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The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-03-23

IN the city schools and will grad
ually lay the foundation ror cultiva-
ting the Savings Bank" habit
among school children. The Health
Of the school children has also its
share of attention in the form or
lectures by some of the ablest ply
sfcians of Nashville.
The Hubbard Hospital Club is an
organization, primarily in the inter
est Of the Geo w. Hubbard Hospl-
tai of Meharry Medical College. 1t
is composed of the wives Of physi-
clans and ministers. Prominent
among these are: Mrs. Preston r.
Durrus, Mrs. A. NJ. Townsend, Mrs.
j. A. Mcmillan Mrs. J. Ii. Hale and
Mrs. l. L. Scott The Hubbard Hos
pital Club was organized mainly to
furnish the new hospital built, by
Meharry Medical College DR.. j: E.
Wells. lazy physician Of the CITY,
has also been an active worker in
the Hospita! Club.
The people of the entire city have
responded very generously to the ap-
peals Of the Hubbard Hospital Club
and the result has been & reAt sue
cess. The Hospital has been com
pletely furnished and nor rae meln~
bers Of the club have turned their
attention to educating the mothers
of Nashville along health lines in
their homes. Much OF the success
Of the Hubbard Hospital Club has
been due to the untiring efforts Of
l! Mrs. A. NJ. Townsend, the able wife
of DR.. A. NJ Townsend She has
been ably seconded in her eHores BY
! DR.. J. E. Wells.
The Arts and Crafts Association
of Women is working in the inter
ests OF Nashville children. Miss
Emma J. Cockrill is president Of
| the organization 1t is the youngest
Of the organizations among women.
The Association has four neighbor-
hood circles under It's supervision
IN Nashville. There are nearly 200
children belonging to these circles
The work consist mainly Of story
telling, music and the teaching OF
lhandcrafts other than those learned
at school, -tfa he women of the organ
ization have in view the purchasing
and establishing Of a Settlement
Home for Nashville colored children.
These organizations are a unit in
The ultimate end they are seeking
the best welfare Of the future gener-
Iation Of Tennessee Negroes, The
leaders are ably supported by other
strong women. Among the number
are Mrs. II. r. Healing, Mrs. J. 2.
Singleton, Mrs A. B. Carter, Miss
Emma J. Terry, Mrs. J. P. Crawford
Mrs. Robert s. White, Mrs. w. S.
Ellington, Mrs. w. A. Lewis, Mrs.
r. Clay Moore" Miss Sara FIagg,
Mrs. Eugene Price, Mrs. James C.
Napier, Mrs. Lula S. Crosth waite
land Mrs. C.-N~ Roman.
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DR.. j. T.. Sheprd's sumner

DR.. j. +. Shep,rd's SUMNER School.
DR.. J. e. Shepard is about ready
to Issue the prospectus OF the COM
ing Summer School and Cbautau~
qua, to be held at the National Re-
lglous Training School at Durham,
n. c., from July 5 to August 10. A
group Of Washington teachers have
sigitied their intention Of attending
and there will be q large enr ollment
from every state east Of the Missis-
.sippi river. Prof. Kelly Miller, Of
Howard University, will be among
the long list of able educators who
Will offer instruction to the stu
dents. Dr.. Shepard expects a re-
cord-breaking season this year. He
mas just closed another successful
northern tour, and mingled with his
friends here for few hours last
"Wednesday. s.
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RIGHTLY NAMED.

~ rR - 49, a. - 'IS~N -A-E&GaW
Next to Washine ton there is - 10
city in these United States which
does more four flushing about
launching conventions, congresses
or expositions of national charac-
ter than Chicago. And sone of its
colored population seem bent upon
making Windy City appropriate
figuratively as we'll as literally.
A National Negro Business
League is proposed. Immediately
Chicago calls a similar organization
to meet within its confines.
Some one talks of a Semi-Cen-
tennial Exposition to celebrate Ne
gro freedom. Chicago xells, me
too 1t has-or "ather, some of
It's notwithstanding Negroes have
-gravely determined upon a Ma
-tional Medical Association, National
Bar Association. and now that
Washin gton-which excels Chicago
in convention calling only by prri-
ority-has an ational
congress been IN it's Bonnet. :'Cbi''
Tuesday of last week, so says the
Natfopal News Bureau Of thaa city,
has named Boston as the place and
July +, 1912, the date for a con-
sress to "include all, religious denom-
atlons among cOlornd people in he
united States and Canada for the
purpose of discussing various sub
Jects relative to the church and the
progress of the colored people"
Thus they 90 on calling CONVEX
lions which never meet, and passing
resolutions Of no effect. Chicago
did excelently well in raising funds
for its Y. NJ. c. \. Now let it
launch and carry to conclusion some
other movement for local bettterment
and stop so much tommyrot about
national and international con
NrCSSeS.
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TIuURSnAN, MARCH, .3. 1911.
GOT SOMETHING
s& THEY DIDN'T EXPECT.

