee theve very. Germans’ aiid ‘Frenchmen and Belgians and Englishmen whom he considers as the dnly:salvation of humanity?-““And does he nbt also know :that the vivilization. which they wiped ‘out had: bees passed. onto. Greece -and.Rome:by: still-darker peoples? 2°. (."- - * 1 i . " Let the editor of the American calm his soul and understand that the white race as not always “ruled the earth,” and will rot continue to do so in the way in which it has for the past few centuries, Let him remember that the earth rolled’ along for many thousands of years without the direction of the white, races, Let him net forget that when these same white races were covered with hair and grunt- ng in their caves while gnawing on a raw bone, the darker races were giving the impulse which was to lift man above the beast; that they were laying the foundations of the arts and sciences which the white races now sq boistfully claim as their own. After reading the ravings in the above paragraphs, we need not be astonished at the ridiculousness of the following: si Fortunately for us of North and South America, we make up a world by ourselves, a world of white men and white civilization, 3 North and South America do not make up a world of white men. The great majority ot the people of Mexico, and of South and Cen- tral America are not white. What is more, these people know that the United States does not regard or treat them,as white, and this they deeply resent. If the editor of the Amerftan is looking for friendly feeling toward the United States, he would do better to look to Japan. There is a very simple remedy for the Hearst nightmare; if the editor of the American wishes to help avoid the dreadful things he is picturing in his fevered brain, let him spread through his great paper the doctrine of justice to all men, whether they be black or. white, yellow or brown. WATCHING THE-WHITE MAN PLAY. BOSE SCAGEES Wilh NAVE LHC SCOSS OF HUMOS (COUCHES DY & OATst reading of the following despatch. from Annapolis; bitt.if, they will read it .oversthoughtfully they will'find that it contains-an element of pathos. ‘Some readers may ‘not be able to see the pathetic, be- cause of the fact that at their closest point pathos and humor merge linto. each other, yet from that point there is a constant divergence until they are as far ppart as the poles. For example, what is ow first impulse when we see a man‘slip up on a banana. peel or an.icy pavement? ‘Why to laugh, of course; but if he lies there still and unable to move on account of a broken arm or a fractured skull, all. that is humorous in the situation immediately vanishes, and the tender emotions of the heart at once come into play. So,miuch for the psychology of the question; let us get to the Annapolis despatch : HAZING PARTY GETS HAZING. New Waiter at Naval Academy Upsets System. Annapolis, Md., Dec. 21-—In imitation of Naval Academy students, Negro waiters who serve the cadets recently estab- lished a ‘system of hazing for new recruits to their-ranks, Such’a recruit arrived to-day from, Virginia, The hazers got busy, but their subject objected. Three of the imitators were badly whipped and the others driven off, with a pistol. Certainly it is laughable to picture a band of hazers being turned upon by the “hazée” and licked to a frazzle. A sight of the intended victim chasing his would-be persecuters around and aroand the chamber of horrors would surely bring from us roars of laugh- ter. Where-then does the pathetic clement come in? The pathetic clement can be discovered in the first paragraph of the quoted des- patch, which reads as follows: “In imitation of Naval Academy students, Negro waiters who serve the cadets recently established a system of hazing for new recruits to their ranks.” Now, if you are thoughtful, you Will be struck by this question—“Can’t the colored waiters at the Naval Academy find something better in which to imi- tate the cadets than the silly and ofttimes brutal practice of hazing?” Perhaps some one will think that the writer is a little hard on the waiters; the writer has no intention of being so; he makes due allowance for the fact that it is as natural for young colored fellows to indulge in pranks as it is for young white fellows. But that is not the point. The point is this, the relations between the colored wait: ers and the white cadets is such that the waiters have only small opportunity ‘of observing the cadets applying themselves to their work; they see more of them during hours of relaxation and recre- lation; and so, the impression which the colored men gain of life at the Naval Academy is one of frivolity rather than hard, earrfest work, If such a relationship was limited to the Naval Academy, it would be a matter of no importance. But we have taken the Annap- olis waiters only as a text. This relationship is very «general.| Thousands and thousands of our brightest young men, during their working hours, are engaged in wafching the white man play; and in their leisure hours are engaged in giving an imitation of the white man at play. And there is where the pathos comes in. A very large number of our most promising young men get the:r start in life through some occupation which throws them in contact with the white man when he is taking his pleasures. They see him dining and wining, dancing and gaming, lolling and loafing; most of them fail to understand that this generally means merely a brief relaxation for men who work like slaves; they have full oppor- tunity to see how the white man spends his money, but none to see how he earns it; so, it is easy for them to gain the idea that life means pleasure. ‘ Who has not witnessed the effects of this? W'ho has not often seen colored men who are employed in hotels or club houses or as valets spending from their few dollars in just the same manner as the men whom they serve spend from their hundreds of thousands or their millions? Isn’t that a pathetic sight? The employment which brings so many of us in contact with the white man at play is all right in itself; it is honest and often quite profitable; the danger lies in the great temptation to imitate him only in the things at which he plays. This temptation would be offset if there were equal opportunities to see him at work, to observe him in his factories and big business institutions, but there are not. In a word, we are, for the greater part, still in the position of working for the white man and not with him. Nevertheless, as natural and alluring as it is for those who are thrown into this relationship to copy what is ephemeral rather than what is solid, they are not to be excused. They, and not only they, put the whole race, must realize that the most essential thing before us in this country is to learn the methods by which the white man accomplishes his work, and not the manner in which he takes his play. A HEARST NIGHTMARE. For months past the New York American has been covering SUPPORT RACE’ENTER- : PRISES. As new resolutions are now in order, The Age suggests that the Negroes of Harlem collectively resolve to support all enterprises conducted by members of the race more loyally during the in- coming year than in 1915." No place in this world is so pregnant with alluring prospects for busi- ness projects conducted and pat- ronized by Negroes, as in Harlem, where the nearly 50,000 colored people within a radius of ten blocks. The population of many towns about which we read daily (especially in the South), does rfot exceed 50,000, and yet they sup- port several large department stores, banks, grocery stores by. the score, bakeries, shoe stores, theatres, and many other business institutions too numerous to men- tion. In Hariem the colored peo- ple have the numbers and they have the money. They can make Harlem an object lesson—a com- munity to be pointed at with) pride by our white friends if we only will. Let us begin now to have pride and confidence in our- selves. A STRAW. The following éditorial_para- graph from the Florida “Times- Union” is significant: A prominent Floridian writes us: “I was an ardent + Wilson man, but now T have reformed.” ‘Well, the Times- Union is not sorry that it sup- ported Oscar Underwood for the head of the ticket. The “Times-Union” is one of the most influential papers-in-the South, and a straw in its editorial column shows which way the Southern Democratic winds are blowing. Here we have a prom- inent Floridian saying he is sorry that he suported Wilson, and the “Times-Union” saying it is glad it didn’t. If that much plain senti- ment against the present adminis- tration finds open expression in the editorial columns of a leading Southern Democratic paper, it is reasonable to conclude that a great deal more is being said in private conversation by Demo- crats all through the Solid South. If you wish to make your friends happy during the New Year present them with a sub- scription to THE NEW YORK ‘AGE, | GADANMON DA. Sranton, Pa—Christmas night the auditorium’ of Bethel Church, the Rev Geo, W. Williams, pastor, was crowde¢ to the doors to hear the Christmas ex- exercises of the Sunday School, The committee of young ladies ware “Misses Elsie Tinker, Ethel Foster, Hildo Car- ter, pianist, ‘and Amy Dorsey, direct: ress, The opening and closing chorus consisted of the following: Misses Ne na Smith, Ethel Foster, Emily Grandy, Mearita ‘McCloe, Mary Smith, Elste Tinker, soprano; Viola Foster, Helen Jefferson and ‘Amy Dorsey, altos; Messrs, Homer.Dawson and Harry Pla ee tenors; Servy and Walter Plater, ass, ‘Mr. and Mrs. Robert Tinker and fam- ily difed Sunday ‘vith Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Tinker. > ‘Mr, and Mrs, Hewes entertained Mr. and Mrs. Naylor, of Montrose at noon dinner Sunday. ~ Mr, and Mrs. B, Naylor, of Montrose, are vigting Mr, and Mrs. G. W. Brown, Robinson street. Mri. Brown is expect- ing to be discharged from the Evans Hospital this week. Mr. and Mrs. C, E. Morton have as their guests Miss Louise Williams, of Bellefonte, Pa,, sister to Mrs. Morton. Mr, and Mrs, L. E. Morton had as their guest to Sunday dinner’ Misses Louise Williams, honor guest, Amy Dorsey and Ashton Dorsey. The Rev..and Mrs, G. W. Williams were well ‘remembered on the Christ mas tree Christmas Eve at Bethel. J. Smith’ and wife spent Christmas Day in Wilkes-Barre with the former's brother and sister, Mrs. Johnson, Sr, and daughter-in- law, Mrs, Horace Johnson, dined with Mrs, J. Smith Sunday. Leon and Gilbert Patterson have pre- sented their mother with a handsome Victrola. Master Chas, Williams, who is at- tending Donningtown School, Pa., is spending his vacation at home with his parents, the Rev, and Mrs. G, W. Wil- liams. Mrs. C, E. Plater is still ailing with hér right’ arm and table to be out. READING. PA. ‘Street Presbyterian Sunday School held Street Presbyterian Sunday School held Christmas exercise. An hour later the Bethel A. M, E. Sunday School held exercises. Elaborate programs were rendered. : ‘Lhe Sunday-School of the Zion Bap- tist Church held Christmas | exercises Mondzy, December 27. The Rev. N. J. Wost was presented an umbrella. by the members of the Silver League Club, Sunday, December 26, the cholr of the W. St. P. C. rendered a contata It was’ splendidly presented. Mrs, Ida Mason, wife of Allen Ma- son, exalted ruler of the Lodge of Elks of Reading, left on a trip through Louisville, Ky., Dayton, O,, and Knox- ville, Tenn. : “Miss Matty Robertson, of West Ches- ter, spent Christmas in Reading, guest of'Mr and Mrs, Howard Nelson. Miss Susan Carrell, teacher in the public schools of Camden, N. J. is Spending Christmas week in_this city guest ofther sisters, Mrs. BP. Glascoc. Miss May Hawkens, ‘teacher in the schools of Woodbury, N. J., is spending Christmas week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Hawkens. At a recent mecting of the Lodge of. Elks of Reading, the officers for 1916 were elected. They are as follows: Howard Quash, exalted | ruler; Wiliam Yanex, efigenied -loyal kriight} Charles Reed: esteemed leading knight; Solomon Watson, esteemed lecturing knight; H. C. Nelson, secretary; Randolph Terry, treasurer; Alfen Mason, Harry Nelson and Edgar Still, trustees. Solomon Williams is confined to his frome, while William Smith is able to be about. “The Philadelphia Club gave a very success{ul dance at Leiderkruntz Hall, December 27. The auditoium was dec-| orated with laurels and mistletoe. Sev- eral hundred people crowded the hall. Music was furnished by the celebrated Watson Orchestra. Refreshments were! on sale. of BRADFORD, PA. Beaoronp, Pa.—The Rev. L. W, Jones, pastor of the A. M. & Church preached morning and evening. Mrs, Beulah Draper Trueman and son, of Detroit, Mich, was the guest of Mr’ and Mrs. Geo. Brown for several days, : Mrs. David Thornell, 52 Machanic street, received word that her son, C. E. L Riley, is detailed for service and will sail on June 5. . Mr. and Mrs Richard Wickfield, of Jamestown, N, Y., spent Christmas with Dr. and Mrs, A. J. Enty. Dr. Enty enteriained Mr. and Mrs. Withs Ragland, Miss Ada Jordan, Mrs Sarah Mitchell, Mrs. Allie Burgress and Mr. Geo. Hogelard Christmas. Pop Edwards spent Christmas in Pittsburg. oe ; ‘James Edward is visiting Dr. “Enty. Geo. B, Kean will entertain New Years from 5 to 9 in honor of Mr, and Mrs, Earnest Holliday. PASTON PA. Easton, Pa—Dr. A. Shockloy filed tho pulpit at the Union A. M. E. Church last Sunday evening and de- livered an able discourse on the birth of Christ. The pastor, the Rev. J. W. Thomas, preached In Lima, N. J. Mrs, Aaron Good was visited by Mrs. Mary Wheeling of Gettysburg, mother $f Earl Geyser, her son-in-law. ‘Mra, Jos. Hortman of Phillipsburg, N. J., is suffering with inflammatory choumatiem, Chandler Tucker spent Christman # Bridgeton, N. J., visiting his family. Stephen Good of Philndelphia spent Christmas visiting his parents. Mrs. Jos. Hortman had received for a Christmas rift a large box contain- ing a latge wrkey and other tonthrome victuals from her brother {n Virginia. ‘The fourth annual ball will bo held at Heptasoph Hall Thuradny evening, January 6, 1916, under the sudpices of. Northampton Temple, No. 62. ‘Mra. Stella Hall, D. A. and Mis, Mary Bur- “TY CRISTO A: ye Oe eae Cae ea ard etrest ote fist, EO et ea ‘ . Migs -Heleri‘ Carter, of: Dettolt: ‘Mich, pent the holiday with: her, aunt; Mrs, RiatiesDavise McK 5 atreet Geo, Martin’ is: visiting’ relatives ‘in Salem, ‘Va, where he had ngt_ been for twenty-one years, * et “All the churcties held Christmas serv- ces Saturday. Oe a see Mrs. Mary Mackey, wife of Robert Mackey, died Thursday after an illness of two years. She was a resident_of this city for over three years.’ She was the daughter of Samuel Marry, of Bowling, Ky. The body was taken to Kentueky, where her mother, son, broth- er and sister live, Mr, and Mrs, Miller, of New Castle, Pa, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Boggess, ig ‘Jolin H. Moore, E. Commerce’ street, ‘is'on the sick list, “Mewagd Mrs. James Saunders, “Bog- 43 street,.are rejoicing It's a girl C. H. Jenkins, Oak’ Hill avenue, is ‘ible to be out after three days’ illness. Mr, and Mrs. dward Proctor and son, of Ravenna, spent Christmas with their son, Anthony, and Dr. Simpson, Chal- mers avenue, jdits. James Baker, Myrtle avenue, is sie ‘ Mrs. Judith Burton, North avenue, is confined toPher home’ with illness. Buckeye Lodge of Elks No, 72, will fneet in regular session Thursday éyen- ing, January 6, ‘Mrs. Anna Hudson, of Ridge street, who has been ill, continues the same. Joe Bobson is laid up with rheu- matism. Mrs, Edward Williams, North avenue, is visiting her sick husband in Findlay. Mrs. Queen Robinson spent a few days in Oberling, Ohio. . ‘The funeral of Mrs. Mabel Lightfoot, who died Thursday, leaving a husband, Samuel Lightfoot and mother, Mrs. Gil- more, was held Sunday. * Mrs. J. J. Jefferson, Burke street, Mrs. 