Pittsburgh Courier

Saturday, August 12, 1911

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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THIS PAPER IS NOW READ BY 10,000 COLORED PEOPLE WEEKLX THE PITTSBURGH COURIER. EDITORS IN LINE FOR CONVENTION Bright Outlook For Meeting In Little Rock, Aug. 15. FULL DETAILS OF THE PROGRAM Third Annual Session of the National Negro Press Association Promises to Be a Notable Event For Members of the Journalistic Profession—Large Numbers Expected. The third annual session of the National Negro Press association, called to meet at Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 15. In connection with the regular convention of the National Negro Business league, bids fair to be a notable event in the annals of the Afro-American section of the "fourth estate." Preparations of an elaborate character are being made by the local committee at the Arkansas capital, headed by those energetic spirits, William Alexander, John E. and Chester E. Bush, Rev. E. Booker and others, who represent the progressive journalism of the great, southwest, and a warm welcome awaits the brethren of the craft. Communications to the president and corresponding secretary indicate that the attendance will be large. Delegations will be there in goodly numbers from the neighboring states of the south and west, and, with a sprinkling from the north and east, it is estimated that the enrolment will not be less than 100, making the banner convention of the series. Arrangements have been made to hold the sessions in the leading churches of Little Rock, beginning on the morning of Aug. 15, at 10 o'clock. During the day papers bearing on the various phases of journalistic endeavor will be read and discussed. In the evening a monster public meeting will be held, at which time President M. M. Lewey will deliver his annual address. Some of the subjects included in the general program are: "The Business Aspect of Negro Journalism," "The Advantage of a Syndicated News Service," "How to Make a Printing Plant Pay," "Our Relations With the Associated Press—How the Negro May Secure a Fair Hearing in the News Stories of the Day." "How to Build PRESIDENT M. M. LEWEL. Up Profitable Agencies." "Circulation and How to Extend It." "The Club Rate System." "The Mechanical Equipment-Its Importance in Up to Date Journalism." "News and Editorial Policies." "The General Correspondent's Place in the Newspaper Field" and "Religious and Fraternity Journals—Their Number, Scope and Influence." A special feature of the occasion will be the presentation of an address to the open session of the National Negro Business league on "The Status of the Negro Publisher," showing by carefully collated statistics the condition of the 300 or more publications carried on by the race throughout the country, indicating the date of their establishment and frequency of issue. Inception of the Press Association. The National Negro Press association was formed at Louisville, Ky., in August, 1891, in response to a call issued by R. W. Thompson, largely inspired by N. B. Dodson, editor of the Afro-American page of the American Press Association, and supported by the united voice of the Negro press. The time was ripe for such a combination. Here was a great lever for race progress—wrife, enthusiastic and intellectually equipped for constructive work. As it has been found that scores of active newspaper men followed the fortunes year by year of the National Negro Business league. It was a very natural outcome that the new organization should meet at the same time and place each year. The present officers are as follows: President, M. M. Lewer, Pensacola, Fla.; first vice president, N. D. Brascher, Cleveland, O.; second vice president, T. Frederick Small, New York city; corresponding secretary, R. W. Thompson, Washington; recording secretary, Horace D. Slatter, Hopkinsville, Ky.; treasurer, Dr. L. G. Jordan, Louisville, Ky. Mystic Shriners Plan Big Parade. The Nobles of the Mystic Shrine will hold their ceremonial session in Atkinson City, N. J., for two days, beginning on Tuesday, Sept. 5. A monster street parade will be one of the features. FOSTER'S FAMELIVES IN NEGRO BALLADS A Monument May. Also Proclaim Deeds of Foster. HE WAS AMERICA'S MOST POPULAR SONG WRITER, HAVING PRODUCED MANY FAVOR-ITE SONGS. The Fourth of July, 1826, marked the half-century of the birth of the American nation, and naturally was celebrated with a great display of oratory and fireworks. It was about noon of that day—the same day on which Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died—that a patriotic company on the outskirts of old Pittsburgh were listening to the national salute from the deserel cannon and martial alarms from the band, when word came that a son had been born to the man who was the chief spirit of the celebration. The child who made his advent under such glorious auspices was destined to become America's most popular song writer, the author of "My Old Kentucky Home," and "Suwanee River," and 150 other ballads that everybody used to sing—Stephen Collins Foster. His body rests today under a plain gravestone of the old-fashioned sort, just like his songs, and many think that a more elaborate memorial would be out of keeping. But others hold that by such a memorial, Pittsburg would be honoring herself, and so a movement is on foot to have the obscure grave in the Allegheny cemetery, almost within view of the spot where he was born, marked with a suitably dignified monument. One already exists in Highland park, but it is not commensurate with Foster's fame and his high rank as a writer of songs. Another suggestion is to have the memorial take the form of a music pavilion in Schenley park. How Foster Got the Tunes. It was Foster who first delved into the rich fount of negro melody to find the inspiration of truly American music. There is no primitive people that has a greater wealth of haunting themes than the descendants of the African slaves, and the ante-bellum plantation resounded with the tinkle of the banjo and the chant of the cotton pickers. When Stephen was still a child he would frequently be taken to a negro church and camp meeting by a mulatto girl who was a bound servant in the household, and so he got some of the rhythmic tunes of the darkies early into his blood. There had been a musical strain in his make-up from the first—his ancestry was Irish and one of his mother's antecedents was Italian. When little Stephen was only two years old he would often pick out harmonies on a guitar lying on the floor, and when he was only seven he was taken into a music store, where he took up a flute, and in a few minutes had mastered its stops sufficiently to play "Hall Columbia." About that time there were several negro airs that had become very popular, especially "Jim Crow" and "Zip Coon." A number of the boys in the neighborhood had fitted up an old carriage house as a theater and gave juvenile performances, at which nine-year-old Stephen was the musical star. He was a native musical genius; that fact was admitted by his comrades, who granted him the only "salary" paid out by the company, the others assuming the risks of management. When there was a surplus in the treasury a dividend was declared sufficient to enable the company to see Edwin Forrest or Junius Brutus Booth on their visits to the old Pittsburgh theater. Wrote First Song at Sixteen. Native musical genius was not the sole equipment of the future song writer. He had lessons from Henry Kleber, who had opened probably the first music store in Pittsburgh. His brother has recorded that he gave much time to the study of Beethoven, Mozart and Weber. He delighted in improvisation upon the piano. He sang with profound feeling. One of his favorite songs was "Tennyson's May Queen" set to music by Dempster, and as he sang the pathetic words tears would often flow down his cheeks. It was inevitable that he should try his hand at composition. He was sixteen when his first song was published; it was "Open Thy Lattice, Love." Two or three years later a club of young men used to gather to sing some of the popular negro melodies of the day under his leadership, and to enlarge their repertoire, he suggested that they produce some songs of their own. "The Louisiana Belle" was the first, both words and music, and a week later came "Old Uncle Ned," which made him famous. The following year he was in Cincinnati working as a bookkeeper for his brother, when he wrote "Oh, Susanna," another big hit. He gave these two songs to a friend in the music publishing business, who made $10,000 out of them. Foster had the usual lack of practical business ability which marks, geniuses. The sweetest and most widely sung of all of Foster's songs is "The Old Folks at Home," better known as "Suwanne Ribber." The story of how this song came to be written is told by Foster's brother, and will interest many thousands who sing it and do PITTSBURG PA.. AUGUST 12, 1911. not even know that there is a real Suwanee river. How a Song Was Named. "One day in 1851," Morrison Foster says, "Stephen came into my office and said to me: 'What is a good name of two syllables for a southern river?' I want to use it in this new song of 'Old Folks at Home.'" I asked him how Yazoo would do. "Oh, said he, that has been used before." I then suggested Pedee. "Oh, pshaw, he replied, I won't have that." I then took down an atlas from the top of my desk and opened the map of the United States. We both looked over it, and my finger stopped at the Suwanee, a little river in Florida emptying into the Gulf of Mexico. "That's it, that's it exactly, exclaimed he delighted, as he wrote the name down. He left the office, as was his custom, abruptly, without saying another word." About this time E. P. Christy, the famous negro minstrel, wrote to Foster for a song, and this one was sold to him for $500. Foster made about $15,000 from this song afterward. A faithful setter, given to Foster by a friend, furnished the inspiration for "Old Dog Tray." Another popular song, "My Old Kentucky Home," was written under a tree that is still standing at Federal hill, the homeestead, near Bardstown, Ky., where lived John Rowan, United States senator from Kentucky when Stephen was born, and a cousin on his maternal side. "Old Black Joe" is another perennial favorite among the nearly 200 songs that Stephen Collins Foster wrote. The figure of Old Black Joe adorns the pedestal of the monument in Highland park, Pittsburgh. It is a symbol of the intimate sympathy the poet and composer had with the life of the lowly black folk whose sorrows and joys he immortalized in his songs. His Courage and Gentleness. Foster was one of the simplest and sweetest of souls. One of his teachers told his father that "Stephen was the most perfect gentleman he ever had for a pupil." He was on his way to a party one evening when he heard that a little girl had been run over by a dray and killed, and he went instead to the stricken home and spent the night there comforting her parents. Yet his gentle spirit could develop the courage of a lion upon occasions, as when he came upon two bullies who were abusing a drunken man. Seizing a fence rail he drove them to flight, after a battle in which he received a scar that he carried with him to his grave. So sensitive that the tickling of a clock annoyed him until he had stowed it away beneath a tub in the cellar, in order to be able to sleep, he locked the door of his room to everyone but his mother when he was at work on a piece of music. He removed to New York once, because that was a better market for his compositions, and in a year he had become so homesick that he sold out his furniture, on a twenty-four hours' notice, and went home to Pittsburg. He reached the white cottage in Lawrenceville, still standing, about midnight, and when his mother came down to see who knocked so late, she found him weeping upon the porch. In spite of his 'love for his home he was destined to die in the great metropolis. In January, 1864, while in the American hotel in New York, he was seized with a fever. Getting up a few days later, he was so weakened that he fell across a wash basin and cut several serious gashes in his head and throat. He died in a hospital a few days later from weakness and loss of blood. While Stephen Collins Foster had not the prodigious fertility of Schubert, who composed seven other songs on the same day that he composed "Erikonig," or of Abt, who has over 3,000 songs to his credit, his most popular songs are sung by more people and awaken deeper response than those of any other composer. If we expect "Home, Sweet Home," there is no better beloved song than "Suwanee Ribber." He died when he was only thirty-eight years old, but it may be doubted whether the psalmist's span of life would have made his fame any more secure than it is. He and his songs are beloved, and that is the highest assurance of immortality. Pittsburg, where his daughter still lives, cannot add to his renown by the erection of another monument, but she can show that she appreciates the richness of his genius, which received the need of praise from sources so disease as Washington Irving and Ole Boll—Cincinnati Enquirer. A SIGNIFICANT NOTICE. Richard Croker, the day of his departure for his Irish home, said to a New York reporter: "It is the desire for freedom that sends so many Americans and so many millions of dollars abroad every June. The Puritanical laws of America enslave us. These laws, with their total misconception of freedom and of enjoyment, are well exemplified in a notice board I once saw in a New England park. This board said: "Pleasure Grounds. Notice—These grounds are for pleasure only. No games or play allowed."—Washington Star. Boil together for 20 minutes one pint of sugar, one quart of water and one pint of crushed raspberries. Add to this one gill of lemon juice and the same of orange juice. When cold strain and freeze. Pineapple or other fruit may be served in the same manner. SHOULD PITTSBURGH AND ALLEGHENY COUNTY HAVE COLORED TEACHERS? SPECIAL SUMMER PRIZE OF FIVE DOLLARS IN GOLD Will Be Awarded September 1st, 1911 to School Boy or Girl Returning largest Number of these coupons. CUT THIS OUT and Mail to Courier With Name and Address NAME ADDRESS This is a question of far-reaching importance to all members of the race, in the country at large as well as those in the immediate vicinity; in question in which the most worthy of us should be much concerned, and of course it is of great interest to the young men and young women who are now preparing themselves for service. The call far and near, that is made to our young people, is, to prepare for service through the methods of education, and in response to this many a youth is making sacrifice that they might obtain an education possible to be received in the school of the North as well as those of the South. and in this eager pursuit learning they may do good work well. Each commencement period we got tidings from all over the country of our young people who are receiving diplomas from some of the best schools in the land, and that with credit to both the race and their parents. But what must this large army of prepared youths do? Must they be idle? Should every door of opportunity be closed to them; or should every member of the race be on the alert and seek to secure for them employment worthy of their calling? In nearly every city of prominence East and West of Pittsburgh one or more colored teachers are found, some in mixed schools and others in separate schools; and why do we not have colored teachers in Pittsburgh and in the county as well? Are not the colored people entitled to this recognition, or are they unqualified? Are not all muster that both of these last questions can be answered satisfactorily. They are entitled and a sufficient number of them are able to qualify, as to examination and moral tness. Then why can't we get a teacher here? I answer, because we are not sufficiently together to demand recognition. Let us forget some of the old standards, such as being an old Pittsburgh, and the fact that such a step might draw the color line, and let us remember that we are all colored people seeking for the same recognition that other races seek after, and what is good for other races is for our race as well, and that no people is more entitled than we are to be recognized. We are being taught that knowledge and a practical science rather than a theoretical science. The goal of education is the development of the individual. This is the aim of these technical schools, and that is why these young men and women attend, them and finish that they might be individually fitted for the better service of their fellows in the future. Preparation COLORED MAN'S $60,000 CROP That's Cotton Alone. He Grows Other Things on $200,000 Bronham, Tex—The first bible of cotton marketed in Central Texas this season was brought to Brenham and sold a few days ago by Miles Motley, a Negro. Motley is one of the wealthiest and most progressive farmers in this state. He has been involved in numerous situations in the Brazos valley. It is all paid for and is valued at upwards of $200,000. He has most of his land planted in cotton and it will give a production of about 1000 bales this year. Based on present prices of the staple these bales should bring this Negro farmer a gross revenue of more than $200,000, including the value of the crop. Bronham is not only a successful cotton printer but his farm fields include cotton, hay, and other crops. He has made a study of cotton and conducts his research on the number of farmers in the area and has the reputation of being a familiar and well-known person. He has responded to the white people in the community and country. He is a successful display of his wealth and is quietly and simply New Zealand. New Zealand has been called by its inhabitants "The Fortuneate Isles" "The Star of the South" and "The Wonderland of the Pacific" For the Poor Alone. The present is for the rich, the feature for the poor. In these lines is not to hold up the old standards of gentleman and lady, but to produce results, and the education that does not produce results lacks in the most important principle. These young people are unable to do service and produce results, where an opportunity is not given them. We cannot expect the young people to be better than they are today when the aim is so low. To produce loftiness of character we must learn lofty ideas, and I am compelled to say that this standard of self-value is only produced in any man when he is able to see the heights to which others have claim. The class room only prepares us for large service in the more broader fields. The demand upon us today is for something for the young colored men or young colored women who have by reason of study and special application prepared themselves for classical and professional service. All of this being true they must go South to employment. Why should this be? Are they taxpayers in the South? Has the South been their home? No: most of these young people know nothing of the South and are not acquainted with Southern conditions their best field is here and should be given an opportunity to exercise their rights. The Jew, the Italian, the German are given the privileges of teaching in the public schools of the city and this without much demand and why can't we receive the same rights that these enjoy? The question at once arises that to ask for colored teachers is to ask for a separation of the races and create the existence of a colored school. No I do not ask for separate schools or a separation of the races and there is no need of such, for if New York City with its multiplied interests can succeed under a mixed school system, Pittsburgh can and I believe in many parts of the city there would be no friction whatever, but I further agree that if the only way we can get a colored teacher in the city is by separate schools, then the sooner the better. Baltimore has today one of the high schools in all the country taught entirely by colored youths and more of the students in the city and can assure you that no people has advanced faster than the young people of that city. My plea is that we center our forces and with all the power we can furnish, ask that one or more colored teachers be appointed in the city and that no comprisse be made until such be done. This I shall continue to impress from pupil and press for the next two weeks. Sunday night, August 13, we will speak on the subject, "The Expense of Idlers." MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED DURING WEEK Coops in Fields for Babies That necessity is the mother of invention is shown by the hundreds of little buildings resembling chicken coops which are scattered over the fields of Weld county to provide daytime homes for the babies of the Russians who work in the fields. The Russian mothers are obliged to take their babies to the fields and have built these little structures of wood, covering them with canvas. At noon and once in the morning and in the afternoon the mothers visit their children, leaving them alone for the remainder of the day. The youngsters are apparently contented and remain in their little coops without a cry, gazing through the slats at the passerby—Greeley Cor. Denver Republican. Good Suggestion. You find yourself refreshed by the presence of cheerful people. Why not make earnest efforts to confer and pleasure on others? Vivid. Story of the Career and Effective Work of the Foremost Exponent of Legitimate Drama Among Afro-Americans—Noted Reader Back Heme—Plans International Tour. By R. W. THOMPSON. Washington—Miss Heurletta Vintoh Davis, regarded by competent critics as the foremost exponent of the legitimate drama, as far as the Negro race is concerned, recently returned from a tour of Bermuda, where she achieved an artistic and social triumph, under the direction of Miss Alberta I. Burgess of Kent Lodge, St. George, who is a young woman of many musical talent and executive ability. While in Bermuda Miss Davis appeared in all of the principal cities and towals and at every point was received with marked cordiality. Delightful receptions were tendered her by the people throughout her itinerary, and beautiful and valuable presents were literally showered upon her. Queenly in, bearing, broad in her conception of the possibilities of the dramatic art, possessing a resonant voice and an engaging personality. Miss Davis easily made an impression that will not soon be forgotten. The repertoire used covered a wide range of dramatic literature, running the gamut from Shakespeare's "Lady Macbeth" and the trial scene from "The Merchant of Venice." Parthenia in "Ingomar," Zingarella, the gypsy queen, and the typical "folk lore" of Paul Laurence Dunbar's selections, which attracted special attention. While, abroad Miss Davis staged "East Lynne," appearing in the dual role of Lady Isabel and Mine, Vine, supported by local talent. Arrangements, were made for the early production of W. Edgar Easton's "Desalines," repeating her successes as Charlise, in which part she displays her rich attunements as an emotional actress. Her wonderful versatility is MISS BENRIKITA VINTON DAVIS evidenced by her lifelike impersonation of characters, male and female. As Dominique Dessalines and Prince Elon in "The Jewish Ruler" she has appeared to excellent advantage, a rather difficult undertaking for a woman. Miss Davis, has a history full of striking incidents. She is a native of Baltimore, but has made her home for the most part in Washington. She was the first colored clerk to be employed fit the office of the recorder of deeds. She evinced at an early age an aptitude for a stage career and was trained under Miss Marguerite E. Saxton. She made her debut auspiciously in Washington in 1883, being introduced to an immense audience by the Hon. Frederick Donglass. Success has crowned her efforts to develop in the race a taste for the standard creations of the dramatic art. Miss Davis has perhaps done more than any other woman of color to exemplify the capacity of the Negrd for the other realm of the drama. She has been one of the few to remain loyal to the loftier ideals of her profession, and the advanced position occupied by the race in the dramatic world today is due in no small measure to the effective pioneer work of this energetic pathinder. Miss Davis has published an attractive "Book of Recitations," which presents a varied array of standard selections for the stage, the schoolroom and the home. Her plans for the future include a brief series of engagements in America, a return to Bermuda