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The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24
PHILIPPINES ISLANDS ARE DISCUSSED

washington, D. c., June 19.-The
status Of the Philippine islands was
discussed in the senate this week. or
course, there was a divergence OF
views. On this subject both Sena-
tors Elkins and Scott declared them
selves. The opportunity for this
declaration came on the Philipipne
tar1n schedule. Senator Elkins stat
ca that be believed that the Filipi
nos nave the same rights as the peo-
pie Of any other territory. And in
THIS declaration Senator Scott Join
ed The position of both senator's Is
mat the Philippines either are a
part Of the United States or they are
not part. II they are q part of the
united States, they should be so
treated. II they are not, they should
De treated from that basis.
1t has been a busy week with the
west Virginia senator's. A number
or paragraphs in which they we're
interested were up for discussion.
one or two were passed over for a
rev days, only postponing the fight.
Among other paragraphs coming up
was that OF barytes. Senator Scott
look this matter up with the finance
committee directly. A number OF
West Virginians are Interested in
Darytes mines In Kentucky. The
Thouse gave p duty of $50 and then
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24
WHEN LINCOLN FIRST
MET GRANT.

On the 10th Of February, 1864,
congress passed an act reyiyiDg the
grade Of acknowledgement in the
army, and within few days Grant
was appointed and confirmed to this
Office. On March 10 he was by ex-
ecutive order assigned to command
the armies OF the United States" It
is stated in Nicolay and Hay that
Lincoln neither advocated nor OPP
posed this legislation. The bill was
| introduced by T.. B. Washburne,
member Of congress from the Galena
| district In Illinois, an old political
: friend of Lincoln and great admir-
er of Grant, Just why Lincoln was
| neutral in the matter does not ap-
pear. An ungracious comment in
| Nicolay and Hay reads as follows:
Whether he was or was not the
ablest Of all our generals is ques-
ton which can never be decided. y /"
Grant was, beyond all comparison,
the most fortunate Of American sol
diers."
There are no facts whatever to
|
owed his success solely to his clear.
sighted appreciation of facts and to
the tremendous energy and re.
sourcefulness with which he carried
: his plans into effect--as Sheridan
expresses 1t, to "the manifold re-
sources Of his well-balanced railitary
mind"
Grant was ordered to Washington
to rcc1ivc~ his commission, and met
Lincoln for the first time on March
8, 1854. Grant says in his "Mem.
oirs'' that both Stanton and HallecR
cautioned him against giving, the
President his plans of campaign, be.
cause Lincoln was 80 kind-f1sarted
Is that some friend would be !sssFst. 10
! get from him ali he .knew'"'~--a piece
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24

The Negro hospital ranks with the
Negro church and Negro school in ev-
cry community where we have a con-
siderable Negro population.
The Young Allenite' is the name
OF neat and sparkling publication
the auspices of the A. NJ E. Sunday
school union. 1t Is edited in a happy
vein, especially adapted to the infor-
nation Of children, by Ira T. Bryant,
who is more, than living up to expec-
tations as business manager of the
cburch's great printing plant In Nash
vile.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24

