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The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-10-28

Christian always depend that. A.
Judgments he forms In the great
crises of life as we'll as In ordinary
aHalrs, are really inspired Of coa
ana can therefore be depended upon?
tsee John 14:26, ct sea-
verses 12-2O--When we arc poc.d
"ath a great problem as tin the ,yoy
70 take, or the things to do. is their,
always I'm the mind of God the THING
we ought to do, and. Is there, a. nossi,
onity Tor us to find out with ce,,.
tainty what 1t Is? (This onest.on
must be answered in writing by
members Of the club.)
why Is 1t that God sometimes
leads us contrary to what the cir.
cumstances, would suggest?
Wnen we are. irresistably driven
oy "euroclydon," and appear at
the mercy of the wind and SEQ 10
there reason to believe that We are
just as safe. and as much in Gods
keeping as when the south wind
blows softly?'
= When IN stress and strainn in wind
a RI Storm and@we .apnaar.AS. be% driv.
ing into disaster and death, will tho
consciousness that God is with. ug,
quicken. or deaden our activities to
save ourselves?
verses 21-26-Is there ever any
use in "crying over split milk?"
what reason Ia there to believe
from this narrative, that when we
1afl TO use, and it is too late to. adont
goa s best plan, he will still grac-
iously provide good one which we
may adopt? -,
What did these people miss, and
what did they suffer, for having fail
ed to use Gods first best plan for
their safety?
Lesson for Sunday, Nov. 9th, 1909
faul a Prisoner - The Shipwreck.
Acts xxVii:27 to xviii:
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, gascar lemur, which will lean NAV
fully from shelf to the shoulder
or the newcomer and take from his
pockets his handkerchief, watch. or
any small change he may possess.
passing them oyer TO the c,1rator's
hesk. AS an hnderstudy TO this
animal there Is a younger so.called
$40" lemur, which doesn't perform
SO many tricks, but? Is a. good bitter
ana ScraScher, upon occasion. +
While the visitor is talking noli-
thcs or something else, and these
frivolous creatures are toying with
MIN, q nine banded armadillo, which
1s known by the cheerful nickname
or Gravedtgger, may be crawling
ABOUT his feet, trying to wrench Off
Ills (tne Visitor's) shoes, that being
one OF his idiOsyncracies.
At the same time; fit il an no.
gravated case, a snap of the curs-
tors fingers will send his bet bleach
cd bat circling about the callers
mead, while from the background
rises an insect chorus Of crickete.
locusts and grasshoppers, accom-
panying the two Waiting mice and
the horizontal bar stunts Of the can
n1bal chetah, all Of which are favor
lite companions OF DR.. Ditmars
Should these means fail to cause
the caller to remember that he has
IOther engagements, the curator has
one really artistic little plan to ac-
lcomplish the desired result. All he
las to do is to talk in drowsy. dron-
ing tones to the bore until he has
ruled him into peaceful slumber,
"nereupon, in RESPONSE to q low
Whistle, n poto, from Bprneo, which
is kind Of vampire, with the BODY
OF monkey and the eyes Of an owl
ind which Is passionately fond of
sleepers az food, will come down
from another shelf and bite him to
death.
On the whole it isn't likely that
} many Of Mr.. Dltmars' callers will
stay too long when they 20 to see
him nowadays
An incident Of the day in the ZOO
was the suicide Of big black buck
: antelope from India. He had hren
behaving badly while In the omen
and had been punished by a few
days imprisonment in cage. He
resented this continuously until ves.
terday, when John Bayreuther 9
3 Keeper. opened the door of the CA 90
leading to the corral. Instantly the
buck dashed furiously out and ri
full speed against the heavy wire
t fence. He struck 1t teadlong and
- broke his neck. ~. .....'
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THE NAGIOsgAl.NE<


