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The Southern Indicator Great Mass Meeting by Colored People in Interest of Hospital To be held in the Columbia Theatre Sunday Afternoon, May 10th at 4 O'clock and Monday Night, May 11th. Children's Meeting at the Same Place Monday Afternoon at Enur O'clock All colored citizens of Columbia in every walk in life, are invited to attend a great mass meeting in the Columbia Theatre Sunday afternoon, May 10th, at 4 o'clock. Also Monday night at the same place at 8:15 o'clock. Children's meeting in the opera house Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Children from all the schools and colleges are invited to be present. Dr. C. T. Walker, of Georgia, and notable white and colored speakers have been invited to take part on the program. Efforts will be made at once to raise $50,000.00 to build a hospital for colored people of South Carolina, near the city of Columbia. Every citizen is called upon to give amounts from one to twenty-five dollars or as much as they are able to give. Remember that there are no real good hospital facilities for the colored sick of South Carolina. A free ward will be inaugurated and maintained. The charter members of the hospital are: Richard Carroll, I. S. Leevy, J. W. Thomas, W. H. Young, T. A. Williams, L. J. Rhodes, and E. E. Bobo. The local committee is: Richard Carroll, I. S. Leevy, J. A. Roach, R. W. Jackson, E. C. Nelson, R. B. Gardiner, J. W. Killingsworth, M. H. Bright. VOLUME XI Great Mass Meetings People in Interest To be held in the Columbia T. May 10th at 4 O'clock and M. Children's Meeting at the Afternoon at F. All colored citizens of Columbia tated to attend a great mass meeting day afternoon, May 10th, at 4 o'clock same place at 8:15 o'clock. Children Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock. C. colleges are invited to be present. Dr. C. T. Walker, of Georgia, speakers have been invited to take will be made at once to raise $50,000 oired people of South Carolina, near zen is called upon to give amounts fr as much as they are able to give. R. good hospital facilities for the color free ward will be inaugurated and The charter members of the h. I. S. Leevy, J. W. Thomas, W. H. Rhodes, and E. E. Bobo. The local I. S. Leevy, J. A. Roach, R. W. Jad diner, J. W. Killingsworth, M. H. THE NEWS FROM GREENVILLE Greenville, April 27, -Mr. J. E. Vilato, has opened up a first class Cafe in the basement of the Collins building and will be glad for his friends to call in. We are very much in need of snch a place. Mr. O. E. Turner, arrived in the city Monday of last week and found a fine boy. Mother and baby are doing Well. There was an excursion in the city Monday from Spartanburg, and brought a good crowd. At 4 o'clock the Greenville Giants and the Spartanburg team crossed bats at the League Park and played a fine game. The visitors were defeated by a score of 4 to 1. There were between one hundred and a thousand people present at the Park. The Greeenvill boys are in good trim and are expecting to play great ball this season. They have lost one game out of three. Mr. N. C. Ezell of Spartanburg, spent Sunday and Monday in the city. Mrs. Bagnall, wife of Rev. Bagnall, of Spartanburg, attended the confirmation at St. Philip's church, Sunday afternoon. The U.S.Court adjourned Monday. The Jenkins Orphanage Band was in the city Monday and Tuesday, and played throughout the city. The concert at Tabernacle Baptist church was a great success. Revs. D. J. Jenkins and Paul Daniels, accompanied the band. They left Tuesday afternoon for Spartanburg. Mr. Bradham Wright, Misses Ruth Wright, and Florence Lykes were among the excursionists from Spartanburg Monday. Mr. John Ghalikely left Sunday for Holly Hilly, where he has a job in plastering. Mrs Anna Lawrence De Large, after spending two weeks in the city with relatives and friends left Tuesday for her home in Pelham. Mr. James Priestly, formerly of Greenville, but now of Canada, after spending ten days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs Henry Priestly, on Green Ave., left Monday night on train No. 30 for his home. This was his first visit in fifteen years. Mr. Israel Thomas, left Monday for Anderson, where he has a position in blacksmithing. Little Edelle Cureton, after having been very ill for a week or more is somewhat improved at this writing. Mr. and Mrs J. B. Hahley, of Simpsonville, were in the city Monday, on business. Dr. S. S. Lawton is able to be out after having been confined to his bed several days. Mrs Nannie Mack is on the sick list. We hope she will soon be out. Mr. Louis Johnson, of Columbia, was called to the city Saturday, to attend the funeral of his uncle, Fletcher Brownlee. Mrs. Harriet Dogan, after several years of declining health, died Monday morning April 20th, at her home on Nichols St. She was a faithful member of Allen Temple A. M. E. church. The funeral was held on Wednesday afternoon the 22nd, at the above named church, conducted by the Rev. J. E. Thomas. The bereaved family has our sympathy. Mr. Fletcher J. Brownlee, after having been ill for many years with Asthma, died Thursday evening of last week between 6:00 and 7:00 o'clock. He was forty years of age. He worked up to a few hours of his death. He was a boyhood friend of ours and his death was a great shock to us. After he quit work he suffered great pain and suddenly took a fainting spell and died in a few minutes. The funeral was held Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, at his late home on Nichols St., conducted by Rev. J. E. Thomas, assisted by Rev. H. E. Jennings. There was a large crowd of sorrowing friends in attendance. There were many beautiful floral offerings. He leaves two brothers and one sister to mourn his loss;—Mr. Thos. Brownlee, of Knoxville, Tenn., Mr. Clinton Brownlee, of Pasadena, Col., and Mrs. June Hampton, of this city. The bereaved family has our deepest sympathy. Dr. George W. Harry, returned a few days ago from Washington D.C., where Mrs Harry underwent an operation at the Freedmen's Hospital. He has just heard from her at this writing, and she is able to sit up. We hope she will soon be entirely well. Dr. and Mrs O. M. Thompson, returned Monday evening from Florence, where they attended the Palmetto Medical Association. Dr. Thompson stated to the Indicator reporter that the Association would meet in this city next April. There was a large crowd in attendance at the Confirmation at St. Philips Episcopal church, Sunday afternoon. The services were conducted by Bishop Guery who, after preaching a very instructive sermon, and giving a good talk in which he taught us many things about the Episcopal church, confirmed a class of five which consisted of Mrs C. D. Brier, Miss Myra Alexander, Mr. James Herron. Mr. Elliott Rige and Miss Beulah Duke, of Norfolk, Va. Rev, Bagnall. the Rector of the church brought over his vested choir from Spartanburg which rendered excellent music for the occasion. The services were beautiful and every one enjoyed them. There were a good many white friends who worshiped with them also. Mrs Sarah Priestly who worked so faithfully for the establishment of a colored Episcopal church in the city, was in the congregation and was heartily greeted by her many friends. The State Baptist Convention. The Rev. G. A. Goodwin pastor of the Springfield Baptist church requests the Southern Indicator to urge the delegates to the State Baptist convention which meets in Greenville, to send in their names next week by all means, as the committee is ready to assign homes. COLUMBIA, S. C. SATURDAY, MAY 2d. 1914 FROM CITY ON THE EDISTO Orangeburg, April 29. -At this season of the year when the fields, hills and valleys are covered with iiving green, we can think of no place in South Carolina that is more beautiful in natural appearance than Orangeburg, ("The City on the Edisto"). However, at this writing we shall avoid description but will proceed briefly along other lines. The Commencement exercises at Claflin this year from present indications, will be among, he best of the school's history and be witnessed by hundreds of people who are dearly interested in the educational uplift of the race. The great Methodist church which is the foundation pillar of grand-old Claflin University deserves no small praise for what she has done and is doing. May the name of Claflin University ever remain the same, unchanged. Dr. Dunton, the venerable president of this school is a grand and glorious man and deserves the praise and hearty co-operation of all concerned. Dr. R. S. Wilkinson, the quiet unassuming ideal president of the Colored State College with his efficient corps of teachers, deserves the "well done thou good and faithful servant." The State College is the educational paradise of South Carolina for the Negro and all concerned should therefore feel happy and grateful. The Commencement Exercises of this school will be held on the same dates as Claflin and will be as usual largely attended. Both of the schools have had a very prosperous year. The Farmers in this as in other sections are busy and will reap in due season if they faint not. Rev. C. C. Scott of Columbia, S. C., and his son Joseph of Claflin, called on me one day last week and paid their respects. Thanks, call again. Mrs J. E. Wilson, of Florence, S. C. is visiting her daughter, Mrs F. I. Simkins of this city. Elder J. S. Thomas, will attend the Commencement Exercises of Bennett College, Greensboro, N.C. Two of Dr. Thoma's sons will graduate from this school on the 6th of May. Dr. J. E. Wallace, formerly of Claflin University, is the president of the school. We have a few subscribers