and a visit to the West Indies, a tour of Europe, Egypt, Liberia, the Gold Coast of Africa and Cape Town. Generous Sum For Palmer Institute. G. Cleveland Buchanan, who is spending the summer in New York in the interest of the Palmer Memorial Institute at Sedalla, N. C., of which he is the financial agent and agricultural director, is meeting with gratifying success. Through the influence of Dr. Booker T. Washington an influential and wealthy friend of the school recently contributed through Mr. Buchanan $1,000 for the work of Palmer Institute. HAMPTON'S HOLD ON THE MASSES Annual Conference at Famous Institute Shows Good Results. HUNDREDS - IN ATTENDANCE. Many Subjects of Practical Importance Discussed by Leading Educators From Various Sections of the State. Mrs. Harris' Barnett' and Mrs. C. C. Norcom on Work For Women. BY OCEA TAYLOR Hampton, Va. The fifteenth annual Hampton Negro conference, recently held at Hampton institute, was a most gratifying success in every respect. There are perhaps no other gatherings held anywhere in this country which parallel these yearly conferences at Hampton in the magnificent results accomplished for the social, economic, educational, moral and religious uplift of the colored people. They vitalize the wonderful spirit of Hampton and its corps of consecrated workers in carrying the gospel of right living and right think- PRACTICE ing to educate the teacher, the teachers and like leaders in the various communities. Dr. Frissell, the president, in the course of his remarks to the conference said that an institution must keep in touch with the life of the people outside if it is to be of great service. Hampton keeps closer in touch with the life of the people outside than most institutions by these annual conferences, which bring together each year between 500 and 600 leading men and women from all parts of the country and from all walks of life, who are workers in their various communities for the general uplift of the people. "Women Work For Community Betterment" was the tope of the first session of the conference. Mrs. Harris Barrett of Hrompton, president of the Virginia Federation of Colored Women, presided. Mrs. Barrett also delivered an excellent address on "Federation Work." Among other things Mrs. Barrett said that the Virginia Federation of Colored Women, which was organized in 1907, had raised over $200 for the establishment of an industrial school for waryward girls and gave numerous other illustrations of what is being done by the women of Virginia for the uplift of their communities. Other speakers at this session were Mrs. I. C. Noreum of Portsmouth, Va., who read a well prepared paper/on MRS. HARRIS ZARKETT. "Women's Community Clubs" and showed the relation of these clubs to other community activities; Mrs. Laura B. Titus of Norfolk, Va., who has had a wide experience in community work and spoke on "Y. W. C. A. Works," showing what this organization of her city has done for the destitute colored girls who find their way to Norfolk, and who often fall into the hands of misfortune. Mrs. Ora-Brown Stokes spoke on "The Colored Women's Religious Activity" and explained by statistics and concrete illustrations how the various women's clubs are sending tangible assistance to the minister. Aside from these regular speakers, Rev. James Buchanan, secretary of the Associated Charities of Richmond, spoke encouragingly to the woman of Virginia and assumed them that there was a possibility of their getting an appropriation from the next legislature to help carry on their work. The final session of the conference was devoted to "Co-operation in Virginia." BATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1911. | : oa = THE COURIER. SCOTTDALE PA: pq ez (Bx Blanche Mocre.+ “liss Mamie Brown was visitind fends in Pitteburz last week. ozs HAL, Sr. made we fying tin fat weet tyraugh «tversdale, i. ~asthesand, “Md. and Fre:tunts in ul antomobite. : Mev Zt) Meore wis in tor’n, Yay eases! Rev- Ro Brown with 2A im mmeting, Sunday,"whice sa cel tor tha benefit of the ALM. E Bing <herch of that citys.” . eat. Henry of Pitrsurs, is the sesst of Mr. gand Mrs, betér Dasa. Warmack “has moved bix residenc> rom ‘Kingview to Grant street, Archie Swan was the guect of Mis< Auzgie Grisby on Sindy. Morning Star Baptist Church. The covendnt meeting and com- semion at the Morning Star Paptist rurch. waa well attended all du. ‘Rev. Carter of Connellsville,- Pa., afeached an excelent sermon which ys enjoved by all. Me. Digas of Seenelisvillc, Pa, worshipped with thom. A’ few of the A. M.'E. Zion <aurch members attended in the att- 4rnoon. The pastor, Rev. H. H. 0% often, and his members. make every “etion welcome. The Morning Star Baytstcchurch cavities every person to astend thelr +amp meeting edmnencins Augmst “LIT, Preaching every Light. OIL CITY, PA. J (By Randowph Johnsons ° Splenic of ‘the Brown Chapel ACM. EL Sunddy school was hew at Monarch park, Friday. jugust 4 <eime people trom Franklin atrended? Mrs. R. W. Hall of Roanoke, Va. is visiting ber s.ster, Mis. E. W. Jcbn- ‘en, of Main street. Our j:asto- steached a very able sermon stinday morning. ,Harold Randolph Jobu- sot pas received b's diploma fram the jrummar school of Oil City and wilt cater High school this ‘comitig term. 4rs. Kingston of Alabama, is sisit ns ser aunt, Mrs.. Tempa Gray ‘of Cet ‘ral avenue. . Richard Bolden will ‘Lave for Pittsburg Monday morning acd will return atter a stay of two asks. -Joseph Jones of Bishop ave- cee, ieft, for Pitisbing Saturday serning aid will extend his visit un- “ti the school vacation is over. Mrs. Reed and children of Mercer, spent fitday cin Oil City at the home -of (jits: “LE. Davis of Bisel “avenue. Mrs TJ. Lancaster has returned uft- cra visit of six weeks with Iriends in sancaster and Wilmington, O.. where csany. social functions were sivgn in ‘wz honor. . Ad outing was held “at Hasson hark for the children. it was given *4 Miss Clara Poe and Mrs. Chatigs Stinner. Mrs. Jenkins of, Off City. <ent to Titusville where “she will swend one week with her son, Fred aioe * eee - SHARON, PA. ‘tiss Eisie Asbury has returned’ to “=: Rome in Canorsbiffe for » short “sit. Mrs. Coleman fs seriously tii her home on, idaho street. Mrs. Eyward Crippen ‘of Pittsburg, spent ast week with her husband on Em- -regn avenue. Mrs: Geo. Catlin and sc Aliver, who have been visitns ‘er aunt, Mrs. Jackson, returned to ser some inSalem, ©, Misses Mabel villips, -Haael and Frances Flemon aon the’guests of Miss Helen’ Ferry son of Hubbard, ©. Sunday. fit, <a Mrst Charies HI have returgea {p their home from a visit wth tends ia Wadsworth and Akrbu. he Stewardess Board No. 2 will Wold + shieken supper at the A. M. E. Zien “qnreh Saturday, night, \usust/ 12. i. & Mrs. Coleman and / Mrs. Arist Steele have’ returned 10 their lyme trom a short visit with teiends 2 Steveland and Akron, ©. Alber! teddy of Sharon and Miss Shey: Sard of Cincinnati, were quietly niac ‘og.in New Castle on July 31. Quite +. caimbe? of persons trom Staron tea South, Sharon attended the camp sering “in Hubbard, The Sharon Jants lost to the Fiat AWC, Saturday ty seoge of 7 to @ Earl McKenny reked, a very good game for the Hants He held the heavy hitting se the Flats to seven hits." Thomas ailacd, one of the Giant players re- oived a badly sprained ankle while Funning to fist base. All persons “wre*pieased with the singing ot Master Roy Clopton. Sunday, at the camip meeting at Hubbard. ~ Write natesxon one side of paper only.~ Marater.) aa 7 ALTOONA, PA. 1By.Andrew Downenk.) ~ . ‘Fhe Swastika club. composed of a ycmber of young men have issued rvitations for their mid-summer, dance ‘which wbil. be held on August ts at Sylvia-Lodge, Lakemont park. A‘great. many strangers are expected to-be present. - +e vyitsses Kathleen and Dean Brown expect a good many Visitors this sum- cier ang they have‘rented a cottage along the Blue Juniata -iver, where “hey will entertain them for alwees accren days. _ The-A. M. E. church and Sinday aesool held thet annual picnic on Thursday “at- Lakemont park. A goodly number turned out and they @ichad a day of jodification at the e4utiful resort. * : Rex. Danlel Cave has retnrned aumecafter spending a week it Mire sinta 7 “Mrs. T. FL White has retu-ned ome after, spending a two weeks va- Sation visiting triends in P.ttsours.* Holmes Uckerd of Waghinston tienue, is enjosng a tWo weeks vp sation. the Altoona Pairlarchie No. 12%. ent to Phillipsburg. Pal, where they, seok a prominent part in thé dedica- on of the new.Odd-Fellows home at tai place. The chlef speaker ot the day was M, P. V.. Robert T. Net sor wof Harrisburg. <Bapd“conce-ts, halt games and dancing “were in or- er. They returned home Friday | thorning, all reporting a-xood time. , ___ Howard Rfckmond aad Henry Kea- neiy of Pittsbuf. spent last Sun. “fay! visiting. friends in Altoona and -Hallidaysbure, Pa, - "Vast Sunday our town Sas full of | strangers who took advantage of the i exetrsion’ which left @gamberland, | Md. They all seemed iQ PHov them- lelves, taking in the mourtaln scenery. j They all left for home on ge seven ‘ ociock train fi the evening. Beware of Him. ‘Look out for the man who is always suspicious ‘of everybody else's mo rejves.. Te chances are that be bas enene motives bimsell. : Fame Thrust Upon Singer E b zu } <r Y 5 D Oe a y | SF; ‘ me CHAPTER |. Petia abel eatatliaer a eis et ee Saige ie city’s midday rush, engulfed {a Droad- way's swift moving flood of hustling humanity, jostled unceremoniously by the careless, indifferent crawds, Afscouraged from stemming further the tide of pushing, elbowing mer! and, women who hurried up and dows the great thoroughfare. Howard Jeffries, tied and bungry and thoroughly dis- custed with himself, stood still ai the corner of Fulton street, cursing;the luck which had brought him to bis present plight. = It was the noon hour, the important time of day when nature loudly claims her due, when business affairs, no, matter how pressing, mustbe tem- porarily interrupted so that the hu- man machine may lay tn a.fresh store of nervous energy. From under: the ‘portals of precipitous office bulldjngs, mammoth hives of human fndustries, ,Rhich to right and left soared ditzily from street’ to sky, swarmed thou: sands of employes of both sexes— clerks, stenographers, shop girls, mes- senger boys—all moved by a common {mpulse to satisfy without further de- lay the animal cravings of their phys feal natures. They strode along with quick, nervous step, each chatting|and laughing with his fellow, interepted for the nonce in the day's work, 'ma- king plans for well-earned recreation when five o'clock’ should come jand the uptown stampede for Harlem and ome begin. 3 ‘The young man sullenty watched the scene, envious of the energy and activity of all about him, Each jone im these hurrying throngs, he thoaght Ditterly to himself, was a valubble unit in the prosperity and welfare. of the big town. No matter how humble his or her position, each pliyed a part in the business life of the great city, each was an unseen, unknawn, yet indispensable cog in the whirling, complicated mechanism of the vast world metropolis. - Intuitively: he ifelt that he was not one of them, that he had no Fight even to consider himself thefr equal. He was utterly useless to anybody. He was without position er money. He was destitute even of 8 shred of aelfréspect. Hadn't | he promised Annie not-to touch liquor again before he found a job? Yet! he had already imbibed ‘all the whisky which ‘the Sittle money jeft in bis pocket would buy. ! Tnvoluntarily, instinctively, be shrank back {nto the shadow of @ doorway to let the crowds pass. The pavements were now filled to over- flowing and each moment newcomers from the side -streets came to syell the human stream. He tried to avpid observation, fearing that some one _ might recognize him, thinking jall could “read on his face that be was B sot, a self-confessed failure, one} of life's. Incompetents. In his paintul sself-consciousness he belleved himself the cynosure of every eye and jhe winced as he thought he detected on certain faces sid@ glances of curiosity, commiseration and contempt. Nor was be altogether mistaken More than one passer-by turned ‘to look in bls direction, attracted by hls pecullar appearance. His wan & type not seen every day In the com mercial district—the post-graduate college man out at elbows. He was smocth-faced and apparently about (25 + years of age: His complexion was fiir and his face refined. It would have been handsome but for a droop Ys. trresolute mouth, which denoted fmore than average weakness of char /acter. The face was thin, chalk-like fnr{ts lack of color and deeply: seamed with the tell-tale lines of dissipation Dark cireles under his jeyes ands peculiar watery look suggested late Bours and overfondness [or ‘alcobbi refreshment’ His clothes had the chi of expensive tatlors, but they wefe sbabby and needed pressing. His liner wae soiled and “his necktie disar fanged. His whole appearance was careless and suggested: that tecklemt ness of mind which comes of! genera demoralization. . | Howard Jetrfen knew tnat he waz} fahure, yet Mke most young “mer mentally weak. he insisted that he could not be held altogether to blame Secretly, too, he despised these sober industrious people who seemed con tented with the crumbs of comfor ‘ thrown to them. What, he wondered fdly, was their secret of getting oni ‘How were they able to lead such = regulated lives. when he, starting ou with far greater advantages. bai faileg? Oh, he knew well where a - trouble lay—in bis damnable w. ness of character, bis love for drink ‘That was responsible for everything | But was it his fault if he were bori weak? Thesd people who behaves themselves and got on, he sneered + were calmy commonplace tempera ments who found’ no difficulty in cod troling thelr baser instincts.. The} did right amply because they fount fteasler than.to do wrong. Their vir Marvelous Note Emitted Was Great Effort; But Eatirely Unpre meditated. i It was Mme. -Highnote’s frat ap pearance, and she was om her trial tril. The audience sat spellbound, First: came a cadensa, and then—th Righ C. Would she do it? Mme Mighsete thought she wouldnt = be was just about to attempt the Tbo© TAIRD DEGREE D’CHARLES KLEIN, Vy nu ARETEP HORNEL Gas Yv iii fk A } dy ; TWN Re So = = + He Was a Type Not Scen Every Day in the Commercial District. tue was nothing to brag about It; cwas easy to be good when not ex- posed to temptation. But for those Dorn with the devil-in them it came hard. It was all a matter of heredity and influence. One’s vices as well a3 one’s virtues are handed down to us ready made. He had no; doubt that in the Jeffries family somewhere in the : unsavory past there had been a weak, vicious ancestor from whom he had inherited all the traits which barred his way to success. The crowds of hungry workers grew Digger every minute. Every one was elbowing his way into neighboring restaurants, crowding the tables and buffets, all eating voraciously as they talked and laughed. Howard was rudely reminded by inward pangs that he? too, was famished, Not a’ thing had passed his lips since he had left ome in Harlem at elght o'clock that morning and he had fgld Annie that he would be home for lunch. Thge was no use staying downtown any longer. For three weary hours he had trudged from office to office seeking employment, answering advertise- ments, asking for work of any kind, ready to do no matter what, but all to no purpose. Nobody wanted him at any price. What was the good of a man, being willing to work if there was bo one to employ him? A nice Took-out certainly. Hardly a dollar left and no prospect of getting any more. He hardly had the courage to return home and face Annie. With muttered exclamiation of impatience he spat from bis mouth the half-con- sumed cigarette which was hanging from bis Up, and crossing Broadway, waiked listlessly in the direction of Park place. - Hevhad certainly made a mess of things, yet at one time, not so long ago, what a brilliant future Ufe ssemed to have in store for htm! No boy bad ever, been given a better start. He remembered the day he left home to go to -Yale: he recalled his father's kind words of encour agement, bis mother’s tears. Ab, if his mother had only lived! Then, maybe, everything would hare been different. But she died during his freshman year, carried of suddenly by heart failure. . His father married again? a young woman 20 years his junior, and that bad started every- thing of wrong. The old home life bad gone forever. He had felt like an intruder the first time he went home and from that day bis father's roof bad been distasteful to him. Yes, that was the begtaning of his hard luck. He could tracy all his misfor- tunes back to that. He,couldn’t stand for stepmother, a haughty. selfish, supercilious, ambitious creature who had Uttle sympathy for her predecet- sor's child,.and no acruple in show: fog it. ‘Then, at college, he bad met Robert Underwood, the poptlar upper class- man, who had professed to take a great fancy tolpim. He. a timid young freshman, was naturally flattered by the friendship of the dashing, fascinat- ing sophomore and thus commenced that unfortunate intimacy which bad préught about the climax to his trow bles. The suave, amiable Underwood, whora he soon discovered to be a gen: Uemanly scoundrel, borrowed bis money and introduced him into the “sporty” set, an exclusive circle into which, thanks to bis liberal allowance from home, he was welcomed with note when a little brown mouse ran across the footlights. The dira shrieked, gathered up her skirts, and ran. “My prospecta are forever blight ed,” abe moaned. : ‘At that moment there came « fever tah knocking at the door. It was the manager's assistant, “The manager” be exclaimed. “wants te know whether you ram away open arms. With a/youth of his pro clivities and inhepent weakness the outcome was inevitable. At no time overfond of study, he regarded reat- dence in college as a most desirable emancipation from the restraint of home life. The love of books he con- sidered # pose and he scoffed at the men who took their reading seriously. ‘The university attracted him mostly by its most undesirable features, its sports, its secret societies, its petty ‘cliques, and its rowdyism. The broad ‘spirit and tie dignity of the alms | mater Xe ignored completely. Directly he went to Yale he started in to en- joy himself and with the sophisticated ‘Underwood aa guide, went to the devil faster than any mart before him ip the entire history of the pnitersity. Reading. attendance at Iéctures, be- came only a corvenfpnt cloak to con- ceal his turpitudes.) Poker playing, automobile joy rides, hard drinking became the daily curriculum. In town rows and orgies of every descrip- tion he was soon-a recognized léader. Scandal followed scandal until he was threatened with expulsion. Then his [father heard pt it and there-was 1 terrible. scene: Jeffries, Sr., went im mediately to New Haven and there followed a stormy interview in which Howard promised to reform, but once the psrent's back was turned things ‘went on pretty much as before. There were fresh scandals, the smoke ot which reached as far as New .York | This time Mr. Jeffries tried the plan of cutting down the money supply and Howard found himself financially em Darrassed. But this’ had not quite the effect desired by the father. for rendered. desperate by his inability to secure funds with. which to carry on bis sprees, the ySung man started in to gamble heavily, giving notes for his losses and pocketing the ready ‘money when be won. : Then came the supreme scandal whick turned his father’s heart tc steel. Jeffries, Sr., could forgive muct [i= a young man. He had been young himself once. None knew better thar ‘he how dificult it 1s when the blood is rich and red to keep oneself ir control. But there was one offence which a mah proud of his descent ‘could not condone. He would never forgive the staining of the family name by = degrading marriage. The news came ‘to the unhappy father lke a thunderclap. Howard, probably a drunken spree, had married secretly a waitress employed in one of the “sporty” restaurants in~New Haren and to make the mesalliance worse the girl was not even of respectable parents. Her father, Billy Delmore the poolroom king, was a notoriow gambler and had died in convic' stripes. Fine sensation that for th yellow press. “Banker's Son Wed! Convict’s Daughter.” So ran the vscare beads” in the newspapers That was the last straw for Mr. Jeff ries, Sr. He sternly told his son tha be never wanted to look upon bis fact again. Howard bowed bis Head t the decree and he had never seen his fatber since. All this the Young man was review ing In bis mind when suddenly his re fiections were disturbed by a friendly ball, x “Hello, Jeffries, old sport! Dott you know & fellow frat when you se him?” . He looked up. A young man 0 | eceteue build, with « pleasant, fran) from the curtain because you wers ay “No. Iam well, It was only—" “And he wants me to tell you that high C you let out at the end was the Guest he had heard for years, end the audience is crazy over you. You must give an encore” “T ean't—I can't,” walled the prima donna; “not unless you get another mouse” ° ‘The Truce ef God. ‘The “Truce of God" was introduced by the clergy ef Guienne arcuad the ayy ‘ face, was standing at the news stand under the Park place elevated station. Quickly Howard extended his hand: “Hello, Coxe!” he exclaimed. “What on earth are you doing in New York? Whoever would have expected to meet you in this howling wilderness? How's everything at Yale?” ‘The athlete grinned. “Yale be hanged! I ddi't care & d—. You know I graduated last June. I'm in business now—In a broker's of- fice in Wall street. Say, it's great! “We bad a seml-pantc last week. Prices went to the devil. Stocks broke 20 points. You. should have seen the ex- citement om the exchange flocr. Our football rushes wero nothing to it. I tell you, It's great. It's got college Deaten to a frazzle!” Quickly be added: “What are you doing?” Howard averted his eyes and hung bis head. “Nothing.” he answered gloomily. Coxe had quickly taken note of big former classmate’s shabby appear ance. He had also heard of bis es capades. - “Didn't you hear?” muttered How ard. “Row with governor, marriage and all that sort of thing? Of course,” he went on, “father's damn- ably unjust, actuated by ahgurd pre- fudice. Annie's a good girl and a good wife, no matter what her father was. D—n it, this is a free county! A man can marry whom he likes. All these {deas about family pride and family honor are old world notions, foreign to this soll. I'm not going to give up Annie to please any one. T'm as fond of her now as ever. I haven't regretted: a moment -that I married her. Of course, it has been hard. Father at once shit down money supplies, making my further stay at Yale impossible, and I was forced to come:to New York to seek employment. We've managed to fix up s small fiat in Harlem and now, ike Micawber, I'm waiting for some- thing to tura up.” : | Coxe nodded sympathetically. “Come and have a drink,” he saié eter . Howard hesitated. Once mora he | semerabered his promise to Annie, but as long as he had broken it once he | would get no credit for refusing now. He was horribly thirsty and de pressed. Another drink would cheer bim up. It seemed even wicked to decline when {t wouldn't cost, bim anything. es ‘They entered a bar conventently close at band, and with a tremulous hand Howard carrled greedily to his lips the. insidious lquor which had undermined bis health and stolen ‘away his manbood. |" ““Have another?” sald Coze with a | smile as he saw the glass emptied at | a gulp. i |“ don't care if T do.” replied How. lard. Secretly ashamed of his weak. ness, he sbumfied uneasily on his feet. [S"sWell, what are you going to do, fold man?” demanded Coxe as ke i pushed the whisky bottle over. “I'm looking for a job,” stammered | wowara awkwardly. Hastily he went on: “It isn't soeasy. If it was only | myself I wouldn4 mind. I'd get along } somehow. But there's the little girl. | She wants to go to work, and I won't j Bear of it, I couldn't stgnd tor“that | you know.” | "Coxe feared a “touch.” Awkwardly |p said: TO BE CONTINUED.) _ Musions. It Is true we labor under many i lustons, but if these were tp be done away with we should hardly deem 18 worth our while to labor at all. ‘Almost none of the things which man so ardently pursues in the belief that they will make Aim happier is really capable of doing so, and yet ft 1s needful that he Keep up the pursuit for the sake of what he incidentally achisves in bebslf of destiny. ‘The illusions we labor under par take, in fins, of the nature of sanitary conditions, though they chiefly affect the health of the spirit, and by that have no municipal functlonary ap pointed to look vigilantly after them. Nor, in fact, do they need any suck, since providence has been so kind as to see to it that illusions we shall ab ways have.