'W. B. Harper, ‘Garfield street, and H. G. Emerson are on the sick list, Logan Lodge No. 4, K. of P., will meet in regular session Thursday even- ing, January 13. The bazaar at the Oak Hill Avenue A.M. E. Church, Thursday and Friday, was a grand success, Mrs. John Gales, Mahoning avenue, is the guest of relatives in Virginia. Charles Davis, McKinnie street; was in Bellair, O., to the funeral of his unde, Frank ‘Dade. Mrs. Queen Robinson entertained the membe‘s of the Elite Club Monday evening. Mrs. Orange Parson, West_Federal street, and Mrs. Sarah Clark, Clevefand street. are on the sick list, Miss Ethel Heyward and Mra. C. Jackson entertained at Dinner Sunday Mr, and Mrs. J. H. Parker, Jane Shaw and W. Frahkiin. ~ KEYSER, W. VA. Keyser, Va—The 5 o'clock prayer meeting Christmas mornig was well at- tended. “There were two converts Preaching at 11 o'clock and Christmas Tree at 7:45 p_m. . Mrs. Jennie Stewart left fast Wed- nesday for Piedmont, W. Va. Mrs Carrie Parks, of Cincinnati, is visiting her mother, S. Main street. Burns Smith, of Morefiest, W. Va.. is visiting Mr. and Mrs, Walter Bartlett Water: street. Wade Brown, of Piedmont. W. Va. yas the guest of Miss Anna Rolls Sun- ay. ‘Mrs. Hattie Saunders and Mrs. Hattie Bartlett_were guests of Mr. and Mrs J. W. Streets Sunday, Mrs. Harry Mason and little Cather- ine were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Birton Roll Sunday. F, M. Marshall was in Cumberland, Md! Sunday, visiting his people. PROVIDENCE, R. I. Provmoence, R. T—The churches are looking forward to Watchmeeting._ The Rev, S. W Smith, pastor of the Cong~ don’ Street Baptist Church, and family wish to thank their many’ friends for their_kind remembrances. Many out-of-town folk spent Christ- mas in the city with their friends, bits JH. Wiley was in Boston Mfon- ay. The Young people are looking for- ward to the New Year's ball, PORTSMOUTH. N. H. _, PORTSMOUTH, N. H.—The San- day School of the. People's Baptist “Church held a Christmas tree and con- cert in the vestry on Christmas night ‘There was a large attendance. The tree was laden with gifts. Supcrinten- dent H. B. Burton was presented a 1916 model Syracuse bicycle in honor of his twenty vears of faithful service. ‘The Rev. John L. Davis is confined to the parsonage of the People’s Bap- tist Church by illness. His pulpit was supplied last Sunday by the Rev. W. P. Israel, John L. Davis, Jr. is visiting his father, the Rev. John 'L, Davis, at the parsonage. Hanover street. The annual celebration of the Eman- cipation Proclamation will Ue held at the People’s Baptist’ Church, Pearl street, Monday night, January 3. Mrs. Butler R. Wilson, of Boston, Mass. will be the principal speakers, ATLANTA, GA. Amtanta, Ga—The Atlanta Univer- sity is sending out free to all parts of the South travelling libraries of fifty volumes each, more than a thousand books in all.” These libraries may be had upon request for a certain period and then they may be exchanged for new sets of books. > Many will be especially interested to know ‘that copies of the book ‘The Education of the Netro Prior to 1861,” by Dr. C. G. Woodson, isin the set 1¢ author is one of the three Negroes in the United States to gain a doctorate in philosophy from Harvard University | “Was. thé public dinner you went to a) success?” ._."}t-wam the best dinner T ever attended. ‘very speaker who wan down (orn snecch on the program had tonallitia.”——Tit-Blts, Groon—What Is a nense of humor? Rrown—A renee. of humor in that which makes you laugh at pomething that hap- hens to nomebody else which would make you angry IC tt happened to your—Tit- nee, A rotermenet aaa Steele, me Pee 2 ved "OTH CLOSING YEAR. mane St ee ules ag mong “NG Naty court /efqhonor mourns té! No. “Littl pereaat bie irs. ‘Thee to te! ‘Thou must embark du Time's eternal. Wut ose frtendsto bear ‘Thee cont; wpany.” ; Soon wilt Thou join the long forxottes: Searet 5 And" Write upon that ancient myetie’ ‘terol ‘Thy IE's events, with al te ete, tal ‘Tis Wiakneasee and errors of tho pout Shall’ ait be. plelnly weytten “upon Sit: pertect roll 7 " No one,can say that Thou haat been uns’ indy 3 gq Qt meted not to him a Just, requite. Sorrow and” greta are mitasires of" tn) roy 3 WHEN ear the soul! to a alpremee! Whores dustice relgis upon Ws throne) of Right a Thy ty wast left open unto me, “SM Bigeye Yh P Wee a Though beat, : ‘But wheo’ the ‘chastoning came T turned 2 "Thee, 3 Forlorn ind weary, with a heart ae, 20d, And. offered unto Thee a penitent, souta: request. ee Aa Thou dost leave mo I behold the sing: "Thal 1" Commaiteed ia ERY trealsae Must Fit acck at énce that which be.’ TTe.ake my feeble soul healthful ant’ sai Leaf faith and courage fall, lest new ame bitions “wane? Leave me aribition; not the pompoes iat fea the soul with polsonous fal- incles, Or Jkeeos, the, mind abundantly soppted | ith iaie thote that sit And denies than to Reeuat wugee oes Give" me ambition that will cower the In" wWsoever guise it night a Z And Power to sing each Gay the awed Which drives trom out one's heart alt: dread ‘and fear, ; As shall cross tho threshold of the com: ing Your. T Jook far out opon Iife's pregnant saa, My teebie aight in peering Csrough ts dark: nd Time lowers His curtain of subdir ‘Apa Rider Fromme exch speeding htt Which hastens on at ‘Thy command fis predeatingd cmark _ o, The, sacred “chimes the mourful bugte'e Echo’ azing reautem for Thee, : Pah, iat Te would ReaireenSee tM But Atutne Bust te Sead, and’ Tase Be THORTON HASKELL BS net ORTO KELLEY. LET US LAUGH Dams, in endeavoring to shake off the reputation (Se rustieltse hug formed ‘am ERnticaine™soctety. 4 ‘Tho chaps that fashion rural plays mg’ © Galore find typea of hicks and jaye 2 OF Bumpkine, boots on rustic fubes ‘Amonit the Raneas ‘burdock - ‘The Kansans all know. ‘bow ty” write 9a ‘Nell ao, William Allen Whiter = And they eebate aftairs of vias , “Ma Well as Victor Atuedocke 2 In Kansas, hardly any one would every say. “Daven an done: ‘The folks would faint Ia you sald “Atnt® ‘Along: the classic Kaye ; ‘The hired ‘man who miss tho cow and acta ab pilot of the plow Hae" learned” to. think “ike ‘Staeterlineke ‘And talk lke Bernard Shaw: . Although from Oregon to Maine the people ‘talk the language plain ; And-aay, “it's me and “Tes, I be ‘Around the stores and daities,, The’ people ‘of the plaing ‘have felt the ana PDR, of the cultare Delle nd’ Henry James, not Jesse Yainea, is worshipped on the prairies, Let Masnachusetts have a care, lat even; old. New York beware: The Sunflower State. thoueh starting’. e. a thouah Set Low and eke Lodge And though ‘Set. Low and Ga Bie ty “to work the BighSaee mint r Tyg hadsatrewn Say of yesterday give ‘em polnta In etters Ele New Fork Amettoam, Following are some replies received the ‘University of the State of New ork in examinations for Resentar certificates Among those who wrote the replies wens. candidates for teachers’ positions "for qualifications an Inw and: medieal witrenty and for admission to colleges, : ‘The chamols Is vatunble for tte fenth- , erg, the whale for'its Kerosene ‘oil The feminine wonder of friar ie tonm= reas, There were no Christians among the carly Gaulin” They were mosuy lyons Climate io caused by’ the emotion of the earth around the stn. Geometry teaches "Us how to. bleeet angela "The purpose of the akeleton—eomething to hitch ment to. ‘The skeleton ia hat ts lett after the insides have been taken out and the out nldea have ‘been taken off ‘A bilzzard iw the Inside. of a hen, ‘A yacutim ina Inrge empty space where the Tope tives. ‘A cirele {s\n round straight line with a hole Inthe rmiddte, inch ‘Cicero delivered his oration, he wana prefix. George Washington married Marthe rurtis and in due time became the father ot hig country. Sixty gallons make one hedgehor. ‘The stomach in Just south of the eibs, The alimentary canal te fosnted in the northern part of Indians Tho rosetta stone was a missionary te urkeye cre Doveinment of Rngland is a tim= ted mockery, : gegen ris founded ty poeple whi m executed, ‘A meuntain pave Is a pase given bythe milrond to its employes eo that thay cae end thelr vacation in, the mountatner Rrmountnin cane Ue a large cook ove, Tne qualifications of a votre aR sehoed eating. nro that Ne must be ie father ot child" for eight, weeks, ; Achiltes was dipped in the river Styx 0, make: him immorat ‘Gender shows whether man te feriintae, nanculing or neuter, Gravitation ‘Ie that 4f there were nome ve ahould “fy wwnye ‘The function ‘of the atomach te to hold in tho. petticoats. rhe atomnch forms « part of the Adame 2 ‘The frst Governor of Mamechuostts van Mr. Salem. Witchcraft. ; ‘When the British got_up In the morm- ng And saw thn Americate on the oh ito “hill ‘they ‘threw Up thelr” Break "Fompel Was destroxed by an eruption’ mpell was destroyed by an eruplion f'sallva from the Vationn. ay Avpeemancnt set of teeth, consiate of- > leht caninen, oluht euspiga, ‘two malate, ind. elt ‘cuapidora. © "Weapons of, ihe” Thian-—bow, arrow, - omannwi and war-hoop. ce, Viypbold fover Te prevented by fhactna lon j New ‘Yor Amertoia: - WASHINGTON, N.Y., DECEMBER 10, 1918 AT THE LATE DEW, WASHINGTON. (BY FRANK P. CHISHOLM) He taught mine, and for the past ten years have been officially identified with the work of this institution. It does not become me, therefore, to attempt an estimate of the services of my lamented chief, my race and to the nation. My purpose is to help one of my own personal reminiscences of our dead hero. I first heard of my late chiefinan in 1906 when I was almost ready to graduate from the grammar school at my home, Savanah, Ga. While trying to decide the question as to what I would do after graduating, I read the famous speech of Dr. Washington, which hadattered to me the country toward one of the passages that speech was this; "No: race will ever get up on its feet until it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling the soil as in writing a poem." About this time, I also came across a quotation of his printed in an almanac which in America. It is no better off than fool (oof America," his utterance doubled greatly in the question of the expatriation of the Negro to Africa, which was being agitated at the time as a solution of the Negro problem. Both of these thoughts made a profound impression upon my youthful mind. I coupled them together and cleaned from them that his two-fold idea was: (1) That training for farm work was just as important and as necessary, as book education, and (2) that whether the Negro was sent to Africa or remained in America he had to be educated. These common sense ideas of his had much to do with my deciding to go to Tuskegee Institute to pursue further training for my life's work. During my student days at Tuskegee, I had seen Mr. Washington on many a real cold, bitter morning come down to the students' dining room with no fire alarm on, and overcoat snugly buttoned up, and his arm around the table inquiring into the comfort of the students. He would ask: "Are you getting enough to eat? If not, come to the office and report it. The food here is simple, but we mean to have it well cooked, and 'we want you to get plenty of what we have.' At night, in 'the dressing room the students marched out, he would be standing point where the students would have to sit. His keen, piercing eyes were sure to detect any grease-spots that were on the students' clothes or any buttons that by chance were conspicuous by their absence from the students' clothing. Any offender in this respect was sure to be placed in the room and spoken to by Mr. Washington and enquired against letting this thing happen—a record in which case the student would be properly disciplined. These glimpse show another side of the character of this great man. Although he was principal of the school he number of assistants whose duty it was was small, and apparently small matters, he was absolutely unselfish and constantly exhibited the deepest interest in the bodily and personal comfort and happiness of his students. I question, whether there are many exercises of big schools in America exercise a personal degree of interest in the personal side of their students. One of the iron clad rules of Tuskegee Institute is that no student must ever be released from his trade contract. After I had served two years of apprenticeship at my printer's trade, I went to school released from my third year in order to be school a year earlier than my contract would have permitted. When I discussed the matter with Mr. Washington, he asked me why it was that I wished to be released from my contract. I said only that my ambition was to be a lawyer, and that to Tuskegee to spend only four years, and that after graduating from Tuskegee was going to attend Howard University for the purpose of studying law. Dr. Washington did not take so well to the idea. He not only refused to authorize me from my contract, but earnestly advised me to law and urged me to stick to my printer's trade and some day conduct a successful print shop in the South. He, had me understand, however, that he was not opposed to the study of law by Negroes. Rather, he raised the question of the legal under the race in its present condition the reason for its vice as a lawyer, whether legal advice was the greatest need of an ignorant, backward, struggling people. At the time I thought he was wrong and I was right. From experience and careful reading of the legal needs and conditions of the miscreant people, I have learned that he was right and I was wrong. Mr. Washington was most patient. I remember one night he had a bad cold and a sick headache. Mrs. Washington sent for me and invited me to stay all night so as to give him two hours the time he needed had prescribed. I had to wake him from his slumber every two hours to give him his medicine, but not a single time did he seem to exhibit any impatience or disgust with me because of the freckles on my visits. The reason for my senior year, when my Northern visions were expected, Tuskegee, Mr. Washington would invariably send for me and instruct me to practice the students with the school yells and the Chautauqua salutes. I always felt that I must have satisfied his matter of the school yells, otherwise he would not have repeatedly asked me to lead the students in giving them. During the past ten years it has been privilege to arrange for Mr. Washington'miny meetings in the North where he would speak in the interest of the students, frequently send me a telegram to meet him, and ker House in Boston or at the Biltmore Hotel in New York City. Then he would give me instructions in regard to the arranging of meetings in Boston or Brooklyn or some other point. Tim trips in the North he would be carrying some parcel or his traveling bags. When I would volunteer to carry these things for him, he would always de- close my invitation. He seemed 'never people to serve him; rather he wanted others, any seeming inconvenience. I recall but one exception: to this general rule of his. This was during what proved to be his last visit to Chicago, in September. The officers of Tuskegee realized that he was in a weakened physical condition, and so the officers gave him a tour of the campus, save him as long as possible. I carried his travelling bags, sent his telegrams, answered his 'phone calls, ordered his carriages, bought his newspapers, and even carried for him his light fall overcont. At first, he exhibited a good deal of anxiety at my seeming over-politeism in and of Friendship, and it is established that he must be spared the slightest inconvenience. After his speech before the National Negro Baptist Convention in Chicago, together with a half dozen policemen, I wound a lane for him to pass through to his waiting carriage. We had to do this in order to protect him from the hundreds of his friends who were shaking his hand. His strength was not equal to the physical effort involved. His death shortly after he delivered this speech in Chicago suggests that at the time of its delivery he seemed to realize that he was closing up his life's work and was making his last speech before this great national body of Negro Christians. He very earnest, whole-souled and vigorous manner in which he spoke on that occasion. I shook his hand and bade him goodbye Saturday afternoon, September 11, as he was leaving Chicago for, Montgomery, Ala. I seemed to realize that he was making his last long trip South and that Jim was now and I shall greatly miss him and his many instructions which he wont to give, to me in short, crisp sentences, but I shall always derive consolation from the fact that I shared his confidence and labored with him in all his struggles of all the people. I shall always cherish his memory as my great teacher and inspirer. NATIVE FILIPINOS ON B. T. WASHINGTON MANILA, Philippine Islands.