Pittsburgh Courier

THE PITTSBURGH COURIER. VOL. III. NO.1. Operation of Cotton Mill In Texas Proves Successful. READYMARKETS FOR PRODUCTS The Manufacture of Cotton Fabrics by the Promoters of the Mill City Concern is Evidence of the Steady Advance Which the Races Is Making In the Business World. By N. BARNEET DODSON. MILL CITY, Tex. Education unused and used played is an economic waste. Natural advantages neglected or left undeveloped either in business or other commercial pursuits are charged up by the thinking world against people so overthinking and neglecting them. It is necessary that we plan for and conduct our daily business affairs with these stubborn facts in mind. The American Negro is the largest producer of cotton in the world. Good business methods impel him to so prepare for its manufacture and sale as to obtain the best values for himself and the directly or indirectly concerned. Cotton manufacture is one of the standard industries of the weed. In England, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Japan and China, as well as in Mexico, Chile and the United States, several millions of people are employed in its production. The American Native is the producer of fully 10 per cent of all their supply of cotton. He sets it at a few cents a pound in the bale and lays back his needs of manufactured cotton supplies at dollars per pound. While one half the colored population of the south are producing cotton on the farms the other half are only partially employed about the towns and cities. Sound economic policy requires that cotton manufacture move forward side by side with the growth and production of the staple on the farm. In the fall of 1895 twenty-five acres of land situated in the suburbs of Dallas were purchased and allotted into what is known as Mill City addition to Dallas. Tex. at a cost of $10,000. One third of THE STOCKHOLDERS' ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK CITY the tract was set apart as the factory reservation, whereby the erection of factories was to be encouraged and by their operation give employment to the people. Twenty-five homes have been built, valued at more than $100,000. Capacity of Mop and Twine Factory. The first manufacturing plant to be erected was the Mill City mop and twine factory, a complete spinning mill of 2,000 spindles, with a full equipment of twisting and winding machinery, valued at $55,000, with a first-mortgage local loan of $15,000. This plant was operated successfully during the past year, giving employment to forty operators and finding a ready market for all its product in twine and mops, having more than sixty wholesale and jobbing houses in its list of customers. The erection of all buildings, including both the homes and the mill, was done by the citizens of Mill City. They are the complete makers of every detail of the construction of the building and the operation of the machinery. The cotton smil of today is a business organization capable of employing many hundred persons, creating innumerable positions of responsibility and trust, also permitting the development of a high degree of scientific knowledge and skill on the part of the progressive operative. There is among the colored people ample talent, suited and elevated fully up to all these requirements. The line along, which this development has progressed provide not only for the factory itself, but also for creating a model social settlement around the plant in which the operatives can purchase their own homes. All the NEGRO JOURNALISTS MEET IN TOPEKA, KAN. Fifteenth Annual Meeting of Western Negro Press Association Hears Helpful Programs. Topeka, Kan.—The Western Negro Press association, which recently held its fifteenth annual meeting in this city, conducted one of the most helpful programs ever tendered at any of its meetings during its successful and eventful career. Besides the members and other local talent, the association was formative in securing the services of Governor W. R. Stubbs and the Hon. W. T. Vernon, who delivered timely and inspiring addresses. The committee on resolutions, after thankking all persons who assisted in helping to make the meeting the glowing Success which it was with a vote of thanks to the local business league for the splendid banquet which it gave to the members of the organization, commended Mrs. C. J. Walker for her generous gift to the Y. M. C. A. in Indianapolis, Ind., and condemned the governor of South Carolina for being in favor of mob violence. The election of officers resulted as follows: Andrew J. Smitherman, Seimeter, Muskogee, Okla., president; first vice president, W. A. Harris, Secrebright, Sedalia, Mo.; second vice president, C. J. Walker, Freeman, Indianapolis, Ind.; recording secretary, J. D. Cooke, Defender, Milwaukee. Wis.; corresponding secretary, L. A. Bell, American, Wagoner, Okla.; assistant secretary, P. C. Thomas, Herald, Topek; treasurer, Nick Chiles, Plaindealer, Topeka; historian, Harry R. Grisman, Founder, Quindaro, Kan.; chaplain, Rev. J. R. Ransom, Topeka. The executive committee includes A. D. Griffin, Plaindealer, Topeka; Lewis Woods, Kansas City Sun, Kansas City, Mo.; W. E. King, Express, Dallas, Tex.; C. H. Buchanan, Safeguard, Guthrie, Okla.; John L. Thompson, Bystander, Des Moines, Ia.; W. A. W. Protest, St. Joseph, Mo. The sixteenth annual meeting of the association will be held in Milwaukee. Wis. houses are high up and built up, neat style with large and well ventilated rooms. Those homes are neatly finished after the best standards. The town lies about half a mile east of Dallas within switching distance of two railroads, the Texas and Pacific railroad, being north of it and the Texas and New Orleans on the south. Scope and Worth of the Main Factory. The main factory, known as the Mill City cotton mill, is now being erected and the machinery installed. The building will contain 35,000 square feet of floor space, and the equipment, all of which has been parished, consists of 5,000 building spindles, 200 hoops, complete beechery and dye works. also complete equipment for a machine and repair shop. This plant will give WINNIN, EDDY SECTION. employment to more than 400 operatives when it was at full productive capacity. Described value when completed. SUBSCRIBE. Household necessities, such as cotton bags of many varieties and sizes, in making art squares up to nine feet in width, also country-poles, bedrooms, table covers, towel insets, will be manufactured. The control idea running through and directing all a firms in Mill City is the making and distributing by colored persons of such useful and artistic products of spindle and loom as will bring out the maximum productive ability of the price. This will develop a short price in the ability, thrift and the beauty of the workers and give encouragement to the promoters. It is the price effort in the development of a standard industry that will point the way for broader usefulness. The plan of financing the development of Mill City and its factories is simple. It rests on the holdings and personal worth of the management as its basis, with their personal guarantee and indorsement behind each of the securities issued. By careful purchasing methods and using extreme economy in the management of its affairs the first mortgage interest paying obligations have been held within 50 per cent of the values behind them. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE COURIER Work, Integrity, Tact, Temperance, Prudence, Courage, Faith. PITTSBURG. PA.. DECEMBER 23, 1911. SOCIAL SETTLEMENT WELFARE CLUB IS FORMED AT CAPITOL Useful Sociological Work In Slums and Alleys Done By Members THE LEADING CITIZENS AID The Common Welfare club is the newest and, when its purposes are considered, one of the most useful of the Washington clubs. This club engages in practical sociological work and helps those who are in the slums and alleys. Dr. George W. Calamis, one of Washington's leading physicians, is the president, and Ocea Taylor of the Washington American is secretary. The club has undertaken to help the Colored Social Settlement home at the capital. clubs, is the president, and Ocea Taylor of the Washington American is secretary. The club has undertaken to help the Colored Social Settlement home at the capital. Although housed in a very neat and well kept building in the heart of the colored population, yet the Social Settlement home has been in straitened circumstances. Through the influence of the Common Welfare club great interest is being worked up in behalf of the settlement house, and generous sums of money have been and are being raised Dr. John R. Francis, a leading member of the Common Welfare club, is president of the Social Settlement home. Recently, under the auspices of the Common Welfare club, a pay lecture by Dr. D. Webster Davis was given A. B. Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones, professor of sociology at Hampton, who has been in Washington for two years, being in charge of the two years, being in charge of the Dr. J. R. FRANCIS. Negro statistics of the United States census, is prominently identified with both the Common Welfare club and the movement to benefit the Social Settlement house. Dr. Jones is a sociologist of note, and his work for the club has been of a most beneficial character. The Common Welfare, club numbers among its members men of high standing in official, professional, business and other circles of Washington life. THE MINISTERS TAKE ACTION ON THE Y. M. C. A. BUILDING FUND THE VOTE IS UNANIMOUS The following resolutions were unanimously adopted at the regular meeting of the Methodist Minister's association, which convened at Bethel A. M. E. church Monday. Whereas, Word has come to us severally, that not one-half the $12,700 subscribed by the colored citizens of Pittsburgh, February, 1910, to the $500,000 building fund of the Young Men's Christian Association has been paid to date, and Whereas, the General Board of Directors of the Pittsburgh Y. M. C. A. have already invested more than $27,000 in a site, building and equipment at 157 Center avenue for the Colored Men's Branch, and Whereas, It will be impossible for our branch to receive the balance of their apportionment of $10,000, unless the colored citizens keep their moral obligation and pay all outstanding pledges. Resolved. That we as a body of ministers, religious leaders of our people in this community, place ourselves on record as recognizing the far reaching significance of this condition, and that we lend our heart efforts to the plans of our branch to help demonstrate to Pittsburgh, and the entire country that as a race we are not void of a sense of moral obligation to honor any pledge given over our signature. Respectfully submitted. W. L. LEE. MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED DURING WEEK MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED DURING WEEK SCORE LYNCHING IN RESOLUTIONS HERE Christian Churches Are Urged To Stop Taking Human Life By Mob Violence. Urgizing the utmost exertion on the part of the Christian churches of the country to use their influence against lynching, particularly among the Negroes, Bishop Alexander A. Walters, of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion church of New York City, today offered the following resolution before the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America in the final session of the executive committee of that body in the First Presbyterian church. Sixth street; Whereas, Law is the safeguard of the individual and the natios, without it all is anarchy and confusion and any interference with its regular course is eminently dangerous to the state, and Whereas. There have been of late WASHINGTON COMMENTS ON U.S. CENSUS FIGURES Mississippi and South Carolina Have More Negroes Than Whites RACE IS NOT DYING OUT NEGRO CONSTITUTES 10.7 PERCENT. OF POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES—MANY CHANGES IN PAST THIRTY YEARS. Tuskegee, Ala.—Dr. Booker T. Washington has furnished to the Associated Press for publication a statement bearing on the figures issued, by Dana Durand, director of the United States census bureau which is very interesting. The review of the census figures shows that there are two states in the south where the negroes exceed the whites in population—South Carolina and Mississippi. The number of negroes in the so-called southern states are as follows: Delaware, 31,181; Maryland, 2,324,249; District of Columbia, 94,449; Virginia, 671,096; West Virginia, 64,173; North Carolina, 697,843; South Carolina, 835,843; Georgia, 1,170,987; Florida, 308,699; Kentucky, 201,656; Tennessee, 143,088; Alabama, 908,275; Mississippi, 1,009,487; Arkansas, 442,891; Louisiana, 713,874; Oklahoma, 127,612; Texas, 690,020. Dr. Lr. Washington says: "The director of the census issued on November 9 a preliminary statement of the white and negro population in the United States as shown by the thirteenth census. According to the returns there were in 1910, 91,972,266 persons in the United States subdivided as to color as follows: White, 817,328; or, 88.9 per cent.; negro, 9,828,234, or 10.7 per cent.; all other persons, 411,255, or 9.4 per cent." The increase of the negro population for the ten years 1800-1910 was less than for previous decades. From 1850 to 1890 the increase was 12.5 per cent; from 1890 to 1900 the increase was 18 per cent; and from 1900 to 1910 the increase was 11.5 per cent. We must not, however, infer that because there is a decreasing rate of increase of the negro population that there is a danger of the negroes dying out in the United States, for should the per cent. of increase fall until it was only two per cent, there would still be for each decade a considerable increase in the number of negroes. The census figures also show that exclusive of immigrants there is a decreasing rate of the increase of whites. This decrease, however, is apparently not as great as for the negroes. The natural rate of increase of whites was from 1850 to 1890, 20 per cent; 1890 to 1900 slightly more than 16 per cent; 1900 to 1910, 15 per cent. "During the past thirty years there has been a considerable change in the proportion of whites and negroes in the south. In 1850 the whites constitute 63.9 per cent of the population and the negroes 30 per cent; in 1900 the whites constituted 67.4 per cent, and the negroes 62.3; in 1900 the whites constituted 69.9 per cent, and the negroes 28.5, $749.30, or 89 per cent of the negroes, live in the south, 1,678.94, or 19.9 per cent outside of the south. In 1900 10.3 per cent of the total negro population lived outside of the south. "In West Virginia, Arkansas and Oklahoma the negroes had a higher rate of increase than the whites. In Delaware and Virginia there has been only a slight increase, namely, 1.6 per cent, in each case. In Maryland, Kentucky and Tennessee there has been since 1900 an actual decrease in the number of negroes." disgraceful and horrifying outbursts of mob violence both in the North and the South. 50 human beings having been lynched within the last six months and 2.458 in the last 20 years; therefore, be it. Resolved. That it is the sense of the executive committee of the Federal Council of Churches of America that the Christian churches of the nation exert their influence to stop the burning of human beings, and all forms of mob violence. We heartily commend the press both North and South for its expression against lynching. The resolution was passed after a short discussion in its favor by the Rev. W. L. Lee, pastor of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion church or Pittsburgh, and Bishop Walters. SHILOH EAPTIST CHURCH. Rev. W. W. Allen's Record as Pastor and Financial Leader. Baltimore. To start without a single member in October, 1902, and to build up a congregation of nearly 900 members, as well as to purchase a piece of property and pay every cent on the purchase price of $3,000 and raise $1,650 for enlarging and improving the church, is the record that Rev. W. W. Allen has made at Shiloh Baptist church, Clinton avenue and George street, in this city. With one or two faithful souls the church was organized by the Rev. Mr. Allen and the present property rented in 1902. He went to work with a will, and it was not long before he was recognized by the people of the neighborhood as a force for good and as a man who would gather about him one of the most flourishing congregations in the city. The membership had grown to such proportions in 1906 that the property was purchased and a mortgage of $3,000 given. The rapid growth of the congregation soon made A. B. REV. W. W. ALLEN. more room imperative, and a number of improvements were made and the building enlarged at a cost of nearly $1,700. The ninth anniversary of the church was recently made the occasion for a special celebration and a big mortgage burning, which was attended by many ministers and prominent citizens. Addresses highly laudatory of the good work of the Rev. Mr. Allen were delivered by the Revs. W. J. Winston, president of the Clayton Williams university; D. G. Mack. J. H. Taylor, Uriah B. Johnson, David Bryant, R. T. Reed, Junius Gray, Percy Young, D. K. Crigler, P. Carter Neal, A. B. Callis, C. A. Belt, Isaac Hall, J. Crawley, Ottaway Croxton, S. Cosby and Attorney George W. F. McMechen. At the conclusion of the exercises men prominent in the business and professional life of the city sat down to a feast which was indicative of the Allen way of doing things. Besides working arduously for the upbuilding of the congregation and bringing all departments of the church to a high degree of efficiency, Mr. Allen has found time to add to his stock of knowledge, so as to be better prepared for the arduous work of the ministry. He was graduated from the Clayton-Williams university several years ago. He is now bending his efforts for the further extension of the influence of the work and is being aided by his officials and members, who provide him with one of the best salaries paid a local minister. The church has one of the best choirs in the city, and its Sunday school, B. Y. P. C. and other departments are aly managed and well attended. His trustees and deacons are imbued with the spirit of progress, which has helped mightily in the upbuilding of the congregation. Accounted For Freddy—"How did the baby come" congressman's Son—"I guess he was franked." HOSPITAL WORK IN NEW YORK Brief Bits of History Connacled With Its Progress. Institution Now Known as Lincoln Hospital Was Originally Established Under Title of Society For the Support of the Colored Home—Purpose of the Founders Explained. By N. BARNETT LADSON. The colored home in York city now known as the Lincoln hospital was originally established or incorporated by the legislature under the title of "the Society For the Support of the Colored Home." A petition presented to the legislature for the repeal of certain gets passed March 11, 1839, and May 26, 1841, which appropriated $100 for a state hospital in the city of New York, asking a transfer of the money therein named to the colored home. These acts were repealed and a new act trained. The money was transferred to the managers of the colored home to be applied to the erection of a permanent building on the real estate belonging to the said home in the city of New York for the relief and support of disabled colored sailors and other infirm and institute colored people. In 1848 the society purchased forty-four lots of ground lying on Sixty-fifth street between Avenue A and First avenue, upon which the managers erected a suitable building. It consisted of two distinct divisions or wings for the accommodation of males and females, each 100 by 26 feet, separated by a ground plot of 100 feet, the whole forming an open square. At the first meeting in 1839 after the adoption of the constitution twelve individuals were proposed and received as objects worthy of relief. During 1847 the statistics show that the institution had cared for nearly 1,000 persons, a large proportion of whom were from the almshouse. The colored home originated in the liberality of one Christian lady, a Mrs Jay by name, who was the daughter of the distinguished and venerable John Jay, who subscribed the first $1,000 to the home, which was turned over to a committee of ladies who met at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Marin Banyer, during the autumn of 1839. The sum appropriated was especially designed for the relief of the sick and respectable colored aged. It is said, despite the fact that this colored home, now the Lincoln hospital, was originally set apart for the use and benefit of the colored people, that, while there are colored trained nurses on its staff, not a single colored physician out of the dozens or more competent medical men in Greater New York is a member of the medical staff of the hospital. Surely the original promoters of the hospital could not have intended that this condition should exist. They must have foreseen that at some time in the future the race would have its own physicians when they gave the colored race the nucleus for a great hospital in which to train its own men for the care of the people of their own race. Colored medical students have little if any opportunity to study and observe the progress of diseases in the great hospitals of New York city. Would it not be a good thing for Lincoln hospital to invite some of the leading colored physicians in New York city to co-operate with its present medical staff in the treatment of colored patients and to open its doors to colored medical students who are studying in the various medical colleges? REMEMBER THE CHILDREN. Dr. Washington issues Annual Christmas Appeal In Their Behalf. Dr. Booker T. Washington has issued his usual appeal for Christmas tokens for the children in the rural districts in the vicinity of Tuskegee. Dr. Washington says: During the past fifteen or sixteen years it has been my privilege to receive and to distribute Christmas presents in the way of cards, books, etc. among the very poor colored children, especially those living in the plantation districts of the southern states. During these years happiness has been carried to the homes and hearts of thousands of children who otherwise would have had little or nothing to remind them of the Christmas season. For the most part these presents have been distributed through colored teachers in the rural districts of the south. I shall be very glad to serve again, in other years, as the medium for distributing such presents as friends may be kind enough to send. Anything addressed to me will be promptly sent to those where the most good will be accommodated. Odd Fellows Celebrate Anniversary. The twenty-seventh anniversary of Northwest lodge No. 2554. Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, was famitly observed in Portland, Ore. by the members of the lodge on Tuesday evening, Dec. 19. An excellent literary program was rendered, which was thoroughly enjoyed by the large number of friends and visitors present as invited guests of Northwest lodge and its members. FIVE CENTS A COPY PROGRESS NOTED IN EDUCATION Professor Hawkins Tells Conference What the Work Needs. VALUE OF SCHOOL PROPERTY. North Carolina A. M. E. Conference Adopts Strong Set of Resolutions Indorsing Commissioner John R. Hawkins For the Position of Financial Secretary For the Denomination. Columbia, S. C. - The remarkable progress of the educational department of the African Methodist Episcopal church is largely due to the spindial energies of Professor John R. Hawkins, the brilliant orator, highly successful financier, scholar and commissioner of education for the A. M. E. denomination. His native oratory is capturing thousands of people who hear him on educational nights at the various conferences of this denomination, and the statistics given by him relative to the stupendous growth of the educational activities of the general church and his vivid portrayal of how these funds are raised by the people are an inspiration to every one who hears him. He is being received with celar in all sections of the country, and his popularity is an attestation of his strong chariseter and attentions. Although modest and never seeking the praise of the populace, but flying from applause, he is properly regarded by thousands of both races as a conservative, safe leader and a sturderer. In his address at the great educational mass meeting of the recent annual North Carolina conference held in Wilmington, N. C., Professor Hawkins said: One of the greatest agencies at work in the uplift of humanity is the educational department of the A. M. Z. church with its twenty schools of learning. 50 teachers, 5,750 pupils and a property value over $100,000. The school is raising and appropriating $250,000 annually for the maintenance of this good work, and the purpose of this meeting is PROFESSOR JOHN R. HAWKINS. to call every man, every woman, to march to the altar of duty and to make a contribution to this great work. Here is where we are helping to work out this problem of humanity. What the world needs most today is a closer application of these principles that will make men good and useful citizens; that which will develop character and manhood not simply for the many who are marching and toiling in the humble ranks. The world today wants the man for the highest position who can successfully conduct affairs. That is the spirit of the North Carolina conference. The following resolution, which was signed by all members of the New York Tribune Bishop and Members of the North Carolina Conference: Whereena. Professor John P. Hawkins has faithfully and efficiently served the A. M. E. church and the race for many years; and. Whereaus. His name has been suggested in many sections of the country for the office of financial secretary of the said church; and. Whereas, Many conventions, etc., in the church have given expression to their unqualified indignation, and, Whereas, We recognize his great ability and business acumen and eminent fitness for the particular responsibility; therefore, resolved. That the delegates from this conference to the next ensuing general conference be and they are hereby instructed and directed to give him their support for the office of financial secretary and to use all honorable means to secure his election. For sixteen years Professor Hawkins has been secretary and treasurer of the educational department of the church. Eight per cent of all the dollar money raised in the denomination has been through his efforts. By his able comprehension of the most intricate points of law he has acted general counsel for the church and was the chief counsel for the general conference of 1908. He is the auditor of the book concern of the church, and the bench of bishops has also retained him as chief counsel. There is not an Afro-American in North Carolina who is more highly esteemed than Professor Hawkins. He has invested his earnings in excellent property, and he is teaching the young men of the race, by precept as well as by his scintillating century, that one must accept every opportunity to help his fellow man. ```markdown ``` The Ingathering By Willbur D. Nesbit "And the feast of ingathering at the year's end." —Exodus xxxiv, 22. So the year dies, and so Into the afterglow All the year's days go. We count them, one by one, Days filled with shade or sun, Days of great tasks begun, Days of achievement; Days when we, weak and frail, Felt all our courage fail, When we, benumbed and pale, Met our bereavement. And far and far away We find the year's first day— But was it sad or gay, Can we remember? Slowly they die, the days, As does some ruddy blaze— End in a smoking haze Or crumbling ember. Joys—there were joys to spare, Griefs—there were griefs to bear, Ah, and the joys all fair Spent on the morrows! Joys were the clinking gold Dropping from out our hold— We, like to misers old, Clung to our sorrows. still, d us ill s will, erish; ear d tear pear ish. And this is stranger still, Sorrows that worked us ill Nor grow as sorrows will, To things we cherish; And out of all the year We find that sigh and tear As blessings now appear And cannot perish. So do we count the days Down all of time's long ways And with dim peace we gaze On bond and fetter; And know at last that all Of the blind blows that fall And the cups brimmed with gall But make us better. d so now ow. So dies the year, and so Gently we come to know How fair the afterglow. all its clouds throwing its ```markdown ``` all its clouds pushed aside; the wind throwing itself upon them at every step like some huge young animal force unchained for exercise and rude in its good-natured play. As they crossed a woodland pasture the hoary trees rocked and roared strewing in their path bits of bark and rotten twigs and shattered sprigs of mistletoe. In an open meadow a yellow-breasted lark sprang reluctantly from its cuddling place and drifted far behind them in the rushing air. In a corn field out of a dried bunch of partridge grass a rabbit started softly and went bobbing away over the corn rows—with its white flag run up, at the rear end of the fortifications as a notice. "Please not to shoot or otherwise trespass!" Alas, that so palpable and polite a request should be treated as so plain a target!—From "The Doctor's Christmas Eve," by James Lane Allen. New Year's Prayer for Women By TEMPLE BAILEY grant that we may look forward and not back. Give to us memories only good of the past year and let the evil die. - In days of darkness and sleep may we not cry out, but face the world bravely. - Link to our ideals of womanly sweetness and truth the strength which shall make them real. - Show us how we may be kind to other women, to those who have failed and fallen grant us the special grace of sympathy. - May we judge men not by trivial standards, but by the broader vision which shall give just due to their uniting efforts, their courage, their silent acceptance of the hard facts of life. AS GOOD AS NEW DAD REVIVAL GOOD REVOLUTION - Help us to mother all little, lonely children. - If any we love have hurt us, let us love them still. - Give to us some work to which we may go gladly in the morning, and from which we may rest when the shadows of the opening fall. - Find then, O Lord of All the World, and of All New Years, when Chon hast given to us these things which shall put us right with ourselves and with our fellowmen, grant to each of us, we beseech Cher, our moment of wild ecstasy, our little share of human happiness, and, in the end, a quiet heart. - Amen. --- Christmas Morning in the Open. This (Christmas) morning her mind was intent on playthings of positive value; she was a little traveling ten-toed pagoda of holiday greed. Every Christmas she prepared for its celebration with a balancing eye to what it would cost her and what it would bring in; she always calculated to receive more than the gave; for Elsie, the Nativity must be made to pay! Old Year—Hello. What is that package you are carrying? New Year—It contains the good resolutions that signalize my coming. Old Year (exhibiting a similar package)—Huh! If you'l let me know'I have lent you these. They're the ones I brought with me when I came, and nobody would keep them. On the brother and sister skipped and bounded, wild with health and Christmas joy. Crimson-tipped, midcap, winter spirits! The blue dome ruiling infinitely above them with CONNELLSVILLE. CONNELLSVILLE. (B) Mary, M. Washinton Payne A. M. E. Church Last Sunday was quarterly meeting at Payne A. M. E. church and the presiding elder, Rev. R. H. Bumry, was present and spoke morning and evening. Rev. Father Baker of Washington, Pa. preached the communion sermon at 3 o'clock. Rev. W. B. Anderson and wife and Mr. Carter of Uniontown, were also present at the afternoon service. Rev. R. H. Bumry, Rev. Father Baker and Rev. T. Taggaint dined with Mr. and Mrs. Easan Garner inst Monday evening. Rev. T. Taggaint and family, Rev. R. H. Bumry, Rev. Father Baker and John Johnson, dined with Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Strange on Sunday. Rev. W. Strange on Wednesday morning for his home in Pittsburgh after spending several days with Rev. Taggaint and family. Mount Zion, Baptist Church. Mount Zion Baptist Church. The entire community was saddened on Thursday morning to learn that one of the oldest members of our church had passed away. Brother Edward Jones died at his home in West Main street on Wednesday night at 12:55 o'clock. He took his bed Tuesday night. Brother Joles was very highly respected by the best of our citizens. He was a charter member of Youghigheny Lodge No. 3219, G. U. O. of O. F. The lodge turned out in full body to honor his remains. The funeral services were conducted at the Mount Zion Baptist church at 2:30 Sunday. Rev. Epps, the pastor, preached the sermon. Standing room was at a premium in the church. Friends from the various towns around who came to review the remains of Mr. Jones. The deacons and honorable citizen were pallbearers for Mr. Jones they were: J. C. Crawford, W. E. Jackson, J. T. Stout, H. C. Latney, William Walker and Jerry Chatman. The floral bearers were: J. C. Carrington, Walter Gans, William Motley, Walter Smith, Cregg Wright and William Johnson. The family has the sympathy of the church and the entire community. The Ladies' Church Aid society met at the home of Mrs. Jennie Diggs, Dunbac, on December 15. Keep your eye on the news column for the Men's Day program the first Sunday in 1912. Mrs. Willie Sherman is on the sick list. George Trust and Mrs. Mattie Pope are still confined to their homes. Rev. J. H. Pryor of St. Paul church, Vanderbilt, is reported very sick. We were delighted to have Mrs. Scott of West Newton, to worship with us on Sunday. She was visiting Mrs. Epps. Mr. and Mrs. James Taylor of Mt. Pleasant, were visiting their daughter, Mrs. Alice Hart on Sunday. Mrs. A. E. Mackabee of Mt. Pleasant, wha among the many friends in the city on Sunday. Mrs. Carrie Long is visiting her sister, Mrs. Renner Slade. Miss Mary Bell Jones left on Tuesday night for Henderson, N. C., to visit relatives and friends. The Young Men Social club of Vanderbilt, gave a reception on Saturday evening and many attended from Uniontown and Connellsville. Mrs. Arthur Smith and son left on Saturday morning for her former home in Meadville, to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Green. The Social club of Connellsville, attended the dance in Unontown on Friday evening. T. J. Woodard, the chef of the Hotel Royal, received word on Monday that his father, who lives in Jefferson, O, was very sick. He is much improved at this writing. The annual memorial services was observed by the Coke City lodge No. 126, I. B. P. O. E. of W., in the Mt. Zion church on Sunday, December 17. The church was well filled. At 8:15 the lodge entered the church in a body, after which was rendered the following prepared program. Voluntary, Miss Lulu M. Tobin; selection, choir; invocation, Rev. E Books Fuller, chaplain; welcome address, R. D. Glint; opening ceremonies, Ansel Chambers, E. R.; solo, Mrs. R. D. Epps; solo, Mrs. Alice Washington; "Our Absent Brothers," general eulogy, Thomas H. Brown;s; solo, Mrs. Lydia Latney; solo, Moses Bridges; recitation, "The Graves." Miss Josephine Washington; R. W. Sander's quartet; solo, Miss Helen Miller; voluntary, Mrs. R. D. Flint; paper, Otho Staunton; instrumental duet, Miss Jean Washington, Arthur Smith; eulogy, Rev. R. D. Epp; instrumental solo, Miss Inez Walker; solo, H. Bruce; solo, Mrs. Emma Grisen; selection, Imperial quartet. West, Browne, Neal and Smith; closing ceremonies, "The Departed Brothers." Dr. J.-T. Edwards and Clarence Collins. SCRANTON, PA. Bethel church was a place of great interest all day last Sunday. The people turned out well to hear the pastor, Rev. G. T. Smith, discussed on the subject, "The Christian the Light of the World." At night the house was crowded and the greatest interest was manifested. Collection for the day was $32.14. The Sabbath school, under the leadership of Mrs. Morton, Mrs. King, Mrs. Crump and Miss Birdie Plater are preparing have been at Bethel. Central Lodge No. 50, F. & A. M. will hear their "St. John's day sermon at Bethel next Sunday, the 4th afternoon at 3 p.m. Everybody is invited. The Eiks had their annual sermon preached at Bethel last Sunday by Rev. G. T. Smith. The Eiks were greatly pleased. They laid on the table $50.02. A standing invitation is extended to them to come again. There were many standers in attendance at Bethel church last Sunday. The Young Men's Progress club gave an entertainment on the 10th which proved to be most successful. There is to be given in New Year's dinner and concert at the church on New Year's day. James A. Carter is the chairman of the committee. It is looked forward to with glowing anticipation and an enjoyable time is hoped for. The week of prayer will begin on Tuesday, January 2. All are cordially invited to attend Rev. and Mrs. G. T. Smith spent a few days in New York last week visiting Rev. Dr. C. Ransom and shopping for the holidays. Members of the Shining Star club are preparing to give a concert on January 16. Their entertainments are always successful. Mrs. Birdie Plater is the efficient president of this club. The second quarter meeting will be held on January 14, when Dr. T. J. Askew will be present and preach. THE COURIER. All the members are expected go' be on hand. The Courier is becoming more popu- per each week. The agent, Freder- bik Smith, is energetic and is making friends for it everywhere. Order it from him. What bids fair to rank as one o. the most elaborate receptions of the season was tendered the official board of the A. M. E. church at the church parsonage by Rev. G. T. Smith, pastor. In addition to the excellent coiation the entire affair was marked by a heartfelt cordiality and good fellowship, which will cause it to linger in the memory of those who were present. No little of the success of the occasion was due to capable assistance of Mrs. G. T. Smith, who proved a most capable hostess. Among those present at the reception were, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Plater, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Morton, Mr. and Mrs. Hows, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Beeton, Mr. and Mrs. James Foster, Mr. and Mrs. Festus Crump, Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Dickerson, Mr. and Mrs. Giles, Mrs. Biddle Crump, Mrs. Fannie Morton, Mrs. Carrie Simmons, Mrs. J. T. King, Mrs. Hattie Howard, Mrs. Patterson, Mrs. Cephas Scott, Mrs. E. T. Johnv, John Dorsay and Mrs. Carter. Lucin Rikhards left this week for Philadelphia and Atlantic City, where he will visit friends, after which he will leave for Palm Beach. Flu, where he will be connected with the private department at the Breakers. On last Tuesday, fire broke out in the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Smith, and although every effort was made to save it, the entire building was destroyed including their household goods. We hasten to extend to them our sympathy in this, their time of trouble. They are now located at Dix Court. BUTLER, PA. BUTLER, PA. Jiles Booth visited friends in Pittsburgh on Saturday and Sunday. William Cooper of East End, Pittsburgh, was a Butler caller last week. Misses Clementine and Anna Monroe will leave Sabbath morning for Canton, O., to spend their Xmas holidays with their brother, Lewis Monroe. Robert McCurdy will leave on Sabbath to spend Christmas with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. McCurdy of Shannon avenue, Washington, Pa. The A. M. e. church Sabbath school will hold their Christmas exercises on Tuesday evening, December 26. J. Le Perkinson left on Monday morning for Youngstown, O., after spending the week in Butler. While here he did some very fine graining for the Methodist church. Edward Fry has accepted a position at the Nixon hotel. Frank Johnson returned to Butler on Friday* from Pittsburgh and has accepted a position at the Lowny hotel. Misses Jean and Minnie Rollin were week end visitors in Pittsburgh. OIL CITY, PA. (By Valera C. Johnson.) Our morning services Sunday were conducted by Rev. Wesley Paul. Our pastor, Rev. Payne, was with us but unable to preach owing to a sudden attack of illness on last Saturday night. He preached for us Sunday evening. A china shower was given by Misses Bertha and Vaiera Johnson and a granite shower by Miss Edith Ashby last week in honor of Miss Clara Pee, whose marriage to Melvin Klepton of Sharon, will take place December 25. Miss Grace Jackson accompanied Miss Mabel Polly to Franklin, O., where she will spend Xmas with her grandparents. Mrs. Randolph left for her home in Olean last week after an extended visit with her daughter, Mrs. Fred Collins. Mrs. Harriet Milton is on the sick list. Robert Greene spent Sunday with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. John Green. Miss Edna Collins was a visitor in Franklin on Thursday. John Williams was a visitor in Tidjoute last week. Mr. Courney and son Harold of Canada, are the guests of Mrs. Rachel Scott. Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Langster spent Sunday with the former's father, Joseph Langster of Foxburg. ERIE NOTES (By Margaret J. Kittreil.) John S. Hicks returned home on Tuesday after spending a delightful time at Philadelphia, where he attended the Grand Lodge of Masons. He also visited Harrisburg and New York City. Miss V. Dale of New York, is the house guest of her uncle and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wilson. The musical that was given by the choir of the St. James A. M. E. church was a grand success and great credit is given William Catlin, chorister. Mrs. Nella B. Phillips, one of our leading soprano singers, gave two beautiful solos. Mrs. Carrie Lawson, J. Tunstall and Charles Valentine, did excellently and the Reed House quartet also rendered pleasing music. The St. James A. M. E. Sabbath school will give their Xmas program on Tuesday evening, December 26. All are invited to come and hear the little folks. Word has been received here from Wm. Franklin, who is away for his health, that he is improving slowly. Miss Edna Blackburn attended the wedding of Miss M. Penman and J. Hunter of Meadville, Pa. The marriage took place Wednesday, December 20. Miss Penman is well known in Eile and congratulation are in order. Clarence C. Kittell is sojourning in Nasunville, Tenn., his former home. Lewis Penhall is spending the holidays with friends in Chicago, Ill. German Students and Their Dogs. Dogs are nowhere in such favor as companions for men as among the college students of Germany. Each student is apt to have one or more marked by the college colors and trained to render service by carrying water, baskets, bundles and the like. Cause and Worry Defendant's Wife — Don't worry, dear. The judge's charge was certainly in your favor. Defendant (moodily)—I know that. It's the lawyer's charge that I'm thinking about. BEAVER FALLS (By Eva Holmes) The Sunday school entertainment at J. T. John's A. M. E. church will be given on Tuesday evenings December 26. The children are expected to render a fine program under the direction of Mrs. Chas. Cole and Miss Marcia Butler. The Beaver County Sunday School' Union will meet at this church on Sunday, December 24. All members are requested to be present. Don' forget the election of officers. Chas. Webster, who is attending college at Philadelphia, arrived home Saturday to spend the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Webster. The A. M. E. Zion Sunday school will hold their treat on Sunday, December 24. W. M. Ford of Rochester is suffering with a poisoned hand. David Stokes of Greensburg, is visiting Mr. Toons of Rochester. Mr. Stokes is president of the Westmoreland County Negroes Protective League. Please remember that January 9 is the date that the Xamorphica Mandolin quartet of Pittsburgh will appear at St. John's A. M. E. church, West Bridgewater. Every effort is being put to make this music a decided success. It is under the management of Chas. Robinson of Beaver Falls. The Dutch supper given at Wayman Chapel A. M. E. church, New Brighton, was a grand success financially, as $17 was taken in by the ladies. The menu consisted of souf kraut, wieniers, spare ribs and back bone, fit for a king to eat, prepared by the Madames Ida Cross, Edna Bolding, Maria Mathews and Mary Leland. The Sabbath school treat of New Brighton A. M. E. Sunday school will be given on Monday, December 25, at which_time an excellent program, will be rendered by members of the school. Mrs. Maria Matthews was calling on Beaver Falls friends last Monday evening. The many friends of the Owl-club look forward to their grand reception on December 27 at Junction park. Chas. Webster had for his guest on Sunday Geo. Collins of Pittsburgh. Chas. Johnson of Sewickley and Dr. Wm. Writt of Rochester, who were entertained at dinner. John Washington and daughter, Misses Celia and Minnie, were in Saiem, O., last week attending the funeral of Mrs. Mingo Prior, an aunt. Mrs. Wm. G. Tomas of Beaver Falls, left last Tuesday for her home in Brandy, Va., where she expects to spend some time. Her husband will join his family later on. Mrs. Daniel Miller and son have arrived from Washington, Pa., and will make Beaver Falls their home. Dan is all smiles. Louis Dandridge, who has been quite ill with fever is able to be at his work. Clive Perry was calling on friends in Rochester last Friday evening. All persons indebted to the agent please settle up by the first of the year—Agent. Mrs. Amanda Johnson and daughter, Mrs. Edward Baker, were callers at the home of Mrs. Mary Cole on last Sunday. The Willing Workers society were entertained royally at the home of Rev. Carter Wright and daughter, Madame M. O. Bell, in West Bridgewater, on last Friday evening. Delicious refreshments were served by the hostess. The furnace is in the church and paid for. Thanks to all who helped in this worthy cause. Mrs. Dessie Grooms and Miss Alice Harris visited Rev. and Mrs. Smothers and congregation last Sabbath. Mrs. Rebecca Simmons returned on Sabbath from a visit to Monongahela and