1t will be recalled that at the re-
cent meeting OF the National. Negro
6usiness LeAkue in Louisville, thu
following. resolution among other,
was passed:
since the year 1918 will mark
the close OF a half century since the
pronunciation Of the Emancipation
Proclamation, we recommend that q
committee, Of which the President OF
this League shall be Chairman, be
appointed at once to take into con-
sideration a National Negro Exposi.
ton to commemorate the fiftieth an
nlversary of freedom, it's location.
scope and financing"
In carrying out the spirit and pur-
pose of this resolution, DR.. Booker
!. Washington, President of the Ma
tional Negro Business League, has
appointed, to serve on this Commit
tee, the following persons:
Mr.. e. l.. Blackshear, Principal,
Prairie View State Normal School,
Prairie View, Texas.
DIR. c. L. Walker, President, Walk
er Baptist College, Augusta, Ga.
Major R. r. Motion, Hampton In
stltute, Hampton, Va.
Others to constitute members of
this Committee will be announced at
an early date. " 1t Is also understood
that the Committee will have a meet
ing at some central point within
the next few days.
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church organization has been giveT
, by the Methodists Episcopal Church
South, as, a body or through its in
dividual commandments.
This spirit OF helpful cooperation
has been super-induced by a remark
able exhibition of self help, of which
these good people in the South are
the most advanced advocates. More
than $150.O0O annually for educa-
tional and missionary purposes have
been raised during the last Quadren-
MUM by the Negroes in the Colored
Methodist Church, and its institu-
tons of learning are fast taking
rank with the older and well estab-
lished schools.
On the Episcopal bench isstq be
found remarkable set Of men.
most Of them products of slavery,
but men Of great depth Of mind, eN-
perience and a conscientious devo-
ton to duty. There can hardly be
found a set of men more willing to
work for the advancement of their
people. regardless of the hardships
entailed in Southern life and travel
than these devoted fathers Of the
church.
1t is conceded on all hands that
the forthcoming General Conference
to be held in Augusta, Georgia next
May will mark new epoch in the
history Of the organization and will
pave the way for the expansion of its
borders and the greatest advance
ment Of its educational and mission
airy work. In taking note Of the re-
markable progress Of the Negro in
the far South and considering the
various influences contributing there
to, one would not secure the advan-
tage of all the agencies participating
in this remarkable race growth who
did not know fully the work Of this
great organization.
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MARYLAND, MY MARYLAND.

Within a few days the voters OF
the state Of Maryland will be called
upon to decide whether that fair state
shall be linked with those of the
solid south--not only in blind and
unreasonable support of the DEM
ocratic party, but solid in an extern
sive program of curtailment of the
rights and privileges of the Negro,
often meaning the exhibition Of down
right inhuman practices toward the
life and person of black people.
To say the least of the situation in
Maryland, there is no excuse for the
program as mapped out by the Dem
ocratic machine in this effort to per-
petuate itself in power. Despite
the vehement statement made by the
State Democratic Committee that the
Amendment fss an effort to purify the
ballot Of ignorance, and that the
fight is aimed at illiteracy rather
than color, the glazing posters adver-
Using their meetings never fail to
contain prominently the statement:
No white man will be disfranchised.' .
1t is certainly not to the credit OF
the white man in Maryland that UNI
fair and dishonorable means must be
used to protect himself from the Ne
gro, whose ignorance and superstition
he processes to abhor. There was
never time when ignorance coulG
rule intelligence; nor superstition
overbalance scientific reason. If the
purpose of Democratic activity in
| Maryland is really to purify the cleo
| tons in the state, the casual observer
| can hardly refrain from the passing
comment that "Charity begins at
nome. Better to extend this bene-
fclent work along the line of ballot
box stufilng and ruled ballots.
Maryland, normally Democratic
state, has nothing to fear from the
Negro. Dispassionate reason might
lead one 10 think that in forever
Keeping the bugoboo of Negro domi-
naucn before the public, Maryland
Democrats are hard pressed for other
issues with which to confront the
people, or are afraid to trust their
records for the favorable considera
ton of the voters.
with the strong array of substan
tlal men in the state opposing the
dlS1ranchising amendment, let us
nope that Maryland will be spared
the disgrace Of being forever classe(
with the "cussed and doomed" solo
! south. and that the amendment vii
be the scvlla and charybdis upo1
which the democratic ship in tina
state Shall etcrnally sink.
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City Schools, Charleston.

