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The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1908-03-12
NATIVES
Are Treated as Cat
tie by Hunters,
InsurrectiOn in the Cameron Follow.
ing the Cruel Methods Of Rub
Der Hunters is Predicted by
Speaker in the German Up
per House.

Berlin, March 4.-Herr Erzberger
member of tn ecenter party and. q
clerical, spoke before the appropria-
tlons committee Of the reichstag TO-
DAY on the colonial estimates. He ci-
ted numerous government reDorts
regarding the violent proceedings of
the rubber hunters in German Ka-
merun, describing how armed Dar-
ties herded the natives into their
services, levied acquisitions on the
villages for food and in the name of
Germany terrorized wide districts in
Central Africa in their efforts to get
rubber out of the country
Colonial Secretary Dernburg, re-
plying, said the demand for rubber
for cable automobile tires and other
industries had advanced the price
and that consequently there had
been great efforts to exploit the rich
rubber producing regions in Kamer-
un. The natives had been drawn by
the rubber traders from their agri-
cultural pursuits to hunt for rub
Der. diminution in the price had
caused even greater activity among
the rubber collecting organizations.
Rubber gathering, the secretary
wont on, had become nothing less
than criminal exploitation in which
the rubber forests were being de-
trOyed without the planting of any
new trees. In many districts the
government had stopped the traffic
altogether, and further regulations
were being made to protect the viii
layers along the caravan routes from
violence especially the forcible re-
QUESTION Of food and the destruction
Of their huts.
Continuing Herr Dernburg said
that the worst feature OF the situa-
tiop was its economic aspect. When
the rubber supplies were exhausted
the natives would be obliged to re-
turn to- their forgasrS occupations,
With which; they Iha a { s'1b6sco me 1iiIifa-
mi1iar. He dsefarrsess ST ftfitaat an = fnsliF-
rection on the part Of the natives
was possible in the future, and that
the government must undertake full
measures to secure their protection.
The secretary denied ethe state
ments that slave trade existed open
ly in this region, although in remote
districts under the regime of native
sultans such conditions might exist,
without the knowledge Of the au-
thOritieS
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1908-03-12
APPEAL TO NEGROES
TO VOTE FOR FORAKER

Washington, March 5.--An appeal
was today issued by the colored cam
Daign vigilance committee to voters
of the Southern States to~secure the
election Of delegates to the republi-
can national convention at Chicago
who will cast their votes for Senator
Joseph Benson Foraker, Of Ohio, for
the presidency. IN case Of the failure
to secure FOrakpr's s nomination. they
are urged to unite upon Vice Presi-
dent Fairbanks Or Senator Robert NJ
La Toilette, Of Wisconsin. They are
urged also to oppose the nomination
Of Secretary TAFT on the. ground he
was a party to the dismissal from the
army Of the colored soldiers, involv-
ed in the Brownsville incident.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1908-03-12
STAFF OFFICERS
vi the Uniform Rank Knights of
rythias Appointed by Brig. eGnI.
Campbci;.

Brlgadier General Jas. A. Camp
bell, of the Uniform Rank, Kniehts
or Pythlas, has made the following
appointments on his staff: w. O.
Terry, chief Of staff; w. H.. Lowry,
assistant adjutant general; Chas. w.
wilson, assistant inspector general;
q. w. Fitzgerald, assistant Judge ad-
vOcate general; G. II. James, brig
ade mastering officer; r. S. Penn
brigade engineer; II. Wood, brigade
signal officer; Geo. e. Wanzer, as
slstant quartcrmastcr general; s. NJ
Davis, assistant commissary gener.
al; G. G. Barnett, assistant surgeon
general; Jas. a. Murphy, brigade
chaplain; and J. A. JACKSON, aide-de
camp.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1908-03-12
PYTHIANS
Purchase a Sanitar-
ium at Hot Springs
Forty Room Building Secured by
the Knights of Pythias as n San
itaium for Members OF the
Order Visiting the Vapor
City for Treatment.
Special to the Advocate.