—Puck. = ane Being Natural. Can you, if you be the gentler sex, waik down the street bebind an cle gantly gowned woman and restrain the impulse to imitate her poise of head. her carriage and the fascinating ways she possesses? Hae you ever been in a crowded room -where ome woman was the center of attraction and seen someote trying-to imitate her?) A woman {s most charmiag when she is natural A woman who ts natural, even in her erratic moods, does not give offense. One cannot imt tate the ways, manners and style of another without appearing ridiculous, The nicest women we meet are those who do not pose ox seck to imitate sonie one else. year 1030. It was adopted In Spais about 1050, in England about 1080 “According to this famous treaty, aces ‘sation of all violent quarrels was em ‘joined, under heavy penkities, during ail church festivals, and from every Wednesday evening until the follow ing Monday morning. This left only about 50 days in the year available for shooting and stabbing one's neigh bora, The truce seems to have ae }complisbed much good, notwithetam® ing the fact that it was very tmpep cectly obgerved, _ ' OPEN BAY AND RrGHTT’ BELL PROME 9873.2. GRANT : FOR CODD THINGS STOP AT te | ‘THE COLONIAL. | GM. ROBB, PROF. . . ; Hm. 1300-1302 Wylie Ave. (ODN) Se nectea fo” i i = } se : a a ; Se a aps Soe 1 og ign es —_— ; *, ; } $ a j : re : es ie Pe ee Bet joes wo cama a eae.) Ree eT er, * 2635. WYLIE AVENUE The Largest Colered Grocery. Meat and , Provision Store im Pittshergh : We Succeed Because We Strive to Please. . WM. H. THOMPSON, Pres s ‘ Brighton Gafe 04 "7% 2° mien Ee BROWN, Proprietor All the delicacies of the season. Meals served at all hours, day and night. .. sh a The Original Poro Hair Grower mrs. FOPE-TURNBO. 4 iMRs. Lh ROBERTS. . ° = aa ae Se 7. Be @ ee 2 ee Boe o - Bi gl Ras ; 2 ' San Pie | . ce ae Pes ee es i me . Imitation {s the sincerest @attery; and the fact that co many: people St. Louls ang ¢eroughout the country think it worth while to imitate “PORO” HUN GROWER is the best proat of the merits of. "Porn" We were the frat 0 engaso in the business of growing. thy halt regwreees of its covf'tion agf the condition of the scalp, and a ocr work have weed thq preparation wach is knowh as “Poro.” ‘This Is made ané ecld eestor aiyely by mgselt T have the ¢xclusive right to that ; and 1 sleae, Xgow the secret of the com: that bears that name | From its use in my treatments hundreds ve received direct beneft. Our claim hes always been that when the ‘begins to grow as the resalt of the ase of “Soro” it will continue to do-so}foaly this the hair and scalp be hept elena Many persons are constantly that i, tron. You cannot afford, ay using mere imitations, to Fisk aot attaining the result you desire Tro sure that the name is om every box, not ‘withedt sh. If your hair is ry, harsh, brittle and failing “Pere.” Tt ‘stops the falling and the halr te growing At ence. Mrs. A. M. Pope-Turnbo 3100 Pine Street - : Ofiee x 4 6209 ve, St. Louis, Mo. . ‘Mrs. Wi/A. Clay. 4 ¥eass Hate ly an = ples were bald [bait ‘way.ap my head. | Imitation ts the sincerest fatter: 8t. Louls ang throughout the countr, “PORO” HaW\ GROWER is tag dest werd the $ret @0 engage in ‘bus af ite covftion aaf the antes ¢ the preparation wach is known a9 | sively by myselt. T Rave the ¢zclus Xgow the secret of the com: in my treatments hundreds Bive Fr always been that when the deg “Soro” it will continue to do soft cal Many persons are constantly using. mero imitations, to risk sot at Tio sure that the name fs If your hair is dry, harsh, Britt! Tt ‘stops the falling and Mrs. A. M. 3100 Pine Street 7 oe LEETSDALE. PA (By Rose Howard Lee) On Thursday evening, August 3rd. Mis, Laura V. Nailor departed this life after a long and severe illness. ‘Mrs. Naflor had lived in Leetadale for almost 25 years and was very ‘well known in this locality. She was one of the founders of the Baptiss church as was also her husband. ap, died two years ago. Rev. Hey rham ‘of St. Matthew's A. M. E. Z. church, Sewickley, officiated at the funeral services. Mrs. Nailor will be great- ly_missed. i Don't miss the convention of cplor- ed women's clubs at New Brightoh on the 26th. 17th and 18th of this month. To Remove Medicine Stains. Silver spoons that have been stajzed with medicine may be cleaned by rub ‘bing them with a rag dipped in sub ‘pharie acid, and then ‘washlog off tbe acid with soap suds. } THREE 4 Years ago my Hair £ fust covered my sboul- dex. 2 mat nti eat n weet think it worth while to imitabe proof of the ‘merite of. “Pore.” We aoee of growing. thp hair resmriese the acalp, aad {2 our work have wed Poro.” ‘This Is made ané ecld eestor ve right to that 3 and I, sleae, that beare that name From its asp ceived direct benefit. Our ciaim bas us to grow as the result of the use ot this the Bair and acalp be dept elena. bat is tros.. You cannot afford, ay aining the, Terult you donine . aad taling outage “Peow he hair te growing Ai ence. Pope-Turnbo ~ : Office 6209 Frank Ave __ Mrs. WA. Clay, — Bent By the Sun.. _ ‘The towering Washington mong- ment, solid as it {s, cannot resist the heat of the sun, poured on its south- ern aide on a midgummer’s. day,. with- out « slight bending of the gigantic abatt which 1s rendered percepitible by means of a copper wire, 174 feet long, hanging in .:he center of the structure, and carrying a plummet suspended in a vessel of water. At noon in summer the apex cf the mon- ument, 550 feet above the ground. fs shifted, by expansion of the stone. a few hundredths of an inch toward the north, High winds cause perceptible motions ofthe plummet, and in still weather delicate vibrations of the ‘crust of the earth, otherwise unper- ‘ceived, are registered by !t Bribed. Mother—That strange ,cat will: scratch you. Daughter—No, be wont He likes'me. I gave him our Kite Dird tocet.—Judge. - ‘ FOUR : 4. GW. POSEY, President “ AOHNSON. Be ' SR. L. VANN, Treasurer. MAIN OFFICE: .1209 Wyile Avenue. . 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Post Office, May 10, 1910, ‘under the Act of March 3, 1879. -EDITORIAL : SPECIAL NOTICE. _ All matter, intended for’ publication ia the Courier must be written on one de of paper. Social, church and per peel nee will be Spel published. poetry are only ted fer poblication. from our tect cor feovondontg..- All persons aubscribing fee the Colirier will kindly renew aub- seripton when. the same sha‘l have ex pired without further notice from us. fay agent or official whose, condact js unbecoming or discourteous to our wabecribers or advertisers will kindly faport in, writing to Pittsburg Courier NEGRO | SOLDIERS FOR PHILIP. of” pines ; orders, fare been {issued to the army recréiting stations to enlist Negroes ‘for service in ihe Philippine Islands. | Just what is the pyrpose of enlisting Nes:oes forthe Philip- pines, we are no: able to say at this writing; but we ave quite ceftain that ietohas been ng declaration cf war [necess.tating the United States ‘Army's presence in. the foreiga pos- sessions. c= The lack of d°reason for ‘this call for Newfoes f6r the Is‘aniis may ‘have @ corresponding tendency to lessen the rardar of the prospective Nezro soldier, and ‘there may not be as many. enlisted as Uncle Sam antigi- -pates.~ * < . Sti} another agency, not aitoreth- er new, may play some part when thé Negro considers this call to the army, viz: that of the past treat- ment of the Negro soldiers serving in the United States. - We have not forgotten ow the black men were dismissed ‘at Brownsville, and it is unreasonable to suppose that The in- cident has ‘bee: completely erased irom the memories of the Negroes who are to constitute the tture Ne- To companies: ~ We deplore the fact that the Nesro hus enjoyed few incentives at the hands‘oj the army officers; and hon~ estiy hope that Uncle Sam_will find it possible to cultivate more ‘appre- ciation ior his black heroe# in the future than he has in me recent past. VWARDAMAN IN SENATE. Just when the grim reaper is about to rid-w5'and the country of that vile and veromous Tillman, who has de- Voted, his entire life to the «Sgreda- tion of the Negro Race, the State of Missigsippi farnishespa substitute in the form of James K. Vardaiman, who has no other right, to pass for.a’inan than the fact, God made him. We “ate forced to exclaim to the “New South,” quo vadis. Our periodicals are fil of speeches and declarations from Northern and Southern Congressmen that the old “South has “passed awiy, ahd behold ‘Ke have a how one: pew in its ambi- tions to.foréver erage the Mason and Dixon line, new in its efforts to for- get the errors of the sixties and meet each “other upon the-.once gommon battle grounds and seal thé€jies that bind, with ‘hands clasped across the graves of the Blue and the Gray. ar the election of Vatdaman to the United States Sepate, the highest elective office m the State, je addi stional efidence of this New South, ;then we want none of It, Attred in an immacilate suit of white and dram by a herd of white oxen, this Vardaman shade his campaisn tours through his State -declaring -himeelt an apostie of purity and“pranding 331 else, as prodicts of Hell. And the “New,Squth” heard tnis self-elevated tyrant, and now thrusts him upon the public. with mo apologies” Protests should be filed against tie seating of such a man in the United States Senate on the grounds of pub- Ry poter: for the! morality of the, intry iy. threatened, and. the hei. fare of the pudlic. at large greatly en-. dangered. Shall we wait for the gtim reaper to deliver. us President Taft is credited with re- cently indicating that there are three national questions on which all good citizens should agree, regardiess of -party Ines, viz.: Reciprocity, Reform of our Banking System “and Interna- ional’ Peace. ’ We take the Wbérty to add tho much neglected Qufstion of Lynch Law. ! tut Wk In. receyt issue of the Pitispursn Christian Advocate appeurs an artiele taken from the Consineét, anaes to the point on tne muck moctdd Ne gro Qeestion. We advise that levery good citizen, black or white, svat this article thoroughly... It [bristles with the road so much needed in thi land. of prejudice. °° | i: Sisugieomy itn fee anshunce- ment tht the Giver and Magee fac- tions are hopeiessiy | divided, © 2 lengthy’ article in the Gazette Times asking where the Major fo} the $590,000, with which to remove the Hump. Let them ask . Confrolier Morrow; he has joined) im the) certi- ficate with Mayor to Sienele The Fittsburg Railways Company is again carrying the | Leadet,-and there is.a silence in the ° editorial rooms, yet unexplained | by .the|“Peo- pies’ Paper.” ‘The automobilés_en- titled “not owned by the trusts,} have disappeared. Now, Alex, tell now eicen oon Sat i BO LOCAL NEWS of Isis A. Ey A. O. of N. of MBB. of U. & S.A. held its regular ygpathly meeting Wednesday. Aj 9, at their hali on Robert {Wylie streets, The temple fecently. elect- ed and installed the following, oft cers’for the ensuing term:.. |A. E. W. Goldston, Ill Com.; Susi Lee, First Lieut.'Com.; H.' J. Frazier, Second Lieut. Com; Eilza Ross, High Priestess; Mary Alexander, | Furst Ger, Dan.; Annie Fisher, Second Cer. Dan.; Mamie Buckner, fll, Treas.; An- nie B. Christian, Ill. Recorder: | tsatit- da Williams. I. 5.; Jennie Rollins, 0. S.: SH. Golden, 0. G./ Mrs. .Margaret Kittreli of Erie. Pa.. one of the brightest correspondents ‘on the Courier staff was in the cits the past wéek. While in the city she was the guest of [Mr. and Mrs R. H. Wilson of Melrose alvenue. North Side. She will leave Monday for Zanesville, 0. and will Ye the guest of Mrs. Eva Guy/for abolit one week. fe i Mrs. Viela Goin,‘ wife of the Rev. E. F> Goin, pastor of Bixweil AveRuc Congregational church of New, Haven, Cénn., accempanied by) heszvon, was recently the guest of |Secrétaty and Mrs, Samuel X. Morgell of Dull strect Miss Mary Washington of the Nerth Side, is much improved from a serious syc!l of paralys.s of the face. Her many friends wish! ber a speedy: recovery and hope that the eifects will leave her entirely weil. Mrs. James B. Jehnsoy and Baby Mary Marguerite, are expected: to ar- rive honie’ this week! alter a two months vit in the east. During her sence “firs. Jobnson| spent ! three weeks in! Wasbington -and five /weeks in Ivy, Va. j i Mr. and Mrs. B. T.{Mahoref, 2!so of the. North Side, who have been visitng relatives “and. friends in Washmzton and Rosslyn, Va., will ac- company Mrs. Johnson on hez|nome- ward joviney. load + Mrs. Chas. Hodge lett Thesday night far W.nchester, Va... td visi her parents during thé month (of Au- gust. 7 { Mrs. Annie Christian, of Brashton and Mzs. Emma J. Moore of the| North Side, spent.a few days as the jsuests of Mrs. 3. Potter pf Allison Patk, Pa. Migs Lily Gla of Day Street, Nérth Side Jet Sunday evenibs 10F New York, Philadelphia and |AYan- tie_Chy. | Sirs. Meekins of Charles (street. will spend a few Weeks out pf the exty at Camp Horn, Emsworth; Pa. Prof. J. Kirk, principal of the Higk school at Waco, Tex. and hig wite, spent the Week with /his brotser, T. E. Ross of Charles street. ~ Dr. Willam Writtjand Dr.|S. R. Davis successfully passed the| State Board of Medical Examiners and ace prepared to take up actual pradtice of medicine. } Rev. W. B. Anderson, PB D.,/of Un- fonown, Pa., spent: two days lin the city this week, being! the guest cf Rev. P. A. Sdott. D. D.. pasior of Bethel A. M. E church, Wylie ave- nue. Dr. ‘Anderson could not think of trying to respond to the invifSt-ons thas—poufed ii uyon him frojn his hosts -of friends to teas, dines, etc. As it was he tas feasted at the homes ef Mr. and. Mrs. Sandy Washington, on Wandless street; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brown on Webster avenue, Mr. and airs. Joha|. Henderfon of Beitzhoover avenue, “Hill Top. and Mrs, Emma Thompson, Wylie avenue. It is the man who ‘does things that the people delight to hono:,/ hence Dr. Andersda’s | popwiarity 2) P.tts: burgh wee ‘Among thé many Pittsburgeys who wfe leaving the city. for pointg, both east and west, to enjoy. thel:| vaca- tions are Crawford Owens and Rus- sell Rob.nson, who left on Wednes- | day, August 9, for Buffalo, Detrqit and Wasbington, D. ‘C.: |William [Ander- con of Ridge sireet and Mrs. Dwens of Mahoh street: who ieft the same | day for Bnffajo, NX. ¥.. and ¢incin- nati, Onto, respectively. ul Mrs. E. Manley. formerly ¢. M. | Robinson, of Shetland avenue fisited | her former home, Harrisburg, P2.. on | business with her, Hotisehold of Ruth | No. 1.G.U. O. F. of America.|. Mrs. j Manley was-the first Woman to|be in- | tiated into the Grand United Onder of | Odd Fellows in the world. She {s now,’ the “mother” of all [Househojds of | Rurheof the Grand Uhited Oztler of: Asnerica of the world.|” While on he: rip Mrs. Manley visited Philadpiphia, ' Wilmington as | Washington! “She went to Philadelphia concerning her ; yension."having.been a|memberjof the order for 54 years. sh¢ felt.that such ; was due her, shé is aiso in her. 75th ° ear. “All the officers) and members | eceived the “mother} royally) and | what was still better,| presented bgr vith a! purse and spoke favorably of : he pension. While in the city she: was the-guest of ‘Rev! and Mrs. B. | WV. Arnett. In Washington she met | nany old Pittsburg friends and| dined | with the worthy superior of the (Grand | dousebold of Ruth, Mrs. Parker. Mrs. Mary J.. Anderson of ‘South side. has just returned home trom | Sew Castle, having | attended the neeting of Hiram Conference| The ollowing officers of Hiram cout No. 0,.0f the Heroines of Jerico,| were ected for the ensuing year: |M. A. Peete) Oe Se See eee )Maty Smith; O. G. K.. Anni? Chriss: man. ‘here were five new members tuken “into the court. Mary J. An- Gerson Wis viected Uelexate to th Geand Cour: whica convenes in Pai. adcipkie August 2s.- Of the wany school hoys and girls interested in the Cour.er's ‘ sammer yrize coupon conies: for $5 in gold, Louise Wheeier 0: Canonsburg and Sarah Brooks of Washinzton, Pa.. are tied for first place and ‘Leall Henson of Titusville comes next: Parents should encourage their children in the contest..as Ave doliars would not come amiss when shoes and extra schoo! clothes have to be bough ‘n Sepzember. The Courier now has « very general circulation in abd iround thé ‘elty ‘and many coupgns can be “gathered from -neighbfrs. Each cash yearly subscription ($1150) counts for 100 votes. Each new ngme sent in for weekly subscription’ br cartier counts for five votes. Sgcond series bezins with this issue: Let everybodr who wants to eam $5 get busy AT ONCE! The eighth, annual convention of the Pennsylvania State Federation of Women's clubs will meet in Sz. James’ A. M. E. church. New Briga- ton, Pa., August 16 to 1s. Executive session Tuesday evening, August 15, at 7 o'clock. All club women who have for their object the uplifting of humanity are cordially invited to visit this-convention. Trams leave Union station at § a.m. and 5p. m. Fare, one Way from Pittsburg, 53 cents, Re- becca Aldridge. president. The children’s day outing. in Bridge; ville. Pa.. on July 22. 1911, was held in the Bridgeville Baptist church by the Seventh Day Adventist church of Midway, Pa. Its afficers are Alfred Jackson, Miss Williams, irs. Wash- ineton and Mr. | Washington. This was .one of the great- est children’s day outings ever held around * bridgeville. Pa. The chufch was crowded. ° There were 45 children besides its large crowd of o!d- er ones. Many B.bie verses were re cited along with recitation, showing what the children know about God and his son. One child recited the entirc 14th chapter of Revelations without 2 bhinder. Miss F. T. Wis Hams sunerintended the exercises, and the ch Idren showed what they had learned. Mes. E. J. Moore o° North Side. entertained this week “a party of triends irom Chicazo, I1}.; and Mobile. Alu. Covers were Iaid- tor 10 and wang pleasant experiences exthats- ed. Miss Vaiera Johnson. the “Courier sepresentative at Oil City, Pa., at- tended th: FrankIin-Rawling nuptials last week and paid a visit to-the Courier office. “Attention of the colored voters throughout the city is called to the candidacy of Mr. Malone of, the Fifth ward, for Councimman. * Mr. Malone 238 shgwn his fairness in considerinz taverably the colored press of this city as one of the adver- Using mediums of his campaign, his ad appearing en’ paze two of this is- sue He thus gives cur people rea- sca to expect LKe consideration for thei: interests from him if he suc- ceeds in seoring the positios as we inost heartily hope he will. ‘Mess W. N. Page and daughter, Ma- Lal, have retuined home from Zanes- vile, 0. ? 3 Mrs. Callaman of Cincinnati, 0.. the widow of the late Rev. Frank M. Callaman, arrived ia tne city Tuesday on a business trip. While bere she Will. be the guest of Mr. and Mrs., Josse Grey, Camp street. Does anvbody know wheze Chief Fiuhter is locateé-theze warm @ays? W. Freeman of Jersey City and W, Rodgers of Cseveland. 0.. the former being a resident 0: Pittsburgh some years ago, were in the c.ty a few days the past week, i> guests of Thos. T. aciison, the ienial and affable man- Szer o! the Protective Brotherhood. | ‘Miss Bertha Zedcicks of Hacrisburs, is the house eyest of Miss Blanche | Spuitock, Franfstown avenue. ; Wee: lookiag tor @ place to pur- chase butter, eggs. cheese, coffee, tex | and the lke, go to the Erin Dairy. 2114 Werlie avenue, where these 2r- cles ean be purchased cheapiy and vn first-class shape. Re sure to go io the Erin Dairy and tell them thac you saw their ad in the Coucler. “Mrs. C,H. Peebles of Broad street. has as her guests her sister, Mrs. F- C. Taylor and daughter, Mrs. F. J. Perkins, of Claveland @., who will at- tend the FranklinDowlin wedding. Miss Alverda Simmons of Monon: eahela, spent Monday wh Mrs. C. H. Peebles, Broad stzeet. Mrs. S_O. Cherry of Georgia. 15 touring the North visiting her rela- ‘ives and friends. Her son, Dr. S. Outtiaw Cherry of this city. left last week to meet her in Philadelphia, al! so to visit his brothe. for ten days or more. Miss Bertha Teéricks of, Harris- burs, Pa, is the house guest of Mr. and Mrs." Lovis Spurlock on Franks- town aveniie. Chas, ‘Williams and wife and Miss Williams. 2 cousin. of Wheeiing. W. Va., spent a few days in the city. Mrs. Gee of North Euclid avenue, was called away to Virg-nla last Wednesday evening as her father was very ill. f ‘Mr. and Mri. West Campbell of Broad street. will leave Cleveland, O., for Detroit. Mic. on Thursday’ for an extended trip. 4 Mrs, Mary E. Johnson of 322 Broad street, is preparing to hold an onter- ainment tt her residence for the ben- efit of the young, dasbinz widow. Everyuods come und enjdy yourself. Music furn’shed Ly Cliftons” orches- ca, : ! “Charles Nickols of Fayell street ott yesterday for Washingyon to join nis wife. ve ‘Sesterane Cie Solicies Wnt Rak Y. M. C. A. Notes. Bare ball enthusiasm fs at its height in our Y. M. C. A. branch circles. The team. under the capable management of Richard Gafrison, is setting ‘nto fine ‘shape. Recular daily’ practices are being held. and the .whoie team as deen fittéd out in beautiful uni- fortas. “The team is secretly warming up and knocking off rouch edges in an- ticipation of the great game at Rock Point park:: Friday, August 18, when the branch will give {ts first big pic- nic. * For some time pat various commit- tees have been elabérating plans for this great outing, and indications at “ime count even el “|e | cL sarunpay, august 12, jor. Dr. Frank F. Bishop i if Pie wees YP [epeteaeerbasapesy ae ho} Surgeon Dentist: . : z d | ‘Eg Ww a_e & | GAS ADMINISTERED i q od ee " Do Porcelain Crown asd H > . , i Le TOE ITE . Bridge Work a Specia'ty DR. BISHOP'S MOUTH: aND TOOTH Wasa basdeph tne gama, pa rifles the mouth and assists in artest- ing the progress of decay. BEL PHONE 2251-R GRANT. Office Hours—Daily—! 2. m. to 2 p. m.: 5:26 p.m. to S p. m. ‘Sunday. PS 2170 CENTER AVENUE Pittsburg. Pa 3 rooms, water and gas, 2nd floor, 5804 Eva St.. East End. present give 2romise o: ihe largest and most’ enjorable’ oyting given among our people this season. Spe- cial attention is being. paid to the va- rious athletic events which are to be held. Persons desiring to enter the track events may write to the secre tary, S. R. Morsell, 1547-Center ave nue. Tickets will be 75 cents for ad- ults and 60 ‘cents for children between five and twelve. sears of ae. They may be purchased at the branch on Center avenue, at the colored drug stores and ftom members of the fol- lowing committee: Samuel R. Rose- mond, P. L. Anderson, George N2w- man and Ro¥eért Logan. Tnesewend fetes: The young ladies of Zion church, led on by Miss Emily Lewis, present ed the pastor, Rev. Comhash on Sun: day jast ‘ith a purse of money in honor of isis Sith birthday. ‘The Hawthorne society held a very pleasant yard party of Tuesday even: ing at the residence of Mrs. Williams, 7286 Tioga street. “Atorney Welford Holzies will give a talk of interest at Zion chureh at the S o'clock sec¥ices. The shor taiks being given durins the summet are quite interesting: Mrs, Jane White is on tie improve under the vigilance o: hey sister, Mrs. Thomas Ilovd. * Rev. Comifash js winding up his work for the xear us pastor of Zion, He expets to take other wo-k at con: terence. Conference or connectional claims are receiving special attent on, Mis. William Hawkins ts expected home on the 15th. Elizabeta A. Jen-#. . Cn Thursday, August 3. a large party of ladies were delightfully en- teitained by Mies Mildred Crampton of Wallace street, assisted by hez sis: ter, Mrs. Geo. Whson. the Zuests o! honor being Misses Louise Howard and Miss Sallie Fisher of Washing ton, D. C. Mis. Margret J. Kitireil of Erie: is visiting Henry Wilson o: te North Side. She is on he> way to Zanes: ville, 0. “Mrs, Kittrell is the popu: lar correspondent for the Courier in | Erie. Miss Carrie Lovett and Mss Mar. gret Goins ave zetamed ‘rom a trip down the Ohio zfver and report hiv ing a fine time. i. Lust Tuesday evering a: the nome of the bride's parents. Miss Florence Parr and Rey. James Brown of Har risburg, Pa.. Were united in marriage. /Rev. Chas. Trusty officiated. The “bride was popular in the Presbyterian Sunday school and aad a host ‘friends throughout the city who wit ‘them a brigtt and happy future Mrs. James Dickerson of Devillier street, entertained Wednesday after- noon in honor of MSs Syb! Ransom ot Bos'on. Wiiist.was the game and the guests included Mrs. Sadie Jack- son, Mazetha Mills. Ella Calloway. Annabell Eskridge and Lilian Ma- lone of Braddock, Mrs. Maimie Saun- ders of Homestead. Mrs. Rovert Rus sell of this, city. Miss Marie Belt and Miss Margaret Smith, both of Rgancis street. visited Van Evans Sunday. Aueust 6, as “the ‘nouse guests of Mrs. Buchanan and daughter Maud. An enjoyable day was spent. The closing exercises of the Mid Summer Night’s Dramatic club took place in“the lecture hail at Washing- ton Park Playgrounds recently. About forty of the parents and friends of tt tweiye young people. trom the Hill, who comprise the membership of this organization. attended. . They wer? enterta‘ned by ‘an addzess by tha president, severa! vocal, and instru: mental selections and by thize weil rendered recitations, one of which was an original poem writte for the occasion. Fhe club's work for the season consisted of the clos> study of the drama . “Justice.” 