Pittsburgh Courier

THIS PAPER IS NOW READ BY 12,000 COLORED PEOPLE WEEKLY THE PITTSBURGH COURIER. Organization Composed of Prominent Men and Women of Both Races Take Stand Against Lynching MANY NOTABLES ON PROGRAM VOL. III. NO. 19. EVENT OF: ASSOCIATION FOR UPLIFT TO M Organization Comp Men and Wome Take Stand Ag MANY NOTABLE Chicago.—The fourth annual meeting of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People will be held in this city for two days, beginning on Sunday afternoon, April 28, at which time the exercises will be held in the new Sinai temple. Miss Jane Addams will preside. The speakers for this session of the conference will be Dr. Emil G. Hirsch, Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard of New York and Professor William Pickens. This will be the first time the association has arrived for an annual meeting in the middle west, and as Chicago is easily reached from all sections the management expects a large representation of members, visitors and other persons directly concerned in human welfare. The sessions on Monday and Tuesday will be held in Handel hall. At the afternoon meeting on Monday Mr. Sherman C. Kingsley will preside. The speakers will be Dr. W. E. B. Du Bols, the eminent scholar, author, editor and lecturer, and Judge E. O. Brown of the appellate court. At the evening sessions Bishop B. T. Lee of Ohio will preside and will speak on "The Rule of the Strong." Miss Julia Lathrop of Hull House will open the discussion following Bishop Lee's speech. I. M. Rublnow of New York, Charles Edward Russell, magazine writer, and Professor Kelly Miller of Washington will be among the speakers. On Tuesday morning reports will be received from the different sections of the country. A reception will be held at Hull House Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Emmons Blaine will preside at the final meeting, which will be devoted to a discussion of "The Negro in the City." Among those on the program are Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, superintendent of schools; Mrs. Ida Wells; Barnett, John H. Walker, president of the United Mine Workshops of Illinois, and Rev. Jekin Lloyd Jones. In the list of topics for discussion are: "The Negro's Progress During the COLORED Y. M. C. A. ADDRESSED LAST SUNDAY Miss Nannie Burroughs Spoke to Large Audience At Bethol M. E. Church Miss Nannie Burroughs left her training school in Washington, D.C. long enough to come to Pittsburgh to give an address on Sunday, April 21, at Bethel A. M. E. church, in the interest of the Y. M. C. A. who are striving hard to raise the money for the building fund. Miss Burroughs prefaced her address by expressing a desire to uplift man because she is interested in humanity, lot of man's watchword. "Be a man." She likened the Y. M. C. A. to life lessons or saving station. She said in part, I have come to urge you on in your struggle. I believe that there is in this audience wrapped up in the man about me spelled talent that will bring results desired. We are here this afternoon with a single purpose—to help and uplift. If our men are going to be men it will be through the efforts of the women. I know the women are going to urge and abet the men. All great reforms are inspired or led by women. Men don't venture very far unless they have some encouragement from women. Now I am not much with the old-time way. If you live in the Fifteenth century why die in it—not belongs to the Fifteenth century and live in the Nineteenth or Twentieth century. The Y. M. C. A. work is to get a hold of men and make men of them. It has been claimed that this work will detract from the church. Not on orbit. They will make good workers in the church from the Y. M. C. A. I am interested in the association all over this country because it grows fast. Produces physical, mental and spiritual development. Men who like to play and who don't like to work lack manhood. I hate loath and the almost contempt for a man who walks all around a job and leaves it for a woman to tackle. I firmly believe we have enough brains about us, right here, to solve the problem confronting us—lick right in, use and direct the matter before us. The association helps man to be a Christian. (Continued on Page Eight.) Year," "Help For the Negro From the Silent South." "The Year's Record of Lynching and Other Manifestations of Mob Law," "Problems of Urban Life," "Segregation of the Negro," "Disfranchisement," "The Kansas City Dynamite Outrage," "The Psychology of Race Prejudice," "Denial of the Negro's Civil Rights in the North." The call for the convention declares its purpose in the following statement: "The purpose of the association, according to the call sent out by its officers, is to uplift the colored men and women of this country by securing to them the full enjoyment of their rights as citizens, justice in all the courts, and equality of opportunity everywhere." The association upholds the doctrine of "all men up and no man down." It abhors Negro crime, but still more the conditions which breed crime and most of all the crimes committed by mobs in the mockery of the law or by individuals in the name of the law. It believes that the scientific truths, of the Negro problem must be available to uplift the colored man and aid the white man to peace and social content. "Lynchings in the United States during 1911 were many and terrible. The number recorded is seventy-one, eight white and sixty-three colored, but unquestionably not all are reported. Many entirely innocent persons are among the victims. Thus in the lynching at Lake City, Fla., six Negroes were strung up as targets to be riddled with bullets in revenge for the killing of one white man. In Oklahoma, Georgia, and Kentucky innocent men have died deaths of torture at the hands of the mobs. Women, too, have been among the victims. As the terrible happenings have occurred the association has written to the governors of the various states demanding the punishment of the criminals. They sent courteous replies, but the end of the year 1911 saw no lyncher punished." Jack Johnson, champion heavyweight prizefighter of the world, was badly injured in an automobile collision Thursday morning, when his machine was struck by a large automobile truck, bearing state license No. 13215. Johnson, his chauffeur, James Brown, and his manager, M. Marvin, were in the automobile at the time. Johnson and Marvin were in one of the rear seats, and they were both thrown through the glass wind shield. The accident occurred just as the party left the Hotel Royal, in Fulton street. Johnson was assisted into the Hotel Royal by Detective George Cole who was in the vicinity at the time. Police Sergeon D E. Sable was called, and after an examination of Johnson, found that the muscles of his right shoulder were badly bruised. It was later learned that the auto truck which collided with the machine in which Johnson was coming from his hotel was owned by George S. Dougherty, who sales liquor dealer at 111 Water street. Champion Johnson, when seen last night at the Academy of Music, said that he had only entered the automobile when the accident occurred. Dr. Sabie, the police surgeon, he said, told him that he should not do any boxing for some time as the muscles of his right shoulder were brushed. "I did not want to disappoint the audience," said Johnson, "to took a chance, but I did not use my right hand in the bout. It is possible from the way I feel that I may have to give up my theatrical engagements. This means to me a loss of $1,700 per week. Johnson announced that his fighting days would close at midnight on Labor Day in September. He said that he had just started to train for his fight with Jack Flynn, in California, July 4, and he thought that the injury to his back in the automobile accident would require that he take a rest for some time. "I went into the game," said Johnson, "for themazma that was in it. But that auto truck came very near putting me out of business. I will take no more auto rides until I meet Flynn in July." SUBSCRIBE FOR THE COURIER. Work, Integrity, Tact, Temperance, Prudence, Courage, Faith. AFRICANS WERE NOT UNKNOWN TO WRITERS OF BIBLE Book of Late E. W. Blyden Gives Interesting Facts of the Ancestors of Our Race ETHIOPIANS IN ANCIENT TIMES In this book entitled "Islam Christianity and the Negro Race" the late Dr. Edward Wilmot Blyden delved deeply into both sacred and profane history, showing that Africans were not unknown to the writers of the Bible. Their peculiarities of complexion and hair were as well known to the ancient Greeks and Hebrews as they are to the American people today. And when they spoke of the Ethiopians they meant the ancestors of the people of black skin who for 250 years have been known as laborers on the plantations of the south. It is to these people and to their country that the psalmist refers when he says, "Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hand unto God." Of the hospitality and kindness of Africans he writes: "And this peculiarity of Africans is not a thing known in modern times. The ancients recognized these qualities and loved to descent upon them. They seemed to regard the fear and love of God as the peculiar gifts of the darker races. In the version of the Chaldean Genesis as given by George Smith the following passage occurs: "The word of the Lord will never fall in the mouth of the dark races whom he has made." Homer and Herodotus have written immoral eulogies of the race. Homer speaks of them as "the blameless Ethiopians" and tells us that it was the Ethiopians alone among mortals whom the gods selected as people fit to be lifted to the social level of the Olympian divinities. "Every year," the poet says, "the whole celestial circle left the summits of Olympus and betook themselves for their holidays to Ethiopia, where in the enjoyment of Ethiopian hospitality they sojourned twelve days. Ludian represents a skeptic, a freethinker, of his day, as saying in his irreverence toward the gods that on certain occasions they do not hear the prayers of mortals in Europe, because they are away across the ocean, perhaps among the Ethiopians, with whom they dine frequently, on their own invitation. It shows, the estimate in which the ancients hold the Africans, that they selected them as the only fit associates for their gods. The country itself has been called the cradle of civilization, and so it is. The germs of all the sciences and of the two great religions now professed by the most enlightened races were fostered in Africa. Science, in its latest wonders, has nothing to show equal to some of the wonderful things even now to be seen in Africa. On African soil stands that marvelous architectural pile, the great pyramid, which has been the admiration and despair of the world for a hundred generations. Scientific men of the present day, mathematicians, astronomers and divines, regard it as a sort of key to the universe—a symbol of the profoundest truths of science, of religion and of all the past and future history of man. INDEPENDENT POLITICAL LEAGUE NOW BUSY INDEPENDENT POLITICAL LEAGUE NOW BUSY The National Independent Political league is busily engaged with important matters pertaining to its next annual meeting, which will perhaps be held earlier this year than usual on account of this being the year for the nomination and election of a president of the United States. President John R. Clifford of Martinsburg, W. Va., will be heard from in no uncertain way as to the men and measures brought before the country for the consideration of voters. MRS. AZALIA HACKLEY TO BE HERE SHORTLY MRS. AZALIA HACKLEY TO BE HERE SHORTLY Mrs. Azalia Hackley, who created quite a furore in Chicago recently in the musical circles with the magnitude of the affair she arranged, which was a great success, will give a high class concert in Pittsburgh, Thursday, June 27, at either Carnegie Hall, Pittsburgh, or at one of the theaters. Everybody take notice of this date. It was just about eight years ago Mr. Wm. N. Page, manager of this paper, engaged her services for the Spencerfest held at Carnegie Hall which was the greatest musical event that has ever taken place in Pittsburgh. MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED DURING WEEK William Wornack ..... Pittsburgh Gerritude Thomas ..... Pittsburgh Oliver Jones ..... Pittsburgh Hannah C. Gallaway ..... Pittsburgh Eugene Lewis ..... Crafton, Pa. Dalsy Lewis ..... Crafton, Pa. PITTSBURG. PA., APRIL 27, 1912. "PRACTICAL EDUCATION" BY DR. A. L. LEWIN Is a Member of Board of Education and Was President of the Lawrenceville Board of Trade Practical Education can be discussed in a lengthy or brief way. It is my pleasure to give you the subject in as brief and full of matter of fact way as possible. It is the one effort of man and woman that brings him to the higher plane than his neighbor. It is the one condition that makes man and woman better. It sometimes makes one think that the only thing that builds up good society is the dollar, but it is praying to the idol rather than to the real God. There is also a danger in education. When man and woman get more education than they can truly absorb and make use of, then they become a menace to civilization. In fact, a man with too much education may be worse than a man without any. An education should not be carried further than the power of tolerance of the one to be educated. In this country education helps us greatly to bring us above our natural environment. To educate one means to bring out that which is in one. It is astonishing how children without the necessary training will lie and steal, and how, after training by competent parents, they will overcome these difficulties. It is by education a little later in life that we learn to distinguish right from wrong, the just from the unjust, the fair from the unfair, the truth from the untruth, etc. The purpose of education is to make man and woman in the true sense of the word and to make them happy and capable of earning an honest livelihood. The Board of Public Education hopes to establish in the City of Pittsburgh, institutions where boys and girls can learn to become useful and capable of earning a livelihood, and to put them on such a plane that when they leave our school, they can enter a school of whatever profession they desire. It will be our endeavor to bring the education to the homes of the people in order that the people may not have to go any distance for their education. It will be our endeavor to establish schools so that the poor as well as the rich may enjoy advantages alike. We will not, at least as far as my power goes, stand for any differences. The words spoken by our late President Abraham Lincoln at the Battle of Gettysburg implies everything that a good American citizen ought to be, and it is with these words in mind that our school system must be imbibed. We shall have the elementary grade school, we shall establish high schools in sufficient numbers, vocational schools (carpenters, cabinet makers, machinists, etc.), domestic schools, (cooking, sewing, millinery, etc.) It is the hope that we will be able to take care of all the children. whether well, backward or ill. The swimming pools will be extended, physical culture will be taught. I would say that nothing other than universality of the best education can now be tolerated, and that the coming generation as an interest in having educated parents. Social centers in order that schools may be used 12 hours instead of six will be formed, where parents may be taught their responsibility to children. There are three grounds on which our educational system rests. 1st.-The right of every man to the completest education the nation can give him on his own account, as this is necessary to the enjoyment of himself. 2nd.-The right of his fellow citizens to have him educated as necessary to their enjoyment of his society. 3rd.-The right of the unborn to be guaranteed an intelligent and refined parentage. These things can not be accomplished without the help of the public, for with public sentiment nothing can fail; without public sentiment nothing can succeed. I assure you that from one dollar that this board will spend, you will receive one hundred cents in return. Insurance is folly which will not cure itself—coercion must be applied in order to eradicate it. If parents neglect the child, an irreparable damage is done, and it has no power to ward off this damage. The State, therefore, becomes the natural protector of the child. It is certain that the child suffers a grave injury if allowed to grow up in ignorance. Ignorance limits the area of enjoyment; it cuts one off from the truest and lasting pleasures of all literature, science, and philosophy and they are closed to him forever. Governments in power much longer than ours, have made education compulsory. There were times in the history of the world when the man who could read or write was exempt from prison sentence. Today you will hardly find a prisoner who can not read and write. Vaccination has been made compulsory. It requires no argument for the eating of the pudding is the proof thereof. It is the duty of the stronger to protect the weaker. It seems to me that in the face of such a large colored population in the City of Pittsburgh it would be but fair to give our colored teachers an opportunity to take part in the education of the child. DR. A. L. LEWIN. UNREST AMONG THE RACE LEADERS REV. W. S. SMITH HAS GAINED FAME AS A LECTURER His Favorite Subject "Up the Ladder of Freedom" Is Illustrated With Pictures Jersey City, N. J.-That our people are more and more beginning to appreciate the educational value of lectures on literary, business and other subjects from which they gain general information is one of the encouraging signs of the progress which they are making toward the better and more important things in the body politic. Lectures given in the various Young Men's Christian associations, churches and in the public schools the past winter have had an unusually large hearing. Among the clergy the Rev. W. S. Smith, pastor of the Monumental Baptist church, in this city, has gained REV. W. S. SMITH. wide fame as a lecturer. His favorite subject is "Up the Ladder of Freedom," being a rapid glance at the struggles of the race in this country from 1619 to the present time. Rev. Mr. Smith's work as a lecturer is highly indorseed by prominent ministers and educators. The lecture is illustrated with pictures showing the condition of the race in slavery days and the progress which it has made during forty-seven years of freedom. The services of the lecturer are in great demand by both white and colored people. It gives the former a better idea of what the race has accomplished as free citizens as well as the hardships which the race underwent as slaves. It wins friends for the cause of justice and equality before the law for which the colored people must continue to contend for as long as their rights and privileges are jeopardized by a race discriminating public upon the unreasonable ground of color. Rev. Mr. Smith is a Virginian by birth and is well educated. As a pastor he has done a good work of uplift among his parishioners. Some of his friends have endeavored to induce him to give up lecturing and devote his whole time to the ministry, but he says that he feels called of God to do both. He is a man of great ambition and is as thoughtful as he is ambitious. He is a preacher of known ability and the author of several pamphlets on various subjects. PROMINENT NEGROES WILL VISIT THIS CITY Men Signally Honored By President of United States Will Speak Here Two colored men, who have been signally honored by the President of the United States, will be in Pittsburgh April 29, as the guests of the Leonidii club, and will speak at the club's annual celebration of the birthday of General Grant, which will be observed next Monday evening. The visitors are William H. Lewis, recently appointed by President Taft assistant attorney general of the United States, and Robert H. Terrell, judge of the municipal court of the District of Columbia, and the only representative of the Race holding a judgeship in the United States. Both these men are graduates of Harvard college. Judge Terrell was first appointed judge by former President Roosevelt. Mr. Lewis was former center and a coach of the Harvard football team and was Assistant United States Attorney at Boston when given his present appointment. The Leondi club is, composed of our representative colored citizens of Pittsburgh and vicinity, who own and maintain this $15,000 club house at Fullerton street. NOTICE: ALL OUT-OF-TOWN NOTES MUST BE IN THIS OFFICE BY WEDNESDAY NOON. TO ALL AGENTS—WE FIND IT NECESSARY TO MAKE OBLIGATORY UPON ALL AGENTS TO SEND REMITTANCE WITH NOTES TO INSURE PUBLICATION. MUST HAVE CHURCH NEWS TUESDAY. THE NATIONAL LEGISLATION MATTERS AROUSE INTEREST Possibility of Endangering the Citizenship of the Colored Americans Give Nation Wide Inquiry The Annual Fair and Dinner for Benefit of the Home For Aged Washington-The often repeated statements by prominent colored men, as well as by prominent white men, that the Negro should evince more interest in and concern for the many economic questions that are up for discussion and solution instead of sticking so close to the race problem appears to be harkened to if the hundreds of letters pouring in to prominent men of Washington from colored men in every section of the country can be accepted as an interest and concern. These letters bear on the so called initiative, referendum and recall of decisions now widely discussed and agitated from coast to coast. It appears that the colored people of the country, and especially those in the south and close northern states, have suddenly awakened to the fact that such a change might contain a "sleeper" that would completely nullify the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the federal constitution as any repeal of them by congress. There is not a single question under discussion today the finality of which does not affect in some measure the colored people. A small question bearing harmless aspects may embody large issues, the adoption of which may mean weal or woe for the race. The referendum is a high sounding word, and because of this fact many of our people may be deceived into the belief that they are beyond its reach. As citizens we sometimes feel that we do not change the same justice in courts of law and from juries that is meted out to others. But this fact should not argue against the stability of our institutions, which are the product of laws that are permanent and organic. Sentiment Rules Rather Than Law. If the Negro does not always get what is due to him in the courts when the issue is a denial of his civil rights it is not because of the nonexistence JOHN WESLEY A. M. E. CHURCH RECEPTION Final arrangements have been made by the committee for the grand leap year reception. Monday evening, April 29, at 8:30. The following program will be given in the auditorium: Opening chorus by V. C. E. and orchestra: prayer, Rev. W. L. Lee. pagter; introduction of the master of ceremonies by C. E. Jones; solo, Madam Cora Taylor Boykin; address, Attorney W. H. Randolph; the "rehearsal" of the old songs by choir; address, LET EVERYONE HELP THIS The Annual Fair and Dinner for and Infirm, Co The annual fair and dinner for the benefit of the Home for Aged and Inform Colored Women will be held at Old City hall, Market street, Thursday, May 2. The dinner will be from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and no matter how short your time or how big your hurry, we will serve you promptly with a full hot dinner. At night the fair with its gaily decorated booths, charming airs and delightful music, will be the attraction. There will be plenty of seats arranged around the hall for all to rest and talk. Let every