Special to the Advocate.
Hot Springs, Ark, March S.-The
temple and sanitarium commission
of the supreme lodge, Knights OF
Pythias of n. A. S. A. E. A. A. and
A.. consisting Of Supreme Chancel.
lOr S. w. StalAts, Of West Virginia
Supreme Vice Chancellor S. W.
Green, of Louisiana; Supreme Keep
er of Records and Seal G.. K. Robin
son, Of Missouri; Secretary e. D.
Green, Of Illinois; G. D. Creswill, Of
Georgia; r. A. Blount, of Alabama
A. w. Llyod, Of Missouri; J. NJ. Ha-
Zlewood, of West Virginia; J. W.
Slaughter, OF Mississippi; and Dr.. c.
Nj. Wade, Of Arkansas, has been in
session here this week. Commission
er w. j. l. Reed, Of Indiana, was un-
able to attend the meeting on ac-
count of the illness Of his wife
The purpose Of the meeting was
the purchase of a building or site
for the National Pythian sanitarium
for the establishment Of which the
funds have already been raised
The commission went into session
on Thursday, at which time many
prominent citizens Of Hot Springs,
including the present mayor and two
eX-mayors, came before 1t, and bade
them welcome to the city. The
commission was assured that in their
efforts to establish a sanitarium for
their own people they would have
the support Of all citizens, regardless
Of color.
The local committee had secured
options on number Of properties,
each of which was visited and in
sDected by the committee. In eX-
ecutive session on Friday afternoon
either the Capitol hotel and bath
house or the French fats, which is
a pressed brick building Of forty
rooms. A subcommittee, consisting
Of c.. D. Criswell, of Georgia; A. w.
Lloyd, of Missouri; j. M. Hazlewood,
of West Virginia; J. w. Slaughter,
of Mississippi, and E. D. Green, Of
ILLINOIS, remains here to close the
transaction.
The meeting Of the commission at
tracted many prominent Pythiansto
the city, among those who came were
Supreme Attorney S. A. T. Watkins,
Of Chicago, who, as usual, looked af-
ter the legal points involved; Su-
preme Medical Register DR.. r. +.
Boyd, of Nashville, Tenn; Supreme
Master of Exchequer Jno. II. Young,
Of Pine Bluff; Chancellor J. G. Duke,
Judge NJ. W. Gibbs, Of Little Rock,
and many others.
The commission was royalty enter
tanned by the local committee, head
ed by DR.. c.. NJ. Wade, to whose ef-
forts the establishment Of the sani-
tarium is due.
In this movement, as in others,
the great Pythian order has taken
an advance step in race work. 1t
will make it possible for Pythians
and future generations to have the
opportunity to take advantage Of the
wonderful healing waters provided
by nature.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1908-03-12
HALF MILLION NEGROES
VIII Switch their Votes if Taft is
Named, Says C0Tr0thcrS.

Wilmington, Del, March D.-A Ne
gro organization was formed in Will
mington today for the purpose or
opposing Taft and Roosevelt. The
promoter is Rev. DR.. S. j. Carroth-
ers, D. D., a Negro Of Washington,
D. c., who came here and organized
the independence republican league
Of Delaware. w. E. Grlnnage was
elected president. Rev. Carrothers,
who is national organizer Of the
Foraker independent col0red league
Of America, said:
"If Secretary Taft is nominated
for the presidency by the republican
party there will be some 5OO,OOO
voters Of the country who VIII caS'
their ballots for Bryan. The same
will happen to President Roosevelt
| if he should be renominated. il VIZ
are compelled to have either OF these
! men, we prefer Roosevelt to Tatt
but our first choice is Foraker.
The organizer also said that TN
Negroes will support either Falr
! banks or Hughes, both standing wei
with the cOlOred race. 1t IS said Kew
! Carrothers will be elected bishop q
the conference Of the African NJ L
church in Philadelphia in May.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1908-03-12

Manila, March 11-Fire destroy
ed two thousand native shacks in the
SamElouic district Of Manila. Fifteen
thousand natives were rendered
homeless.
"RafhcB' is coming. At least,
Gerald Fitz Gerald, the advance
man for the company, is at the Ruff
ner, and he expects to have an en-
gagement for the production at the
Burlew at an early date. The show
is making hit all over the east and
south. according to what Mr. Fltz
Gerald said this morning. We will
give you Charleston people some
thing to talk about for q month af-
ter we play here" said he.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1908-03-12

Next Sundays World will contain
the words and music Of Dear
Heart" as originally produced in the
great Broadway musical comedy sue
cess. "A Knight for Day" now ap-
Dearing at Wallack's Theatre, New
York. Beautiful cover design drawn
exclusively for this music by Penryn
Stanlaws, the well-known Den-and-
ink artist. Order next Sundays New
York World today.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1908-03-12
LID"
Is aBoon to Negroes,
Says Washington
Abolition Of the Saloon a BLESSING
Second Only to Abolition Of Sla-
very, is the Opinion of the No
ted Tuskegec Eudcator-
Race Is Industrious.

