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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." The "HERE S ESTABLISHED 1882. GREAT WORK OF FREEDMEN'S AID Sustains Many Schools In South For Afro-Americans. UNDER LIBERAL REGIME. RFGNN Opportunity Afforded Through Channels of the Methodist Episcopal Church For the Promotion of General Education—Appreciation For Labors of Professor McRary. Cincinnati.—One of the greatest agencies now at work for the development of the Afro-American folk is the Freedmen's Aid society of the Methodist Episcopal church. This great denomination gives a fair opportunity to Afro-Americans. It stimulates ambitious men of the race who have the ability to become leaders in the affairs of the general organization and its work. The Freedmen's Aid society of this church is controlled by the board of managers, a representative body, con- 结 of five bishops, twelve minis- P. PROFESSOR R. B. M'RARY. ters and twelve laymen. They are elected quadrennially by the general conference. The broadness of this church is also exhibited in having two Afro-Americans as members of the board of managers, one minister and one layman. One of the coordinate corresponding secretaries, of whom there are two, is also an Afro-American. The Hon. R. B. McLary of Lexington, N. C., a scholar, capitalist and the grand master of the Free and Accepted Masons of the jurisdiction of North Carolina and a man of great strength of character and exceptional executive ability, is the lay member of this important board. The strong attestation of the church's appreciation of the worth of this splendid character was the re-election by the general conference in Minneapolis in 1912 to the present office he so creditably fills. Professor McRary was first elected at the general conference in 1908 and has created a greater interest in behalf of the race in the church's educational activities. The appropriations for education among Afro-Americans has been increased, and the sentiment created by the Hon. R. B. McRary means much in the general advancement of the race. The importance of the position held by Professor McRary and the far-reaching effect of his character are felt for good in many ways. There are twenty-one schools for the race in the south carried on under the auspices of the Freedmen's Aid society-viz. one theological, three medical, ten collegiate and seven academic. Among these are the following institutions with nation wide reputation and thousands of graduates working for the uplift of the race: Gammon Theological seminary, Atlanta, which is the largest theological institution for colored men in the world; Meharry Medical college, Nashville, Tennessee; Chieflin university, Orangeburg, S. C.; New Orleans university, New Orleans; Sam Houston college, Austin, Tex.; Morristown Normal and Industrial college, Morristown, Tennessee; Morgan college, Baltimore, and other well known institutions in various parts of the south. This powerful system of schools was started the year of 1893 when the race had just seen the light of freedom in every part of this country. Today there are enrolled in these schools an aggregate of 6,610 students and 465 tenures. The executive ability of the Hon. R. B. McNary is again revealed in the fact that this board administers a fund approximating $6,000,000. Last year, 1912, the board administered through the office and schools $670,324.56. The synopsis for the eyes of the country when the board meets quarterly in the Methodist Book Concern, this city, is the man from North Carolina, the Hon. R. B. McNary. Sunday Schools Hold Big Convention. The quarterly convention of the Sunday schools of north Alabama and Tennessee was recently held in Stevenson, Ala., with a large attendance. The convention was in session for two days, during which time many helpful addresses were delivered and papers read dealing with the problems of the Sunday school teacher. Give Afre-Americans Chance to Show Ability, Says George S. Foster. In these days we gratefully and hopefully speak of fifty years of the emancipation of the Negro, says George Burman Foster. But we know that, while that first outer emancipation cost others blood and tears as slavery was shot to death by the million guns of the republic, it was mostly a gift to the Negro. The next emancipation is inner emancipation, and this he must achieve for himself. He must earn and create the true values for himself. He will be true and beautiful and good as his inner world is true and beautiful and good. There's no defeat in life save from within; Unless you're beaten there you're bound to win. But, right as the poet is, we know that the "within" needs a "without." Let the Negro among us keep on in the acquisition of material goods—it comes first in the order of time—and the virtues of industry and frugality and sound judgment and self control will constantly increase. Our