the senate 'finance cpmmittee cut it
down to rs cents Senator Scott was
able to have 1t - restored to $3.50.
During this debate he announced
that so far as he was concerned he
was not much in love with the free
list OF the bill anyhow and that he
believed that the people of his State
felt as he did. g. : i:
The junior senaapE5::{ was able to,
good naturedly caff down Senator
Nelson In first class shape during tho
debate on sage flour. Mr.. Nelson is
one Of the ultrafree-traders OF the
Republican party. He voted for the
Mills bill number OF years ago
when a member OF the house, and Is
also in favor Of cutting down duties,
except when such a cut hurts Min
ilesota. He has Opposed almost ev-
cry duty that has been laid by the
finance committee. When that COM
nitcc reported placing sago -four on
the free list, Mr.. Nelson was on his
feet, at the first opportunity, and
was loudly insistent for a duty be-
cause the farmers OF Minnesota raise
| potatoes out Of which starch is
| made. He claimed sage -four was
used in the making Of starch, ETC.,
/ by cotton manufacturers and others
and therefore entered into competi-
! ton with potato starch. Senator
Scott called attention to this posi-
ton Of the senator from Minnesota
In most emphatic way, and the sen.
ate saw the point"
|. Mr.. Neil Robinson, of the Yves
Virginia Coal Operators AssOcia
| ton, has been in the city for severa
days. He dropped In to see hov
matters wer going, and said:
Il have called on both senators t.
tell them that the coal men Of GU
. State appreciate their work on tn
. local schedule. We know that the
have been insistent in season an
out Of season in our interests. N
. men could have done better"
g 1T is now reported that coal wi
: be on the dutiable list at SO cents
= ton, with culm and slack at eithe
= Is or 20 cents; in addition to thi
n definition of slack will be inser
i ed, which is to be made satisfaction
s to the West Virginia men. It be
a been a hard fight, In this bill,
g even hold what West Virginia q
e ready has, especially on coal.
o - While the house of represent
d tives is in session only every thir
day, yet all the congressman are no
g present in the city, except Mr.. Stu
r. giss. Mr.. woodward, Of the Fourt
O district, Is seen In the senate chan
/. Der most every day doing what
a can to help along. in looking aft
/. the West Virginia interests.
U Hon. Charles WySwisher spent
t day in the city, on @hie, ,way to Ne
Q York. He was going there on. bus
4 ness, and had his children with hin
n Hon. Elliott Northcott left the eli
g on Sunday for New York, where /
n had to spend number OF days, r.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24

President w. s. Scarborough has
amply vindicated the wisdom of those
who placed him at the head Of historic
WHEREFORE university. Methodisms
great seat Of learning has just pull
ed off under his direction tn most bril-
liant commencement the institution
has ever known. Old Wilberforce has
taken on new life and q more vigor-
Gus purpose since Prof Scarborough
assumed the reins
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24
STUB ENDS OF FACT AND FANCY
(By r. w. Thompson.)

Leave base minds to harbor suspicion,
Small ones to trace their defects;
Let ours be a noble ambition
i For base Is the mind that suspects !;
We know not one of another,
We all into error may fall
SO, let us speak we'll OF our brother,
Or speak not of him at all
~, Anon.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24

In the passing of Edward Everett
Hale, preacher, poet, scholar, benefac-
tor and statesman, the Negro race
loses another sturdy friend. He. was
a fearless champion of the right. OF
his kind but few are left-more's the
pity.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24

ton for the betterment OF both races.
Bishop Lampton's postoffice address
will continue to be "Greenville, Miss"
If the decent people of that thriving
burg are not willing to give over the
control of their homes and fortunes
to the thug element whereabouts.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24

Tariff revision downward was pledg-
ed by the republican party in the Chi
cago platform.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24

: The Negro Is the ultimate consum-
err who feels the burdens of exorbi-
tant tariff first and shares in it's bene-
fits last.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24

The brutal murder OF poor Elsie ST.
gel in New York by mission China
man" is apt to dampen the ardor of
those philanthropic folks who follow
after the strange god Of attempting to
proselyte the fixed disciples of Con-
fucius, when there are enough ignor-
ant, pagan and vicious American citi-
Zerls really open to conviction to keep
them busy for a century.
The infusion of the Chlnaman, the
Jap and the Filipino into the Anglo
Saxon civilization ls making a new
race problem, compared with which
the sO-called Negro problem" pales in
to insigniflcance. The yellow per-
ADVOCATE Sixteen
IL contains far more dynamite than
the putative BLACK Peril
=. The south will rue the day she gives
encouragement to the introduction OF
the labor union, with train Of petty
tyrannies and spirit OF bossism, fos-
tered by the walking delegate, the pro-
fessional agitator and industrial graft
or. The backbone or southern pros
perity rests upon the tractablc, faith
full and homogeneous Negro laborer.
,& II
Mississippi's best citizens" place too
high value upon Negro leaders of the
type Of Bishop Hampton to allow a
few Crackers TO drive him out of a
community to which he has contrib
uted SO much, and to which his up
lifting example has been an inspir
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24

Good health is, a business asset. The
Negro should lose no opportunity to
cooperate with his white fellow-citi-
Zens in the movement to stamp out
tuberculosis and to clean up the
plague-spots Of the cities in which too
many Negroes are forced to abide and
meet untimely deaths. Health is
wealth.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24
THE V|RG|N!AN. RAIL Way
TO BULL BRANCH
! TO. POCAHONIAS !.