one who can come and help this most worthy charity. Mrs. Eva Williams, chairman: Mrs. M. V. Brady, secretary: Mrs. M. A. Richards, president. Not in the history of the institution have we had so many and such pressing appeals from the aged for shelter. Charity workers of both races apply to this home when a worthy case of the colored poor comes to FIVE CENTS A COPY AGE LEADERS LEGISLATION HOUSE INTEREST ingering the Citizen- lored Americans Wide Inquiry R. AMENDMENTS of the statute in his favor, but rather because of the existence of a local sentiment which is often substituted for a verdict in his favor. Regardless of these injustices, the law remains fixed in the statutes, and his psychological moment may eventually come when he and those rights to which he is entitled will be on a par with any otl and justice will be aw. But he fixed laws are to be change those who have not the interest of the whole people at heart. Suppose in any community a question of denial to the Negro of certain rights was proposed under the recall of decisions. What would happen? A majority of the people, being white and more or less infected with race prejudice, would vote these rights away from him, and all the Negro votes in the country would not be able to stem the tide. Under the Australian ballot system of voting, where secrecy is jealously observed and preserved, this could be done by white men, regardless of party affiliations, who publicly profess friendship for the colored people. Again, suppose a southern state should pass a law disfranchising the Negro, or any northern state, for the matter of that. That disfranchising law would immediately get into the courts and, on appeal to the supreme court, would be held unconstitutional. Then if the right to recall decisions existed the decision of the court would be taken before the people and by them reversed and the constitutionality of the law confirmed, and the Negro would be out of politics and out of every right vouchsafied by the constitution. There is hardly a state in the south where the entire white vote would not be cast for the disfranchisement of the Negro. To say that the race is much alarmed over the possibility of such a law being enacted is putting it mildly. Hon. Harry W. Hass of Philadelphia; solo Miss Ida Conrad; remakes by pastor; solo, Madame Cora Taylor Boykin; matrons of honor, Madame Julia Marie Craig, Lillie Jefferson, Annie Strothers, Ida J. Taylor and Anne Harris; program arranged by Mrs. A. L. Anderson; master of ceremonies, Attorney Robert L. Vann; general manager, Charles A. Anderson. Supper served from 10 to 12 p.m. The contestants will report at the conclusion of the program. The handsome gold watch and diamond ring have been on exhibition several weeks. The contestants are: Mrs. Estellie Robinson, Mary Hamlin, Rebecca Mason, Ida Melson, Eliza Green, Maud Clark, Amelia Campbell, Lucy Russell and Rosie Fisher. MOST WORTHY CHARITY For Benefit of the Home For Aged Colored Women their notice. We have 34 elderly women now in the home who were not able to earn shelter, food and clothing for themselves. They were all over 50 years of age when admitted and their ages range from that to 30 years. Every bed room save one has two beds, and all have been occupied for at least two years, and only as the heavenly Father removes one can we take another. This annual effort is toward the support of this large family of old women. The management feels the pressure of the hard times and high cost of living, as well as the wages of those who do the work at the home. The appropriation from the State is a great help, but not near sufficient for this work. Hence our appeal to you, the generous public, for your support. Admission to fair, adults, 25 cents, children, 15 cents; dinner 50 cents. SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1912. MRS. E. JONES Dealer and Manufacturer of HUMAN HAIR GOODS Swatches, Puffs, Transformations. Straightening Combs and Hackels. Artistic Wig Making a Specialty. 905 WYLIE AVENUE PITTSBURGH, PA. Bell Phone. Court 4602. Union Printing Company J. T. CORT. PROPRIETOR. 428 FOURTH AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA. JACKSON Funeral Director FINE CARRIAGES FOR OPERA PARTIES. Telephones: Bell 2015 Hemlock, P. & A. 1301-F. The oktest undertaker in Pittsburgh and a member of the Undertakers' Association. Norman P. Socks, Manager. Charles' W. Socks. P. & A. Phone 1301-F. Miles Printing Co. Commercial Work Our Specialty. Church and Society Work. 1209 Wylie Avenue. Pittsburgh, Pa. M. W. MOUNTS OLD BOOK EXCHANGE. Law, School, Medical, Mechanic and Religious Books. Dought, Sold and Exchanged. 626 Penn Avenue. PITTSBURGH, PA. UNIONTOWN SPARKS AND FLASHES Mr. Morris Day at St. Phil. A. M. E. Sunday. April 25. presents to the men's meeting every month by members of the society. H. Thompson, D. D. spent several hours at Vanderbilt Silicon Company in the late afternoon services. Mr. filled the public at the last Sunday. Mr. Jefferson Thompson of Suffolk, after receiving a few days with his sister Mrs. Harriet Jones, on Norwich town's poor, returned home last Monday. There was a man present last summer, who had spent last summer in Norwich, and was returning to his native friends. He was operated on and was in good health, and was improved in his health. He was well. He was in good health. Recommendations: St. Paul, A. M. E. Church. Suffolk was a high day last week, and the Anderson, the present and very interim, have been attending to large and important undertings. St. Paul, MN. will be Men's Day in St. Paul. There will be three services, 1:00 a.m. m. and 7:45 p.m. Hon. H. W. Bass of Philadelphia, and Prof. Thomas H. Brown of Vanderbilt will deliver addresses at 11 a.m. A male chorus of 25 voices under the management of Lewis Duffin will sing. 2:00 p.m. Several addresses and papers will be read by speakers and teachers from Brownville, Connellisville, Fairchance and Shitfield," also by men of our city. Dr. Dyer of Brownville will deliver the principal address, subject "Man's Relation to the more civic and Spiritual government of the world." Several solos of duets will be sung by men at this service, in connection with the great chorus. S. P. M.—Men will have charge of this service, in papers, addresses, solos and duets. All of the secret orders are invited to attend the 3 and 4 p.m. services. Let every body get busy. FOR FIRST CLASS CLEANING AND PRESSING Go to DUFFINS Suits made for $10.00 Up. Johnstown, Pa. A note of the prettiest affairs of the society was held Wednesday evening at the Eclectic club in the town of Newcastle and dame at the Fur- trance club in the town of Newcastle. The display in work room of the numbers was location paused. Addresses were prominent people presented in the town of Newcastle. A district ball was held by the members of the club, who are Miss Lois Jennison, president; Miss Violet Hail, secretary; Miss Charles Porter, tre- turer; Mrs. Fred Kennard, Mrs. Sue Hunley, Mrs. Crace, Moore, Miss Bessie Edds, Nellie and Josephine Waugh. A grand reception was given on Tuesday evening by the Naomi Household of Ruth No. 652, G.U. O. of Furtrance, Mrs. Crace, hail. Addresses were made by some of the leading Negro citizens of the town. John Hayden district Grand Master of Pennsylvania being the guest of honor. An excellent supper was served at a late hour. The reception was sived under the direct supervision of Mrs. Sheldon; Banks; Mrs. Henry Lunch; Mrs. Fielding Bundy; Mrs. Ellen Poole; Mrs. Mollie Banks; Mrs.丝安 Anderson; Mrs. Ida Minner. H. B. Martews, brother of O. Mrs. Hornsley is taking an extension our through Ohio. Mrs. L. Luna Garris is in Washington, D. C. on business. She will visit the courts of the lodges throughout North Carolina before returning. Mrs. Caryg Heiman has returned from a three week's trip to Atlantic City. She was the guest of her aunt, Mrs. L. Wright. The St. Home and Foreign Missionary society met at the home of Mrs. Minnie Smith last Friday evening. Joseph Sheet has accepted a position on one of the large boats on the Great Lakes. Charles O. Henderson has zone to his home in West Virginia. Mrs. John F. Williams entertained the E. L. Davis club at her home on Adams street. An entertaining program was conducted and a delicious lunch served. Mrs. Molle Banks is married to A. A. M. E. Church ladies are invited to show a hairstyle in the house. Mrs. Minnie Hull is the Dr. John L. Allen of Reading, Pa. adored chair of Rev. Colman, preached at the Mr. Olive Baptist church on Sunday evening. Miss Bessie Edds entertained Misses Vinah Hail and Larry Colman at dinner on Sunday. Miss Mary Lewis entertained I at six o'clock to Sunday, the Misses Myr the Banks, Mary Burrell, Genevieve Harrison, Elisle Bryant and Martin Pool and William Burrell. BEAVER FALLS (13: Eva Holmes.) Thursday, April 15, marked the date of one of the finest first-class musicians given in the valley. The Rochester Second Baptist church was filled to its capacity with an enthusiastic and appreciative audience and every number on the program was neatly enjoyed. Miss Marcelia Butler of Beaver, rereaded a beautiful selection on the piano which was well received. Miss Sahal Writt, soprano sociist of Pittsburgh, more than delighted her audience with her sales and those present were not disappointed in hearing Pittsburghs soprano. Madam M. Oyelie Boll, reddler, was at the piano and more than pleased with listeners with two the selections. Miss Emma Mowrer sociist of Salem, O. C., was before and showed her vocal talents. The audience into rapids over her shining and a great music career is predicted or Miss Howard. Mrs. Mawra is well appointed to advance in her position of "Classical." The trial selection by Dr. C. A. Butler, the most vocal person and man, was among the touring of the pro gram and played the hearts of those present as was shown by the musicians on them. Dr. Robert Brown, whose reputation is strong, was in Bikhoven, Germany, two locations on the road. Dr. Brown was also accompanist for the solist. He increased success in the town and the city. Robinson is on the entertainment is to be organized in soothing such that the program served as a demonstration of the program by one of the clan. The condition of Thomas Bell, who was taken to the New Brighton hospital a few weeks ago, is worse than years for his recovery are entertained. The ladies of the Rebecca Aldridge club of Beaver Valley will hold entertainment in Fox's hall. Third avenue and Eighth street. Beaver Falls, on Thursday evening. May have all friends and well wishers to attend this entertainment. Mrs. Rebecca Aldridge, the state president of the Federation of Negro Women's clubs, will be present and deliver an address. She will explain the needs of the Eastbrook Home of New Castle. Come and hear her. Admission 10 cents. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Robinson of Beaver Falls, were the guests on Sunday of relations and friends in manhood. O. Mrs. Robinson and children. Thelma and Charles returned home last Monday evening. Heir Apparent Said an up-town politician to his son: "Look at me! I began as an inspector of elections, and here I am an adderman-at-large; and what is my reward? Why, when I die, my son will be, the greatest rascal in the city." Which the young hopeful replied: "Yeah, dad, when you die—but not till them." THE RING and the MAN WITH SOME INCIDENTAL DELATION TO THE WOMAN By CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY ILLUSTRATIONS BY DEARBOURN MELVILL COPYRIGHT 1920 BY HARVEST TIMBRE & COMPANY A foolish young tenderfoot becomes fascinated with the bold, artilw wife of a drunken prospector in a western mining town. They prepare to slope in a blinding light, and the woman maudlin husband. He is shot by the wife, but the chivalrous boy pins a note to the body taking the crime of a railroad station. The woman's horse falls exhausted; the youth pits her on his own and follows hanging to the stirrup straps. Seeing her and her horse, she enters into a snow drift and rides on. Half-frozen he stumbles into the railroad station just as the train bears the woman away. She is taken to Gormly, is a multi-millionaire in New York. He meets 'Eleanor Hallane, a beautiful and wealthy settlement worker, and cooperates with her in a steamship line and finds himself frustrated in plier and track extension plans by grafting aldermen, backed by the Gotham Traction Company. Stompy Christmas eve brings the Haldanes to his country home. Gormly makes the marooned party comfortable. CHAPTER IV.—Continued. "Never!" said Gormy. "And I confess to you that of late I have had similar thoughts. I want to do something for humanity." he went on slowly. "There are certain people who stimulate us to achievement, who awaken our ambition, who quicken our hope, who-Don't you comprehend? You have put something into my life which it lacked. Now I want to do something for—you, Miss Haldane." "For you and my fellow men; for your approval and theirs. You see you have brought me in touch with a state of being of which I knew little. I was not born into your society. Until I saw you, I had no desire to mingle in it. I have not taken a vacation, except business trips aboard for twenty-five years. For instance, this is the first time in all that long period that I have stood alone in a room and talked socially, by her gracious privilege, on terms of outward equality, with a fine, high bred, capable, woman. Can't you understand how you exert a new influence, how you have brought a new force into my life, and that from my acquaintance with you results are certain to come?" He sat down on a chair on the other side of the fireplace as he spoke, bringing himself on a level with her. She looked at him with curious intensity. She saw his smooth shaven face seamed and lined with thought and care. She marked the strength, the intelligence, the resolution, in his countenance. It laced completing touches of tenderness, it lacked the woman's influence; but aside from that it was altogether admirable, illie, and strong. "I want to do something," he said, "to make my wrist" his voice trembled, "the respect of" he looked at her—"of people like you," he went en, and I am going to do something, too. "You frighten me," said the girl appalled as we often are by the granting of our prayers, the acceptance of our suggestions, the realization of our hopes. "I don't like to feel that what you are doing is for—for—" "Say it, Miss Haldane. For you." I can't assume such a responsibility," she protested; "and such a motive is not the highest, the best." "Nonsense!" said the man almost roughly. "The best things in life are done for the sake of good women, and there is not a human being in the world who possesses your powers and capabilities who does not thrill to responsibilities. In your heart of hearts you are glad—or you will be glad if through your inspiration something is accomplished, by whatever way or means it may be—even by me—for mankind." And the woman knew that the words, were true. She thrilled even then to the strength of his protestation. "You see I know humanity. I don't know society; you observed that by my awkward reception of you all have thought." "Indeed," said the girl; "it was most graceful and kindly hospitality, and we deeply appreciate it." "It is good of you to say so. These things I could learn," he hesitated, "if I had some one who knew to teach me; but other things I know myself. I am at a discount with women; but I can handle men and I know men. Every human being is glad to ally himself with success. If you and I together do something, you will be happy if we succeed." "And miserable if you fall?" queried the girl with a nervous laugh. "We will not fall." "You are proposing a partnership." "There is a quadrant partnership existing between us now in the settlement house. Your devotion, your generous thought for those people, with my business back of you—for it is back of you, Miss Haldane, in that or anything else to the last limit—is going to produce results there that nobody dreams of." "Are you going to devote yourself to that?" "No," said the man quickly. "I have something higher and greater in view. That's your part of the partnership; mine is to help you, and—" "And what are you going to do?" asked the girl, intensely interested, leaning forward, her breath coming quicker. "I am going to be mayor of New York, for one thing, Miss Haldane." "Yes. And then." It touched him immensely to see the matter of fact way with which she accepted his stupendous declaration. "And then, I am going to be the best mayor New York ever had, an honest THE FASHION OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY "I Want to Do Something for You, Miss Haldane." ING IAN SOME INCIDENTAL ION TO THE WOMAN VIRUS TOWNSEND BRADY IMSTRATIONS BY DEARBORN MELVILL COPYRIGHT 1900 BY MEYFIELD, TARD & COUPLEY mayor. The administration shall be conducted on business lines, and business with me doesn't spell chicane. There isn't a dishonest dollar in my fortune. You will forgive my personal talk? I don't often resort to it; but you make me tell whatever ypu want to know." How did this man divine that these things were things she wanted to know? thought the girl, as she nodded gravely to him. "Go on!" "I am going to suppress graft; I am going to break up the gangs that rob the city; I am going to bring the traction companies, the freight and the others, to terms. I am going to make them give the people good value for the franchises they enjoy; I am going to reform the police force and stop its taking toll of crime, its connivance with sin. New York is going to be free, and I am going to tell it the truth and make it so!" He stopped and, not trusting himself to look at her, stared into the fire again. There was a long pause. "Well," said he, flashing a direct look at her, "what do you think of it, Miss Haldane?" "It is the greatest dream that ever entered a human brain," said the girl quietly. "It is my business, it has been my business all my life, Miss Haldane, to make dreams come true, and I am dreaming now a greater dream, dearer to me than that I have outlined before you." What could he be mean? She strove to meet his glance fairly; but her own eyes fell before his own direct gaze. "I Want to Do Something "Do you think I can do it, make my dream come true?" he asked. "Which dream, Mr. Gormly?" "Both of them." "That you can be mayor of New York; that you can redeem the city; that you can restore to the people their liberties—I don't know. Other men have tried it and have failed." "And I may fall, too," answered Gormly very quietly. "Such achievements are not the results merely of one man's efforts. The people themselves must respond. Whether I can make them do that or not will determine the issue." "I think you can, Mr. Gormly. You have made me respond." "And will you help me?" "I! What can I do?" "Do what you have done tonight; listen to me, believe in me, inspire me, be my silent partner in my endeavor as I have been yours in your endeavor." "And after you have succeeded?" "That's the other dream, and—" "Mr. Gormly," she said resolutely. "If you make that, dream come true, you will have done more service to humanity than has ever been done by a citizen of this republic, and you will be the greatest man on this side of the world." "And if my other dream comes true," said Gormly, "I will be the happiest." "Nay they all come true!" said the girl impulsively rising and giving him her hand. "Do you mean treat?" eagerly asked the man, gratefully taking her preferred hand in his own firm, resolved class. "I don't know," she faltered, "what your other dream is; but if it corresponds with the one you have told me, I repeat the prayer." "At the proper time" said the man, "you shall know meanwhile, tomorrow will be work." "Tomorrow will be Christmas," said the girl, smiling. "My Christmas present to you, Miss Haldane, will be the beginning of the campaign. "And mine to you, Mr. Gormly," she returned laughing, "will be my good wishes and hearty encouragement in your labor." "I could wish nothing better," he went on lightly, glad and relieved at this change from the intensity of the interview. "I shall announce myself as a candidate for the mayoralty at the next election. Representatives of the minority party have already approached me on that subject." "And what did you say to them?" "Nothing yet. You see this is all new work to me, and I must consider my way carefully." "Have you ever made a public speech?" "Never in my life." Never in my life. "Well, if you can talk to the people as you have talked to me tonight, I am sure you will win." The girl said it artlessly, carelessly; but her heart leaped to the assurance. "That's to be determined," he said. "Most men would say it was easier to talk to one woman than to a thousand people. I have had experience with neither. As I told you, it has been a quarter of a century since I talked alone with a woman." "Was that in the west of which you spoke?" "I am glad to tell you. It was in the west. She wasn't a good woman, Miss Haldane, he said simply, "and I have never seen her since that night." "Didn't you know that she was not a good woman?" asked the girl. She had no right whatever to continue this conversation: but something impelled her. He had been very frank. His interest in her was now matched by hers in him. "Not at that time; I did not suspect, that is, I was only a boy of nineteen." "Nea Miss Haldane." "Poor man!" said the girl half to herself. "Not at all," answered Gormly; "you were quite worth waiting for." "Eleanor," said her father at this moment, "won't you take my hand? I want to talk to our host a little myself." for You, Miss Haldane." And although Eleanor, as she had said, caused nothing for bridge, the interruption at this juncture was very welcome to her. CHAPTER V. Mr. Haldane is Greatly Surprised. Mr. Haldane was in something of a quandary. For certain reasons and for some time he had been contemplating an interview with Gormly. Not only did he greatly desire the interview which was indeed necessary, almost vital in fact, to the furtherance of certain matters in which he was deeply concerned, but he did not desire that his interest, personal interest, that is, in the affair should appear. In other words he wanted to talk seriously about something of great importance to him without disclosing that the matter was of more than passing moment. The opposition had greatly underrated the character and ability of Gormly. The Gotham Freight Traction company, for instance, had poo-poohed him at first, and even now, though the public press was filled with accounts of him and his doings, they still greatly underestimated his qualities. Haldane himself had joined in this depreciation until he had met Gormly. He had as yet enjoyed no opportunity of conversation with him, save in a general way, as has been seen; but he was accustomed to deal with men, and he saw instantly that he was face to face with a personality at once able, courageous, determined, and strong. Behold the two men seated on either side of the bright fire in the library, Haldane smoking one of Gormly's excellent Havana; glasses, bottles, and ice on a little table at hand. He had disapproved of Mrs. Haldane's manner, not because he thought it unappropriate to the occasion, but on account of the peculiar qualities and characteristics of Gormly and the relationship in which he stood to certain matters of importance. He had been inclined as the first entrance to follow his wifes patronizing, arrogant assumption of supervocity; but now he strove to infuse all the geniality and cordiality possible into his voice and manner. On the other hand, Gormly naturally had a deep interest in Haldane. As the father of the woman he loved, he would necessarily be a great factor in the battle he meant to wage for her hand. His consent and influence, while not absolutely