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The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-02-23

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tlme and newspaper space in trying
to prejudice the ignorant against a
man they did not know nor care to
know about. He could not influence
people who know, against Dubois.
intelligence can never be ensnared
and deceived. Dubois rendered At
lanta University and the race a con-
sp1cuous service during his time
there. He attracted the attention of
the world Of scholars to the institu-
ton. He planted there a spirit for
high learning that will outlive the
rantings of Davis.
Professor George A. Towns who
has the chair Of Pedagogy at Atlanta
University and whom Davis struck
at IN his valedictory editorial, THE
Passing Of Dubois" is doing his
work at Atlanta University of which
he is an honored and loyal graduate.
tie went just a little further than
Davis in the pursuit of education
and ideals. He is just little more
cultured and refined in his conduct
and conversation. He thinks a lit
tie better and lives in a little higher
atmosphere than Fighting Ben"
There was the trouble. The story of
| The BuZzard and Bee" goes pretty
we'll in this instance Towns is
kind OF bee. He has been always on
the hunt for the sweet things in
| lie and has so much self-respect
that he prefers a circle of friends
with whom Ben Davis never mixes.
Towns seems satisfied. Davis SEEM
| ed to be "the worrying one. It
may be proper to add that the in
tluence Of Professor Towns at Allan
ia University is altogether whole
some and highly moral.
Drs. j. w. E. Bowen, William r
Crogman, Bishops Holsey and WEES
ley Gaines, President John Hope of
Atlanta Baptist College, DR.. Richard
K. Wright of the Georgia State COL
leSe, DIR. T. James Bryant Of the
Wheat Street Baptist Church and
DR.. ii. H. Proctor of the First Con-
gregational Church are all men
whom Davis has attempted to rid
de in his Independent paper He
has never touched them,' although
he tried hard to do so. They are all
men of regulations so.well grounded
in honor and strengthened by long
service for the good of the race that
1T would take a different type Of edi-
tor and man than Ben Davis to con-
vince thoughtful people that these
men do not merit public confidence
and esteem. None of these men had
ever had enough regard for Eight
ing Ben" and his mud singing to
give them a serious thought and
their friends and admirers through
Georgia and the country would have
thought less Of them had they done
so.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-02-23
ROAD MUST PAY HER $4,000.
woman Forced to Ride in Pullman
"!Eh CHlo:";! Bishop, Gets Dam

Vicksburg, Miss, Feb. 12-Miss
Pearl Morris was awarded $4,000
damages by jury yesterday against
the Alabama and Vicksburg Rail-
road, because she was compelled to
ride from this city to New York last
November in the same Pullman car
with three colored bishops.
This is the first case involving an
plcatlon of Mississippi's Jim Grow
law to -interstate-passe traffic.
The defense pleaded that the Negro
bishops had come here from Wash
lngton in Pullmans, and were emit
tied to the same sleeping car privi-
leges on their return. Appeal was
made to the State Supreme Court.
and If the. railroad loses the United
States, Supreme Court will be asked
to establish a president.
Miss Morris alleges she was pub
llcly Inundated and suffered from
an attack Of Mysteries that left her
a nervous wreck. The plaintiff, who
is prominent socially, was SO miles
on her way before she discovered
that the cOlored ministers were in
adjoining berths. She wired this
fact to male relatives here, and an
EFFORT was made TO get a special
train aid organize a lynching party.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-02-23
OKLAHOMA TEACHERS MEt,T

: Muskogee, Okla, Feb. 22.-Okla-
homa school teachers took Muskogee
by storm today and practically eve
:ry accommodation in the city is tax
ed to provide places for them. 1t
is quite certain that a record break
ing attendance will be on hand when
the annual convention of the State
preachers Association begins it's real
work tomorrow. The program is the
best ever prepared for a meeting Of
the association. Heading the list of
speakers from outside the State are
DR.. A. e. Winship Of Boston and
president p. P. ClaXton Of the Uni
"versity of Tennessee.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-02-23
Life Saved Mt Deaths Door.