to the Indicator whose names will be sent in next week, after the schools have closed The Indicator's Friend. THE NEWS FROM NEWBERRY. Newberry, April 27—The closing exercises at the Davenport School were good. This school is about seven miles from Newberry, and was taught this year by Miss Eugenia Williams, a young woman who has proved a very efficient teacher, A large party of young people from town attended the exercises of this school. Prof. U. S. Gallman, Rural Supervisor, at the close of the exercises, addressed the people in strong forceful fashion, reminding them of certain faults, and urging them to greater efforts in connection with their school. The Social Club met at the home of Miss M. G. Ward, Wednesday. A most enjoyable time was reported. This is a club composed wholly of young ladies, who exercise the right of suffrage, and all other privileges, and mere man has nothing to do with it. By special permission man is sometimes admitted, but only in order that he might see how well ladies manage their own affairs. The Jenkins Orphanage Band gave its concert in the Bethlehem Baptist church, Monday night. All the numbers were good and heartily applauded, none more so than the debate-Resolved, "That the South is a better place for the Negro than the North." The affirmative was upheld by Miss A. E. Robinson, while the negative was doubtily debated by Miss N. B. Spencer. The very large audience present voted almost unanimously in favor of the North. William Gary, the colored man who has been a government employee at the post-office for several years, has resigned, his resignation to take effect soon. Gary has made a faithful employee and does his work well; but, being a colored man there is a good deal of work about the office that he could not do to the satisfaction of the general public. The above is from the Newberry Observer. You are permitted to draw your own conclusions. The colored employee in the government service South under the present administration finds the "general public" a hard customer. He is the same customer that he had to deal with under a former administration however, and there was no kick. Correspondent. REV. SPENCER ADAMS DLAD. Congaree, April 30.—Rev Spencer H. Adams, died April 14, at Hopkins. The funeral service were held Sunday, April 19, at Zion Benevolent Church, being conducted by the pastor Rev. J. W. Neal assisted by the Rev. J. W. Boykin of Camden. Two very creditable sermons were rendered. Rev. Neal took his text from Pslm 78:70 71 72 verses. He chose David also his servant and took him from the sheepfold to feed Jacob his people and Isreal his inheritance. So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart and guided them by skillfulness of his hand. The Rev. Boykin also rendered every creditable discourse from Ist Corinthians 15:57. "But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." Rev. Adams has been a tireless worker in the ministry since 1893, preaching at Zion Benevolent Baptist for a period of six years. It will be remembered that Rev. Adams was stricken with paralysis about two years and eight months ago since which time he has been practically confined to the house. Though almost helpless and unable to perform his desired duties, he never made a complaint, and in his affliction he was always steadfast in the faith of the Heavenly Father. Always willing and ready to discuss the welfare of the service of the Master. During his affliction he was nursed by a loving wife who showed a lifetime of devotion to her loved one always at his side, and always willing at a moments notice to administer to him, such of this life's goods as were necessary to the comfort of the body. The Rev. Adams is survived by his wife, Mrs Annie Adams, and ten children. Mrs S. G. Brooks, of Jacksonville, Fla., the eldest, Mrs C. S. Carr, of Augusta, Ga., Mr. S. H. Adams, Jr., and David E. Adams of New York city, Miss Janie Adams of Benedict College, Mr. John Q. Chauncy Adams, M. D. of Kalla, and the Misses Katie and Ophelia Adams who are at home. The community as well as the state has sustained a great loss in the death of the Rev. Adams. We shall miss him for his clear and concise judgment. He was always slow to make a decision on any matter. Seldom, if ever talkative, always willing and ready to lend a helping hand to his fellow men. But whom we love, God loves even more. So Thy soul has been its way. The pale blue melts around thy flight And we miss thee more each day. 'Oh!' how we miss thy tender voice. Thy loving fatherly care. It's music made our hearts rejoice. It soothed our every fear. Enter now thy Master's joy. The crown that thou hast von. Is purest gold without alloy. Thy work has been well done. W. W. A. Grand Drama and Japanese Drill. Mrs. J. E. Sullivan with a bevy of Sunday school children, boys and girls, will entertain the public Monday night, May 4th, at Zion Baptist church. The program to be rendered is a good one and calculated both to inspire the young and interest the old. Admission 10 cents. Go early if you wish a seat as a big crowd of people are bound to go. THE MUTUAL RELIEF AND BE NEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. Publicly Commended by Insurance Commissioner, McMas er. In a recent speech to the South Carolina white teachers association at Spartanburg, Insurance commissioner F. H. McMaster made the following utterance: "I have been made sick at heart as I have heard South Carolinians say that successful insurance companies can only be conducted, in the North. Why ladies and gentlemen, I can take you to Columbia and show you a Negro preacher who is conducting a successfully one of the safest industrial insurance companies in America. As a matter of fact I know of no other company in exactly the same condition. Its surplus is greater than its liability to its policy holders." Commissioner McMaster was speaking to representatives of the most cultured and highly educated white people of both sexes in South Carolina and speaking of a Negro business enterprise controlled and managed by South Carolinians of the Negro race. This is the highest compliment we have ever known to be paid to any insurance company. This company's advertisement appears elsewhere in the Southern Indicator. We recommend it to you. Take out a policy at once if you have not already done so. Dr. Dunbar and his business associates have just cause to feel proud of this well earned endorsement by the Insurance Commissioner. CULLINGS OF STATE COLLEGE Orangeburg, April 27. —Tuesday April 14th, the birthday of Senator Justin Smith Morrill, of Vermont, father of the Land Grant colleges, was observed by the faculty and students of the State College as agricultural day. All other exercises of the college were dispensed with and the entire force of workers assembled in the chapel and devoted the time to discussions of problems affecting rural and city life in the various sections of the State represented. Special addresses were made by designated members of the faculty and interesting papers were read by students assigned to this feature of the conference. The day was most interestingly and profitably spent and has doubtless inspired many ideas of community improvement among all attendants. The day will be an annual observance in the future life of the college. It is a notable fact that of the 887 students enrolled in the institution this session, 697 came from farms. This shows that our people are lining up strong on agricultural education. The other trades and occupations of industrial life are also well represented. The students have come from six states aside from South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia and Florida are well represented. The annual summer session for teachers will begin this year June 29th, and last four weeks. A large concourse of students is expected. Courses in all the literary, industrial and agricultural NUMBER 22 subjects will be offered by a competent faculty. The base ball team has had a victorious season, the best in its history. They have won every game played except one of the Allen University series. The series with that institution is tied and will doubtless be played off. Every prominent college of the State has been met and defeated, and Morris Brown College, of Atlanta, Ga., has been added to the string of victories. Wednesday May 6th is commencement day this year. The address to the graduating class will be delivered by Rev, E, H. Coit, D. D., of Charleston. Dr. Coit is a platform orator of splendid ability, and never fails to please his hearers. The class this year number 52, an increase over that of last year The new agricultural equipment of the college is nearing completion. The latest addition is the concrete sille just finished by the students of the maso ry division. It has the capacity of storing food for 20 cows during 200 days of the year. This will bring our dairy up to the standard of farmers colleges. Some of the most prominent divines of the state have preached to the students this session at the invitation of the faculty. The last of the list filled this engagement last Sunday night in the person of Rev. M.G. Johnson, pastor of Ladson Presbyterian church, Columbia. Dr. Johnson's sermon was full of helpful advice to the large assembly of students and friends who heard him. COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM. STATE COLLEGE ORANGEBURG Commencement Week, 1914. May 3, 4 P. M.—Baccalaureate Sermon. Rev. W. B. Duncan. D. D. Orangeburg, S. C. May 3, 8 P. M.—Religious Address, Prof. R. L. Douglass, A. M., Biddle University, Charlotte, N. C. May 4.—Class Day. Literary Contests. May 5.