—The two native Filipino dailies are La Vanguardia and La Ideal. Both these papers commented editorially, on the death of Roxanne Washington, their editorials better as follows: From EL Ideal. "There is hardly an educated person in this country who has not heard of this Negro reformer, who, more than the majority of the structure and fruitful service to the Negro race in the United States, Born a slave in the year 1859, when the disenfranchised Negro population under the protection of American law, he rose, by dint of perserverance and earnestness, to be the universally accepted emperor and the most far-facing guide. "The victory of Northern arms definitely freed the Negroes. But, unfortunately, we cannot create all the most delicate and tremendous problems which the American people have to face for generations to come. Launched into political equilibrium, the American people, though, socially, spurred all over the country, disfranchised in the South and in every way 'industrially' oppressed. T. Washington appeared and infused the hearts and minds of the Negro population. He preached, by his own example, the wholesome doctrine of self-salvation depended upon themselves. To enable his fellow-citizens to be of use to the country and to stand on the shoulders of the industrial competition, he founded the famous Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, which have come thousands of high-minded and competent Negro citizens. "At the same time that he created a strong sense of duty and responsibil- ity among the people, he made his voice heard among the white people, plentiful for a more decent and more just treatment of the blacks—not socially speaking, for under the white roofs, not a solitary and abused, in the interest of both races—but politically and industrially speaking. He told the white people that the solution to the Negro problem is to Negro a fair-choice to work out his own man- material and moral development, by recognizing the fact that he has in him, that he must be, the elements of betterment. "This great man, with such great life and great doctrines, has recently died. History will place him among the men who have rendered humanity an undying and imperishable service. No only his people, but every man who has given its right to live recognized, will remember him with love and gratitude." From Le Vanguardie. La Vanguardia writes the following obituary in the form of an editorial on Booker T. Washington: "Washington, the American soldier, or foreigner in general, have won the sympathy and admiration of the Filipinos during the last decade as the Negro writer and pedagogy. Booker Washington, who died in Tuskegee, Alabama." "Human egoism and imperfection have brought about, during the lapse of time, race prejudice. During the last century, and even in the present, the Negro has exercised tremendous influence in the minds of the most favored nations in such a way that 'the white race does not even think of the existence' of the Negro. In the case of the Philippines, Io and Togo of Japan, Li Hung Chang and Sun Yat Son of China, Rahindranathan, Tagore of India and Booker T. Washington of very land of liberty where slavery was abolished at the cost of so much blood. "The work, of this illustrious Negro, Up From Slavery, where he recounts his experiences, occupies a preferential place in the Filipino home library, and is a symbol to us of the dual effort, full of tome of the Negro lender, to raise himself up, through a victim of race prejudice. "Slavery does not consist in the mere subjugation of the individual or of the slave, but in the bad faith of an active or massive in- the African American community to achieve their goals of equality and love. And Booker, Washington triumphs in his efforts, sees his reforms for the upliftment of the Negro race fulfilled. Blessed be the memory of this great man, whose intellect was able to judge toward him and his people. Humanity, in spite of the fact that it is now in the period of enlightenment, is able to proclaim universal fraternity. The face more or less sunburn, more or less yellow, the nose more or less red, the face more or less have a great influence over mankind. When dawns in the skies the true aura of Humanity, when Equality, be the true concepts of our hearts, the name of that great Negro—who has just passed away—will figure in the same place occupied by the great name of practice good on earth. Then will they all be worthy to carry the glorious name of true man." From Manila, Philippines islands. To the Editor of TIG Ace: The colored Americans of Manila would like to tender their sympathy to the family of the late Dr. Booker T. Washington through your paper. All of the papers of the islands, both American and native, wrote editorially concerning his death, but the native press had a certain amount of eulogistic reference to his life that was lacking in the American press. 16 the Editor of THE AGE. I sincerely regret the death of your dear friend and leader of the Negro race, Dr. Booker T. Washington. The world mourns his loss. He was without doubt the greatest Negro that ever lived. I admired and loved him and I'm thankful that I had the pleasure of meeting him. I trust the great work begun will continue to the end of ARNOLD A. WATERMAN. Dr. Corbly's Eulogy. Huntington, W. Va.-At the memorial services held here in honor of the late Dr. L. J. Corbly, following eulogy was delivered by Dr. L. J. Corbly, former president of Marshall College, a native West Virginiaian. I come not to contribute exaggerated praise of him in whose memory we have remembered him but the different and solitary occasion:-but to lay a single rose on the newly made grave of one whose work has classed him, in my humble estimate, as the greatest constructive virtue of the early years of this century. Justice in one's estimate of one's self or of another is perchance the rarest of the great virtues. Appreciation, as the greatest constructive virtue. Praise, modest and sincere, during the life of a man or woman, is a tremendous inspiration to greater accomplishments. Praise, moderate and sincere, is Christian. But praise withheld till after death, is appreciation too tardy to be worthy the title of "appropriate" or "just." Envy and ambition, jealousy and solemnity so beclouded by the judgments of men in estimates of their fellow that justice is difficult. But the final test of greatness is not necessarily largeness of, but greatness of accomplishments, of great teachers, of great teachers chosen title in the catalogue of school men and women. To be a great teacher is to be large of mind and of sympathy, to be a teacher created to a great cause, a leader among one's fellows who inspires to greatness of thought by lofty thinking, to greatness of intellect by greatness of truly great man believes, in himself, believes in his fellows, believes in his cause and gives himself unsparingly to that cause. Judged by these standards, this Sahib Day was truly a hallow this Sahib Day was truly a great teacher. The color of race of these United States this man was the president gave his life to the service of ALL the people—to save this government and to vouchehate political freedom and equality to the black man, to set him among you and of your own blood, to set the Negro race economically free from the embarrassing situation in which his political freedom had left him. What is more appropriate, therefore, on this memorial occasion, than to honor the man who has honored to the great leader of the slixies, to the credit of the man who rose to advance the cause of freedom among another tremendous forward step; 'He held the ridge pole up and spiked again The rafters of the Home. He held his place. Held the long purpose like a growing tree. Hold on through blame and fat- tered not at praise. And when he fell he went down As when a kingly cedar green with boughs. Goes down with a great shout upon the hills. Are there a lonely place against the sky? The passing of Booker T. Washington from among us leaves a lonesome place in the heart of the colored race and a place of pride in the mind of every loyal American citizen, a lonesome place in the life of this nation. Memorial Service at Fayetteville, FAYETTVILLE, N. C. "The citizens of Fayetteville met at the Haymont Presbyterian Church on December, 1915, and carried opt the following program at Dr. E. E. Smith, principal State Colored Normal School, "Dr. Washington as an Educator." Prof. Armstrong, of South Carolina, head of mathematical department of State College, "Dr. Washington's Life in Tuskegee." Paper by Mrs. Bettle Weeks, teacher in State Colored Normal School, "Washington's School Days." At 8 o'clock p. m. Prof. Edward Edward Watson, principal School, "Dr. Washington as an Author." D. T. Watson, "Dr. Washington a Leader in the Business World." Dr. N. A. Styron, "Dr. Washington as an Economist." The following resolutions were adopted: Whereas, It has pleased an all wise Goes to sell from labor to reward the most esteemed Dr. Bennett K. Washington and, whereas, The whole Negro race has lost its foremost educator who did more than any other American citizen of this day to bring about a better feeling, between the races; be it, Resolved. That we, the citizens of Payetteville, N.C., express our sorrow for the loss of the teacher and leader of the Negro race. Also, Resolved. That we, the citizens of Payetteville, extend to the bereaved widow and other members of his family, our sympathy and prayers that He who is all sufficient will heal up the bereaved widow and be by the greatest sorrow of mankind. Resolved. That we, the citizens of Payetteville suggest that a day be set for the memorial Memorial Day. And be it further Resolved, that a copy of these resolutions be sent to the bereaved family. T. H. Watson, secretary; Dr. N. C. Styron, T. H. McNellii; T. T. Branch, pastor. COVINGTON, VA. Covington, Va.—All of the churches were well attended on Christmas Day. The Christmas exercises at the First Baptist Church Hall were enjoyed. The Sunday School gave a gift to each schoolmate. Cary worked hard to please each one. Henry Pigram is sick at his home. Cherry street. Mrs. W. J. Hackett is sick at her home, Highland street. Mrs. Julia Mitchell and her two daughters are home for the holidays. Mrs. Mary Reynolds, 328 Lexington street, is in with La Gripe; her son is in from White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Miss Viola Mossy, of Clifton Forge, Va., passed through Monday a m. en-ouse home from White Sulphur Springs. A. F. Lowmans, assistant principal of the public school here, offered his resi- tion to Mrs. M. C. Lynch, of Irlanda has been a faithful worker. The following young ladies are in from school: Misse Mary Williams, Sterry Smith and Rith. Smith, from Hartshorn Memorial College, Richmond, Va.; Miss Loretta Miller, of V. N. & I. L. Petersburg, Va.; Miss Anne M. Millington, of M. C. A. Lynchburg, Mrs. Regina Edwards, of Washington, D. C. Miss Julia Mitchell lost $37 just before leaving White Sulphur. Miss Viola Cousin, who has been teaching at Hot Springs, Va., passed through Covington-Saturday a. m. route to her home in Farmville, Va. Miss Elizabeth Johnson is much improved. Miss Elizabeth Johnson is much improved for Geo. H. Huttherson, is spending the holidays with her parents in Clifton Forge, Va. Miss Stella Hunter is home for the holidays. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Greene and some time in Layland, W. Va., are home for the holidays. Mrs. Rosa Emma Winston is home from Thurmond. W. Va., to visit her brother, F. A. Harvey. Mrs. C. B. Brown's two sons are home from Thurmond for Christmas. A Payne cut out again after an attack of the Gripe. Mrs. A. B. Brown, who has been spending some time in Washington, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Lizzie Jordon, of Wrightsville, Va. Mrs. Brown was in Thursday. Greene and Mrs. Bina Brown went on a business to New York. Charlie Pierce spent Sunday in Clifton Forge visiting his sisters, Mrs. Jno Humbles and Mrs. Jno. Clark. HOLLY SPRINGS, MISS Holly Springs. Miss.-Christmas service on Saturday from 6 to 9 a.m. at Abbey M. E. Chucci program was rendered and a goodly num- ments. Miss Fannie Moore, formerly of this school, will be on Sunday, December 6, to Cliff Standback of that city. Miss Snellings of Birmingham, Ala.—the teachers in the public schools, is spending Christmas vacation here. James Christie and Misa Laux Corso James Christie and Misa Laux Corso The Rev. L. J. White, formerly of Amory that now a local preacher in the city at momma and Mrs. Pidaw Darby of Cotton Phant. Ark., kept Christmas in the city at Memphis, of Memphis, Tenn. spent Christmas here. CHERAW S C Cheraw, S. C.—The Eureka Club of Cheraw is doing a fine work. On Thanksgiving Day they sent out four baskets to the poor people and they planned to do more for Christmas. The President, W. M. E. Richardson, and he seems to have her heart in the work. Mrs. C. M. Haskew, the secretary of the Woman's Club, was called to Newberry, S. C., to bury her mother. THE EDUCATION OF THE CHILD AND ITS HEALTH. (By Victor H. Daniel—Assistant Comm agent, Trukkane Institute, Akron Mandant, Tukesegue institute, Ala.) Most of us, I believe, agree with Hirsch's emphasis on the preparation for life. By Life I think we mean an existence that is full of joy, alertness, virility and power. But now as we call to mind the anatomy of our bodies, we are dressed, flat-chested mass of children that are in our schools being educated for an existence that calls for brawn and muscle, and that will allow us to strong virile men and women. To best answer this question intelligently for ourselves, we ought to examine the curricula of our primary and secondary schools that the greatest opportunity lies for imparting such knowledge as will enable our boys and girls to develop into such men and women as the children. It is not within the 'scope of this paper to take up each subject in the curricula of our primary and secondary schools that the greatest value in the matter of improving and safeguarding the health of our boys and girls. I shall simply touch on the subject of hygiene and anatomy as it is in our primary and secondary schools. First, it appears to me that we usually child in the laws of hygienis and of practices which are equally important for the development of the child and the dormant period that follows. And taught some very fundamental principles of hygiene through schools and stores. Certainly the importance of cleanliness and its great value in safety of the child can be imparted to it from its admission to the first grade. Tech instead of waiting until the child enters the fifth or sixth grade and is ready to learn and anatomy, we can and should begin in a simple way to teach it about these necessary subjects from the kindergarten level. We can save the child from a great many malpractices that are responsible for a great many of the so-called children. Those of us who believe in the germ theory can clearly see how whipping cough, influenza and other children's diseases, can be prevented in the child who, through ignorance, chew from the same piece of gun, bite on the same piece of cake or blow bubbles with the same toothpaste. Many other unhystenic practices that may result in a loss of time from school, plus a great deal of worry for the parents and to offer in death itself. Second, it seems to me that the text books on the subject of hydiene and anatomy are too dry and uninteresting. They can be found in the number of students who annually refuse to take 'what when it is made elective, as is some other course'. Instead of an interesting detail of the construction and working of the body we usually find a long list of the bones and muscles. We also find a subject head and unfamiliar to the child. By the time the child learns to spell and pronounce the names of the bones it is more interested in, we find it difficult to continue it. So it seems to me that the very books that are intended to spread the knowledge of hydiene and anatomy are doing more to make it unattractive than presenting the subject in a prosaic form. If our text books on hygiene and anatomy were so written that there were a larger amount of up-to-date hygienic information, coupled with a more detailed account, think the subject would appeal to the child much more so than is being done through the present form, of text books. I was touched upon the curriculum in so far as it is responsible for the child's intelligence regarding its health. I shall now look into the school room and see what part the building plays in developing: the child into a robust individual. The building has been given by the architects and others responsible for the designing and erecting of school buildings as to the part the building plays in the development of the student. The question of profit and cost seemed to have played the greater part in the building of our school house, rather than in their noble purpose (the housing of the men and women In too many school buildings the lighting, either by day or night, is as bad as can be, and is responsible directly and indirectly for the defective vision of a good many, children. It would be better to have the architect has been ignorant in the matter of designing the building, but the teachers in charge of the building have been fully as ignorant or criminally negligent in the matter of controlling and using the lighting, even if it is both of artificial and sunlight. and seen the children trying to get some work from a blackboard whose surface was in bad condition. This is not a bad idea, but you should still worse by the direct rays of the sun falling into the eyes of the children. It was painfully pathetic to have to get the information from the board, some had books to shade their eyes, others were using the bodies of those children to shade their eyes and still worse, too-many had their little bodies warped in all manner of angles so as to avoid the direct, rays of the sun. You would have to believe that such conditions exist at all. To you, doubling friend, I would suggest that you try to find out what many of the shades or with an provided direct system of illumination. I would again ask you, to make frequent visits to the library to listen for the following regarding the use of light and care of the eyes. Students, remember that your eyesight is worth more to you than any information you get from the our curt books, therefore, you are cautions. 