WY OCItOOjS, NHdTISStUu.
Friday Afternoon. 900 O'Clock.
Music, prayer, music.
advantages Of Summer Schools
for Teachers" miss Amelia McDan-
lei, Nathaniel Wiley. \ :.
1.-THE West Virginia Normal, School
Diploma"-~Prin, r, P. Simms, Blue
field Institute; Prin. s.. Hamlin Guss
w. Va. Institute; President Henry. T,
Mcdonald, Storer Cillege.
Solo-Mtss Nellie May Lewis.
Address-Hon. NJ. P. Shawkey
State superintendent of Schools.
Friday Evening, 7:3O o'clock. .
"Duet'-MessrE. C. E. Jones and
Ed. M. Burgess, West Virginia Col
ored Institute.
Address-W. T: B. williams, Field
Agent and Trustee Of the Slator Fund
Hampton institute, Hampton, Va.
Report Of committee on resolu.
ton and Memorial commemorative
the deaths OF Prof. J. w, Whltticc
and President j. McHenry Jones.
Solo-~bIiss Mary e. J. Jones.
Teachers are urged to send exhib
it's Of work to Hon. H. H. Railey, al
Montgomery not later than New. 10
that he may have time to write II
up--Byrd Prillerman, President, In
stitute, W. Va; Miss Helen l.. John
son; Secy., Kimball, w. Va.
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w A GREAT ORGANIZATIONS.

The Colored Methodist Episcopal
Church in America, the youngest of
the distinctively Negro Methodist
church PLANTATIONS, has within the
last few years commanded the atten-
ton Of all peoole who make study
Of Negro progress. 1t has not been
SO very long ago that the adherents
Of the Colored Methodist Episcopal
Church were tainted by their fellow
Christians in other organizations
and derided as belonging to the Dem
ocratic Church, because for3ooth
they had been members of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church South, be-
fore freedom and a short time after
wards.
A distinctly Southern Negro
Church, with only Southern people
TO give friendly advice and counse
in Its early stages, it has done thai
thing insistently advised by race
leaders everywhere and made friend.
with the best Southern people. Prac
hcally sll the help that has beer
given the educational institution
under the management Of thit
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-10-28

Paul Prisoner-The Voyage.
Acts 27: 1-26.
Golden Text.-Commit thy way
unto the Lord; trust also In htms
and he shall bring 1T to pass. Ps.
37:5.
Verses 1-S-The writer OF this
narrative appears to be companion
of Paul on this journey-who was
he?
Who were the others that sailed
with Paul?
What results are likely to follow
when a man Of God Is compelled to
be In the company Of criminals?
Who was this man Julius, and
what probably induced him to treat
the prisoner Paul with such lenien-
Ecy?.
Is there any position in life, how
ever undesirable, in which, God does
not give his; children special CONF
fort, even when in prison, and can
You give some examples Of this?
Julius gave Paul his freedom to
visit his friends when the ship EoA On;
ed at Sddon; would 1t have been hon.
orable Of Paul to> have made his es-
cape and not to hape,returned to the
ship, seeing he was an innocent man
on parole?
Can you tell, or point out on the
map, where Sidon: Cyprus, Pam.
phylia, Myra and, 1.-The other places
here mentioned are situated?
When the winds are against US, or
we are becalmed on the voyage OF
life, and making but little Roadway
Is it a hindrance or a help to the
| soul poised on God?
Did Paul give the advice for them
not to proceed, but to winter at the
fair havens," from his human judg.
ment or from Gods direction?
Why may, or may not, true
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GIVE AL A CHANCE.

With no idea Of hindering but.
rather, Of aiding Or. Booker r.
Washington in carrying to q sue
ceSS1ul issue the Stupendous task he
paS undertaken in promoting an ex-
position to mark the Semi-centennia1
OF the PRONUNCIATION of the Enamel
patton, The Advocate would suggest
'hat, in manning his other aides, he
give more consideration than he did
IN his first appointments, to some OF
the other forces which will contrib.
Ut" TO the success Of the movement
There IS no question as to the
SPECIAL fitness Of the three gentle
men whose names head his list; none
better, perhaps, in their line Of work
could have been selected; but VIII,
confinc the three, or rather, fou,
top-l1ners to educators? If this on,
OF the three cxpositons now in tn,
course Of making is to be worthy th,
name, others than school men mus
lend a hand. The newspapers will
surely be called upon to contribute
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-10-28
BRONX zoo MANAGER
DBP0SESG ALL BDRES

New York, oct. 27.-In the course
Of his services as curator Of the
Bront menagerie, Raymond l.. Dit
mars has been bored so much by un-
desira6le visitors, who Just sit
ness to transact, that he resolved
upon extreme measures to remedy
the situation, and he has put them
into effect.
He IS aided in the scheme by a
stan of half q dozen more or less
vicious beasts, which he has install.
ed IN his office. 49,
Upon entering that sanCtum here,
after, recognized bore of the first
c1aes will be- greeted first by e MAZDA,
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-10-28
HE TALKS TOO MICH

There is one thing sure and GER
tain. Mr.. Taft will never offer the
Ministership to China to Commander
Peary.
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If WISHES WE'RE HORSES

IT President Taft were only look
-ng through some other PERSONS
eyes, he might see the wisdom of
transferring Furniss from Port Au
prince. The Advocate endorses the
movement provided he transfers
Chris Payne from barren St. Thomas
% Haiti.
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KENTUCKY pOIITaCS.