—Alumni Day. Industrial Exhibitions. May 6.—Graduation. Address, Rev. E. H. Coit, D. D., Charleston, S. C. An account of the memorial service of the late Rev. Tony Jumper will appear in our next issue. DR. A. JOSEPH COLLINS SURGEON DENTIST. 1510 Main St., Columbia, S. C. Office Hours: 8 a. m. to 1 p. m.; 2 p. m. to 6 p. m. Phones: Office 3413; Residence, 2343. SPECIAL RATES TO STUDENTS. OFFICE HOURS 4 to 9 A. M. 1 to 3 P. M. 6 to 7 P. M. PHONE 3367 Office and Residence 929 Pine St. COLUMBIA, S. C. Carolina Pressing Club Suits made to order. Cleaning, Pressing and Dyeing neatly done for Ladies and Gentlemen. 620 Main Street. Phone 2445. A. N. Neal, Proprietor. ALL MEXICO UNDER PLAN OF MEDIATION CARRANZA ACCEDES TO REQUEST OF INTERMEDIARIES TO ACCEPT MEDIATION. WILL STOP FIGHTING NOW United States and Huerta Will Agree to Armistice and Carranza is Expected To Do So. Washingotn.—The scope of mediation plans for the settlement of the Mexican crisis was suddenly broadened so as to include the entire range of Mexican affairs, not alone the critical issue between the United States and the Huerta regime, but also the conflict between the elements of Northern and Southern Mexico which have rent the republic for many months. This signal enlargement of the mediation program followed the receipt late in the day of a formal acceptance by General Carranza, chief of the Constitutionalists. of the principle of mediation, as proposed by the ambassador from Brazil and the ministers from Argentina and Chile. Already the United States and General Huerta had formally accepted the good offices of these South American envoyes and now as a further step, General Carranza has been brought into the deliberations so as to draw every element and faction within the range of any settlement which may be attained. Earlier in the day the mediators made another decisive move in asking the United States and General Huerta to agree to an armistice by which all aggressive military movements would be suspended pending the outcome of the negotiations. The mediators confidently expect both sides to accept the armistice proposal. A separate proposal for an armistice as between Huerta and Carranza also will be made, and with its acceptance all of the warring elements throughout Mexico as well as the American forces would maintain a military status quo. The American government in its formal reply to the armistice proposal will stipulate expressly that any untoward act toward Americans will be regarded as an infraction of the armistice. The South American envoys were in session throughout the day. Up to adjournment they had progressed steadily on their plans and foresaw a definite statement within the next few days of their contemplated action. During the evening the envoys individually conferred with their colleagues in the diplomatic corps from Central and South America to lay before them what had been done and discuss the general situation. BRITISH FACTIONS MAY COMBINE Compromise on Question of Home Rule Now Seems Possible. London.—A compromise on the question of home rule for Ireland seemed nearer than it ever has been before. There was a strong belief in Parliamentary circles that conferences between leaders of the two great parties soon would be resumed. The House of Commons discussed the Ulster crisis again when it wounded two days debate on Austen Chamberlain's motion for a judicial inquiry into the government's "plot" to crush the Ulster Covenanters. The motion which virtually was a vote of censure on the cabinet, was rejected by a party vote of 344 to 264. The growing belief that civil war in Ireland is a reality which cannot be escaped if the present home rule bill becomes law, seems to have influenced members on both sides of the house, as it has the newspapers. The press of both opinions recently has become more conciliatory in tone than at any previous stage of the discussion. Sir Edward repeated his offer that if Ulster were excluded from the bill "until this Parliament shall determine otherwise" instead of the six-year period which Premier Asquith had offered, he would submit the proposal to the people of Ulster. Georgia Women Endorse President Georgia Women Endorse President. Atlanta, Ga.—Endorsement of the course of President Wilson in Mexico was given here in resolutions adopted by the executive board of the Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs and approved by E. Dorothy Blount Lemar, president general of the Georgia division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, representing that organization. The two organizations represent 30,000 women in Georgia. For commending the president's action several resolutions were passed by the committee. House Favors Adamson Bill. Washington.-The house interstate commerce committee, it was announced, has decided to make a favorable report on the bill introduced by Representative Adamson of Georgia amending the act regulating the construction of dams across navigable waters. The measure now gives authority to the secretary of war to accommodate communities and derive some revenue for the government from projects constructed wholly at the expense of the government by leasing surplus water. JEXAS SONORA CHXHUAHUA GUAYTAS COAHUILLA BROWNSVILLE GULF OF MEXICO SINOLO TOPOLARAMPO ALTATA DURANGO DURANGO MAZATLAN ZACAYCAS SAN LUCS POYO91 TAMPICO TERR TEVIC JALI$CO GUANAJUATO HIDALGO TUXPAN PROGRESSO MEXICO MICHOACAN PUERTO VERA CRUZ ALVARADO CAMPECHE MANZANILLO GUERRERO OAJACA CHIAPAS ACAPULCO HOVERING WAR CLOUDS MAY PASS FROM NATIONS SKIES IN NEAR FUTURE. POSSIBLE MEDIATION SOON Tenseness Over Mexican Trouble is Alleviated by Late Developments of Peacemakers. Washington.—The tenseness of the Mexican situation was distinctly relieved when the representatives of Argentine, Brazil and Chile, supported by pressure from all Latin-America and from ferestmost powers of Europe concentrated their efforts toward a pacific adjustment of the crisis. The success of the first steps toward meditation—the prompt acceptance by the United States and the announcement of the Spanish ambassador that Huerta had accepted the tender of good offices—produced a feeling of distinct hope which was reflected not only in administration quarters, but in Congress where "war talk" gave way to a spirit of conciliation. Throughout the day the three South American envoys who have undertaken the task of mediation held frequent conferences to arrange the preliminaries of procedure. Pending the receipts of the formal acceptance by General Huerta, no proposals will be submitted to either the United States or the Huerta government. It also has been made plain that no conditions from either party as to the terms that will be acceptable as yet has been placed formally before the intermediaries. The president and Secretary Bryan were assured through two separate diplomatic sources that Huerta was ready to accept the tender of good offices and was drafting a formal acceptance. Pressure from Germany, Great Britain and France advising Huerta to accept the first steps toward mediation and the approving attitude of Latin-American countries to the settlement of the controversy by Pan-American diplomacy, emphasized the world-wide influences which are working to bring about peace. THE FLAG WAVES AT VERA CRUZ With Firing of Salute Stars and Stripes Was Formally Raised Vera Cruz.—With all ceremony the firing of a salute and dress parade, the American flag was raised over the division headquarters of Rear Admiral Frank F. Fletcher. Over the customs house the flag had been flying since the landing of the American forces, but until now there had been no ceremony indicating the formal occupation of Vera Cruz. The transports with Brigadier General Funston's command aboard were off the port, but there has been no indication that the military forces will be sent ashore at this time. If the army lands, the bluejackets now on duty here will go aboard their ships, but the marines will be left for land service. Huerta Takes Railways Washington.—With the exception of the Pan-American Railway extending from Guatemala up the west coast to connection with a Tehauntepec road, General Heurta now is operating with his own men every railroad in Mexico without regard to the rights of foreign owners. He has driven away every foreigner. The last road to be taken over was the Tehauntepec National connecting the Pacific and Atlantic ports of Salina Cruz Contzacalcos. This property is owned by government and Lord Cordray. THE SOUTHERN INDICATOR, COLUMBIA, S. C. MANY REPORTS INVESTIGATED BUT NO NEW INCIDENTS APPEAR. Refugees Swarming to America. General M. A. Miles To Again Serve Country. Washington.—Among the most important happenings of the day in the Mexican situation were: Administration accepted the good offices of Argentine, Brazil and Chile in Mexican situation. American Consul Canada reported that Americans were being detained in Mexico City because it was believed there that Mexicans were restrained by Americans from leaving Vera Cruz. Immediate steps were taken through the British Embassy here and the British legation in Mexico City to correct the impression prevailing in the Mexican Capital. Consul Canada at Vera Cruz sent reports of anti-American demonstrations and general unrest in Mexico City. He heard that 125 Americans were put off a train at Pachueah by the train crew, but that another train had gone out from Mexico City to assist them in continuing their journey to Vera Cruz. Secretary Garrison announced he had issued no orders for any further troop movements and that Army officers were to use their own discretion in protecting international bridges on the border. The German vessel Ypirango, whose consignment of war munitions for General Huerta caused the United States to preemptorily seize the Vera Cruz customs house, was ordered back to Hamburg, Germany, without landing her cargo. The Navy Department dispatched vessels up and down the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of Mexico to take away American Consuls and refugees generally. Between 3,000 and 3,500 refugees already have been protected or are en route to the United Stats. Secretary Bryan said Charge O'Shaughnessy probably would leave for the United States on the first available ship. Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles, retired, senior officer, commanding the Army in the Spanish-American war called on Secretary Garrison and General Wood, and it is understood offered his services should war be declared. It was announced that the interests of the Mexican Embassy here and her consulate; throughout the country would be looked after by the Spanish Embassy and Consulates. Galveston, Tex.-The Tampico situation continued so serious according to a wireless message reaching here that two torpedo-bonts were sent up the Panuco River at Tampico to get Americans. Refugees arriving here from Tampico said they were saved by German sailors. Refugees Flock to America. Washington.—The Navy Department received reports that the steamer Esperanza has left Vera Cruz via Tampico for Galveston, with refugees on board. The Jason also will go to Galveston, shipping at Tuxpan for refugees. The gunboat Nashville was sent south from Vera Cruz to pick up refugees at Puerto Mexico. Reports from Mexico to the Navy Department also stated that refugees were boarding American war vessels at nearly all the ports where ships have been stationed. LAREDO IN RUINS, FIRED BY FEDERALS HUERTA SOLDIERS DEVASTATE MEXICAN CITY WITH DYNAMITE AND FLAMES. FIRE ON THE U. S. SOLDIERS American Soldiers Defend International Bridge Killing Two Mexican Soldiers. Laredo, Texas.—Nuevo Laredo, the Mexican border town opposite here is in ruins, devastated by dynamite and fire set by Mexican Federal soldiers, who began an orgy or destruction which did not end until they were forced to flee southward before the gangs of the American border patrol. Two Mexicans are known to have been killed by the United States troops and several were seen to fall. Several brisk skirmishes between the Americans and Mexicans were fought in quick succession as the Mexicans, their troop trains ready to pull out of the burning city, began an indiscriminate fire across the international boundary, but there is no evidence that their shooting had been effective. Property damage in Nuevo Laredo will reach $500,000. Among the buildings destroyed were the United States Consulate, municipal buildings, post-office, theatre, the flour mill, one of the largest in this section of the southwest, the railroad shops of the Mexican National Railway and other smaller structures. The fire burned all night with no prospect that it would be controlled until everything inflammable had been destroyed. Kerosene and other combustibles liberally used added to the wreckage, which otherwise would not have been great, owing to the adobe construction of most buildings. There was no property loss in Laredo. Both international bridges are safe though efforts to dynamite them resulted in the death of two men engaged in the undertaking. One Mexican was shot by a sharpshooter from the top of the water tower. The Mexican was trying to reach the end of the international foot and wagon bridge. Another was killed when he tried to blow up the Mexican end of the International Railroad bridge. American soldiers are constantly stationed at the American end to prevent such an attack. At the two bridges across the river the guards were reinforced and it was here that the only known loss of life occurred. Battery A of the Third Field Artillery was sent to the power house of the Laredo Electric Company, fearing an attack there, but it was soon seen that there was nothing for them to do. Several Mexicans were seen to fall before the fire from the machine guns, but they were carried away by their comrades. The trains were started and the Federals withdrew firing as long as they could. For some distance the railroad follows the international line. Can Guardsmen Be Sent. Washington.—Proceedings were begun in the supreme court to determine whether the National Guard may be sent to Mexico or other territory outside the United States without first being mustered in as volunteers. The proceedings are in nature of an appeal from the action of Judge Day in the federal court in Northern Ohio in dismissing an action of Lieutenant Colonel Daniel T. Stearn against Adjutant General George H. Wood of the Ohio National Guard. U. S. SOLDIERS ARE SENT TO COLORADO PRESIDENT COMPLIES WITH GOV ERNOR'S REQUEST FOR AID IN STRIKE DISTRICT. Wilson Emphasizes That the Government Has Nothing to Do With "Controversy." Washington.—President Wilson extended the protecting arm of the Federal Government to the state of Colorado, where because of riots and pitched battles between striking miners, Governor Ammons had found the state militia unable to cope with the situation and asked for help. The Colorado delegation in Congress, mine owners and miners themselves joined in the request. It was one of the rare occurrences in American history when a state found itself impotent to assert its authority, but the President, in a telegram to the Colorado Governor, expressly stipulated that the Federal troops would confine themselves to maintaining order only "until the state can re-assert its authority and resume the enforcement thereof." The President issued a proclamation ordering all persons engaged in domestic violence to disperse and "retire peaceably to their abodes." Secretary Garrison after a conference with the President, ordered three troops of the Fifth Cavalry from Fort Leavenworth and two troops of the Twelfth Cavalry from Fort D. A. Russell, Wyoming, to Trinidad, and Cannon City, respectively. The proclamation read: By the President of the United States of America: A Proclamation: "Whereas, it is provided by the Constitution of the United States that the United States shall protect every state in this union, on application of the Legislature .or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence; "And, whereas, the Governor of the state of Colorado has represented that domestic violence exists in said state, which the authorities of said state are unable to suppress; and has represented that it is impossible to convene the Legislature of this state in time to meet the present emergency; "And, whereas, the laws of the United States require that in all cases of insurrection in any state or of obstruction to the laws theogrof, whenever in the judgment of the President it becomes necessary to use the military forces to suppress such insurrection or obstruction to the laws, he shall forthwith, by proclamation, commend such insurgents to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes within a limited time: "Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States do hereby admonish all good citizens of the United States, and all persons within the territory and jurisdiction of the United States against aiding countenancing, abetting or taking part in such unlawful proceedings; and I do hereby warn all persons engaged in, or connected with, said disturbance and obstruction of the laws to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes on or before the thirtieth day of April, instant. "In testimony wherof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be fixed. "Done at this city of Washington, this twenty-eighth day of April, in the year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Fourteen, and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-eighth. (Signed) WOODROW WILSON. "By the President: "William J. Bryan, Secretary of State." Steamer Ashore Off N. C. Coast. Norfolk, Va.—According to a message received by Observer Newsome at Cape Henry over the coast gurd wires an unknown steamer went ashore off Oregon Inlet on the North Carolina coast. The steamer struck at 7:40 in a heavy fog. Two lifesaving crews went to her assistance. Reserve Banks Open August 1. Reserve Banks Open August 1. Washington. — Secretary McAdoo announced that the treasury department expected the new Federal reserve banks would be ready for business by August 1. A statement by the reserve bank organization committee said subscriptions to the stock of federal reserve banks in the 12 districts, received aggregated $71,998,600. The banks in six of the 12 districts already have subscribed more than the minimum amount of $4,000,000 necessary to organize the reserve banks. Discovers New Tribe of People. Discovers New Tribe of People. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.—Col. Theodore Roosevelt on his journey through unexplored regions of Brazil discover a tribe of savages hitherto unknown. The tribesmen who were named Pauhautes were naked. Captain Amilcar Magalhaes, chief of the Brazilian mission accompanying Col. Roosevelt, who relates this discovery to The Gazetta de Noticias, says the party met stirring adventures. Colonel Roosevelt himself killed two large cats. The expedition traced the course of the river Gipirana. SHE OFTEN PRAYED TO DIE But Friend Comes to Rescue With Some Sound Advice, which was Followed with Gratifying Results. Nettleton, Ark.