Il never felt 50 near my grave"
writes w. r. Patterson, Of Yelling
ton, Tex, as when a frightful cough
and lung trouble pulled me down to
100 pounds, in spite Of doctors
treatment for two years. My ia
Their, mother and two sisters died Of
consumption, and that ! am alive
today is due solely to Dr.. Kings
New Discovery, which completely
cured me. Now weigh 1877
pounds and have been we'll and
strong for years" Quick, safe, sure,
it's the best remedy on earth for
coughs, colds, la grippe, asthma,
Group, and all throat and lung trou-
bles. SOC and 800. Trial bottle
free. Guaranteed by all druggists.
2-2-4t
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-02-23
COLORED MAN FOR MAYOR.
rs Candidate for Head Offfcfaf- OF
Chicago.

Chicago, Feb. 17.-~Charles Cas-
ton, Negro, is a legally authorized
candidate for the Republican nomi-
nation as mayor of Chicago, and I'M
less he succeeds in getting his name
off the official ballot, will occupy the
much coveted last place on the bal
lot. CASTOR doesn't want to be a
candidate.
1t is declared that Caston's candi-
dacy Is the result of joke Of mem
bers of the Newspaper Club to keep
John f. Smulski from securing the
last place on the ballot. CASTOR is
steward Of the club.
Smulski refrained from fling his
petition until six minutes to mid
night, believing no one else would
follow. Then the jokers filed the
CASTOR petition.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-02-23
BILL NYE MEMORIAL DAY

:. Raleigh, N. c., Feb. 22.--Today
was set aside in the public achoc!s
and colleges Of North Carolina for
the holding Of exercises in memory
OF the late Edgar William Nye, the
famous morist, who was a native
of this State. The object of the OBJ
serVance was to arouse public in
terest in the movement for the erec-
ton of a Bill Nye" memorial build
Ing at the Stonewall Jackson Manual
Training School.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-02-23
Falls Victim to Thieves

S. w. Bends, of Coal City, Ala,
has a justifiable grievance. Two
thieves stole his health for twelve
years. The were liver alnd kidney
trouble. Then DR.. Kings New Life
Pills throttled them. He's we'll now.
Headache, Dyspepsia. Csc. All Drug
dlSts. 2-2-4t
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-02-23

The Wherefore Musical Associa-
ton has been organized and are in
constant demand for concerts, dan
ces, ETC., as all Of the members are
well-known and popular in social cir
cles. Officially and artistically they
are placed as follows J. Sherman
Hunnicutt, director and violin; x.
F. Phillips, manager, violin and pi-
|ano; E. l.. Burns, treasurer and
drums; w. P. Bayless, secretary and
second violin; J-,W. Anderson, eel
10; w. G. Hunnicutt, flute; F.. G..
Haley, trombone; N. Nathan Nesbitt,
clarinet; w. Calvin Chase, Jr., cor
net. The Wilberforceians stand to-
gether in all things and give a fine
example of the united college spir-
it, that must warm the cookies Of
the heart Of that amiab1e "prexy,"
President w. S. Scarborough, affec-
tionately and facetiously known as
"Scab."
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-02-23


The rush Of business at the end of
the Congressional session is again
jeopardizing the passage Of the bill
to reimburse the depositors Of the
Freedmen's Bank. Col. J. w. Lyons,
without money and without hope of
personal reward, is laboring night
and day in behalf Of the measure,
and hope is still expressed that it's
champions may find chance to slip
tt through at psychological mo-
lnent.
At the Interstate convention Of the
Salvation Army, held in the First
congregational church last week, a
decision was practically reached that
the welfare Of the organization, par
ucularly in the South. demanded a
policy Of segregation along the race
line. After heated debate, in which
"cuss words" were avoided by the
narrOwest margin, it was decided to
adopt separation plan for the
Southern states, and to organize for
That section Negro Salvation Army,
with Negro officers at the head Of
the departments. Major e. White,
Of Atlanta, and Capt. Mark Wallace,
Of Jacksonville, Fla, urged the ne
cessity for segregation, and Col. r.
f. Holz, and Capt. Joseph Atkinson
both Of Philadelphia, vigorously op-
posed the color line in this work Of
uplifting the masses, styling such q
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-02-23

special celebrations on Lincoln,
Douglass and George Washington's
birthdays. Finlay and Beckett have
a good black-face act this week.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-02-23

