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Tombstone epitaph., 1909-11-28
TERRITORIAL ITEMS OF lN-
 TEREST CONDENSED.

At P 'nen \ tomorrow and We Tn s- day, both afternoon and evening, there will be farmers ins itute he'd Among those who will he present to ak during the institute will b' President Bahcock O the Ariz n univer .ity, Dr Clothier. who has heer conducting the cnurse- in horticultur- a. the high schools in Phoenix and m Mesa, and Professor Fowler, also of the university.
 Governor Sloan, Assistant Secretar Kirk, Will Pinney and Ge"rge DIis- coll have lift Phoenix for a dhck hunting trip to the reservoir near Florence.
 An estimate of the cost of building the San Can Car os dam. recently made hy Mir Slight. places the fgure- at '.0OO,0"0 The city oi Globe will be the quitting point for the con tractors and workmen, ahrch means that good rnr, of the i've mill on will find its way tn that city Marcus A Smith, Dr E. Shine of B,sbae. and c O Ellls. H x Keno, AL fred Paul and D Lund of Douglas left Saturday for Mexico, where they wilt spend few days shooting ducks.
 Gils county b ard of supervisors. followine a court order obtained there, will in the fut ire refuse to pay any bounty on skunks. The hoard con- ended that the bounty bills were growing so excessive that they were making m st serious inroads on the finances of that county. It is possible that other county boards may follow the lead taken by Gila.
 The general educational exhibit from the Douglas schools tnnk first prize at the ter itorisl fair. The prizes were awarded A follows: Writ ing in the ii st, second and fourth grades tork fret prize, VII le the third grade writing took second prize Lnn- cuage work a.so from first, second ind |: fourth grades took first pr,zp, while the third grade language took second prize.
 Wyatt B Spencer, who came to Arizona lately from North Carolina hs discovered mine of wha, IS sup posed to he BlacL diamonds np ip the Si yer Queen distrcs, Pinal connty The st mes are found in gravelly deposit and are protect, d,nr covered with sort of pe,rified shell which is very hard ard has to be broken fl the stone The sthne itself IS a pes culisr grsyish-heliotrope in color, trans lucent, Nith pretty lights.
 Fur refusing to obey s summons 10 appear in court as a witness, w H Gilber. of PhoenIx vas found to be in contempt by Judge Ed ,ard Kent and sentenced to pay s20 or serve 20 days in jail He pa:d the money.
 For killi g - valuable mule, which was run in'o on the Indian school line recently. W l. T-sl and l. Nor. rill were awarded $50 damages against the Phoenix Street Railway company ny Just ce Parker after tr,al of the evil action.
Tombstone epitaph., 1909-11-28

WANTED-Success Magazine re- quires the services ui A man Tn rumb- -tune Co look Ter expiring suhscrIp- tiOn- and to secure new business by means Of special methods uuu-uslly effective; position perm nent; prefer one with exper ence, but would con- sider any applicant with good natural qualifications. Address, with refec- CT ce-, R C. Peacock, Room l02, Success Magazine B.dg Oew York.
Tombstone epitaph., 1909-11-28
Notice.

Notice is hereby given that the an nuai meeting of the stock holders Oi tn. Gina Vaiiey, Globe & Northern Railway Company will be held at the offices O. the c,mpsny Tucson, Ariz., on Wednerd.y. December sth, 1909, st o'clock p. m., for the elect,on of A board of directors and the transsc. tiOn of euch other business as may properly coma before the meeting. Dated Tucson, Arizona, this third day of November. 1909
 CHAs. E. WALKER,
 Secretary.
Tombstone epitaph., 1909-11-28
Mining Notice

Public notice is hereby given that the undersigned owners have bonded the following mining claims to W. C Humphrey, of Douglas, Arlzona, on June 10, 1902. viz: the Gerooimr, Lit tie Jap, Little Hope, H"mestske and Headlight, situate in Turquoise Min- ing district, Ochise county, Arizona, and the undersIg"ei will not be re- ? pon-ible for any expense for labor, supplies or otherwise furnished or con. tracted for i'd mines during the term of said bond to W c. Humuhrey or assigns. D. W BRows,
 I. 4. BhowS.
 Dated June 10, l9 9.
Tombstone epitaph., 1909-11-28
Would RevoIutionize
 Copper Indust y