—"My' troubles date back five years," says Mrs. Mary Bentley, of this town. "I was first taken with awful pains in my right side, headache, and backache. The pain from my side seemed to move down my right limb, and settled in the right knee. Then it would move back, and once a month I would almost die with pain. I was told I had tun or, and would have to undergo an operation at once. It just seemed I could not submit to it. I often prayed to die. It seemed that nothing would give me the desired relief, until finally, I was advised by a friend to try Cardul, and it is undoubtedly curing me. I have only used three and a half bottles, and it is a pleasure to tell of the beneficial results. I shall ever spread the good tidings of what Cardul has done for me, and will do for other suffering ladies, if they will only try it." You can depend on Cardul, because Cardul is a gentle, harmless, vegetable tonic, that can do you nothing but good. Prepared from herbal ingredients, Cardul has a specific effect on the womanly constitution and puts strength where it is most needed. Try Cardul.—Adv. Necessity for "Extras." Mr. Nnwed—Seems to me our grocery bills are very high for two persons. Mrs. Nnwed—You wanted me to be economical, you know, and I've been using up the bread crumbs for puddings. Mr. Nnwed—Quite right, my love, and good puddings they were, but I was speaking of the grocery bills. Mrs. Nnwed—Yes; you see, it takes about $5 worth of other things to make the bread crumbs taste good.—Puck. PAINFUL ECZEMA ON HANDS Bienville, La.—"I was troubled with eczema in my hands for several years. The skin would break and look like it had been cut with a knife and my hands were so sore I could hardly bear to put them in water and could hardly use them. When I used them the blood would run out. They would heal a little and then they would get worse than ever again. They were very painful. The eczema got to breaking out on my arms in pimples which itched and burned very badly. "I used different remedies, also used all kinds of facial creams and — on my hands and arms and I did not get, any relief until I used Cuticura Soap and Ointment. I cured my hands and eczema with Cuticura Soap and Ointment." (Signed) Miss Fannie Mostiller, Oct. 5, 1912. Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address postcard "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston." - Adv. The Place. "Pop, please tell me one thing about the oyster." "Well, son, what is it?" "Are the natural bars they talk about where you get the oyster cocktails?" No. SIX-SIXTY-SIX This is a prescription prepared especially for Malaria or Chills and Fever. Five or six doses will break any case, and if taken then as a tonic the fever will not return. 25c—Adv. In Control. "That man insists on attending his own furnace." "Yes. He used to live in an apartment and he took a tip from the janitor. It's the only sure way to be boss of the establishment." Golden Rule In Business. You get your money's worth every time. Hanford's Balsam is guaranteed to cure allments and injuries that can be reached by external application or your money will be refunded by the dealer. Getting a bottle now is like taking out insurance. Adv. Not Worth Loafing. Hemmenhaw—I thought Bean- brough was going on a month's vaca- tion. Shimmerpate—He was, but the boss only wanted to give him two weeks and he refused to take half a loaf. For bunions use Hanford's Balsam. Apply it thoroughly for several nights and rub in well. Adv. Marie—Yos, but he needs encouragement.—Boston Evening Transcript. Constipation causes and seriously aggravates many diseases. It is thoroughly cured by Dr. Pierce's Pellets. Tiny sugar-coated granules. Adv. After a girl in a small town passes the age of twenty-five without having caught on she is willing to move to a new town. For thrush use Hanford's Balsam. Get it into the bottom of the affected part. Adv. Serenity comes after a man is completely saturated with inference. Throw away your washboard-it ruins your clothes-it gives you a backache to look at it. Use RUB-NO-MORE CARBO NAPTHA SOAP. No rubbing required. Clothes on the line quickly-fresh, sweet and clean. SALVES ITS RUB-NO-MORE CARBO NAPTHA SOAP should be used freely for washing the finest fabric, it does no harm to it and needs no hot water. Carbo Disinfects RUB-NO-MORE Naphta Soap Naptha Cleane RUB-NO-MORE Washing Powder Five Cents-All Grocers The Rub-No-More Co., Ft. Wayne, Ind. GILT EDGF the only ladies' shoe dressing that positively contains OIL. Bold and polished ladies and children's boots and shoes, shining without rubbing. 25c. "French Gloss." 10c. STAR combination for cleaning and polishing all kinds of fabrics or tos shoes. "Dandy" size 25c. "QUICK WHITE" (it is old form with sponge) quickly cleans and whitens dirty canvas shoes. 10c and 25c. BABY ELITE combination for gentlemen who take pains in having their shoes look All. Restores color and texture to all black shoes. Polish with a brush or cloth. 10c. "Elite" size 25c. If your dealer does not keep the kind you want, send the picture to the company you paid. WHITETMORE BROS, Cincinnati, 28-26 Albany St. Cambridge, Mass. The Oldest and Largest Manufacturers of Woolen Clothing in the United States. W.L.DOUGLAS SHOES Men's $2.00 $2.50 $3.00 $3.50 $4 & $4.50 Women's $3.25 $3.50 $3.75 Misses, Boys, Children $1.50 $1.75 $2.50 $3.00 Began Business in the largest maze of $3.25, $0.44, $0.44 in the world. $1,006,279 INCREASE W.L.Douglas shoes in 1913 over 1912. This is the reason we give you the same values for $3.00, $3.50, $4.00 and $4.50. Have the enormous increase in the cost of leather. Our standards have kept the price to you remaining the same. Ask your dealer to show you the kind of W.L.Douglas shoes he is selling for $3.00, $3.50, $4.00 and can be convinced that W.L.Douglas shoes are a lot lately as good other makes sold at the price. The only difference is the price. TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE. None genuine without W. L. Douglas' name stamped on the shoe. The shoes are not for sale in your vicinity, order direct from factory. Shoes for every member of the family are sold. Write for illustrated catalog showing how to order by mail. W. L. DOUGLAS, 210 Park Street, Brockton, Mass. "There is going to be a great moral reform side to this freak fashion of wearing pink and purple hair." "What's that?" "A woman won't have to lie about its being all her own." Putnam Fadeless Dyes color more goods than others. Adv. Extreme of Wisdom. Utmost wisdom is not in self-denial, but in learning to find extreme pleasure in very little things—Ruskin. Blessed Relief ForSickWomen! Failing strength, increasing nervousness, aches and pains, depression, "blues"—these and the other symptoms of the irregularities of the delicate female organs have fallen to the lot of a vast multitude of women. STELLA-VITAE has brought blessed relief to many thousands of women during the last thirty years. To girls just maturing into women, to young wives, to middle-aged women, to women passing through the critical period called "change-of-life"—to women of all ages, STELLA-VITAE has been indeed, the "Star of Life"—giving them strength, hope, freedom from pain; giving them HEALTH. MRS. D. S. HAMILTON, Milner, Ga., says: "It gives me pleasure to testify to the benefit which both my daughter and myself have derived from STELLA-VITAE. The doctors of our neighborhood had treated my daughter without success. One bottle of STELLA-VITAE, in three weeks' time, completely cured her. My own health has been restored by STELLA-VITAE." We want to PROVE to you that STELLA-VITAE will do as much for you. To INDUCE you to TRY the first bottle, we authorize YOUR dealer to REFUND YOUR MONEY if that first bottle does not benefit you. Can YOU lose anything under this liberal offer? Can WE gain anything unless STELLA-VITAE really helps you? AFTER you have been CONVINCED, buy six bottles for $5.00 and CONTINUE treatment until you are a well woman Thacher Medicine Co. Chattanooga, Tenn. CENSUS FIGURES OF UNITED STATES BUREAU ANNOUNCES CALCULA TIONS OF DEPARMENT EXPERT. Figures Show Increase of Nearly Seven Million People in Last Four Years Washington. — Continental United States now has a population of more than 98,000,000 people while the country with its possessions is popped with more than 109,000,000 persons, the census bureau announced. Census experts have calculated that the population of continental United States on July 1, 1914, will be 98,181,324, against 91,972,266 on April 15, 1910, when the last census was taken. For the United States and its possessions they estimate the population this July will be 109,021,992, compared with 101,748,269 in 1910. Estimates for cities under 100,000 have not been announced. Among the cities for which estimates of 100,000 population or more are made as of July 1, 1914, are the following: Birmingham, 166,154; Los Angeles, 438,914; Oakland, 183,002; San Francisco, 448,502; Denver, 245,523; Washington, 353,373; Atlanta, 179,292; Chicago, 2,393,325; Indianapolis, 259,413; Louisville, 233,114; New Orleans, 361,221; Baltimore, 579,590; Boston, 733,802; Detroit, 537,650; Minneapolis, 343,466; St. Paul, 236,766; Kansas City, 281,911; St. Louis, 734,667; Omaha, 123,274; Newark, 389,106; Albany, 102,961; Buffalo, 454,112; New York (including) 5,333,537; Bronx borough, 529,198; Brooklyn borough, 1,833,696; Manhattan borough, 2,536,716; Queens borough, 339,886; Richmond borough, 94,043; Rochester, 241,518; Syracuse, 149,353; Cincinnati, 402,175; Cleveland, 639,431; Columbus, 204,567; Dayton, 123,794; Toledo, 184,126; Portland, Ore., 260,601; Philadelphia, 1,657,810; Pittsburgh 564,878; Reading, 103,361; Scranton, 141,351; Memphis, 143,231; Nashville, 114,899; Dallas, 111,986; San Antonio, 115,063; Salt Lake City, 199,530; Richmond, 134,917; Seattle, 313,023; Spokane, 