course as ."un-Christian,. unjust and
unnecessary" A committee made up
or northerners and southerners are
at work on plan looking to the or
ganization of a Negro branch of the
Boothites. .Lx...
The first issue of the Odd Fellows
Journal has appeared. 1t has been
reduced to four pages, but the man
ager. H. P. Slaughter, says the read
ing matter is not lessened-that a
lot Of dead ads" have been cut out
The new head-an old English text
is an Improvement. Joseph Ma
gowan, Of Mt. Sterling, KY, said to
be an excellent printer, is foreman Of
the composing room From Phila-
delphia come W."P. Young, linotype
operator, Leslie Redding. pressman,
Miss Evelyn Henderson, bookkeeper,
and Miss Europe, stenographer. ..-
An Associated Press dispatch of
interest to the thousands of Zionites
was that carried in the Mobile Reg
lister and the Montgomery Advertiser
Of the 10th, concerning the work of
DR.. j. S. Jackson, financial secretary
OF the A. NJ. E. Zion church, as
shown at the Bishops Council in Mo-
bile. The dispatch says: g
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-02-23

Miss Mamie ii. Burroughs, presi-
dent Of the National Training School
for Girls at Lincoln Heights, an
nounces that'' the institution owes
only $500 on it's six acres of land,
and is gratitied at the steady encour-
agement that an classes have given
her work. The two frame buildings,
however,. are quite Inadequate for
the service she wishes to render, and
efforts are being made to provide an
industrial hall, which will cost $50
600; a model house, to cost $4,000;
a laundry which villa nro.Xe an earn
ing enterprise, to cost $4,000 a
Windmill, to cost $3.50. In three
years Miss Burroughs has paid out
81 900 for buildings and grounds
and furnishings, and kept up the sal
aries of five teachers and all Of the
running expenses, without calling
upon white friends to help. Isn't
that going senle?i,
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-02-23

The BLACK Patti Troubadours
will be at the New Howard week of
March 6. They are now working
|northward from North Carolina and
Virginia cities. "The Smart Set
headed by S. H. Dudley and Aida
Overton Walker, is scheduled for the
Howard week Of April 8. J. Lou
brie Hills my Friend From Dixie
scoring big on the Atlantic seaboard,
returns in April and will put on a
new production, modelled along the
lines Of "The Red Moon" The
Three Browns Indian cartoonists
and singers, are at the Casinos this
week, and are receiving excellent
|press notices for their artistic per-
formanec. "The Five Licorice
Sticks are with "The Ducklings"
at Kernan's Lyceum, and their act
IS. the best on the bill. It is a cold
week when a white show comes to
the burlesque houses without a first
class colored act, and 1t invariably
proves to be the best drawing card
Of the aggregation. The Georgia
Campers and Coates and Grundy's
watermelon Trust" are among the
most recent visitors and they mede
pronounced hits. The Licorice Sticks
are likewise going big
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-02-23

The situation looks brighter for
than it did a fortnight ago when the
House cut down the amounts recon-
mended by the District committee
for our educational needs: The Sem
ate has restored the following items
to the District Appropriation Bill,
which had been rejected by the
House: Normal School site, SIS, 900;
addition to Deanwood School, $16,-
600; site for Manual Training
school, 18th Division, $4,000; site
for new M Street high school, $780,
600. The bill is now in conference
and 1t is hoped that there will be
little If any change in the foregoing
amounts when the measure is finally
agreed upon. The appropriation of
$125,000 to convert Willow Tree
Alley into a playground has an ex-
cellent chance Of getting through.
This will relieve South Washington
Of one Of its most notorious plague
spots.
DR.. e. D. Williston, one Of Wash
ington's best-informed- and most OBJ
servant physicians, is preparing to
deliver a lecture on "Hygiene and
Sanitation" at an early date.
Two pamphlets bearing upon the
development Of the Negro people are
being read with much interest by the
citizens hereabouts. They are "The
Negro in the New World" by DR..
Booker T. Washington reprinted
from The Journal Of the African So
ciety), and "Is Liberia Worth Say
ing?' by Emmett J. Scott, late Com
missioner Of the United States to the
Liberian Republic reprinted from
the Journal of Race Development.
Both are worthy of careful perusal,
and the salient features should be
discussed by the many literary So
cieties which abound at the capital
and elsewhere.
Arrangements are being made for
a mammoth Race Conference, to be
held in this city next December. It
Will be held under the direction of
the Administration Republican Clubs
Of the United States, Of which James
w. Poe is president Regular meet
ings are being held each week, and
Mr.. Poe says he has assurance from
all Of the important states that del
egations will be sent. The friends
Of the administration here declare
that they believe that the stalwart
republicans ought to get. together
and If the leading onice-holders will
not "father' the movement, there
should be no objection on their part
if somebody else steps in and sounds
the tocsin.
DR.. Minnie A. Crews, associated
for some years past with Gray &c
Gray, pharmacists, enjoys the unique
distinction Of being the first lady Of
her race to pass the new District Of
Columbia pharmacy law, emitting
her to practice not only in Washing
ton, but twenty other states.
w. Dickinson, special agent Of
the General Land Office, proposes
Senator William O'Connell Bradley
as the running mate with President
Taft in the 1912 race.
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The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-02-23