essential, would naturally be of great value. If he could by any means win the support and countenance of the great financier, his dream would be by that much the more easy of realization. He had an idea, however, that this would be impossible. That did not dawn him or render him the less alert. To win Haldane's consent possibly might be no more practicable than to win Miss Haldane's consent. Yet Gormly was accustomed to attempt the impossible, and nine times out of ten to achieve it. That Haldane had any relationship, or could have any relationship, to him other than that of a prospective father-in-law never entered his head. That was sufficient to render the interview memorable to him. The conversation began with a remark from the older man about the weather. I have long wondered why the weather is the staple inaugural topic. "I have rarely experienced so severe a snowstorm," said Haldane blantly. "I have been coming down to Long Island in winter off and on ever-since I was a boy, and this surpasses anything within my knowledge." "It is bad enough for New York," responded Gormly. "Here when the temperature gets down to the zero mark and the wind blows thirty or forty miles an hour, and it snows hard all day, we call it a blizzard. Most people welcome this sort of snow storm because of the mild excitement of the situation, and the street cleaning department rejoices at the opportunities of graft presented." At that last remark, though Haldane had no ostensible connection with the street department, or any other department of the municipal administration in fact, the man slightly lifted his head and glanced for a moment with deeper interest at his companion. "I take it from your allusion that you have expirenced worse storms than this." "I have been in real blizzards, Mr. Haldane," answered Gormly quietly; "more than once where the wind's velocity was scarcely to be measured, where the temperature was from twenty to thirty below, where the sleet needles cut like whips, and the storm had full sweep unchecked and unbroken by any thing. However, I am glad of the storm in this instance, since it has enabled me to extend to you and your party the shelter of my roof. I have been acquainted—I have had the privilege of knowing, that is—your daughter for some time, and I am honored in the acquaintance of her father and mother and your friends." "You say you have known my daughter." "You say you have known my daughter for some time?" "I have had that pleasure." "If I mistake not, she said that you had been interested in her settlement work. Quixotic imaginations of an enthusiastic girl, my dear sr; but I humor her." "You do well," returned the other. "And if you will give me leave to differ with you, I hardly call it Quixotic. I have examined into the plan thoroughly, and I must say it strikes me as being altogether admirable as well as entirely feasible. I hope and believe it will succeed." "Quite so," returned Haldane. He was not in the least interested in the matter. He realized, however, that it would be wise to pretend interest that he did not feel, after such an expression on the part of his host. "Your judgment as to the feasibility of the plan, therefore, I consider most valuable, and I am glad it has your approbation. I presume that you have-" "I have assisted Miss Haldane in every way possible," returned Gormly, who did not propose to be questioned as to the details of his relation to the scheme. "Of course," he went on, "your own reputation as a financier is known to me as it is to all of New York, and if I may be permitted to say so I am of the opinion that a large part of your executive ability, not to say genius, has descended to your daughter." "Thank you," was the answer. "Eleanor is certainly a most capable young woman." "And it must be a source of gratification to you that she chooses to exercise her capability in this direction rather than in the vain and sinless social avocations of a large and influential section of our so called best people in the city." "Certainly, very true. But frankly, I could wish that there was a more equable division of time between the —er— high and the low, so to speak; that Eleanor could give more of her attention to those —duties, which after all, my dear Mr. Gormly, however we men of the world may depreciate them, go to make up so large a part of this, and leave more of the detail—work of this institution to others." (TO BE CONTINUED.) Modern-Day Miracle. The people of Canada take their religion most seriously and use it in all connections. A Toronto Star subscriber contributes the following remarkable statement to that paper: "Mr. Editor: I, as a Christian subscriber, wish you to print the following: I dug one bill, medium size, of my potatoes, and to my surprise I got one hundred and thirty-five potatoes out of it. Ever since I planted the potatoes on April 4 I have earnestly prayed the Lord to bless all my work and even perform a miracle on me if he saw fit. So it appears he has performed a miracle for me all right. I affirm the above to be the solid truth, as I dug the potatoes and counted them. Some I tell of it call me a liar because I tell the truth. God is my witness, I dare not lie." Egyptian Savant Honored. Hamid Waly, the Arab sheik, who acts as lecturer for the Arabic language in the Berlin Oriental seminary, has been awarded the degree of doctor of medicine. This is the first time that an Egyptian student has received a German university degree. SO SAYS DR. B. F. RILEY, WHOSE VERY LIFE WORK PLACES HIM IN POSITION TO SEE CONDITIONS IN A FAR BETTER LIGHT THAN, PERHAPS, WE OURSELVES CAN SEE THEM. What has long been called the race question in the south is at last beginning to be approached in a temper fairly free from partisan bias. It has been a period of throes through which the colored race has passed, but history teaches that such have attended on every people who have had to struggle from a lower to a higher position. Civilization has advanced only where man has had to struggle for existence, and where the struggle has been the most intense, the advance has been the most rapid. The African race in America has been no exception to this rule. While there are occasions and reasons for discontent among the negro people of the country, because of the injustice and cruelty to which they are subjects, I want to issue a note of cheer to my abrethren in black, as a life-long friend belonging to the white race, that there is now reason for cheer and hopefulness. The clouds are certainly breaking, and the light is beginning to stream through. I would not mislead any with false hope, nor do I say that, there will not yet be friction and trouble, but I am in position to say that the friends of the colored man are multiplying, as I am in position to know, and if they could see the situation as I do, they would take fresh cheer and press with vigor on. The general bearing and behavior of the colored race through the' turmoil of all the years has been, 'for the most part, most commendable, and still is. This is helping to dissolve the difficulty and lend practical aid to every white friend enlisted in the work for the good of the colored people in which work I have been engaged for three years. I am in position to know that there is light ahead. We are going to solve this question and bring joy and light to a people in an era of a second emancipation—Birmingham (Ala.) National Review. A $50,000 COLORED BRIDE A $50,000 COLORED BRIDE Aubrey, Tex—In the country near this place there lived a dainty little brown skinned maiden who dreamed of a lover constant and true. Perhaps her dreams even included a lower of great wealth. So when it was learned that the maiden was really to wed a millionaire her relatives and friends were beside themselves with joy, and even her jealous friends, who envied her good luck, wished he a successful matrimonial voyage though a stipulation in her marriage agreement stated that she and her husband were not to live together. Mysterious! It happened this way. A very smooth young man who knew that maledicts read the colored papers advertised for a wife, staring that she must have $1,000 in her own right and the lucky girl was to be given $5,000 more. The young man was supposed to be the heir to a great fortune left him on condition that he marry by a certain date, and that the girl have $1,000. Miss Lula Lougrand, who lives near here had the $1,000 and more, too. Correspondence brought the two moneyed young people together and arrangements made for the wedding. Relatives of the girl hired a lawyer, who supposed he had made a careful investigation and reported everything as O. K. McFall, as the young man was mamed, signed papers agreeing to give the girl the $50,000 upon their marriage and the ceremony was performed and a few days later the couple left for Muskegowla, Okla. Now the girl is back and to date has failed to collect her $50,000, and everybody asks everybody else why McFall does not send the money to his bride. McFall was supposed to have a diamond mine and property unlimited. People even sympathised with him because of the conditions of the will that forced him to wed a girl he knew. not while his heart was held by another fair maiden. If McFall was a fake, pure and simple, at least he was a live one, and knew that advertising paid. NEGROES OUGHT TO DRIVE PLOWS, NOT AUTOS, SAYS JUDGE. Macon, Ga.—"If Negroes will stick to their plains instead of learning to operate ants, they and the south will be better off," declared Judge W. H. Felton of the Bibb superior court in refusing to dismiss a warant against George McDonald, a negro chauffeur, who was charged with having used his employee's machine without permission. "It depreciates the general efficiency of the negro race for some of them to be employed as chauffeurs," added the judge. AN AWKWARD BREAK. "You've made a mistake in your paper," said the indignant man, entering the editorial sanctum. "I was one of the competitors at the athletic match yesterday, and you have called me the well-known lightweight champion." "Well, aren't you?" said the editor. "No, I'm nothing of the kind, and it's confoundedly awkward, because you see I'm a coal merchant." HER DIFFICULTY. Little Mary was telling what she thought was an exciting story about a dream. She stuttered in her effort, gulped and paused hopelessly without completing the sentence. "Why child what is the matter?" "Why, child, what is the matter?" her mother asked. The little girl smiled ruefully, and replied, "I swallowed a word." To look sance at other customs from ours, ought to make us expect others to find our customs laxable. POUR C. W. POSEY, President. H. E. RICKOND, Secretary. R. L. VANN, Treasurer. MAIN OFFICE: 1209 Wylie Avenue. Telephones: 2169 J. Grant and Hill $99-W. Published Every Saturday. 1209 Wylie Avenue, Pittsburgh Subscription in advance, yearlyE$1.50 Six months . . . 1.00 Single copy . . . 0.55 All communications must be addressed to the Pittsburgh Courier, signed by the author, not later than Wednesday of each week. High class advertisements accepted at reasonable rates upon application. News, interesting to the public, will be published free if void of advertising matter. Local advertisements, 1 cent per word. Incorporated under the laws of Pennsylvaia, 1910. Entered as second class matter at the Pittsburgh Post Office. May 10, 1910, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SPECIAL NOTICE. All matter intended for publication in the Courier must be written on one side of paper. Social, church and personal news will be freely published. Essays and poetry are only accepted for publication from our special correspondence. In personal subscribing Courier, the Courier renews the script when the same shall have expired without further notice from us. Any aegat or official whose conduct is unbecoming or discurteous to our subscribers or advertiser will kindly report in writing to Pittsburgh Courier Publishing Company. MISS BURROUGHS "Be a Man" was the timely subject so elegantly discussed by Miss Nannie H. Burroughs at Bethel A. M. E. church last Sunday when she appeared in the interest of Y. M. C. A. That she is one of the foremost women of the country, regardless of color, is the unanimous concession of all who heard her. Her plain, practical manner is perhaps her most valuable asset; her straight from the shoulder delivery never fails to carry her audience; and her true to life illustrations paint a most perfect picture of her subject. Fortunately for the speaker she selected a subject suitable to the magnificent audience that greeted her. There were enough ladies present to lead sanction to every just criticism made of the creatures whom the speaker, for want of better term, styled "less than men;" while there were just as many men present who were glad to seize the opportunity of declaring themselves real men, who are not afraid of a "good sized job." To be a man, a man of physical bearing, a man of moral conviction and strength to support it, a man of intelligence and genuine worth is certainly a task for all "a man has of fortitude and bravery"; yet this is the only man that counts. For a world of such men is the object of the labors of the Y. M. C. A.; and the encouragement given by Miss. Burroughs can not fail to add strength and weight to the movement in Pittsburgh. The secretary deserves commendation for his efforts in securing the speaker; for she has not only helped the Y. M. C. A., but she has contributed largely to the entire community. Our boys and our girls must find food for future strength in such a wholesome and timely exhortation; while our fathers and mothers can not fail to cultivate the good seed sown in their hearing. NEGROES MOVING HUMP. True to his nature and former practice, exsenator Flinn has given the Negro an opportunity to labor and to earn his daily bread. Mingled with the many faces of foreign birth can be seen as many black men with their plow, pick or shovel in hand, making the "hump fly." This picture, which can be seen daily along the streets of our city, should be of some importance to the Negroes as a whole of this city and country. It was the prediction of many that the "bump" would be removed by contractors under the control of union labor, and that the Negro would not be given a chance to share in the vast amount of money which must be spent in the much mooted improvement. Mr. Flinn has dispelled that opinion in less than a week after the contract was awarded his firm. Men on every corner are remarking of the return of old days when thousands of Negroes fed from the payroll of Wm. Flinn. Nor should a man of this type be forgotten in a day. It is by and through such men as Mr. Filinn that the Negro must get his little portion of the world's goods; and it is an ingratitude of the deepest kind to turn upon the ladder by which your ascend and curse it. If there be any virtue in the things that are true and good, these things deserve our consideration. NEGRO LAW MAKERS The Negrites of Pennsylvania and Illinois may well feel proud of the political progress made this year. In Philadelphia, they rose to the 'fullness of their strength and reimbanded Hon. Harry Bass for his second term at at State Legislature, an honor which he reserves by reason of his good work of the last session. In the city of Chicago, Ill., the Negroes have even done better. Not satisfied with the reponimation of one Negro candidate, they go just one step higher and nominate a Senator. Mon. Edward D. Green, their representative won with an unprecedented majority; while the candidate for the Senatorship, Major R. R. Jackson, led his nearest rival by over one thousand votes. There is little doubt of their election, as they were the people's choice from the beginning. Pittsburgh takes courage from the lessons taught in Philadelphia and Chicago. "What man has done man may do" and that right here in Allegheny County. We have the material and the votes, why not have the representation. The Negroes who consider their poverty a curse may find consolation in the fact that they were not wealthy enough to take passage on the Titanic. Every adversity has its virtue. The annual Fair, given for the benefit of the Home for Aged and Infirm Colored Women, will soon open. That Home houses some of the best blood of our race; and so far as we know it may house our own day. Let there be a general patronage throughout the county. How the Recall of Decisions Works. Disrespect for law and order breeds crime of the most violent nature. Think of a person pronounced by a civil court as being innocent of the crime charged against him being lynched by a mob because it did not agree with the decision of the court. If this is the way the recall of decisions is to be operated American jurisprudence is far on the way to chaos and ruin. An instance of this kind recently happened in a southern city. Mrs. Florence Billows Simpson, who has been in the Mckee's Rockes hospital the past few weeks; has been able to return to her home in Ingram, to the delight of her many friends. Attorney W. H. Stanton has moved his office across the street, in the Methodist Book Store building, next door to Kaufmann's. Fifth avenue side. Don't forget the House Furniture Company. 968 Penn avenue, has everything you need to make your home look attractive, and your credit is good, and prices are as reasonable as any store in Pittsburgh. Give them a trial and tell them you read their ad in the Courier. We want the news from anybody, as this is the people's paper. Drop us a card or call up 2169 J Grant, Hill 699-W and 1301 F Main. Your news is my Sim-crower in the Paper. I am in the Embroidered Crayons B. Club would like to hear from first all class towns at home or abroad, especially the Pittsburgh Glants/. Address James Chapman, game scheduler, NO. 1, Joseph street, Homestead, Pa. Chas. McLearn of Philadelphia, was the guest of Mrs. and A. J. Washington of Wandless street, en route to Chicago. Own your own home. Have a garden. Be free of the landlord. I have a modern little home you can buy as rent and move into at once. See me about it at once as this chance will not last long. Owner, 569 Forest avenue, Bellevue. The Griswald Pleasure Seekers wish to thank their many friends who attended their initial reception at Union Labor Temple on Monday, April 15. The feature of the evening was a grand march participated in by about 400 people for prizes two hundred and a half of John Gold piece and a chunk of American Beauty roses. Some of Pittsburgh's best men served as judges and decided the march at between four couples. Owing to the lateness of the hour it remained so. Every person is looking forward to the next reception which will be announced in the Courier. "Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses," "Albertus Magnus," "Long Lost Friend" at Mount Old Book Shoppe, 626 Penn avenue. Watch the Courier for schedule of games of the Pittsburgh Giants baseball team. Games have been arranged by the best team in the country. All home games will be played at Bula park, Soho and Center avenues. Miss Flora Bell was called to this city this week on account of the illness of her sister, Mrs. Emma Thompson. All past masters, all W. masters and all officers of each subordinate lodge of the South Carolina Mascot District, requested to meet Little Hall, corner Wylie avenue and Roberts streets, Sunday, May 3rd, at 2 p.m. by order of John C. Morton, D. D G. M. Mrs. Minnie Dickerson of S Devilliers street, and Mrs. Anna B. Eskridge of Bradford, have returned from Cleveland O. where they spent several days visiting friends and relatives. Tuesday for Cambridge Springs for a couple of weeks for his health. Harry Lovett has just returned at a long-visit to California much improved in health. He will later locate in Cape May. Mrs. Jno. Lovett of Carnegie, returned on Monday from Washington, D.C. after a five weeks visit to relatives. Sergio G. A. R. will have a meeting on Friday, May 3, at Memorial Hall to make arrangements for their Memorial day exercises. T. J. Laurel, Post. Commander. Please be there without fail. Oh, what do you think? Why, Henry Blackwell has opened a first class restaurant and ice cream parlor. 2222 Avenue opposite Lawson street. Home cooking, quick service and courteous treatment. Open from six in the morning until one the next morning. Give him a call. James H. Tyler to left on Wednesday for summer in the lakes with boarders at Detroit. Miss Blanche Spurlock is the guest of Columbus, O. friends for a couple of weeks. Miss Virginia Powell of Fifth avenue once quite ill for the past 100 weeks. ```markdown ``` Dr. Frank F. Bishop Sergeon Dentist Bridge Work & Specialty DR. BISHOP'S MOUTH AND TOOTH WASH hardens the gums, purifies the mouth and assists in arresting the progress of decay. BELL PHONE 2251R GRANT. Office Hours—Daily—9 a. m. to 2 p. m.; 5:30 p. m. to 9 p. m. Sunday, 2 p. m. to 4 p. m. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Gant, all members be present but one. After the usual business a dainty luncheon was served. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Kerns were elected as members by a unanimous vote. Next meeting held at a place named later on a named date. Mr. R. J. Cunningham's S wish to express their thanks to the Bandana Girls for their social given last Tuesday evening, of which was such a success. Next Tuesday, April 20, Mrs. Maria Jones will give a social for the benefit of the club. Bandana Girls' committee. Miss P. Mimmis, president; Miss M. Floyd, treasurer; Miss M. Turner, secretary, Mrs. Jos. Porter, assistant secretary and Mrs. K. Bolden. See Frazier & Brown's Employment Bureau to secure a position. Male and female help supplied. Frazier & Brown 6231 Penn avenue. Bell phone 5927 Highland. Blaine Vactor and Martin Moseby of Canonsburg, were in the city last week visiting friends. John Walls of Canonsburg, was in the city on business this week. Henry Allen was in the city from Connellsville on Saturday. Marion Hall and Resse Jackson of the Chevaliers, spent last Sunday in Washington, Pa. H. Ray Wooten of Oakdale, Pa., who graduated last June, is the guest of Robt. Smalls this week, taking in the Frogs Hop and the Philomaths play. Jack Johnson's large touring car was struck by Fulton and Wylie on Wednesday noon by a motor truck and out of commission for a while having to undergo some repairs. Money to loan. Houses to let. Fire insurance. See Frazier & Brown, 6231 Penn avenue, city. By advertising in the Courier the Household Furniture Store, 908 Pen avenue, has shown their spirit they have saintly appreciate your trade. They have everything you need to furnish your house and at their prices offered and credit terms extended, are attracting many customers to their big six-story building. Give them a call and tell them you read their ad in our paper. Geo. Burke was in town this week, and took in the Frog dance. Henry Kennedy was in town last Sunday to see his brother Frogs. The Busy Twenty club will give "The Desrestrict Skule" at Warren M. e. church, Monday evening, April 29, 1912. Admission 10 cents. All are invited to attend. Lots of fun. Miss Blanche E. Spurlock is visiting in Columbus and was mald of honor for Miss Queen Morgan in the Morgue during a diving and a number of other social affairs. She will remain two weeks and on her return home she will spend several weeks in Cleveland and Youngstown, O. Be in business. The Thomas T. Jackson Agency, 806 Wylie avenue, wants agents throughout the state. Have you paid your subscription to the Building Fund of the Y. M. C. A. you promised? You would be surprised to know the names of some of the persons who have not redeemed their pledges. It looks big to put your name down to pay a certain sum of money, but it is more honorable and to your credit If you are posing as a man and a benefactor of your Race, to redeem your pledge and word of honor. The pastor of the Good Hope church, Rev. F. H. C. Messer, was tendered a surprise on last Saturday night, the occasion being his birthday. He received a handsome diamond ring, a silver case for his day book and a purse containing $20. They also brought him a handsome cake with his age in a beautiful pink letters. They could not use candles as it would have taken too many. Mrs. Messer and daughter, Helen, also received handsome suits of underwear and dresses for the day book and thated her church. Messer has pastored this church for thirteen years and his good people have never lagged in interest towards him and wife. Because of the inconvenience caused by the removal of the "Hump," Attorney R. L. Vann has moved his offices to 518 Fourth Avenue. Bell phone, Court 747. J. O. Taylor of New Kensington has returned from a trip to Atlantic City much benefited. "Among the out-of-town visitors at the Bethesda apartment sonogram last Saturday," Mrs. D. Butler and Mrs. Bordie E. Gordon of Washington, Pa., and Misses Sadie and Pearl Vector of Canonsburg. They enjoyed the services at Bethel church also. The Violet club, through its president, Mrs. E. J. Moore, wishes to thank the many friends who came to their assistance, on last Thursday evening at Brown Chapel, where a special meeting was held, featuring a feature of the evening was the two blind boys, Christopher Smoke and Joseph Crunkleton, two students at the School for the Blind, who appeared and rendered selections on their instruments. These boys are our own, and although deprived of their sight, are endowed with other talent which when properly improved could find a place in the program of life. The receipts for the evening was $40. HOUSEHOLD. In Penn avenue, 905, there is a fur- niture house known as the Household, and rightly called so, for it contains everything pertaining to the furnish- ing of a home from the smallest arti- cle to the most exquisite orienta- tion. The Household has not only the quality but has been able to put their ex- clusive stocks in the reach of all, with their considerate terms. Give them a call while doing your spring buy- ing. You will receive courteous attention, save money and worry. The Pittsburgh Courier is on file Carnestie Institute Periodical Rooms. WATCH THE COURIER GROW. THE COURIER OBITUARY Edwin Jackson. Edwin Jackson died on Sunday evening at 10:40, 24 years old, at No. 11 Horton street, after a brief illness. He leaves his wife, Hattie Harte, Mrs. All Bay, Mrs. Isaac Douglas, and a brother, David L. Jackson. Mrs. Marie Curry. Mrs. Maria Curry, 624 Chauceyn street, took suddenly ill on Tuesday evening, with an attack of acute indigestion and died Wednesday morning at 5 o'clock, at the age of 32 years. She is survived by her husband, Will Curry, his wife, and his friends. Mrs. Curry was a highly respected member of Bethel church and a member of its Junior Board of Stewardesses, which board presented touching resolutions at the funeral services. Wednesday evening, conducted by Rev. Scott in Scottsdale, the office of large number of friends. Mrs. Curry and his son left on Thursday morning with the remains for Dalton, Ga., their former home. WEST END. (By Ozella·Barnaby.) Rev. William preached on Sunday morning. In the afternoon quarterly meeting was held and Eld. W. H. Hill, the D. Evangelist, preached. A large number were in attendance. Miss R. Burgess preached at night. Ozzie the Owl Barnabj were royally entertained last Wednesday night by Rev. and Mrs. Willams. Mr. Kelly of 43 Valley Rue street, who has been sick for some time is improving slowly. Mrs. C. See of West End, has recalled Missice and ill-illness. Misses Alice and Minnie Key of Bellevue were visitors Sunday at West End. HOMESTEAD The Rev. C. R. Goggins preached a very instructive sermon on Sunday night to the Red and White Rose clubs and gave them an honorable discharge. The White Rose club has received the following contributions towards the rally since they made their report: Mayman Barber, $10; Mrs. Annie Jones, $1; Mrs. T. E. Kearns also gave $5 to the Red Rose club. Rev. C. R. Goggins left this morning for Franklin, Fa., to attend the district conference. Master Luther Martin, who has been very sick with typhoid pneumonia is improving nicely. It has been reported at the C. T. Headquarers that President L. J. Richardson is on the sick list. Miss Delilia Jackson, the young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Jackson is also ill. Mrs. Spencer Campbell spent Thursday evening in East End visiting Miss While Woods. Mrs. Jerome Viney and mother were visitors in Pittsburgh last week. Mr. Holmes of Virginia, is visiting in Homestead. L. Ray or McKeepson, was a caller on Mrs. Irene Veney on Sunday. J. L. Tate returned on Saturday from his visit to Zainesville and Athens, O. Olivia and daughter spent Thursday visiting Manager Page and family of Knoxville. Mr. Blue of New Homestead, has sold his property and stock and will take up residence in Canton, O. Laura Jerries, the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jerries, died on Friday morning at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Cantor, where they happened to thank their many friends who assisted them in the time of bereavement. Mrs. Laura Clark, one of the highest respected women of this city, died on Thursday, April 25, at 3:13 a.m. m. Mrs. Clark was born in Monongahela City, July 10, T54. Mrs. Clark came to this city and connected herself with the Gladden A. M. E. church and was an active member in the church until her health prevented her. Mrs. Clark was not only an active member in the True Reformers, serving as treasurer for more than 15 years. Mrs. Clark is survived by her husband and three step-children and a host of friends. For fear the reporter can't get around to everybody's house to get the news he has asked that the news be left at the following reporting stations. Baker's grocery on Mifflin street, Randolph's grocery on Twelfth avenue and Sherman's barber shop on Sixth avenue or 1311 Glenn street. All places will kindly place their name and address on said notes. Notes will be collected from these respective places not later than Tuesday noon of each week. The stock visited the home of Mr. and Jasper Pan Pant and left a leap 1833 BJ HOMEWOOD NOTES (By Cora J. Ross.) The services last. Sabbath were very inspiring and well attended. A very large congregation attended the morning services. Rev. Davis was at his best and preached two very helpful and instructive sermons. Our Sunday school is at eight. The anew students seen to take an equal interest in the work. Great preparations are being made for the musical and literary hour to be held on Wednesday evening, April 24, at our church. The program is composed of some of the best talent our city can boast of and we hope all will come to see and hear. Entertainment is the general conference under the auspices of the Busy Four of Homewood A. M. E. Z. church. Harry Johnson, who has been confined to his home with a bad throat is able to be out again. Little Lillian, Tymond, who was operated on at the Allegheny General hospital last week, is getting along nicely. Infant son of Mr. and Mrs. David Franklin is very ill. Mrs. Mattie Fronce and Edward street, were quietly united in marriage on Saturday evening by Rev. Messer. The bride and groom have the best wishes of their many friends. The bride and groom are terminated Mr. and Mrs. Edward Street at dinner on Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Carter caled on the Misses Cord and Hattie Ress on Friday evening. Literary Club. The Hawthorne Literary society heid its regular meeting on Tuesday evening. The installation of officers was postponed until next week. The newly elected officers rendered a short program. A representative from Avery Mission was present and invited the society to render a program on April 25. Boys' Glee Club. The Boys' Glee club held their regular meeting on Thursday evening, and made a reception which will be held in the near future. The Junior Missionary society is rehearsing a very excellent play which will take place some time in May. News later. John Lewis, who is now at the Mont Alto sanitarium for his health, is improving rapidly. BRADDOCK, PA. BRADDOCK, PA. Ball Phone 201-R. P. & A. Phone 1951. Isaac Tap. Scott has organized a baseball team known as the Scott Giants, with Eldrage Scales of Sixth street, captain and Jas. Wise of Rankin. Pa. Manager. The two act drama given at the New Hope Baptist church on Sixth street, was a great success. After reflections were served in the lecture room and quite a neat sum of money was realized. The drama was given by the Rose Bud club, proceeds for the benefit of the church. Mrs. Florence Leak of East End, Pittsburgh, and Miss Alberta Leak and her company, attended the Corey Avenue A. M. E. church services last Sunday evening. Grant of Corey avenue, spent last Sunday in Brownsville, Pa. with his nephew and niece, Campbell S. and B. Elizabeth Jones of High street. Mrs. P. L. Gibson of Sedex avenue, who has been on the sick list for some time took a back set on the 16th, and is again confined to her bed but at this writing is improving. Mrs. Sadie Jones of Sixth street and her daughter, Miss Bessie Jones, are the sick, Mrs. Jones is confined bed but Miss Bessie is able to go about. Miss Maitie Clay of North Homestead, rendered an instrumental solo at the two act drama given at New Hope Baptist church last week, given by the Rose Bud club, was commented on very highly. Miss Clay will repeat the piece again on the 29th last. There will be a concert given at the Corey Avenue A. M. E. church on Monday evening. April There will be reflections served in the lecture room at the close of the concert. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Norris and little daughter, formerly of Braddock, Pa. but lately of Youngstown, O., have returned and expect to make Braddock their future home. At present they are located with his brother. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Norris of Lavell street, North Braddock. Mrs. M. Lavada Carter Norris of Corey avenue, who has been confined to her bed with indigestion is greatly improved and has gone to Monongahela, Pa. where she hopes to fully recover. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Morrison of Braddock avenue, have moved to Wollaton, Pa. Prof. Wilber Chajman has opened up a first-class shoe shining parlor on Sixth street, near Braddock avenue, and is doing a fine business. It is called the Boston Shoe Shining Parlor. The ticket prizes for the spelling at the Corey Avenue A. M. E. church on the 16th, was awarded as follows: Wm. Norris, the first prize, a fine dollar gold piece; Mrs. Francis Buckner of Rankin, Pa., the second prize, a two and one-half dollar gold piece. Total receipts $4.03, net receipts $2.03. Mrs. Williams, the restaurant keeper, on Sixth street, has moved down stairs on the first floor. The place has been thoroughly renovated and presents a fine new kitchen. Mrs. Virginia Bass, her daughter, will move into the upstairs part in order to be near her mother and be able to give her assistance in taking care of the restaurant. Mrs. Williams is an old Virginia cook and can give you a good honest and well-cooked meal. If you don't believe this give her a trial. RANKIN, PA. Bell Phone 201-R, Braddock and P. & A. Phone 895-1, Braddock. The 29th inst is the date of the band concert at the Mt. Olive Baptist church on Fourth avenue. P. Reese, the tailor of Hawkins street, has newly papered his place of business which greatly adds to the appearance of the same. Mrs. Sadie Parnell of Second avenue, was the guest of Mrs. Wm. Smith of McKeesport on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of last week. Miss Waine of Hawkins street, is on the sick list. The Rev. Dr. William Maurice Moss, corresponding secretary for the Alumni Association of the Virginia Union university, Richmond, Va., has issued a call for the annual meeting of the association, which will be held at the university on Tuesday, May 14. An effort is being made to reach every alumnus, as the coming meeting of the organization will be one of great importance to every graduate of the schools merged into the present institution. Those who expect to be present are requested to communicate with the corresponding secretary, whose address is 333 Cumberland street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Recipe for Success Keep your head cool—your feet warm—your mind busy. Don't worry over trifles. Plan your work ahead, then stick to it, rain or shine. Don't waste sympathy on yourself. If you are a gem, someone will find you. Don't whine. Tell people you are a failure and they will believe you. Talk and act like a winner, and in time you will become one—Stephen Harte. 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LOCAL CHURCH NOTICE At the Central Baptist church the pastor baptized at the Sunday morning services and observe communion at 3 p.m. A very large congregation is expected as many pastors who are members have promised to attend. The revival closed with a goodly addition to the church. Dr. G. B. Howard, the pastor, fees much encouragement. He will lecture for the benefit of the rally on May 9, his subject, "War Above the Clouds." Only One Required. "You just take a bottle of my medicine," said a quick doctor to a consumer. "and you'll never, cough "I four weeks you'll clean," as that nausea the consumes a. SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1912 N'S GROCERY HOMPSON, PROP. WILLIE AVENUE Y, Meat and Provision Store I and Because We Strive To Please. is right. atronize your own store WANTED A GIRL between the ages of 10 and 14, with a good disposition. One who would be interested in my home. A good home or else good wages to the right party. Address, Mrs. Limpie B. Simmons. Elizabeth, Pa. NOTICE. WANTED: 50 boys from Greater Pittsburgh to sell the Courier Friday and Saturday of each week. Come Fri. morning to 1209 Wylie avenue for papers. Natural Hair Becoming Sourc, Dealers in Artificial Product Are Driven to Extremities. No one outside the artificial hair business knows the difficulty that merchants in hair goods have experienced in getting material of sufficient quality—especially in braids—at anything like the prices which most people are willing to pay. Many countries, indeed, place such restrictions on wig makers, owing to hygienic reasons, that natural hair is becoming more and more rare. In certain parts of France the expedient was resorted to of making wigs from certain fibrous plants; especially was this done with those which have served to furnish material for rugs and blankets. By splitting the fibers very fine and treating them chemically, it was possible to make artificial hair, but the labor involved the making of prices that were almost prohibitive. Moreover, complaints were made that the substitute was not satisfactory. Horsehair was treated to a like process of division and brightening, but the imitation, except for the very poor class of trade, signally failed. Now, thanks to a series of experiments, it has been found possible to utilize spun crystal for the purpose, reducing it to any shade which may be desired and to any degree of fines. Indeed, the resemblance to human hair is said to be all but absolute. The new product has the advantage, moreover, of weighing very little, and "hair" made of glass presents an appearance of luster and - is, above all, thoroughly hygienic-"Harper's Weekly. WHY "VICTORY" WAS DUSTY Housemaid Feared Further Damage to Statutie's Already Subjected to Hard Usage. A New York woman engaged a new housemaid the other day, and was immediately delighted at the exhibition of the new servant's efficiency. Norah waited on the table with perfect mastery; she answered the front doorbell with matchless grace; she never once grumbled when told that she must wear a cap; her dusting was a marvel of orderliness. But the mistress of the apartment was astonished, when the new maid had been in the house about a week, to find that her cherished "Victory of Samothrace" was covered with dust. The beautiful headless body stood gray and unlovely on its pedestal, and the "Victory" owner called Norah to see what the matter might be. "I can't understand this, Norah," she said. "Everything else is kept so spotless. How have you happened to neglect the little statue. Have you dusted it at all?" Norah admitted that she had not, and said no more. "But why?" the mistress persisted. "Why?" And then, miserably, the maid owned up. "I'm a bit awkward with me juggers, mum," she murmured, shyly. "And I saw, how bad it was broke, mum, and I was afraid o' droppin' it an' makin' it worse." Hang to it. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of geoscience. But when you have resolved to be great, ablide by yourself and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.—Emergence SOCIETY be complimentary. The teachers will receive with the children. Entertained. ENTERTAINMENT Miss Hester Williams entertained a sewing circle at her sister's residence, Wylie avenue. Covers were laid for fourteen. The guests were: Mrs. A. J. Lewis, Mrs. L. Gaston, Mrs. P. Belt, Mrs. E. T. Belt, Mrs. Minnie Harris, Mrs. R. Payne, Mrs. N. Belle of Frostburg, Md., Mrs. E. J. Goule, Mrs. J. T. Goule, and honor guests Rev. T. C. Triggs, now pastor of Warren M. E. church. After sewing an hour the guests were served with an elaborate luncheon in four courses. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Banks of Webster avenue, entertained at dinner in honor of Rev. A. J. Tyler, pastor of Baptist church, Washington, D. C. Among those present were Rev. A. J. Tyler, Rev. W. N. Brown and wife, Rev/ G. B. Howard, Dr. Voyle Butler and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cobbs a. B. Carey and Mrs. Wilson, Mother Jones, Mrs. Jennie White of Dunquesa, Pa. The dining room was beautifully decorated with white and pink roses. The Women's Charity club of Bethel, A. M. E. church met at the residence of the president, Mary M. Gatewood, 2500 Vera street, Thursday, April 15. Considerable important business was transacted. The club decided to give a peanut hunt and a bean race at Bethel church, Thursday, June 6; also a raily the second Sunday in June, under the auspices of the Colony of Ohio, which the club is representing in the $1,000 rally to be held at the church on Sunday, July 7. Further notice will appear in the columns of this paper later. The names of the Blue Ribbon quartet was added to the rost. The hostess served an elegant and palatable lunch that was enjoyed by all the members present. The club then adjourned to meet the first Thursday in May at the residence of Mrs. Buckner, Mignonette street, East End. The Frances E. W. Harper league met on Wednesday, April 17, at the residence of Mrs. E. J. Moore, 1429 Sandusky street, North Side. The hostess celebrated her twenty-first wedding anniversary on this day, making the day doubly enjoyable. The league held Mother's meeting, Mrs. J. Porter acting as mistress or ceremonies. Among the visitors present were Mrs. Isabel Tanner Temple, president W. M. m. society, Pittsburgh conference branch; Mrs. Jane Howard, Mrs. Caroline Christy, Mrs. Elizabeth M. Sharp, Miss Carrie Crunkleton, Miss Maggie Potter and Miss Olivia Howard. A dainty appointed luncheon was served by the hostess. The next meeting will be Wednesday, May 1, at the residence of Mrs. G. Lewis, 24 Junilia street. Emma J. Moore club met at the residence of Mrs. Ella Casey on Wednesday, 17th inst., together with a large number of visitors. A lengthy program was, rendered, after which an elaborate lunch was served by the hostess. Next meeting, Wednesday, May 1, at the residence of Mrs. Bertha Burnett, Thorn street. Brushston. Luncheon. The Married Ladies' Autumn Leaf club held their first luncheon at the home of Mrg. Dr. Michell, 5643 Mignette street, Thursday. Covers were laid for twenty-four and a fine program was rendered. The out-of-town guest was Mrs. Nathaniel Banks of Sewickley, Pa. The Married Women's Culture club was very highly entertained on Thursday, April 19, at the residence of Mrs. Henry Booth. Besides the members of the club being present, Mrs. Bertha Barnett of Emma J. Moore club, was present and read a very interesting paper on "Lifting as We Climb." Also Mrs. Simpson of Emma Moore club, Mrs. Jefferies of Frances. Harper league, made very interesting remarks. Mrs. Susie Lowry of the Married Women's Culture club had an excellent paper on the subject "Smiles." The hostess served a dainty luncheon. They will meet at the residence of Mrs. Goodloe, 5626 Mignonette street, Thursday, May 2. While of life itself or of its origin or destiny we know but little, we do know how we may have it abundantly and make the most and best of it. If we do that, not only shall we have done our entire duty, but we shall have given ourselves the highest present employment of which we are capable, and we may be certain that if there be a future for us beyond these scenes of earth, such a life is the best preparation for it.—The Cincinnati Enquirer. History concedes that Clovis I. was the real founder of the French monarchy, although his father, Childeric, held, some sort of tribal rule over part of the country which was destined to become France. Clovis was a progressive king and vastly extended his domains during the period of his rule, from 481 to 511. He made endless war on surrounding tribes and took territory right and left by conquest. In 493 Clovis took Paris by storm and thereupon that city became the permanent seat of the French government. Grace Memorial Presbyterian sunday school will entertain the parents or guardians of the scholars on May 9. with an ice cream social. It is to Figg—Two negatives make an affirmative, you know. Fogg—With a woman it takes only one. NOW IS THE TIME To order your spring and summer garments. We have a well selected lot of over 500 patterns and designs to show you, each one is guaranteed all week, but the prices are very reasonable. We make the NIFTY and SWAGGER clothes for the fastidious and we also cater to the more CONSERVATIVE DRESSERS. If you want anything in the line of tailoring, done by an experienced workman, time tried and proven, call or see. SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1912 (EDITED BY ELIZABETH JONES.) Wednesday evening a fine "Musical and Literary Hour" was given by the Biny Four at the Homewood A. M. E. Zion church for the pastor, Rev. J. M. Davis, who will leave soon for conference. The musical numbers included some excellent solos and instrumental selections. Among the addresses were excellent ones by Attorneys, Randolph and Vann. Miss Gertrude Gordon of the Pittsburgh Press, made a fine instructive talk on "Some Phases of a Working Girl's Life," which were well received. She spoke along lines of relationship of employer and employee to employer—to one's conduct in business places—general personal appearance and that they should be connected with some church where they could find good wholesome companionship as well as as spiritual development—"too much credit cannot be given the Busy Four. Mrs. Morrison, Mrs. Ed. Shephard, Mrs. Homer Allen, Mrs. Thos. Lloyd, chairman, for their uniting efforts to make a successful affair such a success both financially and socially. Washington Park/Class to. Close. A May party will be given on Saturday, May 4, at Washington Park field house by the classes to close the winter term of instructions. Because of this the Saturday evening dancing class will not meet on Saturday, April 27. ThesFrogs. The Frogs gave a hop on Tuesday evening at Arcade hall and "the Frog hop and leap" was participated in by a large number of the Frogs and their friends, including a goodly number of matrons. The dancing program was well selected, assisted by fine music from Robinson's orchestra. Some of the out-of-town guests, were Geo, Burke of Sharon and Ray Wooten. Chevaliers. The Chevailiers are starting to practice a Southern drama "From Cabin to Congress," under the direction of Mrs. C. W. Posey. The play is to be put on at Warren M. E. church in the near future. The Chevailiers have added to their membership Wilber Clay, Park Dimniew, Geo. Brown and Robt. Leftridge. The Leisure club. East Liberty's progressive literary society, will be represented with a refreshment booth at the coming fair to be given at the Old City hall. Thursday evening, May 2, for the benefit of the Home for the Aged and Infirm Colored Women. They especially desire their friends to patronize their booth. Tickets can be had from any of the members all of whom are taking an active part in this charitable event. Entertained at Oak Station. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Brown entertained on Sunday, 14th at their home, Oak Station, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Rush Ewing, who depart for Chicago, April 20. The other guests were Miss Katherine Jones, Miss Edith and Emma Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose Russell, Mr. and Mrs. James Johnson, Mrs. Anna Brown, Mrs. Louise Brown, Pendleton Washington and Rey, and Mrs. Nathan Madden. Entertained Rev. Mickens and Rev. Devin Rev. H. M. Michens of Indianapolis and Rev. J. M. Davis of Homewood, were the guests of honor at a luncheon given on Thursday by Mrs. A. L. Anderson at her home in Frankstown avenue, East End. Loendi Club Grant Banquet Hon. Wm. H. Lewis, Assistant Attorney General of the U. S. A. and Hon. Robert H. Ferrill, Municipal Judge of Washington, D. C. will be the distinguished orators at the annual banquet at Loendi club, Monday, April 29, in celebration of General Grant's birthday. The Grant banquet is one of the great yearly events at the club, "How Well I Remember the days of Cl. When We Fit for General Grant," the motto for the evening. The committee includes Frank R. Stewart, chairman; Edward Truman, Joseph Holland, Geo. H. Wilson, J. P. Washington, W. L. Sammons, Caesar D. Lowndes. Aliton: Watson. Mr. and Mrs. Thus. Alton announces the marriage of their daughter, Sadie, to Lawrence D. Watson. April 16. At home after May 15 at 542 Soho street. The friends and members of First Baptist church at Arnold, near New Kensington, Pa., gave a very nice musical and literary program on Tuesday for the benefit of the new church to be built soon, the affair was under the immediate direction of Mrs. Holmes Austin and Richard Bennett. Fair and Dinner. Next week, May 2 is the date for the fair at Old City hall, Market street, for Aged and Infirm Women's Home, in the evening the booths will be attractively arranged with various handwork article, beautiful and usual. Dinner is also to be served from 1 to 3 p.m., on the servequick plan, so that business men may not be delayed by taking dinner there. Musical and Literary Recital. Musical and literary recital to be given at Grace Memorial Presbyterian church on Monday evening, May 27. under the auspices of the Westminster auxiliary, promises to be a very enjoyable affair. The program includes score of the best talent we have. Presbyterian Sunday School Enter- Dr. C. V. 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Indiana Ave., Atlantic City, N.J. J. T. WHITE 307 ELLSWORTH STREET N. S. Pittsburgh, Pa. Express and Storage General Hauling and Package Delivery. Baggage called for and delivered to all parts of the city. 9808-J Cedar, Bell. OFFICE—16 E. North Diamond St. 4-27-12 N. S. Pittsburgh, Pa. NEW CASTLE Large audiences enjoyed the three elaborate programs rendered in Bethlehem on April 21, at being Woman's Day and the committee with the pastor, Rev. W. H. Truss, had made the occasion a grand one. Allen club met with Mrs.' F. D. Wilkes on April 15, and had a delightful evening. Adjourned to meet with Mrs. E. Weir on April 23, 1912. A crowded house was the result of the minister's concert at the Union Baptist church. April 18 and 19. Mrs. Jno. P. Carter, who has been visiting her sister in Ponca City, Oklahoma, has returned home. Mrs. William H. Truss has returned from a pleasant trip to Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. Jennie Rhodes is spending some time in Pittsburgh, Pa. Mrs. Jos. Williams has returned from visiting friends in Ohio towns. Rev. W. H. Truss left on April 22 for district conference which convened at Franklin. The choir is preparing for a grand concert on April 29. The U. T. D. club met last week with Miss Fannie Howard. A dainty lancheon was served. They will meet at the same place with Walter Robinson as host next time. The officers of the club are Miss Jeannene Jones, president; Mrs. Bertha Godfrey Mitchell, secretary, and Leonard Howard, treasurer. The best carpets are made at Rabat and have some similarity in appearance to Smyrna rugs, but in the former the woof and warp are of a much looser composition and of a somewhat lighter body. The predominating color of Rabat rugs is red and the patterns are sometimes ingeniously geometrical, but the colors, although frequently exhibiting beautiful blends, are often of a more hectic cast than is pleasing to the most exacting European taste. Vincennes, famous in the annals of aviation, is noted also for its mediaeval chateau with castle and donjon. The walls of the rooms of the keep have been encumbered and hidden with old harnesses and arms. The stairway, trodden by so many kings, princes and cardinals, has been restored; and the prison and council chamber.—Traveler's Gazette. "Now. Willie," said the superintendent's little boy, addressing the blacksmith's little boy, who had to come over for a frolic, "we'll play 'Sabbath school.' You give me, a nickel every Sunday for six months and then at Christmas I'll give you a 10-cent bag of candy."—Woman's Home Companion. Modern Improvements. Patient—Doctor, I'm having an awful lot of trouble with the gas in my stomach. Doctor—Yes, yes. I know. Those old-fashioned fixtures are giving people a lot of trouble this fall. Just step into the next room, and I have my engineer wire you for electric lights.—Puck. Dinner Women's Clubs The Best of Life First of French Monarchs BARBER, BAIDRESSING, AND MANICURING By our method everybody can learn the trade in short time; expenses small; will be able at school; send for information. A special invitation is extended to prospective students. ENN AVENUE Bethel Notes Rabat Bugs and Carrots Chateau of Vincennes Down Fine. Modern Improvements. Flowers in Profusion Adorn the Season's Millinery Models THE HAT THE COURIER Flowers in Profus the Season's SINCE the days of the "Merry Widow," of beloved memory, hats have not been so flower-laden as they will be this spring. From the simple wreath about the wide brimmed shape, to the bonnet entirely covered with flowers and trimmed with a stiff, standing bunch of blos- 5 Conventional Wheat of Satin and Silk Fibre. soms and foliage. flowers are the feature of trimmed hats. They merit this consideration for there never was a time when artificial blossoms were made with such marvelous fidelity to nature. They are more than faithful copies, they may be said to be even lovingly made, for every little graceful turn of stem and curl of petal has been reproduced. Beside those flowers which are copies of nature there is a great liking for what may be called "conventional" flowers. These are made of COAT AND SKIRT COSTUMES Charming Designs and Many Models Are Provided from Which to Make a Selection. Tailormade coat and skirt costumes are very much under discussion at the moment, and many of them are carried out in fine navy serge and adorned with long rows of embroidered buttons. Others, again, are trimmed more or less elaborately with black silk braiding, and arranged with smartly cut coats, lined with white satin, and finished with collars of black corded silk. A new and very effective navy serge costume has a skirt which opens down the center of the front to show a narrow panel of the same material, covered closely with black braiding. The coat, which is made in a short three-quarter length, has broad revers braided to match the panel which adorns the front of the skirt, the cuffs being braided to correspond. In the course of the last fortnight a fair number of new models in cloth taffetas and charmeuse have been launched upon the Paris stage and at the races. One point is certain, the vogue of the long sleeve is established, and, in nine cases out of ten, we find it adapted to the principal creations of the rival camps in the dressmaking world. The principal object in reviving this sleeve is to reveal the shape of the arm in all its beauty. In thick materials for tailor costumes, such as serge or cloth, the sleeve starts from the shoulder seam, and is cut on almost tight fitting classical lines. Fundamental Truth A. thing that is morally right can never be economically wrong. New Accessories Chantilly and Malines laces are among the newest ideas for spring veils, particularly the cream, white tones, which are becoming against the skin. Some of these are long, draped gracefully round the hats and hanging at the back. The return of the wastline has given opportunity for the display of neat belts. These are in suede and patent leather, quite narrow, and the more decorative are adorned with jewels. Jewelled shoes also are a fashionable fad of the moment. Diamonds and other precious stones adorn shoes of gold and silver brocade and duchesse lace. Eastern Hip Draperies Among the many oriental features that have been retained in the fashions is the one of folding cloth around the hips in a snug manner. For a while the fashion went out, but now it has increased in favor. Tunics of all kinds are wrapped about the waist and hips, and crossed in front, where they are stitched down or tied into a knot, according to their fabric. silk or satin folded into flower forms but only suggest the original models. They are used more sparingly than others and in small wreathes and tiny bunches. They are liked immensely on children's millinery. A favorite way for using small flowers is illustrated here. Roses or other blossoms are banked about the under brims of straw shapes, sometimes covering them completely. With this underbrim trimming, ribbon is usually selected to make a finish for the upper brim. In all—flower hats, the brim-edge is usually bound with velvet and the under-brim covered with maline or chiffon. As a rule such hats set close ```markdown ``` Conventional Rose Made of Pink Satin. to the head, for naturally the hats entirely covered with flowers are in the smaller shapes. Dragonfly A walking gown of dull prune satin trimmed with black taffetas ruchings and frills; touches of wool embroidery on breast pocket and neck; hat to match. Needed a. Change. "Why did you change physicians?" "I had read all the books the other doctor had in his waiting room." About the Fashions So many of the smart little taffeta coats have three-quarter sleeves that long silk gloves will be sure to have great popularity this summer. The shops are showing delightfully dainty glove wear—long-wristed affairs of champagned color with embroideries in self-color; or of white silk with white embroideries or small camo patterns embroidered black. The vogue of the high-buttoned boot for wear with all types of costume has brought, as a natural result, the trim, dalnty, buttoned oxford. These buttoned exfords are cut so cleverly that in them the foot looks as slender and dalnty as in a slipper. Bitter With the Sweet. Auntie (who is housekeeping during mother's enforced absence)—Now, you see, children. I have made you a pudding—(murmurs of approval)—and there won't the any trouble over getting you to take medicine tonight, for I am not going to give you any. (Loud applause.) I 'have, however, mixed the pills and draughts and powders up with the ingredients of the pudding." (Groans.)—Tit Bita extends a cordial greeting to the ministers of all denominations to be guests of the School for one week, beginning July 6, 1912, for the purpose of discussing the following and kindred questions: To what extent do you co-operate with the Civic Improvement Leagues? All ministers who intend attending this Conference should make it known at an early date, addressing the President, so that reservation can be made for them. The Summer School and Chautauqua of the National Religious Training School will open July 3, 1912, and continue for six weeks. The most complete and most up-to-date Summer School for the Colored Race in the United States. For particulars and terms address President JAMES E. SHEPARD DURHAM, N. C. HATS TRIMMED 50c HATS MADE $1.50 to $2.00 The Place to Get Good Looking Hats at a Reasonable Price is Spring Millinery Showing Now On. RIBBONS VERY MUCH IN EVIDENCE THE IMPERIAL EMPLOYMENT EXCHANGE AND AUTOMOBILE SCHOOL I believe you will agree with me readers that it is a wise man who knows enough to come in out of the wet. If you haven't the prudence and foresight to take advantage of a good clean well-paid trade and raise a roof for your family that will protect them when the storm comes it will be up to them to find shelter where best they may. The wisdom of learning automobiling in all its branches and laying by something for a rainy day was never better exemplified than it is at present, and if that something is properly invested in automobile engineering your children some day will rise up and call you blessed. 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Advertise In The Pittsburgh Courier Weary Feet I wonder how many people who suffer tortures with their feet in hot weather, agonies of aching, burning, swelling and extreme tenderness, know that a raw potato, peeled and cut in half and well rubbed over them every night and morning will cure the trouble? Or, failing that, a good daily soaking in strong cold tea? Or that the worst soft corn will yield to a treatment of salt—ordinary salt applied night and morning? AS REVING New York surgeons have restored a juvenile offender to normal boyhood. Spare the knife and spell the whistle. WISDOM FROM Bacon. An ant is a wise creature for itself, but it is a shrewd thing in an orchard or garden; and certainly men, who are great lovers of themselves, waste the public, divide with reason between self-love and society; and be so true to themselves, as thou be not false to others, especially to thy king and country. It is poor center of man's actions, himself—Bacon. A Puzzle. Why is it that the average man is always willing to spend $4 worth of his time trying to get a 40-cent reduction in his gas bill? AMONG THE CHURCHES 81X ALL CHURCH NOTES MUST BE AT THE OFFICE. BY TUESDAY OF EACH WEEK TO BE PUBLISHED UNDER THIS HEAD. Sunday morning, Dr. W. L. Lee took for his text the words from sixty-second chapter, Is, fourth verse. For Zions sake he will not hold my peace. p.m. "Why We Should praise the Lord," was the subject discussed. 14th Pa. 12.9. The V. C. E. leader was Mrs. Julin Hannock, the topic "perseverance." C. A. Howard sang a solo. The attendance was very large. The social committee are doing effective work, making visitors welcome to the Endeavor meetings. This committee presented the society and chair with a commission to sort out dolls, holdout books, booklets. C. E. Jones presented the bounces last Thursday. The Mr. Robinson president and Mrs. A. L. Anderson chair presented the gift. Dan Rife, the chairman of the committee, was given a hearty Chantagou salute. Men's Club, April 17. Presiding Elder D. F. Bradley held the third quarterly conference of this conference year. The reports were good and a report of the annual conference society reported fully, assessment quaid. Rev. H. M. Micken, A. E., presiding elder of the Indianapolis district, and Rev. J. M. Davis, pastor of Homewood A. M. E. Zion church were present, each gave a short talk on the progress of the work done by the church and district in general. Rev. Micken, after a pleasant visit of ten days, left for Philadelphia and Washington. The Missionary committee of the V. C. E. society entertainment and the parlor social at the residence of Mrs. W. H. Brandon were well attended. The Daughters of Conference will meet on Friday afternoon, May 3, at the residence of Mrs. J. O. Taylor, Webster avenue. C. E. Jones arranged a very excellent program last Sunday at 2 p.m. The participants were of both races. Sunday, April 23, 2 p.m. Rev. J. M. Lavis will preach a special sermon to the stewardess and stewardess of the church. The senior their will receive special musical selections. Mrs. Kate C. Stewart has been leading the singing this week for the revival services at the St. Mathews A. M. E. Zion church, Sewickley, Pa. BROWN CHAPEL CHURCH The services at Brown Chapel Church was lastly attended last Sabath b and the ordinary collection for the day was $50. All the services are being held in the lecture room while the auditorium is being rated and rearranged. There will be in room opening the first Sunday in June and will continue for two weeks. This Sabath will be of served as Young Men's Day the services will be conducted day by them. Mr. Dennis A. Washington, Ph.D. will be in room on evening and evening and a room on meeting by the visitors on the various events. No one or anyone helped to present. H. R. H. Morris b on Monday at 10 a.m. conference at Franklin b. While there I was the hosts of Mr. and Mrs. Donna Lichten. The Voice of faith celebrated its ninth anniversary on last Thursday evening at Brown Chapel church and it was a success. Mrs. R. E. J. Moore, counselor; Mrs. R. H. Morris, organizer. Anna's the callers at the residence of Rev. and Mrs. R. H. Morris was Mrs. Mary. Jones, of Cannonsburg, Mrs. Helen Yates Perkins and Mrs. Foremed Johnson, Mrs. Mamie McWithers, Mrs. E. J. Moore, Mrs. Berta Jones, Mrs. Gertia Barnett and Rev. Smith of Richmond, Va. The Young People of Brown Chapel church are rehearsing for a cantata to be given in May. *The ladies of the Bible class are arranging for an experience social to be given in the hear forture for the benefit of the trutes.* Mrs. R. H. Morris was Mrs. H. Scott of Uniontown, Pa., was the guest of Rr. and Mrs. R. H. Morris last week. Mrs. Georgetta Collins is seriously ill at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. R. H. Morris. 35 Mayflower street, East End. New York. Board of arranging for a grand concert to be given in May. A. M. E. ZION CHURCH SCOTTDALE, Pa. Quartely meeting was observed here on Sunday. Rev. Bell preached at 11 o'clock and also at 3 o'clock at which time the communion services were held by the presiding elder, Rev. D. F. Bradley. A soul-stirring sermon was delivered by the presiding minister throughout the hour of the spirit of the Lord was present. The choir rendered excellent music on Sunday. Mrs. Mary Womack, chairman of the Stewardess Board gave an entertainment on Saturday evening at the court. It was well attended and was a financial success and helped the visitor very much. Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Blanche Lunz and Mrs. Plessant attended the court meeting at the A. M. E. Gym March Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Mary B. Skinner, U. Uni- town, is selling on friends in Sco- toria'd Saturday evening and Sunday worshipped at Zion in the morning at 11 o'clock. Mrs. Florence and Marie Corbin of Connellsville, were guests of Miss Borina Connors on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Gains have moved to Kifertown. Mrs. A. G. Reese went to Pittsburgh last Wednesday and will be gone for a week or ten days. The many friends of Andrey Grisby are glad to know that he is able to be one after a short illness at his brother's home. Aaron Grisby. Mrs. Lucy Pride wishes to thank the many friends for their kindness and the floral offerings and other tokens of love during the sickness and death 3 ERANKLIN STREET A. M. E. CHUR CH. WAYNESBURG. PA. of her husband. Mrs Mary Cannon spent the evening with Mrs Harvey on Sunday. Quarterly guest speaker will be held at the M. E. Zion church on Friday evening. April 26, 1912 Bethel A. M. E. Church (B: Vance D. Turner) Rev. P. A. Scott preached to a crowded house on last Sunday morning, his subject, "We Know Not What I Shall Do Now. Bye in a Little White." His picture lines from the ill-fated Triangle were very touching and only emphasized the words of the bama, "God Moves in a Mysterious Way, His Wonders to Perform." Rev. Spahr of Pine, preached at the night service on Modern Dancing. His remarks were heart-cut cutlasses, and Miss Nimmo Burrows of Washington spoke in the attentions. Michel has not been so reported in the afternoon for a long time as last Sunday. The convicts were all under the auspices of the Y. A. A. A. There will be a convict on Tuesdays opening and a pink tea on Wednesdays under the auspices of the Alumni Club. The New York city jail was written like a busy bazaar with an angel bazaar on both 11th and 17th May. The jail hosts the Pennsylvania catholic working for their plans for a barrier house May 11th and 17th. Mothers Day, the second Sunday in May, will be a celebration at Bethel. Don't fall off come get to the mornings service and you can afford to miss it. Mornings are regular served on Sunday and the young ladies are working up a fine program. If you want to see how things are done right, come to Bethel. AVERY. MISSION NOTES (By Martha Williams.) Rev. Wakefield gave a very interesting talk on the Triangle disaster last Sunday. Rev. W. H. A. Pringle, presiding elder, hold quarterly conference Friday evening. April 26. The third quarterly meeting will be held, April 29. Rev. P. A. Scott, O. Bethel will preach at 11 a.m. at which hour we are looking for all the other pastors and conventions. A concert will be given at the church on May 8 under the auspices of the Altar curse. Away will be represented at the general conference by Rev. A. Wakefield, the pastor, Mrs. E. Epiphany, Tls. James T. Patrick, Mrs. Harriet Morris, Tls. Lee and Mrs. Pippen will be on Tuesday April 28 at N. C. Miss Amanda Hoberman, the local preacher will be attend a church during the pastor's meetings. We will have our baptism with the Brown Chapel the fourth Sunday in May. Rev. R. H. Morris, of the浸教Impel, and Rev. W. H. Hoberman of Newcastleian Baptist church, will be asked to look after funerals. If there be any while the pastor is at conference. MT. ARARAT BAPTIST CHURCH MT. ZION CHURCH (By Mrs. Sarah Taylor.) Services were well attended at the M. Zion Baptist church on Sunday. Rev. Calvary preached two able sermons, which were enjoyed by everyone. The Sunday school was largely attended. At 2 p. m. the B. Y. U. was well attended. At 6 p. m. the puipit committee celebrated their second anniversary and pastor's reception. On FRANKLIN STREET A. M. E. Rev. John S. Smith is the successful pastor. This church was recently remodeled by Rev. Mr. Smith and his good people. They built a new vestibule and tower, laboratory and toilet rooms, plastered and painted the lecture-room, frescoed and decorated the auditorium and made other necessary improvements at the cost of $1,500 and paid all it but $44. Rev. Tuesday evening, April 16, was a great success. Many visitors were Miss Wicoff is still on the sick list. MT. CAVARY BAPTIST CHURCH Wilkinsburg, Pa. Roy. R. T. Bruce, pastor. Sunday was a beautiful day. Sunday school to a m. Superintendent. Harry Smith was at his post of duty for Sunday school, which was well attended. At 11 a.m. preaching by Rev. Jones and well did he preach, At 10 p.m. m. pastor preached from the subject, The Anchored Ship and They All Seem to Enjoy. Heb 6: 19. Thursday, April 15. Literary was well attended. This literary is having a great success under the leadership of W. M. Allen, presi- dent. On Thursday evening at 9 p.m. Literary is conducted here. Come and enjoy yourselves. The Mission of Silent Charity A Sermon Heller for the