There are politics and then Ken
lucky politics. Just now the people
of the country who are interested in
the various state fights cease to pay
attention to their own troubles be-
cause of the hard fight being made in
our neighbor state for the county and
municipal tickets. The new legisla-
ture in Kentucky will doubtless pass
a new districting law, which will in
effect take the place of the nefarious
Democratic gerrymander. which be
cause of it's palpable unfairnesS was
even set aside by a Kentucky DEM
ocratic Court of Appeals. Counties OF
less than 10000 voters, solidly Dem
ocratic were made single Legislative
districts, while three counties that
sent up Republican majoritieS were
made into one solid district having
only one vote in the legislature.
BY thinking politicians Democratic
success is construed to mean Negro
Acknowledgement, for it is admittedly
due to the Negro vote coupled with
the dissatisfaction created by the
Democratic ring, that the Republic
cans were able 10 win out at all.
Thus the Negro voters are up and
doing" lest they find themselves
l.
lay their heads. The fight ccnters
around Louisville. where the cry of
the Times and the Courier Journal
is Negro Domination" To the per
tinent questions asked by the Louis
vile Post, which journal, by-the-way
supports the Fusion ticket. the only
answer given by the Democratic
candidates is Negro Domination"
1t is hardly to be expected that
in such a fight as this in kentucky,
the irrepressible W. d. Johnson
should not be on the firing line
Johnson is there Of yore. Fighting
for Tie race, be god;" and yet such
is W ID. Johnson, the Standard,
which he essays to edit. keeps pace
with it's editor, and on this occasion,
began to pour broadside after broad
side into the enemy. But Lo and
behold, Johnson reckoned without
the host
Urh n II
the turn Of things in the Lexington
campaign, as engineered by the
aforesaid irrepressible W. d. John
son. AS to whether Johnson left
a loop hole in the lease, by which
Wade II. Carter could close up the
plant Of The Lexington Standard,
We do not know, but We do know
that. in the absence Of the said w.
ID. Johnson from the city ON bust
ness' presumably, Wade II. Carter
an emDloye in one Of the depart
ments in Washington, from whom
Johnson had leased the Standard,
returned, and, taking charge Of the
plant in an inconceivable manner. is
sued the Lexington Standard, w. d.
Johnson, editor, as democratic
sheet. Shades Of Moses! Johnson
4 democrat?
How Wade II. Carter got out Of
Lexington is matter of mystery to
us. We would have expected to
have heard Of a species of gun play
for which Kentuckians are noted
but here these belliGerents are going
to court. Where is the honor of a
Kentucky Gentleman? How the men
Of today have degenerated? Just
how the Lexington Leader came tc
Johnson's relief is a matter Of cur
rent history, but the whole thin&
points to a moral not to be over
looked in Kentucky politics.
Never leave home for bushes:
while a campaign is on.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-10-28

Upon the advice OF friends, Mr.
.Peary has decided to do less talking
until he has something to say.
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PROGRAM,
OF THE WEST VIRGINIA STATE
TEACHERS ASSOCIATION.

Professor Du Bois. to. Address the
Fedagogues AT the Meeting to Be
Held At Montgomery November
18th and 18th.
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Stealing surreptitiously off after
the pole. a la Cook, is charge that
can never be laid at the door of Wal
ter Wellman.
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..Halley's comet, has hove in sight
113 days befor schedule time. Prob,
ably it feared that some rival comet
might show up and claim the hOnorg
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-10-28

The expectation of cottonse4d oil
to Italy showed an increase last year
OF $2.s4O,000. Another indication
of the growing demand for pure olive
OIL ~"
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effect. A man who motored$ up to q
bank in the surhurb of Chieaso, and
looted 1t committed = suicide p when
cRptureay >',=
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Electric Sparks