Roanoke, Va, June 23.--It Is an
nounced that the Virginian Railway
is clearing the right of way for
branch line from Rock, w. Va, to
Pocahontas, Va, distance of TWEEN
ty miles. Contract. for the grading
has been let, and 900 men will, it is
said be set to work, within tho next
few days. !
This will bring the Virglnian into
direct competition with one OF the
Norfolk and Western's best feeders.
1t appears to have been tie policy of
the late Henry H. Rogers to build
his road tor the ssabQard. by tne
shortest possible route regardleasi of
mountains, valleys, coalhelds, IeAd-
ing cities. or anything else, and then
to construct side lines to the coal
fields or to any other locality that
promised business. ',,.-.,... -
This. 1t Is estimated, will entail
an expense equal to- more than, half
the first cost of the main line. How
ever, 1t lis admitted by those = who
claim to be conversant with the sit
uatiOn that 1t will place 1the road IN
direct touch with ono Of the great
est coal areas in this world. When
the branches under construction
and those contemplated are compile
ted, the Virginian will reach both the
New River and iKahawha> fields the
Raleigh field in the Winding Gulf,
the Boone and Logan fields; and the
great POCAhOntaR f1hfda q. &c.,. 4
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24

The colored laborer spends every
cent he earns among the merchants of
this country. There are other better
acknowledgements who live on next
to nothing. boarding their earnings.
and skurrying back to their mother
land as soon AS they have Accumulate
cd fortune Let us stand by the
Work'ngmen who build up American
institutions.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24

There is general feeling that those
who accepted Secretary Taft's nomi-
nation with a whole handful of salt
nave no right to complain If President
Tart associates their claims to official
recognition with few grains of the
same substance.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24

The evangeliZers Of New York's Chi
nese might find productive field for
their jabors among the heather 30
whites" of Georgia and Mississippi
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24

do you believe tn: miracles?'' ask
ed the telegraph operator.
well, not exactly" replied the
passenger conductor, yet some queer
things come to pass on railroads. &
Chicago News. I 80. -" X
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24

1t looks AS II the present national
administration is superseding the
Rooseveltian "Ananias Club" with the
Taft Don't Worry Association"
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24

Durham, N. c., is fortunate in hav-
ing within it's borders such a con-
structive force for good as Dr.. J. E.
Shepard. Within a short time this
growing center of thought and indus
try will have $4,000 school for the
religious training Of the Negro race
DR.. Shepard is being encouraged be-
cause he is doing work that appeals
to the judgment Of all considerable
mankind, and they wish to help a peo-
pie who exhibit such willingness to
help themselves.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24

mississippi Day" will be big fea-
t''re OF the Louisville meetings of the
National Negro Business League.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24

The Negro is not without his mega
tive virtues. No colored woman has
yet appeared In the new-fangled
'trouserette skirt" and no man of the
race Is identified with the BLACK
Hand" outrages.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24

No success is possible among races,
corporations or families without team
work"
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24

Notwithstanding the vicious left
jabs Of Correspondent F. H. M. Muir
ray IN the Boston Guardian, the pub
Tic schools of Washington continue to
do business at the old stand.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24

1t doesn't pay to fall out with q man
who has done nothing to you, merely
because some one Of yoru friends does
not like him.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24

1T may not be fashionable to say>so
put the hard fact remains that the
most comfortable summer resort" is
home.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24

President Taft's critics would be left
without leg to stand upon IL they
would read his speech fully and in a
spirit OF fairness. 1t is easy to find
naWs In any utterance IL sentences are
Isolated from their context and essen
tlal modMytng clauses are omitted;
thus changing the entire meaning Of
the speaker.
Dr. Booker T. WASHINGTON ia "can,
turing Underwater Virginia this week.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24