135,657; Tacoma, 103,418; Milwaukee, 417,054. Estimates of the population of the United States on July 1, 1914: Alabama, 2,269,945; Arizona, 239, 053; Arkansas, 1,686,180; California, 2,757,857; Colorado, 909,537; Connecticut, 1,202,688; Delaware, 209,817; District of Columbia, 353,378; Florida, 848,111; Georgia, 2,776,513; Idaho, 395,407; Illinois, 5,986,781; Indiana, 2,779,467; Iowa, 2,221,755; Kansas, 1, 784,897; Kentucky, 2,350,731; Louisiana, 1,773,482; Maine, 762,787; Maryland, 1,341,075; Massachusetts, 3,605, 522; Michigan, 2,974,030; Minnesota, 2,123,919; Mississippi, 1,901,826; Missouri, 3,372,886; Montana, 432,614; Nebraska, 1,245,873; Nevada, 98,726; New Hampshire, 438,662; New Jersey, 2,815,663; New Mexico, 383,551; New York, 9,898,761; North Carolina, 2, 339,452; North Dakota, 686,966; Ohio, 5,026,898; Oklahoma, 2,026,534; Oregon, 785,239; Pennsylvania, 8,245,967; Rhode Island, 591,125; South Carolina, 1,590,015; South Dakota, 661,583; Tennessee, 2,254,754; Texas, 4,257,854; Virginia, 814,414; Vermont, 361,265; Virginia, 2,150,009; Washington, 1,407, 865; West Virginia, 1,332,910; Wisconsin, 2,446,716; Wyoming, 168,736; Admiral Badger Praises Sailors. Washington—High praise as accorded Rear Admiral Fletcher and his officers and men who participated in the occupation of Vera Cruz in a general order issued by Rear Admiral Badger, commander-in-chief of the Atlantic fleet. Admiral Badger reported the order to the Navy Department. "The occupation of the city of Vera Cruz, Mexico," it read, "commenced on the foreoon of April 21, 1914, by the Naval forces of the United States, having been successfully concluded." The commander-in-chief desires to congratulate Rear Admiral F. F. Fletcher, U. S. N., in command of the United States naval forces on shore, and the officers and men of the landing forces and of the cruisers for their gallant conduct. The gallantry and expedition of the officers and men engaged in this enterprise undertaken on the spur of the moment and in the face of adverse conditions was in keeping with the traditions of the service, and should the cool-headedness of the bearers of the stars and stripes. "The commander-in-chief wishes to congratulate Rear Admiral Fletcher on the perfect working of the plans perfected by him in anticipation of just such an emergency. The orders for action came with unexpected suddenness and at a time when the naval force off Vera Cruz had been reduced by the exigencies of the service much below its usual strength, but there was no delay. The landing was undertaken immediately with the means at hand and before the arrival of the re-enforcing vessels the customs house and that portion of the city essential to its occupation were occupied. THE SOUTHERN INDICATOR. COLUMBIA. S. C. Now Does Her Own Work. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Helped Her. Ironton, Ohio.—" I am enjoying better health now than I have for twelve years. When I began to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound I could not sit up. I had female troubles and was very nervous. I used the remedies a year and I can do my work and for the last eight months I have worked for other years. When I began to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound I could not sit up. I had female troubles and was very nervous. I used the remedies a year and I can do my work and for the last eight months I have worked for other women, too. I cannot praise Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound enough for I know I never would have been as well if I had not taken it and I recommend it to suffering women." Daughter Helped Also. "I gave it to my daughter when she was thirteen years old. She was in school and was a nervous wreck, and could not sleep nights. Now she looks so healthy that even the doctor speaks of it. You can publish this letter if you like."—Mrs. RENA BOWMAN, 161 S. 10th Street, Ironton, Ohio. Why will women continue to suffer day in and day out and drag out a sickly, half-hearted existence, missing three-fourths of the joy of living, when they can find health in Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound? If you have the slightest doubt that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will help you, write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confidential) Lynn, Mass., for advice. Your letter will be opened, read and answered by a woman and held in strict confidence. Remedy for slick headache, constipation, Tutt's Pills LADIES Soll uno dozen of our fast selt among friends and receiv 17.00 pictures. C. COOPER CO, BELLEVUE, OHIC bleat belt feed and center friction feed saw mills of the best tested materials throughout. Steel headblocks and cable drive. Economical. Write for descriptive catalog of all sizes of saw mills, picture saws, augers, etc. J. A. VANCE & CO., WINSTON-SALEM NORTH CAROLINA WANTED Men to learn barber trade. Power saws. Steady position for competent graduates. Wonderful demand for barbers. Wages while learning. free catalog; write RICHMOND BARBER COLLEGE, Richmond, wi ATTENTION FARMERS Will sell Farm or County Rights to make and use patented Bull Labor-Saving Hay Carling Rack. Address CONTINENTAL CO. Box 43. Richmond, Va. Some Comfort. Friend—Eggs coming down. Actor—I don't care what they do, so long as they don't come across. HEAL YOUR ITCHING SKIN WITH RESINOL No matter how long you have been tortured and disfigured by itching, burning, raw or scaly skin humors, just put a little of that wonderful resin ointment on the sores and the suffering stops right there! Healing begins that very minute, and your skin gets well so quickly you feel ashamed of the money you threw away on tedious, useless treatments. Prescribed by doctors for nineteen years. Resin ointment and resinol soap also clear away pimples, blackheads, and dandruff speedily and at little cost. Sold by all druggists.—Adv. A mother is seldom a heroine to her sixteen-year-old daughter. Housework Is a Burden It's hard enough to keep house if in perfect health, but a woman who is weak, tired and suffering from an aching back has a heavy burden. Any woman in this condition has good cause to suspect kidney trouble, especially if the kidney action seems disordered. Doan's Kidney Fills have cured thousands of suffering women. It's the best recommended special kidney remedy. A MARYLAND CASE Miss Ludna Price, Eleventh St. Laurel, Md., says. She doesn't dropy. My feet and hands were swollen and there were ter- rors on paina back. couldn't sleep well and for one whole winter, she did not doctored, but nothing helped me until I used Dan's Kid- boxes. I fell. Eight boxes. I eight me well." "Every Picture Tells a Story." Misa Ludaina Pleasant Seventh Street Laurel, MD, says "I seemed to have dropray. My feet and hands had there were terrible pains in my back. I shop well and could not one whole winter, could not get out. I doored out not nothing but tired till I used Dana's Kidney. I fill eight boxes made me well." Get Dana's at Any Store. See a Bez DOAN'S KIDNEY PELLS FOSTER-MILBURN CO., BUFFALO, N.Y. INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON (By E. O. SELLERS, Director of Evening Department, The Moody Bible Institute, Chicago.) THE PRODIGAL SON. LESSON TEXT-Luke 15:11-32. GOLDEN TEXT—I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight." Luke 15:18. The parables of Jesus are marvels of unity and condensation, yet no necessary detail is omitted. This, perhaps his most famous, is no exception even though it does carry a double lesson. Who thinks of the older brother when this story is mentioned? Though designated the "Story of the Prodigal," we need to remind ourselves that the word "prodigal" never once occurs in the story. The opening sentence speaks of a father and of two sons. It is really the parable of a perfect father, the unveiling of the true heart of God. Against that background is set off a self-centered son lacking in natural affection. Also alongside the wayward son is the misery, selfish one who lacked all the good qualities of his brother, but who was truly a wanderer and out of harmony with God the Father. In the background we see the citizens of the far country who helped this young Jew to his place of want, famine and degradation. Remember, it is our Lord speaking to Jews. When the Gentiles of the far country sent him to feed swine they insulted him by compelling him to get his living through an occupation instinctively repulsive. First Fruit of Sin. The father makes equal partition "divided unto them." (V, 12) though neither son had a right to demand a partition of his estate. At the bottom of the son's request was a desire to have his own way—to be independent of God. He did not go away from home at once, though his heart was already in the "far country." 1. Into the Far Country, vv. 13-16. Fun is the first fruit of sin, and that the son readily found so long as his money lasted (Heb. 11:25). But the consequences followed closely on its trail, for when he had "spent all" he began to be in "want." There are many attractive things about this young man, but those qualities were perverted, they locked control, they were good servants but bad taskmasters. It is not always physical, temporal want that comes to the sinner, there are deeper and more intense longings—soul want and soul hunger. These always come to the soul away from God. Being in want does not mean that a man's will has been subdued. Some prodigals in the most abject temporal need are as proud as Lucifer, and boast of their rebellion. So he "joined himself to a citizen of the country." He did not belong there—the citizen did. He was set to the most degrading task imaginable for a Jew "feeding swine. Like a Lost Sheep. 