To interest local capital in the or ganifstion ofa company for the msnu- facture of h,rdenrd copper products, a secret pr"cPs- which he has recently perfected. NJ. McCnmhs of Benson l. in Tucson, according to the Star.
 McComr'e surcess is the result i 36 years continuous lahGr ny him self and his father, The elder Nc Combs worked at it for g years and the lat four yrars has seen the son srdentIy endeavor ng to complete "- perfection.
 To demonstrate his claim, Mir McComb- has W tn Eim number "i ssm les of the hardened metal and l. willing to submit them tO a test a any me or place He clai"s ths the metal is made harder than steel; that, on acc ,unt oi it- elasticity, will resist bullets more effectively thar steel and can be shsrpened to a finer edge than can steel.
 Mir McCombs states tha. with sSisb at his command he can pit up a plant Tor manufacture Of the prod uct th.t will convert 100 tons year from the raw copper into the hardened metal. His copper. he believes, vii! equip battleships with much m ore eff -ctiye srmor than steel.
 Should McComb- be abe to prove his claim sati.iac' or ily, the msnuf.ct- ure of his product would revolutionize the copper industry.
Tombstone epitaph., 1909-11-28

luc pcduNy oi it Is tiia' down in this sun-kissed re- zion Indian summer lasts all winter.
 There is no understanding a womaD," says the Milwau- kee Sentinel. Of course not; but that will not stop the guessing,
 In London recently a mur- derer was tried. convicted and sentenced Tn less than an hour. rechnicalities must not cut much ice over there.
 Some allowance must be made for Prot. Palmer, the Harvard professor who advises students to fiirt. He is only 67. The giddy young thing,
 Three hundred and seven. ty-fve thousand dollars was lost to dead beats by Missouri and Kansas hotels last year. This may be taken as an evidence of prosperity in a way, as it is a safe guess tl.at at least 90 per cent of the deadoeats were well dressed and prosperous looking
 And now after all the labor and expense incurred in dis covering the north pole by two Americans. it ap ears that we have no title to it, inas- much as, according to the dictates of international law. occupation is a prerequis. .te to occupation.
 We contemplate with a shudder the wreck of hopes and crash of ambitions that will follow our first senatorial election. remaks the Florence Blade. All the republican and not a few democrats have their optics trained on a sena- torial toga, but while many feeel called bat two can te chosen. What pity that the supply of senatorial togas cannot be made to equal the demand.
 Bishop Quayle IS dreamer and indulg.s in some very sweet theories. For instance, he teaches that the cure for divorce is a smile. Theore,- icaily this is nice and proper, but the hard undodgable fact obtrudes itself that the most frequent cause of divorce is the smile of those who become correspondents. Nevertheless, since the hair of the dog is cure for the bite the smile treatment tor divorce might be worth whlle.-kl Paso Times.
 On his trip through the West and South President Taft invited the people to pay him a reclprocal visit in Washington. The new addi- ton to the White House vii come in handy this winter.
 A new method of teaching the young to love their coun- try and venerate the flag has been invented in Brooklyn. The superintendent of the Disciplinary Training School strips a boy who has violated a rule and hits hum with a stuck for each stripe and each star in the flag This is C ,i. culated, of course, to stimu- late his affection for the ma tional emblem which is now displayed over every school house, built cannot fail to ex- cite among the ourlls a strong opposition to the admission
Tombstone epitaph., 1909-11-28
THeCOUNTY
 RECORDS
Instruments Filed With the County
 Recorder
THE RECORDS GIvEu IN BRIEF

DEEDS
 International Land and
 Improvement co m pany to Frances l
 Georgeson. property in
 the Clawsnn addition
 to the city of Doug 8. ........ Eari W B,wers ct ux to W Taylor; land Q. Co Irtland Investment co upany 70 Margaret
 Hazard, property in the tovn of COurtland c rutland Investment company tO George NJ
 k ce, property in the town 0! Go irt!and .. Ed Carlyon 10 Mrs c J
 Harris and T F. Sarth, an undivide d one half in mi es situated in
 the Pearce mining dis. trict Q. ... ....... Mrs c J Harris and T E Sarah to Ed Csrlyon,
 mines situated Tn the
 Pesrce mining dIs- trict ............ Mrs Mary Kelly to Rich aid v ok, property in Bisbee with all inn provements s.......... Charles E Philbrook ct ux to NJ D Douglas, Blshee property ...... MORTGAGES J G Pritchard ct ux to
 the State Mutual l Building and Loan ! association, realty nor. tg ge ou property in Risbee ............... Frances I Georgeson ct ux to the State Mu. tual Building and
 L oan association, realty mortgage on
 Doug as property. =. James A Taylor ct ux to k c Stanford. realty mortgage on Warren property ............ R B Woods ct ux toFL Williams, real Y nor. tg4ge on Douglas property. ......... J " Grinders ct ux to J w Fur, realty mor- tgage on Douglas prop erty.................
Tombstone epitaph., 1909-11-28
The DOCtOr's First Question