sg@ During and for several months az
Nter the last Republican National
convention the rumor was curreri
that q coterie of Georgia Negro del
gsgates, led by Henry Lincoln john
son and b. J. Davis had deserted
sand fought National Committeeman
@Judson w. Lyons. a Negro, and es-
poused the cause of Blum, a Jew, for
&reasons which were not then APP
parent. In the course of time john
son was made Register of Deeds for
sthe District of Columbia, and Ruck
Fer, between whom and Davis there
existed a feud, was supplanted as
collector Of internal revenue by a
white man.
I'd Is Every thing was lovely and the
goose was hanging high.
But johnson and Davis are get
ting something now that they didn't
expect. The idol which they erect
Led on a pedestal and worshiped has
clay feet. Blum. whom they made
National Committeeman over the
protests Of the best brains of the
party in their State, has drawn the
color line and allied himself with
4 the Lily Whites" Johnson and
Davis, with whom he was on the
closest terms Of intimacy before he
got what he wanted, are now for
gotten. - -.
" And thus history repeats itself
and The Advocates prophecy is full
filled
6 At the time 1t happened. this pa
Sper predicted that those Negroes re-
Ssponsib1e for the overthrow of one
4of their kind and the elevation of
sMr. Blum, would some day regret
their part in the affair Then, as
nov, and more particularly then.
when the Lilly Whiae" idea was be-
ginning to assume large proper
tons, The Advocate warned the
race against allying itself with any
force hostile to its participation in
politics. We did not see the wisdom
OF removing the only Negro on the
National Commitaee. and we ex-
pressed in stroRg terms our disap-
prevail of the defeat of Lyons and
the, fight on Ruckner: for what does
1t profit us to help GUST Negroes
from places Of honor or profit. or
both? Surely We have not so many
that We can afford to sacrifice them
TO tue prejudice of others? And it
certainly can not be said that any
white man would guard more jeal-
ously the interests of the blacks
than Mr.. Lyons did.
There is but little comfort to be
derived from the fulfillment Of the
prediction in this instance. But Mr..
BUNS detection points moral and
teaches lesson-seH- aggrandize-
ment does not justify betrayal Of
line race or any Of its members.
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THE EXTRA SESSION.

CONGRESSES getting many tips
from business men of the country in
regard to their acts in the extra
session on April 4th. One thing is
certain, the country wants the Ca
madam reciprocity approved so We
will get more trade from Canada
and she from US, and after the re-
tiprocity act, the less Congress
does, and the quicker it adiourns
the better it will suit us all. Condi-
tions are ripe for an era of pros
perity, but it can be easily frighten-
ed away by bitter and demagogic
wrangling. The business world
wants peace and quiet and plenty of
it
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-03-23

i qomns a. aelstp ss ItaS,1tsQ. the resisl
Tof the constitution Tatined by The
votes. 49, =" go
Disfranchlsemept is Too dincul,
Of accomplishment under that docu-
ment.
Read article 7, section 3: The
right of any citizen. Of the State to
vote. hold office, or sit upon iuries
shall never be restricted. abridged.
Or impaired On account of religion,
Trace, language, or color. OF inability
to speak, read or write the English
Tor. Spanish languages except as may
fbe otherwise provided In this con
stitution; and the provisions of this
section and Of section one of this
article shall never be amended en-
ccpt upon vote Of the people Of
t'iiS state II All election at which
at least three-fourths of the electors
voting in the whole State, and at
least two-thirds Of those voting in
each county Of the State, shall vote
for such amendment"
Is there any wonder Bailey, of
Texas. and other Southern Senators
opposed admission?~ Think of one
county being able to reject a dis
reimbursement amendment! 1t was
not to be considered a minute. Then
again, New Mexico, unlike Arizona,
is Republican. True. it's Negro pop
ulation is so small as to be incon-
siderable, but one. can never tell
The margin might be so close at
some time that a little manipulation
would put the State in the Demo-
cratic column. Once there, it
might be made to remain Indefinite
~. if its constitution were as elias
tic as that Of Georgia, faf instance.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-03-23
RANSOAI'S DEFENSE.