3\ John Gals- Worth ond the veading of “The Blue bird," by Maeterlincke. 7 3 After the program dancing was en- Jgyed until 10 o'clock. at which all aparted, expressing great praise of the ‘efforts of these rounz jeopie to make the best-of their opportunities to enlarge their intellectual hozizons. Th> party’xiven In honor of Miss Sarah Tyqler of Flushing, ©., at the home of Misses Emma and Madah Topson of Morgan streec. where she has been the house guest for the past weok. About 35 youre people en- joved the evening in dancing and Snging. Light’ refre-aments were served during the evening. _ The out-| oftown visitors were: Miss Adah Pedieton of Wheeling W. Va.: Miss Wilma Randall, of To.edo. 0.: Miss | Mildred George of Lynchourg. Vaw: and Miss Mintess of Pailadelphla. Miss Trier departed Thursday for her | home, jeaving many ir!onds whom she had made throuzh her caarhng and | vivacious manner. = | Miss-Heten R. Frankia, only daugh- ter of Mzs. Eliza Franklin, was united ia marriage to Nelson Rawlins, Wed-| nesday, August 9. at s:i0 o'cceek at! Titusville, Pa., at their ramnily home. | 1503 Wylie avenue. the Rev. P. A) Scott offic.ating. using the sing serv- ive. The service was followed by 2 | large reception e2rved by Mrs. Satah j E. Brown, which was excellent to say! the jeast. It is only necessary to} mention Sirs. S Brown to know that the decorations and menu were mo3t clegantly arranged. She scrved UL in her inimitable manner, using white and pink, the prevailing colors. Mu- sic was rendered throughout the erenise by Hawkins) orchestra, Beau- | tiful dreamsMnusic only this orchestra can dalight ‘their friends with. Dr. WABASH | OFFICIAL ROUTE. Tt OTS eh oll IN DIANAPOLIS = ~ AND RETURN + Sunday, August 20th, — K of P Special tt Conveying all$General and Saf Officers and Com- panies of Western Pennsylvania, will. leave _ from the Wabash Ss ition at 5:00 a P.M; seo ee - ny ; For detailed ‘feu tease - Ictneral Frank Sutton, or Wabash Pale Depot, eee and a Franklin, the brother of the bride, gave the bride away. while Dr. John Crampton adted as Yest man. Miss Velera Johnson of Oil City, was maid of honog: Mss Edith Ashby and Mies Bertae Johnson of Ol City, - were brdes maids. The bride was charm- gly gowned in white satin—duchess Ince—irimmed with rose buds. Mrs. Franklin's mother 07 the bride was beautifully dressed in a French em- broidered gown. Mies Bertha Jobn- sen wore a da‘aty gown of mull. Miss Edith Acaby in an embroidered crea- tion. - The usher was George Poe of East Liverpcol. O The presenta we.> costly and beautiful, being o> seived, by the large gathering of friends, who were served in the root garden’ so artisticaliy arranged for the occasion. The out-oi-town guests were: Mrs. Franklin:Perkins of Cleve- land: Mzs. Florence Taylor, of Cleve- land; Mrs. Jennie ‘Rawlins. of T:tus- Ville! mother of the groom: Richard Belden. Sumner Bohee, of Oli City, Pa.: Miss Edna Collins, Miss Persus Bryce, Kittanning, Pa.: Irwin Green, Oil City. Th2 2room is an enterpris: ing business man of Titusville. They left at 10:45. after the reception, for Titusville. to occupy a beautifully furnished home in which their friends wish them.much Jor and happiness, hoping that it wili increas> and grow with the com:ug years. e ; The National © ; Religious Training School. ‘ a am, N. C.. : ' | 3 ee 2 - Offers the| Following Special Courses: E| a Religious Training? | > This course is especialy adapted to those’ who desire training as | Settlement Workers, Deaconesses, 'Y. M. C. andY. W. C. A. Secretaries, I heli For ‘Christian Ministry’ This Department will teain young men especially in practical Theo: | logy. the art of reaching and saving men. «This ‘reourge will be very | Settlement Workers, Desconeses, Y.M.C. A. and Y.W.C, A Secretaries, ; Til Department of Music : Vocal an instrumental. Iv. Literary Branches_ At demic and Collegiate. Vv Commercial Department. ~’ VI: Department of Industry ~~ Young men and women toa limited number Who are w rthy. will be - alee. Alt applications for admission must be made by September 1%, 7 FOR. Lge INFORMATION, ADDRESS. * PRESIDENT, NATIONAL RELIGIOUS TRAINING SCHOOL, - pe DURHAM, NG. OBITUARY Wi. Hushe3? born December 25 1sv1, in Charlottsville, Va., died Au ‘gust 7, 1911. Mr. Hughes was one of our oldest citizens and also belonged to No. 17, 1. B. P.O. E. W. He was employed as a porter at James R. Custis’ barber shop for a number of years. He leaves a host of friends and acquaintances. The funeral serv. ices witl take place at the Bethel A. M. E. church at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon. The Elks" lodge, No. 17. 1. B. P.O. EB. W.. will turn out in tall torce. sp! me ge : he Pointers. Has not yet reached the 25,000 circu’ation class,, but * _ it has a circulation of the kind that pays.‘ - : The Courier vee are, loyal patrons of the “standpat” variety. | ‘They read the paper through; advertisements and all, and then give | it to thelr friends. Thdy are in terested in our steady ‘growth and are | helping us grow stronger each: week. They read the ads and patron- ize OUR ADVERTISERS. This confidence ‘of the rcagers in the | Courier is ffs strongest asset a3 an advertising medium. * MAY WE HAVE THE OPFORTUNITY . TO NUMBER YOU AMONG OUR SAT, = | ISFIED ADVERTISERS? - oe _ ame sop ee THE -PITTSBURG COURIER Pittsburg’s On'y Colored Paper. | N;, ad 3 nd 1209 le Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. Kissed a Dead Cow. Told that ‘her pet cow that had been struck by a tyain was 80 badly injuted that the animal would bave to be’ killed, Mrs. Max Johnson, of the foot of Jasper street, Camden, Kissed the cow several times and then walked away. The cow was buried near where It was killed, and a board was placed at the head of the grave by the heart broken woman, who, between sobs, ex- plained © a number of persons :&at the animal had been the pet.of the family for sears.—Philadelphia Rec ord. Don't Take-It that just/because you are in) business, everybody is aware of the fact. Your goods may be the fine in the market bot they will remain on your shelves unless the peeple are told about them. if you want to move your merchandise. Reach the buyersin their bomes through the columns of THIS PAPER eeecaees you'll reap a baa some dividend. F. RIVERA House Painter, Interior | ae palate tie 2834 Wylie Ave.;.? Boll Phone 682_W..: zs SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1911. Mrs. Rachel Jackson of Pine Grove avenue, has as her guest her mother, Mrs. Alfred Jackson, of Pittsburg. Miss Fannie Massey of Lexington, Va., and Mrs. Sanford Massey of Linn avenue, were dinner guests last Tuesday of Miss Bertha Adams. Mrs. Susan Bozer has returned home from a pleasant visit with Mrs. Quinn Mills of Youngstown and Mrs. Isaac Cox of Beaver Fork. Mrs. Elizabeth of Gilbon avenue, left last week for an indefinite stay in the State of California. Mrs. John Dunlap of Canonsburg, was a Monday guest of Mrs. Maclon Lewis of Forest avenue. Mrs. J. W. White of Hayle avenue, attended the Masonic Ladies Grand court at Zanesville, O., during the past week. George Collins of Pittsburg, and sister, Miss Edna Collins, of Bendell, S.C., attended Sunday guests of Mrs. B. Brooks. Attorney R. I. Vann and wife of Pittsburgh, were visitors last Thursday at the home or Rev. T. J. Askew, calling upon Rev. C. E. Askew, a school mate of Mr. Vann, who spent two days last week with his brother, Rev. L. J. Askew. Rev. R. H. Bumy, Rev. Blackburn of Bendell, and Rev. Dr. Butler and, wife were callers last Saturday at the A. M. E. parsonage. Mrs. Perkins of Columbus, O., was a Saturday morning caller of Mrs. T. J. Askew while on her way to Charloff. Miss Irene Armstrong of Pittsburgh is the guest of Miss Nelle Leifer of St. Louis, Miss Leila B. Gant of St. Louis, are visiting Dr. and Mrs. L. C. Honesty. James E. Dance, left Thursday, morning for Cincinnati, where he will be the guest of Mrs. V. M. Callman for a few days. Mrs. Wm. Jackson and granddaughter, Miss. Monrella, Bolden, were guests of relatives during the past week. Miss Leah Brandy is visiting her brother Walter at Bridgesville, Pa. About thirty, members of the local order of Elks left in a special car last Sunday for Boston, Mass, where they are attending the meeting of the Grand Lodge of Elks. Mrs. Mary S. Snyder, her daughter Miss Cana, and little grandmother Stevie, who have been the houses Rev. George G. Skinner is a patient at the City hospital. The funeral or Samuel Prisby, Sr. took place last Thursday, Rev. L. J. Askey of clairlines, Mr. Prisby, a member of the St. Paul's M. E. church, and is survived by his wife and several children. The interment was in the Washington cemetery. Miss M. Sinna and Master Samuel Glanter, Jr. of Burton avenue, are visiting in the country at the home of Robert Thompson. Miss Emma Chambers of Canons-Lung, spent Thursday with her sister, Mrs. John Stephent Batch and children and sister, Miss Grace Griffin, are visiting at Zanesville, O. Social. Artistically decorated with cut hoodies and potted plants, the new Old Fellowes hat on Monday, July 31, was a gift of beauty when Thursday was given a reception at Household of Ratz O. To the Trainers of a lovely march played by Mrs. S. G. Waters, Captain Jones reception and wape beautifully powered sisters of the tissue hoof and caused to the tables which were arranged in the room at a cove. N the head of the stool stood Rev. T. J. Askew, D. B. who stood Divine T. blessing upon all present. After an hour spent in simpunctious coasting, appropriate "toasts" were responded to by members of the patriarchie, Captain E. H. Jones acting as toastmaster. This reception was given in appreciation of the many recent achievements on Patriarchie, 123. Mrs. T. J. Askew, Mrs. Goo, Brown and Miss Louise Tanner were hostess- last Thursday at a 6 o'clock dinner. Covers being Mrs. T. The niquor greets Mrs. M. The Mrs. Stewart, Mrs. C. E. Askey of Washington, N. C. and At- torney and Mrs. R. L. Vann of Pitt- sburgh. Mrs. Rosa Lewis and son, James Harrison, who left for their new home at Youn-stown O. Hassan's word guests at a social social pet. Monday they were attended at dinner by Mrs. Scott Johnson, on Tuesday by Mrs. J. W. White, on Wednesday by M. and Mrs. Robert Goster and on Thursday, Mr. and Mrs. Jes. Formaney, on Cain's Hall and on Wednesday of Household of Ruth God, have a surprise reception to Sister Lewis after their regular meeting. Mrs. Louis G. Moseley was the chairman hostess last Friday afternoon at a high sea in honor of Mrs. Mary Stephart and Miss Claire Ste- art, the house guests of Mrs. E. Asbury, who was received by Mrs. G. Moseley, Mrs. Mary Ste- art, Mrs. Claire Stephart and Mrs. I. E. Assuney, aided by Mrs. Robert Mose- ley, Mrs. Isabell Askew, Mrs. Ray- land Anderson and Mrs. John Corde- th. The decorations were of white and gold. At 6 o'clock Mrs. Moseley entertained all dinner for the receiving ladies and aides. Cups being held for 14 ladies and gemen, the new cards being of Gibson girls. St. Paul A. M. E. Church. Regular services were held last Sunday. Credit was given better present; all care Tuesday the Women's missionary society held its fresh opening for the new year and sold plans to increase inter- course. Thursday evening. The Wizard Family, gave an exhibition of their skill to a large crowd, and was a special occasion of gratitude for the saterunef of our pastor from a three-week vacation at Bermuda. The Wizard Family. The entertainment given last Thursday evening was a financial success. The persons who were to contest for the free trip to Atlantic City preferred to apply the money to the church debt, which net is highly appreciated by all concert organizers. Turner is making reservations to hold a concert evening, notices of which will be given later. Nazmurr, Baptist. The installation of Rev. H. G. Hoe is in progress, this week. Next Sun- day morning Rep. Hoy will preach from the subject "Can Any Good Come Out of Nazareth," and at 2 p.m. the installation sermon will be preached by Rev. J. H. Dwelle. On Monday evening a reception will be given at which time two minute talks by the officers and selections will be given. All are cordially invited to attend. The committee on installation of art by Elizabeth Gambie is chairman on Monday evening and after completing business, ner aides Misses Lillian Payne, Nettie Roxers and Mamie Rice, served dainty refreshments. This committee was visited by chairman of the Trustee Board, Frank Gamble, who after a soo, "Blest Be the Lie," by Miss Payne dismissed the committees. HOMESTEAD Miss Leia Smith of Munhall terrace, ennounced a few of her friends' evening. Those present were the Misses Eva Cardwell, Mabel Cunduff, Minnie Brown, Jessie Cundiff and Onie Cardwell. A delightful evening was spent in music and The Misses Pearl and Madeline Cole and Lillian Williams were callers on Miss Lela Smith on Sunday. Walter Cole fell and broke his leg recently. Too bad. Miss Mary J. Earber of Pittsburgh is spending a few weeks with Mrs. R. R. Jones. The Queen Esther Missionary circle met last Monday evening, there being quite a number present. After the transaction of business a delicious luncheon was served. The president wishes that all ladies that attends the circle would become members. Ms. Albert Early of West Homestead, whist visiting in Virginia, lost her infant child while there. Mrs. Nat. Scales is much improved in health. The Ladies Aid society will hold their annual picnic at Homebound park, Saturday, August 12. A large crowd is expected to attend. The E. J. Moore club of Pittsburgh and the members of the Aid Society of Braddock will attend the picnic which will be strictly private. There is some talk of starting a Colored Boy's Brigade of Homebound, Duquesne and Braddock and Meadows. Parties concerned do not wish to mention names until later. Boys and young men between the ages of 12 and 22 that wish to join can leave their names at 136 East Twilight avenue. The names will be given to the reporter of the Homebound society News and will be published in next week's issue of the Pittsburgh Coagier. An old noncommissioned officer is willing to meet and instruct the boys any evening they are willing to meet and talk to the Rev. B. H. Lee delivered two very able sermons at the A. M. E. Church Sunday. Miss Veri Redmond of Cadiz, who has been the house guest of Miss Leaide Blackburn, left for Swickley Friday. Wilber McDaniel Summer T. Cochee and Richard Boulding, all of Pittsburgh, William Hardy of Pittsburgh, were callers on Miss Leaide Blackburn Monday evening. Miss Leaide Blackburn entertained last Friday evening in honor of Miss Veri Redmond of Cadiz. Those present were: Misses Jessie Cundiff, Mabel Cardwell, Bessie Cundiff, Amelie Richardson, Bessie Richardson and Gerald Buckson, Calvin Black, Ralph Blackburn, Robert Hobson and Wm. Hardy. Must have notes by <sup>b</sup> Wednesday poem by Manager. SEWICKLEY (By Mrs. Aime Holmiland The Golden Rule held in State Day services in the St. Matthew Church, Z. church on Tuesday evening. After the tendering as an excellent program to the businspent place all the delicacies of the sensor were served. The proceeds are the benefit of the Eassthrough Home for Destitute Children. After a short sermon delivered by the Rev. Henry Durham on Sunday evening, Miss Rebecca Vince gave her report of the Young Homes department of the coerence. Miss Virginia Halstock and Miss Ella Hall returned from Cadiz, where they were the guests of Miss Hill's mother, Mrs. John Sanders, formerly of Sewickley. Mrs. King of Greensburg, is the guest of her mother, Mrs. Mary Liz Matthews or Ferry street. Mrs. Louis Carrier has accepted a position in New Kensington, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Hall of the North Side were the guests of Mrs. Hailock on Sunday. Mrs. Philip Brown is visiting relatives and Friends in Watkins, N. Y. Mrs. Mattie Bowden is attending the convention of the Killings and Daughters of Tabir which is held in Pittsburgh. Master Frank Hallstock was the guest of his aunt, Mrs. M. Matthews or East Liverpool, O., on Sunday. Mrs. Franklin was called to Cleveland, O., on account of the illness or her illness. Mr. and Mrs. Gay Moore of Pittsburgh, were the guests of their aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Barnett of Edgeworth on Sunday. Miss Verl Redman of Cadiz, O. is the guest of her cousin, Miss Brown. Miss Ida Coline and Mrs. E. H. Hampton are visitors, friends in Chicago. John Branson ans returned from his visit in Lexington, Va. Rev. Mrs. Coline is the guest of her mother of Hamburg, Pa. E. W. Turner and sons have returned to Lexington. He attended the funeral of his mother. Mr and Mrs James Ford and family were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Poyer of Corcapolis on Sunday. Two of the younger children remained for a visit of two weeks. The invitations of the National Orchee of Twelve which was held last Saturday was a grand success. Many out-town guests were present. Master Clarence Reese was the guest of his mother, Mrs. Bessie Reese on Sunday. Miss Jessie Curry, who is in the Sewickley Valley hospital, is convalescing. Mrs. Annie Holland is now exclusive guest for the Courier in Sewickley. 4 noises for this column will come through our agent.... (Manuscript) UNIONTOWN UNIONTOWN SPARKS AND FLASHES (Br. Ahlf. D. Anderson.) Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Stratton entertained a few friends August 2 at their home on Whiteman avenue, in honor of their daughter Lydia's seventeenth birthday. The presents were numerous and beautiful. Music was furnished by the Henderson Entertainers and movies were served at a late hour. Those present were: Misses Elizabeth Harrison, Roxie Terrell, Olga Hamilton, Bessie Lewis, Nettie and Lydia Stratton, Mesdames Edna Johns, Della Irving, Ora Stratton, Earl Arthur and Eugene Henderson, Russell John Stratton, Horace Robinson, Carroll Johns, Herman Carlett. "All departed wishing Miss Lydia, many more such happy birthdays." De Wilt Rose spent a few days in Somerset last week. Mrs. T. W. Arving spent the weekend at Mrs. Alice Rose last week. Mrs. Rose also entertained Miss Ethel Gordon on Saturday. Mrs. Lawrence Meredith left this week to Baltimore where she will visit her sisters for two weeks.The pupils of Mrs. Meredith when her a pleasant trip. Miss Nellie Hackney of Greensburg, is here visiting her grandmother. Mrs. Caroline Stratton visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Tibbs of Smithfield, Pa., last week. Miss Edith Austin of Pittsburgh, is visiting at the home of Mrs. Clara Jackson. Mrs. Emma Smothers and daughter Linda and Pauline, spent three days in Smithfield, this week visiting her parents, Mr. and Tibbs. Charles Palmer and Philip Johnson entertained last Tuesday evening at the latter's home in honor of Miss Nellie Hackney of Greensburg. A delightful time was spent by all Music and games were the diversions of the evening. Several vocal solos were rendered effectively by Philip Johnson, Mabel Baehler, Tilghman and Eve. Those present were Nellie Hackney, Helen Curry, Leona Eaxter, Jessie Dyson, Abbie Anderson, Estella Clifford, Blaire Baxley, Holm Minor, William Winstead, Clarence Johns, Norman Tilghman, Charles Palmer, Philip Johnson, Lawrence Washington. A totohome repast was served at a late hour after which all departed voting Misss, Palmer and Johnson much praise for their splendid entertainment. Mrs. Jennie Payne left last Sunday for Cleveland, O. to visit her son. Miss Cleveland, OH Miss Alyssa Straton entertained Wednesday evening, July 26, in honor of the late Wm. Tibbs of Milwaukee, Wis. and her grandfather, Wm. Tibbs, Sr. of Smithfield, Pa. Dinner was served at 6 o'clock. Those present were: Robert Straton and sons Tibbs, Soybert and Robert, Jr., daughters Alydia, Mary, Nettie, Mrs. Caroline Irving and children, Mrs. Emma Smothers and daughter Pauline, Mrs. Pere Trent and children, Mrs. Ed. Powell. Miss Margarite West of Brownsville, visited her aunt, Mrs. Salisbury, last week. Ms. S. P. West, D. D., of Clarksburg, W. Va., was in the city a few hours one day last week. Mt. Oivet Baptist Church. Last Sunday was communion day at Mt. Oivet Baptist church. The pastor, Rev. P. H. Thompson, D. D., preached a very instructive sermon at the 3 o'clock service to a good sized audience. Misses Nannie B. J. Jordan, Georgiane Stubbiefield and Mrs. Ferry, have returned home from Williamsport, where they attended the Sunday School convention and B. M. F. I. last week. Miss Jordan was re-elected fororship of the B. Y. M. Miss G. Stubbiefield was re-elected Recording Secretory of the Sunday School, convention, and Mrs. Terry elected Third Vice President of the Sunday School convention. The convention meets in Philadelphia a next year. St. Paul A. M. E. Church. Last Sunday was a day of great interest at St. Paul. It was the usual communion service day which is always a signal to a great crowd and a great service. Rev. W. B. Anderson. D. D. is collecting dollar money right along. The good pastor spent two days in Pittsburgh this week. The Senor chair rendered a most splendid sacked concert at St Paul last Sunday night under the leadership of Mrs. Lydia Johnson. Don't forget the plenice at Shade grove on Wednesday, August 10. Word comes that an immense crowd will leave Uniontown station at 8 a.m. Biopic at Oxford Grove. Picnic at Oxon Hill Remember there is going to be a remember there is going to be a Nature's beautiful play ground, August 21. A carnival of amusements for big and little folks. The most popular picnic resort in Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio. Pure spring soaks in and throughs the park. Home comforts and accommodations for adults and children. Refreshments, lunches and dinners by first-class caterer at reasonable prices. Special cars in West Penn street to park, leave Unitown S. a.m. will wait on cars from Brownsville. Will wait on Fair Chance. Needs spares to make up for the grandest out of the season Committee, Edward Baxter, Jas, Jackson Mt. Rose Baptist People Much interest still centers at Mt. Rose Baptist church because the dedication. Last Sunday was gleaning day and Nie way the people are st li hand- ing in money. It is very encouraging T. Ford, the pastor, occu- pied the pulpit, preaching splendidly all day. The Mt. Rose Baptist peo- ple are proud of their church and pastor. SPECIAL NOTICE All guests take notice—Must have your notes by Wednesday in order that you may receive your paper Saturday. WM. N. PAGE. Manager. Our one idea of a cheap sinner is one who loats all the week and then goes fishing on Sunday. How Much Is Enough. When a man has enough of this world's goods why does he not quit? THE COURIER. Dr. A. R. Taylor 1303 Wylie Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa BELL PHONES: [office], Grant, 334 NEW CASTLE NEW CASTLE (By Kreba Tilghman.) Two splendid sermons were delivered by Rev. Trues on August 6. The S. S. Missionary, who was Mrs. C. H. Staunton, was good one. The children gave excellent program. Ground has been broken for the new church, the contract having been let to George Cotton. Reims' Johnson spent a few days with his family and was among the worshippers in Bethel on August 6. Mrs. Lottie Robinson of the Union Baptist church, left for Cleveland to attend the association. Miss Jessie Dillard of East Liverpool, O. spent Sabbath with her sister, Mrs. Jos. Williams, and Mrs. Williams accompanied her home. Mrs. K. B. Hackett is very ill with tonsillitis. Her friends pray for her recovery. K. B. Hackett of the Shenango Valley hospital, is spending his vacation with his family. J. Epple Dillard, Walter Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Rout, Donaldson, Mr, and Mrs. S. L. Coleman and Harry Brown, are attending the I. B. P. O. E. convention in Boston. The many friends of William Chatman are glad to see him on the campus. Master George Iruss of Cleveland, is the guest of his father, Rev. W. H. Iruss. All members of the Board of Managers of the Eastbrook Home that can be present at the convention at New Brighton, Pa., on August 16, 17 and 18, are requester to be present let us make this convention one long to go remembered. We must have notes Wednesday.