11. The Home Coming, vv. 17-24. The first step was for the son to stop and really think. That is where salvation always begins—in thinking. He knew he was lost, e. g., out of adjustment, in the wrong place, out of his element and like the lost sheep, "ready to die." He saw his condition, money gone, friends gone, hogs for companions, no food for his sustenance. He saw his value. He was more important than the servants of his father's home. He saw his father's love, already manifested in what had been given him and we fail would believe that when he left home he had the father's urgent plea to return. He saw a way to escape from his present position. All of this after he "came to himself." Before that, impenitent, he was morally insane, now he has reasoned, Isa. 1:18. With his reasoning also came the determination to make a full confession. "I will say unto him," not alone confess his need but the fact that he had sinned. This is the only way for a sinner to come to God, Ps. 32:3-5; I John 1:9; Luke 18:11-14. He did not stop with resolving but "he arose and came to his father," v. 20. He expected to apply for a servant's position, but never had the opportunity for the father saw him "a great way off" and "ran and fell on his neck and kissed him." Notice the kiss of reconciliation was given before he even had a chance to confess. In his confession his first thought is that he had sinned against God and then against his earthly father. The father had not once forgotten him; he "had compassion" even though the son was unmerciful to himself and to all of his loved ones. The father kissed him before he was washed or otherwise made presentable. Nother of the sons are perfect but he who uttered the parable was himself the true son of the father. He never departed from his father, wasted his father's substance, nor brought discredit upon his name. Jesus was in full sympathy with his father's heart for he welcomed the wandering publicans and sinners to himself, took the journey into the far country to find the wanderers and to bring them home. Christ's mission was to bring many "sons to glory" (Heb. 2:10), which means restoring the wanderer and fulfilling in him the perfectness of sonship.) and they show the effect of unnatural sufferings—of headaches, backaches, dizziness, hot flashes, pains in lower limbs, pains in groins, bearing-down sensations. These symptoms indicate that Nature needs help. Overwork, wrong dressing, lack of exercise, and other causes have been too much for nature—and outside aid must be called upon to restore health and strength. The Vegetable Remedy for Woman's Ills that relieves nervous exhaustion and irritability and removes other distressing symptoms due to disturbed conditions of the delicate feminine organism. For over forty years it has been used with more than satisfaction by the young, middle-aged and the elderly—by wives, mothers and daughters. You will find it of great benefit. Sold by Medicine Dealers in liquid or tablet form, or send Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. 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CU-MOR SALVE gives immediate relief for all kinds of FULES and is a wonderful remedy for ECGEMA, CHAPLED HAN'DS, SORES and any form of SKIN DISK. (Presented courtesy all druggists. Writes for BERM SAMPLE. Dept. D-1.) BOOTH-OVERTON Dyspepsia Tablets stop Intestinal Fermentation, Immediately. Kelpine Gas and Distress after Eating. One or both of these may do not help, do not do help, or write for Free Sample Box and TRIX them first if you wish. 11 Broadway BOOTH-OVERTON CO. New York Civil War in Colorado In union there is strength. In labor unions there is sometimes strength and sometimes weakness. Labor has as much right to organize as capital has. Observation leads us to conclude that it matters not how good is the organization or how beneficent is the object or purpose, if bad or morally weak men are at the head, more harm than good will be accomplished. Labor is usually more prejudiced on account of class or color than is capital. Labor bars Negroes from its organizations when it can. Capital rarely does so. The strike in Colorado has become a civil war. The strikers appear to be in the wrong. President Wilson has on his hands a civil war which in some respects is more perplexing than the war with Mexico. By asking the aid of the Rockefellers, the president has indicated his inability to deal with the situation. Oh for a Grover Cleveland or Theodore Roosevelt at this time! Latin--American Statesmen or the Job. It looks now as though the statesmen of Latin America, or at least of Argentina. Brazil and Chile, are widening the scope of their intermediations, and wish to take up for consideration the entire Mexican situation. We believe the powers of Europe will give their moral support to this. With Mr. secretary Bryan as an apostle of the Prince of Peace the indications are now that there will not be a cruel, needless and bloody war between this country and Mexico, for which we are devoutly thankful. The Slit Skirt. To the Editor of The State: "I am not favorably impressed with slit skirts, or I do not approve of ladies wearing them. I hate to see a lady wearing one. I refrain from expressing fully my objections to the slit skirt. I will say this: I do not know that my wife wants one—if she does just let her get one and put it on and wear it before the public, then you will see an account of our separation in the papers. I wish the public generally to understand that. I am not discussing their wearing of "slit skirts" when I speak of my attitude to the wearing of one by my wife. I am only trying to impress the public with the fact that my family knows I am at the head of our family and whether I try to "boss" or not, I am regarded as "boss" as pertaining to ridiculous things or anything else. Now, a word to the heads of other families; If you will take the same stand (as to slit skirts) that I have taken, they will go out of style at once. Not that we would cast any reflection upon any lady who wears a slit skirt, but hoping they will soon see the ridiculousness of wearing one, as even the black female race are heard to remark 'It don't look good to me.'" "B. S. Moody." The foregoing, taken from our esteemed contemporary, hits the nail on the head, or rather, hits the skirt on the slit. "The black female race" must feel complimented; for "the black female race are heard to remark. 'It don't look good to me.' Now if it be in order, we would like to hear from the brown female race and the yellow female race and (wouldn't it delight our hearts also to hear from) the white female race. For what- ever the white female race may have to say on the slit skirt, question is bound to go. Brother Moody, 'stir up the white femole race for us on this question, and when you get them to join with "the black female race" and say "It don't look good to me," then it is good by to the slit skirt. Most men of the black male race and every other shade or color of the male race abominate the slit skirt, if worn by their wives, their mothers, their daughters or their sisters; but they happen in many instances not to be the heads but the figure-heads of their families. We welcome the deliverance of Mr. Moody and hope it will result in good. We also take off our hats to "the black female race," and say with them, "It don't look good to me." We wish to remark in conclusion that being a member of the male race we are not courting a fight with the female race, for we recognize "that the female of the species is more deadly than the male." COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM. CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY ORANGEBURG. Commencement - 1914. YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED Friday, April 17; 7:30 P. M. Grades Exhibition. Saturday, May 2. 10 A. M. Reading Term Standing. Sunday, May 3, 7. A. M. Special Prayer Service. Sunday, May 3, 10 A. M. Annual Address to Y. M. C. and Y. W. C. Associations. E. J. Sawyer, Esq. Sunday, May 3, 4 P. M. Baccalaureate Sermon. President L. M. Dunton, D. D. Sunday, May 3, 8 P. M. Annual Sermon. Rev. Robert L. Hickson, D. D. Monday, May 4. 