Superstitious. The composer Rossini could cook cleverly, and his most celebrated dish was a contempoary macaroni. It was a contemporary dish, and "An overturned salt cellar is only a to be feared when overturned in good dish," which is a good thing for the superstitious to remember. CHUR CH. WAYNESBURG. PA. Smith built a beautiful church edifice in Pittsburgh, Pa., while patrolling in that charge before going to Waynesburg. He is a pleasing success no matter where he is sent, which has been clearly demonstrated ever since he joined the Pittsburgh conference some years ago. He has an invaluable assistance in his inestimable wife. THE COURIER THE CONQUERING SOUTH AND THE INDIRECT INFLUENCE OF SOUTHERN SENTIMENT ON THE QUESTION OF A NEGRO BISHOP FOR NEGROES OF AMERICA- THE SENSATIONAL CLAIM THAT SOUTHERN THOUGHT IS CONQUERING THE ENTIRE COUNTRY ON THE RACE QUESTION. BY J. F. LOWERY, A. M., D. D. Rev. Charles R. Dinkins, in his volume of poems, "Lyrics of Love," has a poem entitled, "Appomattox." In this poem the negro poet represents Gen. Robert E. Lee as addressing his army after the surrender, and puts these words into the great general's mouth: "And since surrender is our lot, We wisely then Accept what time and fate have wrought For braver men: When fails the sword, the better way Becomes the soldier's part to play: The south will whip the north some day With ink and pen." Mrs. E. B. Browning expresses almost the same thought as the negro poet, though she has no reference to General Lee or the Confederate soldier. She says: "Drums and battle cries Go out in music of the morning star; And soon we shall have thinkers in the place Of fighters; each found able as a man To strike electric influence through a race Unstayed by city-wall and barbican." It seems that both of these poetic quotations are prophetic. Conditions today show that the predictions here expressed have been literally fulfilled. Let us see. Before the Civil war, a movement was inaugurated in the north called the Abolition Movement. This movement soon culminated in a powerful, aggressive party, which had for its object the emancipation of all the slaves in the south. The leaders of this party were, Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, John Brown, Horace Greeley, Harriet Beecher Stowe and a host of others. They taught that the negro should be free; that he was as good as a white man; and thousands of them practiced social equality with him. This was directly in opposition to the belief, the traditions, the doctrine and the practice of the southern white people: It brought on the war and, after four years of bloody strife, the Confederate cause wedge down. It was said that the north was victorious and that the south was conquered. Soon the south filled up with political adventurers, known as carpet-buggers, and with Yankee school teachers and missionaries. They came preaching, teaching and practicing the things taught by the abolitionists of the north. They worshipped with the negro, they ate at his table, and they slept in his bed. In the meantime the Confederate soldiers returned home with broken shoes, with tattered garments, and with empty pocket books. But they went to work and installed printing presses throughout the south and published papers, magazines and books. In these they thundered against the teachings and practices of the abolitionists, and the Yankee school teacher, and the missionary. In addition to the work that was being done in the south along this line, southern men were sent north, who earned editors and reporters on northern papers. I clipped the following list of information from The Voice of the Negro, which was a strong magazine published in Chicago. Ill., a few years ago: "That the negro is mighter than the bourn but few deny." Nobody knows this better than the young white south. Recently a prominent southerner, addressing a graduating class of young white men, said: "Young men, if you want to be patriotic to your section, if you want to be patriotic to your section, if you want to do your duty to the south, go north and get on the northern newspaper staff and help to change sentiment towards the negro in that section. And what has been the result? Why, the south has completely revolutionized the sentiment, doctrines and practices of the north as regards the negro. Today practically the entire north looks at the negro from a southern point of view. It has been brought around to think of the negro, and to treat him just about as the south does. There are no more practices of social equality with the negro in this land. The all-conquering south has put a stop to that. Let the reader now turn and read the verse of poetry quoted from Rev. Dinkins' book and see if it has not come to pass that the south has whipped the north with ink and pen? And let him see also if it is not true as Mrs. Browning has said. Has not the Confederate soldier—the brave fighter—struck electric influence through a race? What has become of the 'Yankee school teacher with the doctrines and practices of social equality? Most of them are gone, and the others may go! SOCIAL EQUALITY IN CIVIL LIFE A few years ago when Theorema Roosevelt was president of the United States, he invited a negro—in the person of Dr. Booker T. Washington—to dine with him in the White House at Washington, D.C. The invitation was accepted, and the two eat down together to a meal. That night the news was flashed throughout the country and was published in all the great daily papers in the land. The south raised such a storm of disapproval until Mr. Roosevelt did not dare to repeat this act of social equality with Doctor Washington or with any other The rational agricultural department of the United States reports that on January 1, 1912, there were 29,568,000 horses in the country, against 29,777,000 on January 1, 1911, and 19,833,113 on April 15, 1910, when the census was taken. The value of the horses this year was estimated at $2,172,573,000, against $2,259,981,000 a year ago. The census taken on April 15, 1910, showed 4,209,769 mules in the United distinguished negro. The conquering south nipped that thing in the bud. Some ingenious photographer made up a picture of this scene with Mr. Roosevelt and Doctor Washington seated on opposite sides of a table which could be seen displaying mostly lands and tiles filled with decorative drapery. This picture was beautifully drained with the words, "Social Equality" beneath, and offered for sale among the negroes in the south. The agents would have had a bonanza, for the picture was selling like hot cakes, but the south indig, nantly protested and forced the agents to give up the business. During the year 1908, when William H. Taft was secretary of war, he made a trip to the Panama canal and, on his return, he disembarrassed at Charleston, S. C., and took a vestibule train for Washington, D. C. In his party there was a colored man, and Mr. Taft invited this man to dine with him, but the Pullman conductor objected. The conductor carried his point. The incident got into the papers and the conquering south lifted up its voice in protest, but Mr. Taft denied any knowledge of it. The incident occurred on southern soil, somewhere between Charleston and Washington. LOOK TO YOUR JOBS IN THE SOUTH We have now more people in this country than can find profitable employment. We raise more food products than people can buy because the gainful employments are overcrowded with workers. The Malthusian theory that population decreases when it over-reaches subsistence is reversed here, for while we have steady increase of population and of subsistence we have not the work to make the money to buy the subsistence. That is to say, we have more raw labor, in the consuming than in the producing class. To add to this raw labor, then, by alien increase is suicidal. We have now also the economic principle vindicated that where there is an over supply of labor there will be a minimum scale of wages. It is like the fruit situation. In the beginning of the season, when the supply is limited, strawberries hold themselves up as high as one dollar a box; at the end of the season, when the market is flooded, they fall down as low as five cents a box. All things common are cheap; there are very few things uncommon and high people really need. In 1911 there was foreign addition to our bread-winning population, not one of whom we needed, of 875,857; in 1910 it was 1,041,570. The present year promises to be a record-breaking one, as six steamers last week brought to the country from Europe 21,000 people. All this much people are raw labor and must have work because they have stomachs, and we already have more raw labor with stomachs to feed than we have work to feed them. The Southern labor situation has been greatly affected by the influx of foreigners into the mining and manufacturing centers, and it will become more so during the next ten years. The Negro is facing a competitor in all branches of work he never had to face before, and he has got to fight for his job, which is his bread, which is his life, against a horde of hungry people who are willing to black shoes if they can't run factories, stores and banks, to feed hunger. Let us bond every energy therefore to making independent business of our own; let us dot the South with communities like Mound Bayou, where we own and boss everything, from a shoe string to a bank. Get busy and make yourselves efficient in every line of activity.—New York Age. NOMINATED WHAT WAS LEFT. Senator John Sharp Williams of Mississippi says his friend, Private John Allen, formerly representing a Mississippi district in congress, seems perfectly satisfied to give his attention exclusively to his personal affairs around Tupelo and has seemingly laid aside all political ambition. "He mixed a little in local affairs for the benefit of his friends," said Senator Williams, "and recently made one of the shortest and best-nominating speeches on record. "An old friend of ours, a Confederate veteran, who lost two legs and one arm in battle, wanted a small office and asked Allen to nominate him. "When the time came, Allen, with a voice like a guitar, said: 'Gentlemen of the convention, I desire to nominate all that's left of my poor old friend, John Smith.' Smith swept the convention."—Washington Star. THE ROCKING OF LAKE ERIE. The 250-mile trough of Lake Erie lies approximately in the direction of the west to southwest winds which prevail in that part of the country. Thus the lake offers an excellent opportunity for studying the effects of the wind upon a large body of inclosed water, and very interesting these effects sometimes prove. Rhythmic gusts produce a rocking motion and great blows from the west or southwest sweep the liquid body of the lake eastward and sometimes cause a rise of eight feet or more at Buffalo in the course of a few hours. As soon as the maximum force of the gale has passed the water swings back. Continued rockings are observed on days when the strength of the wind fluctuates. States. The number Increased to 4,362,000 on January 1, 1912. The value of the miles that year is estimated at $252,600,000, against $544,359,000 a year ago. BETWEEN OFFICE BOYS. "How'll you get off for the opening game? You killed your grandmother off last season." "I'll ask to get off for grandfather's wedding. What's the matter with the old gentleman getting married again?" CHURCH NOTICES Bethel A. M. E. Church. Corner Wylie avenue and Elm street. Sunday services 10:30 A. M. and 7:45 P. M. Rev. P. A. Scott, pastor, residence 93 Elm street. Bell phone 2987 Grant. ST. AUGUSTINE'S EPISCOPAL MISSION 319 Jackson St. N. S. Pittsburgh- Sunday services, 10:45 a.m. m. and 7:45 p. m.; Sunday school, 12:30 p. m.; Wednesday evening prayer meeting. 7:45 p. m. Rev. Scott Wood, priest in charge. Preaching Sunday, 11 a.m. and 9 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 Cornelia avenue and Harvard street. Pittsburgh—Morning worship. 9:30 p.m.; Allen Endover League, 6:30 p.m. ; Allen Endover League, 6:30 p.m. ; evening worship, 7:45 p.m. D. S. Bentley, D. D., pastor, 324 Meadow street. Hours of study, 10 to 12 m. daily except Monday. Residence phone 1385-J Highland. BODMAN ST. BAPTIST CHUCH. East End, Pittsburgh, Pa.-Communion, first Sunday in each month, 3 p.m.; pastor's study at church from 12 to 2 p.m.; preaching every Sunday, 10:45 a.m. and 7:45 p.m.; Sunday school, 1:30 p.m.; B. Y. P. U. 6 p.m. Seats free. All are welcome Rev. O. S. Simms, D. d. pastor, 620 Thompson street; Bel. phone 389-W Highland. Payne A. M. E. Church. Preaching every Sunday, 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m; Sunday school, 2:30 p. m; Ahen Endeavor league, 6:30 p. m; prayer meeting, Wednesday, 5. p. m. Rev. T. Tagart, pastor. M. 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. R. R. D. Epps, pastor. H. Island Baptist church—Sunday service, 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m; communion fourth Sunday in each month; B. Y. P. U. 8:30 p. m; prayer meeting Wednesday, 7:00 p. m. Rev. C. J. Wells, pastor. Rocky M. Baptist church—Sunday services, 11 a. m. and 7 p. m; Sunday school, 1:30 p. m.; prayer meeting Wednesday night; communion every third Sunday in month. Rev. J. H. Brown, pastor. GRACE MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Preeaching at 1 a. m. and 8 p. m. Sunday school at 1 p. m. Young people's Christian Endeavor. 7 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, Hemlock and Berry streets. North-Side. Sundays—Morning service, 10:30; Sunday school, 2:00 p. m.; Christian Endevour, 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. REV. E. N. THOMAS, Pastor. 535 Monroe avenue, Belvue, Pa. WARREN M. E. CHURCH Center avenue and Watt street Rev. C. W. Trigg, Pastor Telephone: 1148-R Schenley Preaching, Sunday, 11 a. m. Sunday school, 2 p. m. Epworth League, 6 p. m. Envolving service, 7:45 p. m. Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening. Trustees' meeting the second and fourth Monday nights of each month. A. M. E. Zion Church. Services every Sunday at 11:30; 8:00, 8:00, Sunday school; literary every Tuesday at 8:00 p. m. Rev. Ware, pastor. ALLEN CHAPEL A. M. E. CHURCH North Side, Pittburg. Morning worship, 10:30 p. 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 prayer meeting. REV. E. R. BAZIER, Pastor. Homewood A. M. E. Zion Church, Tioga and Dumfartine Streets. Rev. J. M. Davis, Pastor. Service Sabbath 1 a. m., 7:45 p. m. Young People's meeting, 7 p. m. Sabbath school, 2:30 p. m.; prayer meeting, Wednesday, 8 p. m.; class meeting, Friday evening. Visitors cordially welcome. UNIONTOWN, PA MT. OLIVET BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev. Thompson, pastor—Preaching 1:55 p.m.; Sunday school, 2:50 p.m. I. Y. P. C. 6:50 p.m. and preaching 1:15 p.m. ZION A. M. E. Church. Rev. J. W. Polk pastor—Preaching 1:45 p.m.; Sunday school, 2:50 p.m. C. E. society, 6:50 p.m. preaching 1:15 p.m. MT. ROSE BAPTIST CHURCH. Rev. Thomas Ford, pastor—Preaching, 10:45 a. m.; Sunday school, 2:30 p. m.; B. Y. P. U. 6:30 p. m.; preaching, 7:45 p. m. St. Paul A. M. E. church, W. B. W. pastor—preaching, 10:45 a. m.; D. pastor—preaching, 10:45 p. m.; Sunday school, 2:40 p. m.; C. E. society, 6:30 p. m.; preaching, 7:45 p. m. Good Hope Baptist Church Service Fifty-fourth and Penn Avenue, Sunday school at 9:30 a. m. Preschool, 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. B. Y. P. U., 6 p. m. SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1912. Prayer meeting, 7:30 to 9 p. m. Wednesday. Sunday school teachers' meeting every Tuesday from 8 to 9 p. m. All are welcome. Rev. T. H. C. Messer, D. D. Pastor, residence, 6109 Dauphin street, 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. Preaching at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Sabbath school at 2 p. m.; B. Y. P. U. at 6:30. All are welcome. Rev. J. R. Saunners, pastor. St. Paul's A. M. E. Church, McKees port. Preaching at 11 a. m. sunday school at 2 p. m. Allen's Christian Endevor at 6 p. m. and preaching at 8 p. m. Rev. W. W. Young, pastor. Gladden A. B. E. Church, Homestead, Pa. C. R. Gorgas, pastor—Services 12 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Shaday school, 2:30 p. m.; prayer meeting Wednesday, m. evening; literary Thursday evening. The Peoples' Mission, Wilkinsburg, order of services—Sunday school at 2 p. m., the Juvenile Missionary hand at 3:30 p. m., preaching at 7:45 p. m., Wednesday evening, prayer meeting. AVERY MISSION A. M. E. ZION CHURCH Avery Mission A. M. E. Zion church corner Avery and Nelson streets, North Side—Sunday services, 11 p.m. and 8 p.m. class meeting, 1 p.m. Sunday school, 2 p.m. Christian Endearment, 7 p.m. Sunday school teacher meets students, 7 p.m. meeting Wednesday, 8 p.m. Literary Thursday, 5 p.m. Rev. A. Wakefield, pastor, residence 225 East Jefferson street, North Side. MONONGAHELA. PA. Bethel A. M. E. church, Rev. A. Smothers, pastor—Services, preaching, 10:45 a. m.; class, 11:30 a. m. 10:45 a. m.; prayer meeting, Christian Endeavor, 7 p. m.; preaching, 7:45 p. m.; prayer meeting, Wednesday evening, 7:45 p. m. WHEELING, W. VA. Simpson M. E. Church, Foxtail street, Rey, G. W. W. Jenkins, D. D. pastor—Sunday services, 10:45 a.m. m.; Sunday school, 2:55 p.m. H. B. Clemens superintendent; Epworth leagé, 6:40; preaching, 7:45. Wayman A. M. E. church, Market street, Rev. J. T. Farity, pastor—Sunday services, 10:45; class meeting, 12; Sunday school, 2:30; Christian Endeavor, 6:45; preaching, 7.45. House of Prayer Rescue Home, Mother A. Johnson, Shepardess—Regular services Sunday, Tuesday. GREENSBURG, PA. Bethel A. M. E. Ch. ch.. Pennsylvania street—Sunday school, 9:15 a.m.; morning services, 10:15 a.m.; evening services, 7:45 p.m.; prayer meeting, Wednesday s. p.m. Rev. C. J. Powell, D. D. pastor, No. 213 West Otterman street, Belfy phone 387L R. M. E. Zion church, colony Play names and Grant street, Rev. C. O. W. watch pastor—services, preachings, 11 a. m.; class noon; Sunday school, 1 p. m.; Christian Endavor, 7 p. m.; preaching at s. p. m. Weekly praye- meeting, Wednesday, s. p. m.; Literary, Thursday, s. p. m. VALUE OF THE IMAGINATION A Reasonable Amount of Day Dreaming Does Not Prove Detrimental to One's Interests. living naturally must be more interesting to the person of vivid imagination than to one who lives only for the tangible things about him and who fears to dream as his fancy wills because reality bears heavily upon him. We do not think that even the man of affairs would find the indulgence of a few day dreams detrimental to his interests, while to those who look only upon the serious side of life and share only its darker aspects, a few dreams of what perhaps may come to pass would act as a tonic upon tired nerves. Our dreams are often companions to us, and sometimes we find ourselves moving unconsciously with them in a world far removed from our real habitat, but one whose promises seem easy of infiltration and whose delights compensate for some of the hardships we may, perhaps, be called upon to bear during our waking hours. The world which is our idea of happiness, with all its wonder of accomplishment and all its measure of appreciation—the world in which we naturally play an important part—who has not seen its shining sands, and lofty summits, and flowering paths, beckoning, ever beckoning, telling as how good it is to live and defying us to resist its appealing call? We cannot all gain its shores and discover long-hidden secrets, but, at least, we can turn its promises to our advantage and make our day dreams oases, as it were, in the desert spots of life. A Lucky Beggar. Robert: Newman telephoned the police: "I want you to find my trousers," he said. "Did you look under the mattress" marked the telephone clerk in the chief's office. "No," said Newman. "Give me the description," he said. "All right. The number on the case is 5574569 and the number on the works is 5134745. "What are you talking about, anyway?" "My watch." "I thought it was your trousers." "Yoh, the watch was in the trousers pocket. A begyar called here and asked me to give him a pair of trousers. I did. After he was gone I discovered I gave him the ones with my watch in them. Find it that begyar, will you?" —St. Louis Post-Democrat SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1912. GRAND LODGE OF F. & A. M. Seventh Masonic District Brother John C. Morton, R. W. G. Warden and District Deputy Grand Master, 16 Miller street, Pittsburgh, Pa. Mt. Moriah No. 36—Stated meeting second Thursday, each month. Frederic B. Lee, N. Mt. Edward W. Johnson, secretary. St. John's No. 50, Sewickley—Stated meeting first Monday each month. Lewis Hallstock, W. M.; J. G. Matthew, J. Sewickley. Star West No. 62—Stated meeting second Saturday each month. Samuel Scott, W. M.; Marion W. Hall, secretary. King Solomon Lodge No. 78, New Brighton — Stated meeting second Wednesday each month. Alexander Webster, W. M.; James W. Butler, secretary. Prince Hall Lodge No. 87, Beaver Falls—Stated meeting third Saturday each month. Jererziah Boulding, W. M.; Lewis Ewing, secretary. St. Cypress No. 13—Wm. A. Morrison, W. M.; Nelson J. Miles, secretary. Stated meeting first Thursday. Monongahela No. 56, Monongahela—Wm. Richardson, W. M.; S. E. McPherson, secretary. Stated meeting first Thursday. Victoria No. 60, New Castle—Rev. G. S. Smith, W. M.; W. F. Barbour, secretary. Alma Lodge No. 63, New Castle—L. D. Howard, W. M.; E. J. Dillard, secretary. Stated meeting first Monday. Ukule City Lodge No. 126. Connellsville, Pa.—Meets first and third Tuesday at Ek Post, 112 E. Main street. Fenton Jackson, F. Sec. Tuna Valley Lodge No. 156. Bradford, Pa.—Meets first and third Thursday. 11 Chambers street. Rev. P. H. Williams, E. R.; E. J. Enty, F. Sec. Eighth chapter No. 7. Order of the Eastern Star. Stated meeting third Thursday each month at 6:00 Center avenue. Rosa E. Hill, W. M. Millman D. H.II secretary, 2011 Wylie Avenue. Chos a Friends Chapter No. 6. Order of the Eastern Star. Stated meeting fourth Wednesday of each month at W. W. Griffith, R. W. Griffith, W. M. Maryville Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in Odd Fellows Hall worship and Jaysin street North Street Union Western Star Lodge No. 157 First room. Third Wednesdays worships. D. L. Anderson, george tong. West Jefferson street. Bond of Love Lodge No. 2344 First and third Tuesday evenings. George W. Stevenson, secretary. 54 Mr.Naucer avenue. Allegheny Council No. 222—Fourth Thursday evenings. W. W. Jacobs. secretary. 1857 train avenue. Household of Ruth No.—First and third Friday evenings. Household of Ruth No. 1784—Second and fourth Wednesday evenings. Mrs. Byrdia Crunkleton, secretary. 116 Crumkleton street. News issues affecting these lodge lodge mail the Pittsburgh Center. - KNIGHTS OF PYTHAS. Smoky City City No. 29. Meeting rooms and third Floor offices eight minutes at N. Odd Fellows hall. N. Fellows office. JAMES MASON, C. C. J. Walter Frazier, E. R.; Jesse W. Harris, F. E. Gen. J. B. Sweltzer Camp, No. 98, Sons of Veterans, U. S. A.—Meets at Memorial hall, Fifth avenue, on second and fourth Friday nights of each month. 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. 28, K. of P. meets first; and third Thursday each month at Odd 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. LOWS EARN. PAUL GILLETTE. C. G. I. F. JACKSON. V. C. Damon Lodge. K. of P. No. 25. Meet ing nights first and second Thursday Jas. A. Baldwin. K. of R. and S.; Jas G. Morris. C. E. 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. I. P. JACKSON. V. C. Jericho Lodge, U. D.—Stated meetings, every second Friday. R. L. Vann. W. M.; J. W. Morgan, secretary. 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. Fryor, 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. 50—Meets first and third Fridays in each month N. S. 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. 