attitude toward him? In the spirit of human brotherhood and by so much as we have arrived it is our duty not to block or impede his arriving, but to co-operate with him in his self achievement and self consummation. Above all, we should take pains to see that we close no door of opportunity in any direction to him. How unbrotherly, how derogatory and paralyzing to the Negro's ability and possibility it is to restrict his opportunity to the dudgery and humdrum of the menial and the mediocre! Mapping doors, cleaning streets and sewers, washing dishes in restaurants and the like—the arbitrary limitation of the Negro's opportunity to these tasks is unnecessary and unbrotherly on the part of our industrial and social life. Make it a point to give the Negro a chance at the vocations which require mental and moral ability and training. Anniversary of Peter Ogden Observed. Peter Ogden day was fittingly observed by the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows of Portland, Ore., on Sunday afternoon, March 2. The exercises were held in the Zion A. M. E. church, Members of the Household of Ruth also took an active part in the program. Peter Ogden was the founder of the order among Afro-Americans in America. The principal speaker was George W. Jones, who delivered an instructive address on the subject. "Peter Ogden." Music was a feature of the program. Pioneer Press. SECOND EMANCIPATION SUCCESS AFTER HARD STRUGGLE EXAMPLE OF PERSISTENCE. Progressive Type of Young Manhood Represented In the Ambition of a Native West Indian Who Is Making Good as a Practicing Physician In New York--Enjoys Public Confidence. New York.—That a man is the architect of his own fortune and that it rests largely with him as to whether he shall succeed or fail is seen in Dr. Fitz Neuron, a successful young physician in this city, who began his practice with $5. three pieces of furniture and a determination to succeed. He is now rated as one of the leading young physicians of this section and has built up a practice that would do justice to an older practitioner. Dr. Nearon represents that progressive type of young manhood from the West Indies island which comes to our shores seeking a larger and wider life. He was born in Bermuda and received his preparatory education at St. George's academy. Shortly after leaving the academy he came to America and entered Lincoln university, from which he graduated in 1899. While in college he was known as a good student and was prominent in college activities. After leaving Lincoln he came to New York and entered the New York Medical college and Flower hospital, from which he was graduated in 1907. Realizing that this is the day of the specialist, young Nearon spent one year at the lying-in hospital, where he took a special course. He finished his medical course in 1908 with $5 in his pocket. He managed to get three pieces of furniture with which to fit up his office, and with this humble beginning Dr. Nearon began 1940 DR. FITZ NEARON. his practice in this city. By hard and persistent effort and with a thorough preparation for his career Dr. Nearon has steadily risen in his profession and enjoys the confidence of the public and also occupies a high place in the estimation of the leading colored physicians of this city. His patients include members of both races. The success which Dr. Neuron has attained by the exercise of a will to do may be well emulated by other young men of the race who, without confidence in their abilities, have chosen work far below their preparation. The rise of Dr. Neuron offsets the theory put forth by so many young men from the medical schools that they must work at some other occupation before they begin the practice of their profession. Dr. Neuron is a thorough race man and is identified with many movements pertaining to the advance of the VOL. 32. High Regard For Services of Emmett J. Scott. MAN OF PRINCELY VIRTUES. Succinct Account of the Busy and Useful Life of the Secretary of the Tuskegee Institute—Educated at Wiley University and Baptized With the Grace of Modesty. New Orleans.—The church has been influenced by the commercial spirit of the day to require results for funds or effort invested. This is legitimate. "Does It Pay?" is no mean question. The returns may not always be in actual dollars and cents, but there must be adequate returns to justify the expenditures. To this requirement there can be no objection. If this principle were applied to the work of the Freedmen's Aid society it would have no reason to be ashamed of the men and women who have been rent forth with benefaction of the schools fostered by the society. It would be a long list were we to write down the names of all who have made good. We name but one at this time. His picture appears with this short article—the Hon. Emmett J. Scott. He is a product of Wiley university, Marshall, Tex. He is proud of Wiley