1. Not to strain your eyes trying to get the work from the board or from the poorly printed pages of your text of book. 2. Be sure, always, that you have plenty of light when reading or preying your lesson. 3. That you do not allow direct rays of light on your eyes and that you avoid the angles of reflection. 4. That you avoid stooping over your book. 5. That you hold your book up below your eyes, at least not nearer than twelve or thirteen inches or more than eighteen to twenty inches from you. D. 6. That you always sit up when you read or write. 7. That light should always fall on your left shoulder. 8. That the moment your eyes begin to hurt you or your head aches that you can feel, you must go in the great of doors to rest them upon the beautiful ties of nature—be it sky, river, lake, ocean or mountain. In twenty per cent of the schools in this practical land of ours will you hear such instruction given. For the concern with the quids' health. They are interested in making an adult out of him so fast that there is very time or thought given to his health. Unfortunately what is true of the lighting of our school buildings is also true of their heating, ventilating and cooling. The little thought has been given by those responsible for the designing and erecting of the school buildings to these questions, tendering the building to the architect, building it and leaving it to the teachers or janitor to regulate its heating, ventilating and cleaning. How well they are doing this can be measured by the school during the winter months. If you are thoughtful enough to take a pocket thermometer along with you it will help very quickly show how well the building enters our schools in the autumn full of life and vim only to come out in the spring, anemic, dull and almost lifeless. Such an experience is founded for the purpose of LEROY'S 2220 5th AVENUE Family, Wine and Liquor Store Holiday orders promptly delivered. Prices reasonable. Pool and Billiard Parkor attached. Entertainment evenings. Service superb. LEROY WILKINS, Prop. Phone: Harlem 2758 2220 5th Avenue, cor. 135th Street ROYALL'S CAFE CALVIN W. 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I have the pleasure of filling its lungs with the dust-laden air that has been left behind for him by the janitor. I have also been with brooms and dusters rather than some modern contrivance to remove the germ-laden dust from the school room. It is somewhat painful for me to put down my thoughts and experiences of and about our school buildings. But it is like a surgeon who must remove an offending member from the human organism; the sooner it is done, the In too many schools the question of seating the children has been very unsatisfactorily arranged. Not infrequently with a chair fitted up with desks, benches or chairs of uniform height. Yet we know that the children that are going to use them are not all of the same height or age. The uniformity of the seating apparatus is not always the effect upon linky Arthur who must cramped up from half an hour to two or three hours is far from pleasing to those of us who are interested in it. In the case of a child sometimes must sit with her little legs hanging down about six inches from the floor. I wanted to say with her little legs dangling, but when I recalled that little normal healthy child must "sit still" I had to change my mind. What is true of the seating in some of our schools is also true of the desks. The desks are either too close to the windows or too far from some children and too high for others. This state of affairs is responsible for many cases of consumption among school children, as their cheats beetle is natural position from their natural position their lungs are thereby affected. Quite a few cases of curvature of the spine started because of the great distance that exists between them and the school buildings. I hate to say it—school buildings. 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Job Printing OST great efforts along progressive lines are like most great men-of humble origin. Their entry is made into this world without a blaze of trumpets and void of display. Such births of men and things seldom provoke a ripple of excitement other than in the immediate neighborhood. It is later on that their useful- ```markdown ``` CHAS. H. GILPIN ness and influence become generally known and spread to other parts of the land as time rolls on. The Anita Bush Stock Company, now playing at the Lafayette Theatre, came into being under similar circumstances, and if it is making a heroic effort worthy of all the patronage and commendation it receives. And while the stock company may not reach the pinnacle of greatness it will not soon be forgotten as having introduced to New York an IDEA which is bound to take root, spread and redound to the great good of the Negro on the stage. A little over a month ago the Anita Bush Stock Company first saw the light of day at one of Harlem's smaller vaudeville houses, and just as are all ambitious ventures, was scoffed at by the "know-alls." However, the public appreciated the aspirations and efforts of Miss Bush and her associates and gave unmistakable evidence of its appreciation. Desiring a broader field in which to exhibit their dramatic prowess arrangements were made to play the company at the Lafayette Theatre, and as the attendance at the Lafayette has been large all week, it goes without saying that the step taken was a wise one. The question of playing dramatic sketches, presented by colored actors, has been frequently suggested to the Lafayette management, but usually the suggestions were made together with promises which never materialized, but due to no fault of the management-There are many who are rich in ability to paint beautiful word pictures, but when it comes to putting their ideas into practical execution they find themselves in a helpless state. White sketches, some good, others not so 1 good, have been booked at the Lafayette Theatre weekly, and the majority have been most pleasing to the patrons. There is no reason why colored actors should not appear in sketches at the Lafayette Theatre and other representative colored houses throughout the country, if, of course, their, artistic endowments are similar to the Anita Bush Stock Company. "Over the Foollights," by John R. Price, is the playlet presented by the 大 company this week. It is a domestic comedy-drama telling of the temporary infatuation of a young man of newly acquired wealth for a young beauty of the footlights, despite his already matrimonial entanglements, consisting of a wife and children. The role of Naomi Darling is played by Anita Bush, who has agreeably surprised her many friends and admirers by blossoming into an actress of promise. The feature of Miss Bush's dramatic work is her enunciation, which is a valuable asset and is sure to serve her in good stead. To play an emotional role, and at the same time not to overdue it as to traverse the fields of comedy, requires great acting and Carlotta Freeman, as Nellie Drayton, the young wife, succeeds in doing this. Whether Miss Freeman previously appeared in dramatic sketches before coming to New York I know not, but either past ex- CARLOTTA THE WEEKLY NEWS CARLOTTA FREEMAN perience or unusual aptitude has fitted her for the parts she essays to portray. Long ago in these columns Charles H. Gilpin was referred to as one of the best character actors of color in this country or any other country, and he is the finished artist of the Bush organization. He has had a lot of experience in the acting field and in voice, gesture and expression he gives proof of his previous schooling. As Sol Babmerger, Mr. Gilpin does a very pleasing bit. There is not a more popular young man in Harlem than Andrew Bishop, whose dramatic activities were begun about two years ago, and whose theatrical-career since that time has been something like that of Finnegan, the engineer, "On again; off again." Now he is on again and is appearing to better advantage than ever before. Should Mr. Bishop take the stage seriously and conclude to make it his life's work he could easily do so. He has everything in his favor, even to joining the ranks of those who to-day are "passing" and enjoying big reputations; that is, if his field of dramatic endeavor was limited. In the part of Ned Drayton, Andrew Bishop favorably impresses in a difficult role, handling himself nicely. There are some performers who find themselves much better actors when they submerge their identity, and Dooley Wilson seems to belong to that category. As Ajax Jackson he works under cork, and the best comedy of the sketch is provided by him. No one can deny the versatility of Dooley Wilson, who formerly made good as a singer and now is succeeding as a speaker of lines. I do not wish to convey the impression that you will see acting of the E. H. Sothern-Julia Marlowe brand when you visit the Lafayette, but you will see a meritorious effort—a big effort—being made to raise the standard THE FILM OF "THE WOMAN WHO WAS NOT A WOMAN" BY JOHN HENRY HARRISON of the colored theatrical profession; an endeavor to prove that the Negro can do other than sing and dance—an endeavor that warrants the hearty support and co-operation of all members of the race. Next week: the stock company will appear in a Western sketch entitled "The Gambler's Sweetheart." The other acts on-the bill the first half were the Mme. Fairfax Trio, in which, Mme. Fairfax, Rose Fox and Willie Stafford, who entertained in singing and dancing; Barton & Carroll, Wilson & Wilson and the Two Musical Girls. The photo-play, "The Porter," produced by the Smart Set Film Company, with S. H. Dudley in the title role, was not shown by the management as advertised, as the film was lost by the express people somewhere between Washington, and New York, and had not been located Wednesday morning. The film will be put on this week as soon as found. 6 "DOOLEY" WILSON THEATRICAL JOTTINGS. S. H. Dudley & Co. are at the Pantages' Theatre, Portland, Ore. Rucker & Winnifred are at the Pantages' Theatre, Calgary, Canada. The Smart Set Co., with Salem Tutt Whitney and J. Homer Tutt, in George Washington Bullion Abroad, is at the Grand Theatre, Chicago. Sid Perrin and Goldie Crosby are heading an act of twelve people; called the Perrin & Crosby Chocolate Bon Bons. The Real Quartet is at the Davis Theatre, Pittsburgh. The quartet is booked over the Keith time. The Russell-Owens Co. is at the Booker Washington Theatre, St. Louis. Thomas A. Brookes, with Watson-Wrothe Co. is at the Orpheum Theatre, Paterson, N. J. The Perrin & Crosby Chocolate Bon Bons Company is at the New Monogram Theatre at Chicago this week. The company includes Sid Perrin, Goldie Crosby, "Little" Jeff, Howard Andrews, John Wesley, Loretta Augustine, Dixie Beasley and Beatrice White. The Smith-Bright Players are the Monogram Theatre at Chicago this week. Andrew Bishop is not the only member of the association, which has headquarters at 2283 Seventh avenue, to be winning favor as an actor. "Bennie" Wright, another prominent member of the organization, has become a full-fledged thesplan, being a member of the cast of the new musical show, "Very Good Eddy," which is playing at the Princess Theatre. Mr. Wright plays the part of a steward. The author of the piece had originally written a part for the colored steward who was to say a few "yes, sahs," and "no, sahs," but the ability displayed by "Bennie" Wright in saying lines caused a change in plans and F. Ray Comstock and Miss Elizabeth Marbury, producers of the piece, sa wto it that the young colored actor was given more to do, minus a lot of "niggerism." Incorporators Lose in Washington. The basketball world received one of the surprises of the season when the news was flashed throughout basketball circles that the champion and famous Incorporators went down the court of the basketball capital-Hiwasathas in Washington, D.C. on Christmas eve, December 24. Although the Cardinals played with every ounce of strength they possessed, still the champions managed to keep in the lead practically all of the game. At the beginning of the game it was nearly fifteen minutes before either side scored. Then the Incorporators broke the ice and the score jumped to 4 to 0 in favor of the New York boys. The game was very hard and played at almost heartbreaking speed. It might also be mentioned that the game was very rough which marred much of that fine exhibition of scientific play that clea nbasketball always shows when high class teams meet. Of course the game is a game of this kind, the officials handling the game must be of the highest basketball standing whose ability and thoroughness and competency must be absolutely unquestioned. The game was very close, the final score being 21 to 18 in the Cardinals' favor. When the game was over the Incorporators were so genuinely surprised at their defeat that they could hardly realize it. Over-confidence and "cocksureness" undoubtedly played a part in the champions losing the game and I say this without taking any credit away from the Cardinals' victory. The Washington boys were out to win and they played for all they were worth. Walter Cooper played his game from whistle to whistle and although he could have done a little more passing his other work was so fine that he amply made up for it. It is seldom that Cooper has jumped as he did in this game. He out-jumped the Cardinal center every single time and they had to change centers on him, but this made no difference as he continued to get the tap-off; but the wyte the Cardinal guards beat the Incorporators to the tap-off was remarkable. The Incorporators guarding was superb but their forwards were far below their regular standard of speed and accuracy. The "set-ups" that were missed were actually pitiful. Cooper also did - commendable work shooting from the foul line. Henderson and his team have gained considerable prestige and fame by their defeat of a team that was considered undesirable, so when the Cardinal Hewlett came to New York on March 2, 1916, to meet the champions in the return game it will without a doubt be the classic of the season. Special delegations will come from Washington to witness this game because the outcome of it will have a good deal to do, with the re-establishing of Washington as a factor in New York basketball. BASKETBALL. BY WILL ANTHONY MADDEN. Address all communications direct to 269 West 4th street, New York City, and have matter in our hands not later than Monday night of each week. We repeat that the "Incorporators" are the recognized champions of 1914-15, and by their defeat of so many teams representing so many different cities or centers throughout the country, are also world champions of colored basketball. As always, the "Incorporators" stand on their unequaled record and if there is any colored basketball team nationally or, in fact, any the world, for that matter, interprets this claim, then that team knows what to do. Idle talk and unqualities will never settle the issue. The "Incorporators" stand ready to defend their championship against any team on the face of the earth, and are particularly anxious to meet St. Christopher of St. Philips Parish. There is no yellow paint on the "Incorporated" machine. Its colors are red and black and non-fading. The Carlisle Indians are husky-looking fellows and if they take to basketball, like they do to football then they ought to put up a good game on New Years. The St. Augustine Five were in unusually good form when they defeated the K. Five of Bloomfield, at Christ Church Parish Hall, Elizabeth, N. J. Arthur Vandervere, St. Augustine's young