Plums. fall more rapidly from the
federal tree when there is change of
parties. Since McKinley's first cleo
ton, each succeeding administration
has simply inherited the policies and
hold-over officers Of their predecessors.
For this reason, President Taft has
been freer from a siege of place-hunt-
ers than any other chief executive in
many years. and the changes SO far
have been comparatively few.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24

Up to this writing. no member of
the BLACK Cabinet" has hung out a
C. d. signal-that Is, not so as you
could notice 1t.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24

The Negro chauffeur Is gratifyingly
In evidence, We shall next hear Of;
the Negro aviator" We are always
If there Is one chance
In hundred to get into the game.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24

help his race win consider the iniiu-s|
ence4 OF his basiness upon the people.
as well as the pecuniary benefits.
which will come to himself" This Ia !,
a nugget Of wisdom
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24

Puerile complaint, without seeking a
practical remedy, avaIIeth nothing.
Hope, but hustle was the keynote
OF Charles w. Andersons admirable
address to the Washington high schoo
graduates last week.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1909-06-24

Brother J. e. Wood, editor OF the
DanVille (Ky) Torchlight, evidently
prefers to see our people striving for
the commerce that brings tangible
good, rather than That which caters
to the momentary appetite. He says:
Our people should learn in business
as we'll as other things, that the need
tnl should go before the ornamental
and pleasuremaking. One shoe store
or grocery Is worth more to our PEG
pie than hundred theaters or merry
Eo-rounds. The man who wants t,
Evening star., 1909-04-19
BOSTON ATHLETIC MARATHON.
Nearly 200 Entrants for Thirteenth
Revival OF Events.

ASHLAND. Mass. April 19.-Nearly 200
entrants for the thirteenth revival OF
the Boston Athletic Associations Mara
thon run today eagerly awaited the word
and gun which would send them off on
the undulating road between this little
hamlet and Boston, slightly less than
twenty-five miles away. The weather
and road promised we'll when dawn broke
today. A wind. which during the early
morning hours shifted several times. was
expected to steady from the west.
Seldom has such a representative ag-
gregation of runners competed In a Mara
thon race as that which was sheltered
at Ashland House today. Greece, Ire
land, Canada, were represented. and the
pick of the amateur runners in this
country were in the ranks. The race
will start at noon, a mile west Of town,
where a bridge crosses the railroad
tracks From here the runners had been
instructed to follow the course over
which. for thirteen years. athletes have
competed.
Among those entered were A. Roy
Whelton Of Lawrence. Robert Fowler OF
Cambridge. Thomas P. Morrisey Of New
York. winner of last years Boston A. A.
Marathon: Samuel A. Mellor Of New
York. Frederick Lorz OF New York. the
Lewis Tewanina. an Indian. Carlisle, Pa.
Percy Fernald Of Chicago. Peter Pulos
of Athens. Greece: B. J. Nelson of Lon
don. England: j. w. O'Mara Of ireland,
Anthony Higgins of Montreal. George F.
McInenney, Joseph j. Gallagher and VIII
liam T. Shannon Of Philadelphia, and Ed
ward L. McTiernan Of Worcester
Evening star., 1909-04-19
CHAPTER Kill
Instructive Planning