university, and Wiley university is proud of him. A thoroughly capable but retiring, much loved individual is he, baptized with the grace of modesty. Few men of any race have written the history that is his in a like period of years. He is a man capable of long hours of hard work under great pressure. He is the executive secretary of the Tuskegee institute. Those who know his work best appreciate him most. He is [Image of a man in a suit with a tie]. the corresponding secretary of the National Negro Business league. In this organization his influence is linked nation wide with that of his great chief, Dr. Booker T. Washington. Mr. Scott is a student of world questions and is therefore appropriately secretary of the international conference on the Negro. These three positions, requiring initiative, tact, resourcefulness and high intelligence, represent but a part of the activities of this man, who in the coming day will be reckoned as one of the most useful men of his race. The Freedmen's Aid society holds Mr. Scott up as one of the possibilities of the race. Does the work of our schools pay? If Wiley university had done nothing more than have made possible the career of Emmett J. Scott that alone would have justified its existence and the cost of maintenance. But Texas has more sons to offer for Christian service. Who knows but that Texas has another prince in waiting for a newer day? In order to prepare the coming prince Wiley must be kept open. And for the reasons that Wiley must be kept open, for the very same reason must all of our Freedmen's Aid schools be kept open. 1913 race and the medical profession in this city. He is a member of the Medical association and of the McDonough Memorial Hospital association, which is behind the movement for the creation of a hospital in this city. He is a young man of wide attainments, being especially gifted in hand painting. On the walls of his office are many of his paintings, including one of his mother, of whom he is very fond. Dr. Nearon is devoted to his profession, and his ambition is to stand at the very highest round in his chosen work. He is of pleasing address and has the art of making and keeping friends. The race may well be proud of the progressive and ambitious element of its young manhood as represented by Dr. Nearon of this city. SENATE CONFIRMS NEW MINISTER TO LIBERIA Fred R. Moore Sworn In at State Department March 3. Washington. — The nomination of Fred R. Moore by President Taft last January as United States minister and consul general to Liberia was confirmed by the senate on Saturday, March 1. The nomination of Mr. Moore had been held up for several weeks, but by an agreement between the Republican and Democratic senators on Saturday, March 1, all the diplomatic nominations before the senate were confirmed. Mr. Moore was sworn in as United States minister to Liberia at the state department on Monday afternoon, March 3. The new minister to Liberia is a native of Virginia and publisher of the New York Age, one of the most influential weekly papers published by the colored race in this country. During the last campaign this organ did yeoman service for President Taft and the Republican party. The confirmation of Mr. Moore is hailed with delight by his constituency. At the meeting of the executive committee of the National Negro Press association held in Philadelphia Feb. I that body passed resolutions urging the confirmation of Mr. Moore, a copy of which was sent to President Taft and duly acknowledged through Secretary Hilles. NEW BAPTIST PUBLICATION National Metoka and Galeda Magazine Makes Its Appearance. Among the surprises upon the Sunday school world that are very pleasant appears to be the new magazine issued from the press of the national Baptist publishing board, Nashville, Tenn., for the month of March. It is a two color publication that is to be devoted entirely to the organized classes now being erected under the name of Metokas and Galedas. It can also be appropriately used in all adult or Bible classes, as it contains the Sunday school lessons conforming with the other international veries turned out by the publishing houses. In addition to the lessons, however, comes the literary feature, which is certain to inject into this movement great interest. The magazine will be looked after by that same energetic force that has so successfully carried on the work of the publishing house for the past sixteen years. Aluminium Company Reorganized. The management of the Aluminium Specialty company, Canonsburg, Pa., has passed into new hubs. Several men of Pittsburgh and vicinity are among the new officials. The company intends to start an industrial school in connection with the manufacture of novelty goods. The plan as laid out for the making of the large variety of articles calls for the employment of at least 200 young men and women and a large number of boys