4 P. M. Class Day Exercises. Monday, May 4, 8 P. M. Prize Oratorical Contest. Tuesday, May 5, 9 A. M. Annual Meeting Board Trustees. Tuesday, May 5, 3 P. M. Annual Meeting Alumni. Tuesday, May 5, 8 P. M. Public Alumini Meeting. Speaker, Rev. N. W. Greene, B. D. Tuesday, May 5, 10 P. M- Banquet. Wednesday, May 6, 10 A. M. Commencement. Annual Address. Rev. E. B. Burroughs, D. D. Trustees "Address. Rev. M M. Mouzon, D. D. September 28, Wednesday, College. College Preparatory and Normal Classes begin. September 29, Tuesday, Grades begin. October 6, Tuesday, Business College and Law School open. At Morris College APRIL 30 TO MAY 6. Thursday, April 30, 8:30 P. M. (at Emanuel Church) Address to the Societies of the College by Rev. J. F. Page, D. D., pastor Emanuel Church, City. Sunday, May 3, 8:30 P. M. (at Shiloh Church) Commencement Sermon by Rev. J. A. Pinson, D. D., pastor Shiloh Church, City. Monday, May 4, 3:00 P. M. (at the College) Class Day Exercises. Tuesday, May 5, 8:30 P.M. (at Pisgah Church) Junior Rhetorical Prize Contest. Wednesday, May, 6, 11:00 A.M. (at Shiloh Church) Commencement Exercises. Annual Address to Class and Students. Rev. J. C. White, pastor Zion Baptist Church, Columbia, S. C. Wednesday, May 6, 5:00 P.M. Business Meeting Alumni Association. Death Removes Good Woman. The death of Mrs Della Lomax which occured Wednesday night, marks the close of the life of one of Columbia's most useful and best colored women, and the entire city join the bereft family in this sad hour. For years Mrs Lomax has been engaged in a business where she has met and aided numbers and numbers of her people who were out of luck with the gods, wish- THE SOUTHERN INDICATOR. COLUMBIA. S. C. Local News. Mrs. C. D. Saxon organized a Woman's Federation last Sunday at Gadsden. Miss Ruth Penn is at home again after teaching five months at Lugoff. Dr. Ruth Carroll is sick with typhoid-pneumonia at her home in Kendalltown. Mrs. E. E. Sightler made a flying trip to Hopkins Sunday and spent the day with her sister, Mr. Sarah Johnson. Mrs Catherine Harper after spending six weeks here, the guesl of Dr. and Mrs. W. T. Smith, left for Chicago her home last Tuesday. Dr. G. K. Adams of Laurens, en route for the meeting of the Palmetto Medical Association, spent a day with the Southern Indicator Co. The ladies literary and art club met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Sightler 2304 Lady street last week. After the transaction of business a salad course and ices were served. The meeting which has been going on for three weeks at the Second Calvary Baptist church has been increasing in interest There were seven accessions during last week. Mrs. J. R. Bingham of Chattanooga, Tenn. is in the city to spend the summer with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Levi Suber, 409 Marion street. Mrs. Bingham looks the picture of health. Mrs. Margaret Stevenson who had been very ill at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Redelle Adrms, is improving. She is anxious to hear from her nephew, Mr. Robt. Williams of Spartanburg. Mrs Sarah Ward of Rutherford N. C., paternal grandmother of Alexine, the little granddaughter of Editor Scott, arrived in Columbia on Wednesday to make a visit and was the guest of Rev. and Mrs C. C. Scott. Miss Annie Davis died at Washington, D. C. last week. Her remains were brought to her parents, home in Sumter where the funeral services were held. Her death cast a gloom over the entire community. Mr. Thos. Entzminger appears to be as proud over his two months old baby, his eight child as he was over the first, and Mrs. Entzminger is just delighted. She is a sweet little girl and must be in the baby show that will soon take place. The Board of governors in the endowment department of the state grand lodge, Samaritan met here this week in the office of the grand secretary and treasurer, and after examination, reported that they found his accounts in excellent shape. The secretary and treasurer na onr popular townsman, W.H. Rutherford. From every viewpoint the Y. W. C. A. meeting at Wesly last Sunday night was a success and an inspiration. Mrs. Susie Butler, the vice president presided. The speakers of the evening were Mrs. C. D. Saxon, Reverends C. C. Scott and L. Morgan, Messrs Isaac Leevy, Joseph Pelot and W. E. Green. Every one said something worth hearing. The offering was a liberal one. out one thought of gain or fame, and it is these people who spent hours in prayer for her and now join in lementations over her death. Her suffering had been long and severe, but with patient fortitude peculiar to Christians, she bore it until the end, when death came, not as a monster, but as an embassador from God, to Welcome her to the City of Pure delight. Her funeral services were held from Zion Baptist Church, of which she was a long and useful member, being conducted by her pastor, assisted by Reverends C. C. Scott, C. F. Holmes, and G. F. Dilliard. Professional Notice. Dr. B. A. Everett will be absent from the city from April 22d to May 13th. 4t MADAM ELSIE P. NELSON PAINLESS CHIROPODIST Corna Removed, Gives no Pain. ing, Scalp Treatment, Singeing Blanding Street, Columbia, S. C.' THE CONTEST IS RAGING The following is the standing of the contestants in the Grafo-nola Contest for the week ending Wednesday, April 29th, 1914: No. 3. 45,925 " 4. 50,000 " 6. 123,000 " 7. 40,000 " 8. 76,460 " 9. 50,000 " 10. 77,520 " 11. 64,285 " 15. 45,000 " 16. 55,000 " 17. 65,000 " 18. 50,000 " 19. 50,890 " 30. 72,075 " 31. 40,670 " 32. 45,970 " 33. 35,250 " 35. 40,885 " 36. 50,670 " 38. 70,550 " 42. 35,265 " 43. 72,275 " 44. 45,065 " 45. 27,415 " 50. 45,215 " 51. 67,450 " 52. 46,085 " 55. 55,000 " 60. 65,115 " 61. 56,065 " 62. 57,500 " 79. 55,740 " 81. 48,285 " 82. 66,165 " 83. 59,215 " 96. 58,220 " 109. 85,505 " 112. 55,395 " 113. 62,460 " 114. 35,000 " 115. 65,215 " 121. 54,765 " 122. 36,415 " 137. 45,420 " 138. 75,215 " 145. 67,210 " 146. 66,985 Mrs. Suber Sells THE MAGIC SHAMPOO HAIR DRYER FOR LADIES. No lady's toilet complete without it. Price within the reach of all. Get one to-day from (Mrs.) Lucy Suber, 409 Marion street. Small Farms Five acres and up with dwelling Producive Soil Will rent, Sell or Exchange for other property. A Few New Lots and Houses Low Prices. Easy Terms Martin Storks 1544 Main Street, Columbia Learn Music? Mrs. R. O. JEFFERS Has opened a Studio of Music at 1731 Wayne St. She will teach both vocal and instrumental music; train quartettes, choruses, etc. Will be glad to accommodate friends and their children. For further information call on her at 1731 Wayne St or 'phone 966. (Mrs.) R. O. Jeffers. WOOD & COAL FOR SALE The Only Colored Coal and We meet legimate competition. Please give us a trial H. E. LINDSAY Phone 379 401 Plain Street MONEY TO LOAN The oldest and most reliable L an office in the city MEYERS LOAN OFFICE Established 1897 1337 Main Street A gentleman in Philadelphia has sent to Rev. Richard Carroll complete samples of INDIVIDUAL COMMUNION SETS. These Sets are on display at 1514 Gregg Street. Every church, regardless of denomination, should use these sanitary Sets. There are also in this collection about $400.00 worth of books for ministers, Bibles for teachers. scripture Motto cards, hbuttons for Mother's Day, etc. Mother's Day buttons can be bought for two cents apiece. Do not fail to call and look through this excellent collection of valuable books. Richard Carroll. Hair Dressing, manicuring, Shampoo- Clipping and Coloring. 718 Wet NOTICE. 1514 Gregg Street. Spring Time is Here Those balmy mornings when a drink of cold Soda with the bite in it, or a dish of delicious Ice Cream with that velvety smoothness to it will add to our personality the smiles that won't come off. I am now informing the public that for the coming season I will spare no pains in making my lafger and better equipped than heretofore. Orders for Parties, Picnics, Church and Society Entertainments will be given special and prompt Attention. SPECIAL RATES TO CHURCHES A full line of fresh Toilet Articles, Rubber Goods and Madam Walker's Hair Preparations are kept constantly on hand. LEEVY LEADS in making high-class Hand Tailored Clothing on short notice. Being a practical Tailor as well as a high-class Designer and Cutter, you can see why LEEVY can give you better Suit Values, better Fit and better Workmanship for less money, Leevy's Gent's Furnishing Dept. Hats, Shirts, Socks Underwear, Suit-cases, Umbrellas, Caps, Suspenders, Sweaters, Neckwear, Gloves, Rain-coats. Garters, ollars, Bags, Belts. Ten per cent. Discount to Students and Ministers I. S. LEEVY, Columbia's Leading Tailor. 1221 Taylor Street, Phone 319 Anderson's Royal Palace Shaving Parlor with everything sanitary and up-to-date. We serve to please. When you need a Hair cut, Shave or Shampoo, make a "B" line for our up-to-date parlor at 1114 Washington street. W.M. Anderson Resident The Mutual Relief and Benevolent Association A reliable strong, substantial company. Pays Sick, Accident and Death Claims promptly. Sick accident benefits $1.25 to $10.00 per week. Death benefits $10.00 to $125.00. Agents in all parts of the state. Owned, managed and controlled by South Carolina Negroes. Pays agents liberal commissions. For agency write Rev. A. P. Dunbar, D. D., General Manager, 150 1-2 Taylor St., Columbia, S. C. W. H. THOMAS Representative The National Co-Operative Realty Com- munity Estate, Loans and Insurance RENTS COLLECTED Bington Street - - - - Columbia Inner School for Teachers STATE AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANIC COLLEGE, ORANGEBURG, S. C. begins June 29th and Lasts Four Weeks at the State Board of Education. Supported by the Government, the State of South Carolina and Expenses very low. No Entrance fee. No T Session $10 00. This includes Rooms in the C Electric Lights, Good Water and every Sanitary three Main Courses: Teachers Review, Agric A competent and selected faculty of trained Te amusement, splendid Lectures and Entertain session. For further information, write Active Really Company. Insurance Columbia, S. C. Teachers MECHANICAL S. C. Our Weeks Supported by the North Carolina and The ace fee. No Tuition. Rooms in the College Every Sanitary Con- view, Agricultural, of trained Teachers. and Entertainments write 1120 Washington Street - - - - Columbia, S. C. Summer School for Teachers AT THE STATE AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE, ORANGEBURG, S. C. Begins June 29th and Lasts Four Weeks Endorsed by the State Board of Education. Supported by the United States Government, the State of South Carolina and The Slater Fund. Expenses very low. No Entrance fee. No Tuition. Board for the Session $10.00. This includes Rooms in the College Dormitories, Electric Lights, Good Water and every Sanitary Convenience. Three Main Courses: Teachers Review, Agricultural, Industrial. A competent and selected faculty of trained Teachers. Recreative amusement, splendid Lectures and Entertainments during the session. For further information, write R. S. WILKINSON, Ph.D., President. Orangeburg. S. C. In the Drug Department