—(Manager.) St. Luke A. M. E. Zion Church. Sunday, August 20 with the Zion's rally day at St. Luke's A. M. E. Zion church. In the afternoon there will be an interesting platform talk by a lead, an interesting woman of each church, Subject, "Some Method of Saving Our Young Women and Young Men." Come and share with us the joys of the day. Wilbur P. Thirkield, LL. D., President. Located in Capital of the Nation. Campus of over twenty acres. Advantages unsurpassed. Modern scientific and general equipment. New Carnegie Library. New Science Hall. Faculty of over one hundred, 1,332 students from 37, States and 10 other countries. Unusual opportunities for self-support. No young man or woman of energy or capacity need be deprived of its advantages. College of Arts and Science. Devoted to liberal studies. Courses in English, Mathamatics, Latin, Greek, Mathematics, German, Physics, Biology, Biology, History, Philosophy, and the Social Science such as are given in the best approved colleges. If Professors, Kelly Miller, A. M. Dean. The Teachers' College. Special opportunities for teachers. Regular college courses in Psychology, Pedagogy, Education, etc., with degree of A. B.; Pedagogical courses leading to Ph. B. degree. High-grad courses in Normal, high- school, or college science. Grad- uation helped to positions. Lewis B. Midge, A. M., Ph. D. Dean. The Academy. Faculty of 13. Three courses of your years each. High-grade preparatory school. George J. Cummings, A. M. Dean. The Commercial College. Courses in Bookkeeping, Stenography, Commercial Law, History, Civics, etc. Business and High School education combined. George Wm. Cook, A. M. Dean. School of Manual Arts and Applied Sciences. Furnishes thorough courses. Six instructors. Offers four years courses in Mechanical and Civil Engineering and Architecture. PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS. The School of Theology. Interdenominational. Five professors. Broad and thorough courses. Advantages of connection with a great university. Students' Aid. Low Expenses. Isaac Clark, D. D.. Dean. The School of Medicine—Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Colleges. Forty-nine professors. Modern laboratories and equipment. Connected with new Freedmen's Hospital, costing half million dollars. Clinical facilities not surpassed in America. Post-graduate School and Polynichel Edward A. Balloch, M. D., Dean, 5th & W Sts. N, W. W. C. McNell, M. D. Secretary, 901 Sts. N, W. W. Faculty of Law. Facult. of eight. (Courses of three years, giving a thorough knowledge of theory and practice of law. Occupies own building opposite) Court House. Benjamin F. Leighton, L.L. B. Dean, 420 5th St. N. W. For catalog and special information address Dean of Department. Modesty. A modest person seldom falls to gain the goodwill of those he converse with, because nobody envies a man who does not appear to be pleased with himself—Steele. If You Have a Printing Want WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT IT IS Putting out good printing is our business, and when we say good printing we don't mean fair, but the best obtainable. If you are "from Missoffit" give us a trial and we will Show You ASHLU'S WE HAVE IT ISEM & JEFFRESS Tailors 70 Fulton St. ALWAYS IN THE LEAD WITH NEW STYLES High Class Spring and Summer Line PLACE YOUR ORDER PAY AS YOU PLEASE Fit Style and Workmanship Guaranteed SEE T. & J. WITH WORLD'S FASHIONS P. & A. PHONE 356 2 F. PITTSBURGH, PA. B-11 Phone 1238 Grant P. & A. Phone 221 Main Wylie Avenue Meat and Poultry Market SMITH & GOSS COMPANY The Only Up-To-Date Colored Store on the Hill. Your Patronage Cheerfully Sollicited. Cheerfully Solicited. 1316 Wylie Avenue, PITTSBURG, PA. New Lawrenceville Pharmacy 3350 Penn Avenue Prescriptions, Soda Water, Candy and Clgars Your Patronage Invited BELL PHONE. Bell Phone Highland 5950. Residence 546 Park Ave., E. E. Dr. G. U. Butler DENTIST Office Hours—9 a. m. to 5 p. m., 7 p. m. to 9 p. m. Sundays by appointment. C319 Broad Street, E E., over Liberty Pharmacy, Pittsburgh, Pa. PAY YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS Redemption of Pledges in Full Means Much to Race in Pittsburgh. It now behooves every man or woman who subscribed to the Building Fund for Y. M. C. to redeem their pledges at once. The building has now been bought at a cost of about $25,000, which is well and centrally located on Center avenue, two doors above the Irene Kaufmann Memorial home. Every captain and worker in that glorious campaign, when about $12,000 was subscribed, should now take off his coat and try to collect every cent pledged by our people. At present a little over $5,000 has been collected and paid. We made a grand record in this building campaign, and it will ever rebound our credit if all of these pledges are redeemed. With the equipment of this building and needed improvements that will be necessary to make it adaptable will have in Greater Pittsburg a building of which you need not be ashamed. The good work which this association will be able to do for the uplifting of the race, by the redemption of these pledges means much not only to the present generation, but generations unborn. It means higher ideals, better men mentally, physically and morally. DO YOUR DUTY. REDEEM YOUR PLEDGES. COMPLETE YOUR GLORIOUS RECORD. FIRST STEP DOWN IS FATAL Will Irwin's Little Sermon Teaches That Hotels and Newspapers Must Remain Respectable. Suppose you are an innkeeper, with a fine, respectable establishment. To stimulate profits you take down a few bars, begin to admit disreputable and unpleasant people. Your hotel enjoys great prosperity for two or three seasons, then suddenly falls toward bankruptcy. The hotel bore a reputation for respectability; the soiled characters wanted to enter it in order to conceal their real nature and intentions. The newspaper bore a reputation for sincerity; prostitute causes wanted to enter it in order to get by association the color of truth. As time passed, more and more disreputable people came to the hotel, so that it lost utterly its old reputation. As time passed, more and more disreputable people came to the hotel, so that it lost utterly its old reputation. As time passed, more and more boldly, suppress more and more brutally, and the public began to perceive. Finally, even the disreputable abandoned the hotel because it no longer covered their intentions. Finally, the corrupt powers fed the newspaper discovered that its word carried no more force, that it was unable to further their causes, and they abandoned it to failure—Will Irwin. --- 26-Room Hotel Telephone 9119 Grant. Rooms for gentlemen by day or week. (All P. R. R. Co. Dining. Car Men stop here.) ARCHEAL & THOMPSON UP TO DATE BILLIARD AND POOL ROOM Brunswick Latest Pattern Tables FIRST CLASS BARBER SHOP CIGARS, LAUNDRY AND STATIONERY EMPORIUM EVERYTHING MODERN Mr. Henry Fowler in charge Cigar and Laundry Dept. 1319-21 WYLIE AVENUE PITTSBURG COLORED AUTO SCHOOL NOW READY TO RECEIVE FALL STUDENTS. The Imperial Auto School 1310 Wylie Avenue We place the better class of Colored People in the better class positions. It's the Imperial Employment on Wylie. DO IT NOW Subscribe for THIS PAPER Are You in Arrears on your enrolment? You know WE NEED THE MONEY? when the imperial auto school turns out a student you can always rely on him to be a master of his trade. Now here is proof selcom do you hear of a colored chauffeur in a smash up, when he gets on a driving job in a business, the proof of it is he is holding some of the best positions in the country. WE WANT SOME MORE Good men to get interested. I contend that automobiles is a colored man's position. He knows how to drive and care for them as our grandfathers did. horses. There no question about a good job center for reliable competent man getting a position when he completes the course. LOOK AT THE CHANCES YOU HAVE. There is not one colored auto delivery in Pittsburgh. Not one auto back. Go in smifftowns, open repair shops, come up with the tow. It don't require any capital. We need more garage right, they could make money. GET THE ADVANCE IDEA GET THE ADVANCE LICENSE AND STOP BUYING HORSES AND MULES LET THE FARMER HAVE THEM. COME TO THE Imperial Auto S-school and learn automobiling in all its branch, be progressive and up to date. Send for my automobile blue book and learn at home. You can get license when you complete it. PRICE ONE DOLLAR REPAID. AMONG THE CHURGHES ALL CHURCH NOTES MUST BE AT THE OFFICE BY WEDNESDAY OF EACH WEEK TO BE PUBLISHED UNDER THIS HEAD. (By C. N. Collins. Last Sabbath was a high day at Brown Chapel, the pastor and wite having returned from their vacation. The church filled the pulpit morning and evening and a vast crowd greeted their pastor and listened to two elequent sermons delivered by him. It being the monthly communion quite a large number partook of the Lord's supper. Dr. Morris reports having had a splendid time and feels very much refreshed and he has be gun his work with more zeal and inspiration than ever. The envelopes are now out for the quarterly meeting which will be held on the first Sims day in September. The pastor requested the money and their dollar money, earnest receiving the picture of the late Bishop Grant and Bishop Lampton. It is remarkable to note the crowds that attend the services at Brown Chapel. The Sabbath school was highly attended and also the Christian Endeavour When was led by Miss Lillie Wright it being conederation da. Among the many visitors that attended Brown Chapel church last Sunday were Mrs. Margie Wilson Kittrelle of Eile, Pa., a former member of Brown Chapel and also Mrs. Alverita Levis Thornton, now of Washington, D. C., and Miss Virginia Johnson of Cleveland, O., who was visiting her mother, Mrs. E. Johnson and her sister, Mrs. Margaret Ramssey, for the past week. We were delighted to see these, out home girls. Miss Virginia Johnson also attend church Sunday afternoon at Coropolis. While in the city she visited the Old Ladies' Home. After spending a very pleasant time visiting relatives and friends Miss Johnson left on Monday and route back to Cleveland by the way of Youngstown, Ohio. Mrs. Nannie Jackson accompanied Mrs. R. H. Morris to church on Sunday evening. Mrs. Georgetta Collins, mother of Miss Carrie Collins and Mrs. R. H. Morris, have been ill at her residence, but this writing is reliable better. Daniel Pleer and Jesse Jones are still on the sick list. Mrs. Sarah Lee is improving Grace Memorial Presbyterian Church Ephiam Is a Cake Not Turned," was the subject of a very interesting sermon delivered by our pastor, Rev. Trusty last Sunday morning. He emphasized the important truth that secular education divorced from religion did not make men better, but worse, that information was not Christianity; that Christianity began on the inside and worked out that "religion" was not some kind of "religion" and some or it was not worth the name. The sermon was soul-stirring and soul-winning. At the conclusion of it three persons met the church session and united with the church on profession of their faith. The quartet under Robert Lewis made a splendid impression with two beautiful numbers, this being a new feature of the sermons. Miss Blanche Hill has been selected as organist. Mr. Arter will have occasion of the singing next morning. One of our number is doing the work at the church and is showing himself to be a skilled mechanic who does first grade work. The Brotherhood, recently organized, is growing in numbers and in interest. Mr. Brown makes a good president. Henry Payne has charge of the Bible class every Sunday morning. The subject for study is "The Life of Jesus Christ." The church picnic will go to Rock Springs August 25, and a large crowd is expected. This will be the last picnic held this season. The subject for next Sunday's service will be God's Answer to Prayer. The night services have been discontinued until the first Sunday in September, and special emphasis will be placed upon morning services to make them interesting. The Pittsburgh Courier will give full accounts of the services each week. In this way each member may keep informed or the church work. Bethel A. M. E. Church Bethel A. M. E. Church Bethel was crowded, last Sunday morning to hear the pastor, Rev. P. A. Scott, D. D. . D. also preached a masterly sermon from Matthew 3:11: "shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire." He held the audience spell bound until it seemed as though the flood kills. The man was happily conceived and came forward and joined the church. In the barber shops and all public business places you can hear people talking, about the wonderful sermon delivered by this young man of God. In the evening his text was Romans 8:28: "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God." And again another great sermon was listened to. Dr. W. H. Huntour our presiding elder and wife, worshipped with us Sunday morning and in the evening Rev. Charles H. Trusty, D. D. and wife of Grace Presbyterian church worshipped with us. One lady joined the church at this service. Miss Mary V. Turner, our organizer, left on Thursday for a two weeks' vacation. Her smiling face will be seen on the boardwalk at Atlantic City. One of the trustees will be very lonely while she is gone. Among the prominent ministers that called at the paragonage this week were B. R. C. Gooldins of Greensburg, Rev. T. R. Kawke, D. R. Anderson, Philinion, Pa. and Rev. W. D. Anderson, D. D., of Unlontown, Pa. Dr. Anderson tame over on Monday and remained as the guest of the pastor over night. He visited the official board Monday night. Everybody was glad to see the ex-presiding eld- or, Call us at: Darton, you are all welcome Mr. and Mrs. Sandy Washington on 7 Wandless Street entertained an dinner on Tuesday afternoon Rev P. A. Scott, Rev W. B. Anderson and Lee A. Asher. The following members will leave Sunday morning for Zanilee, Ohio: John Mellontone, Clayton Reagan, Sr. and Edward Reagan. They will be in attendance at the Knight: Templar conclave. Euclid Avenue A. M. E. CHurch (11) Minnie Harris. RV C. J. Powell led the city Tuesday to spend two weeks vacation at Chantiquette, N. Y. A grand musical will be given under the auspices of the Arnold Literary Society at the Emilie Avenue A. M. H. Epperson. Tuesday evening, August 15, 2011. Some of the best musical talents of the city will be on the program. Admission is $15. Miss Loto Bail and Miss Minnie Harris to East End, have left the city to take a trip to Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Toronto, Canada. Mrs. G. Rails of Widow Street in the city, from Chicago at having spent seven weeks with her daughter Mrs. N. Dandisee. Miss Ma. Reynolds led the city last Friday to visit her city in Ripahire, Va. The two young people spent a very enjoyable evening at the automobile party given at Mrs. Susie Sheffery. The Warren church will give its annual plenum at Rock Springs, W. Va., August 25, 1911. Do not fail to attend. A big base ball game between Warren and Eunsel church at 2:30 p.m. Come and go with us. Miss Minnie Harris entertained the Sunday School Flower Wednesday evening, August 9, 1911. After the business of the club was transferred the following program was rendered: Recitation, Mrs. S. Davenport and Edward Wilson, some very timely reminds. The hostess served a dainty reast. The following persons were present: Miss Jerry Wilson, Ada Moore, Ida Saunders, Minnie Harls, Viola Johnson, Mamie Thomas, Edith Carr, Ms. Bots, Emma Knouse, G. Milton, Mrs. Davenport, Joseph Thomas, Thomas Branson, L. Hawson, Willis Harville, Edward Johnson, John Gates, J. S. Davenport, J. H. Booths, Visitors, Miss G. Milton of Virginia. Must have your notes in Wednes day noon to get in church page (Manager) Trinity Baptist Church Thirty-fourth Street. The pastor, Rev. Earnest Hall, is now located at 3012 Denny street. His installation will take place on the third Sunday in August, at the same time when the pastor is installed his two assistant pastors will be installed. Rev. Rodgers and Pointed. Everybody is invited. Central Baptist Church A large congregation was present last Sunday, morning when Roy Fields praised ours. His text was from Second Kings, with chapters Ginny verse, a book of hours, Joseph verse, a book of hours, hispanic verse, from the Eighth Palm, second verse. This closed a lesson day, with a Collection $225. ST. AUGUSTINE'S EPISCOPAL (R. Biss Ridge) The holy communion was celebrated on last Sunday at St. Augustine's Mission to a large number of the communicants. The Rev. Scott Wood preached a most helpful sermon. The choir sang with splendid spirit, and the services were, in every respect, both helpful, edifying and inspiring to all present. Notwithstanding it is mid-summer, the services are all well attended and enthusiastically appreciated. Ref. Wood is planning for greater St. Augustine's. He has the unqualified endorsement of the bishop of the diocese and the missionary committee as evidenced by the following from the Diocese Journal for 1811: "One of the most important boards in the work among the colored people. Their present place of worship is inadequate for the congregation and the priest in charge of this work is asking what shall we do." The Missionary Board would gladly provide an adequate building in a central point of the city it it had the means and confidences this work, to the grazing consideration of the congregation. The committee of the missionary committee made the following annual report to the work. The indebtedness of St. Anne's Mission has been paid, and now our children are working, not waiting to receive what they rightly deserve, the abundant gifts from the Episcopal churches of this city to enable them to build a church, or rather to help them, not to zealous congregation. The reports every all heartily approved by the convention, and the day is not far distant when the congregation of local colored Episcopans will have a well equipped church in when to worship, the true and only God. Then again it will be a most central location for it has a very large and spacious following of both sides of the river. Services continue at 10 a.m. in which the Mr. Brother Goncalvo D. P.ANCE, the superintendent of Barnabas Home for Inundations and Convalescence, will speak. The program is most cordially invited to bear Brother Hance, because he is indeed doing a great work for suffering humanity, and is a friend of all races of men. The confirmation class will meet the first Friday night in September for instruction. J. C. Wiley was royally entertained by the members of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew on last Thursday night at the mission. St. Augustine's mission is no longer an experiment. It an established fact in this community for the good of all, and it genius is expansion and the uplift of all men. AVERY MISSION NOTES Our Sunday afternoon, Row. Watson and 11 of his members went to shaping A. M. E. church. The young people furnished the program. The president of the Pastor's Aid, Mrs. H. Collins, expressed her thanks to Mrs. Taylor for her yard for her lawn, and also the many friends. It was quite a success. The team on the 10th at Mrs. Holt's on Montrose avenue, given by the Ladies' Social club, Mrs Kate Hodges was successful with her watermelon last Monday night. The Helping Hand club met at Mrs. Belle Waters on W. Jefferson street, last Tuesday night. The way the group are opening their doors to receive the delegates, the conference will have a hearty welcome. For your clubs that are to entertain the conference are all at work making ready. Any help will be thankfully received. Out of the city Mrs. James Johnson and baby, Mrs. Ella Barber and children, Mrs. Hariie Parker, Mrs. Stuge Sibuth, Mrs. Kate Hodges, R. B. Mason and Mrs. Edith Williams. Mrs. C. A. Hardy of Sedlock street, will serve dinner every Saturday evening in lieu of the past year's Adult earlier notice. Good Hope Baptist Church We had good services all day Sunday at 9:30. Subjectintention J. T. Sanders had out a goodly number for school, the lesson was taught for 30 minutes; at 11 o'clock preaching to Pey, J. H. Pryor of Vanderbilt, Pa. he takes us heavenwards. At 11:00 p.m. a program, the first anniversary of the Fairfax Baby and Children Home, was programmed: sermon by Rev. J. E. Fields, speaking. Atonee, J. H. Smith and others. At night Dr. Pryor was at his best. Everybody enjoyed the sermon. Come again doctor. The Fairfax Baby Home Association have gotten a new matr. Mrs. Ela Price of Danville, Va., who is will trained in caring for children. She is very pleasant to meet. Any one going to the home she will be pleased to meet you and will receive anything gladly, anyone leading to give the home. She will with us to keep look after the children and the best of care. Miss Grace French. All persons desiring delegates who will attend the National Baptist convention on September 3, 1911, must apply to Rev. T. H. C. Messer, city chairman, at once. I have contracted with the convention to give the delegates two meals per day and sleep them for $1 per day. Delegates will pay their money in advance, the whole amount for the days they will stay to the convention. All persons taking delegates must meet at the Good Hope Baptist Church on the fourth and Penn avenues, to receive the delegates for their house. Meet these September 12, 13, and 14. All persons who have paid the 25 cents for delegates, will receive their delegates or their money refunded. All delegates and visitors attending the convention will be looked after and cared for by the legal committee. Plenty of opportunities to eat for everyone. Rev. T. H. C. Messer, city chairman. South Side Notes The services of last Sunday, were at a lunar order. The pastor gave communion, as it was the first Saturday of the month. Quite a large number of portraits. The evening services held in McKinley park were quite a success. They were well attended and the service delivered by the pastor. The William H. Johnson of services will be held next Sunday, August 12. Services at the church In the morning and at McKinley park at night. The officials of St Paul church voted unanimously a vacation of two weeks to the pastor. He will leave Sunday night for Washington, Baltimore Philadelphia and Atlantic City. The old regulars of St. Paul who are always ready and willing are in line for another rally to be head the first Sunday in October. Truly St. Paul is doing her best this year. The captains for this rally are Jas. Jones and Thos. Horton, Robt. Wright and Goo. Anderson, Andrew Summers and Walter Garland, Bessie Robinson and Jennie Smith. With his friend line successes sunny Forton, O. Chasten and Mrs. G. W. Williams for Thursday morning for Atlantic City for 16 days and will stop in Washington a few days on their return. Accompanying Mrs. Chestam are her two daughters, Ethel and Amelia. Georgha S. William will leave Saturday to spend her vacation with cousin accompanied by Master: Charles Williams. IS NOT FIT TO LIVE WITH The Genius Always is an Impossible Creature Who Makes Family and Friends Wretched. One of the strangest signs of the times is our universal admiration for geniuses; yet a genius, no matter how you view him, is always an impossible creature. He isn't fit to live with. If he is so unfortunate as to marry, he makes life miserable for his family. If he doesn't marry, he is a care to all his friends. And the probability is that no one will appreciate him in his own age. Yet when we hear that such and such a one is a genius, we experience an instant feeling of envy. Most of us would like to be a genius, if we could have, along with it, our own steady traits. We wouldn't give up our regular income, but if we could be a genius with it, we should like it very well. Lombroso dehales that geniuses are abnormal-degenerate types. Scientists term them in biological words "sports" -athat is, they are exceptions to a rule. They are supposed to see things straight, whereas everybody else is abnormal. Bernard Shaw says that is what is the matter with him. Thomas L. Masson is Lippincott's. THE