and girls. The employees will be taken from the students, who will work out a part of their school expenses. The officers are: Louis Mosley of Washington, Pa., president; Harry C. Waters of Pittsburgh, secretary; Alfred Crockett of Washington, Pa., treasurer; W. N. Butler of Washington, Pa., legal adviser. NO. 2 EMMETT J. SCOTT. AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN BAY. Fates of Subscription: 5 Months 40c. Pay for all advertisements is due in tenance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the ad- vertiser pays every three months. J. J. K. Cifford, Editor & Proprietor Drave: 869, and Bell Phone, 60K Mar- shalling, W. Va. We yield our editorial space to give Thompson and Jackson fair play. When those in authority are in human enough to ride over others roughhead, ought to remember that the finest product of civilization is a man who is healthy in body, clear in intellect, and warm and pure in his affections. All of these traits of character are attributes of the Negro race. I, in lieu absurd to allege that Negroes are so unhealthy that they are any more subjected to smallpox than the whites, and it is brutal to arrest and beat them because they are not vaccinated and prefer their own doctors to do it. Segregated and forced to live in the worst places in most of the towns if they were not naturally healthy they would have died off long ago As toilers this country has and never will have better, and to impose on them, is sowing that which in turn in God's own time the whites most reap in sorrow, for Lincoln said punishment will follow sin. The whites of the South are affected with the "hookworm," the Negroes are not. During the Spanish American war and hundreds of white soldiers were dying with yellow fever, Negroes were immune to it, and not only nursed them, but agreed to undergo a test to show the world that they would not take that disease. Not only did they sleep in dirty beds, but on those that white soldiers had died on, for weeks and took not their disease. Housed as they are as a mass; crowded in halls and churches without a proper knowledge of ventilation, poorly fed and clod, the wonder is that they are not ill diseased, but they are not, and can do more hard work and attend more hardships than any other close of laborers. In face of the above facts what would be their condition were they treated fairly, and encouraged to live wherever they could buy and build and also efforts were made to teach them how best in cleanliness to live? SQUARE DEAL FOR THE NEGRO Conclusion of An Extraordinarily Abi Paper by George Packard of the Chicago Bar in The Survey for February 1, 1913 The Negroce as a whole, is capable of as fine and useful a place in our citizenship as that enjoyed by any other then element. His sunny nature, his extraordinary initiative power, that are as capable of a good direction as of a bad, his adaptability, his courage his physical strength, are all characteristics that must be welded into our civilization. How, then, are we to go about the eradication of the prejudice? It is a matter primarily of individual effort, of the exercise of moral force. The logic of the situation must be brought home to open and all. We must give the Negro whether we like him or not, acquire deal. We must bring to bear the light of reason into the darkness of the self-justification that engulfs our attitude. I hold no brief for the Negro as an unworthy individual. Many of the race are diseased, degraded, lazy, ignorant, brutish, many are intelligent, able, refined and self respecting people, who have adopted our ways and customs with far greater perfection and facility than many other races who are received by us with open arms. These individual differences are of course true of all races, even our own. For two hundred and fifty years the colored race has been systematically denied its rights as men and citizens. If we reform our social attitude towards them,—which is the only way on earth,—and eliminates the curse of race prejudice, we can look to the Negro to take care of himself. Let us, then, as reasonable beings take this first step, by influence, example, common sense and ceaselees agitation, to rid our country of this social and political disgrace. The cause possesses a moral basis of transcendent import, and is bound on that account to triumph in the end. The integrity of our institutions, the welfare of our political state, the trampled rights of a wronged people cry out for justice. THE BEAUTY OF PRAYEB St. Petersburg, Florida, March 8, 1813 Editor Pioneer Press: Dear Sir: I notice in the Press for March 1st, an article entitled "Baptism Not Essential." With the greater part of the article I am in hearty accord. The whole teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ and His Apostles, as it has come down to us, is strongly against putting any stress on ritual forms: No form is