III Letter, appearing in the last
issue Of the New York Age. the
length of which is the only bar to
It's publication in these columns,
rev. Rcvcrdy 6. Ransom explains
some Of his actions and defends
others so plausibly as to appear
more sinned against than SHINING.
His version Of the sleeping car
incident is that he was asked and
answered a question propounded by
a white lady, and was, two or three
hours later, set upon and badly
beaten by drunken white men who
resented his presence in tho ylpcn-
er' Iherc is strong denial Of
drunkenness at Normal, but be con-
fcsses to having INDUCED OCCASION
ally, many years ago. in a social
glass, openly and above board. with
other gentlemen Of the cloth. He
recalls his record for honesty, truth
tolhess, integrity, management, and
A2 bservancc o. the sanctity Of other
. NA"NNNNo 'h' OuStOuL MS lie,
and winds up by saying: 80.
without regard to the bishopric
or any other Office, without regard
20 censure or applause, | Shall con
tinue to preach the glorious gospe
OF Jesus Christ, to fight in com
mon sense way for tn rights G
the race, as understand them
strlve to promote peace on earth
~ cru work for the realization of thu
brotherhood Of man"
bully for you, old boy!
While The Advocate does not be
liave that you are abe paragon 70,
claim to be, and are no less guilt,
OF the sins Of the flesh than the or
binary man, it does not think 70,
are any worse than others who hav,
occupied the exalted position 70
winch The Age dominates you. s.
We md YOU not guilty. but with tn
5 aunonition, don't do it again"
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NEW MEXICO'S CONSTITUTION
uhe reasons for the objections
mainly from Southern Senators. t.
the admission 81 Nv Mexico ho
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business League Meet.-The at.

ipuSlNtSS LcNSuS .MncCs-lne at
tempt os~reviYet he Negro Business
League met &Ith little SUCCESS, Mon
day night. on account Of u misunder
standing. las TO the time and place OF
meetngtE President Brown has is
sued another call for a meeting to
be held in Room >, X. or p Build
ing, Monday night. He hopes to
have the attendance of all business
and professional men.
Three City C"nimittecmcn.-~-In
the primary election held Saturday
to select candidates for the Board Of
Affairs and council, and to elect city
committeeman from the several
wards of the city. three Negroes
We're elected - city. committeeman.
The successful contestants were: ].
NJ. Jones. fifth ward; Sam Mack, sew
eth ward: AID J. W. Whey, eighth
ward.
Pythians' Annual Scrmon.-The
annual thanksgiving services Of the
Knightsof Pythias and Order Of Ca
Ian the will be held at the First Bap-
fist church. !; Sunday afternoon at
$50. These services are public and
a cordial invitation is extended to
all to attend. Rev. B. r. Reed will
preach the annual sermon.
Locals and Personals.
The Loyal Union VIII meet. with
Mrs. II. B. Rice, Brooks ST., Monday
evening.
The Needle Work Arts club will
hold bazaar at the home of Mrs.
Lydia Hawkins, Sentz street, Tues
day evening.
Mrs. Ethel Burks attended the
funeral Of her cousin, last week. She
returned to her home at Marietta,
O., Saturday; accompanied as faf-a
PIT Pleasant by Miss Ohley Mitchell.
Mrs. Edward Tuck is i'll at her
home on Sept% St. -..
! Mrs. A. J. ,Pierson, Of Raymond
City, was the guest, Saturday, .:
| Mrs. G.. w. Muse.
John 4. Brown. who sustained
painful injuries in a falling elevator
is confined TO his home on Court
street. :
Stephen Eddcns Is recovering
| from severe illness
Julius Thomas entertained the
Jun1or -Nt|nettc c1uD at MS home on
! Donally street, Monday evening al
! which time officers were elected
The next meeting will be held with
Joseph Smith, 1929 Lewis street.
Mrs. NJ. j. rHazlcwood will enter
tain the Improvement League Fri
day.
J Little Rbeba Boyd is i'll at thu
home Of her parents on Morris
street
MISC Eskella James Will bn hostes;
/ to the Priscilla Art Club Friday eve
ming, :,
Mrs. Belle Thomas and daughter
Of Youngstown, o., were the guest:
OF Mrs. Chas. Neal. on - Youns
street, 81 few days Last week.
Misses NevA Parker and Ina RicI
we're visitors at institute Sunday.
Mrs. Floyd Morris viii entertain
the Married Ladies Whist CluI
Thursday afternoon.
=. Mrs. Matte Porter was hostess t.
The Loyal Union Monday evening a
her home on Elizabetb street.
t. Jno. Harmon andI Miss Sara Davi
| were quietly married at the BON
= Of the brides parents, Rev. and Mrs
| D. D. Davis, Marion street. Monda
noon, by her father. The coup1
LETT Monday evening for Majestic
Ky. where they wilI reside.
Miss Esther Fulks spent the week
end at Institute the guest Of til
Misses spffssy.
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Mrs. 0. II. P. Belmont is to open
a school for farming for young
women. That's the surest way to
get young men back to the farm.
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With the advent of women suf-
fragc, will the rooster, long the en-
blcm of political victory, give way
to the cackling hen?
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Ihere are some people who
would insist that if there is any
anneXing done it had better be done
by Canada, on the ground that Can
ada makes better whiskey
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-03-23