"How are your bowels?" This generally the first queS ton the doctor asks He knows what sluggish liver
 means He knows what long list of distressing com
 plains result from constipation He knows that headaches
 bilious attacks indigestion, impure blood and general
 debility often promptly relieved by good liver pill We wish you would talk with your own doctor about this subject Ask him at the time if he approves of Ayers Pills Do as he says C. 4ver Co LoueH Mass
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-10-21
Assistant Superintendent Bruce.s adj

Assistant Superintendent Bruce's ad,
ministration. He Is charged with
rank favol1usm. incompe,ency ana
the desire to industrialixe the schools
under his charge. Our, worthy con-
temporary can see no relief from the
lntolerable conditions of Which, it
complains, except through white, SUI
pervlsion. In other words, the reign
of terror which exists TN the colored
schools can be put down only by a
white man.
During the pre-railroad days Of the
west, the donkeys making up the
pack trains could be depended upon
not to stray from the trail, provided
they were led by white horse. The
Advocate hesitates to intimate that
there is reversion to type on the
part Of anyone connected with the
controversy, but DDS.
bodikfns and byheck, does not the
Bee point that way?
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-10-21
GOOD NEWS FROM AFRICA

The acquittal of the Rev. w. H.
Sheppard, who, with a white mission
larry, was charged with caluminons
|denunciatiOn and libel by conces-
Slcnary company in the Congo, Africa,
was pleasant news to his MANY
friends, white and black, in Charles
ton.
Rev. Sheppard has appeared here
on several occasions, and the earnest
ness Of the man in describing the
harsh condition under which the ma
tlHes in Africa labor convinced his
hearers that his recital was ANYTHING
but libel Of the Belgium concession
aires. His acQuittal is not half as
much surprise as was the nerve"
displayed by his accusers in making
the accusation.
The article in the Kassai Herald
Presbyterian journal published in
the Luebo district, to which the Bel.
Slans took exception, but mildly des-
cribed the conditions under which the
natives are forced to furnish their
quota of rubber. He did not paint
IN theT true colors the horrors found
by the British consul and by him dis
played to the world. He CLOSED over
the Instances in which hundreds have
been starved to death, as many de-
prlVed Of their hands, and the num-
Der of villages laid waste because
their inhabitants had not collected
their toll Of rubber. He but limited
at the truth, but because he had the
courage to do even this, the minions
Of King Leopold sought to deprive
nm of his libety. That they were
unsuccessful is triumph for Justice
which prevails occasionally even in
Darkest Africa.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-10-21
FUNERAL EXTRANAGANCE.

The ministers Of the \. VI. T.
church are to be commended for tho
stand they took at the Morgantown
Conference on the Question of funeral
reform.
The ministers were none too soon
In taking cognizancc Of this depIor.
able fault Of the Negro poo,lc
for funeral extravaganza is bv No
means among the least Of our short
comings, upon which the Advocate
commented some moths ago. Condi.
ttons have not changed since then
unless 1t be that they have grown
worse. That, we think, sufficient ms
titcatton for reprinting what, under
the circumstances, appears a timely
if old editorial.
said the Advocate:
Under the caption above (Funera-
hxtravagance), the Wheeling Regis
ter describes a custom which is in.
creasing among the Negro people a
an alarming rate. Says the Register
There are great many cases in
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-10-21

veins. There is no serious Negro
problem in Baltimore city and conn
w. In Baltimore city and county
mere are i white man to eyery
TWO co."red men. During the last
twenty years every seven new in
habitants Of Baltimore have been
white and one coored. In the
northwestern counties the colored
population Is decreasing both rela-
lively and absolutely. In Baltimore
city and county, it is increasing alb
soiutely, but decreasing relatively.
The only remaining sections Of
the state are the Eastern Shore
counties, together with Hartford
county and the Southern Maryland
counties of Montgomery, Howard
Ammo Arundel, Prince Georges, Cal
vert, Charles and ST. Marys. In the
half century from 1890 to 1870 the
white population Of these great
slayeh gliding sections Of Maryland
actually decreased, while the color
cd population increased. There we're
fewer white people dwelling in the
eastern and southern counties of
Maryland in the year when the wild
revel Of the Tippecanoe and Tyler
campaign carried the elder Harrison
to the White House and the grave
than there were when Washington
became President.
IN the last 20 years the whites
have been gaining very rapidly on
the colored people. In 1900 there
were $1,000 more whites in the
southern and eastern counties than
there were III 1880, and only 334
more colored people. That is, out. Of
every 10 persons added to the pop
u1atiOn of those counties in the last
20 years 100 were white and 1 a
cOlored man.
Eastern and Southern Maryland
Sometimes the three southern
most counties Of the Western, Shore
Charles, st. .Marys and Calvert
are cited as those which are suffer
ing most severely from the effects
Of Negro suffrage. Correspond
ents from those counties have fire.
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INCONSISTENCY OF THE WASH
INGTON BEE. -