essential to a christian life, for we have all known many members of the Society of Friends, "Quakers" we call them, who have been very excellent exemplars of the Christian life, and they do not believe in water baptism or any other religious rite. And nobody but a very narrow minded bigot would deny them a place and a very high place in the real "Kingdom of God." But when the editor remarks, "If our idea of man be correct it is useless to pray to God at all. From the fact we ought to be and can be our own Gods" I must take issue with him. The greatest source of strength, joy and development of my christian life of more than half a century has come from prayer. The old hymn is perfectly true: "Restraining prayer we cease to fight; prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright." In all soberness and deliberateness I declare that I would sooner lay down my life than agree to discontinue the constant practice of prayer. But quite aside from my testimony, which is in harmony with that of thousands of the greatest and best men of all the ages since the beginning of the Christian era, and, indeed long before that time, we have the direct teaching and example of Him whom even all decent infidels admit to have been the best man and greatest religious teacher of all the ages. Jesus of Nazareth. No religious biography that I have ever read represents its subject as being more addicted to the constant practise of the habit of prayer than He. He is frequently represented as "Going up into a mountain apart to pray." It is recorded of Him in at least one instance that "He was there all night in prayer to God." When the crisis came, and the cross loomed up before Him (though He might easily have escaped by withdrawing from Jerusalem. He spent the night in prayer to His Father for strength to meet the issue. His prayer was heard and fully answered, and "Angels came and ministered unto Him." If the supremely gifted divine Son of God needed to pray, how much more we. Besides He and His Apostles directly enjoined the practise of prayer. When His disciples came to Him with the request "Lord teach us how to pray!" He did not discourage them. He evidently did not believe with the editor of the Press, but taught them the simplest and plainest, and yet the sublimest and most comprehensive form of prayer ever uttered by the lips of man. The men whom He instructed taught all those of whom they made disciples, both by precept and example that all christians, and all men should be Christians, should "Be instant in prayer," should "Pray without ceasing." I am sure that if the editor had had my experience he would agree with me that "Long as they live should Christians They learn to pray when first they live." That is,that prayer is essential to the Christian life. "He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument." In his last effort, Bro. Jackson stated by implication that he was too brave to run, but we think it would be the part of wisdom for him to take the stand of the old colored man, who concluded that a living coward was infinitely better off than a dead hero. Among the many reasons why he is against the Republican party, Bro. Jackson states that it has practically deserted the faithful Negro in all things that work for his political advancement. To a very great extent we acquiice in this indictment, but when he advocates Theodore Roosevelt as a panacea for the sins of omission on the part of the Republican party we call a halt. We would remind the celebrated Bull Moose of Frostburg, that Mr. Roosevelt was prominent in the counsel of the Republican party for twenty five years; that six times he took a sacred oath to uphold and support the Constitution of the United States; that for more than seven years he was President, having both branches of Congress and "the big stick" which he wielded with sufficient force to drive such a man as Jos. B. Forsaker into private life because he would not "bow the knee to Baal." If under these circumstances, Mr. Roosevelt did not come to the rescue of the Negro what right have we to believe that he will be of service to us in the future? Mr. Roosevelt has had a greater opportunity to correct the evils of which Bro. Jackson complains than any other Republican since Grant, and is therefore more responsible for their existence than any one man in the United States. We have no patience with a man who advocates policies inconsistent with his public record, and less with one who promises to do what he has had an opportunity to do and failed to make an effort. Bro Jackson places great stress upon the fact the people were with Mr. Roosevelt. While the people are supposed to rule under our system of government it has been demonstrated that they do not always take a wise stand. For instance, at the time when President Washington signed Jay's Treaty the American feeling against England stood at a