Donora. Georgetta, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Hutton, has been ill recently. Mrs. Minnie Arnett, who has been very seriously ill has not improved much. Floyd, the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. James Vactor of the Third ward, is very seriously ill. On Wednesday, December 6, Mrs. John Dunlop of West Pike street, entertained in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Sharp and Mrs. Barker of Upper Sandusky, O., Mrs. Emma Charleton, Mrs. Beile Praul and Mr. and Mrs. A. Stewart. On last Monday week Misses Lyda and Bessie Wheeler, Fannie and Flora Praul and Charles Banks were entertained by Henry Harris at the home of Mrs. Garnet Praul. Mrs. Garnet Praul and Catherine Henderson, Mrs. Lyda Collins, Mrs. John Walls, Mrs. May Bush, Miss Maggie Wilson and Miss Blanch Walls were among those who spent Monday shopping in Pittsburgh. Wray Wooton and Grant Pearl were Sabbath afternoon callers at the home of Misses Vactor, of South Side. Boyd Wilson of Tylerdale, visited friends in Canonsburg last Friday. Mrs. C. A. McGee and Lewis McGee spent last Sabbath with Mr. and Mrs. Adridge and family of Pittsburgh. Misses Fannie and Flora Praul entertained last week Misses Lyda and Bessie Wheeler and Messrs. Meads and Brown of Carnegie. Pinnix of Pittsburgh and Banks of this city. Last Friday evening a number of young ladies met at the home of Miss Frances Vactor and organized a club which will be known as the J. U. G. just us girls. Although the club is essentially a girl's organization. The members have decided to invite some of their gentlemen friends to take part in the meetings and future happenings now being talked of. Miss Mabel Byrd is in receipt of a letter from her brother Dan who resides in Portland, Ore. Mr. Byrd writes that he likes the west very much, but would like to enjoy Christmas in Canonsburg. The services at Payne Chapel were largely attended last Sabbath. Special preparations are being made for the Christmas treat and the fair to be held next week. Mt. Olive Baptist Church the pastor. Rev. Williams, delivered an excellent sermon at 11 a.m. last Sunday. He spoke from Jer. vi. 16. Sunday school was well attended and the card class received the banner. At 6:30 the Bible class was addressed by Rev. McCoy and at 7:30 the pastor spoke from Lori lii, 15. Johnstown, Pa. By Mrs. Keys. James Bryant is resting nicely. His operation has proved successful so far. His daughter, Miss Ease Bryant, is staying with her friend, Miss Bessie Edds, at the residence of Mrs. Jabac Younger. Miss Bessie Edds, a musical student of the St. John Conservatory, took an active part in a program given at the convent last Friday evening in honor of Mother Josephine of Pittsburgh. Miss Edds is also a student of the Dale High school and is the only colored girl in the school. Mrs. Samuel Handy left for Altoona last Thursday to spend a few days with her husband, after which she will visit New York and Boston, when she will remain a month or more. Mr. Turp, the well known porter at the Crystal store, died suddenly at his home, No. 20 Main street. His body was shipped to his mother in Chambersburg, Pa., his mother being sick at the time and unable to attend the funeral here. Mrs. Mollie Mahoney left for Clear Springs, Md., where she will spend the holidays with her sister, Mrs. Hadden and family. Jasmin Patterson gave a dinner at his home on Banks street last Sunday, in honor of Mrs. Lucy Coowey, Master Spencer and Miss Luse Coowey and Captain Furgson. Mr. Patterson is one of Johnstown's greatest hunters. The dinner consisted largely of game that was bagged by him. Mrs. Edwin Canger has been sick at her home at 255 Adurs street, for a few weeks. GREENSBURG (Nellie V. Hackney.) A sacred concert will be given by the members of Bethel A. M. E. church choir on Sunday, December 24, 1911, at 7:45 p.m. The program is as follows: 1—"Unto Us a Child Is born, choir; 2—Chorus of Angels, choir; 3—solo, "Bethlehem," Mrs. I. Williams; 4—"Sing O Daughter of Zlon," choir; 5—mixed quartet, "Crown Him King," J. H. Nimrey, E. B. Holley, E. Williams and J. R. West; 6—solo, "To You Is Born a Savior," Mrs. Ciara Dixon; 7—duette, Mrs. E. B. Holley and Miss A. Stokes; 8—"Angel's Message," choir; 9—"Hail to the King," choir; 10—solo, "The Message of Peace," Mrs. E. B. Holley; 11—"Peace, the Welcome Sound," choir; 12—"Christians, Awake," choir. Mr. Armstrong of Pittsburgh, was the guest of his mother, Mrs. McClaine of Depot street. Miss Margaret Buggs of Irwin and Miss Mary Stevenson of Jeannette, worshipped at Bethel on Sunday evening. Mrs. J. N. Hackney entertained Mrs. Clara Dickson and daughter Martha and son Robert and Miss Belva Harris at dinner on Sunday evening at her home in Madison street. Messrs. Dudley and Best of Jeannette, attended Bethel on Sunday morning. Monongahela (By Jas. L. Hilton.) Mrs. Robert Beame and son of New Brighton, Pa., are visitors of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Batch of Railroad street. Miss Grace Garner, Miss Helen Jackson, John Beiley, and William McClure, were callers in town Cunday. Miss Pearl Vactor left for home in Canonsburgh after three weeks visit with her cousin, Mrs. S. G. Batch. Mrs. James Mann of Cleveland, is visiting her mother, Mrs. S. G. Batch. Mr. and Mrs. Vinerett and daughter, Signaorana of Chester, W. Va., will arrive tomorrow to spend the holidays with Mrs. Viverett's parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Batch. Sunday was quarterly meeting at Bethel A. M. E. church. Rev. A Smothers preached a soul-stirring sermon at 10:45 a.m. Rev. L. B. Jones of Charlerol, preached the communion sermon at 3 p.m., which was gladly received for its inspiration. Rev. Dr. M. D. Temple, the presiding elder, preached an excellent sermon. Bethel Sunday school is preparing for Christmas exercises and Madame Ella Writt-Pleasant, the elocutionist, will assist the officers and teachers in an entertainment on Tuesday evening, the 19th. Williamsport, Pa. (By Isabella Fairfax.) Mrs. Jennie Tilghman of No. 145 Washington street, departed this life on Saturday morning. Funeral services Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the A. M. E. Zion church. Mrs. Tilghman was a faithful and earnest worker in the church and Sunday school, was ever at her post. No call for workers or financial aid ever found her in the back ground. Miss Katherine Bryant and Miss Elsie Southern are still improving. Mrs. Mercy Newark is still confined to her bed. At the close of the evening services the congregation voted the trustees authority to have electric lights placed in the church to replace the gas. Thomas Thornton, assistant superintendent of Shilo Baptist Sunday school addressed the Bethel A. M. E. Sunday school. His remarks were both interesting and instructive. The school has been very busy for some time preparing a cantata, to be sung at the Christmas treat, which will occur Christmas night. The choir has made a very good addition in the person of Mrs. Geo. Williams, wife of the pastor. Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Anderson have returned from Waterbury, Conn. The Rev. Mr. Williams left on the early train on Monday for Tyrone on important business. Mrs. Andrews, mother of Harry Andrews of this city, who has been quite ill is improving. Mrs. John Blue and Mrs. William Robinson, who visited their brother and family of this city for some time have returned to their homes in West Virginia. Bethel church has launched out on a thousand dollar rally. The members have been divided into ten classes, with a captain over each. The pastor has taken charge of the eleventh, which is composed of friends of the church. All have taken up the work in a hearty business like manner. The Rev. Mr. Williams has subscribed $25. James Willis follows with a like subscription. The Young Men's Bible of Bethel A. M. E. church held a special meeting SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1911. First-Class Hotel Accommodation—Podium Rooms—Ladies' and Gentlemen's Dining Room, 23 Floor Hotel Sutton FRANK SUTTON, Prop's Cell Phone 9223 Grants Cafe and Bar 518-520 Wylie Avenue Pittsburg, Pa. SELLING A SPECIALTY FIRE INSURANCE HONEY LOADED ON FIRST-CLASS MORTGAGES D. 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Hereafter it will be necessary for all agents to settle weekly before we will send any more papers. We regret this action is necessary. By order, PITTSBURG CQURIER PUB. CO. Everybody who reads magazine buys newspapers, but everybody who reads newspaper doesn't buy magazine. Catch the Drift? Here's the medium to reach the people of this community. last week and the following officers were elected. Albert Dockeng, president; David Kilson, vice president; T. Floyd Taylor, secretary and assistant teacher; Willis Bransom, teacher; John C. Harris, teasurer; Dr. Joseph T. Beste, historian; Albert Jackson and Jefferson Gomgs, lookout committee; Charles Colson and M. R. Steele, social committee; William H. Robinson, journalist. Rev. Mr. Williams installed the officers and delivered a very instructive and interesting address. B. C. Harris, superintendent of the school, also addressed the class in an able manner. Mrs. Rebecca Robihadh, at whose help they met assisted by Mrs. E. O'Brien, served a fine lunch. The ladies of the Sewing circle opened their fair on Tuesday night and will continue until December 26, inclusive. Xmas dinner will be served at the church on Monday. Every body come and secure a good meal. Agent must report weekly—Manager. Had Tested Them. One evening grandma sent Johnny to the store to buy matches and told him to hurry, for she wanted to light a lamp. One hour later Johnny returned with the matches. Grandma said: "Johnny the matches are not good." "Yes, they are." answered Johnny. "I have tried every one, they were all good." Recularities of Authors Addison, whose classic elegance has long been considered a model of style, was shy and absent in society, preserving, even before a single stranger, stiff and dignified silence. Rousseau was remarkably tite in conversation—not a word of fancy or eloquence warmed him. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1911. UNIONTOWN UNIONTOWN Congratulations and a Merry Christmas to the Courier and the heads of its splendid management. Redstone Lodge No. 11 K. of P. initiated six persons into the mysteries and beneficial workings of their lodge last week. St. Paul A. M. E. Church. The services were well attended last Sunday and Rev. W. B. Anderson, D. L. preached a most inspiring sermon in the morning on "Beautiful Garments" from Christ's Wardrobe. The boys' vested choir was out in full force and rendered excellent service. The duet "Close to Thee," by Miss Neilie Grant and Charley Palmer was soul uplifting. Dr. Anderson proached in the evening on "The Two Tribunals, Seen and Unseen." In this sermon Dr. Anderson arraigned the courts of justice of this country for their unfair treatment of the Negro. He referred especially to the inhuman and horrifying shooting of a Negro by a white man while he was being sentenced to hang by a judge in the court room at Washington, Ga., quite recently. First Quarterly Meeting. Rev R. H. Bumry, P. E., will hold his first quarterly meeting at St. Paul Sunday, December 24. All arrangements are completed for a great time. Program: 10:45 a.m. general class conducted by the pastor; 1 p.m. Sunday school and Bible class; 3 p.m. horn by Rev. M. A. Dyer, D. of Brunswickville. Rev. T. Tagairt of Connecville and some of his people will be present. Rev. P. H. Thompson, D. D. of Mt. Olivet, Baptist church, Rev. J. H. Starke, D. D. of John Wesley, A. M. E. Zion and Rev. Thomas Ford, D. D. of Mt. Rose Baptist church and their congregations will assist in this service. The boys vested choir and the senior choir will sing special Christmas music at the morning and evening services. The Deaconess board will serve lunch in the lecture room of the church between 1 and 3 p.m. Mrs. Georgiana smothers as the president. The Sunday school will hold their Christmas exercises at the church Christmas night. The program which includes a fine cantata promises to be great. Old Santa will be on hand with a present for each scholar. W. L. Winston has been honored with the position of district deputy of the L. B. P. E. of W. His district embassies Washington, Green, Fayette Somerset, Bradford and Fulton counties. W. H. Wilfs of Greensburg, was in the city Saturday and subscribed for the Courier. Roy. W. B. Anderson. D. D., his wife and Evangelist S. S. Carter attended quarterly meeting in Connellsville last Sunday. Mrs. Edna Murry was on the sick list last Sunday. She is much improved at this writing. Miss Abbie D. Anderson and Miss Mamie Truly will arrive home from Wolverforce on December 23 to spend the holidays, returning to the university about the first of the year. Mt. Olivet Baptist Church. Although having a bad cold Sunday morning, Rev. P. H. Thompson preached; taking his text, from Hebamiah vi. 1, "I am doing a great work so that I cannot come down." Edward Griffin of Cool Spring, was calling, on friends in Oliphant on Thursday. The last Executive Board meeting of the Sunday school for this year was held on last Tuesday evening. All of the officers of the Sunday school were present and many new plants were made to have the scholars take more interest. Mrs. Mattie V. Harris of Hickle street, who has been confined to her bed for the past ten days, is improving slowly, but not able to be up. Mrs. Ellen Scott of Cleveland avenue is improving at this writing. Sheridan People of Liberty avenue is still sick. Mrs. Mary B. Settle is also on the sick list. A surprise complete in every way was tendered James Terry at his home in the East End on last Wednesday night, the Fifth, his thirty-eighth birthday. Returning home from work about 6:30, he was presented with a birthday cake by his wife. He was sent to a neighbor's where he was entertained until 9 o'clock and returning home found the parlor crowded with a jolly crowd of young people. Music and singing were the amusements of the evening. Many beautiful and useful presents were received and all departed at a late hour, wishing Mr. Terry many more happy birthdays. Master Harry Gales was initiated into the grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias on Thursday night, December 7. Oh, you bravo. Miss Georgiana Stubblefield was the guest of Miss Elizabeth Harris on Sunday evening. The Sunday school of Mt. Olivet church is progressing nicely under James Terry as superintendent. Sunday the school room was crowded and the scholars took an unusual interest in their lessons. John Smith and Florence Griffith were visiting friends in Brownfield on Sunday last. Mt. Rose Baptist Church. One of the grandest Christmas canvases ever given here, entitled 'Santa Mixup' will be given at the Mr. Rose church on Tuesday, December 26, 1911, under the direction of Charles H. Crable and Mrs. Gertrude B. Crable. Cast of characters will include Charles H. Crable, Wildfur Powell, Mrs. Josephine Boyd, boys of the Sunday school, Mrs. Nellie Harris, girls of the Sunday school, Annie Hames, Wm. Griffith, Georgia Griffith and Nelson Ford, accompanied by orchestra composed of W. D. Garnes cornetist, Benjamin Wright, violinist, Jeeve Watt, trap drummer Gertrude B. Grable, pianist. Musical prof. Prof. N. P. Boyd. Cantata begins at 9 p.m. promptly. Children's treat will be given from a real big cabin. Lewis Ford, superintendent. Rev. Thomas Ford, pastor. Fairchance. Nel Napper of Fairchance, a barber in Hoyle's barber shop in Main street. Unlowntown, has kindly consented to handle some of the Courier every Saturday in the shop. Mt. Calvary Baptist Church. Rev. M. J. Moon, the pastor, held splendid services last Sunday. The Missionary ladies held a good meeting at 3 p. m. Mrs. B. Shelter is president, Mrs. Lizzie Yancy, secretary and Mrs. Ling Smith, treasurer. Rev. P. H. Thompson of Uniontown, addressed the meeting, also did Mrs. James Webster of Uniontown, held superintendent. A good collection was realized. Watch the Uniontown column for Purchance notes every week. T. E. H. Howard Jeffries, banker s, son, under the evil influence of Robert Underwood, fellow-student at Yale, leads a life of dismemberment who died in prison, and is disowned by his father. He is out of work and in desperate straits. Underwood, banker s, mother, Alice, is apparently in prosperous circumstances. Taking advantage of his true character, Alice denies him the suicide. Alice, as banker s, stole a sort of social highwayman. Discovering his true character, Alice denies him the suicide. Alice, as banker s, deals for whom he acts as commissioner, demand an accounting. He cannot make good. Howard calls at the request of a banker s, to request a loan of $2,000 to enable him to take up a business proposition. Howard drinks himself into a maidin in the street. Howard calls a caller is announced and Underwood draws a screen around the drunken caller is announced and Underwood promises from Underwood that he will not take his life. He refuses unless she will take his life. He refuses unless she will take his life. He refuses unless she will take his life. Underwood kills himself. The report of the pistol awakens Howard. He finds Underwood dead. Capt. Clinton notorious for his brutal treatment of prisoners, puts Howard through a confession from the harassed man. Annie. Howard s, wife declares her belief in her husband s innocence, and unless she will consent to a divorce. To give. Howard s, consents, but when she will consent to stand by his son, except financially, she seems his help. Anne appeals to Judge Brewer, attorney for Jeffries, to give. Brewer, attorney for Jeffries, is reported that Anne is going on the stage. The banker and his wife call, on Judge Brewer to find some way to bring the banker s, to defend Howard. He consents. Alice is greatly agitated when she learns detectives are looking for the woman who called on Underwood (the night of his death) Alice confessed to Annie that she gave her letter from Underwood threatening suicide. CHAPTER XIV.—Continued. "And you know what mine are!" exclaimed the banker, hotly. "I refuse to be engulfed in this wave of hysterical sympathy with criminals. I will not be stamped with the same hall mark as the man who takes the life of his fellow being—though the man be my own son. I will not set the seal of approval on crime by defending it." The lawyer bowed and said calmly: "Then, sir, you must expect exactly what is happening. This girl, whatever she may be, is devoted to your son. She is his wife. She'll go to any extreme to help him—even to selling her name for money to pay for his defense." The banker threw up his hands with frmatience. "It's a matter of principle with me. Her devotion is not the question." With a mocking laugh he went on: "Sentimentality doesn't appeal to me. The whole thing is distasteful and hideous to me. My instructions to you are to prevent her using the family name on the stage, to buy her off on her own terms, to get rid of her at any price." "Except the price she asks," interposed the lawyer, dryly. Shaking his head, he went on: "You'll find that a wife's devotion is a very strong motive power. Jeffries. It will move irresistibly forward in spite of all the barriers you and I can erect to stay its progress. That may sound like a platitude, but it's a fact nevertheless." "Allicia, who had been listening with varied emotions to the conversation, now interrupted timidly: "Perhaps Judge Brewster is right, dear. After all, the girl is working to save your son. Public opinion may think it unnatural—" The banker turned on his wife. Sternly he said: "Allicia, I cannot permit you to interfere. That young man is a self-confessed murderer and therefore no son of mine. I've done with him long ago. I cannot be moved by maudlin sentimentality. Please let that be final." Turning to the lawyer, he said, coldly: "So, in the matter of this stage business, you can take no steps to restrain her?" The lawyer shook his head. The Mwyer shook his head. "No, there is nothing I can do." Quickly he added: "Of course, you don't doubt my loyalty to you?" Mr. Jeffries shook his head. "No, no. Brewster." The lawyer laughed as he said: "Right or wrong, you know—my country—that is, my client—'tis of thee." Turning to Alicia, he added, laughingly: "That's the painful part of a lawyer's profession, Mrs. Jeffries. The client's weakness is the lawyer's strength. When men hate each other and rob each other we lawyers don't pacify them. We dare not, because that is our profession. We encourage them. We pit them against each other for profit. If we didn't they'd go to some lawyer who would." Alicia gave a feeble smile. "Yes," she replied; "I'm afraid we all love to be advised to do what we want to do." Mr. Jeffries made an impatient gesture of dissent. Scoffingly he remarked: "That may apply to the great generality of people, but not to me." Judge Brewster looked skeptical, but made no further comment. The banker rose and Allica followed suit. As he moved toward the door, he turned and said: "Drop in and see me this evening. Brewster. Mr. Jeffries will be delighted if you will dine with us." Allica smiled graciously, "Do come, judge; we shall be all alone." The lawyer bent low over her hand as he said good-by. Mr. Jeffries had already reached the door, when he turned again and said: "Are you sure a very liberal offer wouldn't induce her to drop the shame?" The THIRD DEGREE A NARRATIVE OF METROPOLITAN LIFE BY CHARLES KLEIN AND ARTHUR HORNBLOW ILLUSTRATIONS BY RAY WALTERS COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY G.W. DILLINGHAM, COMPANY "It's Your Duty to Do It." The lawyer shook his head doubtfully. "Well, see what you can do," cried the banker. To his wife he said: "Are you coming, Alicia?" "Just a moment, dear," she replied. "I want to say a word to the judge." "All right," replied the banker. "I'll be outside." He opened the door, and as he did so he turned to the lawyer: "If there are any new developments let me know at once." He left the office and Alice breathed a sigh of felter. She did not love her husband, but she feared him. He was not only 20 years her senior, but his cold, aristocratic manner intimidated her. Her first impulse had been to tell him everything, but she dare not. His manner discouraged her. He would begin to ask questions, questions which she could not answer without seriously incriminating herself. But her conscience would not allow her to stand entirely afoot from the tragedy in which her husband's scapegrace son was involved. She felt a strange, unaccountable desire to meet this girl Howard had married. In a quick undertone to the lawyer, she said: "I must see that woman, judge. I think I can persuade her to change her course of action. In any case I must see her, I must—" Looking at him questioningly, she said: "You don't think it inadvisable, do you?" The judge smiled grimly. "I think I'd better see her first," he said. "Suppose you come back a little later. It's more than probable that she'll be here this afternoon. I'll see her and arrange