centre, certainly deserves mention for the way he played, making eight of the sixteen points. Jimmie Thorn, the lightning guard, played equally as well, making two baskets and one foul. The Bloomfield lads played well, too, particularly in the second half, for at the end of the first half the score was 14 to 3 in favor of St. Augustine. They seemed to gather up a fresh supply of strength for the second half, and made seven points, while St. Augustine made but two, making the final score 16 to 10. The line-up for St. Augustine: Louis Taylor, l.f.; Bill Bill Holmes, f.f.; Arthur Vandervere, c.; Clifford Vandervere, l.g.; Jimmie Thorn, f. The Carlton Y. M. C. A. teams continue to sail along on an even keel, winning games with ease and smoothness. However, the juniors had a close call when they nosed out the "Speed Boys" at the St. Cyprian Gym in an extra period, 31 to 28. The game was nip and tuck all the way, first one team, then the other would take the lead, with the score tied many times. Time up found the count 27 each, and five minutes more was taken to decide the winner. The Y. M. C. A. boys came through the extra period with a three point lead. The Seniors met the Clarex A. C. (white) in Williamsburg, and had little trouble defeating the home team by a score of 29 to 10. The white boys played the Brooklyn Champs close in the early part of the game, the score at the end of the first half being 11 to 7 in their favor. In the second half the Carltons picked up speed and went away to a big lead. Shannon, who is coming stronger in every game, scored 21 of the Carlton's points with 8 field and 5 fouls. Everything in the Carlton Y. M. C. A. camp is hustling with preparations for their game with the Alpha "Moguls" on January 13 at Labor Lyceum. Both teams are well known to all followers of the game, and with the exception of the St. Christopher Tigers, are probably the best teams of their weight in the east. Alpha thinks she can halt the Carltonts winning streak, but they will have to step lively, as the Brooklyn champs have a team that is playing in whirlwind style this season, and it will take a real team to stop them. The Crestes, of Altantic City, defeated the Philadelphia A. C. on Friday, December 17, at Fitzgerald's Auditorium by the score of 33 to 12. The victors played to form and had little difficulty in winning from their heavier opponents. The lineup: CRESCENTS PHILA. A. C. Dorsed F. Simons Matthews, Brown F. Smith Norwood C. Johnson, Robinson Kimbrough G. Gould Alboy, Byrd G. Perry Field goals—Dorssey 5, Norwood 2, Smith 2, Brown 1, Byrd 1. Foul goals —Mathews 12, Simmons 8. Brown 3. Referee—Shinn. Timers—Brown and Plorce. Scorers—Greenberg and Shaw. The girls' basketball teams around New York seem to have dropped out of the game, as we do not hear as much about them as we used to. However, the St. Cyprian girls' team are still making good. They are considered one of the best teams in New York City and claim to have a record of not being defeated in three consecutive seasons. The following is a summer of their last game, played at New Rochelle: ST. C. GIRLS EXCELSIOR GIRLS M. Watkins.....F.....F. Brown F. Jordan.....F.....R. Flowers J. Dandridge.....G.....L. Moses G. Jordan.....G.....V. Brown V. Boyer.....G.....T. Green First half—2-0 St. C. favor; second half—St. C. 19; Excelsiors 3. The St. Cyprian girls offer an open challenge to any girls' basketball team. Walter Cooper, of the Incorporators, coach. Address at St. Cyprian Gym, 169 West 63d street. **Boye' Game.** ST. C. EXCELSIOR A. C. D. Giles.....C. Ellis R. Dixon.....F. Kenney P. Pearman.....F. Ayas W. Cooper.....A. Blount R. Colvert.....G.....W. Brown First half—8-7 St. Cyprian's favor; final count—St. C. 24, Excelsiors 17. Pearman and Colvert did most of the scoring for St. Cyprians. Owing to the heavy snowstorm and the rain, the Tuxedo lightweights, of East Orange, N. J., regret that they could not travel to Atlantic City December 17 to measure their speed against the strong Vandal A. C. Lightweights. The game has probably been postponed until February 4, 1916, and a return game will be played in Orange March 10, 1916. The "Tux" are ready to meet all juniors and lightweights of The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a blank or heavily distorted image with no discernible content. Therefore, no text can be extracted from this image. LAFAYETTE THEATRE SEVENTH AVENUE, BET. 131-132 STREETS Commencing Monday January 3, 1916 Anita Bush Stock Co. in "The Gambler's Sweetheart" With Anita Bush, Charlotta Freeman, Chas. H. Gilpin, Andrew Bishop, "Dooley" Wilson. INCLUDING VAUDEVILLE & PHOTO FEATURE PLAYS E. ALDAMA JACON Graduate Institute of Musical Art Organist and Director of Music of St. Mark's M. E. Church TEACHER OF THEORY AND PIANO THEORY COORDINATES ELEMENTARY AND ADVANCED HARMORY AND COURTERPOIRY. PRIVATE OR GLASS WORK © 30 WEST 132nd STREET may 13 (t.) NEW YORK New York and New Jersey Address J. Richard Lee, manager, 376 Main street, East Orange, N. J. On Thursday night, December 30, the "Incorporators" will again go on one of their road trips, when they face the Vandal A. C. in Atlantic City, N. J. As usual, as large crowd will go with the team. The "Incorporators" will continue to play away from home until they make their appearance at their next big game at Manhattan Casino, where they face the Delaney Rifles of Pittsburgh, Pa., on Friday night, January 14, 1916. Great preparations are being made for this night. At Princeton, N. J., the Princeton Y. M. C. A. won its first game of basketball of the season when the Trenton A. C. team was defeated, Tuesday, December 21, by the score of 26 to 14. Captain Nelson and his men are in fine shape and a most successful season is promised. The Carlton Jrs., added another victory of their list by defeating the Combination Five (white) by the score of 29-7. Basketball rules are complex anyway, but more so this year, and this fact in itself makes it most imperative than when a referee is chosen for a game his ability should be an established factor. It is a joke to see a man out on the court trying to referee a game and showing by many of his decisions that he does not know his business. It is amusing when we think of the almost other helplessness of some of the officials. The Oriental A. C. of New Rochlelle defeated the Yonkers Tigers, who in turn defeated the Ossining Five. The Orientals are in line for the county championship this season and would like to book games with other teams. Address J. Thomas, manager, 63 Horton avenue, New Rochlelle, N. Y. I wasn't in New York in order to cover the Alpha-Lincoln game, but the result is as I said it would be, only I did expect a better showing from Lincoln. This about eliminates Lincoln's chances for the championship. The next appearance of the world champions will be on Friday night, January 14, 1916, a Manhattan Casino, where they will meet the much heralded "Delaney Rifles" of Pittsburgh, Pa. Read the New York Age **Supporting Editor of the Age:** In reference to the enrollment of Last of Smart Set," in last week's edition of The New York Age, would say that the person who submitted same has made unjust and false accusations. The Smart Set Athletic Club of Brooklyn, N.Y. has an Amateur Athletic Union of the Metropolitan Association. Smart Set Athletic Club was one of the first organizations to pay their fee at the annual meeting of the Metropolitan Association held last September. The story told about Francis Marshall, as to his not participating in the Junior Metropolitan Cross Country Champion-team demonstrates the kind of an article this person tried to put across upon the public. I have received during the past week the resignations of fourteen athletes. Among those presented were that of Joseph Pine Marshall, Charles Thompson, Ernest Nelson, Michael Murray. I am informed that the above-mentioned men have joined Alpha Phyla- cal Culture Club. It was these good men who made the elder path, not only when they were winning championships, but when their club was in unstraightened chanown Loyal members like these men are as asses to no organ as Harry Martin, Harry Stratton, James K. Burwell, William Brobok, Roland Elecy, Walter McCain Albert Reid, Clayborne George, Evers Williams and Embro Morgan have where the "last of Smart Set" in. Because we had no basketball team the year was another reason why he would safe to say, to Smart Set, under condition of the club being themselves at this time in position to support a basketball team, and for the first time in eight years Smart Set was seen on the court. Outside of Rumsey Lake on Chamley Scottson, who are playing now with the St. Augustine Club of Brooklyn, I would like to know who are the members of the Smart Set A, C, basketball team, played by the players which was mentioned in the article. During the past two months the board of directors of the Smart Set Athletic Club has held six meetings. At the present time they are giving the master oforgement the opportunity to present the Board of directors of the club consists of Messars, J. Hoffman Woods, Edwin F. Horne, Sr., Oscar A. Scottson, Robt. P. Lattimore, Philip M. Thorne, and Robt. T. Givens. The officers of the club consist of president; Alonzo F. Chadwick, vice president; Walter E. D. Robinson, secretary-treasurer; Rushford F. Lord, financial secretary; Dr. Louis E. Baxter, athletic director. WALTER E. D. ROBINSON Secretary, Smart, Set A. 123 Schenectady Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. SPORTING NOTES Oscar Williams, the star left tackle of the New York University football team during the past season, is now a member of the track team of the Alpha Physical Culture Club, and is acting in the capacity of coach. The St. Christopher Club finished only one man in the weekly road race of the Harlem Athletic League held last Sunday afternoon. C. Williams of the St. C.'s romped over the course of five and one-half miles in 29 minutes and 44 seconds, placing sixth. Members of the St. Christopher Club will not participate in the weekly roar races of the Harlem Athletic League next Sunday. Wilberforce, O.—At a stag given by the athletic committee in honor of the football team and members of the Athletic Association Saturday evening, December 18, L. S. Burford, member of the junior college scientific class, and also left guard of this year varsity, was elected manager for the football season 1916. Fred Jones, sophomore of the mechanical engineer course, was also elected captain to lead next year football team. Mr. Jones is a Tree O. boy, and has played as full back for the Wilberforce team for the past two years. Holder is A. U. Football Captain. ATLANTA, Ga.—Horatio Holder, of Tuskegee, has been elected to the captaincy of the Atlanta University football team. He made a splendid record on the team during the season just ended. There are four fast basketball team representing the University this season. Saints—"Holy! Holy!" congregation, "life" reading and 'invocation, D. thorp, chaplain, Chorus—"Blessed is He that cometh," Coral Society. Recitation—"The Power of Habit," Bessie Smalls, Address—"The Spirit of Christmas," Mine M. J. Stuart, Solo—"Repentence," Mine. Carolyn Cullen, Piano Solo—Kamennoi Ostran (Ru- masen), Miss Grace Raudolph, Anthem—"Arise, Shine," Choral So- Closing remarks, the Rev. F. A Cul- Christmas pitching—brediction. Union Baptist Church. The Rev. Geo. H. Sime, Pastor. Special Christmas services were held Sunday morning, the choir singing "The Incarnation," Thompson, and "There were Shepherds," Donoghue, with solo by Mme. Jupiter Green. Special Christmas services were held Sunday morning and night. The decorations were placed by the B. Y. P. U. and included flowers brought from Bermuda by the pastor and Mrs. Powell. The pastor's morning subject was "A singing without a Sorrow." The choir, under J. H. H. a chorister, sang in the morning "All Reven." Simper, and The Star "All Parks, Mrs Matthew Hensley." At night the choir sang "And the Wise Shepherds," Rhodes, at the Lighthouse Chorus by Haendel. B. B. Burton was the soloist. Mrs. Cora Cade, organist. Mt. Olivet Baptist Church The Rev. Wm. P. Hayes, Pastor. Special music rendered on Christmas Sunday by the chorus comprised the following numbers: "Calm on the Listening Ear of night" (Danks). "Hark! What Mean Those Holy Voices?" (Danks) "Sing. O Heavens" (Danks). Gloria from Mozart's 12th Mass. Hymm—"Holy Night." Organ Selections—Spring Song (Hollins), Sonata (Rheinberger), Bridal March (Hollins). Soloists were Mass Amy P. Bailey, soprano, and Fugene Thompkins, tenor. J. J. Henry is serving temporarily as organist. First Emmanuel Church. The Rev. Richard M. Bolden, Pastor. The pastor preached special sermons morning and evening, and the choir sang the following choruses: "The Star or thehelem" (Parks) "There Were Shepherds" (Ashtord) "The Shepherds' Vision" (Judson) "Through the Night" (Hall) Magnificat (Simper) Concord Baptist Church, Brooklyn. The Rev. Wm. M. Moss, Pastor. The choir under direction of Mme Daisy Tapley, organist and chorister sang Sunday morning: Hymn-"As With Gladness." Gadiatess. Soh. "Birth of a King" (Nevin) Miss. Susie. Powell. Solo—"Nazareth" (Gounod), W. Garfield, Tar. arm. Anthem—"And the Glory" (Haendel's Messiah). EVENING MUSIC. Organ—Parsifal music. Hymn—"Hark the Herald Angels Slug." Soo—"Why do the Nations?" (Haendel's Messiah). Wm. Major. Anthem—"Silent Night" (Zimmerman). Anthem—"Lift Up Your Heads" (Haendel's Messiah). Bethal A. M. E. Church. The special Christmas feature was a cantata in costume, "The Shepherds, or The Manger King," by F. A. Clark, rendered Sunday evening. Mrs. R M Arnett was in charge of the production, W. H. Dill, chorister, being in charge of the music. Wm. Barnett, baritone, and Miss Carleta Thomas, pianist, were the special soloists Bethel Church orchestra supported the chorus and played selections during the evening. The stage was set for a stable, with a manger from which imitation cows' heads protruded. The costumes were Oriental in design, in keeping with the character of the cantata VS OF THE CHURCHES Mother Zion Notes. Old Homo Week began last Sunday with Bishop J. S. Caldwell of Philadelphia and Bishop J. S. Caldwell of Philadelphia time during the week, and many prominent-clergymen of the A. M. E. Zion connection will be present. Bishop Alex Levine, secretary of Dr. W. H. Goler, president of Livingstone College, Salisbury, N. C. Prof. S. G. Atkinson, secretary of the A. M. E. Zion Church, and many of the members of the New York Conference are on the program. The auspices of the Young Women's Guild Miss Beatrice Fenderson, president, was one of the most successful of the season, and new features were enjoyed by all present. An "Overflow" meeting will be held in the lecture room of the church on Friday evening, December 31, prior to the "Watch Services" in the main auditorium, the pastor will give away calendars to all present at this meeting. Frederick T. Starkey and Miss Bennett are both masters of money on Sunday, December 20, the residence of the bride, 311 West 19th street, by Dr. J. W. Brown, pastor of the church. Dr. Brown officiated at the baptism of three infants on last Sunday: Olaq and Hanie Phillips, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Brooks, 89th street, and Thomas David Brooks, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Brooks, 407 Central Members, friends and all visitors are cordially invited to attend the services at Mother A. M. E. Zion Church. 