high tension. The terms of the treaty, in the mind of the people, were such, that they became indignant and Washington was rendered very unpopular. The Treaty was not what President Washington wanted; he accepted it as the best that could be accomplished at that time. Again in the latter part of 1863 the people of the North become disgusted with Mr. Lincoln's method of conducting the Civil War and much of the opposition to his renomination in 1864 was because of this feeling. It is now held by some of the strongest minds that had the recall been in operation at the time of the occupancy above mentioned, both Washington and Lincoln would have been recalled. Time, however, has proven that Washington and Lincoln were right and the people were wrong. Bro. Jackson says Col. Roosevelt's stand on the Negro question is the correct one. We hail with pride this opportunity to expose the hypocrisy of Mr. Ros velle and the weakness of Bro. Jackson's argument. We wish to remind Bro. Jackson that Mr. Roosevelt was too late in arriving at this conclusion to render this action worthy of the consideration of a thinking mind. In 1900 when he was nominated for Vice President he gladly received the votes of the Southern Negroes whom he has now denounced as a disgrace to the race. In 1904 when he was nominated for President he received them and interposed no objection; in 1908 he used them to nominate Mr. Taft, the candidate of his choice, and at the same time he used his army of office holders to defeat a resolution offered for the purpose of placing representation in National Conventions upon the basis of the vote cast for the Republican ticket. The adoption of this resolution would have eliminated the Southern Negro from National Conventions, but it was evident from the time it was read that the Roosevelt administration was opposed to it and for that reason it was defeated. It will also be remembered that many of the contests brought before the Republican Convention were over these Southern delegates and that Mr. Roosevelt left the Republicans because, (as he says,) they were stolen from him. The question that would present itself to the thoughtful mind is, what brought about this change of heart on the Southern Negro question. There are two reasons. First. Mr. Roosevelt was willing for them to sit in the counsel of the party so long as they could be used to further his selfish purposes and gratify his ambition, but when his Circus met at Chicago, in which he was the Clown, the Band Wagon and the Ring Master, he did not need them. Second. Mr. Roosevelt knew that the Northern Negroes, who have votes, have been protesting against the recognition given the Southern Negroes for many years, and to gain the plaudits and support of the Negroes North of Mason and Dixon's line he caters to this sentiment. Simply, playing politics. That's all. Bro. Jackson says there is nothing wrong about campaign contributions so long as there are no strings to them, but when he grows as old as we are, he will have learned that large campaign contributions always have strings to them, and while the congressional investigation may not have shown that there was anything wrong about the Roosevelt fund of 1904, it did show that he received it from the people that Bro. Jackson says he is opposed to—the special interests. So far as we are concerned, Bro. Jackson may regard this as the closing chapter of our controversy. We will emulate the example of the father who went hunting. Taking his little son with him, they had not gone very far before the little fellow saw an English sparrow. Ghl papa, says the boy, there's a bird, shoot him. Oh no son, I can't shoot him, says the father. Why papa? Simply because he is not worth the ammunition it takes to kill him. While I admire the manly and able manner in which my antagonist has handled his case, I am unwilling to force him to further, waste his valuable ammunition in a cause so wortbless as his. It may be that Mr. Roosevelt has killed the snake, as The Pioneer Press is pleased to style Mr. Taft and the Republican party. If so, it will give history another opportunity to repeat itself. History has given Caesar a prominent place among the great man of his day but Brutus is only numbered as an assassin. W. J. Thompson, Thomas, W. Va. Anecdotal Literature BY W. G. THE ROUGH RIDER. While the writer was pursuing his theological course in the Lutheran Seminary at Gettysburg, the following ludicrous incident occurred one Sunday morning. The members of the senior class were allowed to preach and were often called upon to fill the pulpits of absent ministers in the city and vicinity. On one occasion it fell to the lot of a German, who however had become fairly Anglicised, to ride five miles to the country to preach. The horse was brought to the Seminary building and as the student was a novice in horsemanship, the students gathered