COURIER Jehoiakim Burns the Prophet's Book Sunday School Lesson for Aug. 13, 1911 Sponsored by This Paper LESSON TENT - Jeremiah 5 HENRY WINDSOR 22-24 Jeremiah's book was written B. C. 60. The Fast day, ninth month of B. C. 82. Jeremiah burns the book soon after the fast. PLACE—Jeremiah. The Temple courts and the king's palace. Nebuchadnezzar besieging Jerusalem. Jeremiah carried away captive. Jeremiah under duel flavor. Jeremiah an unwise king. For twenty years Jeremiah had been trying, by oral teachings, to persuade the nation to repent and turn to God, but the people and their rulers had been den' to his warnings. As a last resort, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the Lord commanded the prophet to write down the substance of his exhortations, and thus to focus them in one mighty blow upon the consciences of king and people. Moreover, for some reason Jeremiah was shut up, "restrained" from public utterance, being probably forbidden by the authorities to preach; so that for the time the written word was the only way by which Jeremiah could reach the ears of the people. The chosen amanuensis was Baruch, the son of Norlah, a scribe. The book was not like ours, but was a roll of parchment, consisting of several skins sewed together, the edges cut even, and the whole rolled on wooden rods fastened at each end so that the parchment could be rolled from one to the other. The writing was arranged in columns, each like the page of a book. It must have taken Baruch some months to have written down such prophecies as Jeremiah wished to have read, and which constituted a considerable part of the present book of Jeremiah. Jeremiah sent Baruch to the temple to read the book to the assembled crowds. It was a wintry day. Baruch went up into the chamber of a friendly noble, over a new gateway opening both ways into the inner and outer courts. There, from the window or balcony of the chamber, or from the platform or pillar on which the kings had stood on solenin occasions, he recited the long alternation of lament and invective to the vast congregation. Reading in this way was almost the only way by which the people could become acquainted with the word of God. Few could read. And copies of the law cost a small fortune. The king sent Jehudi, one of his officers, to fetch the roll so that Jeholakim might learn its contents at first hand and not from hearsay. The king sat in the winter house. It seems probable that after Jehudi had read three or four columns, the king snatched the roll from his hands, and, taking the knife used for sharpening the scribe's pens, cut up the roll himself, and cast it into the fire. Sodne think that only the first portion was read, when all the roll was consumed in the fire. But Professor Bennett says that the Hebrew implies that at the end of every three or four columns the king put out his hand for the roll, cut out the portion read, threw it on the fire, and handed the remainder back to Jehudi, repeating the process. The king commanded the arrest of Paruch the scribe and Jeremiah. But the Lord hid them, by means of some unknown providence and guidance; or, as usual, by the use of means inspired by God. Shutting the eyes does not ward off the lightning's stroke. Fools, that think that by wringing the neck of the crowing cock they can prevent the coming of the morning. When the word of the Lord came the book was destroyed, but its contents and its truths lived. "Take thee . . . another roll, and write in it." Jeremiah knew what he had said before, and God gave him further revelations. Professor Brown thinks that Baruch's second roll contained the first seventeen chapters of our Jeremiah. "Thou shalt say to Jehokim that the prophecies should certainly come true." Because while they heard the warnings, they hearkened not. This implies that they might have been saved from the threatened evil, if they had repented, as in the case of Nineveh under Jonah's preaching. Otherwise there would have been no use in warning them. The warnings were for the themselves. Attempts to destroy the libble have been made. When men are forbidden to read it, and everything is done to prevent its circulation. The frontispiece of Wycliffe's Bible represents the fire of true Christianity against which its enemies. Satan and infidelity, are blowing with all their might, trying to put it out; but the more they put themselves out of breath, the more brightly the fire burns. Ingersoll's prophecy, twenty-six years ago, was that "in ten years the Bible will not be read." The fact is that vastly more Bibles are issued every year than when that prophecy was uttered, and in more languages. More than 15,000,000 Bibles are issued every year in more than 470 different languages and in hundreds of styles at prices from 25 cents to $10. More copies of the Bible are sold annually than of the "100 best sellers" combined. Those destroy the Bible for some people, who for any reason are the impression that it is not true, diminish its authority, and fill the minds of the young with doubts. And yet every attack has made it read more, and caused it to shine in purer light. Those who disobey and neglect the Bible, refuse to let it be a lamp unto their feet and a light unto their path, who ignore its teachings, and refuse its truths—these destroy the Bible for themselves. But the laws of God move on just the same. Jebolakim was slain. His son was carried in chaion to Babylon. Set up into yourself pillars of the road, place for thyself way-marks; set the heart upon thy way, even upon the way which thou goest—Jeremiah, xxxi, 21. There are men who deliberately abandon the direction of their confidence until they lose all sense of moral responsibility. Their life is like a weathercock that is turned by every breeze. Without sufficient will-power to resist even a mild temptation, they yield on its first approach, and from any direction in which they may have been pursuing their life they will unhesitatingly turn and take an opposite course. These rudderless ships on the sea of life are not few; every one within his individual horizon can hall numbers of them as they drift amply by, without chart or compass to direct their course. Of course, these men have a philosophy of their own to bolster up their peculiar conception of human life. They have their reasons for abandoning duty and for effacing the inattainable distinctions between "thou shalt" and "thou shalt not." Conscience is not binding upon them, and the only injunction they obey is that basely worldly one—never be found out. Their philosophy hinges chiefly on the notion that the individual cannot control his life; that a person's conduct is determined wholly by the worldly influences about him. The matter of responsibility, the sense of duty, is thus lightly disposed of, and the man who should endeavor to rise above the debasing influences of a purely worldly life would be deemed only a fool for his pain. It is against this sham reasoning the prophet warns us in the words that serve as our text. Regardless of worldly influences we must set up the immovable way-marks of true human existence—the dictates of honor, of duty, of the fear of God. We are endowed with free will, and we ourselves mark out the paths we pursue. This is a fundamental moral truth. It destroys the immoral notion that the individual is altogether subject to external influences and he becomes what the world makes him. That relation which some men establish between themselves and their surroundings and which they offer as a palliative for all short-comings cannot reasonably be held to be binding. Man that has reason and free will cannot rely for moral elevation or debasement, for choosing good or evil, upon the mere flow of circumstance. In a normal state a man does not depend on the throw of dice for his bread; can he then depend upon mere chance for the life or death of his very soul? There is no ground whatever for putting the blame one deserves upon the shoulders of society. That is a law, and all life bears it out, that the "soul which has sinned it shall die." This law holds good because free will is the peculiar mark of the human being. In the Biblical allegory, therefore, there was no forgiveness when, on committing the first sin, Adam threw the blame upon Eve and Eve upon the serpent. Virtue and vice are the results of our own work. Our fellow-men have no share in the destiny of our souls. It is sheer cowardice to take off the scarlet robe of guilt and place it on the back of society for a scapegoat. Unsparkingly, as becomes a tree prophet of God, Jeremiah in a single phrase annihilates such false philosophy. "Set up unto yourself pillars of the road," he says, "set thy heart upon thy way." Every man takes the lines of destiny into his own hands. If he sows righteousness, he will reap in his conscience blessings; if he sows the wind, he will reap the whirlwind. He cannot make away with his sense of responsibility. Conscience will not be silenced. At every turn in life man hears the solemn warning, "Set thy heart upon the way which thou goes an echo of the fateful choice he is compelled to make when he has been told at the very beginning: "Behold, I give unto you on this day life, and the good, death and evil." After all has been said about external influences, about the temptations of the world, and the like, the personal equation remains. When we shall have been brought face to face with our ultimate goal, and our hearts have become bared before the searching heavenly judgment, the world will be far removed from us, and we shall stand revealed as the sole authors of the good or evil we have done. This is a very important lesson to hear in mind. We should take to heart the words of the prophet and set up the true way-marks in our life. Our test will then come in the choice we shall make of our points of guidance. Once the choice is made, the die is cast; we generally go on in that direction clear to our journey's end. And so the prophet uses the word which is ordinarily translated by the word "pillar," but which in Hebrew literally means a high pillar. We should be guided by high sins, noble ambitions. Not the indulgence of self, not the acquisition of worldly things, not worldly pump or power is the true measure of life. Our guiding influences should be self-sacrifice, the performance of duty, disinterested service to our fellows and an earnest effort to realize in our life our thought of God. These are the high pillars which we should set up on the way of human life—C. A. Rubenstein, Har Al-Salam Temple FISH-EATING GERMANY. The inclination of the German nation to eat all kinds of fish in all kinds of forms is supported by a lively propaganda on the part of our fishery interests, rapidly and steadily increasing — Tagliche Rundschau. SHIPWRECK SAFER. It is getting so that it is safer to be shipwrecked on the ocean than it is to be a passenger in a skidding automobile. -Syracuse Herald. BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH, Norner Wylie avenue and Elm street. Sunday services 10:30 A. M. and 7:45 P. M. Sunday School. 12:45 P. M. Christian Endorah. 6:30 P. M. Prayer meeting Wednesday. 8 P. M. Class meeting, Friday. 8 P. M. Rev. P. A. Scott, pastor, residence of Elm street. Bell phone 212 Grant. ST. AUGUSTINE'S EPISCOPAL MISSION. 319 Jackson St. N. S. Pbg. Sunday services, 10:45 A. M. and 7:45 P. M. Sunday School, 12:30 P. M. Wednesday evening prayer meet- ing. 7:45 P. M. Sunday and weekly meetings of John Wesley A. M. E. Zion church, No. 40 Arthur street. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:45 p. m.; Sunday school at 1:30 p. m.; Christian Endeavor at 6:30 p. m.; Wednesday evening, prayer meeting; Friday evening, class meeting. Trustee meeting first and third Mondays of each month. Rev. W. L. Lee, D. D. pastor. EUCLID AVENUE A. M. E. CHURCH. Corner Euclid avenue and Harvard street. Pittsburgh. Morning worship, 10:45 a. m., Sunday; Sunday school, 2:30 p. m.; Allen Endeavor League, 6:30 p. m.; evening worship, 7:45 p. m., Sunday. C. J. POWELL, D. D. Pastor. Parsonage, 5714 Broad street. Hours of study, 10:00 to 12:00 M., lally except Monday. Telephone: 1764-R Highland. RODMAN ST. BAPTIST CHURCH East End, Pittsburg, Pa. Communion, first Sunday in each month, 3 p. m. Pastor's Study at church from 12 to 5 p. m. Peaching every Sunday, 10:45 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. Sunday school, 1:30 p. m. B. Y. P. U, 6 p. m. Beats free. All are welcome. REV. O. S. SIMMS, D.D., Pastor, 620 Thompson street Bell Phone, 3897 W. Highland. Payne A. M. E. Church. Preaching every Sunday, 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.; Sunday school, 2:30 p. m.; Aven Endover league, 6:30 p. m.; prayer meeting, Wednesday, 8. p. m.; Taggart, pastor. Mt. Zen Baptist -Sunday services, 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.; Sunday school, 2 p. m.; communion second Sunday in each month; B. Y. P. U, 6:30 p. m.; prayer meeting Wednesday, 5 p. m. Rev. R. D. Epos, pastor Highland Baptist church—Sunday service, 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.; communion fourth Sunday in each month; Sunday school, 2 p. m.; B. Y. P. U., 6 p. m.; prayer meeting Wednesday, 7:30 p. m.; Rev. C. J. Wells pastor; Rocky Mt. Baptist church—Sunday services, 11 a. m. and 7 p. m.; Sunday school, 1:30 p. m.; prayer meeting Wednesday night; communion every third Sunday in month. Rev. J. H. Brown, pastor. GRACE MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Preaching at 11 a. m. and $ p. m. Sunday school at 1 p. m. Young people's Christian Endeavor, 7 p. m. Unsunday night prayer meeting, $ p. m. REV. CHAS. HENRY TRUSTY D. D., Pastor Brown's Chapel. Services at Brown's Chapel A. M. E. church, Heinlock and Boyle streets North Slide. Sundays—Morning service, 10:30; Sunday school, 2:00 p. m.; Christian Endeavor, 6:30 to 7:45 p. m.; evening service, 7:45. Wednesday—Prayer meeting $ p. m. REV. R. H. MORRIS. Pastor. WAYMEN A. M. E. CHURCH. Preston Avenue Services every Lord's day at 10:40 a. m. and $ p. m.; Sunday school, 10 a. m. Seats free. All welcome. Prayer meeting Wednesday at $ p. m. REV. F. A. SCOTT. Pastor. 126 Walnut street, Bellevue, Pa. WARREN M. E. CHURCH Center avenue and Watt street Rev. S. A. Virgil, Pastor. Telephone: 1148 R Schenley Preaching, Sunday, 11 a. m. Sunday school, 2 p. m. Epworth League, 6 p. m. Evening service, 7:45 p. m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening. Trustees meeting the second and fourth Monday nights of each month. A. M. E. Zion Church. Services every Sunday at 11:30 evening 8:00, Sunday school 12:30 literary every Tuesday at 8:00 p. m. Rev. Ware, pastor. ALLEN CHAPEL, A. M. E. CHURCH North Side, Pittsburgh. Morning worship, 10:45 a. m. Class 12 m. Sunday school, 2 p. m. A. C. E. League, 6:00 p. m. Evening worship, 7:45 p. m. Wednesday night, prayer meeting. All are invited to attend. REV. E. R. BAZIER, Pastor. Services: Sunday, 11 a.m. and 8 p.m.; Sunday school 12:45 p.m. Wednesday evening prayer meeting, 8 o'clock. Homewood A. M. E. Zion Church, Tloga and Dunfermline Street. B. F. Cornbaah, B. D., Pastor. Services—Sabbath, 11 a. m., 8 p. m. Young People's meeting, 7 p. m. m. Sabbath school, 2:30 p. m. Prayer meetings, Wednesday, 8 p. m. Class meeting, Friday evening. Visitors cordially welcome. CHARLEEROI St. James. A. M. B. church—Sunday services, 10:45 a. m. and 7:46 p. : SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1911. m.; Sunday school, 2:30 p. m.; Allen Christian Endeavor, 6:20 p. m.; prayer meeting, Wednesday evening, S p.m. ; literary society, Thursday evening, S p.m.; coir practice, Friday evening, S p.m. All are welcome Rev. L. V. Jones, pastor. UNIONTOWN, Pa Mt. Olivet Baptist Church—Rev. Thompson, pastor—Preaching at 10:45 a.m.; Sunday school at 2:30 p. m; B. Y. P. U. at 6:30 p. m. and preaching at 7:45 p. m. Zion A. M. E. church—Rev. J. W. Polk, pastor—Preaching. 1045 a.m; Sunday school. 2:30 p. m; C. E. a society. 6:30 p. m; preaching. 7:45 p. m. Mt. Rose Baptist church—Rev. Thomas Ford, pastor—Preaching. 10:45 a.m.; Sunday school. 2:30 p. m; B. Y. P. U. 6:30 p. m.; preaching 7:45 p. m. St. Paul A. M. E. Church, Rev. W. B. Anderson, D. D. pastor-preaching 10:45 a. m.; Sunday school, 2:30 p. m.; C. E. society, 6:20 p.; preaching 7:45 p. m. Waymen R. M. E. Preston avenue. Services every ordeal day at 10:40 a. m. and S. p.; Sunday school, 10 a. m. seats Free. All welcome. Rev. F. A. Scott, pastor. prayer meeting Weednesday at S. p. m. Rev. F. A. Scott, pastor, 126 Bellevue, Pa. Good Hope Baptist Church Services. Fifty-fourth and Penn Avenue. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Preaching, 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. B. Y. P. U., 6 p. m. Prayer meeting, 7:30 to 9 p. m. Wednesday. Official meeting, Thursday, before second Sunday, 8 p. m. Church meeting, Friday, before second Sunday, 8 p. m. Communion services every second Sunday at 3 p. m. Women's Missionary circle, first Tuesday at 8 p. m. Sunday school teachers' meeting, every Tuesday from 8 to 9 p. m. All are welcome. Rev. T. H. C. Messer, D. D. Pastor, residence, 3109 Dauphin street, East End. Office in the church. Hours 11 a. m. to 2 p. m. Wednesday and Friday. Life. 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The Pittsburgh Courier is the only Afro-American Newspaper published in Greater Pittsburgh Read It. It is your paper. FRAZIER, BROWN & CO. LICENSED EMPLOYMENT BUREA Reliable Positions Furished Reliable Colored Help Our Specialty Bell Phone 800-L Highland 8201 PEIM AVE. Mern. S. P. Scoots, Mgr. P. & A. Phone 1811 F Miles Printing Co. Commercial Work Our specialty Church and Society Work 1230 WYLIE AVE. PITTSBURG, PA. M. W. MOUNTS OLD BOOK EXCHANGE Law, School, Medical, Mechanical and Religious Books Bought, Sold and Exchanged. 603 Wylie Ave., Cor. Smith, PITTSBURG, PA. FINE INSURANCE Ball Plains 2000-L Highland FRAZIER-BROWN REALTY CO. HOUSES FOR RENT, FOR SALE AND RENTS COLLESTED 6331 Penn Ave. Fayberg, Pa. SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1911. GRAND LODGE OF F. & A. M. Seventh Masonic district—Brother John C Morton, R. W. G. Jr. Warden and District Depute Grand Master, 16 Miller street, Pittsburgh, Pa. Mt. Morlak No. 31—Stated meeting second Thursday each month. Frederick B. Lee, W. M. E. Edward W. Johnson, secretors. St. John's No. 21, Newickley—State enlistment first Monday each month ewis Hallstock, W. M. J. G. Magratt, Jr. secretory. Star West No. 21—Stated meeting and Saturday each month. Samuel cott, W. M. Marion W. Hall secretary. King Solomon Lodge No. 78, New Brighton—Stated meeting second Wednesday each month. Alexander Webster, W. M. James W. Butler, secretary. Pineau Hall Lodge No. 57, Beaver Fail, Stated meeting third Saturday each month. Jereah Iboulding, W. M. Lewis Failing, secretary. St. Cyprus No. 15—Wm. A. Morrison, W. M.; Nolson J. Miles, secretary. Stated meeting first Thursday. Monongahela No. 36, Monongahela W. Richardson, W. M.; S. E. McPherson, W. M.; Stated meeting first Thursday. Victoria No. 60, New Castle—Rev. G. S. Smith, W. M.; W. P. Barbour, secretary. Alma Lodge No. 62, New Castle—J. D. Howard, W. M.; E. J. Dillard, secretary. Stated meeting first Monday. M. Plisaz No. 91. Uniontown, Pa. ANX McClure, W. M.; J. H. Robinson, secretary. Stated meeting second Monday each month. Alpha Lodge No. 92, Pittsburg- Frank R. Steward, W. M.; Herman Socks, secretary. Stated meeting third Tuesday. Progress Lodge, U. D.-W. S. Jenk- ins W. M.; Wm. Washington, secre- tary. Stated meeting second Friday. Auxiliary No. 98 meets third Frida- day night of each month. Asaph Lodge, Connellsville—Meet- ing night first and third Tuesday in the mouth. Sandy McNeal, W. M.; James Strange, sec. Iron City Lodge No. 17, I. B. P. O. E. W.-Meets second and fourth Thursday, Elk Rest, 29 Putton street. Chas Gantt, E. R.; H. E. Brooks, F. Sec. North Side Lodge No. 124, I. B. P. O. E. W.-Meets second and fourth Tuesday, Del Fellows hall, corner Jackson and Irwn avenue, North Side. P. E. R., Carl Hardy, E. R.; E. Jesus Harris, F. Sec. Greater Pittsburgh Lodge 115, I. B. P. O. E.-Meets first and third Monday at Elks 4157 Franke- town and Ext End. Leme Pax- R. P. R., Rose, F. Sec. Ramesis Lodge 120, I. B. P. O. E. W—Meets second and fourth Wednesday at Elk Rest, 706 Wood street, Wilkinsburg, Pa. Chas. Boone, E. R.; H. Edmunds, F. Sec. Summitt Lodge No. 115, I. B. P. O. E. W—Meets first and third Friday at McClure hall, corner Main and Morgantown avenue, Uniontown, Pa. W. L. Winstown, E. R. E. Brown, F. Sec. Cock City Lodge No. 126, Connellsville, Pa—Meets first and third Tuesday at Elk Rest, 132 E. Main street, Penton Jackson, F. Sec. Tuna Valley Lodge No. 156, Bradford, Pa—Meets first and third Thursday, 18 Chambers street, Rev. P. H. Williams, E. R. E. J. Enty, F. Sec. malta Commandary. Eminent commander, George Cochran; generalissimo, Samuel P. Buckner; captain general, David I. Richards; recorder, Charles Richardson; treasurer, Lewis W. Wagoner; senior warden, James C. Dews; junior warden, Charles Coy; standard bearer, John H. Thornton; sword bearer, Clarence Findley; warder, George Robinson; sent -el, Joshua Lincoln; prelate, Reel C. J. Powell, D. D.; associate, prelate, Rev. J. H. Dandridge ODD FELLOWS. Meetings of Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in Odd Fellowa hall, Irwin avenue and Jackson street, North Side. Union Western Star Lodge, No. 1615, first and third Wednesday evenings. P. L. Anderson, secretary, 505 West Jefferson street. Bond of Love Lodge, No. 2524, first and third Tuesday evenings. George W. Stevenson, secretary, 54 Mnaugh- er avenue. Allegheny Council, No. 222, fourth Thursday evening. W. W. Jacobs, secr- tary, 1957 Irwin avenue. Household of Ruth, No. 56, first and third Friday evenings. Household of Ruth, No. 1784, second and fourth Wednesday evenings. Mrs Brydle Crankleton, secretary, 1116 Decatur street. Allegheny Patrarchy, No. 11, fourth Monday evening. P. L. Anderson, secr- tary, 505 West Jefferson street. News items affecting these lodges news mail to The Pittsburgh Courier. Meeting first and third Tuesdays of each month at New Odd Fellows hall, North Side. James Mason, C. C. T. A. Wilson, K. of R. B. North Side Lodge, No. 124. L. B P. O. E. of W. Meets at the Rest, 206 Robinson street, North Side, second and fourth Mondays of each month. J. Walter Frazier, E. R.; Jesse W. Harris, F. S. Gen. J. B. Sweltzer Camp, No. 98. Sons of Veterans, U. S. A. Meets at Memorial hall, Fifth avenue, on sec ond and fourth Friday nights of each month. New Castle Lodge No. 16. K. O. F. meets and third Friday of each month. Alexander Williams. Committal to Tilden, K. O. F. ROYAL GRAND NO. 31. K. OF P. Meetsings second and fourth Wednes days of each month, at Odd Fellows hall, Arthur street. PAUL GILLETTE, C. G. L. P. JACKSON, V. C. Sewickley Star, No. 40, K. of P. meets first and third Tuesdays of each month on Beaver street. N. L. Young, C. C.; C. H. Pryor, K. of R. & S.; L. Alexander, M. of F. Damon Lodge, M. of F. P. meets first and third Tuesdays of each month on Odd Fellows Hall, corner Wylie and Benton. Frank R. Stewart, C. C.; James A. Baldwin, K. of R. & S.; Jesse W. Harris, M. of F. Household of Ruth. No. 56—Meets first and third Fridays in each month N. S. Pittsburgh, Pa. Mrs. Mattie Sutton. W. R. Glass City lodge, 412, G. U. of O. city lodge, P. Meets every first and third Tuesdays. Charles Wonzer, secretary. H. of R. 1113. Charlie, Pa. Meets every first and third Wednesdays Mrs. A. Primas, W. R. I. O. OF ST. LUKES NOTICE Golden Eagle lodge, No. 22, Knights of Pythias, meets the first and th.rd wednesdays of each month at Malta hall, Sheraden street, East End. Hour of opening, 8 p. m. Rev. J. Henry Dandridge, C. C.; Martin C. Coleham, M. of F. James Woodruff, K. of R. and S. Malta Commandery, No. 19, K. T. Sir George C. Cochran, Em. Com.; Sir Samuel P. Cochran, generalissimo; Sir David D. Richards, Capt. Gen.; Sir William S. Lewis, recorder; John T. Thornton, treasurer; Rev. C. J. Powell, D. D., prelate; Rev. J. H. Dandridge, assistant prelate; Sir Herman Socks, organist and musical director—Meets fourth Monday of each month at asylum, 6004 Center avenue, East End. IRON CITY COUNCIL Meets every first Monday at Odd Fellows' hall, Wylie and Benton street. J. W. Anderson, secretary; J. T. Dorkins, W. M. Ether chapter No. 7, Order of the Eastern Star-Stated meeting third Thursday of each month at 6004 Center avenue. Rosa E. Hill, W. M.: Lucille Lewis, secretary. McKeesport, Pa. Glittering Diamond Tabernacle, No. 37, Daughters of Tabor, meet second Tuesday night of each month at 1118 Market street. Lily of the Valley Court of Callaitha, No. 267, meets first Thursday