The Negroes of this community
are jubilant over the defeat Of New
Orleans for the Panama Exposition.
Nobody wanted a cityfto win such an
important honor which did not have
sufficient respect for the Negro race
to suspend IT'S "jim-crow' restric-
tions while company was present
from all parts Of the world. 1t was
noticeable that after the city Off
Gals refused the very reasonable
suggestion Of an open door, offered
by the National Baptist Convention,
even Col. James Lewis, Editor Rob-
ert e. Jones, Register w. l.. Cohen
and Gov. P. B. S. Finchback, all
|staunch southerners, declined to ex-
ert their influence in favor of the
project. The Negro is a valuable
asset to the South, and he deserves
to be treated with a greater degree
of respect by the progressive ele-
ment Of the whites, in matters Of a
public nature. New Orleans has been
taught lesson by this humiliating
defeat
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-02-23
Nations Capital
Continued from page one.)
e 4,

ment of the race through just such
ventures as the Lincoln Arcade"
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-02-23

The Colored Business High School
may install banking course in
banking, according to plans brought
forward by George II. Murray, of the
Commercial Department of the 1nsti-
tuition.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-02-23

w. Dickinson, special agent Of
the General Land Office, proposes
Senator William O'Connell Bradley
as the running mate with President
Taft In the 1912 race.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-02-23

At the "Hiawatha Theater," Man
ager T. Spencer Finley gave evidence
Of his grasp of things by pulling off
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-02-23

The OdeOn,' perhaps the finest
moving picture and vaudeville thea
ter yet erected for colored patrons.
Is nearing completion. It is perfect
In all it's appointments. 1t is owned
by II. II. Elliott, a white grocer, and
will be opened shortly.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-02-23

The Washington Post contained a
vigorous and outspoken editorial
Sunday morning, denouncing in
scathing fashion the outrageous per-
Torrance of a Georgetown, Ky,
court in giving a Negro a life sent
ence for stealing a turkey on Christ
mas eve. The Post pronounces the
punishment excessive to the last de-
gree and calls upon the Governor of
Kentucky and the United States SEN
ators to interfere in the interest of
fair play. Bully for the Post!
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-02-23
Best Whites and Blacks

CONTINUED from page one.)
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-02-23

DR.. e. D. Williston, one Of Wash
ington's best-informed- and most-ob-
servant physicians, is preparing to
deliver a lecture on "Hygiene and
Sanitation" at an early date.
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-02-23

Sergeant G. G. Davis, of San Fran
cisco, Cal, is in the city for a few
days on business connected with the
War Department
The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-02-23

DR.. Minnie A. Crews, associated
for some years past with Gray C
Gray, pharmacists, enjoys the unique
distinction Of being the first lady Of
her race to pass the new District Of
Columbia pharmacy law, emitting
her to practice not only in Washing
ton, but twenty other states.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-07-14
GENERAL.