Electric Sparks
Stealing surreptitiously off after
the pole, la Cook, is a charge that
can never be laid at the door of Wal
ter Wellman.
Upon the advice OF friends, Mr..
.Peary has decided to do less talking
until he has something to say.
.Halley's comet. has hove in sight
113 days befor schedule time. Prob
ably it feared that some rival comet
might show up and claim the hOnors:
The names of some of England's
biggest battleships are Indomitable,
interchangeable and Infiexible. A
good many of the English people
think the next big one ought to be
named insupportable.
If w: j. Bryan would state his
preference in the New York mayoral-
ity contest there would be little
trouble in picking a loosen.
Let the poor mans breakfast table
cheer up even once more. The whole
sale price of whiskey has dropped
z cents a gallon.
When it comes I'd the case of the
ONCE seeking the - man-there's
Hearst.
Wilbur Wright broke the worlds
record just to christen the, College
Park field.
DR.. Cook continues TO tell them
about it at $500 per.
Uncle Joe Cannon has the idea
that the speakership is a lifetime Job.
We are inclined to the opinion
that the stingless bee must be molly
cOddle.
Now it is Lord Kitchener who has
private secretary upon whom to lay
the blame for his plagiaristic fare
well speech. Long live the private
secretary.
One of San Francfsco's convicted
grafters has sued the judge who pre-
sided at the trial. Probably if sue
cessful he will tackle the jury next.
Mr.. Peary's main contention is that
he was beaten on the gate receipts
Mr.. Hearst Is bound to be in more
or less demand as g. candidate with
a "barreP' and we'll organized and
reliable publicity department.
1t will be remembered that in his
earlier career Mr.. Roosevelt himself
occasionally grew more or less i'm
patient with his superiors In office.
Wilbur Wright has opened. a school
of aviation. The time .is probably
near when the people will be taught
to fly in the correspondence schools.
Having waxed fat on moth balls
these many temperate moons, the
moths will now retire to their lairs
and await another crop OF overcoats
and swallowtails.
AS result of the, recent New York
pie famine, scent slices will be much
smaller In the future. This will in
volve the savig Of considerable
wear on the long-su1ering New York
| stomach.
ut has just been discovered that
the new tariff law imposes a duty on
cats says the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Hope Mr.. Loeb will remember that
when the next outlay of suf1ragettes
tries to get by.
Mexico is next door neighbor to q
mighty big, fine country.
Looking at King A8fonso's picture
you exclaim Poor Spain"
EX- Minister to China Crane got the
open mouth mixed up with the opeu
door policy.
Charles w. Morse and the Pitts
burg bankers are doing much to make
our penitentiaries dnapcial centers.
Pittsburg Biographies teach that
the earth is shaped like an orange OF
baseball. +.
Already the conytctlon of bauke1
Morse in New Yorkis having q mora
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-10-28

One common kind of Democrat Is
the man who voted for Bryan hut
was afraid he would be elected.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-10-28

A man in st. Louis broke his col.
laroone while rising in strec* car to
give his seat to woman. This
shows that st. Louis men have had
little practice at this sort of thing:
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-10-28

Gratitude is rare virtue, hut it is
not entirely unknown. A Los An
geles man: hequeathed- $500, 600 to a
woman who refused early in life, to
marry him, 3.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-10-28

Pittsburg Biographies teach that
the earth is shaped. like, an orange on
baseball. ~ Il.
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Charles w. Morse and the Pitts
burg bankers are doing much to make
our penitentiaries financial centers.
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In the approaching New York cleo
Ion Tammsny; hopes to be a Gaynor.
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It's a cinch we'n have an arctic
winter with Peary and Cook both
blowing
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According to John D. RockfalRl
the Scriptures aren't IN it with JON
d. Rockefeller.
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Mr.. Hearst is bound to be in more
or less demand as candidate with
barrel" and we'll organized and
reliable publicity department.
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Already the conviction Of baukes
Morse in New York is having a moral
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-10-28

Ex-Minister to China Crane got tbs
open mouth mixed up with the ope1
door policy.
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1t is impossible to escape the con-
clusion that il Commander Peary was
not an explorer he would be a suffra-
gette.
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Peary is again trying to convince
the country that he can drive a nail
with a banana.
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Charles. W. Morse evidently put
too much, faith in the statement of
Bourk CockCan. that no millionaire
can be convicted of crime in New
York. y ..-