New York, March 1.-THE aboli
ton Of the barroom in the south was
a blessing to the Negro second only
to the abolition of slavery, was the
opinion Of Booker T. Washington ex-
pressed in an address before the lar
gest audience that ever assembled
in the Peoples Forum in New Ro-
chellc.
TWo-thirds Of the moDs and lynch
ings, he declared, were the result" OF
bad whisky, used by bad black men
and bad white men. He urged the
necessity of acquiring property and
or absorbing economic ideas.
THE great temperance movement
which has swept the south" said he
has been without parallel In histo,
ry. Now that l have lived to See
the whisky shops and open barrooms
done away with, there is no telling
what other reforms may take place
anywhere.
Whisky Is Scarce.
To-day we find only 13 counties
in Kentucky where whisky is sold un-
der license; in Tennessee in only four
cities and two towns. In Florida
there are. only ID counties where sa-
looms and barrooms exist They are
almost extinct in North Carolina.
After next Christmas every bar
room in Mississippi and Alabama
will close. Every barroom in Geor-
gia has gone out Of business, and for
the first time in 40 years an Allan
ia paper said that not a single black
man was in the city prison.
The orator was introduced by Seth
Low, and wa accompanied to New
Louisiana. He was heard by 5000
persons.
=. Nation Within Nation.
''The colored race in this coun-
try. he said, lis a, nation within a
nation. We have 10000, 0,O00f-% ne
groes, population twice as large as
the whole Of Canada or Mexico. or
these, S,50O,0OO are in the south.
"Tuskegee institute was started in
1881 with one teacher and 20 stu
dents. We now have 1856 instructors
and 1 400 to 1900 men and women
The 2,3OO acres and 70 buildings are
worth 100000.
I'VE must improve the economic
ideas Of the Negro race before we
can strengthen their moral instincts.
The Negro should remember that the
white man has two men working for
him, his muscle and his brain. The
mortgage he holds on the Negros s
property works all day and all night,
and when he turns over and snores,
that mortgage is drawing interest
just the same. When the Negro goes
to bed to snore there isn't anything
doing.
Buy Too Much Jcwclry.
The Negroes are Industrious, but
the trouble is that a great deal Of
money gets away from them. They
buy too much cheap jewelry, worth
only 81 to $5 bushel. Not long
ago | took dinner with family which
had only one fork, yet they had q
$50 organ, bought on the INSTALL
ment plan.
"The Negro should be taught that
the getting Of property and money
is the real foundation Of success.
When he can catch up with the AM
erican white man in this respect
there will not be anyone ahead Of
him.
"Thc Negroes starting in Virginia
40 years ago had not dollar. They
did not even own their clothes. To-
day, in Virginia, they own 1-26th Of
all property. In Georgia they pay
taxes on $18G52,O00 worth Of land"
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1908-03-12

Five children were born to Mt
and Mrs. George Campbell, Of Steu-
benville, February %. Three Of the
babies are dead. One boy and one
girl is expected to live. CampOeiI
has four brothers. To th" family OF
two Of these, twins have been born
and each Of the other brothers is
father Of triplets.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1908-03-12
COLORED FORAKER CLUB.

The colored men of Decota held a
meeting, last week in the Bed Mems
hall there, and formed Foraker
club. The club starts out with q
membership OF 81, and will meet
every Tuesday night. E
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1908-03-12
PARADOXCAB, BUT TRUE.

"You mustn't mind what Capt
Tackem says, Sophia. He's regu-
lar rough old salt
He may be, but he's too fresh
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1908-03-12
Third Ward
Republicans