evening of each month at 1118 Market street. ELIZABETH, PA WAYNESBURG, PA The most worshipful grand lodge of Free and Accepted Ancient York Rite Masons of Pennsylvania officers: H. E. Workman, G. master; Josop Washington, Dep. G. master; Jerry M. Lannoxn, G. sr. warden; Richard Staples, G. Jr. warden; Jas. Lethwick, G. treasurer; La Royal Wilson. G. secretary; Rev. Thomas Ford chaplai; Rev. W. H. Truss. grand lecturer. The officers of the grand commander of Knights Templar of the state of Pennsylvania are: Sir Krughis Joseph L. Thomas of Fisher, M. E. commander; John W. Fisher, M. E. commander; John D. Addison, M. E. general commander; J. William Walls, M. E. grand captain general; William H. Miller, M. E. grand secretary; Philip H. Edwards, M. E. grand treasurer. DAYTON. O. B: Ruth Alston. AKRON O (B: Mary Broady.) Rev. Wm. Page of New Castle, Pa. on his trip to and from Wadsworth, O., was the guest of Rev. R. A. Jones and family. He preached an able sermon to a large audience Thursday night at the Second Baptist church. The Bethel A. M. E. congregation held their services in their new church Sunday. The formal opening will be announced later. Mrs. Raglan, accompanied by her husband returned to their home at Columbus, O., Sunday after spending a week an guest of Mr. and Mrs. M. Raglan. Many social events were given in her honor who was the honored guest of the Missionary society of the Second Baptist church Sunday morning at the covenant and communion services, is spending the week with her daughter, Mrs. Beverley Mann. Mrs Ida Randolph and daughter of Finleyville, Pa. are visiting their many friends' here. Meidames Emily Earley and Wm. Dyson of Wadsworth, O. attended communion service Sunday day morning at the Second Baptist church and called on their sick acquaintances in the afternoon ward Archer, after an unavoidable visitation was a very welcome visitor to his church service Sunday morning at the A. M. P. Z. church, Sunday, September 5, is rally day at the A. M. E. Z. church. Success is almost assured as women are at the head. Smithfield, Ohio (By Viola Carter.) Ellis Pearl of Pittsburg, was the guest of his uncle, Joseph Pearl, from Monday until Wednesday. Miss Ellie Wilson and sons of Pittsburg, are the guests of Ed. Washington and family. Miss Grace Beasley left Saturday to visit Mrs. Fred Ramsey of Hopedale. Mrs. Jordan Powell is indspored. Miss Thelma West of Hopedale, Mrs. James Carter, Mrs. Josiah Smith and children were the guests of Mrs. Fitzgerald Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Earnest Jackson entertained at dinner Sunday Rev. S. W. White and wife and Mrs. T. G. White and Rev. J. W. Munts and Miss Viola Carter. Quite a number from here attended. Women's meeting at McIntyre Sunday. Feetus Castle of Sattawville, was calling on friends here Sunday. Master Howard and guest and brother Joseph, the guests on behalf of Mrs. Heinletta Harris on Wednesday. Geo. W. Venue made a business trip to Steubenville Saturday. George Jordan of Wintersville, spent Saturday and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Mitchell. Harkings Giles of Mr. Pleasant, was the guest of Miss Julia Mane Veney on Saturday. Rev. W. M. Randail of Martins Ferry, was calling on friends here Saturday. Harry Leekins and Sam Guest, his sister Raykins and Pleasant on Saturday. Lottie B. Hargreave left Tuesday for Wheeling to attend the teacher's examination. Women's day was observed at McIntyre Sunday and was quite a success. Mrs. Douglas Christian was the guest of her sister. Mrs. Geo. Veney, on Saturday. Mrs. Fell and daughter, Mrs. Charles: Smith and Miss Olive Free man of McIntyre, were the guests of Mrs. Ed. Washington on Saturday. Rev. W. H. Veney on a home made a business trip to Caddis Tuesday. Homer Harris and Miss Mary Cooper were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ramsey on Sunday. Mrs. Lola Ramsey and children of Hopedale, were the guests of friends here Saturday. Steubenville, O. (By Stewart F. Cooke) Mrs. Jas. Thomson is visiting her parents in Cadiz, O. Harry Carter and Miss Clara McCallough were quietly married on Wednesday. Miss Sarah Cooke was a visitor in Pittsburgh last week. We are sorry to learn that Mrs. Tellwood has a very slik baby. Mrs. Skeeo entertained a number of friends on Friday evening in honor of her brother, Mr. Garrett, of North Carolina. Music was the pastime of the evening. At a late THE COURIER. hour refreshments were served. Mrs. Snowden is very much improved at this writing. The Women's Reading club met at the home of Mrs. J. Matthews last Tuesday. They meet at Mrs. Merriess next Tuesday and hear the report of the delegate. The Sunday school rally last Sunday, Miss Nuby wins both bees. Mrs. T. D. Pargeton of Apollo, was the guest of Mrs. and Mrs. White last week. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Williams of Nimestown, and Maude Lonee of Nimestown, were the guests of Mrs. williams parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eninder on Sunday. Miss Genee Nuby called on the Mrs. Guder on Monday. Quote a number from here went to Cleveland and Columbus on Sunday. Larry Nugent Cooke took dinner with his sister, Mrs. George Vines on Sunday. Mrs. O. B. Walker of Adams street, is complying her house. Mrs. Fetcher Sedge entertained lhs Friday night, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Loumas, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. and Mrs. Geo. Viney and C. C. Garrett rendeered some of the latest selections on the piano. Word was received here Tuesday or the death of Stewart Christian, formerly of Steuvenville, now of Ray- and Nancy. Naturally meeting services were observed at Simpson church last Sunday. The district superintendent delivered two excuses: semen to a hate and appreciative and once. Rev. W. H. Crumchank of Monessen. Pam. gave a short talk at the Second baptist church last Wednesday evening. Mr. Garrell or High Point, N. C. is visit; his sister, Mrs. M. Slodwee. Mrs. Mallinda Moors is able to see out again. Cities Aid society met with Mrs. Adams on South Ninth street, on Monday evening. Must have Ohio notes by Wednesday noon. - (Manage.) SALEM. O. The A. M. E. church will be formally reopened Sunday, August 20. A platform meeting will be held at 2:30 p. m. at which time the ministers of the various churches will present, also Hon. Mayor Carlisle, each one being participant on the program. A new pulpit outfit has been installed; a also a grand organ and the church is now completed with necessary furnishings, with benches having been installed last fall. Special services will be held throughout the week. When for further details, a grand rally will be held at the Alliance church, Sunday, August 13. Mesdames Mayme Oliver and Lucy Smith and D. Garner, who were appointed captains to raise money for the rally, have met with success. F. W. T. B. Cayton, assisted by Rev. Z. T. Turner of Washington, Pa., and Mrs. Alice Winston of Pittsburgh, is conducting a successful camp meeting at Minneapolis, where large attendance Sunday and Rev. Clayton is white the co-operation of the leading white citizens. The meeting close next Sunday. Locations are also assisting. Mrs. Ellen Perry, and guest, Mrs. Robinson of Washington, D. C., and Mrs. Wilbur Bass of Leetonia and Clyde Perry, and guest, Sunday with Mrs. Wilfred Writter and family of Kensington. Rev. and Mrs. T. H. Clayton are recipient of the arrival of a 13-pound girl born Monday, August 7. Mother and daughter are doing nicely. Rev. Clayton is receiving the congratulations of his many friends. Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Cyrus and Mr. and Mrs. John Ormes are also the proud parents of baby girls born the latter part of last month. Mrs. T. Huntner, Plitschburg, is the guest of Rev. and Mrs. T. B. Clayton. Mrs. O. S. Vaughn and children of Pittsburgh, are the guests of the former's mother, Mrs. Mary Green and family. Miss Emma Dyer of Lorain was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Burke the week, returning to her home Thursday. Must have notes by Wednesday noon. (Manager.) (By Carrie Slimmons.) Lewisola Johnson of Eighth avenue, was the charming hostess, at a 12 oclock dinner last Wednesday. The honored guest being Rev. L. O. Lewis of Lynchburg, Va. Covers were laid for the following guests: Missa Reeve Hughes, Lillie Mills, Connie McGhee, Henry McClain, Bess and Chester Lewis. Miss Vada Terry delightfully entertained a few of her friends last Monday evening at her home on Buffington avenue. Misses Whittew and Beechland, Ky., were the out-of town guests. Drs. Downs and Meredith of Washington, D. C., were in our city last Wednesday calling on Miss Ada Burkes of Artisan avenue. Babe Greer of Ironon, O., called on Miss Ocie McGhee on last Sunday. Messrs. Peters and Callaway of St. Louis, were visitors in our city last Sunday. E. A. Vine left last Monday for Lancaster, O., while away he will visit Columbus and other points of interest through Ohio. Mrs. Mamie West and niece left last Friday for Richmond, Va., to visit relatives and friends. Misses Bildach Miller and Ida Rollin left last Thursday for Atlantic City and will spend two weeks. Mrs. Ternes of Artisan ave. missed last Thursday for her home in Virginia. Mrs. Lee Monroe is visiting relatives in Columbus, O. Mrs. W. M. Washington of Gallapolis O., is the house guest of her sister, Mrs. T. R. Jenkins of Elgin street. Mrs. C. H. Payne has returned from Gallapolis O., where she has sheeled the house guest of her sister for the past past. Mrs. Lula Johnson and sister, Mrs. Walker, spent last Sunday, in Ironton, O. Mrs. Larry Payne and Mrs. Walker were called in West Huntington on Sunday. There was a basket greeting of Ashman Kes, last Sunday, and it was greeted by quite a large crowd. Rev. S. A. Thurston of the Sixteenth Street Baptist church has been called to the Mt. Haren Baptist church of Cleveland, O. Rev. Thurston has prepared a special sermon for his church Sunday morning, subject, "What Christ Has Against Us." Circle A of the Sixteenth Baptist church met at the residence of J. W. Wilkins on Monday afternoon. At the reception, supersess reflections were served. All expressed themselves as having had a delightful time. A social was given at the home of Mrs. G. W. Winston Friday night for the benefice of the Sixteenth Street Baptist church. A. L. Thurston, brother of Rev. S. J. Thurston, brother of Rev. S. J. Thurston, brother of Rev. S. J. Thurston, brother of Rev. Thurston to Virginia next week. Dr. P. F. White left Wednesday morning for Mentzontia to attend the Grand Lodge of V. O. of O. F. He was accompanied by Revella Hughes who will serve on program during the session. following persons are on the site list this week: Mrs. George France, Mrs. Nettle Pondexter, Mrs. Alfred Roberson, Miss Leoda Wellman and Arthur Williams. WHEELING (By Elda Kennedy) Mrs. James Moe, in her usually cordial manner, entertained the parsonage committee at her residence Tuesday evening. Mrs. Martha Washington, who was operated upon last Monday for appendicitis at the Wheeling hospital, is reported to Rainbow who has been under the doctor's care for some time, is much improved at this writing. Mrs. Cora Verse and little daughter Elizabeth, who have been out of the city for some time, visiting among friends, received more than a hearty welcome on returning last Sunday evening. Mrs. Ida Williams and her brother Hairy Brown, Miss Cornelia Washington, on last Thursday morning for reception D.C. Mrs. Martha Johnson, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Payne, entertained a number of her friends Friday evening. Those present were W. B. Gray, D. J. K. Prouty, Mrs. Lella McCollough, Lillian Hines, Martha Smith, Misses Mamie and Ethel McMeechen, Messrs. Wilber Dolan and Asbble Jeffries. Misses Certrude and Grace Joiner and Mrs. Wright of Washington, Pa., visited among relatives in Martins Ferry and M. Pleasant last week. Miss Lillian Mason of Philadelphia and Henry Mason of Cleveland, O., are the guests of their sister, Mrs. Barbour of this place. Mrs. Thornton Yates, in a most attractive manner, entertained the following in honor of Mr. at Mrs. William Payne Friday evening with a 6 a.m. meeting, Mr. and Mrs. William Payne, Miss-Mamie McMechen and Ashlee Jeffries. The Tom Thumb wedding is at the Fifth Street M. E. church, Martins Ferry, last Monay evening, was real interesting. The little tots locked most charming, the bride being little Mary Lennon, the great little James Leah, Kenneth Stewart, of officiating minister. Miss Emilia Fitzhugh was maid of honor Booker T. Lucas was best man. It being largely attended, a unique sum was realized. Misses Susie Cowns and Florence Bryant will give a lawn fete at the residence of Mrs. Cowns in Bridgeport, Ohio, August 15, for the M. E. church. These being two prominent young ladies, preparations are under way for a large Mrs. Aña Grisby, who has been on the sick for some time, is convalescent. Charles Bryant, brother of Mrs. Nellie Barber, who was removed to the country some-time ago owing to his health, is reported to be slightly improving. A food sale will be on all day on Eleventh street between Chapline and Market streets for the benefit of the Wayman A. M. E. church. Pastry of all kind can be purchased. Frank Coleman of High street last week. Monday morning for Maysville. Here he expects to spend several days. Miss Sadie Bond or Pittsburg is the guest of Mrs Austin Jackson. The committee to make arrangements for emancipation day is requested to meet August 18 in Mr. Jones' barber shop. Mrs. Jennie Randolph of Bellaire, Ohio, left Sunday morning for Grafton. When there she will be the guest of her brother and family, William Craggs. Rev. William Garner or this place, who has charge of the First Baptist church in St. Clairsville, is wakening the people and doing a grand work there. Rev. Garner is a powerful man and the Lord is working him in such a manner as to cause many a hungry for more of Christ. A special treat will be given the Wheeling citizens Sunday evening at which time Rev. W. Hill, D. D., will preach in the Mandacona Baptist church on Charles street, Rev. D. B. Walker, pastor. The followup Monday (August 14) he will deliver one of his famous occasions. Avail yourself of this opportunity. Admis- Mrs. W. B. Sneison of Bellaire, who has been away visiting for some time, returned home last Thursday evening and was greeted with a large reception given by her husband and friends of the church. Miss Hassie Taylor entertained with a dinner party, number of her friends last week in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Pauline of Omaha, Neb. The invited guests were Mr. and Mrs. George Turner of the Island, Mr. and Mrs. James E. Moe. Misses Mamie and Ethel McMeechen, Mr. and Mrs. William Turner, Ashby Jeffries, Mrs. Annie Kenney, Misses Jean Jones, Lela McCollough and James Powels, Mr. and Mrs. William Turner and Mrs. William visited the fishing camp of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Pieper and Mr. and Mrs. Levy Davis. The entertainment given at the Ebenzer Baptist church Tuesday evening was very much enjoyed by those who attended. Mrs. Nellie Barbor returned home last week from Lorain, Ohio, where she was visiting her sister, Mrs. Mamie Chinn, who accompanied her Miss Caroline Gray of Philadelphia, Pa., is the guest of her mother, Mrs. Gray, on Morrow street. Miss Gray has not been home for some time made quite a delightful surprise for her family and friends. Miss Sadie Boud of Pittsburgh and Mrs. Anna Kenney were the guests of Mrs. Mary Coffman while attending the Social circle and Ladies' Ald at Wheeling park Thursday, August 10. Rev. B. P. Washington, a graduate of Payne Theological seminary, 1811, who was appointed to take charge of the Union African M. E. church which D. Snelson of Bellaine recently organized, was the guest of Dr. W. B. Snelson of Bellaine Saturday. FRANKLIN. PA. By Helen L. Lawson Mrs. Laura Washington and daughter, annie, have returned home from Colorado. Y. Y. Mr. and Mrs. John Henderson of South Sde. Pittsburgh, have returned home after a visit with Rev. and Mrs. C. P. Hurlington and Mrs. Annie Henderson. Eugene Patterson is ill with a severe attack of tonsilitis. Mrs. Sarah Miers and daughters, Jessie and Josephine, of Sandy Lake, were Franklin visitors on Friday. With other children they are invited to the City S. plaza at Monarch park on that day. Ela Rhinehart and family have returned from a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Paul of Templeton, Mrs. Nancy Nesbit is quite ill. Edna Rhinehart, little daughter of Mr. and O. C. Rhinehart, is on the slick list this week. Mrs. Roscoe Peyton and lit the daughter, Ruth. Peyton Bradford, Pa., who Peyton has employed. Mrs Irene Rhinehart is a visitor this week. Mrs. Norman Smith has returned to Youngstown. O. after a couple of week's visit with relatives and friends. Mrs Mary Rollo of Fresburg, N. Y., spent a couple of days last week with her mother. Mrs Rosanna Carter, who accompanied her on her return home, was usual Sunday at M. E. Beths. Mrs C. P. Hurlington will lead A. C. E. L. at 7 p.m. The committees are at work preparing for a large entertainment to be given in the church the last of this month. Proceeds for benefit of stewards. Mrs. Lucy Banks, geneal. chairman. Watch this column for further particulars. Mrs. Arie Butts entertained on Monday afternoon in home of her daughter, Margaret. Margaret brated her birthday anniversary on that day. Ten little friends were present and enjoyed themselves with games until summoned to partake of a daily luncheon. A large birthday cake adorned with twelve candies occupied a prominent place on the table. Miss Anna Monroe is the house guest of her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. James Monroe of Watt street; Pittsburgh. Pa. Special services were held at the Second Baptist church Sabbath day. Rev. Jones, Rev. Wilson, Rev. Grayes, Deacon Douglass of the Euclid Avenue Baptist church. Pittsburgh, Deacon Moore, Sister Franklin and Grayes, all of Pittsburgh, were visitors at the church All of the ministers spoke at the afternoon services. The E. church of Show street and the Second Baptist church had Union services Sabbath afternoon. There looted Sabbit Mr. Dixon, was in the pulpit. Rev. Wilson and Rev. Jones spoke at the A. M. E. church Sabbath evening. The A. M. E. church is holding a week of socials this week in the basement of the church on Shore street. Miss Jean Walters is still confined at the Butler County hospital. We hope for her speedy recovery. Edward Jordain was a Pittsburgh visitor Saturday. John Dixon was a visitor in McKees Rocks and Pittsburgh on Tuesday. Rev. Palmer again in unmile city. He at the First Presbyterian church of Butler on Sabbath morning in behalf of his school that he is soliciting for in North Carolina. Rev. D. B. Dade attended the Baptist Association at Pittsburgh Tuesday. Brownsville, calling on friends last Sunday. Rev. M. A. Dver preached at Mt. Rose Baptist church, Uniontown, last Thursday evening. Quite a number from Brownville, Uniontown and Connellville attended the picnic at Rock Point on August 1. A special car was run from Connellville to Brownville. Miss Sarah Crable and little Leon- ard Lancaster are on the skist. Miss Alice Hilton spent the week at Connellville, Mrs. H. C. Latney at Connellville. Miss Sarah Smith of Smithfield and Herman Redman were married at the parsonage on Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Minny and Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Minney have moved from High street to Pearl street. There will be a grand picnic at Oakford park on August 11 at band concert from 1 till 9 p. m., evening, dancing leave Uniontown S a. m. m. return leave park at 7:30 p. m. Committee: Ed- ward Baxter, James Jackson. Mrs. H. L. Latney and son of Connellville, spent two days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Y. H. Hilton of Second street, last week. Ellis Pearl of Washington, Pa. was a present at the home of his aunt Mrs. Mary Brady on Second street. Mrs. Ned Jones of Councilsville, was visiting Mr. and Mrs. Harry Freeman last week. CHARLEROI CHARLEROI (By Mabel J. Weosten) Camp meeting will continue over Sabbath, August 13. Everybody is welcome. Mrs. Strauthers and little son, Leon, has been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Rev. L. Jones for the past two weeks. They have been camping at Lynns grove during the camp meeting. Mrs. W. D. Stewart was a recent Belle Vernon caller, Mrs. Oceola West of Meadow avenue, went to Youngtown Tuesdays, August 1 for a jorathness visit with her daughter (Catherine Jonch). Mrs. Free Lee and daughter, Beaulah, were Belle Vernon callers this week. Wm. N. Page, manager of the Pittsburg Courrier, attended camp meeting Sabbath. The art exhibit held by the Metropolitan Baptist church last week was quite a success. Mrs. Rev. E. Morris and family, the pastor of Mrs. and Mrs. Rev. L. V. Jones this week. Mrs. E. Mads. Manifesto of Moenness, was a business caller in Charlerol recently. MRS. E. JONES 205 Wylie Avenue, PITTSBURG, PA Manufacturer and Dealer in Home Hair Goods, Hair Dressing and Body Treatment. WIGS A SPECIALTY RACE ADJUSTMENT ESSAYS on the NEGRO IN AMERICA BY KELLY MILLER Born of the College of Art and Science Howard University, Washington LARGE OCTAVO: $2.00, postcard, 15 CENTS Orders taken by Courier. John M. Porter APOTHECARY 2639 Wylie Avenue, Cor. Francis St. PITTIBURG, PA. 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Centrally located, 1819 Wythe avenue. Rates reasonable. C&C established house. Mrs. Ada Palmer, Proprietress. FURNISHED ROOMS Neally furnished rooms at 5719 Kirkwood street, East End. Handy to all car lines. TO-LET Nice light room in East End. All conveniences to couple, or two young men. Must have best reference. Apply Courier. centrally located and doing a good business. Well furnished. Best of reasons for selling at great accr赎. Inquire at once. 1012 Wylie Avenue. FOR SALE-Lot, corner of Allegheny avenue and car line, Emsworth. Good location for barber shop and store. Address: Emsworth. FURNISHED ROOM Large front room, second floor, for man and wife, without children, or two gentlemen. Must have good reference. Write or Inquire Courier. WANTED At once, a good, reliable, sober colored man to work in a dry cleaning and dying plant as cleaner and presser. Write me at once, 71. N. Front street, Mt. Clemens, Mich. Geo. I. Hutchison, proprietor. Don't Take It For Granted that just because you are in business, everybody is aware of the fact. Your goods may be the finest in the market but they will remain on your shelves unless the people are told about them. ADVERTISE If you want to move your merchandise. Reach the buyers in their homes through the columns of THIS PAPER and on every dollar expended you'll resp a handsome dividend. --- | . - ad THE COURIER. > i . 5 “SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 3911. -AFN-AMERICAN ULLINGS re ° | EIGHT Booker T. Washington is constantly inciting his race to-maxe itself ready for its growing opportunities and he ts-showing the members of .the race what opportunities” Ne» open before them. No man has done more-to open the door of hope to black people ‘and to fit them to selze and use thefr op- portunity. He encourages the mem- bers of his race to jbelieve that op- portunity awaits thelr-attempt to seize and improve it. He has recently been putting his. studles on this -line into mathematical form. “What he says of “existing oppor- tunity is interesting. to all citizens. But it abonld expecigily Interest those defore ‘whom the “opportunity ies open. In a recent address before Wilberforce university, he put those tacts into concrete form in a highly suggestive and: illuminating way.. No one knows better than does this great leader what {s true along this line. He sald 4a part: “There are opeiiings in. the south for at least 8,000 addisional gfecery stores, for 3,500 additional drug ptores. There are openings in the south for 2,000: shoe. stores, 2,000 milliners. atores, and there-are comma ies in the sonth where 2,000 addition] negro Danks can be opened and gored Further than this, there are-Places in ‘the south where at least 75 self-gov- erning, self-supporting, and self-direct- tng towns or elties may be established where the colored people can have thelr own mayor, their own board of ‘aldermen, their own self-government from every point of view. In the last analysis, local self-government is the most precious kind of self-government. it none of these openings sult the am- ditfon of, our educated colored men and women, there {s another field that ta ripe for the harvest, that of educa- tion, There are 1,500,000 negro’ chil- dren of school agé who do not: enter any school in the south, and there are hiindreds of thousands of others who are in school only three months out of the 42 months. We deed 300,000 addi- tinal schoolhouseg bulllt in the south, and we need atleast 20,000 additional negro school teachers. But if th visions of the. educated colored m: cannot be reatized In any of the call- Ange’ to which I have referred, there ase’ still further openfags Jn the south. I refer'to the opportunities in. profes: wional directions. There are indi- ‘vidual locatjons in the’south for at east 2,509 additional doctors and 3,000 additional dentists and 1,000 vetert- nary surgeons."