tFrom The Star, Newport News, Va
We are quite amused, sometimes,
at the Inconsistencies We see in some
newspapers
In glancing over the columns of the
Bee, Washington, D. c., we note that
the editor stated that The Bee" like
the Tribune, is opposed to a CORES
pondent being at the head Of an ed
ltorial press association. The Bee
feels confident that if DR.. Washington
or Mr.. Scott had been consulted neith-
er would have selected Mr.. Thomp-
son, and right under this article ap-
pears an editorial squib which says:
THE reason the Negro is not a fac
tor In this country is because he is
not united"
From what we can understand,
the selection Of Mr.. Thompson as
president was made by a number of
pom tide newspaper editors. Why,
then, should DR.. Washington or Mr..
Scott be considered in the premises?
Neither of these gentlemen IS con-
nected with any newspaper as editor
that we know of.
There is one thing that we certain
ly do believe-that both Of them be
Ieve in organization.
If The Bee and The Tribune had
an interest in uniting the race, why
did they not attend the convention
and select someone who is not a cor.
respondent
How do you expect "'the Negro to
be factor in this country" when you
attack the efforts he makes to unite
the race?
1t should not matter one whit who
is the head Of the press association.
SO he is man that has the interest
of the Negro newspapers at heart
and, certainly, neither The Bee or
The Tribune will gainsay the fact
that Mr.. Thompson has as much in
terest in the uplft Of the Negro news
paper as any Negro in this country.
and, We dareSay, he will do as much
to unite the newspapers of the race
as any man who could have been Sc
lected.
If you gentlemen want unity Of the
race, you should practice what YOU
preach.
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CODORED LABORERS PROTECTED
Big Organization has Grown Power.
fuI-Ail Kinds Of Labor Given
Protcction-No longer May
Impositions be Heaped Up
on Honest and Upright
IabOring People.

Or all the many things of interest
to our race, it seems to the editor that
the least attention has been paid to
one Of the most important things to
our people. We refer to the question
or organizing colored labor.
1t is a well known fact that white
LABOR among skilled trades is strongly
organized. But colored labor has
Deen imposed upon by such organiza-
tlonS. They have even gone 80 far
as to absolutely bar the Negro from
membership.
with no protection to themselves
along labor lines the colored people
nave been grossly imposed upon.
not only have they been unable to
protect themselves against unjust
discrimination and wage reductions
put they have also been forced to
constantly protect themselves from
, the onslaughts Of white organizations
; Of labor.
SO bad has this situation been that
many Of our leading educators been
forced to denounce labor organiza-
tons as ruinous to our people. Their
Ilntentions were of the very best
| and so far as they went were perfect
| ~ true. But there was one thine
| they did not think of, and that was q
strong organization Of colored labor
such an organization has now been
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October "a. 1909.

Paul a prisoner before Festus and
,,Agr1ppa.-Acts rs: 6-12; Chapter 26.
Golden Text. know whom I have
believed, and am Persuaded that he is
able to keep that which I have COM
mltted unto him against that day
2 Tim. 1:12.
" Verse 6.-WhO was this Festus re-
ferred to in this verse?
From the preceding five verses
what had the Jews requested Festus
to do?
Verse 7.-On what priciple can
you explain the bitter hatred which
the Jews had for Paul
viii religious biggot, who Is full
iof hatred as these Jews we're, stop
kshort of swearing to a lie to accom-
plish his purpose?
Should any Christian believe or
circulate charge against. any per-
son that he has not got ample proof
Iof?
Verse 8.-As a matter OF fact, had
Paul, in any sense, broken any Jewish
law?
" nle3, ct this bis tip9e. we're really in
the most unenViable situation, Paul
or his accusers, and why? e..
Verses Oblivion a Judge or a
magistrate faVors the prosecution,
and makes harsh remarks against the
prisoner during the taking Of the evil
dence, thus prejudicing the jury, is
such man at for judicial posi-
ton?
When a Christian is accused of
wrong doing and is innocent, should
he insist upon his innocence or be pa-
tlent and silent, and wait for the
facts to speak
Paul was no doubt wise in refus.
ing to go to Jerusalem but was he
not equally wise in not insisting that
his trial to be finished at Caesarea,
and In his appeal to Caesar?
If you were a minister to be tried
TOR heresy, which tribunal would Won
rather select a prejudiced confer
ence or Synod, or General Assembly
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-10-21
AT LAST.