313-West 19th street, where a warm welcome awaits you. Mother Zion has purchased the property located at 138th street. It will be remodeled and as a parnamon for the pastor's family. St. Maris M. M. E. Church; Two carolers were delivered by the Rev. M. H. Brooks Sunday; morning was 11:30; the other, St. Luke 18:30. At the close of the evening service, E. A. Jackson, choriester-organist, was surpriased with a hundreds gold watch the choir and presented by the pastor. The Sunday School was convinced of the goodness of Santa Claus by the delightful hour's program of moving pictures, songs and recitations of the children and the many presents that were distributed Monday evening. Watch night service will begin Friday evening at 9 o'clock. Watch night service will be conducted in the church house by the Silver Spray Circle, New Years Day, from 2 to 10 p.m. St. David's Christmas Day was celebrated at St. Peter's Church, at 11 o'clock and morning service at 11 o'clock, with celebration of the Holy Communion, and a service of thanksgiving at brunel. The church was appropriately decorated for Sunday services at 11 o'clock and 8 a.m., were largely attended. Watch-night services will be held in the church on Friday night. The church will begin at 11 am and the services will begin at 11 am. Shift on next Friday at 8 a.m. The P. Tucker superintendent of the City Missionary Society superintendent of the Holy Communion at 11 o'clock St. David's P. E. Church. The Rev. E. G. Clifton, Rector. Christmas Day service at St David's was well attended and the choir, with Amy G. Grant as organist and choremaster, rendere the following in musical program: Venite in B flat (Rogers) Te Leum, No. 7, E flat (Buck) *Senelius* (Suddus, op. 124, No. 2). *Oliverry*: Christmas Song (Sexton) Companion Service in E flat (Slimper) Sunctus (Gounod) The music will be repeated next St. James Presbyterian Church. The first concert characterized both sister St. James and St. Hedy prepared, meeting from the subject. A United Movement sing-a-night subject was "Back to the Bible." A first voluntary prayer of he has been formed. The revival will begin the first Sunday night of the New Year. Watch night service has been arranged for the last night of the year. The Brotherhood meetings each Sunday are growing in members and en- troduced. The Sunday School Christmas tree was enjoyed by a large number of children Tuesday night. A program preceded the distribution of the presents. Seventh Day Adventist Church, Brooklyn. The Seventh Day Adventist Church 1601 Dean street, the Rev. Charles H. Brown, held special services on Sunday evening to raise money for the church building fund. The choir will render a special musical presentation and the public are invited to attend RAHWAY, N. J. Rahway, N. J.-All of the married employees at the Royal Manufacturing company received a turkey, for Christmas and the single employees a chicken Dr. Joseph E. Brown's wife, who went under an operation, is somewhat better The operation was performed by Dr. Harrison, of West Virginia, at his private hospital Dr. Harrison was aided by Dr. Yongue, of Welsh Alonza Wicker, who has been ill, was able to go see his father-in-law in Haydock street last week. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hall of Philadelphia, visited the Rev. and Mrs John Lewis, Haydock street, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Mrs. Sidney Archer spent Wednesday afternoon with Mrs John Lewis, Haydock street. Mrs. John Bailey, Lewis street, spent Friday with Mrs. John Lewis, Haydock street. Mrs. John Lewis, Haydock street, was the recipient of a lovely pound cake Christmas from Mrs. Percilla Lewis. Mrs. Clark, of Bayonne, N J., spent Christmas and Sunday with her daughter, Mrs. John Taylor, Union place. The B Y. P. U. of the Second Baptist Church, was held Sunday evening. A prayer by the Rev. Mr. James, 180 Psalm, read by Lorena Bond. A talk by William Malie; offering was taken up and the Rev Mr. James dismissed the meeting. At the evening sc. es of the Second Baptist Church, the pastor, the Rev. Mr. Wright, preached. Mr and Mrs. Charles Maire and son spent Sunday with the Rev. and Mrs. John Lewis Haydock street. Nathaniel Faison, of Orange N J., spent a few days with James Thomas, 195 Maple avenue. Chair caining done by Mrs. Alice Robinson in rear 7 Commerce street. James Thomas, 195 Maple avenue, entertained Nathaniel Faison, of Orange, and William Maize, 228 Maple avenue. Christmas Day. Mrs Louisa Randolph James, who was taken to the Elizabeth General Hospital, December 16, died Wednesday, December 22. She is survived by her parents, Mr and Mrs. Walter Holmes, 39 Union place; one brother, Howard Holmes; a son, William James; a sister, Mrs. Augustus Gibson, 189 West Hazlewood avenue. She was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church The funeral was held Sunday, December 26, at the home of her sister, Mrs Augustus Gibson. The Rev Mr Sadtler officiated There were many floral tributes. Mrs Howard, the grandmother of the late Mrs. James, is going to move back to Brooklyn, N Y. All are invited to attend the Christmas tree entertainment at the Second Baptist Church on New Year's Eve. PATERSON N I Paterson, N. J.—The regular Wednesday afternoon service at the A. M. E. Zion Church, the lecture room was crowded with young people; the pastor, the Rev. J. C. Theo, some more than entertained the young people with a social hour and served them with delicacies. Last Sunday morning a splendid congregation greeted the Rev. C. C. Williams of the Zion Church at both services, his morning theme, "God's Hope," and his morning Morn of Hope." The pastor's Bible class was a special guest at the evening service. Two, joined the church, Mrs Wright and Miss Cassie Stewart. The resival service will open at the A. M. E. Zion Church on watch meeting night. The Rev. John H. Love, president of the Washington district, will conduct the services for two weeks. The handsome Benjamin, offered by the Anti-Tuberculous Society for selling the most Red Cross Christmas gift was awarded to School No. 8 amount, $27,51. Banded on the sick list are Mrs. Anderson, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Guasie Slaco, Peter Moore and Mr. Vreeland. Mr. Oliver and family, 16th avenue, have returned to Suffern, N. Y. Mr. Gertrude Witherspoon, to Surfice, N. Y., paid a flying visit to the city. Dr. George A. Kyle, dentist, has located here at 39 Main street; he has an up-to-date parlor. John A. Huggs, the poultry grit man, has purchased the entire interest of A. Kyle. Monday, January 10 will be the regular business meeting of the Civic League Association. It is very urgent that all members be present. J. P. Junco, secretary. David Henderson, Godwin street, has been saved on the pelt jury of the January term. Samuel G. Walker, caterer, is convalescent. Mrs. L. V. Parker is spending the holidays in Baltimore, Md. T R. Parker is in Philadelphia Mrs. J' H. Doman entertained relatives on Christmas Mrs. J. B Moore entertained during the holidays Mrs. George Lane, Master Sherwood and George Lane, Jr. spent Christmas with Mrs. Cela Lane at Newark, N. L. BAYONNE N J Bayonne N J — Mrs G Riddick and daughter Miss Eliza, entertained Mrs Clark, Mr and Mrs Hemmings, Mr and Mrs Richards and Mrs Louisa Williams, Christmas evening December 28. Mr Clark, West 10th street, visited her daughter, Mrs Taylor, at Ridway N J, Sunday, December 28. Mrs G Tillman who has been visiting Mrs Riddick, West 18th street, has left for Chester, Pa. Mrs Lousia Williams has just left this city for Kinky, N. C. to spend the winter. M. R Scott, 69 West 18th street, is so ill at her daughter's home, Mrs M. Kine West 44th street. The Christmas tree exercises will be held at S. Pet. A M K Zon Sunday, Saturday, or Tuesday evening, December 26. The Rev. Mr Tay and daughter of Norwalk, Conn. visited M. and Mrs John Randolph, 23 Count place Sunday, December 26. Mr Taylor is the father of Mrs Randolph. Mrs. Parham, 560 Avenue C is convalescent but is still confined to her bed. Don't forget the Hebbons and Dill cantata to be given at St. Peter's A. M E Zion Church, Wednesday evening, December 28. PASSAIC N 1 Passage, N. J. The social held Monday evening by Miss Gertrude Kingsland was well attended. Mrs. Ethel Hayes received the prize for the young lady and Walter Somerset the prize for the young man. The choir of Bethel Church was entertained at the home of Mrs. Amy Collins, on Chestnut street, Christmas night. Leroy Collins son of Mr and Mrs. J Collins, of Chestnut street, is home from Bordentown Industrial School, spending the holidays with his parents. Ernest Dixon, of New Rochelle, spent the holidays with his mother, Mrs. H. J Dixon, Haverson street. The Pastors' Aid was entertained at the home of Mrs Wm. Gwym Tuesday evening. Mrs Millberry has returned to her home after visiting in Los Angeles and other points. Christmas morning, 6 o'clock, services were held at Bethel Church and largely attended. The Sunday School of Bethel Church will hold its Christmas exercises on Thursday evening. A cantata will be rendered entitled "Santa Claus," and the Fairy Godmother." The Sunday School of Mt. Zoon Baptist Church will hold its Christmas Tree Tuesday evening. Miss F. Christian, who has been conned at the hospital as a result of a traille accident, as better. At Bether Church the pastor spoke from the theme "Remembering the Unfortunate." At the evening service a Candle Light service was held. The choir rendered the cantata entitled "The Light of a Christmas Candle." The building presented a beautiful scene after the lights were extinguished and the candles lighted. The members and friends contributed a large Christmas offering. Watch night services will be held at Bethel Friday evening. Sunday, January 2, at 4 o'clock, a Baptismal service will he held at Bethel. The pastor, the Rev W. H. Price, will deliver a sermon—theme, "Infant Baptism and Its Significance." THE NEW YORK AGE can be secured at 265 Chestnut street. Miss N. H. Scofield has recovered from two weeks' illness. Mrs Fd Colter and little son have an attack of the grip, but are improving. HACKENSACK, N. I Hackensack, N. J. - Miss Susie Potts, Charleston, S. C., is spending some time with her sister, Mrs. J. P. E. Love, High street. An interesting debate was given at the A. M. K Zion Church December 22, "Ought Women be given the Vote," under the auspices of Sacrifice Club, Miss Mary Harris, president, The affirmative, Mrs. Mary Morrow, Mrs. L. L. Somerville and Eugene Morris, Jr.; negative, essrs. William Green, Fred Hayes and the Rev. J. E. Morris. The judges decided in favor of the affirmative. Mrs. L. L. Mamms, Richard Johnson, William Russell and Master Lawrence Johnson, Beech street, spent a merry Christmas in Baltimore, Md., with relatives and friends. The Rev. J. P. E. Love filled his pulpit Sunday. the proprietor, as a token of her good dec 30. 2t. Theatre, Mrs. Zelina Sunday, Sunday rendered a part of its Christmas exercises. Sunday, evening. Excellent Christmas music and recitations were rendered to a good crowd. The ex- ercises will be concluded Tuesday evening, December 28. Mr. J. R: Dillard, superintendent. ELIZABETH. N. J. Elizabeth, N. J.—Memorial services in honor of the late Booker T. Washington were held at the Union Baptist Church, Sunday, the Rev. T. W. Freeman, master of ceremony. Among the guests were Rev. Ralph L. C. Hurdle, the Rev. W. S. Jones of Roselle, Mayor Victor Mravley, Dr. L. A. Laurence, and son of Washington's favorite melodies were sung. A sacred concert was rendered at Union Baptist Church at 8 p. m. Goodwin Davis was hit by an automobile Christmas Day sustaining a fracture in his right knee. J. R. Ross Jones, 119 Rector street is improving after undergoing a serious operation. Deacon Kit Jordan left Thursday to spend Christmas-wit hils relatives at Winwiddy, Va. Mrs. Lamb, Centre street, and her sister, Miss Mary Williams, are spend-ings with their parents at Williamsburg, Va. The Shiloh Baptist Church has 19 conerts for baptism. PERTH AMBOY N L Fourth Amboy, N. J.—John Fields, East avenue, fell and broke his wrist at his work at the cable works. He is retiring relatives at his home. He father of Alex Wilson. Division street is all at his home. Mrs Walter Gibson, State street, entertained Sunday evening Mr. and Mrs Bowy. East avenue. Mrs Harvey. East avenue, entertained Christmas Day. Mr. and Mrs Howard Anthony, Davenport street, were entertained by Mr. and Mrs Lavita Wilson. Division street is Sunday evening. Nobody holds a home from Downtown school to spend the holidays with his parents. Mrs James Jackins, Division street, entertained friends Christmas evening. Mr and Mrs Ratery and sister, Irena Anthony, Front street, sas gone to Downtown, Danbury, Conn. to spend the Christmas holidays with their mother. LAKEWOOD N J Lebowel N. J.-Last Sunday Mrs. A. Vance Clark presented the Rev. Mr. W. Johns, pastor of Zion V. M. E. Church, and Mrs. Johns, pastor of Winston Churchill. The artworks were purchased with money taken on an art collection for three Sundays. New York spent the holidays with his wife, Lokew, of Walter Harris remains quoted. Watch-might services will be held as usual at the Sixth Street Baptist Church, the Church of the Mission Church and Macedonian Baptist Church. Miss Florence Marshall spent the holidays in New York. Mrs. and Mrs. Arthur Budd remains buried in the Church. The Manhattan Boys will give a dance at the skating rink January 4. SOMERVILLE. N. I. Somerville, N. J.—Mrs. Albert Anten and Mrs. Charles Johnson are visiting the Rev. and Mrs. T. A Anten at Cambridge Mrs. Akens entertained friends during the holidays. Mrs. George Kline entertained her mother, Mrs Mary Condit, of Lambertville, and Mr. and Mrs. B. Woolsey, of New Brunswick. Christmas RALEIGH N C RULEIGH, N. C.-Mrs. Charles Perry is visiting her brother in Spring Hope, N. C. Dr. and Mrs. R. S. Vass of Burlington, N. C. are here visiting relatives. Mrs Robert Milligan and her mother, Mrs Mary Williams, are here from Brooklyn, N. Y. Visiting her son and brother, Mark Williams. Harry Satterwhite, father of the Rev. James K. Satterwhite, arrived in the city to be present at the marriage of his son. Mrs Lizzie Thompson accompanied by her little niece, Lillian Ancrum, from Newport News, Va., are guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. McOey, Last Martin Mrs. J. B. Cornelison from Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada, arrived in the city last Friday and is guest of her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Latham, Last street. In token of the Christmas, all the colored churches in the city were decorated with evergreen and symbols St Ambrose Protestant Episcopal Church administered commun at 5 and 11 a.m. on Christmas day. Dr. L. T Delaney, E. J Thornton, J. T Thornton, F. G Ransom, Mr Charles O'Kelley and Miss Anne E Hawkins went to Chapel Hill last Wednesday to witness the marriage of W. I Hawkins to Miss Rosa Kirkland Miss Helen Davis, student at Kittrell College, is here visiting her mother during the holidays. William Dunn, formerly of Norfolk, Va., is visiting friends in Wakeforest, N. C. N. C Vincent, student in the medical department of the University of Penns- yttania, is visiting his parents here Mrs. Charles Murley of Payetteville, N. C., is here visiting her brother, Daniel Polk, South McDowell street. Miss E. M. Coleman of Philadelphia, Pa., was in the city last week, and gave several recitals to appreciative audiences in churches and schools. Miss Coleman is an elocutionist of merit. Lam Rogers, head waiter at the Yar brough Hotel in this city, met your corresponde nt a few days before Christmas day, and tendered him an invi tation to dine at the Yarbrough Hotel on Christmas day, saying that the proprietor, B. H. Griffin, at the request of his wife, had ordered that the entire force of colored help be served with a Christmas dinner in the hotel dining room at 11 o'clock a.m. Promptly at 11 o'clock we were there, and lead by Mr. Rogers (a prince in hotel service) into the dining room which was elegantly decorated for the Christmas occasion. We greeted young men, young women, old men and old women, all neatly dressed standing around tables loaded with turkey and other toothsome viands, including coffee, tea and sweet heats, all of which "looked good" to your correspondent. E. H. Spence, the hotel manager, invoked the blessing, and before we began to eat, said: This dinner is served out at the request of Mrs. B. H. Griffin, wife of the proprietor, a token of his love. will have to be on the hotel. Your efficient and helpful service during the past year has not only pleased the proprietor and his wife but the traveling public as well. If you continue in the future to give efficient service as you have in the past, you may rest assured that we will deal justly by you-give, praise to those who merit it. Mr) Rogers, asked Mr. DeBerry to act as master of ceremony, and he called on the writer for a speech. We gave a short talk on "Efficient Service." Several of the chambermaids and waiters made short speeches belitting the occasion and Mr. Rogers closed with a solendid address. Mr. Handy, Johnson, a popular chauffeur, while out delivering a party of gentlemen in West Raleigh was shot in the shoulder by a party evidently under the influence of whisky, who past hint in an automobile about 10 o'clock last Friday night. Dr. F. J. Thornton extracted the ball and the patient is doing as well as can be expected. By reason of darkness Mr. Johnson is unable to identify the guilty party. However, detectives are working on the case. Dr. Dennis Brouch, a Raleigh boy, now practicing medicine in Newport, Tenn. is in the city visiting his parents and it is rumored that he will take unto himself a better half before returning to his field of labor. Mrs. Lettie Allen of Dublin, Ga., is in the city visiting her mother, Mrs