for an interview." There was a knock at the door, and Alicia started guiltily, thinking her husband might have overheard their conversation. The head clerk entered and whispered something to the judge, after which he retired. The lawyer turned to Alicia with a smile. "It's just as I thought," he said, pleasantly, "she's out there now. You'd better go and leave her to me." The door opened again unceremoniously, and Mr. Jeffries put in his head: "Aren't you coming, Allicia?" he demanded, impatiently. In a lower voice to the lawyer, he added: "Say, Brewater, that woman is outside in your office. Now is your opportunity to come to some arrangement with her." Again Mrs. Jeffries held out her hand. "Good-by, judge; you're so kind! It needs a lot of patience to be a lawyer, doesn't it!" Judge Brewater laughed, and added in an undertone: "Come back by and by." The door closed, and the lawyer went back to his desk. For a few moments he sat still plunged in deep thought. Suddenly, he touched a bell. The head clerk entered. "Show Mrs. Howard Jeffries, Jr., in." The clerk looked surprised. Strict orders hitherto had been to show the unwelcome visitor out. He believed that he had not heard grist "Did you say Mrs. Jeffries, Jr. judge?" "I said Mrs. Jeffries, Jr." replied the lawyer, grimly. "Very well, judge." said the clerk, as he left the room. Presently there was a timid knock at the door. "Come in!" called out the lawyer. Annie entered the presence of the famous lawyer pale and ill at ease. This, sudden summons to Judge Brewster's private office was so unexpected that it came like a shock. For days she had haunted the premises, sitting in the outer office for hours at a time exposed to the stare and covert smiles of thoughtless clerks and office boys. Her requests for an interview had been met with curt refusals. They either said the judge "Come back by and by." A NARRATIVE OF METROPOLITAN LIFE DEGREE BELIN RNBLOW LY WALTERS was out of town or else that he was too busy to be seen. At last, evidently acting upon orders, they flatly refused to even send in her name, and she had about abandoned hope when, all at once, a clerk approached her, and addressing her more politely than usual, said that the judge would see her in a few minutes. Her heart gave a great throb. Almost speechless from surprise, she stammered a faint thanks and braced herself for the interview on which so much depended. For the first time since the terrible affair had happened, there was a faint glimmer of hope ahead. If only she could rush over to the Tombs and tell Howard the joyful news so he might keep up courage! It was eight days now since Howard's arrest, and the trial would take place in six weeks. There was still time to prepare a strong defense if the judge would only consent to take the case. She was more sure than ever that a clever lawyer would have no difficulty in convincing a jury that Howard's alleged "confession" was untrue and improperly obtained. In the intervals of waiting to see the lawyer, she had consulted every one she knew, and among others she had talked with Dr. Bernstein, the noted psychologist, whom she had seen once at Yale. He received her kindly and listened attentively to her story. When she had finished he had evinced the greatest interest. He told her that he happened to be the physician called in on the night of the tragedy, and at that time he had grave doubts as to it being a case of murder. He believed it was suicide, and he had told Capt. Clinton so, but the police captain had made up his mind, and that was the end of it. Howard's "confession," he went on, really meant nothing. If called to the stand he could show the jury that a hypnotic subject can be made to "confess" to anything. In the interest of truth, justice, and science, he said, he would gladly come to her aid. All this she would tell Judge Brewster. It would be of great help to him, no doubt. Suddenly, a cold shiver ran through her. How did she know he would take the case? Perhaps this summons to his office was only to tell her once more that he would have nothing to do with her and her husband. She wondered why he had decided so suddenly to see her and, like a flash, an idea came to her. She had seen Mr. Jeffries, Sr., enter the inner sanctum and, instinctively, she felt that she had something to do with his visit. The Fine Fox Hunt ```markdown ``` Fine Fox Hunt Without Witnesses The East Essex hounds had a remarkable run recently. A fox which they had hunted through the village of Bradwell scam the Blackwater, and the pack followed, but the depth of water and the dangerous banks prevented the field from crossing. They had to go for two miles along the bank until they reached a bridge, and by the time they had crossed fox and pack had vanished. After a search of three hours the hounds were found ten miles from the place where they had crossed the river whimpering round a barn at Chalky Wood, behead which the fox had gone to earth. Mr. R. P. Hill, the master, called the hounds and gave the fox a respite for the splendid run he had given. "The best 50 minutes the East Essex have had this season," was the description of Cockayna. THE COURIER. A. banker had come out accompanied by a richly-dressed woman whom she guessed to be his wife. She looked with much interest at Howard's stepmother. She had heard so much about her that it seemed to her that she knew her personally. As Alicia swept proudly by, the eyes of the two women met, and Annie was surprised to see in the banker's wife's face, instead of the cold, haughty stare she expected, a wistful, longing look, as if she would like to stop and talk with her, but dare not. In another instant she was gone, and, obeying a clerk, who beckoned her to follow him, she entered Judge Brewster's office. The lawyer looked up as she came in, but did not move from his seat. Grumby he said: "How long do you intend to keep up this system of warfare? How long are you going to continue forcing your way into this office?" "I didn't force my way in," she said, quietly. "I didn't expect to come in. The clerk said you wanted to see me." The lawyer frowned and scrutinized her closely. After a pause, he said: "I want to tell you for the fiftieth time I can do nothing for you." "Fifty?" she echoed. "Fifty did you say? Really, it doesn't seem that much." Judge Brewster looked at her quickly to see if she was laughing at him. Almost peevishly, he said: "For the last time, I repeat I can do nothing for you." "Not the last time, judge," she replied, shaking her head. "I shall come again to-morrow." The lawyer swung around in his chair with indignation. "You will—?" Annie nodded. "Yes, sir." she said, quietly. "You're determined to force your way in here!" exclaimed the lawyer. "Yes, sir." The judge banged the desk with his flat. "But I won't allow it! I have something to say, you know! I can't permit this to go on. I represent my client, Mr. Howard Jeffries, Sr., and he won't consent to my taking up your husband's case." There was a shade of sarcasm in Annie's voice as she asked calmly: "Can't you do it without his consent?" The lawyer looked at her grimly. "I can," he blurted out, "but—I won't." Her eyes flashed as she replied quickly. "Well, you ought to—" The lawyer looked up in amazement. "What do you mean?" he demanded. "It's your duty to do it," she said, quietly. "Your duty to his son, to me, and to Mr. Jeffries himself. Why, he's so eaten up with his family pride and false principles that he can't see the difference between right and wrong. You're his lawyer. It's your duty to put him right. It's downright wicked of you to refuse—you're hurting him. Why, when I was hunting around for a lawyer one of them actually refused to-take up the case because, he said old Brewster must think Howard was guilty or he'd have taken it up himself. You and his father are putting the whole world against him, and you know it." The judge was staggered. No one in his recollection had ever dared to speak to him like that. He was so astonished that he forgot to resent it, and he hid his confusion by taking out his handkerchief and mopping his forehead. "I do know it," he admitted. "Then why do you do it?" she snapped. The lawyer hesitated, and then he said: "I—that's not the question." "There isn't the question. Annie leaped quickly forward, and she replied: "It's my question—and as you say, I've asked it 50 times." The lawyer sat back in his chair and looked at her for a moment with out speaking. He surveyed her crib critically from head to foot, and then, as if satisfied with his examination, said: (TO BE CONTINUED.) huntsman, "although there was no one riding with the hounds and no whitness of their performance."—Louder. don Evening Standard. Triumph for Americana The English hostess for various reasons, the principal one being that she cannot help herself, now accepts the invasion of her American sister, the magnificence of her entertainments and the wonderful individuality of her costumes with equanimity, says a writer. The days are long since past when the American woman had difficulty in making a place for herself in English society, and part also are the days when she was treated as a curiosity and expected to act and talk after the manner of the immortal Daisy Miller. Nowadays she reigns supreme. In fact, it is fashionable to be American. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT BELL PHONE 8073 R. GRANT FOR GOOD THINGS STOP AT: THE COLONIAL G. M. ROBB, PROP. GOOD EATING DRINKING SMOKING SLEEPING SERVICE 1300-1302 Wylie Ave. Pittsburg, Pa. THE BANK OF THE UNION STATE OF NEW YORK 2635 WYLIE AVENUE The Largest Colored Grocery, Meat and Provision Store in Pittsburgh We Succeed Because We Strive to Please WM. H. THOMPSON, Pro3 Brighton Gafe 1704 Wylie Ave. Opposite the Old Place MRS. SARAH E. BROWN, Proprietor All the delicacies of the season. Meals served at all hours, day and night. MRS. POPE-TURNBO. MRS. L. L. 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Be sure that the name "Poro" is on every box: not genuine, without it. If your hair is dry, harsh, brittle and falling out use a spray bottle. MRS. A. M. POPE-TURNBO 4 Years ago my Hair was only a finger length, and my temples were bald half way up my head. Imitation is the sincerest flattery St. Louis and throughout the country "PORO" HAIR GROWER is the best were the first to engage in the busin of its condition and the condition of the preparation which is known as "sively by myself. I have the exclusive know the secret of the composition th in my treatment hundreds have receive always been that when the hair begin "Poro" it will continue to so if only Many persons are constantly finding using mere imitations, to risk not at Be sure that the name "Poro" is If your hair is dry, harsh, brittle It stops the falling and starts th MRS. A. M. P 3100 Pine Street, St. Louis, Mo. Sleep for the Little One. 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The policy, of the Courier was outlines M these columns three years ago, and wy tare ne apolozy to offer for any: Ufine we dave done in our efforts (0 foliow them. Having comfiieed those who at first doaiied our permanence, we HTE ROW premared to sive a better service 10 the communty, and 8ih the support or our loos) iends, predict a larger amd areater serygee ia the coming Bene earner oF the dogit earertaifiedl ef as to the stm Timers ereated by the failures of other putleutions: aad se labored bard ty overcome that sentiment, waren our friends realized. and certainly they gif) pardow us when we say Unt We have Tisen in the face Of @ most stubborn oyporition. : We are not infallible, and we must err; init wien we err in our conscien- Hows fort to defend princip'e tail Tahtgve shell ask lor no symysdithy, ANOTHER STAB. Vresideat Tat? has taken pen a Qhersd add ot rocaged: the tretty with Hlassia, a°] oy ake polewsure aint siti: qaedon ef ce \merican Jews. Ae a gittndstand political play. the stint kas to omial, Think of the many deo sous speacers Who may not fe sad ir the askin: thirk of Me sold 2ew hatke thar WEL te ¢agt in Wtz, tats es the comment’ the Presih ni sibreeivecit the hand 07 the mary Heises pridieatidns, Way the Great Tatt fist ious the siuation in haul amd siinpiy “tore wi" tbe treaty and threw theyxeraps in the waste bafet, right before the eves of the Senate, too, and dared them to ‘oppose his action. =~. Al of thigyvas done because Russia discriminates against. the Americail Jew when he is traveling in Russia. ‘To get closer home. A Nezro was barged to ashes at Coatsville, Pa.. ‘egal a bard working Negro with Bis two daughters. who were on their way to market with a load of cotton, were stopped by a jealous mob and burned alive. cotton fueluded—all American citizens, whose brothers or fathers,have zone to the battle line and mide themselves tarsets for the Country’stenemy, have fellgd the, Southern foresia.and mady giv! zation in the Soush poste, Sve answered prery call issued 8Y thelr Country and yet the President of tae Uitited States bag not even indiuded these outmises ith Ks messaces o Coneress. SConsistenes, Cen art a jewel” In the Heht of puch treatsiont, what may the President bate reason to expec: from the Nexco? We denosnee! ins treatment of the Negro as perkins fess than shamefzi, if thee(nited States and Russi should come to arms over the abrogation of this same Treaty. pee ere wou'd be calied upon to Ke up the ride, and’ he would do it. yes, actually do it. More power to the Hebrew; more shame to the Ne- ero. And the Philomatheans made their debut in a most pleasing manner, and Ddefore a most representative audi- ence. ‘Fee Pitublrg Courier te on file at Carnegie Institute Periodical Rooms. ‘WATOH THD COURIER GROW! LOCAL.NEWS at Mrs. Cornens tnompeons ee dengy, 541 McDonald street. East End, on December 2. All members hold- ing office must attendajhis meevisé. Bring fancy work and sit¥er offering. Riley S. Sethwick of tt University “of Titishureh, has gone to Ar ington Ala.. where he has accepted a pos:tion us teacher in thee Arlington instizute. ‘Mtg. E. Manley visited the House- hold of Ruth ef Mononzghela Cicy and Wicie there wits the quest of Captain and Mrs, Catlin, While there a vers enjosahie reception Was given .n ber honor iy Mr. and Mis. Bateh, the feat- lines of Which were the beautiful ew: Sucal selection ie udered by Miss Bare: dnd Miss Smothers. Mother «Kura nuee many warn Eriends While on ber viele * Tae sland Ninas hall of North Side Elks 124, wit be hed at Arcade hall, December 25,” Everybody welcome. / Mrs. Georsia Shgleton Ralts of Wickiow street, East End, embraces ths opportunity to extend het sincere and heartielt hanks to her kind»neigh- hors and friends, to the Euciid avenue Sunday school Flower club and espec- iully to the members of,the Emma J. Moore cirele tor their very great kindness during her recent illness. Tie chairman of the anniversary, Mrs. T. M. Tate and the board of man- agers,of the Home for Aged Colored ‘Women thank thajr friends for per- sona! patronage aid material help during the anniversary, November 15 and #8. Your presence was a satis- faction to the management and a real eomfort an joy to the aged women. “Many friends who were not present were represented by bountiful dona- tions. The active part taken by the aged women of the home to help the ‘management and to entertain’ visiting friends is worthy of mention and Will always be a pleasant recollection to themselves and to their friends. The vounz orchestra of Avalon, Me- (urdy Mission, under W. P. Bransom, siperintggdent, made itse'f a bright setting i the memory of the manage- ment of the inst.tution by the service iz ‘rendered hy the service it render- ed, aud as the occasions reir we ‘vii! look fur ou? young fiends azain, We thank iriends for a bountiful stp ply of vesetaileseand traits, jelies. preserves, suuat. coffes, tea, ety all of which tighten the heavy expense of Lviya“during the winter, We also Uning the friends for cash receipts, to the amount of thrse hundred and forty dollars and thirty-five cents. The intercolleiafyg. a clud compos- ¥d of colleze and inkersity students fot Vviladelphia, have sent a swerp ing challenge in any branch of ah. leties, The -Delaneys banquefed Thursday at Loendi club. Therceis talk of the boys organizing a basket- ball team to form a league with the YM. CoA. team and other Iecal_ col ored teams, Ii son want to wear “éatchy™ and classy" clothes, boys, for the love of Mike see Tissen & Jettres, For style. fit and workmanship they are in a class hy themselves. ‘Toe Ramese Lodse of Eiks of Wil Adinshurg recentiy, c:ected the fvilow- ing officers: | ExoI., Dr. J. E, Brown of East Laperty: secretary, Robert White: ieasarer, Virgil Jackson: E. LK. Wm, Morten: E. 1. K.. Danie Mitchell: BL. Ka Dr. CY. Butler: inaster of SS. Dr, Scilax. Social ses sion will be held December 2s at the Keest at si Wood street. Wilkinsburg. Memoria’ services first Sunday Jn Jan- burs at ie Rest. Mis. W. 2, Hubtrd and daughter, Constance, will spend “the holidays with Dr. and Mrs. J, M. Waldron ot agai V street, Washington, D. C. ‘The Christmas social was held last Thursday might at Washington Park ficld house. The poy’ classes and the, girls’ dramatic’ clut-each eave julay. Aiter an exhibition ofthe work dove in the, varius departmen’s aAdance was held. ‘The work at this Waygiolnd is having great waits effect on the boys and gitls of our face in its heighhorhoed who ince never berere kad opportunities for Social and physical development ux: der zodil iniuences, Emphasis is cing placed on the Work among our own children at this center, as Kings fey House. a private institution in Fusy fou street, and the Irene Rauitmast Setilmens in Center avenue, are in fended prancipal: tor white and Jew: ish peuple. respectively. P. Gahan is stjerintendent of the Wastinzton Park phizgrounds, “ Many o:zaniza tions, including the Y. MG. A. are taking advantaze of the. large gym: nasitim for basketball and a fine crop of atheletes ate growing up in the Hil. distriet At the election held by General J. B. Switzer Cainp 83, Sons of Veter- ans. the following officers were” chos- en: Commander, S. A. Corgin, Sr. vice com,, W, S. Walls: Jr. vice com., T.W. Cult: C. C., Stoner, Jenkens and G.H. Browa! socretary, J. E. How: ard; treasurer, C. A. Nesbitt: ebap- lain, W. S. Lewis: Col. serert, G. B. Knox: guide, F. B. Pulpress: ‘music; jan, H.C, Waters: inside guard, A. Bradiord. The committee is very busy getting ready to entertain the public on January 32, 112, at the Memorial hat! Dirs. Susan Turner of Francis street returned hone afer a wo Weeks’ vis it in Fairmont. W, Va, asithe guest of ber ester. . 7 Ry a thongitiess Nction on the part of a conductor ot the Weile and Ted lord sa enues line, Mrs. Flora Herbert Pee See nck @aa tamematte: Dr. Frank -F. Bishop Surgeon Dentist GAS ADMINISTERED Porcelain Crown and Bridge Work » Speciaty DR. BISHOP'S MOUTH AND TOOTH WASH hardens the gums. pt- fig the mouth and assists In arrest ng Ane progress of decay. BELL PHONE 2251-R GRANT. Office Hours—Daily—2 a. mo. to 2 p. m.: 5:54 p.m to9 p.m. Sunday 2p. m.to4 p.m. 2170 CENTER AVENUE . i Pittsburg, Pa. P SLIU CENTER AVEINUK 4 ' Pittsburg, Pa. lar meeting at Thompson's ha‘l, Ws- Be and Francis stivcts, Tuesday even ints, January 2h Wz. R.A. Barks- date and J. S. Paccon wil devate in the affirmative while Ef Graves and X. W. Seow will defend the nesative sid Captain PLoS Stewarc will preBide. 2 AN meyers and friends dre cordiils invited to be yiesent. JW. dows has now formed a chyeker Saehy in the new Filth vyeed. R.A. Barasdale, J. N. Jones. Chas. -Spearmban, Edward Boiden, Do M. Washington end R. H. Brogwenn are the aspiants for champiorseip hon- ors oF the Prozressive Club Caeekes aesociaticn. ' The bourd of management of the Ased and Infirmy Colored Women’s Home wish especially to thank Mr. Thornton Tate for kis zenerous con- tiation ot tare Jerge turkeys and a gallon of cranberries on Thanksgiv- ing. : | Mrs. Bessie’ Lee Fendi of South Side, left the city on Thursday to ‘pend the holidays with her mother, Mrs. Eliza Patterson of New York city. While east Mrs. Randolph wit visit Miss Sybil Ransom of Boston, ‘Mass., and Mr. and Mrs. G. C..Wilkin- ion of Washington, D.C, She wih he out of town one month, To Leit—Eizht-room howe wit ‘modern improvements, Gy Junifla street... D. R. Lewis, 1517 Wylie ave- ‘nue. * - Neckwear mates a neat Christmas present, See Mrs, Hilts assortment at her store q2 2227 Center atvenue, near Soho street. : If you want to rent a house, buy a home. see Frazier and Brown Real ‘Estate Company, 6231 Penn Avenue. “Don't forget they collect rents, place fire insurance and mortgages. and they are reliatte. : When a merchant want an individ ual tad: aaa wants it badly enousi: to spend money to invite that person to bis store, it is a preity sate com clusion that he wil exert himself to make it profitable for him to become a regular custemer, The same is Uwe “of a group of individuals. “Phe mau agement of the Household, a large ciedit minitare bouse at suSdy Penh avente, has broken away from fe cheaten path, Instead of carrying ads in the diify newspapers atione and trusting. x0 Juck that tei messiaze WIE reach you, they now make a spec ‘cai appeal to YOU through YOUR OWN newspaper. Read their adver: Usement on page eight carefully and when in need of furniture patronize them. Leave your news in the Courier box at Joms. Wile and Francis ‘To Let—Four room house, bath and joilet, gas and water, hall, stairway, cemented cellar, range already set. front and rear entrance, G14 Howard street R. Lewis, UT Wylie avenue, Mr. Weyman, the well-known po litical orazor, will adGvess the mem beygof the Fith Ward Prozressive clube at their reeular . meeting at ‘Thompson's hal’, Wylie and Francis, ‘Tuesday evening. December: 24, Though his subject has not set been announerd, we can confidently fortell that a delightful -forensic feast will be served to a full house. +i yon want real gold brick ice cream get your ice cream at Su.so's, See ad in UES paper. ‘A snicker wil be he'd at Thomp son's hall at 2655 Wylie avenae on December 26. AN members of the Fifth Ward Prog:essive club are ex- perted te be in attedince on the boxe date. Chas. Be Fisher, vice president of Phijomatheans, feft Sunday for his howe in Washiazton, D, C.. to spent the holitays with his_ mother, Among the University students em: ployed in thepostoifice- daring the hob idavs may be found Wm. G. Haynes and Scott Wood. 52. Georze H. Poe of East Liverpool. will be the house guest of Harr: Washingion during the Xmas hol: days.. The Milliontires are preparing te skow their friends a grand time during his visit. of which a banquet will be one of the main features. The many friends of little Miss Jackson daughter of Mrs. Lizzie Jackson Mangus. will be giad to learn that she is owt of danger. Mrs. William C, Milton and son Liord of Oil City, were guests of Rev. and Mrs. P._A. Scott on Monday of this week. © Rev. Louis W. Jones. pastor of the. A. M. E. church of Butler. was a call- er.at Bethel chugeh parsonage last ‘Tuesday. \ Next Wednesday ‘there will be a grand star concert