From a source which, hiterto, we
have had no occasion to. doubt, comes
the information that Charleston is
soon to have another Negro newspa-
per- If We have been correctly adj
Vised as to the names of the promot-
ers OF this new venture in journalism,
there are reasonable grounds to be-
lleve that the public may expect,
very soon, a statement showing the
receipts and disbursements of the
Garnett school piano fund. Happy
day.
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Dortant factor in the population.
Whether they will continue to
come will dou bNless depend upon
economic conditions. They will come
70 Maryland if they can find some
thlng to. do. For all that. it will be
necessary for the Marylander to say
10 the pennsylvania or the Virgin
ian who wishes to cast his lot there:
on can not vote until a year after
you have gone to the county seat
and declared upon oath your inten-
ton to become citizen Of Mary
land, or to amend the organic law
50 that restrictions are placed upon
the exercise Of the right of suffrage,
1t is certain that for the past 90
years the whites OF Maryland have
been gaining on the Negro, and that
within the past twenty years the
process has been going on with
greatly accelerated rapidity. Ad-
hitting this to be true, advocates of
the proposed DISTINGUISHING amend
ment may reply, that however it
may be as to the state as a whole,
the conditions which prevail in GER
tain sections Of it are different. Can
that truthfully be said?
The northwestern counties, along
the Pennsylvania border may be
left ont Of the calculation. Out Of
their 100000 population less than
I16 have Negro blood in their
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-10-21

which unnecessary sums Of money are
squandered upon funerals by persons
or limited means. The death Of a
member OF q poor family is siezed
upon as sufficient grounds for pur-
chasing snowy caskct, expensive
floral pieces, and hiring a long string
of carriages, in many cases in which
such display of grief involves the
sacrifice Of the necessalics Of life for
many subsequent months. The idea
that 1t Is the last thing that can be
done for the decedent, and that, there
fore, the expense should not be reck-
onec, appears to drive off every other
and to blind the eyes
to every thought Of the future for
the living. Not infrcQucnlly, too,
there is foolish rivalry in ostentation
the members of one family being de-
termined to provise as SNOWY flu
neral as that of neighbor who died"
ESPECIALLY is this true, if the de-
ceased carried fraternal or other in
surance. The funeral director is
usually cognizant of the fact, and the
bereaVed family is the exception
which does not make such a display
as to warrant the observation that
they are gratifying their vanity rath-
er than showing respect for their
Gead.'
"Protests, however, are vain.
To counsel moderation when and
where it is most needed is to rush
where angels fear to tread The
Register realizes this and concludes
its preachment in words true and dis |
because they are true:
so long. as human vanity endures, |
so long as grief temporarily upsets |
reasons, so long will the popular
that a decent burial" in
wolves utter disregard of expense be
accepted by those who are least able
10 bear it, i,
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\ .
In the sasaa SArss:ssome time. About
eight yearsaaSo 1t was born in Chiea.
go'St 1T heRsppW been with us long
enough toShMeW that 1t can weather
theWgale a4d aucc esstully, cope with
lali OF the aAa6T problems which such
IAN assocf6tlohmust meet. ~
The gf0wths6f this movement has
been rapid andrsure. From a mere
beginning 1t has increased until to-
day IT stands the peer OF anything of
Its kind In this country. Much good
has been accomplished. Wages OF
thousands OF members has been in
creased. In other cases the hours OF
labor have been reduced. Many gross
abuses Of colored labor have been
corrected.
!, We refer directly to the work Of
che international Liberty Union,
with headquarters at Dayton, Ohio.
we lack space to tell of all the good
work accomplished by this society.
bat~as protective and beneficial
order for colored labor 1t is certainly
on the top round Of the ladder. We
DelleVe II has a great future and
would suggest that any reader of
ours who wishes full information
should write to Liberty Union Home
Office, 105 I. l.. U. Building, Dayton,
Ohio. and full and free particulars
will be sent by return mail, including
a book on SLOW to Gain Improved
for>Yourself."