—Editorial,” Fall River {Meen.) News. i ‘There is a kind of jealousy which abould not find place among our peo- Pe; and-thst is-the jealousy which is ‘prevalent among negro business men. One of the greatest drawbacks to race enterprises is the, intense jealousy which prevails among those who en- ter into business. So great is this jealousy :that it begets mistrust and beeks culmination in “the desire ‘to hinder the progress of one engaged in a similar Dusiness. The negro in business harbors a jealousy not com: monly found in the white man who ‘has long: since learned that “competi: Uon is the fe of trade.” Rivalry heips and gives atiniulus to a man’s ‘energies. Jealousy on the other hand hinders and stupifies the energies of its possessor. “3fen In the same kind ‘of Dusiness should not cultivate the spirit of jealousy, tor here, as chve- achere, the law of thé “survival of the ittest”. will apply. If 4 felléwman’s business can succeed let {t succeed. If a man has not energy and business foresight, his business wil! diecof it ‘self.—Southern’ Ploughman. An institution that is doing a great deal for the “moral and spiritual up Aft of the young women of New York fs the Young Sromegg coistiee asso ciation, at 143 West\Fittx-third street. The association was started in this elty about; four years ago, and has = ateady growth. Some of the most in fuential women of the metropolis are interested in the-association and aid im making the work a success. Vari ous activities of the association lif¢ ald in making Hfe attractive and Inter esting for the young women. Some ot the active clubs attached to the’ asso ciation are the Civic club, the Nava club, Tennis club. Bible and Amuse, ment clubs. and the Y. W. C. A. Gle¢ lub under the direction of Miss-Diiss ‘Tapley. A movement is on foot 1c Bave a new: building erected. for ths association in Harlem, the upper sc thon of the city. - The white man oftimes tixjucs-+ the’ better class of negroes Wy suse of the lower tyne of our rare, :by their gaudy dress and fine clothive. “He comes {p contact.with bin. mo: than any other class of the nez:o, and thinks he represemss the race en account of bis attire. This fs a grave Mistake. This7class ot negroes” are ‘easily known through conversation and action. Ther are most_ times garbed’in vers expensive clothirs. away besond the extent of theit pock. ets: appearing in public like rentte- men and refined men, and. as frequent ly ts the case ther can barely ‘write their names. Many of them are bois: terous and have no respect for aukgne. ‘Beware of tinitations, for they do not Tepresent the race.#Paiestine Piain- “dealer. Ata meeting of the State Teachers’ association of Mississipp!. agriculture waw stressed by all of the speakers, and the slogga “back to thie farm” was revised to that of “stay onthe farm.” Principal Holtzclaw declared that the farm was far too important in the ‘econvms of the race and the nation to ‘Be made a refuge for failures in other walks of life. ¢- \The Argentine government plans to establish = school of dairying at one of the dairying centers of that coun- oe No man ever had a more faithful and devoted follower than I had in Dick. He' was captured twice/ with me by Union forées, and, eac time refused the freedom-wHich bis cap- qure gave bim. “I don’t ‘want to be ‘no freer than I always has been,” he said on both of these oceatons| Ones I discharged him for belng drunk. ‘Think of discharging a slave?. I was at Chattanooga, and Dick hung sound headquarters for several daysi and was very unhappy. Finally he|came to me with a Bible in bis hand and said: “I wants to swear on this that if you will take me back I wf not drink drop during the war.|' He took the oath and Kept it faithfully to the end, at. Appomattox. Wien I was captured at Rich Mountain I was Ml, and was sent to the Federal hos- pital, an immense tent. 1 had not fully recovered when We evaquated our position, and wandering abopt the mountains tm the rain for twa days and two nights without food) had ‘Drought on 2 relapse. And besides enduring the exposure, we had ‘ortea the river nine times in the vain ef- fort to avold large bodies of the en- emy's troops. The sand had got into my boots, and when my socks were taken off the skin came off with them. I was a pitiable object. ; Dick stuck to me. He was free now [to go where he pleased, but. he never left me. He was by my cot all day kept off the files from my raw snd|skin- less feet, and did what he conjd. to alleviate my sufferings. At night be cdent under my cot and took hid only rest on the bafe ground. When I was well enough.to go north with Colonel Pegram, I asked ‘Dick what hej was going to do, now that he was free. He eaid that he would go with me. ‘When I told him that was inpetinis. be sald: “Well, if I can't go with you, I will go back to Mis’ Lizle” | (my wife). When he was leaving,” I: gave him $200 in Virginia Valley bank notes (It was before the days of Con- federate money) and he walked 263 miles—by way of Staunton 150, and down the valley 113—to my _home in the valley, and gave my wife] $196 of the money.—Maj. A. R. H. Ranson, ‘ate major of artillery, C.S.A.. in Har per's Magazine for July. } ‘The white man has always cldimed that the negro sas an imitator, rather than an inventor or originator. [Dur ing“the time the American negra! was siven bis freedom, the field of ipven- ficn was being filled by the fhite man. The negro was just out of bond- age, half-clvilized, wheducated,..usipol- ished, while the white man was hls su- perlor in civilization by thousands of years. i ‘The negro rushed into the “sim” and grasped Ideas partly original, trom the people among whom he dweiled— natural to the oppressed or the| man at the bottom. His power of invention was rude and unfounded; yet, di these 46 years of invention and im- provement, he has kepp abreast |with other nations, regardless to the frials he has zoundergoat the hands df his superiors. | Suppose the same privileges ap the white man were allowed tae.negro in the machine stiops, bo!tez shops rail- roading, manufacturing houses, etc. his faculties would be greater ‘ie {n- vention than now in his pregent #tate. ‘The originators and inventors of the present dee are Indeed, genll, for the room of invention is narrowing.—Pal- estine Plaindealer. “Declariig the American negro has small cause for «complaint over| the conditions he encounters in diff¢vent paris of the land, in view of the fact that he has already made grpater progress toward the ideal in hyman attuinments since his liberation from bondage than any race in the history of humzn events, Judge Rober HK ‘Terrell of the municipal court, | ora- tor of the Fonrth of July exercises on te Howard university Compus, Urged his avdionce of several hundred repre- sémarive eclored citizens to continue the strugzle forthe advancement of the race, regardless of the tempdrary setbacks and obstacles."—Washircton ID. Cr Star. m The negro town of Mound Tayou, Miss. is.preparing to erect a Wasb- toard iactery. That sa. Beppy thought. Since the negro is the gfeat: ext ser Of washboards in this qoun- wer Wis pecutiasly. ting that) he shoiild furnish the suppls. There is an onterprisong negro firm in Kahsas City that manufactures the best] by: gienic starch on the market. ‘her also preduce soap, extracts, sp}res, vte. This and the washboard factory And doccas of otber productive epter- prises show that we're gradually? de- ‘eeeuding from the sk¥ and are taking cur plices down on the graund floor. par MU tadpvtctoeisy 1 When Jack Johnson left Amerita a fore weeks ago 1p attend the coronss tion in London fe carried with !him ye suite of clo:kes costing on the av- erage about #) apiece, and jewelry Valued at several thousand doZars. lis panama hat cost $i0u. Art| bis present gait, Jack will soon be i of funds, but when the finish Hoes come he can console himself wit the thought: “I've had my fing."—DiTlas Express. The youas negro is realizing |this age of comnetencs and strife, He {s learning the condition of affairs of bis general ascociation, and is using his Strategy in every instance to. comjpro- mise and, be peaceful and law-abiding, Exchange. si up the work of saving men. Money Is the main object. Usually the elder re ports the financial affairs and npver mentions the converted followers.— Palestine Plaindealer. | LOWISIANA NEGRO BUSIAESS LEAGUEMEETS INNEW ORLEANS: ELECTION FOR PRESIDENT OF LOUISIANA STATE NEGRO BUSI- Ness LEAGUE FULL OF EXCITE: MENT—ADDRESS OF EMMETT J. SCOTT FEATURE OF SECOND ANNUAL. SESSION. corresponding secretary of the Na- ‘onal Negro Business league ond ‘privete secretary to Dr. Booker T- Washington, was easily the feature of the second annual session of the Lou- fslana State Negro Business league, which was organized last year by Dr. Robert E. Jones. | The Mississippi Negro Business league was represented by Charles Banks of Mound Bayou, president, and George H. Mays," representing the ‘Mound Bayou Ol! mill. Both spoke to the league. No feature was fraught with more interest, however, than the election of officers. in which Dr. Rob- ert E. Jones. the first president and organizer, was defeated by W. E- Robertson. In the determined fight which the opposition made on Dr. Jones its dissatisfaction was easily appeased when . another men was elected president. Dr. Jones was aimantmously made the Louisiana mear Ver of the executive committee, and his business associate, M. S. Savage, manager of the Southwestern Chris- ah Advocate, was Bfected correspond- ing secretary: | W. E. Robertson, the new president. fs a man of large means. He has been 'a contractor for a long number of years, and has established an enviable reputation in the state and city for honest and satisfactory work. There ‘seems to be every indication of a flourishing league. | “The sessions were held in the Tem- ple theater, Pythian Temple, Gravier and Saratoga streets. The first ses- sfon was devoted, as usual, to wel- come addresses, one being made after- wards by a-Tepresentative of Mayor Behrman. W. K. Hoppes, Dr. E. C. Thornhill, Prof. A. Wicker and Rev. E. D, Simms delivered the welcome addresses. J. B. Lafargue of Shreve port responded to the «elcome. Scott Bond,, large owner and mer- chant of Arkansas, delivered the first address. and in bis own pecullar and characteristic manner entertained the audience with a recital of bis strag- gles and success. After Mr. Bond's address subjects relating to farming were discussed. Nelson Ee Blanc taking for his subject “Successful Farming,” James Small discussing “Stock Raising on the Farm,” A. C. Vitel “A Farmer's Side Lines,” and W. H. Reed “The Possibilities of Re claiming Land.” Emmett J. Scott spoke before packed. house, delivering an effort which was regarded as one of the Dest and most thoughtful addresses defore a New Orleans audience in long time. He was very frank In his discourse and—urged the people of Louisiana to ge together, declaring that very largely the negro was his own architect. In the course of his re- marks he sald ‘Through many years, as a citizen of near by Texas, ai well as of far-famed Alabama, I have maintained relasions of Kindly friendship, of personal affec- tion and of mutual interest with dis tinguished leaders of your statesmen, whom to @ll'as friend: is = personal “ gatisfaction I find myself wholly un- able to describe. I can call the list: Pinchback. “noblest Roman of them all,” bis efforts in bebalt of negro manhood during that stirring period that tried men's souls, awoke answer- ing echoes In the hearts of manly men everywhere and galvanized into life and activity, the hesitant and the afraid: Cohen, beloved, princely, mas: erful. evangel of milltant and re sourceful leadership; Robert E. Jones, “Bob” Jones in affection we call bim i—my friend, sour friend, whom to know fs to love: the quiet, modest, um- obstrusitg leader, who “brings things _ to paie,”"who has in this organization ‘ welded together the seemingly irrecon: ‘ellible and In one short year, with your help and encouragement, without ‘which he surely would have failed. giren us one of the strongest of the affiliated bodies of the national orga: nizatton—our hats ate off to him; and then, the majestic Lewis. “never felt better,” “colonel” by right of a frag: ment of that fighting host that proved. when the country’s call came. that black men could face bullets with faces unblanched and coiirage un daunted: Vance: the debonair, elo quent, rarest article. gem of the con- stellaifon; and then that splendid gal axy of men you sent last year In body to the New York meeting of the National Negro Tusiness league, what & fine impression they made upon us all—their quiet dignity, their alert and cordial co-operation. thelr ready subordination of the non-essential for the attainment of the essentlal: 1 were an honor and a distinction to vhave men of the type of Dejote. the elder; Lamothe. Marnes. Geddes, Guichard, Nelson. Burbridge. Harrison, - Fournier. Charles, Mix, Houston. Rob- Inson, Crozier, Brown. Lavéless, Vital, Hedou end Willis. in any con * vention held answhere. We are proud of Louisiana. We sball look to {t 0 the future‘as We are now doing in the { present to help us to nurture this young giant. the National Nesto Bus! ‘ness league. this potent force in the “ iife of the negro people of the United CLARKE TRAINING SCHOOL GRADUATES 1911 CLASS Washington. D..C—The twelfth an- nual commencement of the: Clarke Training school was held at Galbraith A. M. E. Zion church, in the presence of a large and representative audi- ence, and the exercises were of an unusually high orfer. Mrs. Addie R. Clarke, the indefatigable principal SOUTH PITTSBURG DISTRICT SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION _AND ALLEN f[HRISTIAN EN. DEAVOR LEA {The Sunday Se Moo eo ee otth: Allen Endeavor League of the Sonth Pittsburgh District coavened tn theit seventh annual session :n + Payne Chapal A.M. EB. chureb, West Con- nellsvile, Pa, July 252. Rev. Kt H. Bunry. D’D., presiding vider of the district. presided. Every Sunday sthool and Endeavor leatue on te istrict was represent>d hy dele: gates After devotiona! exeress2s, conducted by Rev. Geo. W. Webste: of West Muddietown. the prosiding vifice: read Proverirs 12, commentin= on tae Eame in a manner that Was helprul to all. “Rev. W. RB. Ander sor, D. .. 0: Udiontown, was giected onitial reporter to the dans papers: and the Christian Recorder -n. Pnila- tipnia. “Ihe papers read and sub- fects discussed before the Sunday Seto! convention and, Alien Endeay Go: leagt:s were of a high order ant reflected much credit upon the essay- ists; and tne presiding ofttes? who r+ innged the excellent prozram, The ‘Allen. Endeavor ieagwe discussetl such “subjects as “Tne Duty of thy rastor togne Auten Christian Endeay- or -Leaxué.’ “This was presented by aiiss Mabel Wepster of | Charierot. Miss Mabel Byrd of Canonsburg. read A paper on “What Elements Go Into the Constitution of a Good league. James Strange, of Connellsvile. de- henied the convention wittehis paper on “The Need of the Allen Christan rndeavor in Every A. M. E. church." Mrs, Nellie Jackson of Monessen, read a splendid paper on “Would ieague Meetings Be Better Attended J? Held on a Week-Day Evening?” ‘the Sunduy Schoo: convention listen ed to papers on the following sub- Jects:, “What Is the Evident Re- sult of Practical Sunday School Teaching?Z by Mrs. Florence Ander- son of Washington, Pa. Ms. Olivia Smith of Uniontown, rollowed with a most helpful discussion of the sub- ject, Rev. C. A. McGee addressed the ‘convention on ‘Necessity for ‘teacher Training." Rev. C. Addi- son of Bei Vernon, read a good pa- per on “What Incentives Are Neces- sary for a WideAwake Sunday School?” Miss Lily Primas followed with a good discussion, “Classical Ea: ucation versus Industrial Education,” was the subject of a paper read by Harry Pronty of Brownsville. Misa Gince McL2e ot Canonsburg, prepar- ed a good paper which was read by Miss Grace Joiner on “What Cun An Crranized Adult Class Do to Aid the Church, Sunday School and Prayer Meeting.” One of the most import: ant features of the conventon was ane annual addcess by Rev. R. H. Pumry, D. D., president. It was pro- nounced hy all to be the ablest and most instructive as well as effective annual addi2ss ever listened 10 by ‘the convention in the bistory of its existence. | Rev. C. A. McGee, a grad- uate frog the teacher @aining course ot the nérmal work of the State Sun- ‘aay School assotiation of th2 State ot Pennsylvania, was of ereat assist: ance to the ‘convention. - The forlow- ng officers were elected foc the en- suing year of the Allen Christian En- ceavor league: President, Rev. R. H. Bumry, D. D., of Pittsburgh: vier president, Charles—a-—Lanon of Brownsvillé; recording secretary, Miss Mabel’ Webster of Charlerol: correspondihs secretary, Strs. Joan- na Thomas Smith, of Washington, Pa: treasurer. Miss Eva Brooks, of Washington; district !2cturers, Washington " district, Wray Banks, Washington: Uniontown district, M-3. Elizabeth Greene, West Newton. Newiy elected officers of the Sunday School convention for the ensuing year are. President. Rev. R. H. bumry, P. E.: recording secretary, Miss Grace Joiner, Washington, Pa.; Cortseponding secretary, Mrs. Jose- shine Bruce, Waynesburg, Pa.; vice president, Rev. C. A. MeGee. Canons- bure: treasurer, Mrs. L. V. Jones, Charierot: “district superintendents, Uniontown distictr, Wray M. Banks, Washington: Miss Lucinda Rgbinson, Washington district. Ministers present were: Revs. M. A. Dyer, D. D., of Brownsvillex L. V. Jon2é, Charleroi; H. G. Thomas, Mo: hessen: Chas, Addison, Belle Vernon: 3. 3. Smith. Waynesburg: J. E. Mor- tis. Fraddock: C. A. McGee, Canons- curs: W. B. Anderson, D. D., Union- town: Revs. G. W. Williams of Pitts- urs, P. J. Blackburn of Homestead dud H, B Newman of New Beighton ‘were umong the visitors. TE> convention ‘was joud in its maise of Rev. T. Tasgairt his family, churet and Sunday schooi, for the solendid hospitable entertainments rendered. All left ‘with expressions of satistaetion of the nice manner in whieh they were handled Sy the good people of Connelsvijie. The con- Veniion adjourned to meet in Charlie ro! next year, Gentle. Sarcasm. She felt quite enthustastic In a downtown cafe, this young woman. “Waitér,” she said. “call me a taxt- cab." ¥ 4 ‘ A few minbtes later the walter came and ‘sald: “Your taxicab “1s bere!” fier escort, meanwhile, wondered why the taxi had beer ordereds “We're going to the —,” and she pamed another cafe, which happened to be right across the street—and 1s still, there. AM right,” he sald : And thes rode across the street_{n the taxicab. = Once within the cther cafe. she tooked about and saw her mother and several friends at another table. “We can’t sit at this table.” she sald, TAN right," acquiesced ber escort “Call a taxicab and we'll get azother table!"—San Francisco Chrontcte. ® Calor Transition. An aged colored man was engaged in burning the srass off she lawa of a young broker when the Jaz:-r returned to his home and, thinking ©» have some fun with the old man, saic: “Sambo, if you burn that grase, the entire lawn-will be as black as you are.” ; “Dat's all right. sah.” responded the negro. “Some o” dese days dat gyass grow up an’ be as green as youb are” —Judge. = an 3 Best Form of Genius There !s no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.— ‘Mitchell. ‘ fs PRACTICAL TALI, BY A PRACTICAL MAN TO THE NEGRO’ RAGE Special Notice To AN Persond Whe Anticipate Attending fo : “ae 7 : - - National Baptist Convention. .! iapecatrio mw ‘ Pittsburgh, Sept. 12 to 19, 1911' - + i If you desire to gecure gocd homes during jour stay in the city, you must at once correspond with the. local The men will sehd all communications to Rev. T. H. C. Messer, D. D., Chairman, 5109 .Broad Street, Pitts- burgh, or Rev. C. D| Patterson. D. D.,. Secretary, 409 W. Jefferson Street, N. S. Pittsburgh, Pa. a All women will send their communications to Mrs. J. S. Morton, Coane 248 Lumbard Street, Pittsburgh, Pa., or to’ Miss Agnes Gould, Secretary, 269 Cedar Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. | . A. L. Ballard, Master of Transportation, 5620 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa: 7 ‘ 2 . This is the aze of thg “survival of the attest.” If you are in any kind of business today and not employing Twentieth Century Methods in con- ducting your bus:nezs, suchas adver. tisng your-goods, keeping your place uptodate aad giviag 2 full dollar's worth ‘or one dollar of sood money, you must not de disappointed If you do not succeSd. While some of our merchants. both white agg coloredeon the Hill have wakened up to the fact that th’s payer isa valuable medium to advertise the.r ousinss, others are sill asleep. In fact, we wore told iy the-wife of a department store ubove Logan: street. in speaking of othzrs en Wylie avenue now us ng this paper, that she “didn't care” If those carryine advertisements in our papet did get thelr bus‘ness. We want our people to remember this and not patroniz: a etore who “don't care.” This is-not a ‘don’t care age,” but from the highest and :nost influential business mem of the country today to the poorest, they’ have been very fore- ibly reminded of the fallacy of such utterances. and Some of them are now in the penitentiars.‘and the ead is not set. We also want our colored business men to wake up'to the fact they do not now need a white parer to adver- tise their dusiness and their wants, as they ndw have a medium of their own that will get results, and {t s incom sistent for them to go elsewhere. ‘There ‘e.another amusing feature in the sale of|the Courier encountered by a good maby of our agents that we have a,word to say, In tho first place, this paper is ran on a cash basis. We pay our bills weekly. and any person who ‘should ask our agents to. trust them for the price of the paper. five cents, is really too poor in mind or body to appreciate the value of th:s paper to the tace. In fact, the soon- er our people can separate themselves as much as possible from asking trust for a shoe string and up, the sooner they may expect to make some head- way. One af the-greatest evils. to- day in"keeping poor people fromr get- ting ahead is the’ trast ev:l as prac- ticed by many installment houses, who charge from 39 to 75 per cent more for the.r goods than they are really worth. . | $35,000 Paidior | — | ; Home Office ee | t Building | ec em of the | ‘3 nat og - 3 ae | Mion a | i ele t F | : ‘BENEFIT | A | ASSOCIATION | | 609 F. St, NW. | geste | y Washington, DC. | SS ; THE STANDARD NEGRO INSURANCE COMPANY ; we OF THE WORLD oe | / A Compendium ¢f All That is Best in Insurance | _ Its Prem‘um-Rates.afe correct. Its Policies are liberal—covering nearly all disekees. 7 1g" Its: Benefits are both certain and | BECAUSE <s=°-== wr ‘Accident and. Deathy q : antsy usaiar with woes the | Principie.and Practice of Insurance. ; For Farther information orteims to Agents, Addzess, Call or Phone Y. aH. PUTHEY, District Manager ; Bell Phone, 2010-R Gi t il CENTRE AVE, PITTSBURG, PA. , > ss wl i ms ee ee ene eheeeeeanamea If you want to enjoy nature’s rest tng place and dr-nk the waters of dife you should not fail to visit the Mt Clemens hotel this year, conducted by the wellknown and ‘one of the most progressive men of the race ir the person of ‘Mr. Gto, I. Hutchinson, who is ably assisted by h’s charming wie. The healing water at Mt = ES JABLISHED” 1885 _ . MrséJ. H. Cohen 612-614 Herron Avenue Dry Goods, Ladies and: Mens Furnish- ’ Ings and Shoes. : Special Reductions in Shoes GEORGE 1..HUTCHINSON. |_| — eee Clemens will clean your system out and aud years to your life. Mr. Hutchinson has gone to a good deal of expense to zire our people the best. Secommodations possible, aad you Bill not rezret your visit to his fam- ous hotel and mineral bath house. See ad in th’s paper fcr rates and. -«. 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