Action on the part fthe United
States military authorities indicate
thaa the Mexican revolution must
have gone beyond the patrol wagon
stage
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work of lifetime would be serious
~ threatened. His position is an
anamalous one, such IAN one as
could exist only in this land of the
free and home of the brave"
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Needn't buy a fashion journal
pattern to guide you in construct
ing a harem skirt if you have an
old-fashioned clothes pin lying
around loose.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-03-23

Another thing-is there any
place on abe harem skirt for strik-a
ing matches? SO there. :
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-03-23

Can man serve both Congress
and the Chatauqua? Ask Champ
Clark.
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NEW MExICO's CONSTITUTION.
Uhe reasons for the objections
mainly from Southern Senator'S, TO
the admission ct NV Mexico he-
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ceptance by him. does in itself constitute the marriage
Mocha Comes from Brazil

A IL the coffee that first came to Europe about 1867
from Arabia Felix; but not since the last
fury has the real bean been grown in the wades
the hills around Mocha Nevertheless, Dealers whether
their be cigarettes oysters, coffee, take adj
vantage of the magic in made famous in
mercial history What odds if little tobacco is
grown in Egypt oysters Saddle Rock? The tobacco
brought the Nile country and with gay advertise
ments all the world, Egyptian cigarettes such
deities might have smoked sold everywhere. Saddle
Rock oysters, at least, in evidence Man.
haitian. Importers know the Midas-ike quality of
label So every year, with much Solemnity of
monia Difference as the House of Commons pays to a
King who has hardly shadow of power it, coffee
fleets from Brazil sail the to the land of
Mocha, and at Aden where Mahometan priests first
served it to green turbaned Hadjis their way to
Mecca this South American coffee reshpped to other
parts of the world as MOCHA"
Coffee is a mans drink, as tea is woman's. This
say, not because it is commercially but unscienthcay
advertised Male Berry, but because the took to
it at and from the beginning there politics in
the coffeepot. Long before newspapers became COM
mon London coffee houses places of assembage for
politicians especially those not in Office. They, being
the "outs," had probably to say about the policy
of the Government than desirable to the Stuars.
The coffee houses in London about which Pope rmed,
dangerous Charles H. and he suppressed them.
Then coffee clubs sprang up. Macaulay and Lecky did
not find it beneath them to recognize the coffee house
force in Albions politics. 1t is certain that the
British friends of America, rule drank the nectar of
the bean while the enemies of the Continental Congress
in England fonder of the leaf. Thus teasm and
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Il the world today loves a
cup of coffee. 1t is now the
daily beverage of half of the
human race. Yet the as
cent of the plant from its
lowly station as a weed to a
place in the garden of the
gods was a long one.
In the botanical world,
out of thousands of species,
only a few attain distinction
in furnishing drink for man.
Emerson defines a weed as a
plant the virtues of which
have not vet been discovered.
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Nevertheless, the time may
come when the people of the
United States will drink their
coffee grown entirely on their
own possessions; for, apart
from Porto Rico, the Philip
pines hold in their future vast
possibilities in this direction.
Coffee has travelled all over the
world, and it is probable that
both Java and Brazil afford,
through this one plant, the
most splendid examples of the
successful farming of what were
once exotics.