John O'Gary, South Blount street. The First Baptist Church Sunday School celebrated the Christmas festival last Miniday evening. More than six hundred packages containing candy, prints and nuts were given to the members of this Sunday School. Col Jas H. Young, superintendent, called on the writer to say a few words. After a short talk by the superintendent the exercises closed. Mrs Anna J. Cooper, a teacher in the M Street High School, Washington, D.C., in the city visiting her brother, Col Andrew Haywood Mrs Ed R Carter of Winston, N. C. is in the city spending the holidays with her father, Col James H. Young. HOT SPRINGS, VA. Hot Springs, Va — The Rev. C. W. Wright, of Warm Springs, Va., preached at Smith Chapel Sunday, December 26th. School of Mt Pisgah Baptist Church held their usual Christmas services Friday night, December 24th. Monday night, December 27th, the friends of Smith Chapel had a Christmas tree that contained presents for the children. Tuesday night, December 28th, Miss Mary Tweedy gave a farewell social entertainment which was highly appreciated. The invited guests were Miss Natalie Samson, Miss Lula Wright, W. M. Marti, Miss Martha Burrell of Enclave, Va., and Artur T. of Stroudsburg, who were present at Wake Shipur Va. December 21st. The couple spent a few days at the church with Miss Jesse Burrell and Andrew Burrell They left Saturday morning for the brides home at Fincastle, Va. Chas Ross and B. A Finney gave a delightful matinee dance in the Waiters' Social Hall, Thursday afternoon, December 23, which was largely attended by the Brooks, of Washington, D. C., who is hot Springs with the president. Tasty refreshments were served. Music by the Homestead Sextette. Friday evening, December 24, Scheper's Homestead Troubadours gave a cabaret show in the lobby of the hotel. The symphony numbers were played and sung the president and his bride tapped their feet on the floor in perfect time. The cabaret performers in their best Christmas spirits remembered the president's preference for syncopated music. The person of the company was the Tempest. The Tempest Banks, harp guitar; Herman Jones, mandolin, Asa Sheper, drums and traps; J. H Godwin, saxophone and mandolin, leader, Geo. Colbert, piano and comedian. One act that plaused the president especially was the barber shop pantomime by two of the cabaret performers. Mike Nelson Royall, of New York, is spending the holidays with her mother here. Miss Viola Cousins, teacher of Healing Springs public school, will spend a dshawatsaes 123456 123456 123456123 Miss Sarah Dickson, who underwent an operation for appendicitis at the University of Virginia hospital last week, is getting on nicely. A L. Fraser is the proud father of a woman who has two weeks old. Mother and son are getting well. The stork has again visited the home of R. N. Smith, Jr. This time he left a daughter Billard and M Saunders are spending the holidays with their families at Glasgow, Va. STAUNTON VA Staunton, Va -Come Allen and sister Helen are spending the holidays here visiting their parents Mr and Mrs Vatel Spencer spent Christmas in Charlottesville, Va Frank Woodson, Oliver Dentt and Bolden brothers arrived here to spend the holidays. They are students at Virginia N. U., Richmond, Va Misses Lillian Moore, Carrie Woodson, Gladys Perkins, Alice Jackson, of Hartshorn College, Richmond, Va., are spending the holidays at home Charles Scott 'arrived here Thursday from Virginia Hot Springs to spend a few days with his parents. Mr and Mrs John Parkes and son are visiting here from High Point, N. C The Rev Johnson, of Lynchburg, Va., was here visiting his mother, who is sick. Master Edward White, of Washington D. C. is visiting his parents. Bargain in 4 story dwellings, 136th st. near Lenox ave., fine private block, 16x 1000, termite free. 16x1000 price $7600, terms to sell; possession; brokers protected. Senior & Stout, Inc. 81 W. 50th St., cor 6th Ave. dqc23-3t 215 West 40th Street TWO WEEKS' FREE RENT For Reliable Respectable Families Desire a fine home centrally located; 6 rooms, bath; halls heated, hot water supply; excellent janitor service. Apply MRS. O'HAGAN. Mias Plaid Pannell entertained friends at her home Christmas Eve. De, and Mrs. Chavls, of Waynesboro, were in the city Friday. A party of young people were delightfully entertained by Dr. and Mrs. Chavis at their home in Waynesboro, Saturday evening. Miss Helen Moore, who is secretary of the Clarmont Industrial School, is home for the holidays. S. J. Bailey was in Waynesboro visiting during Christmas. C. E. Smith, of Hampton Institute faculty, is visiting Dr. and Mrs. Pannell. Miss Maggie Brown, of Charlottesville passed through Staunton enroute from Lexington. BRISTOL, VA STAUNTON, VA. STAUNTON, Va.—Miss Mary E. Banks left for her home, Bacon's Castles, Va. Robt. Southall died Friday at Sunnyside and was buried Sunday evening from the Mt Zion Baptist Church, the Rev Mr Brown obstructing, with the Rev Mr Pannell assisting. Undertaker Billups had charge Miss Rose Burke is sick. Mrs M W Pannell is improved. Mrs J A Brown gives a concert at Mt Zion Baptist Church Thursday, December 30 Mrs Sussex Henry, Miss Martha Southall, Miss Adelain Jones and Mrs Mary B Johnson, of Pittsburgh, Pa., arrived Sunday to attend the funeral of Robt. Southall The Junior Epworth League rendered a Christmas program at Aug Street Church, December 25 Miss Effie A. Johnson, superintendent. Major Jones, of Richmond, Va., visited Mrs Matilda White recently. PHILADELPHIA, PA PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—So elaborate were the services in the Negro churches on Sunday in honor of the nativity, that the feast day might be said to have had a second celebration, equal, if not superior to the festivities of Christmas Day. The center program of the feast was in nativity care, where a number of churches the holiday was specially observed instead of on the previous day. Ivers service had the ring and joy of Christmas tide running through it, without the holiday feature of the feast proper. The services were especially imposing in the two Negro Catholic and the eight Negro Episcopal churches. The majority of Sunday Schools celebrated the feast in the afternoon and in some instances had the annual festival for poor Negro children. Mrs Charles Cook, of Washington, D. C., is in the city attending the Jones Robinson wedding. APARTMENTS 2232 Fifth Avenue, 5 rooms. Rents, $171 West 133rd Street, 5 rooms and $435 West 35th Street, 4 rooms. Rents, 2210-Fifth Avenue, 5 rooms with steal. Private House to Let. 22 West 133rd. APPLY TO JANITOR NAIL & PARK Phone 7682-3 Morning. Philip Payton REAL ESTATE A HOT WATER SUPPLY 30 West 135th Street 6 Rooms Telephone Harlem 917-918. To We Move 212-214-218 and Apartments, 3 large, light rooms, tric bells have been newly installed. 7 able colored tenants only. 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Inquire JANITOR, 3 Huberth 9-16-4t 253 West 59th Street, 312 West|59th St., 324-324 West SEVEN LIGHT ROOMS, floor SIX ROOMS, improvements, one through; $25 and $27. Quiet, well family on a floor, $16. Quiet, well kept house. Inquire JANITOR, 312 West 59th Street Huberth @ Huberth 9-16-4t 253 West 58th Street 9-16-4t the Opium of 1,000 people, with a number of reasons for Objective writing Over of All Negro Work in the North to the Board of Freedmen, was the title to a paper read by the Rev Matthew Anderson, pastor of the Beean Presbyterian Church, before the Philadelphia Presbytery at Bethany Presbyterian Church December 6, and created much comment. At the Magdalen Home for Negro Child, Chew street and Stenton avenue, a turkey dinner was served-and Santa Maria Council, Knight of Columbus, sent toys, books, candies, etc. ART WORK FROM AFRICAN TRIBE (continued from page one) must have been the growth of many centuries. This culture showed itself to their first discoverer through such sculptures and articles of furniture and ceremony as are now in the American Museum of Natural History. Like all African tribes, they were very musical, and their instruments include gongs and bells of varied forms as well as stringed instruments and some that resemble our zylophones, so far as the sounds they produce are concerned. Some of these "gongs" are made of the soft-toned redwood with handles carved in semblance of native types and with broad, flat bells, in which are always two carved clappers. Others are long, wooden, tent-shaped structures, which are beaten with hammers. Still other instruments are made in the form of a man with the trunk of the body flattened and hollowed out and with what would be the chest fitted with eight "notes" in the form of thin pieces of wood that are plucked up and let fall on the hollowed surface to produce the desired sounds. Earrings on Sculpture. There are other and cruder pieces of sculpture used as boxes for small objects by the natives with a head and legs of some light colored wood dotted with brown spots, the trunk being fashioned into a circular box covered with bark. Some of the crudest of these wooden figures have earrings of common yellow glass beads strung on wire in their ears, the only suggestion of intercourse with white men among all these things. Herbert Lang and James P. Chapin, who headed this expedition, also brought back with them specimens of the carved stools made and used by the Manggettu people. The native beds in the collection are much the same as those made for the earl Euphemus, similar to those which appear in their tomb butts. Notion is known, as yet, of the connection between the ancient Egyptians and these tribes in the heart of Africa, and no one knows whether they took their musical instruments, beds and other things from the dwellers along the Nile or whether the reverse was the case. 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LANGSTON Phone 3056 Harle 59th St., 324-324 West SIX ROOMS, improvements, one family on a floor, $16. Quiet, well kept house. 12 West 59th Street @ Huberth 58th Street Miles E. Bang Cole is waiting relatives in Baltimore. The Sunday cantain at Bethel was very well attended. Aachibah Fools has returned from a business trip to Baltimore. Mrs. Georgianna Rice, of Powrman, Md., is visiting her son, A. M. Rice. Miss A. Brown, 288 West 59th street, spent the Christmas holidays out of town. Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Aylor, 334 West 83d street, are the proud parents of a son. Chester Booth, of Chicago, Ill., is waiting for Victoria Bishop, 217 West 836 street. Mrs. Priscilla McLaughlin, 51 West 83d street, will entertain a few friends Thursday evening. Persons wishing books by colored authors may apply to Young's Book Exchange, 185 West 158th Street, N. Y. City, "The Book Sellers of Harlem." Mrs. Florence Martina, of this city, attended the funeral of Mrs. Lewis Payne at Ithaca, N. Y. Mrs. Jessie Nelson Royall, of this city, is spending the holidays with her sister in Hot Springs, Va. Justine A. Albert, 68 West 100th street, is spending the Christmas holidays in Washington, D. C. Mrs. Ruth Fortune, of this city, was the guest of Mrs. Margaret Jenkins Sunday, at Douglass, N. Y. Albert Demps, 130 West 134th street, arrived in the city last Tuesday after an extensive visit in the South, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin W. Royall will be at home January 10 from 6 to 8 p. m., at 174 West 187th street. Attention! For real Human Hair, which is guaranteed to stand combing, call or write to Madam Baum, 486 Eighth Avenue, City. Mrs. Mary Sumada, 262 West 133rd street, died last Thursday and was buried Sunday from St. Philip's Church. Mr. and Mrs. F. K. O'Niel, 251 West 143rd street, had as their Christmas dinner guests, Geo. W. Allen and Frank Nesbitt. Mrs. John Clarkson, of this city, is spending the holidays visiting her sister, Mrs. Geo. Williams, 111-2 Varick, Binghamton, N. Y. Miss Rebecca Dawson, 153 West 133rd street, was married to Joseph Parker, 683 West 133rd street, at St. Mark's Church on December 38. Miss Carrietta V. Owens, of the National League on Upson Conditions, gave her family with her family at Newport, R. I. Last Sunday, Miss Ida May Bostick, 67 West 136th street, was married to Gerald T. Belle, 7 West 137th street, at St. Philip's P. E. Church. Mma. Solika is connected with the Martin-Smith School, situated at 139 West 130th Street, where she will instruct in voice culture. Robert Douglas, 138 West 137th street, entertains next Saturday evening in honor of his mother, Mrs. Butterfield's seventy-fifth birthday. Miss Ruth Williams, 159 West 61st street, had as her guests last Sunday, Miss Luella McLaughlin, Miss Eda Cummings and William Butler. Mrs. Graves, of New York, Mrs. Sarah Logan and Mrs. Laura Bull, of Jersey City, were visiting their mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Hicks, of Douglason, N. Y. Mrs. Casselena McRory and daughter, Mrs. Anna McRory, of Newark, were guests Christmas Day of their mother, Mrs. M. Lowry, East 101st street. Miss Stella Brooks, of Howard University, and Mrs. Mayme Brown, of Crooms, Md., are visiting their father, the Rev. W. H. Brooks, West 53d street. Dr. Raymond Villaire Cabeche, formerly a member of the Haitian Chamber of Deputies, is the guest while in New York of William E. Gross, 219 West 134th street. The New York Chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha gave an entertainment last Monday evening at the Music School Settlement, 4-6 West 131st street, in honor of out of town chapters. December 22, Chas. A. Brown, 149 West 131st street, was married at St. Mark's Church to Miss Mary Macon, 246 West 131st street. Attendants wore Rebecca Middleton and John D. Haddwin. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Terrell entertained to dinner December 27, Mrs. and Miss C. Sylvester, of Long Branch; Jas, Trent, of St. Louis; Wm. Collins and Miss James and Mrs. James, of New York. Mrs. Harry M. Winslow, 120 West 193th St., and Miss Madeline Fowler, 383 East 161st St., are spending the holidays in Little Falls, N.Y., the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Wright. Dr. E. P. Robert left the city Wednesday night and will join Major R. R. Moton at Charlottesville, Va., accompanying him to Tuskegee Institute, Ala. Dr. Roberts will return to the house he in his office Wednesday, January 5. Mrs. Lizzie Jackson, formerly of Wilmington, Del., now Providence, R. I., associated with the Industrial School, and Miss Maymo Brown, teacher in public schools, Wilmington, Del., are spending the holidays with Miss Anna E. Brown, 148 West 63d street, who will be entertained by Grand Master Brown and wife at 2315 7th avenue. Sunday, December 26, at Mother Zlon Church, 136th street, the christening of the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Brooks, 407 Central Park West, was performed by the Rev. J. B. Brown, assisted by Bishop J. S. Brown, assisted by the Rev. Grand Master Broom, of G. U. O. of O. F., and wife. Dinner was served at the home of parents. Mrs. Jane B. Walker Thompson, residing at Clinton Court in West 8th street, New York City, departed this week with the full triumph of faith. Mrs. Thompson was one of the oldest New Yorkers and had religious connections for many years with the Judson Memorial Baptist Church of Washington Square, and also Abysinian Baptist Church. Bentrice Corrine, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Stovall, 209 West 27th street, was christened by the Rev. St. Peter de Stefela, pastor of the St. Peters Mo. church, on Thursday evening. The goddonna were Miss Carrie Lambert and Robert Cousins of New York City. Those present included: Mrs. Alma Winston, Mr. and Mrs. James Chamberls, John Ross, Archie Booker, Miss Johnson, Robert Cousins, Mies Carrie Lambert. A luncheon was served. The Rev. H. N. Jeter, pastor Philosh Baptist Church, R. L. will conference at Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, West 53d street, on Monday, January 3, on the subject "The Present Condition and the Future of the Foreign Element In the United States." Dr. Jeter delivered the same address before the Newport minister before the Providence ministers on December 27. On January 17 he will speak in Boston, and he is considering engagements for Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington and Richmond. John H. Murphy, publisher' of the Baltimore Afro-American, spent several days in New York City this week on a business trip. Though he celebrated the seventy-fifth anniversary of his birth Christmas Day, he is looking the picture of health. Born in Baltimore, Edison Macy was added to the private schools of that city. He served in one of the Maryland regiments during the Civil war. He enjoys the distinction of having been