at Bethel given by: Profs. Simpson and Jones, musical in- structors in Wilberforce’ University. One of the rarest and most classical treats of the seasof is assured all who will attend. The admission is 25 cents. a The inspiring address of Rev. ™. |. Le at the men's meeting last Sunda: Was a fine promise of what is in store for the men of this community at the brageh for the Sunday-afternoons wich are akead. This Sunday will hrinz a specialgreat in the form 0° an address by Rev, WoW. Brown 0! Ehegezer Raytist church, Dr. Brown's subject of List year “Parental Anx TENS 's 10 be Gepeated: by Teqwest Noman shozhd fal to bear him. ‘The baskethall team under the i rection of “Cunt” Posey and Manaze? Mahoney is coming into fine form The thirty men Tecently enlisred as collectors of the unpald building fund money sre vatiaatly at work. They wil be orszntzed tute 2 segaiar committee under the leadership of a carefully chosen chairman and hold weekly meetings. Large plans are being made for the regular New Year reception to be held by the committer of management. BELLEVUE (By Marie Thortell.) The children of Warman A. M. F. church Sunday schoo! of Bellevue, are Preparing an elaborate program for Christmas evening. A chorus of 2° Neen ee rere rere ee eee eee ee ee fi i r) i =f ; i a rl A : Ld g e \ al =a ace = S CR aes Aten y oe Fas Le ts % J eee Bt) ‘| eed ated Se ee ob C4 i; : ms aa eat ik Uy a Mie eal or Tan |S oe NN Af me Ff ee \ Aaa elon, oo yy ai) ie , UT ee) m J BS. Ai, fi g ‘ ) “ef g i 74 ES Z Pods = a thy Ay ‘3 f NS (\ ak ai SF Cie raya LES BI Cay Te zu “TT H BO, “Nr ee Me PGR \ SQ - Sp “he, Weseiseecd eam Bs \e : ea : Don’t Di int Any of T Use Y edit ou’t Disappoint Any of Them. Use Your Credit : eee {DESH OLD MOTHER’ GASP with WHO \WOULD OVERLOOK BROTHER? Surely a delight to receive a pair of Biamond-Ear Screws or a real Diamond Stud, a Reliable Watch heavy Cold _, Mebghe te ressive 2 Pai i ; Stud, able Watch or a good, heavy Go! S300 a ae ier? We sell them from $10.00 up to | Ring Scarf Pin or Cuff Buttons is what he wants, And NOW THINK OF WHAT FATHER WOULD SAY here you will find either of therh at prices within your when he gets the Watch, the Chain, the Cuff Buttons or } ‘each. pretty Scarf Pin. We have them all and the quality is EVERYBODY HAS A SWEETHEART—and in, our the best. Prices from'$1.00 up. stock you will find that magnificent solitaire Diamond SISTER, GOLLY WOULDN'T SHE BE PLEASED Ring, the Toilet Set, Purse, Bracelet, or Lavallier will with a Purse, a Bratelet, a Lavallier, 2 Ring or.a Watch? surely make her eyes snap and the color come to her and we have them ‘n gold, in. silver and also gold filled as cheeks* Don’t hesitate, we have what vou want to give low as $1.00 and as hich as $500.00. her. Prices right—quality the best—terms the easiest. In our private salesrooms you can deal in confidence—you escape the publicity as well as‘the high prices you meet in the high rent ground floor stores. We sell everything with the guarantee that if after one week's wear it,is unsatisfactory you can return it and get your money back. Can anyone treat you better? J ’ : a a Don’t Worry About Paying. We Will Make the Terms to Suit You Elevators ° . Le Elevators Always < ‘ Always Running: Running : 2, ve rae " OVER 5c 0 Third Floor, Pittsburgh Life Byilding, Liberty Ave. at Market St., foc'store ai aoe ana ~~ S cain al S. —e — a _—renens THE VOURIER. voices will be assisted by the Ben Wont orchestia. Of course ‘Santa Claus will be present and distribute ‘the candy. , The ladies of suid church “are ar- raitsine for an entertainment Known us “Tour Around World.” — This wiil be given New Year's evening, Jan: wary 1, 1912. at the church. Admis: sion 25 cents. Rev. Thomas, pastor. | OBITUARY | — Chris Caines, a popular coachman of the Rast End. departed this lite De- cember 12. at 1#:20a. m. He leaves 2 widow, Mrs. Lezzie Gaines, @ moth: tevaud Lather and a aost of orber rel utives and parents to mourn bis de: pantures His tuner) "was conduct ed at Ballard’s chapel on the 14th, the Revs, Carter, Rodgers, Goggins and Rev. H. W. Edwards. ‘Intes- ment at A‘lesheny cemetery. Wheeling, W. Va. King Solomon !odze met Tuesday December 5, and elected the foliowint officers ior the ensuing year: Jame: Spriges, WooM.; Arthur Willis, J. W, Lawson Heath. S. W.; H: B. Logan secretary: Dr, E."S, Kennedy, trens urer: Fred Russell, S. D.; Williay Stiles. J. D.: A. Dorsey, tyler: R. W Strange. chapiain; William Woods. J W.: Huches and Fred Russell, trus toes. S Mis$ Mamie Jenkins is the guest © her parents, Ret, and Mrs. G. W Jenkins, Dr, Hedrett, who arrived in the city soine tile no to make arrangement: for permanent practice as aphysiciar and surgeon, has sectled in his nev home. wiz Cuuplain street. ‘The Ladies’ Pible and Literary clu sus entertained at the home: of Mrs Amna Gaines iast Friday evening. Att or halt hour dwoted to the lesson shor: program was rendered. — The hosivss then sgived ‘ith lelicious re treshments. The stork visited the home of Dr and Mrs, J. W. Wright last Monday morning ‘eaving a gne big boy. Little Helen Kenney. one of the favorite little tots of Bellaire, is on the sick list. We hope for aspeed) recovery One of the interesting affairs in Bridgeport last week was the cele bration of the anniversary of Mother Johnson'svitthday. The leader of Christ Sanctified Holy church. special sermon was delivered by the shepherdess on “Gifts and Callings of God from Childhood.” taking text from I Sam. iii, 5. Too much can not ve said in behalf of its deliverance. ‘Mother Johnson ix doing a s6od work against the power of darkness Regular services at the house ot prayer in Railroad street will be Sun. day at 2:34 and 7:50 p. m; pentecost. al, Tuesday night; Bible réading and Divine healing, Friday nigts. Free to all, Irvin West of Pittsburgh, Was abis: itor in the city last week. ~ : Mrs. Harrison Strothers of Pitts: bursh. returned home on Tuesday evening after havins spent a few days aith Mrs. Ranks of Wheeling. The entertainment given at che home of Miss Octavian Holtiager fast Tuesday for the jfuryose of brne:ne singing 10 phe ‘heirts of tof ol ‘Iadire’ Xmas Cay was a very subGes ful affair. ‘Miss Maude Redmond. who has been visiting her mother in Bellaire, O.. Je‘t ‘or Chicago last week, where she has accepted @ position as clerk. ‘Mya. Jexnio Randolph ef Bollaire ©., was very suddenly called out of the city last Saturday owing to the ill ness of her niece. Mrs. Christiana Grisby, who departed this life on Thursday morning. December 14 at half past seven o'clock and was laid to rest in Bridgeport on Sunday after. noon at 2:30.o'clock. Mrs. Grisby has jived in Bridseport for over fifty years and was a member of the Mt. Zion Baptivt church for 29 years. She Was one whom the community will greatly miss with her quiet softens. pleasant smile and gentle ,/words. While she was afflicted in such a man- er as to meant luffering, yet she had learned her mission was to do her duty here loyally and cheerfully, with the helf of His Holy Spirit. Then when the time came there must -be patient suffering amd endurance and inactivity, instead of active service. How patiently she who had been so “intensely busy in’ Hfe, active in ‘Christian service, sat down to hand her Work to another. Since it so pleased the allusive ruler to remove from our, midst 0 @ dearly beloved wife, mother, sister and friend and take unto himself a bright jewel and an earest worker, a shining light, we hufbly bow to the Divine decrze of, him who knoweth best. ps BRADDOCK, PA. | Bell Phone 201-R- P. & A. Phon S95-1. | Mrs, Ela Brown ‘of Durham, N. C. is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Rich ardson Of 343 Corey avenue. = Mrs. “Norine Nevels, who has beer in -Cieverand, O., since just summel has returned home again. Robert H. Seott of siz Corey ave nue, Who has been quite ill with pneu monia, is Able to be about again. Little Mary Cathreine West of Pitts burgh, Pa. was the guest of hel grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. dam iiton, Jr., of d2o$ Sixth street, Brad dock, Pa. * The F. 1. C. clit of the Corey Ave uue A. M. E. church Wl give a soc jal wt the above named church of Tiuisday, December 2s, 1911. The} wilR serve chithngs, corn Bread, tried tr:pe, ined and stewed oysters in cream and cake, etc. — This club ot girs aig all young Sunday schoo! Scholars reventiy orsanized and we ‘vespeak for them through the columns of the Courier, your liberal donation and a Strong pationage. ‘The officers. of the F. L. C. ciub are Misses Bertha Mashaw, president; Comela Rendieman, vice president: Hellen Goins, secretary; Gertrude Gean Miller, assistant secretary, and Ireme O. Morris, treasurer. Miss Sudie Goons of Cliff street North Braddock, who has been cou- fined to her bed for some time is im proving. - . ‘Mrs. M. Lavada C, Norris. of 526 Corey avenue, Rev. and Mrs.-J. E. Morris of 516 Corey avenue, attended the funeral of Mrs, Lizzie Byass of Monongahela, Pa. Mrs. Byass was and old and consistent laborer in the field of Christianity until ‘she was called to the field of endless joy and labor eternally in the heavens. ‘The old Virginia game dinner which : was given at the Corey avenue A. M. E. church on the lith inst, was a grand success in every particular, the faithful: committee making elaborate ‘preparations and by so dping thet Served 438 meals and the net receipts to date is $126.38, with other sources to bear from. The prizes with were offered to the two persons sel ing the highest number of tickets were awarded to the following named per song: Mrs. Harvenia Norris, turned in us, and. wes awarded the first prize, which was a %% gold piece. Miss Blanch Lancy turned in $27. and was awarded the second “prize. Which Was a $2.5" gold piece. ‘Mrs. Mary Steveson of: 537 Sixth street. received a box of oranges from her Rephew im P.orida. NEW HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH. The Benevolent Musiouary circte of the New Hope Bapiist church de- sires to thank all friends for theic patronaze on Thankss:ving, the total amount cigered was $55, $lusy of this amount was made by the.B. ¥. P. 'U. at the ereaing comcert, "A new clad has been organized In te New Hope Baptist church. its name is the Chrysanthmeum clud. Of ficers, viz.: Mrs. Janey Ashby. presi- dent; Mrs. P. H. Holmes, secretary; Mrs. Dr. Samuel Howard, treasurer. They reported $6.25 from a small en- tertainment given recently. Deacon George Morten made and reported $6 from his entertainment on Saturday night > The many friends of Miss Esther Anthony will regret her iliness. She Was carried to the Braddock hospital on Ménday. 5 ‘The New Hope Baptist church was on fire with holy zea? on last Sunday. The pastor, Rev.-J. H. Dwelle, D. D. preached two able sermon Sunday evening Df., Dwelle seemed inspired as he preathed of Paul before Felis. strong mentgnd women broke down and wept. fritmoved like a mighty wind over the Breat. crowd and one young lady was happily—com verted. “Come and’ hear our pastor preach the gospel. | RANKIN,PA (By Mary C, Hamilton.) Bell Phone 2u1-R, Braddock, P. & ‘A, Phone 895-1, Braddock. Mrs. Lue Cager of 306 Third avenue, is in Columbus, O., where she will spend the Xmas holidays with her mother ang friends. Philander Reeves, the tailor at 105 Hawkins street, left on Saturday, 16th inst, tor Chariston, S. C., for a ten days’ visit with his’ father and graud- mother, whom he has not seen foro years. : Frank B. Herford of Miller street. and his sister, Mrs. B, Jagkson, have been in Ridgway, Va., for some two or three weeks, having been called there gn account of the illness of their father, but upon their arrival found their father a corpse. Mr. and Mrs. Nicolas Wiliams of Sylyvan avenue, Braddock, Pa., were callers at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Prite on Third ayenue,’on the soi, ? New Castle, Pa. At ML a.m. Mrs. Martha Swaffor ‘the evangelist of Bethel church preached an excelent sermon_ ot Jonah’s voyage to Nineveh, at 7: p. m., Rev. Geo. 1. Smith delivered powerfuj sermon to a large conzresa tion. Rev. C. P. Humington of Franklin Pa., was a guest of Rev. W. H. Truss and other iriends .on December 1: and 19. Rev. CB Humington was the first pastor of Bethel church and ig a pastor of Bethel cbureh and is always a very weiconte visitor in Bethel. The Fair of ail Nations waleh clos ed December 16 was a grand success The P. L. D. Reading circle gave a splendid concert in the Second Baptist chureh on December 15. It was a Stand success financially and a large crowd was present. The ladies of the A. M. E, 2iGh church are going to have a reception on New Year's day. ‘The Board of Managers of the East brook home will meet at the home of Mra, ML. Matthews, 351 Ferry street, Sewickley Pa., on December 29, at'3 p. m. and will all club mem: ders and friends remember those nine little ones in thé&ere of the home, when preparing for their own littles ones for Xmas day. Mr. and Mrs. Reims Johnson were caller to the bedside of their daughter. Mrs. J. Fisher wha is in the Wesi Pena hospital in Pittsburgh and white still in a critical condition is vers aruch beuen: a China’s National Tree. The national tree of China is the tung. a'Wood ofl tree. The ols 1s pro- cured from the seeds of its fruit, which is like @ hickory nut, but as large as a small orange. The tung affords @ fine sade, and its wood is prized by makers of musical instruments. It 1s thought the tree would flourish in our coatheg® stale. ‘ a One tesue Gone. One of Uncle Sam's custom men found 30 pockets in a woman’s skirt. Now let the women forever hold thelr tongues about not having equal rights with men—Milwaukee Journal. _° Spiders Aid Sclentiste. Certain spectes of spiders are cult vared by scientists on account of the “ne but“Guratle thread they weave, he Unread being used on delftate tstronen fea! Instruments, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1911. THE NEGRO OR THE FOR- EIGNER FOR THE SOUTH? | The unrestricted coming of immi- grants into America keeps down the ge standard and the standard of livtog for the American laborer, and “Impérils the condition of employment. ‘It is also startling to be told that 35 ‘per cent. of those who come to our ‘shores are illiterate as compared with less than 3 per cent. of the old immi- grant class. We are raising money to convert the far away heathen—when the far away heathen—untutored, un- ‘civilized, unwashed, unsaved —gre comitig in flocks to our country. There were 1.041.000 aliens. repre ‘sénting forty races that ame Into America during the last year. At this rate imagine. how, many have rolled in upon, America through the past years. Of the 92,000,000) people in the Unitea States 41.000.000 are either 1m- migrants or born of foreign parentage, leaving only 41.000.000 white born of native white parents. The 10,990,000 Negroes give-the numerical dominance in Amerlica of people who are not white people of American parentage. There are about 3.(100,000 foreigners [now in the south, and 30.000 came here last year; a large majority of these foreigners are ignorant. and orly a few are members ofa Christian de nomination. If they are not Christian- ized they Will heathenize the south Let the foreigners conie into the ‘south in large numbers and the white peoyjle of this couthland will have Sore than a Negro problem on thelr hands. It the foreigner comes In large numbers In the south the Negro will leave. This the southern people do not Want in a sense. for they carf- not use the foreigner in their business as a servant like they can the Negro. So they really prefer the Negro to the foreigner as a laborer.—Blu® City News. Taking Notice. “At what age, doctor,” ‘asks the call- =, "do women begin to notice the men?” “Well,” replies the great sa- yant, “on that point there ts a differ- ence of oMinion amorig the authorities. Some of them assert that the female ebild notices the opposite sex when one day. old, while the rest clalin she does not until she fs at least 48 hours old."—Chicago Post. ~ —+-— Sees Little Real Progress. Has the race progressed? On!y, we are told, in the sense of acquiring a Httle more material comfort. Civil ized man’today is no more moral than the savage, no different from man in the earliest Stone Age. His only goat 4s that for which he started when tbe second ice age extinguished the Jost Paradise—self-preservation. Progress 4s simply the artificial re-creation of the lost Paradise —Exchange r Utitizina Intellect and Reason. We have fntellect—we possess rea- sob. Let-us, therefore, make . these two servants work to discover for us the true way whereby, we may scale the’ belghts and ‘plumb’ the depihs of understanding, so tbat we may reach that summit of attainment which ls ours by divine rigkt. and where dark, Woathsome pessimism bas no place. NG Cause for Hilarity. | Sweet potatoes are exposed to the attacks of a dozen serfous insects, says an exchange. We see nothing to ‘augh at, either. His Habit. _The man who bets on a sure thing fikes to tell about how willing he ts to taka a ChAnGe. os AMONG THE CHURCHES ALL CHURCH NOTES MUST BE AT THE OFFICE BY WEDNESDAY OF EACH WEEK TO BE PUBLISHED UNDER THIS HEAD. JOHN WESLEY A.M.E.ZION CHURCH John Wesley church enjoyed quite an agreeable surprise last week in the presence of two of her bishops, viz. the Rt. Rt. Rey, A. Walters and G. W. Clinton. Both were here in attendance of the executive committee of the Federation of the Churches of Christ in America. Bishop Clinton, who was once pastor of the church, preached a great sermon from the subject, "Faithful Service and Its Reward." The members presect thought it was the best they had ever heard from him. Bishop Walters delighted his audience on Wednesday evening with a lecture. The bishop is a great traveler and once toured the world. We were all sorry that owing to the lateness of the hour he did not have sufficient time to finish the thrilling discourse. Both of the distinguished prelates were well satisfied with the results of the meeting of the general committee. We have just reason to be proud of both of them as leaders of the race, in civil and regious matters. After two evenings of delightful entertainment they left for other parts of the great church field with best wishes of the pastors and members of the church. Wednesday evening Bishop, Wjatter lectured on "On a Trip to Africa." He carried his audience with him from the start in New York city to London, Monrovia and West Coast Africa. He thrilled the hearers with his eloquence. In the description of the Holy Land as we stood on the Mount of Olives, viewed the birthplace of "Christ, Mt. Calvary, the River Jordan and the sepulchre, the river which laid our crucified Savior so sons thrilled within us as we teed the scene as he so vividly described it. Bishop Walters has consented to assist in the Union Revival of churches in February. Sunday was Chrysanthemum day. The woman of the church had charge of everything and nobly acquitted themselves. Mrs. Vioia Stout's sermon, "The Chrysanthemum," was one of the most instructive heard for some time. hearers left the church commenting on what they had learned about the beautiful flower that represents truth. At no clock a special program was re enacted. It is seldom we can secure an entire program of such rare talent as was exhibited by those in the afternoon. Mrs. Alice Stuart's paper on "Social Purity," Ida Smith's on "Our Women," were well worth listening to. The singing by the solists and young ladies choir was par excellence, "Am I My Mother's Keeper?" was the beautiful selection recited by Miss Dr. Morgan. At 7:45 p. m. standing room was at a premium, though the exercises did not begin until 5 p. m. Devotional exercises conducted by Mrs. Nollie Barnabu, Paul Hamus and Miss Henderson, followed by solos from Miss Maria Hudde and Bessie Williams, paper, Miss Kelly, instrumental solo, Miss Lacy Manly. A splendid offering was lifted. The last number was the "Ten Virgins." This pantomime made a deep impression on both saint and sinner. Many resolving to lead a better life in future that they might not be "to late." Personal Mention. Mrs. Ela Jones is Imprent Revs. P. A. Scott, W. A. Wakefield and Undated the Wednesday evening. Rev. Jerpy will give a moving picture exhibition on Thursday evening, December 25, for the benefit of the Bids of Promise, Mrs. M. E. Dockett, superintendent. Missionary Notes. The rally of the W. H. & F. M. society and Daughters of conference that was given on Sunday December 10 was a success. The Lord blessed us with a beautiful sunshine day. Morning Mrs. Jane Polhamis of John Wiley A. M. E. Z. church preached a powerful Holy Ghost sermon. Afternoon, Mrs. A. L. Anderson gave a beautiful talk on the work of the missionary's and Mrs. Lizzy Munroe gave us a talk on the work and duty of the Daughters of Conference. Miss Amanda Henderson of Avery Mission A. M. E. Z. church preached a sermon lion story to be remembered, in West End. The Christian Endeavor choir performed the music. Mrs. Carly Anderson of West End, needs encouraged for the way she has trained the children in three months time. It will do your soul good to hear them sing. Night—Mrs. Ida Clark of John Wesley church, preached after which two persons joined church. Mr. and Mrs. Walker of West End. Miss Hilda Anderson and Miss Ozella B. Barnaby favored us with solos and Mrs. Duram and Mrs. Jennie Moses favored us with a duet. The pastor. Rev. Silas Williams, was pleased with Women's day and the glory of the Lord came in at night and filled the church with praise. The money raised all day amounted to $230. Mrs. Nelle Barnate, president of W. H. & F. M. society; Mrs. Lydia Butter, president of Daughters of Conference; Rev. S. Williams, pastor. BROWN CHAPEL CHURCH North Side Pittaburg, Pa. (By C. N. Collins.) At Brown Chapel last Sabbath Dr. Morris preached to a large and appreciative audience. The Sabbath school rehearsed the Christmas music under the leadership of Prof. Nelson Arter and the orchestra. The public is cordially invited to be present at the Sabbath school this Sabbath and enjoy the Christmas music at 1:45 p.m. G. F. Silos, superintendent; Pearl Crankleton, secretary. There will be special Christmas services all day Sabbath. Mr. Morris will preach in the morning on the "Birth of Christ," and in the evening his subject will be the "Life of Christ." The choir will render the Christmas music with Prof. Nelson Arter as choreist. All are invited to be present. Come early in order to secure a comfortable seat. Mrs. R. H. Morris and the first of Brown Chapel church are all smiles over the wonderful success of the daily day rally. The will be a series of entertainments during the holidays at Brown Chapel, beginning on Christmas night with the Sabbata school exercises and treat. Each evening during the week a program will be tendered by the various clubs of the church. The tickets are now on sale by the chairman. Season tickets, 25 cents or 10 cents each evening. Supper and refreshments will be served each evening in the dining room. Among the many visitors who attended Brown Chapel last Sabbath was Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Vann of the East End and Mrs. T. J. Ashew of Washington, Pa., and Mrs. Isabel Tanner Temple. Watch meeting will be observed at Brown Chapel on Sunday night after the regular services. Mr. and Mrs. William Smith of Canonsburg will be the guests of Rev. and Mrs. R. H. Morris for Christmas holidays. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Gross was christened last Sabbath morning by Dr. Morris. The baby's grandfather and its great-great-fathered and great aunt stood with them. Note—Miss Carrie N. Collins is reporter to the Courier from Brown Chapel church, and it is expected that all who have church news they want published should show her the courtesy of sending it in through her. Notes should reach Miss Collins Tuesday. (Manager.) It was the pleasure of the president of the Pittsburgh conference branch to visit the Jurienite Mite Missionary society the Brown Chapel at the house of Mrs. Johnson, wife of Rev. John Johnson. There he met quite a number of young folks under the direction of Mrs. Caroline Chrysler. Too much credit cannot be given the little folks. They have their own offices and manage their own business. May the good work continue. The Mite Missionary ladies from Brown Chapel surprised Mrs. Isabel Temple, president of the Pittsburgh conference last evening and her husband, Dr. Temple, presiding elder. It happened to be the anniversary of their wedding. Refreshments were served in abundance. The donations were large. All enjoyed themselves very much and have the thanks and appreciation of the presiding elder and wife. The following were present: Mrs. Adela Murray, Murray; Henry Wilson, Mrs. Hale Crankleton, Beeel; Mrs. Poster, Mrs. Carrie Christy, Annie Johnson, Mrs. Body, Mrs. Jackson, Mrs. Bailor, Mrs. Lewis, Miss Olive Toward; Miss Izetta Jefferson, Charles Stewart, Mrs. Eva Williams and Martha Washington. The president of Pittsburgh conference branch is very desirous that all auxiliaries celebrate their birthday of Mary A. Campbell, January 10, 1912, to be held under the auspices of W. M. M. S. All money raised by the entertainment or otherwise raised should be forwarded to Special Effort Treasure., Mrs. Virginia Page. 432 Diamond street, city. Euglid Avenue A.M.E. CHurch Euglid Avenue A.M.E. CHurch (B. Minnie Harris.) The services last Sabbath were largely attended and full of spiritual fervor. This Sabbath Dr. T. J. Askew, presiding elder, will preach morning and evening. The Allen Endeavor league has prepared a special program this Sabbath which will be rendered from 6:30 to 7:30 p. m. All are invited. The topic is 'The Gift That Transforms the World,' H Cor. 9, 15; Luke 1:4, 55; Christmas meeting. A grand musical and literary entertainment will be given on Tuesday evening, December 26, by the Arnette Historical Literary society. A very fine program has been arranged. There will be some numbers of the best talent of Pittsburgh. Come and hear Miss N. R. Mitchell, the piano soloist. Bring your friends. Admission to ten cents. A merry Christmas cantata called Santa Claus and Uncle Sam will be given by the Euclid avenue Sunday school Christmas, December 25. Uncle Sam will escort delegates from all nations to the convention which meets at Santa Claus hall. Euclid is noted for the grand cantatas they give. So you can't afford to miss it. Admission 25 cents and ice cream and cake tree. All of our scholars will be admitted free who come before 8:30 p.m. After 8:30 they will have to pay 25 cents. Come early or it will be impossible to get a seat as we have 401 members. Cantata begins at 8:30 p.m. Mrs. L. H. Twyman left the city on Tuesday evening to spend the winter in Petersburg, Va., visiting Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Owens. Mr. Owens, her brother, is a teacher at the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute in Petersburg. St. Paul A.M.E. Church South Side. Next Sunday, December 24, 1911, will be greatest day in the history of St. Paul as it will be girls day. Representatives from all city churches will be present. Dr. P. A. Scott preached a very able and acceptable sermon at St. Paul, South Side. Rev. T. E. Wilson will preach the advent sermon, Christmas, at 10:45 a.m. The Christmas cantata and children's gift will be tendered Wednesday night, December 27, 1911. The Guitar and Mandolin club will give a grand concert on Friday night. December 27. Refreshments will be served afterwards. MT. ARARAT BAPTIST CHURCH MT. ARARAT BAPTIST CHURCH (By Mrs. Tabb.) Last Sabbath church was well attended. At 11 a. m. Rev. Carter pastor, gave a spendid sermon, text, John xix. 2, subject, suffering of Christ. Rev. Pressly and Rev. David Walker were present. At 11 p. m. communion service. Each and every one talked and sang as the spirit directed them. At 14:55 the pastor talked from Genesis xxviii. 11 to subject. Jacob's son. On for a gospel coast at Mr. Amar Bapst church. Christmas eve. December 24. at 2 p. m. when Dr. H. Hall will preach to the F.W.C. Program preceding sermon. open to the Church. mermon, president, Mattie Doyle; invocation, pastor, Rev. W. J. Carter; selection, the chair; paper, Miss Hattie Brooks; duet, Miss Bessie Harris, H. Newsome; recitation, Mrs. Nettie Washington, J. duet, Mr. Poters and Mrs. L. Shouldt. Don't miss the musical concert. Thursday evening, January 4, 1918, the Donzell Musical company, consisting of Nilson Thonton, Ross Crockett, O. C. Thornton, O. W. McDaniel, and James Marshall, pianist, will appear at M. Ararat Papel church, Auditorium, East End. End of the choir season, the dozesses of the choir quartet, trios, duets and solos, both vocal and instrumental, humorous selections and declamations. Benefit of the church: Refreshments served. Committee: Mrs. J. Tabb, Mrs. E. Edwin and Mrs. A. Graves. Come and enjoy yourself. TO WHAT EXTENT IS THE NEGRO PULPIT UP-LIFTING THE RACE? By MISS KATIE E. POSEY, Nocatee, Fla. Read before the sixth annual session of the Sunday School Congress, Meridian, Miss. From the establishment of the gospel system the pulpit has occupied an important and interesting position in all things pertaining to men's well-being along moral, social and spiritual lines. Coming as it does divinely commissioned and bearing to man a divine message, is has a claim upon the attention and acceptance of mankind. The ministers of Christianity, departing from Asia Minor, passing over Asia, Africa and Europe to iceland. Greenland and the poles of the earth, suffering all things, enduring all things, raising men everywhere from ignorance of idol worship to the knowledge of the true God, and everywhere bringing life and immortality to life, have only been acting in obedience to the divine instruction; and they still go forth. They have sought and are still seeking to be able to preach the gospel to every creature under the heavens. The negro pulpit has not been an exception in the great work of the uplifting of mankind, especially that part of mankind with which it is particularly identified. No other pulpit has ever had a more difficult task or labored under greater disadvantages than the negro pulpit. In the very beginning the negro pulpit had the leadership and the enlightenment of the race in spiritual knowledge thrust upon it, when it was neither qualified nor regularly organized. Despite the disability and disadvantages the negro pulpit became the pioneer in the first movements to better the condition of the race by lifting it from the degradation and disorganized state in which it was left by slavery. In almost every effort and successful plan which has been inaugurated since the race began its life of freedom, the negro pulpit has been the prime promoter and the advanced-guard. As an evidence of the success of the negro pulpit along this line the race may point to a larger percentage of negro Christians according to population than any other people in this Christian land. In organizing the negro into separate racial societies for the conduct of religious worship and church government the negro pulpit did a work which has given the race greater prestige than any other work which has been done for the race by uplifting it. When the negro proved his ability to organize and conduct a religious denomination of great size. it proved its capacity to develop and govern itself along any other line. Surely the words of the prophet in which he speaks of a people "scattered and peeled," "a nation meted out and trodden down" seem fittingly applicable to the condition of the negro just emerged from slavery. It was this people that the negro pulpit took hold of and formed into church societies and religious denominations, which now have followers numbering up into the hundred thousands, and possess property valued at millions of dollars, deeded to and by the race. To the Christian pulpit the people look for the loftiest ideals of life. The extent to which the negro pulpit is uplifting the race may be seen in the gradient but permanent reformation taking place in the social and moral life of the race. The home life of the masses is gradually being touched and improved by the far-reaching influence of the negro pulpit. From these pulpits the gospel goes forth with simplicity and power. The evils which exist and which are a menace to the best and purest modes of life are strongly denounced and openly rebuked by the negro pulpit, and the race is being led to understand that sound moral character is the foundation upon which to build a well-rounded manhood. The negro pulpit is awake to its responsibility, and it is putting forth its best efforts to uplift the race socially, morally and religiously. Having been the pioneer in almost every race uplifting enterprise it will cooperate with those who have come along in the paths blazed out by the negro pulpit until the race shall take its place among the foremost people of the earth, in every good work for the advancement of man and the glory of God. Fires of Buffalo Chips. On the plains where wood was unknown buffalo chips supplied the camp fire that cooked the meals of the plainsmen. The old time prospector with his wagon and mules, carried with him on the plains a store of blocks saver, from a 2 by 6 pine plank. When meal time came he chopped a block into many small pieces, lit his fire, cooked his bacon and boiled his tea or coffee, all of which he succeeded in doing successfully by proper management. No More Worry. Parts that lost juris, containing $20 need worry no longer—it has been turned—Brooklyn Life. THE COURIER THE LIMITATIONS OF LAW A SERMON. Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good—Romans 7.12. We hear a great deal of ill-advised talks in these days—sometimes from persons who ought to know better—as to the limitations of law, as a moral force or agency. One of the favorite platitudes of the times is the solemn assertion that you cannot legislate people into virtue; that you cannot make people good by law, the get result being the practical disparagement of law as a moral and ethical agency. Now, I venture to assert that a careful examination of this popular modern axiom will show it to be no axiom at all—merely an illusion, one-half of which is misleading, the other half groanous. In the first place, literally considered, we really say nothing practical or useful or real when we assert that you—cannot make people good by law. One might as well announce, with an air of discovery, that a horse cannot fly. Of course, a horse cannot fly; nobody expects it to fly. But while a horse cannot fly, it can do other highly useful things; it can walk and trot and run; it can haul loads and operate machinery. And to speak pityingly of the horse's inability to fly, and disparage it on that account, is to ignore the vast amount of real and valuable service that it renders to humanity year in and year out. In the same way it is really irrelevant to call attention to the fact that you cannot make people good by law. Of course, you cannot. Goodness, strictly speaking, is the voluntary choice of the good from appreciation of its goodness. And law, being external, cannot reach the wills, the affections and the will, from which goodness springs. Law, accordingly, is powerless to make people good as a horse is powerless to fly. But what of it? Conceding that law cannot do what it is contrary to its very nature that it should do, is it sensible, or just, or right, to lose sight of the valuable and useful things that the law can do and does do, and which, generally speaking, it alone is able to do? No sensible person hopes to make people good, really, personally good, by force of law. All thoughtful persons realize that the primary purpose of law is not to make people good, ideally, to prevent them from being bad, practically. And while we cannot hope to reclaim the erring, reform the vicious, renew the depraved by force of law, we may reasonably expect to protect humanity, individually and collectively, from some of the physical and mental results of vicious, depraved, immoral living. For example, the law cannot make a man a really good husband. That is to say, the law cannot compel a man to love his wife, and cherish and comfort and honor her in all the viesistudes of life. The law frankly realizes its inability to do such good and perfect things as these, and does not attempt them. But while the law cannot compel a man to love his wife, as he ought to do, the law can restrain a man from beating or deserting his wife, as he ought not to do. While it would be far better for husbands to love their wives, as St. Paul bids them to do, it is some gain, to some wives, to be protected from physical abuse, and from the fear of it. The value of law, accordingly, consists chiefly in its protective efficacy. Its results are largely negative, to be sure, and physical, but they are not to be lightly esteemed on that account. The law may not make us good, but it does prevent us from being as bad as we might easily be. And it behoves us to note that the results of such external restraint and constraint may be quite as helpful to those most concerned as if they proceeded from the voluntary choice of good. Proprietors of factories ought to treat their employees humanely and considerately because of their love for their fellows. But so long as proper surroundings are provided, it matters little to the employees from what motive the act proceeded. Accordingly, it is foolish to disparage law as a moral agency because it AGRICULTURE IS KING. Whether prince of plebean, rich or poor, salar or sinner, the queen upon her throne or the maiden in the dairy, all must depend upon a common source for food and raiment—agriculture. It was thus from the beginning, from the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden to the soil product of 1911, from the time of the airy costume of Eve to the more pretentious apparel of her sisters in the present age. Obviously, then, as population increases and the food supply becomes a more vital question agriculture will command increasing attention and respect and the husbandman attain an importance among his fellows amounting almost to solitude—Jacob C. Mohler in Kansas Farmer. TOO DANGEROUS. "There is one thing belonging to the people which grafting officials in power never want to tax." "I did not think there was anything. But what is it? "Their memory."—Baltimore American. An Interference "Do you think the automobile is interfering with American home life?" "It seems likely," replied Miss Cayenne. "A nice limousine is usually so much more comfortable and tasteful than the average living room." Not His Graus Mrs It — Take my advice, my dear, I don't become the wife of a genius. Myrtle — 'I am — I should had all always been locally happy with your husband. "Yes. I—er I—have" — Life cannot make people really good. If to an appreciable degree it can check men's wayward impulses, curb their inordinate desires, restrain their passions, it is doing a needful and a beneficent work in the world. And unquestionably law is able to do this negative work, and to do it with reasonable efficiency. But the law is not only a negative moral force, it is also of considerable positive value in the world, even the world of morals, though this fact is generally overlooked. It is not possible to demonstrate precisely to what extent law makes for real virtue and goodness, the voluntary acceptance of the good, but it is entirely reasonable to affirm that to a considerable extent the law does actually help us morally, does really strengthen our weak wills, does incline us toward the choice of the good, does lead us to something higher and better than itself. We must recognize in this connection that virtue and goodness are not always or even usually the simple thing or state that we assume them to be. Our personal virtue is not always the result of our conscious, deliberate choice and preference of pure goodness. To a large extent our virtue and our goodness is incidental—even, it may be, accidental. We are greatly helped by circumstances, the things that stand around us and help to hold us up. Like Ulysses, we are a part of all we have met: virtue and goodness, as well as sin and evil, are often forced upon us, not produced by us. As men grow older, for instance, they tend to grow better. To speak more accurately, men find it easy to resist certain temptations as they grow older, because they do not indulge in dissipation and excess we think of them as being better than they formerly were. Strictly speaking, they may not be better men at all, simply different, differently saturated and surrounded, and therefore differently constituted, eventually. Now, just as time delivers us from some temptations, and so mechanically, as it were, makes for virtue, so other conditions and circumstances, as purely objective and external as time itself, exert a like beneficent influence upon us. Experience has doubtless shown us all that to be delivered from temptation at a particular time is often to escape falling into sin at all; later on the same temptation may assail us and find us invulnerable. Under such conditions our escape may be said to be accidental. None the less, it was real, and it may easily prove of permanent value and effect. A man tempted to steal may yield in a moment of weakness, when had he not been so tempted he might never have fallen. A term in prison, a protracted illness, may result in a man's moral reformation. We do not always choose virtue as formally, and specifically as Adam is represented to have made choice in the Garden of Eden, and goodness comes we know not whence or how. Accordingly, the law, by removing or reducing temptation, by making our environment as favorable as possible, by artificially, if you will, strengthening our moral nature for the time, as a bandage supports a broken bone, does often actually and actively in the end produce what it is not its nature to produce at all—viz. virtue and goodness, the willing choice and steadfast acceptance of that which is holy and just and good. The law, like human parents, does far more for us than we are wont to realize, and it seldom receives the credit that is its just due. The law is not the Gospel, of course; man's free will is not the grace of God. The divine purpose of the law, as St. Paul declared, is tutelarly, directive; its office is to bring men to Christ, who alone can order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men. But while the law is thus comparatively weak and ineffectual as a moral agency, it serves a useful, highly beneficent purpose, practically. God has made us of the principle of law in his dealings with men from the beginning, and we shall never—outgrow our need of it in this life. The Ten Commandments are still the foundation of society and the safeguard of government. And it becomes us as rational, moral beings to realize gratefully and gladly that the law is holy and just, and good. It becomes us to esteem it very highly for its work's sake, not to disparage or condemn it, because, as we are accustomed lightly to say, "you cannot make people good by law." IMPROVING PASTURES It has been abundantly shown that pastures may be improved either by natural $ \theta $ or commercial fertilizers. When the pastures are heavily grazed, and the animals fed little or no other food, usually the pastures gradually decline. If, however, the cattle are fed a little concentrated food, especially of a highly nitrogenous character, or if the pastures are top-dressed with manures or commercial fertilizers, they steadily grow better. But occasional application of seed, clipping of weeds, and the harrowing of the field, also contribute to this end. AN EXPLANATION "Your nephew is a college graduate, isn't he?" "Yes," confessed honest Farmer Hornbank; "but in justice to the college I'll own up that he had no sense beforehand."—Woman's Home 'Companion. There's a long lane that has no turning—and a woman would keep on looking back. Mose—If he so rich as not to miss it? She—Well, he was flattered. He never owned $5000 in his life. Flirting, blatter. British No More. "Pittsburgh is no longer an English town." "What do you mean?" "It can't drop its hair any more." CHURCH NOTICES BETHEL A. M. B. CHURCH, Borner Wylie avenue and Elm street Sunday services 10:30 A. M. and 1:45 P. M. Sunday School, 12:45 P. M. Christian Endear, 6:30 P. M. Prayer meeting Wednesday, 8 P. M. Class meeting, Friday, 8 P. M. B. V. P. A. Scott, pastor, residence 93 Elm street. Bell phone 297 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. Rev. Scott Wood, priest in charge. John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Churc, 40 Arthur Street. Preaching Sunday, 11 a. m. and S p. m.: Varrick C. E. Society, 6:30 p. m. Sunday school, 1:30 p. m.: prayer meeting, Wednesday evening; class meeting, Friday evening; communion services every first Sunday in the month. Rev. W. L. Lee, pastor. Bell phone 2293-R Grant, 40 Arthur street. EUCLID AVENUE A. M. E. CHURCH. Corner Euclid avenue and Harvard street, Pittsburg. 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. D. S. BENTLEY, 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 3 p. m. Peaching every Sunday, 10:45 a. m. and 7:45 p. m. Beats free. All are welcome. REV. O. S. SILMMS, 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.; Alten Endeavor league, 6:30 p. m.; prayer meeting, Wednesday, 5. p. m. Rev. T. Taggart, pastor. Mt. Zion 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, 8 p. m. Rev. R. D. Epps, 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., 5 p. m.; prayer meeting Wednesday, 8 p. m. Rocky Mt. Baptist church—Sunday services, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Sunday school, 1:30 a.m. 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 8 p.m. Sunday school at 1 p.m. Young people's Christian Endeavor 1 p.m. Wednesday night prayer meeting, 8 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 Side. 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 8 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 8 p. m.; Sunday school, 10 a. m. Seats free. All welcome. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 8 p. m. Pastor SCOTT. Pastor. REV. F. A. SCOTT, Pastor. 12W nut 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 Lodge, 6 p.m. Dining service, 7:45 p.m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening. Trustees' meeting the second and fourth Monday nights of each month A. M. F. Zion Church 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, Pittsburg. Morning worship, 10:45 a m. Class 12 m. Sunday school, 2 p. m. A. C. E. League, 6:30 p. m. Evening worship, 7:45 p. m. Wednesday night, prayer meeting. All are invited to attend. REV. E. R. BAZIER, Pastor. Homewood A. M. E. Zlon Church Tilga and Dumfamline Streets. B. F. Cornbath, B. D., Pastor. Services—Sabbath, 11 a. m., 8 p. m. Young, People's meeting, 7 p. m. Sabbath school, 2:30 p. m. Prayer meeta Wednesday, 8 p. m. Class meeta Friday evening. Visitors cozidially welcome. 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. B. 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. . SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1911. 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, 6:30 p. m.; preaching 7:45 p. m. Waymen A. M. E. Preston avenue. Services every Lord's day at 10:40 a. m. and S p. m.; Sunday school, 10 a. m. Seats free. All welcome. Rev. F. A. Scott, pastor. Prayer meeting Wednesday at S p. m. Rev. F. A. Scott, pastor. No. 126 Bellevue, Pa. Good Hope Baptist Church Services. Fifth fourth and Penn Avenue. Fifty-fourth and Peab 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, S p. m. Church meeting, Friday, before second Sunday, 8 p. m. Communication 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, 5109 Dauphin 街, East End. Office in the church. Hours, 11 a. m. to -2 p. m., Wednesday and Frid day. Services at Bethlehem Baptist Church, McKeesport, Pa. St. Paul's A. M. E. Church, McKeesport. Preaching at 11 a. m., sunday school at 2 p. m. Allen's Christian Endeavor at 6 p. m. and preaching at 8 p. m. Rev. W. W. Young, pastor. Gladden A. M. E. Church, Homestead, Pa. C. R. Goggins, pastor—Services 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school. 2:30 p. m.; prayer meeting Wednesday evening; literary Thursday evening. The Peoples' Mission, Wilkinsburg, order of services—Sunday school at 2 p. m., the Juvenile Missionary band at 3:30 p. m. preaching at 7:45 p. m., Wednesday evening prayer meeting. FRAZIER, BROWN & CO. LICENSED EMPLOYMENT BUREAU Reliable Positions Furnished Reliable Colored Help Our Specialty Bell Phone 5927 Highland. 6321 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa... If You Want RESULTS YOU can get them by advertising in this paper. It reaches the best class of people in this community. Use this paper if you want some of their business. Use This Paper The Pittsburgh Courier is the only Afro-American Newspaper published in Greater Pittsburgh Read it. It is your paper. Safe Well Guarded A remarkable new safe lock has been invented. It is provided with phonographic mechanism, so that it can be opened only by the voice of the owner. A mouthpiece like that of a telephone takes the place of a knob on the decor, and this is provided with the usual style or needle, which travels in a groove in the sound record of the phonograph cylinder. Before the safe can be unlocked the password must be broken into the original cylinder by the one who made the original And Striped Like Tipers. Horses that are spotted like leopards are common in China, but we have stranger species over here. Politicians that are spotted like the mischief are common in this country. Philadelphia Inquirer. Country's Farming Population. Claused according to color there are 5,422,898, white farmers in this country and 917,468 others. Everybody who reads magazines buys newspapers, but everybody who reads newspapers doesn't buy magazines. Catch the Drift? Here's the medium to reach the people of this community. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 23. 1911 SECRET SOCIETY NOTICES GRAND LODGE OF F. & A. M. Seventh Avenue district—Brother John J. Morton, R. W. G. Jr. Warden and District Deputy Grand Master. 16 Miller street, Pittsburg, Pa. Mt. Moran No. 51—Stated meeting second Thursday each month. Fredie B. Loe, W. M. Edward W. Johnson, secretary. St. Johns No. 56. Sewickley—Stated meeting first Monday each month ewis Hathcock, W. M.; J. G. Matt- jes, J. secretary. Mar West No. 62—Stated meeting second Saturday each month. Samuel coff, W. M.; Marion W. Hall, secr- tary. King Sckelman Lodge No. 75, New Braithen—Stated meeting second Wednesday each month. Alexander Weiss, W. M.; James W. Butler. Prince Hall Lodge No. 57. Beaver Fall—Stated meeting third Saturday each month. Jorgeish Boulding, W. W. W. Ewing secretary. St. Charles No. 13—Wm. A. Morrison, W. M.; Nelson J. Miles, secretary. Stated meeting first Thursday. Monarchia No. 56. Monongabea—Wm. Richmond, W. M.; S. E. McPherson, W. M.; Stated meeting first Thursday. Victoria No. 60. New Castle—Rev. G. S. Smith, W. M.; W. F. Barbour, secretary. Ahm. Lodge No. 62. New Castle—L. D. Howard, W. M.; E. J. Dillard, secretary. Stated meeting first Monday. Shula Lodge No. 64. North Side—Charles Wright, W. M.; Augustus L. Smith, secretary. Stated meetings first and third Thursday. M. Pisach No. 91, Uniontown, Pa.—A. P. McLane, 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, V. D—W. S. Jenkins, W. M.; Wm. Washington, secretary. Stated meeting second Friday. Auxiliary No. 98 meets third Friday night of each month. Asaph Lodge. Connellsville—Meeting night first and third Tuesday eight in the month. 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 Fulton 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, Odd Fellows hall corner Jackson and Irwin avenue. North Side, P. E. R. Carl Hardy, E. R.; Jesse Harris, F. Sec. Greater Pittsburgh Lodge 115, I. B. P. O. E. W—Meets first and third Monday at Elks Rest, 6487 Frankstown avenue. East End. Lema Paxton, E. R. L. B. Lose, F. Sec. Hames 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. Summit Lodge No. 145. I.B. P. O. E. W—Meets first and third Friday at McClure hall, corner Main and Merzantown avenue, Uniontown, Pa. W. L. Winstown, E. R.; Geo. Brown, F. Sec. Coke City Lodge No. 128, Connellsville, Pa—Meets first and third Tuesday at Elk Rest, 128 E. Main street, Fenton Jackson, F. Sec. Tuna Valley Lodge No. 156, Bradford, Pa—Meets first and third Thursday, 15 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 D. 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; sentalier, Joshun Lincoln; prelate, Rev. C. J. Powell, D. D.; associate prelate, Rev. J. H. Dandridge. ODD FELLOWS. Meetings of Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in Odd Fellows' hall, Irwin avenue and Jackson street, North Side. Union Western Star Lodge, No. 1815, first and third Wednesday evenings. P. L. Anderson, secretary, 805 West Jefferson street. Bond of Love Lodge, No. 2514, first and third Tuesday evenings. George W. Stevenson, secretary, 54 McNaugher avenue. Allegheny Council, No. 232, fourth Thursday evening. W. W. Jacobs, secretary, 1937 Irwin avenue. Household of Ruth, No. 56, first and third Friday evenings. Household of Ruth, No. 1784, second and fourth Wednesday evenings. Mrs Byrdle Crankleton, secretary, 1116 Decatur street. Allegheny Patrolarchy, No. 11, fourth Monday evening. P. L. Anderson, secr- tary, 505 West Jefferson street. News items affecting these lodges please mail to The Pittsburg Courier. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. Smoky City No. 29. Meeting first and third Tuesdays of mash month at New Odd Fellows hall, North Side. North Side Lodge, No. 124, I. 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. Sweitzer Camp. No. 98, Sons of Veterans, U. S. A.-Meets at Memorial hall, Fifth avenue, on second and fourth Friday nights of each mouth. New Castle Lodge No. 38, K. of P. meets first and third Friday of each month. Alexander Williams, C. C.; Commodore Tilden, K. of R. S. Damon Lodge No. 25, K. of P. meets first and third Thursday each month at Old Fellows hall, Wylie and Benton. Frederick C. Gould, C. C.; Jas. A. Baldwin, K. of P. & S.; Jesse Harris, M. of F. ROYAL GRAND NO. 31 K. OF P. Meetings second and fourth Wednesdays of each month, at Odd Fellows' hall, Arthur street. PAUL GILLETTE, C. C. 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, No 28, K. of P. meets first and third Thursdays of each month at Odd Fellows Hall, corner Wylie and Benton. Frank R. Steward, 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. R.—Pittsburg, Pa. Mrs. Mattle Sutton W. R. Glass City lodge, 4392, G. U. of O. F.. Charleroi, Pa. Meets every first and third Tuesdays. Charles Wonzer, secretary. H. of R.. 1113, Charleroi, Pa. Meets every first and third Wednesdays Mrs. A. Primas, W. R. L. C. OE ST. LUKES J. K. Minor council, No. 91, I. O. of St. Luke meets first and third Thursday nights at Thirty-sixth and Butler streets. No. 257, Eastern Star council, meets first and third Monday nights, at Thirty-sixth and Butler streets. St. Elizabeth, No. 504, meets first and third Thursday nights at Odd Fellows' hall, corner Wylie avenue and Benton street. Richardson's White Rose, No. 725 meets second and fourth Thursday nights. Zenobia council, No. 766, meets first and third Monday nights. Keystone council, No. 779, meets second and fourth Monday nights. Homestead council, No. 601, meets second and fourth Tuesday nights. second and fourth Tuesday nights. Barton council, No. 694, Braddock meets first and third Tuesday nights. Gen. J. B. Sweitzer camp meets on the second and fourth Friday nights of each month at Soldiers' Memorial hall, Fifth avenue. The Liberty Chapter, Order of Eastern Star, meets on first and third Mondays of each month at their lodge room. Reformers building, at S o'clock p. m. Mrs. R. E. Payne, Worthy Matron, 134 Flavel street, East End; Miss Sog, Booker, Worthy Recorder, 5118 enore street, East End. NOTICE Golden Eagle lodge, No. 22, Knights of Pythias, meets the first and third 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 B. Malta Commandery. No. 19, K. T.—Sir George C. Cochran, Em. Com.; Sir Samuel P. Buckner, generalisimo; Sir David D. Richards, Capt. Gen.; Sir William S. Lewis, recorder; Sir 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. Esther chapter No. 7. Order of the Eastern Star—Stated meeting third Thursday of each month at 6004 Center avenue. Rosa E. Hill, W. M.; Luciille Lewis, secretary. Naomi Tabernacle No. 39. Daughters of Tabor—Meeting first and third Tuesday night in each month at Re- formers hall. Frankstown avenue. East End. Julia Tabb, H. P., 12 Mayflower street. East End; Maggie Moore, V. R., 6828 Upland street. East End. McKeesport, Pa Glittering Diamond Tabernacle, No. 87, Daughters of Tabor, meets second Tuesday night of each month at 1118 Market street. Lily of the Valley Court of Calla-tha, No. 867, meets first Thursday evening of each month at 1118 Market street. ELIZABETH, PA. Wainwright lodge, No. 48, K. of P. Brother A. T. Scott, C. C.; Brother French E. H. Greene, Brother Stanley Young B. Burton, prelate; Brother Wesley H. Stratton, M. of E.; Brother Charles S. Batch, M. of F.; Brother Samuel Simmons, K. of R. and S. Brother R. E. Pangburn, M. of A. Brother Charles Henderson, I. G. Brother George E. Saunders, O. G. Brother George B. Saunders, M. W. Brother Charles Preston, Brother French E. H. Greene, V. C.; Brother Simmons, trustees, Brother E. H. Greene was elected delegate to the grand lodge. Advance lodge, No. 2995 of G. U. O of O. F. election as follows: Guardian Hiram Simmons; warden, James Bar- nice grand, Oscar Goodrich; vice grand, Frenk Sweeny; worthy chapman, Rev. John Lotterbury; worthy treasurer, Fred R. Batch; E. S. Ernest Moore; P. S.; Fred R Batch; P. N. G.; A. T. Scott, N. F. Joseph K. Burgress; P. N. F.; French E. H. Greene; advocate, Jesse Greene; ASot Sing of the With the Of the eac That Of the bla And the Of the dru Squac But, O, let Till, be You temp Of the And sing u And y A verse f And a For though A me Let a low Run try do. In fact each land has its own peculiar ways, and our people, being drawn originally from 'almost' every clime, have introduced into our celebration of the day a bit of the Christmas features brought from mother countries. We have the Dutch Santa Claus, the German Christmas tree, the English plum pudding and carols and our own peculiarly lavish gift making. The boys and girls of far distant countries are spending the day in such different ways that it may prove of interest to young and old to hear something of the distinctive Christmas customs. cession, which marches through the streets, led by an orchestra and singing carols. Each child holds aloft either a Christchild in a manger or a crucifix. custom of ushering it in. Just at midnight on Christmas eve, the men and boys dressed in fancy costume, march through the streets in long procession, holding aloft a brilliantly lighted star, as they chant the "Gloria in Excelsis." The little girls clad in white stand at the windows and bow to the star as it passes. instead of stockings, and there is great chanting of "Noel, Noel," the Christmas song. Like the Scandinavian children, little French boys and girls never forget the birds, but instead of placing sheaves of grain on long poles, they are hung along the eaves of the houses. family goes to the wood and cuts a straight young oak, which he drains into the room where the family awaits him, saying as he does so: "Good evening and a merry Christmas!" Then the children shout back: "May God grant both to thee and mayst-thou have riches and honor." degree lecturers, Fred R. Batch and French E. H. Greene. WAYNESBURG, PA The most worshipful grand lodge of Free and Accepted Ancient York Rite Masons of Pennsylvania officers: A. E. Workman, G. master; Joseph Washington, Dep. G. master; Jerry M. Lannon, G. Sr. warden; Richard Staples, G. Jr. warden; Jas. Lethick G. treasurer; La Royal Wilson G. secretary; Rev. Thomas Fold grand chaplain; Rev. W. H. Truss, grand lecturer. The officers of the grand commandery of Knights Templar of the state of Pennsylvania are: Sir Knights Joseph L. Thomas, M. E. grand commander; John W. Fisher, M. E. deputy grand commander; John D. Addison, M. E. grand generalissimo; J. William Walls, M. E. grand captain general; William H. Miller, M. E. grand secretary; Philip H. Edwards, M. E. grand treasurer. Deloitte Tabernacle. No. H. L. O. of T. Dearborn of Tabor meets second and fourth Tuesday night in each month of Old Fellows Hall, corner Beaver and Broad street, Swickley, Pa. Mrs. Mattle F. Bowlen, H. P. Mrs. Martha Anderson, v. P. Mrs. G. H. Halhard, C. R. Mrs. R. H. Lee, V. R. Mrs Lucy Barascon, C. T. Smithfield. Ohio (By Viola Carter) The entertainment held Saturday evening by Misses Effie Beall and Virgile Smith was fairly well attended. Nelson Mitchell is indisposed. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Smith of McIntyre was the guest of friends here Thursday. Misses Minnie Beall and Alice Faithful spent from Friday until Sunday with friends in Pittsburgh. Miss Mayne Smith was the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Jordan Powell Monday night. Mrs. C. H. Thomas is seriously ill. Mrs. Maggie Veney and daughter, Julia, spent Saturday and Sunday with friends in Wheeling, Fred Faithful and sister, Alice, returned home Sunday night. Mrs. E. H. Harris entertained the W. M. M. S. Wednesday night. A surprise party was tendered Mrs. Abbie Palmer Friday evening and an enjoyable evening was spent. Mrs. E. H. Harris and daughter, Alice, and Mrs. Loman Peterson, were called to Steubenville by the death of Mrs Martha Harris. Fred Smith of McIntyre is the guest of friends here. Miss Eva Smith spent from Thursday until Sunday at the home of Miss Abie Palmer. Ed. West, Jr., spent Sunday night with friends in McIntyre. Miss Sallie Harris is ill. Ors. Munts of Flushing, was the guest of his father. Rev. J. W. Munts, Sunday and Monday. Ben Palmer spent Sunday with friends in Fernwood. Wm. Harris and Lee McFee was the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Veney at dinner Sunday. Fred Carter and Joseph Beall were the guests of friends in Steubenville Saturday, Geo. W. Veney will leave Tuesday for Steubenville, where he will be engaged at lucrative work for a few days. Rev. Augustus Smith filled the pulpit Sunday* night at McIntyre. Steubenville, O. Steubenville, O. (By S. F. Cook.) Mrs. Martha Harris died on Thursday evening at her home in Church street. Her funeral was held at Simpeon church on Sunday afternoon. She was a faithful and earnest worker in the church. The services were conducted by Rev. Burton, assisted by Rev. Butlas. A large number of friends and relatives were in attendance. Sherman Cowan has had his home fitted up with beautiful electric lights. M. W. Brown is very ill at his home on Adams street. Mrs. N. J. Howard is improving slowly. Elizabeth May Lewis, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lewis, died on Friday morning and her remains were put in the vault on Sunday. A little son has made his advent in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lewis. Misses Helen Jackson and Florence and Katie Smith were visiting at their home in M. Pleasant on Sunday. Hamilton Cook is able to be out again after a severe attack of pneumonia. Thomas Swan celebrated his birthday at the Stanton club rooms last Friday with his sister, Miss Louis Swan. The Married Woman's Reading club was grandly entertained at the home of L. F. Mercer Tuesday. Geo. Snowden is still very ill at his home in North Seventh street. A surprise party was given at Catherine Clark's home, December 15, 1911, in honor of her fifteenth birthday. Those present were: Gwendoline Thomas, Gladys Brown, Martha Fletcher, Edna Ross, Hazel Boykin, Etta Morton and Hazel Davis of Martins Ferry, Arthur Hanna, Clifford Morton, Bushnell Johnston, Dean Howard, Ellsworth Guy and Pall Howard. AKRON O (By Mary Broady) Nathan O'Bannon of Cincinnati, O. has accepted a position in the shipping department in the Christie foundation. Mrs. Melinda Jones, after a week's illness died last Thursday and was buried on Monday afternoon. Mrs. Mary Thomas of Warren, O. a sister, attended her funeral. Rev. Jones and family were the guests of S. Wilson and family for Sunday dinner. Marris Darrell, after a lingering illness, died on Tuesday morning, leaving a wife and a young daughter. Harry Archer has invited the Junior B. Y. P. society to be his guests New Year's day, from 1 to 6, at his home in Pearl street. The Christmas exercises will be held Christmas night at the Second Baptist church. Bethie, A. M. E. church will give a Xmas entertainment on the fifth, fifth and sixth. The Aid society elected their officers on Sunday. The presiding president, Mrs. Bessie Anderson has been very faithful and efficient. The names of new officers will be published later. Who knows where Carl Johnson is located? - (Manager.) Song for Christmas Sing of the hearts brimmed over With the story of the day- Of the echo of childish voices That will not die away. Of the blare of the tasseled bugle, And the timeless clatter and beat Of the drum that throbs to muster Squadrons of scampering feet. But,O,let your voice fall fainter, Till, blent with a minor tone, You temper your song with the beauty Of the pity Christ hath shown, And sing one verse for the voiceless; And yet, ere the song be done, A verse for the ears that hear not, And a verse for the sightless one. For though it be time for singing A merry Christmas glee. Let a low, sweet voice of pathos Run through the melody. JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY. THE COURIER ```markdown ``` Children and Christmas in Dany Lands HE little folks of all the world do not keep Christmas as the children of this court HE children of Belgium on Christmas Eve are dressed in gay colors and form a pro- ```markdown ``` HRISTMAS in Holland is the gala day of the year for the children. They have a pretty ```markdown ``` HE French children rarely have a tree. Sometimes they hang up sipmers to be filled. C HE Servian children have a strange custom. On Christmas Eve the father of the HANT me a rhyme of Christmas Sing me a jovial song And though it is filled with laughter. Let it be pure and strong --- Presents for the Invalid With this they shower their father with corn and the tree is thrown on the fire to burn until Christmas morning, when it is greeted with pistol shots. HE English Christmas is not unlike ours, save that we do not have their pretty custom of "bringing in the yule." In almost every family in England the boys and girls gather about the burning log on Christmas eve to sing carols and tell Christmas legends. Often the children who live in the country assist at the dragging in of the huge log. An English child would not feel it was Christmas if there was not a bit of mistletoe hanging in the hall, under which the unwary are kissed soundly, Little and big eat the rich and blazing plum pudding, and all join in the singing of Christmas' carols and churchgoing. ERHAPS the finest Christmas of all, if not the most lavish, is spent by the chill- dren of Germany. It combines the Christ child—which ge Americans are prone to forget—and Santa Claus. The whole day is full of cheer; families feast and go to church; presents are simple, but in every home is a blazing tree hung with cakes, colored candies and gifts. It is a pretty sight to see the children march in to see their tree, singing as they go, "O, Tannen Baum" (O, Fr Tree), to the air of "Maryland, My Maryland." Becoming and Comfortable Little Bed Garment That Is Not Expensive. If the Christmas list includes a woman who likes to breakfast in her boudoir, or an invalid who must spend most of her time in bed, the problem of the appropriate gift is one easily solved; in either case nothing could be more desirable than a becoming and comfortable little bed garment. This affair can be made up expensively or inexpensively, as one chooses. A square or double width material, usually from forty to forty-four inches wide, makes the garment proper. A pretty model was of white nun's velling lined with two widths of silk crepe. Around the edge creamy Valenciennes face about one and a half inches wide was sewed on plain, the scallop turned up on the goods. A hole large enough to slip over the head was cut in the center. This opening was bound with lace beading, through which a narrow satin ribbon was run. One point of the square fell in the back, another over the chest; the sleeves were formed by wider ribbons tying together the sides of the other two points. This little wrap may also be made out of silk, lined with a soft woolen material. A wide feather fitted hem makes a pretty finish, and a binding of soft satin ribbon is an equally ef- In many German towns just as the bells ring to usher in Christmas, every window in every house is quickly lighted. Then the children are up bright and early, even the tiny hables, to go to six o'clock church. Often each child bears a candle to illuminate the church. The German Kriss Kingle has one horrible habit that our jolly old St. Nick would scorn. He generally leaves in the stockings a bunch of switches in case they should be needed before his next call. MERICAN mothers find one day of Christmas merrymaking distracting enough for their children, how would they like to live in Russia, where work is often suspended for a fortnight, while all the people keep holiday. Even the poorest peasant has a tree and it is harvest time for beggars, for no one will refuse him anything. For some of the country districts the boys dress as animals, and led by other boys as keeppers, march through the streets headed by a band of boys making dreadful music with harsh sounding instruments. These processions go from door to door, pound until they are admitted, and all given food and drink, and two small pieces of money. All over Scandinavia a week is given to merrymaking. Every one goes to six o'clock church on the dark Christmas morning, and in the evening every home in the land is illuminated. They have wonderful trees, around which grown people and children dance and sing. The Scandinavian child is very good to the poor on Christmas and takes gifts and food to poor families. the Invalid fective trimming. If wide crepe can be found the garment can be made from it on the lines just described; otherwise two widths of the narrow crepe sewed together in the back, with the front seam left open, will be required. If the garment is to be very dressy, it may be trimmed with several rows of narrow lace luffed on around the central square, the sides of the points forming the sleeves being held together with ties made of two rows of lace insertion, around which the lace edging is fulled. Bows of soft ribbon of a delicate shade combined with the filmy crepe and tiny lace ruffles make as fuzzy and frilly a garment as any lover of pretty things could, possibly desire. A heavy silk lining with a covering of embroidered batiste which can be taken off and laundered makes a practical wrap. A top of dotted Swiss edged with a lace pleating could also be used over a fannel lining for winter wear. Convenient Myth "Why do you still keep up that absurd Santa Claus myth?" asked the cynic. "I should have thought you would have laughed at it." "Because," answered the man with a large family, "it is convenient to have some one to blame for presents that fail to please." MRS. E. JONES Dealer and Manufacturer of HUMAN HAIR GOODS Switches, Puffs, Transformations. Straightening Combs and Hackels. Artistic Wig Making a Specialty. 