What a dark world it must
have been when this liquid cheer
was unknown! The Greeks and
Romans knew nothing of it, nor
did Solomon or the Queen of
Sheba. The mention of coffee
in the Arabian Nights is an
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anachronism and sure proof of later inter-
polation. We hear of it first in Persia,
brought from Abyssinia, next at Alden, and
then at Mecca, where the pilgrims began to
drink it. Reaching Cairo in Egypt, the
Mutt, or official interpreter of Mahometan
law, unconsciously distinguished himself as
the first one of the long succession to de-
nounce the use of the beverage. No other
nerve stimulant, unless it be tobacco, has
had to fight so hard to make its way through
opposition, religious, medical, and, we may
add, against covetousness and envy, as
coffee.
The apostles of the root of all evil, DESTROYS
of turning the stream of wealth away from
the bean raisers into their own pockets, have
ever vilifed and opposed the nectar brewed
from coffee. At Cairo, in 1911, it was put in
the Index Expurgatorius of articles of drink
and diet forbidden in the Koran, because
supposed to be an intoxicant. Happily, how
ever, the disciples of Mahomet are some
times as delightfully."- inconsistent as are peo-
pie in Christendom. Happily also laymen
can curb the clericals. In the long run, the
Supreme Court of Commonsense overrules
the decisions of all lower tribunals. The
Sultan raised the interdict, and the joy
giving bean was carried to the Golden Horn
There, after meeting with ridicule and semi
religious opposition, its use, first banned,
was finally allowed. Now, who could con-
ceive of Turk without his coffee, or of
Constantinople without its cafes? The old
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Coffee at Betrotha1s

HOW fitting that in the lands where its virtues were
first recognized coffee still keeper
and for the betrothal In the marriage bargains
that made in the Holy Land, it is etiquette that
gobetween be employed usually the mother of the bride
seeking groom, though not always and necessarily in the
second stage woman. wife seeker or marriage
man. may become what John Alden was to the Samson
tells how @he went to WOO" Cher for friend) "and
married her himself
Usually the gobetween calls at the house where the
desired maiden lives but is out of sight. While the
prolonged handshake and thumb pressing going on
between the two mothers, servants bring in rugs and
coffee. Then the home mother sends word to her
daughter to dress At least two cups of coffee must al
ways be drunk at any visit, arrival greeting
and mutual covenant and when the business is
and to quaff is significant of peace.
The mother the first cup, and the daughter in
demand the second tray. The visitor takes
parting cup, however until she opens the veil and
looks the maiden face, from which she carries home
her report.
The discussion dowry, date, and other details
often occupies much time; but the prospective bride
not, in strict etiquette supposed to know anything
about what is going on When she is first called her
mother has previously explained that, out of sheer
modesty the damsel may faint die of fright. She
may require $50 fashion and custom dictate) three
or four summons from her mother (who has previ-
ously instructed herr to bring her into the visitors
presence Then follows the coffee drama. Later on
the male parents finish the marriage bargain in writ
ing, and cup of coffee makes and wife; just as
in China among lower classes, the mere handing of
cup of by bride to her future husband and its
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Sultan, his harem, and the street dogs have gone; but
coffee shops remain. Even in the Holy Land, though
wise Solomon knew it not, and possibly the Crusaders
might have held their if they had had coffee it is
used everywhere In Egypt it is the beverage of
the matrimonial sacrament.