the only colored man to serve as a junior department commander of the Maryland G. A. R. He is well known in the Masonic fraternity, having served as imperial potentate of the Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Scholars, and been drawn as a member of the Baltimore Grand Jury for the January term. MASON Hire Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New York (Incorporated). At the seventh regular annual session of the members held at 344 West 59th street, Borough of Manhattan, City of New York, the following named officers were duly elected and installed for the year 1916: Jordan E. Leftwich, grand master; Morris E. Denton, deputy grand master; Robert Pleasant, senior grand master; Robert W. Johnson, junior grand warrior; Thomas J. Dickerson, grand treasurer; John W. Williams, gran secretary; Christmas Dinner G. H. Jones, 142 West 133d street, entertained a few friends Christmas were Mr. and Mrs. Alboro, Miss Willie Miss E. Dorsay, C. Murphy, Mrs. B. Rawlings, Miss Fry, Mr. Royal, W. Ellis, B. Ellis Music School Settlement Notes. Owing to the holiday activities at St. George's Church, his pupil Burtele Burleng, Chas Safford, organist, are compelled to postpone their program to Sunday, January 16, at 3:30 o'clock. The next concert of the lecture-recital series will be Sunday afternoon, January 8, and the artists will be named next week. The students are 32 and their friends are cordially invited to be present from 4 to 9 o'clock at the Christmas tree and Tuletie feast. Music and dancing will be enjoyed and admission is free. G. Colon-Torres, Spanish instructor, has returned to the city and will be glad be gla to meet his pupils at the recital. The Helen Hagan piano recital will occur on Thursday, January 20. The Tuesday evening dancing class, under supervision of Miss Carrietta Owens, is increasing in numbers and interest. The Late Rev. Chas. Ackworth. To the Editor of The New Being associated with the Rev. Chas Ackworth more than thirty years and being a member with him of the Virginal Church over $5 years ago, though very much afflicted I deemed it my duty to be present at his funeral. One of my friends and a friend of the Church, by some to be of little importance I concluded that there would not be a large number of people in my opinion as there was not 100 persons present at the funeral of one of the greatest and humblest preachers of our time. Beth church should have been crowded. Before becoming a member of Pittsburgh Conference, A. M E Church, I served as pastor and preaching elder of the church, and felt it to be my duty I contend his funeral. I regret that I witnessed what I did. I admit that the members of the interdenominational Treasurer Meeting, the dean of the New York Clergy, Dr. Culien and others, Rector Cilton of the Episcopal Church, Chaplain Anderson, the only known ministerial adviser of the New York Clergy were present and many other ministers. The chapinil delivered an earnest testimony, touching upon the faithful work of the degened Dr. Rankin, missionary secretary of A. M. E. Church, was present and more testimony to the untiring work of the degened Dr. Rankin, worth in his work with inmates behind the prison bars. The members of the New York Conference, of which he was formerly present in large numbers, were present. The relatives were present. Presiding Elder Cooper said that they could not be located hence there was not anyone to all in his charge. Cooper stated that Dr. Arnett was indisposed, though I learned that he had recovered sufficiently from his recent illness, and present at his service on Sunday night. The shameful thing about his funeral allowed his remains to be conveyed to the cemetery within, one alba conch, the the hearse and the undertaker. Such FOR THE COLORED RACE. Maintained by the governments of the United States and of North Carolina. Open all the schools and universities only. Three strong departments—Academic, Agricultural and Mechanical. Night School for needy students. Well equipped Trade School. Advance courses leading to the Degrees of Bachelor of Science in Agriculture and Bachelor of Science in Mechanics. Board, lodging and tuition $8.00 per month. Fall term begins September 1, 1915. Write for catalogue or free tuition. 9-9 1-1yr JAMES B. DUDLEY, President, Greenboro, H. C. treatment to such a worthy man is a disgrace to our connection. I made it my mission to unite the members of the connection to unquire the did not need the cemetery. I was informed that an undertaker was ordered to bury him an cheap falg, learned through Mr. Thomas, who was a member of the cemetery. I have a casket at coffin rates and would get his money when conference convened. It may be thought that the matter is too much of that kind of business going on now. Had he been what some term a big-gun preacher, such treatment would be too much of that kind of business going on. The rank of the Interdenominational Preachers. Meeting, for they were only waiting for the command from Bethel and not for the regard of the expense. We have four one of our cleanest and most upright preachers. Peace to his ashes. Rest for J. HARRIS ACCOE The Christmas service was inspiring. For the past eleven years we have suspended our regular service and made our church a blessing for the poor of the neighborhood. Through the efforts of Miss Rosalie M. Jonas and our pastor, the Rev. Geo. H. Sims, we have raised $438.25 was collected for the Christmas fund. There were 151 baskets contributed to the poor, containing a chicken, a loaf of bread, potatoes, apples, oranges, mixed nuts and candy. Five hundred pieces of clothing, 65 apples, 75 carrots, 70 verricarts and toys for 600 children. This week we spend our Christmas service. Some of the workers and the pastor have been unable to spend Christmas Day at home with their family for the past eleven years on account of serving the poor. Sunday morning at 11 a.m., the pastor preached from the subject, "The Bright and Morning Star." In spite of the storm a splendid crowd was present. At 2 p. m., the Sunday School held its usual session under W. H. Johnson. The children are looking forward to the Christmas stree on Thursday night. At 4 p. m., the Missionary Circle had a glorious meeting. The B. Y. P. U, at 5:30 p. m., under Mr. Thaddus was well attended. Excellent program rendered in keeping with the Christmas season. At the pastor filled the pulpit and preached a soul stirring, subject, "Angelic Greetings." Three were happily converted. NOTICE. Sunday, January 2, 1916, at the union meeting to be held at the Palace Casino, 136th street and Madison avenue. Dr. A. Clayton Powell, pastor of the Union Baptist Church, will use the speaker. The Union Baptist Church B. Y. P. U will have memorial service in honor of the late Dr. Booker T. Washington. Salem M. E. Church. Last Sunday was observed as Christmas Sunday. All services were largely attended. The Rev. F. A. Cullen, pastor, preached in the morninf from the text "And the Angel said unto them: Fear not; for behold, I bring you good additions of great joy, which shall all people. Several persons were added to the church, and the Christmas offerings were good. The Epworth League, in charge of Miss E. James and Mrs. L. S. Perry, presented a program, the subject being "Race." Next Sunday, at the Lycceum, Counselor E. A. Johnson will deliver the Emancipation address. Watch meeting will be held in the lecture room and in the main auditorium Friday night, at 9 o'clock. Harlem Congregational Church. At the Harlem Congregational Church, the Rev Mr. Holder minister, preached at 8 p.m. text: "There came wise men from the earth." The attendance was large and the mu sic was as Inspiring the Y P S C E. W was delivered by Master Theodore Haastings. The Sunday School Christmas Tree The Christmas Tree will be on Frida Watch-night service will begin at 10 o'clock Friday, December 31. ENGAGEMENT . ANNOUNCEMENT. Mr and J. F. Harrison of 627 East 153rd street, announce the engagement of his daughter, Ethel E. Harrison, to Mr W. J. Worland of 747 West 98th street. TAILOR WANTED. An all-round tailor, designer and cutter. Sobriety sure No 1 man preferred, none other need apply. Wanted by Jan 1. TRY 2009 2008 2nd Ave., Bessemer, Ala. —dec 30-41. AGENTS WANTED WANTED WANTED for margarite colored men and women to handle big paying proposition $5 to $10 per day No experience required Write at once to RALPH W TYLER, Columbus, Ohio. IF U DON'T C CONSULT Dr. Kaplan The Eyesight Specialist RELIABLE AND REASONABLE EYES EXAMINED FREE 531 LENOX AVE. OPP. HARLEM HOSPITAL PHONE 9348 AUDUBON FOR REVIVAL WORK. By R. A. TORREY, D. D. Supet. Moody Bible Institute. How to Bring Men to Christ. Cloth, 75c. Imper. 89c. How to Work for Christ 8vo, Cloth. $2.60 How to Work for Christ and Conduct a Successful Revival, $11.00 Remit by P O or express money order or registered letter E. M. BROADVAX E N. BHOAADNAX, 131 W. 136th St., New York, N. Y. BROOKLYN NOTES Mr. Stubbs, of Boston, is visiting his sister, Mrs. Richard Birnle, 466 Herkimer street. Merle R. Epps, 466 Halsey street, spant the holidays with his wife in Lakewood, N. J. Mrs. Blanche Wade-Wright, Dean street, is spanting the holidays in Washington, D. C. Mrs. R. Z. Atwell, of this city, attended the funeral of Mrs. Lewis Payne at Itchua, N. Y. The Gan Hair Parks, 285 Duffield house, is one of their most illuminated catalogues, showing the latest styles and prices of up-to-date hair goods. Do not wait, but send at once. If costs you nothing, we send them free. John H. Irf Harry Gant, 431 Herkimer street, who has been confined with a sprained ankle, will soon be out again. John W. Dudley, 431 Herkimer street, is confined to his bed with the grip. Dr. Birnle is attending him. Mr. and Mrs. Kemp, 167 Pulton street, head at their seats for Christmas dinner Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jackson, Sr. Mrs. Mary E. Slade, 231 Duffield street, tendered a holiday party Wednesday evening, December 29, to about seventy-five friends. Mr. and Mrs. Clement De Costa, 995 Bryerson street, entertained a few guests with dancing, Friday, December 24. MME. C. J. HAMLIN 490 Vanderbilt avenue, Telephone 728 W. Prospect. Open evenings. Mme. C. J. Walker's System. Results guaranteed. Mall orders promptly dilled. May-8-30s. Mrs. Robert Milligan and her mother, Mrs. Mary Williams, of this city, are the brother, Mark Williams in Raleigh, N. C. Mrs. Robert Fearing, 85 Marion street, who has been visiting her mother-in-law in Washington, D. C., is expected home this week. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jackson, 286 Herkimer street, entertained the following guests at dine Sunday, De March 16, 2015. Mr. and Mrs. C. Dudley, Fred Day and Hirry Jackson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Felix Gordon, 1402 Borgen street, had as their dinner guests Saturday, December 26, Mrs. Farrrell, Mrs. Walker, Mr. and Mrs. Chas, Christian and the babies. After dinner social games of whist were enjoyed. Rent the New Summer Hall for Balls, Recognition, Weddings, Parties and Lodge Rooms. The New Summer Street. All have just been renovated and the accommodations are second to none. The new electric light system and large exteriors are now in place at the temporary halls in Brooklyn. It is centrally located. For terms and dates see John Woodenbury, 72 Albany Ave. Phones 6434 and 4161 Bedford. nov11-31 DIED. Mr. Janie L. Pleasant of 18 W. 134th St. Chapel of M. Mrs. Hutchinson, died Thursday, Dec. 16. Interment, Calvary Cemetery, J. C. Thomas, undertaker. She leaves to mourn their loss, mother, father, sister and brothers. DIED. TAYLOR, Albert J. Jr.-December 27, 1815. In Ruffalo, J. Jr. Jr. infant son of Albert J and Anna Taylor (nee Seren), aged 7 months, 24 days. The funeral took place from the family room, 1838 Madison Avenue, Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. IN MEMORIAM In loving memory of my darling husband, Ellas Arthur Brown, who departed this life, December 20, 1914. Peaceful in my grave so low. Peaceful be thy rests. And the sunbeams love To tinger where my sainted husband sleeps. His eye is on the Sparrow And I know He watches thee. Loving wife. Sara D. Brown. COAL All grades of Lehigh Coal at current prices. Phone Everett Payne, 151 Bedford, 281 Tompkins avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. Dec.23-3mo. REMOVAL NOTICE. Dr. E. VALENTINE BUCK has removed to 138 W. 46th street. Phone 1473 Bryant. Dec.9-41. 47TH ST., 250 W.-Apartment, 3 large rooms, modern improvements, hot water, Respectable colored tenants. Reduced rents. Apply JANITOR, Room 3 Dec23-4t 99TH ST.; 5 E.—4 rooms and bath, hot water, heated bath room, $15; the only room in the block for colored JANITOR. 136TH ST. 155 W.-Four-story white house that has 12-floor Photos Apply to Charles A. Davis agent, Mother Zlon Church, 161-3 W. 136th st. FURNISHED ROOMS TO LET. 20TH ST., 249 W—Two comfortable furl nished rooms, all conventions for light housekeeping, $3 and $4 per week. Miss Kountz. Dec 9-41 WALTER F. CRAIG 483 Hancock St., Brooklyn july 24.3m 28 Belford MENTAL SCIENCES and 7th Avenues New York City NOTT, Principal $1.00 up. READING BY APPOINT- the Present Day is for SUCCESS! all The Clio School of cures These to You. TELEPHONE 6483 Morningside TECHNICAL COLLEGE (GE) GREENSBORO, N. C. by the governments of the United all the year round. For males only. Agricultural and Mechanical. Night oped Trade School. Advance courses science in Agriculture and Bachelor POST·CARDS OF LATE BOOKER T. WASHINGTON Single and Groups, 100 for 50c. Photos, 11x14, 50c and $1.00. Address SMITH CARD COMPANY $58 East 224th St. New York City BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY. WANTED—WILL give bad interest in the company. Will accept all types of business completes; great opportunity. HELEN SMITH, Dale, Inaba RELIGIOUS NOTICES. ABYSSINIAN BAPTIST CHURCH, 525 West 40th St. between 7th and 5th Ave. Services—11 a. m. and 7.28 p. m. Holy Communion every first Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. Sunday School 1.58 p. m. Sunday Maternity Band prayer Tuesday 8 p. m.-Missionary Society, prayer and praise service, Thursday 8 p. m.-B. Y. P. U. musical and literary project, 4 p. m.-Highway and Hedges Dedication 8 p. m., general prayer meeting. Rev. A. Clayton Powell, D. D., pastor; residence, 240 W. 40th street, phone, Bryant, 7468. MOTHER A. A. M. E. ZION CHURCH, 161-153 W. 45th St. Rev. J. W. Brown, Bryant, 7468 Sunday Morning Class—12.30 p. m. Sun- day Morning Class—12.30 p. m. Varki Christian Friday Night, 8:40 Weekly Meetings Class Meetings every Tuesday and Wednesday evening. Meetings every Thursday and Saturday. SEATS FREE. PUBLIC INVITED. M.T. OLIVET BAPSTH CHURCH 189-161 West 653 street, between 6th and 7th avenues. Rew. Wm. P. M. pastor. Preschling Services every Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7.20 p. m. Sunday School at 2.20 p. m. Sundays. U. meets every Sunday at 5.30 p. m. B. Y. P. U. Literary meets every Wednesday at 8 p. m. Young Men's Social Club, every month on the third Monday evening. Visitors are made welcome. June-19 ST. DAVID'S CHURCH, 384 East 160th Street, Chicago, Illinois. Clifton, D. D., Rector, 312 East 157th Street. Sunday Services. All Seats Free—11 a. m. Morning Prayer, Litany and Sermon. Sunday School 2 30 p. m., 8 p. m., evening service. A cordial welcome to all. ST. CYPIAN'S CHAPEL PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL, 177 W 58d Street. REGION NO. W. JOHNSON, Priest in charge. Sunday Services—11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Sunday School 3 30 p. m. A CORDIAL WELCOME TO ALL. ST. MARK'S METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 53d street, near Eighth avenue, New York City. Parking Books, D. D. Residence 316 West 53d street. Preaching—11 a. m. and 7 45 p. m. Prayer Meetings—Friday evening at 8:30 and Sunday morning at 6 o'clock. Lyceum—Sunday at 4 p. m., Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. Epworth League—Sunday at 8:30 p. m. Glassees Tuesday and Wednesday evenings at 8:30 and Sunday at 1 p. m. Holy Communion—Second Sunday evening in each month. Welcome to all april-19 SALEM METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 102-4 West 133rd street, the Rev Frederick Asbury Cullen, pastor. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:45 p. m., Sun- Sunny School, 2.30 p. m., L. S. Perry superintendent, Men's Bible class 4 p. m., D. N. Thompson structor Lyceum 4 p. m., Sundays, 2.30 p. Garrett 6 p. m., president Epworth League 6 p. m., Sundays, L. S. Perry, president Creeley Tuesday and Wednesday nights, and at 1 p. m., Sundays. Prayer meeting, Friday night. 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