The republicans Of the Third ward
will hold rally at Slack's hall
Thursday night beginning at 7:30
O'Clock. The public Is invited to at
tend.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-30

received presents of pretty writing pads tor the
desk Going through the hall sometime later l
found that one of the toughest boys in school was
not using his pad. He showed it to me, wrapped
up in dirty handkerchief. What's that for? L
asked To keep it clean. he replied, with happy
smile. l respected him for it, and showed him the
Importance of care and thoughtfuness toward
every human being. and especially for Others
property: and thus. hope made the slight founda-
ton for awakening sense OF self respect. 1t is
almost pathetic to think of trying to help a child
in this strange, distant way; but you must appeal
to his nature through what he seems to understand,
and so carry him slowly toward better days.
All Have a Sense of Honor
EVEN the widest boys in the House of Refuge
II have their sense of honor which if touched will
make them respond to nobler impulses. One day,
as class was dismissed three boys disappeared in
rear room and closed the door Suspectng trouble.
wping the blood off his and face, and the
two small boys over in the corner. as still as
death but with very determined expressions l
saw it at glance The big bully had done
thing to of the little fellows and they had laid
an ambush caught him. and had given him a beat
ing After this, l noticed that the big bully gen.
orally acted much better in the school, and never
reprimanded the little fellows.
We have many other DULLES here, and we also
occasionally have boys that grovel The other
day the parents of one of these grovelng boys
came over. The lad had been for weeks acting like
a little devil: but imagine my surprise when he
stuck his fists in his eyes, squeezed out tears. and
please tell my fadder an mudder how-how good
| have been!
The little imp! 1 felt like pulling his nose.
Why, John | exclaimed with righteous indigna-
ton, the very idea of asking to lie for you'll
Isn't it bad enough that you have made me SO much
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-30

as he was, loved that mother, and in his way
one of my BOYS. a hard cruel little imp, snatChed
from thieves den in New York. | found him
day CRYING softly. What's the matter George!
l asked severely, thinking he had been in more
mischief.
please. Miss Arnold he whimpered, 4 was
thinkn of me fadder an me mudder!
well what of it,?
''Me fadder an me mudder is mind
much!' he whmpered and two great tears rolled
down his cheeks, as though his bOvish heart was
breaking You see. | Oughter be home as soon as
l kin Me fadder gets drunk an comes home an
ticks me mudder, an ought to be deere to Jump
on de old man when he gets gay.
Il was touched deeply by this boys devotion to
his dissolute mother.-the mother who did not
know and never can know. how to reach her boys
heart. and by doing make man of him.
THE widest boys have spark of nobility
smoldering somewhere: and If YOU stir the dead
ashes, the fire may be made to burn. 1t cheers
Refuge.
Finding the Best Traits
GO it is not the Termination of boys the
~ opposed theory, that bears out our experience
rather it is to know boys, not in the mass, but
to know what really is best in men! What are
we to look for? How we to recognize 1t even
when it is actually before us? 1t is the with
children 1t wise teacher or parent that can
solve the problem. 1t to seek out and foster
the best in the childs human nature or character.
and to build that. The clues often. as |
have tried explain, slender that they passed
over.
Another point that parents should recall at
times is that hard headed hayward lads have in
them larger streak than ordinarily of the quality
called childishness.' One day, some of my boys
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-30

metal flesh nor soil is barrier to its progress; but
each allows its passage readily as a copper wire
allows the passage of electric current. This
ether is the direct parent of the y ray and
the speech of the wireless telegraph The strange
lights in the vacuum tubes in the laboratory its
animated expressions. The light in the electric light
bulb at the desk is only giving forth rude ether
blush; but when man shall attain the perfect
this bulb win give forth many times more
light, purified and heatess soft and healing as the
light of the stars penetrating the
This behavior of ether is present in the flash of
the FREELY and in the light of the glow worm. These
two insects Natures perfect vacuum makers,
each using chamber of cartilage just beneath the
skin on the back of the rear portion of the bodies
An examination of the insect when emitting flame
light shows bodily movements that cannot be
producing. The lights always in the
vacuum sacs the back Immediately before
emitting light either insect will fatten the body,
draw the legs close in. droop the head, seemingly
contracting in all drectons then with the relaxation
comes the flame and the light
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-30