around to see the rider off. But a spirit of mischief pervaded, and they were bent to have some sport at the rider's expense. They helped him to mount, but put him on in inverse position. After a beartyough, they placed him in proper position, and asked him whether he knew how to manage the horse. "Sure I do," said he, "when I wants the horse to go I hit him behind, and when I wants him to stop I hits him before." HIS ONE REQUEST. Parader—"Do you object to your wife's marching in the parade?" Husband—"Not at all, if she won't come home and complain about the way I let her do all the hard work." "Mr. Rodgers—"Doctor, what did you tell me was your special treatment for sleeplessness?" Doctor—"We strike at the cause or origin of the trouble." Rodgers—"You don't say sol Well, you will find the baby in the other room. Only don't strike at him too hard." CAUGHT. A magician, at the conclusion of his tricks, said pompously, "I defy any one in this audience to mention a single action that I can perform with my right hand that I cannot do with my left." A silence followed for a minute, when a boy at the back of the room shouted: "Rub your left elbow, gov'nor." A very rich woman, marrying a man much younger than herself, Mavor Thompson, at a dinner, remarked; "Rich old women who marry handsome boys, have a hard row to hoe. I know such an old woman. She said tenderly one day to her youthful spouse; "What would you do, darling, if I should die and leave you?" The young man, yawning behind his gold-tipped cigarette said languidly; "Die and leave me how much?" No better offer to farmers, and gardeners could be made. Any and every one who will send one dollar and fifty cents to the Pioneer Press will not only get it for a year, but also two hundred and fifty first class cold-framed and guaranteed frost-proof cabbage plants free. They are grown by that well known firm, Wm. C. Geraty Co. of South Carolina. The subscriber to pay mail charges only a few cents.--Editor. Entered in Post Office at Mattinsburg W. Va., as Second Class Matter PROGRESS IN RURAL LIFE. Influence of Biddle University Upon Tillers of the Soil. Charlotte, N. C.-Besides the great work it is doing in preparing hundreds of young men for a life of service in the ministry and other professions Biddle university, this city, is a potent factor in the development of the colored people in many sections of the country. This is evidenced in its various departments of industries and its ability to meet certain peculiar needs of hundreds of farmers in the western section of North and South Carolina Every year hundreds of thrifty farmers meet here and inspire and help hundreds of persons who take great interest in agriculture. Prominent representatives from the state department of agriculture discuss such subjects as soil improvement, cultivation of crops of different kinds, live stock, marketing, etc. A pertinent feature of the meeting for this year, which was held the last week in February, was the short, practical and interesting talks by a number of farmers and the keen interest manifested in the farmers' institute by a large number of young men. The sentiment created by these vexers of the soil was well received. The opinion prevailed that each person should endeavor to make himself an indispensable factor in rural activities and to arouse a desire on the part of the farm laborer to be reliable and judicious in investing his money. President H. L. McCrorey of the university and his most energetic faculty are being praised by the farmers and the wives of the farmers, who were also greatly helped by the meeting. DUNBAR CLUB ORGANIZED. New Pratternity in Washington Boars Name of the Noted Poet. The Paul Laurence Dunbar club, projected by leading citizens in Washington, has elected permanent officers as follows: President, Dr. W. S. Loftin; vice president, John E. Collins; secretary, James Le Count Chesnutt; corresponding secretary, H. V. Plummer; financial secretary, Robert A. Pelham; treasurer, Dr. Clarence A. Gray; physician, Dr. U. J. Daniels; attorney, Thomas Beckett; chairman of board of governors. Lieutonant Thomas H. R. Clarke. The elegant mansion of the late Dr. F. J. Shadd, at the corner of Ninth and R streets, is being considered for the permanent home of the club. The place selected is to be fitted up in the finest style. Mr. Robert T. Murray is to be steward and responsible manager of the organization. He is a caterer and club manager of wide experience. THE HAVASUPAI INDIANS The home of the Havaupai is in the very heart of a deep gash in the earth—Cataract Canyon it has been named by white people, on account of the many cataracts and wonderful falls made by the Haveau River as it rushes down to join the Colorado River. But most interesting of all, perhaps, is the little tribe of two hundred and fifty souls which one finds at the lower end of the trail. They live in small