Mans unconscious action is a strange
thing. Athlyne had just heard words
which took from him a strain under
which he had suffered for a whole week
of waiting and watching: words which
promised him the opportunity for which
he had longed for many weeks His
nerves had been strung to tension so high
that now II would seem only natural II
the relief sent him into a sort Of delirum
But he quietly lit cigar. taking care that
it was properly cut and properly lit. and
smoked luxuriously as he moved across
the garden and into the street. Joy from
her window saw him go. and her admira.
tion of his ease and self possession and
magnificent self-reliance sent fresh thrills
through her flesh.
When Athlyne went out of the garden
he had evidently made up his mind. con.
sciously or unconsciously. to some other
point In connection with the motor, fol
he visited such shops as were open and
made some purchases-caps, wells, cloaks
and such like gear suitable for the use OF
tall young lady. These he took with
him In q hired carriage to the hotel al
Bowness, where he auded them to Ger.
tain others already sent from London
Then he told the chauffeur to give the cal
careful overhauiing SO that 1t be In per
feet order, and went for a stroll up the
lake.
Shortly he was in mental and physical
tumult the period which had elapsed
since he heard the news of Col Ogilvie' q
coming departure had been but the pre-
lude to the storm. At first he could not
think: he had no words. no sequence Of
Ideas, not even vague intentions. He had
only sensations: and these. though they
moved and concentrated every nerve In
his body. were without even physical pur-
pose. He went like one in a dream. But
in the background of his mind was a fact
| which stood out firm and solid like the
profile OF a mountain seen against the
glow of western sunset. Joy would be
alone tomorrow: the opportunity he wait
ed for was at last at hand! The recog-
milton of this seemed to pull him to-
gether, to set all his faculties WORKING
ent method the tumult was in reducing
them In unison-in achieving one resultant
from all the varying forces. Gradually
out Of the chaos came the first clear in
tent: he must SO master the whole SUBJ
ject that when the opportunity had come
he should be able to avail himself of 1t
to the full. From this he proceeded to
weigh the various possibilities, till grad
ually he began to realize whet vague pur-
pose had been behind his wish to have his
automobile in perfect working order. 1t
did not even occur to him that with such
machinery at his command he might try
to carry her off. either without her con-
sent or with II. All that he wanted in
the first instance was to have a fitting
opportunity of discovering how Joy re-
garded him. The last twenty-four hours
sibilities that every word she had said.
every look on her eloquent face though
such looks had manifestly not been i'm
tended for him) had place in a chain
Evening star., 1909-04-19

itures will not end with the adoption OF
the pending bill. The pending BILL Il
enacted into law, will provide all the nee.
essary revenues required for public ex.
penses upon a liberal scale. No further
additional taxes are needed. The impo-
sition OF other taxes under these condi-
tions would not only be unwise. but un.
just and prejudicial to every interest
of the great people We represent.
I'm the face of the record have dis
closed no political party can afford to
place new and unnecessary burdens upon
the industries and people OF the United
States. and I should regret extremely II
the party Of which I am q member shoul1
assume any such responsibility"
Evening star., 1909-04-19
By BRAN STOKER.


was content to remain silent when she
ceased to speak.
When they got back to the hotel she
spoke to the driver:
You will be here at o'clock please,
as you will have to drive Col Ogilvie to
the station at Windermere in good time
to catch the o'clock train. / shall not
want you in the morning. as 1 intend to
take walk; but you must be at Winder-
mere to meet my father 4t o'clock. II
tomorrow afternoon there is any change
in his plans he will wire the hotel people
and they will let you know. Perhaps you
had better call here on your way to Win
dermere, as ! may go over in the car
riage. But IL l am not here do not wait
for me: l may possibly walk over. When
you have left Col. OgiIvie at Windermere
tonight you will have to leave me back
here l am going to the depot with him."
Then she went into the doorway and
hurried to the sitting room, where she
looked out into the garden-where the
lilacs grew.
Evening star., 1909-04-19

have been reduced at least nifty million
dollars without impairing the public serv-
ice. There are peripds in the life of a
nation when the spirit of extravaganza
pervades the atmosphere and public
money 10 scattered right and left. often
without reference to the results secured
We have in the past few years created
many unnecessary bureaus and multiplied
employees beyond the possibility Of ef-
ficient work.
In this work of necessary reduction in
expenditure and In reform in methods Of
appropriation to which the Senate is
pledged" said Mr.. Aldrich. II am au-
thorized to say that we will have the
earnest support and active cooperation
Evening star., 1909-04-19
PRICE CASE ADVANCED.
Cotton Leak Hearing Docketed 70,
October Supreme Court.

The case of Theodore Price. the New
York broker. who Is seeking to avoid ex-
traditionsfrom New York to Washington
on account of an indictment charging him
with completely in procuring the prema-
ture publication Of the secret information
Of the Department Of Agriculture re-
garding the cotton crop. was today ad-
vanced on the docket Of the Supreme
Court OF the United States
1t was set for hearing just after the
cases against Peckham and Haas. who
are under indictment for the same oflense.
and whose cases will be heard immediate
ly after the court convenes next October.