ing in rays The lights of either insect applied
to the human flesh show penetration, illumination,
FREELY in contact with finger is sufficient to con-
vince anyone that the flame has no heat, and that
nature is an X ray maker Further investigation
shows that all the combined lights and flames
possible to be brought together heatless.
FREELY flashing the bulb of delicate thermometer
will not cause the temperature index to vary
particle, though flash after flash may follow for
many minutes at time.
One hundred firehies inclosed in a glass jar
accompanied by very responsive thermometer
while fully third of the flies flashing at the
time gave no increase in temperature other
than that shown during the day when the Hastings
quiet The bolometer, sort of thermometer
capable of registering millionth of one degree
variation in temperature, showed no disturbance,
though many Hastings and famings occurred in the
immediate presence of the instrument. Similar
results attained with glow worm experiments
Each showed the heatess condition of their lights.
The perfect vacuumS made m the bodies OF the
insects gave the cold flame and heatless light results
These experiments and results will lead to much
in no far away future. Man has already found Won
ders in his imperfect vacuunls. The incandescent
electric light is the most common and the y ray
is only little wonderful; yet each is Dor
rowed; the FREELY and the glow lending ALL
Vacuum Will Be Found
7 HAVE found the vacuum!" will soon be heard
round the world. and its echo will be followed by
a revolution and complete change IN the system OF
lighting home and street with a brllance as much
above the present electric lighting the electric
light is over candle the light OF century ago.
An ether Edison will yet come, and with perfect
vacuum in tube and pipe, reservoir and bulb,
point and sphere night will be with rad-
ance not through waste of oil or carbon. fuels
chemicals metals; but by allowing the ether
waves vibrations. passage through their active
abodes of operation, vacuums. each flame and bead
and beacon kept vibrating, animated, and radlatlng
perfect light by greater than the ticking
of clock watch, starting the subtle light
into life and maintaining it by other force.
The FREELY offers the key to the situation, and the
door by the glow force is plain. When a
vacuum is made perfect can be made by these
insects with their bodily compressions and expan-
sions the future systems of lights will be solved,
being nothing than ether vibrations within
vacuum, depending for action upon spring. a
weight any other force capable of setting matter
to trembling: for sensitive the ether waves
that football or a knock at the door will announce
all over the dwelling by tongues of flame the pres
moving within.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-30

0NCE or twice in century it is rumored that
~ some far away scientist has discovered means
BY which lamp be made to give a
brilliant light and the flame be cold 1t has always
come with the announcement that the cold flame
had the power of making many transparent appear
ances in opaque bodies the light actually diffusing
itself throughout the substance and rendering fiber
and grain luminous to be invisible, other bodies
beyond the substance in hand being seen as though
there intervening body.
This idea of cold flame and a heatless light has
many natural phenomena and much science to
support it. That such house lighting utensl will be
made, and as common as the electric light to-day,
is a scientific problem easy of solution the
electric light problem quarter OF a century ago
Necessity is the mother of invention" is
trte saying worthy to be changed to Nature is
the mother of invention. Man makes not: he
initiates Nature. She presents an idea; man har-
nesses that idea in less complicated trap
pings and calls it invention To illustrate,
spiders were making and using suspension bridges
with chains OF gossamer threads thousands OF years
before man ever thought of getting out patent
suspension bridge. The swordtsh was ra1nrnng
its enemies to destruction centuries before man
thought of putting beak on his warship. The
wood beetle was boring a smooth round hole ages
before figured out an auger as an invention.
Every invention of any practical value. whether
made by savage or pagan or civilized man, Is
nothing more than imitation of some of Natures
Inventions merely combination of some simple
things a child has all its days. The sickle on
the reaper is blade of sword grass. stone rolling
down hill is catapult A drop of water suspended
object is simple microscope. Thus is it
possible to go through the long list of man inven
he is a clever combiner and imitator.
Another Palm for Nature
CUCH an expression as ''cod flame seems SO
~ contradictory to the ordinary Interpretation of
things that its very suggestion brands the suggeser
being under hallucinatiOn but since Nature
actually presents the world with cold flame and a
heatess light, need not be ashamed to speak
of them. though the unearned may point at their
cranums IN derlslon OF the suggestion, as was done
to Fulton when he proposed to steamboat on
the Hudson.
The cold flame is in the FREELY. and the heatess
lights are not mysteries Their cause is due to ether
of the st subtle forces in Nature, rapidly
coming into the world knowledge.
The human senses acquainted with this sub
stance only in an indirect way, and that way
in its workings Yet ether flows through the earth's
atmosphere III mighty currents, unchecked, resist
less and subtle. Neither wood nor stone, water
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trouble No. will tell your parents the TRUTH
He trembled in his boots.
Il remember another tough pupil. from the
Sums He what is commonly called a bull
head. He made all sorts of trouble for everybody
One day he was set free. and all glad We
heard later that he had enlisted in the army. and
taken to the other side of the world In letter
night. | often think of what a bad boy | was and
how much trouble l made you. l have decided to
lead better life and Now. that boy will
never be gold plated, mind you; but the fact
that he reached the point where he would confess
to himself that he had been tough boy, shows
that there is still hope.