huts on the floor of Cataract Canyon. Their summer homes are grass or willow wickiups; in winter they seek warmer quartere, some families having small houses of stone. About them are their fields, some of them no larger than the floor of a very small house. As soon as the approaching dawn lights the canyon sufficiently to enable them to see, the men are out pushing the dirt with bare toes from the tiny floodgates in their irrigating ditches and sending the cold, blue water to the roots of the growing plants. In the late summer the crops are harvested. The peaches and figs are dried, and surely nowhere in the world are finer, sweeter, dried peaches to be found. The women gather the fruit while it is in its prime, split the peaches in halves, and lay them on a natural bed of gravel and sand, or, climbing up a short distance on the canyon wall, lay their peaches smoothly on a stone shelf which has been bawn out for them by the water and winds of centuries. The women cut the pumpkins in strips and dry them over poles in the sunshine. The beans and corn are thoroughly dried before being put away for the winter.—Southern Workman. "THE MAN FARTHEST DOWN." It is not quite three years ago since, when travelling in America, I had the pleasure of meeting Booker T. Washington. It was equally my privilege to become acquainted with Professor James H. Dillard of New Orleans, to whom I had a letter of introduction as to an expert on the Negro question. As I was making at that time a special study of the race question in America, on which I published an essay in Hungarian, and as I not many prominent Negroes and I visited most of their best educational institutions (unfortunately I missed Tuskegee), and also some of their worst country schools, and both flourishing and backward Negro villages, I may perhaps be excused for offering these brief remarks. Booker T. Washington surely deserves the praise of Professor Dillard, and even more than that. I have always considered him as the best representative of American character. I know of no other man who has made such a wonderful progress out of the deepest ignorance and poverty. He is the most energetic and most optimistic man I ever met. But with all my admiration for him, if I were a Negro I would not follow him. I believe, in his great optimism, he has not the right conception of the situation of his race. And I believe many American share what I regard as his mistaken optimism. First of all, there is hardly any where in Europe a race question in the American sense. With us it is mostly a question of languages, where the ultimate aim is to assimilate the other "race." There is of course oppression, and force is used against people speaking another language, in Hungary and in other European countries; but the aim is not to exclude them, but just the opposite—to assimilate them. They are not excluded from the schools and churches of the ruling "race;" on the contrary, they are forced to join them. No liberal thinking man can justify such measures, but they are certainly a milder form of oppression than those usual in America, on both sides of the Mason and Dixon line. I would be even so tactless (you do not want to be always tactful) as to say that I know of no country in the world where "the man farthest down" would be more hopelessly down than is the Negro in America. There is no doubt in my mind that the Negro farmer lives more comfortably, that he is more intelligent and more virtuous than the majority of peasants in Southeastern Europe. But the feeling of human happiness is based largely upon comparison with the condition of our neighbors, and upon hopefulness. Where legal and social equality is racial, oppression is more keenly resented than in countries where oppression is common. And what hope can a Negro in America have, where the most prominent Negro, Booker T. Washington, boasts in the most childish way of having bad once a tea in a dining car without being turned out? How many Negroes enjoy the same privilege in the South, after so many years under that Constitutional amendment which is directed against discrimination "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude"? Is there any people or nation in Europe in the same hopeless inequality? And who would not, ceteris paribus, prefer to be a Jew in Russia than to be a Negro in America? My investigations in the South led me to the conclusion that the race question has not yet reached its climax in America. Most Negroes acquiesce in their present condition. Their inevitable progress in education will change all that; it will make them dissatisfied. The Southern white man will make no concession to a Negro just because he has become more cultivated, because he uses more soap and better English. On the contrary, the more he will then insist upon drawing the color line. Booker T. 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