1413. Charleroi, Pa. Meets every first and third Wednesdays Mrs. A. Primas, W. R. L O OF 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. Barton council, No. 694, Braddock meets first and third Tuesday nights. Gen. J. B. Swetzer 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, 511 Lenore 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. Reg. J. Henry Dandridge, C. C.; Martin C. Coleham, M. of F.; James Woodruff, K. of R. and S. Malta Commandery, No. 19, K. T.—Sir George C. Cochran, Em. Com.; Sir Samuel P. Buckner, generalissimo; 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, Geek Center avenue, East End. IRON CITY COUNCIL Meets every first Monday at Odd Fellows' hall, Wylie and Beaton street. J. W. Anderson, secretary; J. T. Dorkins, W. M. National Tabernacle No. 39, Daughters of Tabor—Meeting first and third Tuesday night in each month at Re- freshments hall. Frankstown avenue East End. Julia Tabb. H. P. 12. Hypoathor street. East End: Mazzal- loo, W. H. 6255 Upland street. East End. Auto Barn No. 555. Saints. Veteran- ment on the third Praise in the month at Saints' YMCA building. M.KESSPORT. Pa. Gilbertia Demoral Tetraplex, No. 5 Nightshifters of Tabor—Meets most Tuesday night of each month at 11:35 Market street. Lily of the Valley, Court of Glen- the, No. 267—Meets first Tues- day of each month at 11:35 Market street. ELIZABETH, PA. Walnwright lodge, No. 45, K. of P. Brother A. T. Scott, C. C.; Brother Fronch E. H. Greene, Brother Stanley Young B. Burton, prelate; Brother Wesley H. Stratton, M. of E.; Brother Charles S. Batch, M. of F.; Brother Stanley Simmons, K. of R. and S. Brother R. E. Paneburn, M. of A. Brother Charles Henderson, M. I. G Brother George E. Saunders, O. G. Brother George E. Saunders, M. W. Brother Charles Preston, Brother Fronch E. H. Greene, V. C. Brother Simmons, trustees; Brother Preece E. H. Greene was elected delegate to the sound lodge. Advance is fine, No. 2009 of G. V. O. of O. F. election as follows: Guardian Bilim; Simmons; warden. James Bar- nole grand; Oscar Goodrich; ice grand; Frank Swenny; worthy chaplain, 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. Burgess; P. N. F. French E. H. Greene; advocate, Jesse Greene; 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: E. W. Workman, G. master; Joseph Washington, Dep. G. master; Jerry M. Lannon, G. Sr. warden; Richard Staples, G. Jr. warden; Jas. Lethwick, G. treasurer; La Royal Wilson, G. secretary; Rey. Thomas Ford, 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; D. H. W. Keith, 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. Deborah Tabernacle No. 41. I. O. of T. Daughters of Tabor, meets second and fourth Tuesday night in each month at Odd Fellows hall, corner Beaver and Broad street. Swickley, Pa. Mrs. Mattie F. Bowden, H. P.; Mrs. Martha Anderson, V. P.; Mrs. G. H. Hallard, C. R.; Mrs. R. H. Lee, V. R.; Mrs. Lucy Blackson, C. T. Queen Ester Tabernacle No. 516 O. O. of F. Daughters of Tabor meet the third Tuesday night in each month at Odd Fellows hall, 2267 Wylie avenue, Mrs. S. T. Wilkinson, H. P.; Mrs. L. Wilkinson, V. P.; Mrs. D. Childs, C. R.; Mrs. F. Masley, C. T. New Castle, Pa. New Castle Lodge. 3735 G. U. O. of O. F. meets every other Thursday evening. Olando Fitzhugh, P. S., New Castle Pa. McDONALD. PA. The Lilly of the Valley Lodge No. 20 meets the first and third Friday night of each month at 7 o'clock on Valley street. W. M. Wowell, C. C. Sexton, K. of R. S.; R. Husbins, V. C. W. M. Four, M. of F. Charles Berry, M. of E. R. E. Twedy, M. W. Thomas Beard, M. of A. Henry Berry, P. Chas, Gathright, O. G. Currier Long, U. C. trustees, Sterling J. Carter, W. M. Powell and Manuel Berry. The Jewel Lodge No. 4441. G. V. O. of odd Fellows of McDonald, meet first and third Thursday night of each month on Valley street. A. J. Alson, W. G. W. M. Powell, P. S. NOTICE NEWS FROM ALL OHIO COR-RESPONDENTS MUST REACH THIS OFFICE NO LATER THAN TUESDAY NOON OF EACH WEEK. MANAGER. CADIZ, OHIO Edward Gross spent Sunday in Wheeling. Earnest Wallace spent a few days in Coscocton. Paul Harris and brother John lett on Friday for Ypsilant, Mich. Douglas Williams lett for Zaina silville on Saturday. Oliver Kawsey, who is working at Bloomfield, spent Sunday with his family. Bren. Fox gave a very interesting and instructive lecture to the pupils of S. S. class No. 3. His theme was the case in selecting companions for A. L. in the dance, and better life. The course was enjoyed by all present and may expressed a desire to hear the pastor at some future date. The guest, L. G. club met at the home of Mrs. Wallace on Tuesday evening. Howard Carter, who was called by the illness of his mother left on Saturday for his home in Potsdam. The Willing Wereys met at the home of Mrs. Sarah Brown on Friday evening. The S. S. orchestra met at the home of Austin Wallace on Tuesday evening. The address given by Prof. W. H. L. Carus of the Tragedy of the Titanic at Young People's meeting on Sunday evening, was interesting and pathetic in the extreme. Joseph Harris and friends of Jamesake have returned. Wadsworth, Ohio Wadsworth, Ohio (By Lucy Page.) Last Sunday was a joyful day in Zion. The pastor preached two very interesting sermons, both morning and evening. They have planned to start to counsel the church this week. Alfred Early and Miss Alice Polkard are still improving. The pastor will call Thursday for SanDisk, O. and from there to several states. Miss Florence Moore celebrated her seventh birth on Thursday April 15. She was the most East Liverpool, O. (B. Linda Borsky) Miss Mitanie Willard has returned to her home after sounding several W. S. Pittzburgh, Pa. Miss Alma Mason visited friends in this city on Sunday. Mrs. D. E. Butts of Cleveland, O. is visiting her sister. Mrs. Hannah Smith. Miss Alice Newcombe is able to be out again. Miss Emma Bush of Wellsville, O. is with a yphoid fever. Mrs. Daisy Harach of Bridgeport, O. is visiting her sister. Miss Mary Lawson, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Wilcoxin at their home on Lincoln avenue, entertained at a dinner last Tuesday evening in honor of Rev. Dr. Gilliam Grand Chancellor, the R. K. of P. bologne of the State of Ohio. The following letters convey the invitation. W W Alem K H E L A H W H P H W P J H L A J H L A M W M W M W M W C M M L A double co chicken super s MENT at Sons of Veteran hall on Monday night, April 29. A sacred concert was given on Sunday, the 21st, at the Midway hall by members of the Second Baptist church. Miss Emma Richardson gave a very interesting and successful entertainment at the K. of P. hall, Wellsville, for the benefit of the A. M. E. church. David Brooks is ill at his home on Sheridan avenue. Mrs. W. W. Allen attended the executive board meeting of the Woman's Mite Missionary society at Pinduay, O., and returned home much indisposed. At present she is convalescent. Mr. and Mrs. John Verney left for Cadiz O., on Tues day morning, where they will make their future home. Oliver Southall has left this city for Pittsburgh, Pa., where he is employed. Mrs. Jessie Philips Smith is visiting her mother. Mrs. Harriet Phillips. Smithfield, Ohio Smithfield, Ohio (Br: Nicola Carrier) James Harris of Steubenville, and Miss Nannie Harris of Wheeling, spent from Sunday until Monday evening with their mother, Mrs. E. H. Harris. Henry Castleman of Steubenville, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Veney on Sunday. Miss Minnie Beal visited Steubenville on Sunday. Pred. Carter and Gerald Binns visited Mt. Pleasant on Sunday. Rev. Lewis gand wife of Emerson, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. West. Mrs. Dave West and daughter, Thelma, visited Mrs. Jas. Carter on Saturday and Sunday. Wm. Beasley left on Friday for Pittsburgh. Miss Liliana Beall was the guest of Miss Threlma West on Sunday. Paul Fletcher and sister, Mattie, of Steubenville, were the guests of Miss Alice Harris on Sunday. Ray West of Georgetown, is the guest of his uncle, Ed. West and family. Hastings Giles was the guest of friends here on Friday night. Mrs. Homer Harris visited her sister. Mrs. Geo. Smith of McIntyre on Saturday. Mr. Gill is convulsing. Thomas Christian and wife were the guests of his sister, Mrs. Ed. West on Sunday. The McIntyre school will close on Thursday, May 8. under the management of Miss Minnie Beall. An excellent program will be rendered. All are cordially invited to attend. Howard Smith and Miss Agnes Towney were married last Wednesday. Youngstown, O. (By Wm. Saunders.) The Mahoning Avenue Baptist church will give a bazaar on May 21, 22 and 23. Consuello Stewart's court of Calantha met on Monday evening. Mrs. William Milton is on the sick list. Miss Rhodie Holmes, who has been on the sick list for the past week is better. J. H. Bobson is laid up with rheumatism at his home, West Lincoln avenue. Mr. Baker of Ashtabula, was the guest of Mrs. Robert Keer of Foster street. Mahoning Baptist Church. Services were fine on Sunday. Rev. Taylor preached two grand sermons. Rev. Upperman, D. D., of New Castle, was the guest of Rev. Taylor, this week. Mrs. Rev. Taylor is up and out again Rev. Taylor had sad news from his daughter at St. Louis, Mo. He jost his grand-daughter. Mrs. Rev. Taylor is getting ready to give a bazaar on the 21, 22 and 23 of May. They will play the return of the "Wanderer." Rev. L. M. Upperman of New Castle, Pa., will give a lecture on Monday evening, April 29, at Town hall, under the direction of the Tubercle Baptist church. Rev. L. J. Poiarl pastor. The dramatic concert given last Monday evening at Town hall, by Mrs. T. Churchville, was well attended and a financial success. Buckle lodge of Elks met Thursday day evening in regular session and the meeting was well attended and at this meeting two members were reinstated and five new members were given the work, and added to the role. The lodge is doing nicely and are receiving new applications each meeting night. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hudson of Meadville, Pa., were the guests of Archie Thomas last week. Brother Robert Dollinson of New Castle, visited the Elks home on Thursday. The Progressive club will hold a debate at the Town hall. West Federal street, on May 16, 1912. The subject will be "The Child on the Island who was discovered by one man, rescued by another, and raised by another." So the subject under discussion is who has the best claim to the child. There will be some able speakers who will properly handle this subject to the satisfaction of all. A large crowd is expected. The debaters who will take part are Rev. Tucker, D. D., Rev. Phillips and J. H. Lindsay. The Missionary society met at Mrs. Henry Johnson's home, Hogne street, Tuesday evening, and transmitted some important business. Much interest has been taken in this work in a special new members have been hired and are doing a great work. Miss L. Mistler, pastor, Miss Vivian Wynn, secretary. To be in it may concern—Mary M. of Vologne, is to the court of the Seminary. Our office of her will all her relatives are in Cincinnati O. Annie Walker. SALEM, O. (4 Pu B L Losan ) Rev. T. B. Clayton went to Lisbon on Sunday morning. Mr. W. J. Mills occupied the local pulpit and preached a very excellent sermon. The Men's Bible class is quite interesting. Rev. Clayton occupied the pulpit Sunday evening and preach to a good congregation from the subsoot. "Out of the Marsh the Lilies Grow." The A. M. E. Zion church is preparing to give a BZ rally on the birth of Mary. Also on the same date at 11 a.m. See G. A. R. Post will have their animal reunion prescribed in the church. The W. L. Workmen not at Mrs. E. G. Brown with a large at church last week. Mrs. E. G. Brown last week at Alamo and visited the school. The A. M. E. Zion church are preparing to give a sermon to be held in May. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Burkingham are visiting Mrs. Simpson on Union avenue. The musicale which was held last week at Miss Cora Lee was a grand success. Mrs. Alonzo Jackson of Alliance and Miss Cisco and Eugene Johnson were also present at the entertainment. Mr. Banks of Lisbon, was in the city last Sunday. Mrs. Sadie Greene leaves for Cleveland this Sunday where she will visit a number of friends. Mrs. C. E. Burke was an Alliance visitor last Saturday. Miss Sara Cyrus has resumed her studies in music at Miss Hensilwood's studio. Ethel Johnson, child of Charles Johnson, has recovered from an illness of measles and is getting on fine. LISBON, OHIO Excellent services were conducted on Sunday morning at 11 a.m. preaching by Rev. T. B. Clayton. The Sunday school is, progressing nicely under the superintendency of Miss Georgia Wallace and her corp of efficient officers and teachers. The members are preparing for a $150 rally on Sunday, May 5, the purpose of which is to liquidate the long-standing mortgage debt. The ministerial association of the city will conduct the afternoon service at 3 p.m. The public has been asked to assist in this worthy cause. Mrs. Fannie Scott has moved in a comfortable residence and John Wallace is remodelling his residence. T. H. Wright has been busy rehearsing for a grand concert to be given at the A. M. E. Zion church. May 30. Mr. Wright is supported by the young ladies of Lisbon. Steubenville, O. Steubenville, O. (By S. F. Cook.) Mrs. Bertha Brown spent a few days in Washington, Pa., visiting friends. Frank Walker and Mrs. Susan Rollins went to Martins Ferry on April 14, to visit friends. The Nimbile Thimble club met at Miss Bertho Guyder's on Tuesday the 11th, and reported a jolly good time. It costs 1 cent a word to run notes of advertising and business in this column.—(Manager.) Arthur Hanna and Harry Mathew's were calling on friends in Bellaire on Sunday. Mr. Jenkins has opened an elegant restaurant at 203 North Seventh street. Miss Sadie Mercer of Mt. Pleasant, is visiting her sister, Mrs. I. N. McCullough. Policeman L. R. Mercer has gone to Chicago to have his hand treated by his brother, Dr. Mercer. Ed. Grisby of Pittsburgh, visited his sisters, Mrs. L. R. Mercer and Miss Bertha Grisby. Miss Minnie Bell of Smithfield, was a Steubenville caller on Sunday. Mr. Paul and Miss Martha Fletcher were in Smithfield on Sunday. Mrs. Madeline Viney is home from East Liverpool. Miss Gwendoline Thomas is convalescing. Wheeling, W. Va. (By Mrs. Anna L. Baines.) A literary society was organized at Wayman A. M. E. church and the following officers were elected. President, J. L. Jackson; vice president, Joseph Verse; secretary, Miss Ella Kennedy; assistant secretary, Mrs. W. H. Gray; treasurer, Mrs. Cora Verse; chaplain, Mr. Allen; organist, Miss Alma Lightfoot; lookout committee, Granville Bell, Lawson Jones, Ms. Charlotte Grey. Mrs. Dan Piper and son are spending ten days in Charleston, W. Va. guests of her parents, Rev. and Mrs. Downs. Mrs. Anna Saunders was called to Cannonbush owing to the illness of her mother in law, Mrs. Beril Saunders. Bernard Coloston McGill spent Sunday visiting his mother at Sewickley, Pa. Oscar Worders spent Sunday with friends in Steubenville, O. Miss Alma Lightfoot appeared in an entertainment on Thursday in Washington, Pa. "The Peddler's Parade" under the management of Misses Ethel Sinkford and Regina Jones given at Simpson M. E. church, April 24 and 25, for the benefit of the carpet fund, was a decided success. Mr. and Mrs. William Hancock left on Thursday for Grand Rapids, Mich. We wish them much success in their home. Mr. and Mrs. Norris left for Pittsburgh on Saturday evening, April 20. The Ladies Aid Society of Simpson M. E. church gave a birthday party on Friday, April 26. The follow invitations had been previously given out, consisted of an orange colored sock tied with black ribbon to a very appropriate card. The program included: Quarterly Miss south jasmin. Steele and Hayes remarks, president. Mrs. Mason; reading. Miss Regina Jones; ooLa. Eliflipion; evolution. Wilma Gaines; guest. Refreshments were served. A noat sum was realized. John Puffingy, who has held a position as butcher for seven years in Werner's wholesale and retail butcher shop, has resigned and accepted the position of electric light trimmer to begin Monday, April 22. The funeral of the late James Preston, a well known colored expressman of Bellaine. O. who died after suffering a paralytic stroke, last Friday, took place from the family residence on North Belmont street. Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Services were private owing to the serious illness of Mrs. Preston. Interment in Rose Hill cemetery. A very bad the took place on Monday afternoon about 4 o'clock. The fire originated in the home of Mrs. West on Morrow street, which was burned within and nearly everything was lost. The homes of George Willett, John Singer and Mrs. Robert Johnson, were lit and partially burned by E. S. Kennedy, Charles Williams and others who were in the city rushed to the Weg Home and lent considerable aid in saving what was possible. A. L. Ballard Livery and Undertaking Shipping to All Points a Specialty Private Carriages and Pleasure Vehicles For Hire 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 ad 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? Guaranteed under the Drug Act, June 3, 1906, Serial No. 41302. COMPOUNDED BY MRS. 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After the regular routine of business and rehearsal of the Bridal chorus from the "Rose Malden," books were given out for the play "Cricket on the Hearth," which will be given sometime in the future. Members present were: Miss Ella Kennedy, Miss Lillian Berry, president; Miss Mamie McMechen, secretary; Miss Phoebe Perry, Miss Dora Lucas, Miss Bessie Grant, Mrs. Cora Hughes, Mrs. Martha Smith, Mrs. Mary Perry, Mrs. Mary Coffman, Mrs. Lucy Lynn, Mrs. Anne Gaines, Bernard C. McGill, Attorney E. J. Graham, Jr., D. M. A. Morrison. Will meet May 5 at Miss Bessie Grants, 1144 Eoff street. Buffalo. N. Y. Buffalo. N. Y. (By Mrs. Charity A. Nesbitt Parker.) All the ministers had something to saw at their morning services on Sunday, concerning the ill-fated Titanic. At the Christian Culture Congregs, Sunday, 4 p.m., the program was in charge of Miss Anna L. Thomas, assisted of the Junior Choir of the Vine Street A. M. E. church, under the direction of Miss Fanny Catto. The children done well. Sunday at St. Luke A. M. E. Zion church it was rally day, the pastor. Rev. J. C. Taylor, wanted to raise $1,000. Will give the amount in our next write up. At the Michigan Street Baptist church, Sunday night, the pastor. Rev. J. Edward Nash, baptized four candidates. The first strawberry short cake social of the season was given at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. D. U. Smith. Task street. Thursday night, for the benefit of Potter Street Ind. Congregational Church. It was O. K. On the evening of the 6th, Court Douglas, 104, A. O. of K gave a reception and promade at Franklin hall. It was O. K. Every one present enjoyed themselves until the wee hours in the morning. A. H. Brantley left Buffalo on Sunday night for Chicago, Ill., to take a position there. Mrs. Robert Burrell left the city last Thursday for Sparrows Point, Md., where she will live so as to be near her mother, who resides in Baltimore, Md., who is very ill. Mrs. Burrell's many friends will miss her. Also Mrs. Thomas M. Brigman left the city on Sunday night for Fort Riley, Kan., to join her husband, who is stationed at Fort Riley, in the M. S. S. D. Col. T. M. Brigman was a member of the Twenty-fourth infant, U. S. troops, and done service in the Philippine Island. Her many friends with her a safe journey. By the way, both Mrs. Brigman and Mrs. Burrell are active members of Queen Esther H. of N. No. 10, G. U. O. O. F., and will be greatly missed by the Ruthites of the order. Mrs. J. A. White of Eagle street has been quite lame but was able to be out to service on Sunday. Mrs. S. Tracey is home on Williams street, quite sick; also Mrs. Luhu Deskyn, the organist of Potter Street Ind. Congregational church. Since the first of We make up hair of all kinds. the year quite a few of our people people have sickness and died and quite a few are still on the sick list. We hope for their recovery soon. OIL CITY, PA. (By Valera C. Johnson.) Mrs. L. Jones of Charleston, the superintendent of the Mite Missionary society of this district, gave a very interesting talk on the work on Thursday evening and reorganized the society. Charlottel Bell, aged 19 months, the twin daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Beile, died last Thursday evening after a very brief illness and the funeral services were conducted by Rev. H. G. Payne on Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The interment was in Oak Hill cemetery. Little Charbette was a very bright child and with her twin brother, James Ardleie, who survives, were loved by everyone in Oil City. Noble Johnson entertained the following on Sunday at a birthday dinner in honor of his Wife: Mrs Rachel Scott, Mrs. Ettle Moore, Miss Josie Davis, Mrs. Mary Organ of Tituville and Mrs. Rhea Brown of Franklin. William Jenkins was a visitor in Pittsburgh on Monday. The following attended the district conference last Monday night which convened in Franklin: Rev. H. G. Payne; Alford, Strother; Allen Pike, Hallie Mitchell, Devoe Bassett, Jesse Polly, Misses Harriet Milton, Grace Jackson, Edith Asby, Helen Jackson, Bertha Johnson and Valera Johnson. Your agent wishes to state that unless more subscribers can be secured within the next week this paper will be discontinued. CONNELLSVILLE. CONNELLSVILLE. (By Myrle Latney.) Miss Naomi Hilton spent Thursday at Uniontown. Robert Hart of Dawville, N. C., is here for an undefinite star. Mr. and Mrs. A. Corbita entertained Mr. and Mrs. Baker of Mt. Pleasant at dinner on Sunday. Quite a number of young folks attended the reception at Mt. Pleasant on Friday. Miss Josephine Washington is able to be out again. Henry Alien was a business caller in Pittsburgh on Saturday. The stork paid a visit to the home of Rev. and Mrs. Brown and left a bouncing baby girl. Services were well attended at Rocky Mt. Baptist church on Sunday, it being communiore At 11 a.m. covenant; 3:30, the pastor, Rev. J. H. Brown, preached from Luke 2:19. Oh, how our hearts burned with us as he talked with us by the way. Are You in Arrears on paper submission? You know. WE NEED THE MONEY? EIGHT (Continued from Page One.) A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman, no difference where he is and what he is doing honorably and honestly, he is a credit to the organization he is identified with. I can't think of anything more to enlist ones in all kinds of work than a Y. M. C. A. I admire men and enjoy them too, because they can help me. A strong man, intellectually physically and spiritually, may go anywhere he chooses and come out unattainted. Men you may reach out and bring back thousands of men who have gone far from the path of righteousness, yet they will return if you can get hold of them. But first you must love them, I mean their souls. Be men, approach the man who strolls the street destroying women and preying upon every man who has a home. Be a man, speak to the man, have the moral courage to put the man out of business who is destroying womanhood. Be a man, possess the moral courage than to let him later on put you out of business. Put out of society the great gang of men who do not work. That woman who works for a man is over-due in heaven. Every man should work. Introduce a lazy no count man to a good size job—help the man to work and it will help the city. Make men face the work, but you ask how? Public sentiment! Public sentiment can either be a man out or in business. Let a man feel that without a job he can't come in your home. Mothers tetch your daughters to hate anything less than a real man from their very birth. Let us be on the right side of the firewall. A man on the wrong side of the issue is a scalawag. You need not say