905 WYLIE AVENUE PITTSBURGH, PA. COLES GO-OPERATIVE GO An organization for promoting all race enterprises, including contract work, company stores, farming, etc. For information write to or call on NOAN COLES, President 6317 Broad Street MRS. M. C. CALLOWAY 2531 WYLIE AVENUE MILLINERY AND NOTIONS Hats made to order, retrimmed and remodeled at lowest possible prices. 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Barker last week. The Mercedes club was entertained by Russell Peyton on Wednesday evening. Mrs. Francis Lamon was called to Unlontown last Thursday by the illness of her brother, Mr. Thomas. Mrs. Walker of Boston, Mass. was a recent visitor at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Alexander. Mrs. Flora Holmes and Mrs. Geary Hilton were shopping in Pittsburgh Monday. The Willing Workers club will give a concert at the A. M. E. church on Thursday evening, December 28. Israel Jones, who was very ill at his home on Cemetery street, last week, is able to be out again. Miss Ada Brady is suffering with an attack of neuralgia. Evening services were well attended last Sunday and a grand sermon was preached by Rev. M. A. Dyer. Next Sunday the subject at 11:45 will be "Christ, the Prince of Peace." At 6:45 the Christian Endeavor will render a program. At 7:45 a Christmas oratorio will be given by the choir. On Monday evening will be the Sunday school log cabin and annual treat. All are cordially invited. Colvin, Raymond and Quarry Jones of Pittsburgh, spent Sunday with their mother, Mrs. Olivia Jones of High street. Mr. Harding and Mr. Bumpus of Uniontown, worship at the M. Zion A M. E. church Sunday evening. J. G. Nevils of Braddock, was a business caller here Saturday Harold Latney of Connellville, was a recent visitor of relatives here. WAYNESBURG WAYNESBURG (By Mary H. Workman) Some ladies and gentlemen of Waynesburg will give a grand concert in the A. M. E. church on Christmas night. The church aid entertainment given at the home of Mrs. S. J. Suttles was very successful and the president laid a plan before the club that was highly approved of. If is hoped that each member will do his best. David Ponzo spent Sunday afternoon with Geo. Ferrel, who has been very sick for the past month, but who is now improving. Wa. Beckwith, son of Mrs. A. A. 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This range is in use in over five thousand homes in Pittsburgh, and is endorsed by the leading chef, the chef and front of this range are made of heavy cast iron; the burners are all hand-drilled Star pattern. Note the perimeter on the oven door; it registers the exact heat for cooking. The gas range has a broiler below. Come and see this range. We will show you why it will burn less gas than any other range. ISEM & JEFF ORG ST. ALWAYS IN THE FALL AND PLACE YOUR ORDER Fit Style and W SEE T. & J. W P. & A. PHONE 35 Sure Sign. When a man's wife neglects to open his letters before he gets, home he can be-sure that she has lost interest in him. No Laughing Matter Cheerful idiot—I say, here's a funny thing; In old times people were broken on the wheel; now they go broke on tires!—Puck. ```markdown ``` A The demand for this fine lamp has been so great that we had a rush order of 200 more shipped at once, and will continue to supply in purchase of $55 or more. You can have your choice of this handsome lamp, to be used for electricity or gas; the shaded lamp is equipped "Regina" cut glass with deep cut star design and very deep cut serifoil; this lamp is fitted with nickel trimmed electric socket, fitted with white cord and long handled fringer; the gas lamp is fitted with Welshach burner. $12.75 You could not select a more desirable gift than this very fine continuous post full-size brass bed; it has heavy posts and heavy fillers, finished in best lacquer bright or satin. This 6 ft. Solid Oak $8.50 Extension Table... This Table extends 6 feet when open. It has a large top and is finished polished golden wax. The pedestal is very massive and strongly braced by 4 heavy legs. PAY THE EASY WAY. GIVE THIS SET OF LEATHER SEAT Dining Chairs $11.50 Six beautiful Solid Oak "Nun-tuck" Lenther S e a t t Dining thatares with high, comfortable ankles. They are strongly braced in the corners and have French large hand-carved claw feet. FRESS THE LEAD WITH NEW STYLES AND WINTER. PAY AS YOU PLEASE and Workmanship Guaranteed J. WITH WORLDDS FASHIONS NE 356 2 F. PITTSBURGH, PA. Mirror for Cyclists. A convex mirror has been designed for motor cyclists, who, by attaching it to one wrist by a rubber band, can lift the hand and see what is coming behind them. Two Classes. The people of this world are divided into two classes—those who are able to have drawing-rooms when they start on their wedding journeys and those who are not. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS THE COURIER Had this occurred anywhere south of the Ohio river the verdict would have been an international scandal. The press and pulpit of the north would have made it so. It would have been thundered from editorial columns that even Booker T. Washington, educator, philosopher, philanthropist, was not safe from violence at the hands of the southern white men, and that he could get no redress in southern courts of law. It would have been insisted that the jury was influenced wholly by race prejudice and that the charge laid against Dr. Washington by his assailant was too fantastic to be considered seriously by any one conversant with the life work of Dr. Washington, with his character and mental calibre. In the view of the Courier-Journal the charge made by the defendant in the case just settled was as fantastic as it would have been if it had been laid against any equally noted white educator and philanthropist in America. To believe that Booker T. Washington would descend to peeping through keyholes it would be necessary to believe that he is montally defective, and he has been the最圣 agitator of the negro question, white or black, who has achieved prominence as a specialist upon the race question since the abolition of slavery. If the ministers of the gospel would set aside a time, free from selfish motives, and throw the church doors open to the people in a general meeting and preach a sermon on race unity, race patronage of business enterprises, and show to the masses their plain duty, they would be carrying out the plan of "Earthly Salvation," which would create an everlasting harmony with the spiritual plan. To do this the minister must be right; he must set the example; his sermon will have no effect if he tells the masses about race patronage and race unity tonight, and in the morning calls the white grocer, the white coal dealer and the white laundryman to fill orders for his household. No general plan of action is effective which has a negative strain.—St. Louis Central Afro-American. Negro newspapers everywhere are preaching business, business, business,—go into business! Let them also begin urging our schools to give us young people with thorough business training. We must have competent help along with the necessary accessories with which to go into business, or each venture will ultimately become a farce. We do not want any more business collapses from ill-preparedness like the True Reformers' Bank failure.—Ex. There never was nor will there ever be a thing that is worth having that is gotten by no effort nor exertion. That which tends to development only comes after the struggle to obtain it. That which the possession of makes the owner benefited is obtained only after the battle for it. And for one to give up the flight is but to give up hope of ever obtaining that which is for one's good.—Portland (Ore.) Advocate. Pay your honest debts. Quit lying and stealing, shun the dives, treat your neighbor's family (each of them) as you want them to treat yours, honor the respectable women and girls, discourage the other kind, stop gathering on the streets to tell your troubles and try not to be so noisy on the street cars, and we will get along better. We will.—Indianapolis Plaindealer. And when this is all realized and the first water connection between the Atlantic and Pacific is an established fact, we shall one and all, without regard to political creed or affiliation, give three cheers for the great American. Theodore Roosevelt, who made it a possibility.—Charleston Messenger. The Orgen Realty company has had us puzzled for years. We've been trying to discover where it got its name from. We discovered the secret a few days ago. "Orgen" is "Negro" spelled backwards. Good!—Dallas Express. A recent writer said of Henry Ossawa Tanner: "He should no longer be classed as the foremost negro painter, but rather as one of the greatest artists America has produced."—Milwaukee Free Press. "The woman in every house makes the moral and mental atmosphere of that house, just as decidedly as the sunshine or rain affects the natural atmosphere outside of it."—Exchange Both white and colored people are beginning to believe more strongly that the negro who does not own a home will have to be watched—Inspegia (Ala.) Messenger. Men may die daily, but the church must live on and on—yea, even unto the coming of the Lord—Pittsburgh Courier. The world respects a man with convictions—Danville (Ky.) Torchlight. Jack Johnson says he intended retiring after the scheduled fight in London with Wells, even though English clergymen had not succeeded in blocking the fight. His retirement any time soon, remains to be seen. Quite often a free flow of cash into the box office from farewell tours, and flattering offers by speculators to public characters after announced retirement, bring on a change of mind and start anew the perennial desire of humankind to "come back." Bernhardt, Jeffries, et al., do you remember them? - Southern Magazine. The world outside does not know what we are doing in Texas in a newspaper way and here's some much needed information. There are in Texas 25 periodicals—the Austin Herald, Galveston City Times, Galveston New Idea, Houston Texas Freeman. Houston Western Star. Houston Church of God Review, Marshall, Louisiana and Texas Watchman, Waco Conservative Counselor, Paul Quinn Weekly, Waco; Cleburne Eastern Star, Waco Helping Hand, Beaumont Enterprise, Dallas Dally Metropolitan, The Ennis Cimeter, The Hustler, San Antonio; San Antonio Inquirer, Wiley (School) Reporter, Bishop College (School) Student, Marshall; Masonic Quarterly, Fort Worth; Denton Odd Fellows Budget, Dallas Reporter and Dallas Express. Most of the publications have job printing concerns in connection. They represent a capitalization of something like $25,000 and employ about 250 persons. One is issued daily, one quarter, two twice a month, six monthly; the remainer weekly. The Masonic Quarterly has a circulation of $,000 copies, the Dallas Express 10,000. They are all loyal to the country in general and the negro in particular. They are the only American papers published in the state; that is to say, they are the only papers which make character and worth the measure of the man, and who believe in equal rights to all and special privileges to none.—Dallas Express It is that friendship that when dark forebodings come creeping into the soul, driving the light from the eye and the smile from the face; when the head is bowed down and the spirit is broken with the heavy weight of adversity, and man and angels, yea and God himself seems to have turned away and hid his face from the poor mortal, that can even then throw about the broken body and fainting soul the arms of love and sympathy, and lift him up and speak words of comfort and cheer that shall cause him to look up and take heart again and once more stand upright as a man among men. This friendship has its own reward in a fullness of joy that only those can know who have carried it into everyday life, and solved the problem of genuine friendship in practical work of good for men. Georgia Broadax. From an ambitious struggling young man Dr. Dan. Williams has become eminent in every line of medicine and surgery, until today in surgery he is halled throughout the land as a master mind. Twenty-five years he has studied and experimented, twenty-five years he has toiled and accomplished until he has been the "open sesame" to unexplored fields of research and the means of giving to the medical world a wider knowledge and a better understanding of the laws governing the human body. Not only thus has he been of inestinable benefit to his race but also by the precedent which he has established and by the example which he is giving to all young men of ability.—Chicago (Ill.) Chronicle. We agree with Dr. Washington that negroes in Birmingham have such opportunities to do big things as are not enjoyed by a like number of negroes elsewhere in this country. But to do these things negroes must sink their personal differences. Will they sink 'em? If they are men, worthy of the name, they will. If they are not men, they will continue the asinine policy of making faces at every movement, be it ever so grand, that is introduced by a man or set of men against whom is harbored some petty spite.—Birmingham (Ala.) American. "As a man thinketh so is he." Now then what do you think about yourself? You think you're good; the other fellow thinks likewise of himself. But to set you right and put you straight don't think if you are crooked all of us are crooked; not necessarily so, in the case of the last mentioned it's "your cussed self." So think right.—San Antonio (Tex.) Inquirer. There are fewer children from white and negro parents now than there were twenty years ago. Race consciousness on both sides is largely responsible for this result. This tendency will doubtless become more pronounced as the negro race becomes more respectable in its own eyes.—Durham (N. C.) Informer. The white man is blind or pretends so, when it comes to classing the negro. He classes all of us with the jail bird, habitual transgressor and the lowest type of the race.—Palestine (Tex.) Plaindealer. We have no objection to the bad side of the negro's life being advertised if the good side is advertised also.—Helena (Ark.) Interstate Reporter. Don't throw your money away. Educate your children and buy homes. It is a Christian's duty to religiously educate his child—Sunday School Union Volunteer. When one sees the amount of enthusiasm manifested in the remarks of a speaker, you are forcibly impressed with the lack of effort on the part of the enthusiasts to do something worth while. It would be surely refreshing to see a body of colored people of the city of Dayton get together for the promotion of some commercial enterprise; not a church, not a Y. M. C. A., nor anything which savors of charity or public benefaction, but an enterprise backed and supported by the money and brains of colored men.—Dayton (O.) Record. A. L. Ballard Livery and Undertaking Shipping to All Points a Specialty Rooms for gentlemen by day or week. (All P. R. R. Co. Dining Car Men stop here.) Has not yet reached the 25,000 circulation class, but it has a circulation of the kind that pays. The Courier readers are loyal patrons of the "standpat" variety. They read the paper through, advertisements and all, and then give it to their friends. They are interested in our steady growth and are helping us grow stronger each week. They read the ads and patronize OUR ADVERTISERS. This confidence of the readers in the Courier is its strongest asset as an advertising medium. MAY WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO NUMBER YOU AMONG OUR SATISFIED ADVERTISERS? THE PITTSBURG COURIER Pittsburg's Only Colored Paper 1209 Wylie Avenue, Pittsburg, Pa. Has It Ever Occurred To You That information along any line of Life Insurance can be had FREE. Call or write Our Company Incorporated in Penna., May 9, 1870. Has Paid Out Millions. Is Examined by the Insurance Department of Penna. We Pay Liberally for Good Business. Our Record: 41 Years in Business. Get Particulars To-Day. Agents Wanted in Every Part of Penna. PHONES: Bell, 3364-J Highland P. & A., 881-X 26-Room Hotel Rooms for gentlemen (All P. R. R. Co. Dir. ARCHEAL & CO. UP TO DATE BILLIARIES Brunswick Late FIRST CLASS CIGARS, LAUNDRY AND EVERYTHING Mr. Henry Fowler in charge 1319-21 WYLIE AVENUE Advertising The Pittsburg Has not yet reached the it has a circulation The Courier readers are loyal. They read the paper through, and it to their friends. They are in to helping us grow stronger each wize OUR ADVERTISERS. This is Courier is its strongest asset as MAY WE HAVE TO NUMBER YOU ISFIED ADVERTISER THE PITTSBURG Pittsburg's Only 1209 Wylle Avenue Has It Ever O That information along can be had FRE The Thomas T. Suite 1-2-3-4 Smith Bldg., 8 BELL PHONE Our Company Incorporated Has Paid O Is Examined by the Insurer We Pay Liberally Our Record: 41 Get Particu Agents Wanted in B APOLLO PA. (Bv Carroll H. Stevenson.) After a very rainy day the weather changed for the better Sunday and the sun shone on us for a short while and in the evening quite a few people attended services at the Shiloh Baptist church. At 11:30 a. m. Rev. W. A. Mason gave out some wholesome instructions from John xv. 15. At 2:30 p. m. Superintendent Jno. Jackson held an excellent Sunday school. The scholars are all on the lookout for Santa Claus. At 7:30 p. m. we listened to an interesting sermon by licentiate Jas. Gee, from Heb. ii. 1, thus bringing to a close a glorious day. Rev. D. F. Bradley, P. E., will hold his fourth quarterly conference in the A. M. E. Zion church of Vandergrift on Sunday, December 24. There will be three services. 1 a. m. 3 p. m. and 7:45 p. m. All are cordially invited to attend. Mrs. J. S. Sutherland, who represented the Allison-Richey Co. of Houston, Tex., was successful in disposing of ten farms during the month of December. Rev. Mason was entertained at dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James. Mrs. Lucinda Walker is on the sick list. All miss her from her post of duty. Mrs. P. F. Tucker was calling on Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Coles of North Vandergrift on Sunday. Harry Barrett, who has returned from visiting friends in Philadelphia is visiting his brother, Walter, in Cleveland, O. Miss Hulad Sutherland, who had her chickens on exhibition at the Kiski-Valley Poultry show, was awarded first prize for Japanese bantams. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1911. Ballard Undertaking Points a Specialty Measure Vehicles For Hire que, Pittsburg, Pa. Branch Office 920 FEDERAL ST., NORTH SIDE P. & A. Phone 459 North men by day or week. (Being Car Men stop here.) THOMPSON ARD AND POOL ROOM Most Pattern Tables BARBER SHOP STATIONERY EMPORIUM NG MODERN Gorge Cigar and Laundry Dept. UE PITTSBURG Big Pointers Gourier 25,000 circulation class, but of the kind that pays. All patrons of the "standpat" variety. Advertisements and all, and then give interested in our steady growth and are week. They read the ads and patron-confidence of the readers in the can advertising medium. THE OPPORTUNITY AMONG OUR SAT-ERS? GOURIER Colored Paper Pittsburg, Pa. Occurred To You any line of Life Insurance E. Call or write Jackson Agency 06 Wylie Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. 9104-J GRANT. Used in Penna., May 9, 1876. Out Millions. Finance Department of Penna. for Good Business. Years in Business. Dollars To-Day. Every Part of Penna. Miss. Mary Turner returned from visiting friends in New Kensington. Please give all notes to Rev. Mason next week or lease at Tucker's residence. Agent MONESSEN, PA. (By Julius Smith.) Mrs. Anna Jones of Grant avenue, was the guest of Mrs. Mattle Ramsey on Sunday afternoon. Miss Ethel Skinner paid Miss Mattie Scales a call on Sunday afternoon. Notice—On and after January 1, 1912, Julius W. Smith will retire from the newspaper business and A. Lucas will succeed him. All persons owing him will please arrange to pay in full by that date. Mrs. Mary A. B. Richards of Monongahela, Pa., called on Mrs. A. A. Lucas and Mrs. J. L. Lee at the residence of their brothers, Mr. Jones of Summit avenue, last Sunday. Noah Jones has accepted the responsible position of night watchman and caretaker of the large grocery store of Greer Brothers. Sixth street and Echomaker avenue. We are glad to note that West Newton has again decided to contribute to the Courier, this time through Mrs. E. Green. Let the good work go on and make the best paper better. Bert Jones of the Pullman Company, visited his home here this week. Mrs. Cora Brown of McKeesport, called on Mrs. A. A. Lucas on Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. E. Pangburn of South Side, Pittsburgh, made a short business trip to our town last week.