Showers and cooling breezes have
brought relief to sweltering Chicago.
More than 500 deaths are to be
credited to the great heat wave of
July 1 to 5, 1911, which has some
what abated.
Chicago.--A return of the death
dealing heat which has claimed 1876
victims in Chicago. is predicted by
the weather forecaster.
Two persons were killed and seven
teen others injured when a Pennsyl-
vania express train for Atlantic City
sideswiped a local passenger train at
Lucaston, a little station, north of
Camden. N. ].
No less than 63.OO0,0O0 barrels of
beer were sold in the United States
during the ~ months ending June 30th
last, or an increase over the previous
twelve months of 6.21 per cent. ac-
cording to the annual report of the
beer and whisky sales made public
today by the United States Brewers
Association.
The largest fleet of American war
vessels ever assembled at a single
time is in Provincetown harbor await
ing the beginning of war maneuvers
along the Atlantic coast, July 18TH.
The fleet already comprises thirty-five
vessels, battleships, cruisers, torpedo
boats, submarines, colliers and dis
patch boats.
Miss Caroline Canton of Chicago, a
graduate of Vassar. has just discov-
cred that a bundle of mining stocks
she won in foot race for girls at a
fair in Alberta, Calgary, is worth S70.-
900, and will probably be worth $780,
600 shortly.
Postmaster General Hitchcock, in
announcing the addition of fifty more
postal savings repositories. noted with
satisfaclit n that the opposition OF
banking institutions had almost dis
appeared. Applications for authority
to receive postal funds are being re-
ceived from forty banks day.
broiling in temperature of 100 or
higher, ninety-five deaths are reported,
which, added to sixty-nine brings the
death toll of forty-eight hours to 164.
Hundreds of prostrations are reported.
Many of the victims were babies.
In 1918 the state of Wisconsin is
to begin to furnish life insurance to
such of its citizens as want to patron.
ize it. Such an experiment has fire.
quently been urged by paternalists
and theorists on life insurance. but
Wisconsin is the first state to enact a
law making 1t possible.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-07-14
Terrible Auto Accident.

Eldorado Springs.-Tossed down a
precipitous cliff, out of an automo-
bile, and then following the machine
as it took a sheer drop of seventy-fiye
feet and was finally dashed to pieces
on the rocks of the river bed 500 feet
below. Mrs. ]. B. Baldwin of Denver
was so badly injured that she may
die. That she was not instantly
killed is due to the fact that her body
caught on projecting ledge. BY the
time the automobile. rolling down the
mountain side like a tumble-w.ed,
reached the bottom. its momentum
was SO great that 1t bounced clear
across the bed of the creek, which is
between thirty and forty feet wide,
and in the descent was so badly
smashed that parts of its machinery
were found hundred feet apart. The
accident occurred about midway be-
tween Eldorado Springs and Crags, on
the recently completed Crags boule
ward.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-07-14
WESTERN.

Rain has fallen in many sections
OF Kansas and the long drought is
broken. Farmers are happy.
The last section of the Ninth United
States cavalry left the maneuvers camp
at San Antonio, Tex, for Fort d. A.
Russell. Wyoming.
Though light in many places gen
eral rain has fallen in Oklahoma.
The Cimmaron river is reported high
er than it has been this year.
Fourteen passengers of the steamer
Santa Rose, which broke up on the
rocks at Point Arguello. near Santa
Barbara, Cal, are unaccounted for.
1t required the services of detail
of the state militia to prevent a long
suffering but disappointed crowd at
Glendive, Mont, from running an
airship INTO the Yellowstone river be-
cause 1t would not fly.
Armed with rifles two hundred men
are securing Villas county, Wisconsin,
for Joe Imperio and Philip Roberts.
the murderers of Sheriff Radcliff
while resisting arrest. The men are
accused of white slavery.
Charles Schultz, of Oklahoma City,
dropped to instant death at Phillips,
Okla, when, after he had become en-
tangled in the guy rope of burning
balloon and been carried several Lun.
dred feet in the air, the charred rope
gave way.
Damage claims to the amount OF
S250,O00 agains, the Mexican govern
ment have already been filed with
the state department at Washington
as the result of the killing and wound
ing of number of El Paso people dur
ing the time the battle of Juarez was
In progress.
Clyde Mattox, who is known to have
slain four men and has been accused
Of killing fifth and who was famed
as an oltiaw in the territorial days OF
Oklahoma, has been released from
state prison and his citizenship re
stored after he had served twelve
years.
Four members of the crew of the
wrecked steamer Santa Rosa and
second mate, L. Hawson. of the Pa
cific Coast Steamship Company, were
drowned in the surf while trying tc
get line ashore from that vessel
which stranded near Point Arguello
six miles south of Surf. Cal.
In the matter of location Of lead
quarters for the new division of the
railway mail service which is to bs
made up of the states of Nebraska
Colorado and Wyoming. Omaha ha.
beaten Denver and Cheyenne. This
announcement was made by the Post
esflce Department.