because I am a Negro I can't expect much. You must start out, mothers, to teach it around the firesides, that they have a life work, that they must enter in the struggle regardless of race or color. He must say all we want is a chance. It is being said that the Negro isn't as brave as formerly. He hasn't lost his bravery, he is just as brave as ever. Now are mothers teaching it around their firesides in their homes? Be a man and get a man—a save him for God. I plead to you from the depths of your heart. Men put it through. Now are mothers teaching everything as a blessing. Men be men for the race needs you as they have never needed you before. Met put it throu Miss Burroughs' address was a forceful, masterly appeal to the Christian men and women of Pittsburgh. POLITICS IN ARKANSAS. State and County Leagues Organized on Eight "Grandfather Clause." The fight for political freedom from the proposed disfranchising amendment No. 11 to the constitution of Arkansas, which is to be submitted to the voters of the state next fall, is on in full so far as the colored citizens are concerned. The amendment in question embodies the "grandfather clause" having for its aim the disfranchisement of the colored men of voting age. The fight is being vigorously carried on by Lawyer Scipio A. Jones of Little Rock and other able leaders of the race throughout the state, among whom are George H. Modre, Dr. J. P. Robinson and T. W. Daniels. State and county leagues are being formed in order that proper instructions may be given to all the people. Women are eligible to membership in these organizations, and they are giving the men genuine support. Contributions are voluntarily given to meet the necessary expenses. The following declaration in the form of resolutions has been adopted and is being used for the instruction of the leaders and members of the state and county leaders—riz: Whereas, Our government, the greatest government on earth, was established upon the theory that taxation without representation is unjust; and, Whereas, It is declared in the organic law that all men are created free and equalled. Whereas, The proposed constitutional amendment, No. 11, proposes to strike down their underlying and fundamental principles; and, Whereas, The adoption of said proposed amendment means the taking away from our people the right to take part in or voice their sentiment in any way in connection with government affairs, notwithstanding the fact our people pay a large amount of their taxes, and that we have been largely instrumental in converting the forests of the state into fertile fields that their labor has produced and still producing a large per cent of the state's wealth and that we own a large per cent of the assessable property of the state; and Whereas, The defeat of this proposed constitutional amendment means more than anything that has transpired since the emancipation proclamation was issued. Resolved, That no store be left unturned to defeat the said proposed constitutional amendment and that organization shall be effected in every county and township in the state for the purpose of informing the public of the said proposed amendment and of appealing to the fair-minded people of the state, whether Democrats or members of any other party, to convince them of the unjustified proposed amendment. The constitution further declares that its object is to defeat the ratification of the proposed amendment, "the sole aim of which is the complete disfranchisement of the Negro voters of the state, to build up an association which shall subserve the best interests of the people." WASHINGTON WASHINGTON (By E. H. Brooks.) Mrs. Kate Lightfoot and Mrs. Hughes of Wheeling, were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Asbury. Ulissie Walters and Clinton Skinner of Pittsburgh, spent last Sunday with their parents of this place. Miss Maybelle Woodson and the Misses Phillips of East End, Pittsburgh, spent last Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Walters, and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas of California. Pa., visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nesley Thomas, last Sunday. Mrs. Sara L. Viverette and two children of Mononahela, Pa., have returned home after a two weeks' visit to their aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Roso Thomas. Mrs. E. R. Butler of the A. M. E. parsonage, was a week-end visitor, with friends in Pittsburgh. Mrs. Jesse Smith (St. Paul street, attending district conference at Greenburg, and also a visit with relatives at Uniontown, Pa. Miss Alma Lightfoot of Wheeling. was a week-end guest of Mrs. I. E. Asbury. Thomas Anderson has opened the restaurant corner of North College and Walnut street. Mrs. Sarah Banks of Burton avenue Pittsburgh the past week called there by the illness of her daughter, Mrs. Kate Perkins. Mrs. Geo. Fields is home from a visit to her mother, Mrs. Anna King of Wheeling. Miss Harriet Underwood has returned from a three-weeks visit with relatives at Cleveland, O. Rev. and Mrs. P. A. Scott and Mrs. Marion Burgh, extended the musicale at the St. Paul A. M. E. last Thursday. Lorenza Butler of the Brandy tonsorial establishment, is visiting his mother at York, Pa. Mrs. Nathaniel Bush and children, Marion and Edith, have been confined to bed by illness the past two weeks. Russell Thomas of Cherry avenue who has been very ill of pneumonia is slightly improved. At this writing, Miss Juniata Baker who has been quite ill for a time, is very low. Stewart Pearl of Columbus, O., is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Norris Hill, and Mrs. Norris Hill. St. Paul A. M. E. Church. Excellent services prevailed last Sunday. In the morning the sermon was delivered by the pastor, Rev. Butler and in the evening by James E. Dungee. Next Sunday the annual rally for the marriage debt will take place and it will be expected to raise a large sum of money. The "Euphonic Soiree" given last Thursday evening was one of the grandest events ever witnessed at St. Paul. The church was beautifully decorated with palms and potted plants and was packed with eager listeners to the magnificent program rendered which consisted of selections by Nelson Arters, pianist of Pittsburgh; Mrs. Byrdle Gordon of Washington, D. , Miss Alma Lightfoot of Wheeling, Rev. P. A. Scott of Pittsburgh and local talent. Dr. and Mrs. L. C. Honesty, Miss Louise Lions, Miss Evelyn and Marie Lions and the ever popular, Pearl orchestra, which warmly super was served, also a large sum of money realized. Much credit is due Mrs. E. R. Butler for the success of this entertainment and she wishes to thank all persons who helped her to make it a success. Nazareth Baptist Church. Nazareth Baptist The pastor, Rev. H. G. Hoose, delivered two master-bed sermons last Sunday on the morning of a Mighty Savior, bringing them in his own forcible manner. The collection for the day was very creditable. A beautiful quilt was shown the congregation which is being made by the Sewing circle of this church each square containing the name of the donor of 10 cenis and it bids fair to be one of the exhibits from Washington to the coming Emancipation celebration next year at Philadelphia. Wright's Chapel. Next Sunday is quarterly meeting and the pastor. Rev. Turner, will be assisted by the Rev.W. E. Jefferson of John Wesley M. E. church. Also the choir of this church will sing in the afternoon. Monday evening, April 29, a musical and literary entertainment will be given in which some of Washington's best talent will participate. Proceeds for benefit of pastor. Rev. Tanner and wife are very proud of their little daughter, Miss Floretta Vivian, who is enjoying the best of health and already rules the household. The Washington County Committee of the Emancipation Commission held a mass meeting on Friday evening, April 26, at the St. Paul A. M. E church. Addresses were made by Revs. I. G. Hoee and W. H. Hutter and Those Brown of Vanderbilt, after which the speaker of the evening, Hon. Harry W. Bass, of the State Legislature, was introduced and by whom the aim and purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation Commission was fully explained. Music was furnished by the choir of the Naza reth Baptist church. Mansfield Brown of Canonsburg and Mrs. Borthea Brown of Steubenville, O., were over 50 guests of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Brown of Cherry avenue. Mrs. Bernard Walker and children of West Middletown, Pa., who have been visiting her sister, Mrs. Hayes Thomas and other friends, have returned home. Social Mr. and Mrs. Ross Thomas entertained at dinner last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Vincette of Monongahela and Miss May Webb of Washington. Mrs. T. J. Askew of South Franklin street, entertained at luncheon last Saturday, Mrs. I. E. Asbury, Miss Lightfoot and Mrs. Birdie E. Gordon Mrs. Wn. Bolden of West Albany street, entertained at luncheon at Saturday at Collar luncheon given prior to Mrs. Brydie E. Gordon of Washington, D. C., and Miss Alma Lightfoot of Wheeling. The guests were received by Mrs. Edgar A. Richardson. The decorations were of pink and white cut flowers. Covers being laid for twelve. Music was furnished by Roman Cooper and a pleasant afternoon was spent. The CollarizeTaylor Musical club is preparing for a grand musical to be given on May 17, proceeds for benefit of St. Paul A. M. E. rally fund. The musical will be concludes with a one-act drama entitled "The Wooing of Janet." Further announce The Pollock, W. C. T. U. of Washington built its regular meeting last Friday evening at the home of Mrs. L. C. Honesty. The Lucy Thurman club met Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. T. J. Askew. After routine business A social hour followed during which time Miss Tanner read the Thurman Busie in which a tender was presented of the simulant Titanic. Our evening's visitors were Attorney W. X. Butter, E. H. Jones, Master Cgas, Elmer Jones and Mrs. James Tobias. The next meeting will be at the home of Mrs. Ida E. Patterson of Erie street. Rabat Bugs and Carpets The best carpets are made at Rabat and have some similarity in appearance to Smyrna rugs, but in the former the wool and warp are of a much looser composition and of a somewhat lighter body. The predominating color of Rabat rugs is red and the patterns are sometimes ingeniously geometrical, but the colors, although frequently exhibiting beautiful blends, are often of a more hectic cast than is pleasing to the most exacting European taste. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS While making our rounds in different parts of the country, we sometimes come across the question, "Why is it that not a few of our men after running a business of some kind for ten, fifteen, and even for twenty-five years, all at once quit, although to an outsider they seemingly are succeeding fairly well". Our answer usually has been that, while we are not advised as to any definite cause for the action"of these persons in every such instance, yet, according to an old saying, "Every man knows his own business best," consequently, the intermission is likely brought about by such knowledge. However, we sometimes surmise that the most of these "quitters," if you please, become discouraged; and so decide "to throw up the sponge" and not try any more. Such persons, as well as others, should bear in mind that life's a try. Success depends upon continual trying. One or two failures or even more, not prove disastrous, provided one is willing to try and try again. How enthusiastically we enter upon a new task? But when it begins to go hard, the blaze dies down. In many cases, we did not anticipate these obstacles and discouragements. We run up against a strange feeling of inactivity of indifference within ourselves. So we say, "Let's quit this job, or at least stop for a while, and in the meantime try something that goes a little easier." Don't be a "quitter." That's not the way famous artists, musicians, poets, inventors, discoverers and captains of industry behaved, when they were facing what seemed an impassable wall. Had they turned aside when the road was hard, we should never have had the paintings, and statuary, the masterpieces of prose and poetry, the great achievements in the material realm and in the domain of commerce and finance, which have inured to the advantage of all mankind, and of which we avail ourselves today. We too often forget that these successes are the fruit of some one's patient and persevering industry. We have plenty of instances of men now successful in business, who in former years failed in the commercial sense of the term, but who were too plucky to give up the fight. Trying again, they climb high upon the ladder of success. Keep on trying—Negro Business League Journal. One of the philosophers of the Philadelphia Tribune, Mr. Just Gone, talking about money, about which we all talk a great deal and of which most of us have very little, says: "Money is power. My! what a wealth of meaning there is in those few words, thoughtfully - studied. Money is power! If our folks had money - I mean some more money - they would operate large factories, open large business places, publish larger papers, operate big banks and command such high respect that they would know for a fact that money is power. As a class, we handle lots of money, but we don't know how to make the money we get hold of make more money." But the race is learning how do so. We must not overlook that fact, but give all the encouragement possible to those who are beginning to buy and sell and to put the money in banks of their own, and to read their own, newspapers and advertise in them the things they have to sell or want to buy. Here and there we have a buggy, an axle factory, a cotton seed oil and a textile mill, and the banks and insurance companies owned, by us are growing in number and strength every year. Money is power. But money does not make men; men make money. The Negro people everywhere are learning this fact and trying to make good, and should be encouraged with our trade as well as our talk—New York Age. In his book, "Race Ideals," reviewed in last month's issue of this magazine, ex-Congressman George W. Murray states that a way must be found to teach Afro-American youth to be self-respecting and proud of their racial connections, and also to turn their attentions toward commercial pursuits, for such provisions are not made in the white man's educational system which the black man is pursuing. It is exactly this need that makes the Negro school teacher and college professor an indispensable asset in training our young. There being provided no direct text-book instruction to counteract the pernicious teachings of nearly three, centuries in slavery, unwritten instructions for this purpose must be given orally to the young by members of their own race, holding positions in their schools as teachers and college professors. Coupled with like instruction from the pulpit and press, our people can be brought gradually to an awakening along these vital lines. It can hardly be expected that provision will be made for a great while yet in our courses of study for training along the lines Mr. Murray shows up to be so sadly Some time ago a colored brother was halled into court in one of the large cities of the north charged with having been drunk the night before. He was asked to explain before being sentenced. It took him a half hour to get down to the main point—because he stuttered shamefully. Seeing the prisoner's futile efforts to tell how it happened the judge tried to interrupt him and was startled to find that he himself was stuttering as badly as had the prisoner. The sheriff interposed only to find that he too THE COURIER. CAN CULLINGS needed. But Negro teachers and college professors can and do lecture the youth under their tutelage on these particular matters with a degree of effect white teachers can never hope to attain unto.—Southern Life Magazine. Our people cannot be too liberal in their patronage and support of worthy race newspapers and magazines. A prominent educator in Georgia expressed the view of ye editor that in his opinion we must in the future rely largely on our own periodicals to get our appeals, statements, and contentions before the world. Newspapers and magazines of the proper type are educational institutions as much as are colleges and universities. If we contribute to the help of schools, why not to aid in the issuance of educative periodicals? If money is not given outright to help in the maintenance of a race publication, business can be secured for it through the influence of its friends, and cash subscriptions can be voluntarily solicited therefor and sent in promptly to the office of publication. Helping a race paper does not mean helping an individual to wealth, for colored newspapers on the whole are earning barely enough with which to keep going, and not enough to improve and enlarge as they should. Fride of race and a missionary spirit must play some part in contributing to the support of the colored press. Workers are needed. Who will get in the front ranks and help the colored publications fight to win?—Southern Life Magazine. Friends of the Liberian republic are looking forward to a widened sphere for that country. Along with American money to help straighten out her financial' tangles, and a receiver-general for customs collections who is an American, the further substantial interest of the United States is shown in the appointment of Major Charles Young, an Afro-American, as military attache at the American legation. The major, with three able young college graduates from the states as military assistants, will organize a Liberian constabulary. The efforts of Bishops Scott and Hartzell and other friends of the country have borne fruits in Liberia's behalf. The darker races that have absorbed the civilization of the whites, are charged with being IMITATIVE. The charge stands true. But those who make the charge are THEMSELVES imitative or they could not have made such astonishing progress. New concepts are made up of parts of things already known. We take a little imitation here, a little there, combine with a new idea and produce what is wrongly called ORIGINAL. But any people who can by imitation bring to pass the great things which the Japanese people have accomplished need not for a moment feel plued at being called imitators.—Southern Life Magazine. There is more talk of a negro daily newspaper to be started at some strategic point in the upper south. Our advice would be to run a big 16-page weekly successfully, change within a year or two to a semi-weekly and make a success; later change to a tri-weekly and make that go; then swing into a daily and it OUGHT TO GO! As a further help in establishing negro dailies, get young colored men employed by white dailies as reporters of negro happenings, so they can learn from the whites the intricacies of conducting successful dailies. Later they may do service on daily papers for their own people. Miss Mary Hannah Johnson, city librarian of Nashville, Tenn., in making her annual report, emphasizes among other things the need of a library for negroes. The Nashville Globe says: "The endorsement of the plan by Miss Johnson, who is engaged in the work, and who is in a position to know better than any one else the good that libraries do, is worth more than that of any one else at this particular time." By the census of 1910 the total negro population is placed at 9,828,294, or 10.7 per cent of the total population of all races of 91,972,266. Among negroes there were 55,578 more females than males, or 98.9 males for every 100 females. In 1800 the proportion was 98.6 males to every 100 females. This disparity of males is significant, and should be investigated. Atlanta Baptist college has raised in cash $15,000 from colored friends of that institution after a canvass of 18 months. Gradually our people are rallying to the aid of those colleges where negro manhood is being fostered and encouraged and where negro worth is frankly recognized. George W. Smith, born a slave in Tennessee seventy-five years ago, now deceased, has left property worth $116,000, according to his will filed for probate in Champaign, Ill. had become infected with the same disease. Finally the colored man was begged to go on about his business and the case against him was dropped: Prof. Thomas M. Gregory who resigned a professorship in Howard university, Washington, D. C., because of an anonymous letter sent to President Thirkield defaming his character about a year ago, has been reinstated by the president as a teacher in that institution. SELECT NEW FURNITURE AND CARPETS BEFORE YOU MOVE Don't put off buying because you are short of cash—come to The Household. Make your selection of new Rugs, Furniture, etc. now have everything ready to complete your new home. You can PAY THE EASY WAY. $9.95 $9.95 6 ft. Extension Table with heavy center col- laboration, polished. PAY THE EASY WAY. Br. 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This full size Solid Oak Frame Couch is the most wonderful value ever offered. The top is deeply Diamond Tufted with fine "Nuntuck" Leather. The long steel springs are strongly brassed. JUST SAY YOU'LL PAY THE EASY WAY. Mrs. David Dempster and Miss Emma Harper of Harbor, Pa., were Canonsburg shoppers last Friday. Mrs. Sampson Collins entertained at 6 o'clock dinner last Saturday evening in honor of her husband's birthday, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Rose and Charles McGee. William Davis visited his sister, Mrs. Golden of Pittsburgh, fast satur day. Miss Ora Brown of Waynesburg, who was the house guest of Miss Pearl Walls for several days has returned home. Misses Mazie Johnson and Maggie Walls of Washington, were Canonsburg visitors on Sunday. Mrs. Nancy Tanner and daughter, Mrs. Askey of Washington, were parsonage guests on Sunday evening. Mrs. Mary Griffin of Iron street, was in Washington calling on friends last Tuesday. On Monday evening quite a number of friends gathered at the home of Miss Pearl Walls in honor of her guest, Miss Ora Brown. Music and games were the features of the evening, after which a dainty lunch was served. Samuel Wheeler e. E. East Palestine, O. was the out-of-town guest. Miss Emma Wasse of Madowlands visited her cousin, Miss Catherine Walls, last Sunday. Miss Sarah Bush of Washington, was the guest of Mrs. Lee Durham on Sabbath. Mrs. Adelia Murray lectured to the M. Missionary society on Tuesday evening. After the lecture refreshments were served at the hall. Mrs. Ada List was a week-end visitor with her mother, Mrs. Lou Callin. Mrs. Alex: Brown and daughter are on the sick list. Thomas Chambers spent last Friday in Washington visiting his daughter, Mrs. John Griffin. Mrs. Arges Minor of North Side, Pittsburgh, visited relatives on Tuesday. Misses Emma Smith* and Lillian Diddy of East End, Pittsburgh, were the guests of Miss Annie Marshall on Sabbath last. Mrs. Dessa Grooms served dinner last Sunday to Presiding Elder R. H. Bamry, Rev. and Mrs. C. A. McGee, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Harper and daughter, Emma. Mrs. Sarah Dunlap entertained at dinnert: last Sabbath Mrs. Cornelia Praul and Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Goodly. wynom from naseen An ant is a wise creature for itself, but it is a shrewd thing in an orchard or garden; and certainly—men, who are great lovers of themselves, waste the public, divide with reason between self-love and society; and be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others, especially to thy king and country. It is poor center of man's actions, himself—Bacon. net-macros A drunken congressman said to Horace Grealay one-day: "I am a self-made man." "Then, sir," replied the philosophical Horace, "the fact relieves the Almighty of a great responsibility."