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The broad ax., 1912-12-21

Nashville, Tenn, Dec. 17.-Musko-
gee, Okla, was unanimously awarded
the meeting Of the Sunday-sehool con-
gress for 1913. This action, which was
taken by the joint Boards in session
here was in keeping with the endorse
ment Of Oklahoma by the special COM
mittee that was eanvassing the invita-
tions which came from such cities at
Chicago, st. Louis, Kansas City, Fl.
Worth, Cincinnati, Memphis, Washing
ton, Atlantic City and Binghamton.
The Boards in charge Of the congress,
after reviewing the committee 3 recon-
mendations, declared Muskogee the win
ner because Of the inducements offered
and the geographical location, together
with the Withdrawing Of Texas, Kan
sas, Arkansas and Missouri from the
race in favor of Muskogee.
The date Of the Congress stated the
secretary, Henry A. Boyd, win be from
the fourth to the ninth Of June, inelu-
si1e- he said the Board had decided
that the Congress this year, as for the
past several years, would embrace the
second Sunday in June, which Is gem
orally observed by the National Bsp-
fist Convention as Children's Day.
The last session Of this national gath
ering Of sunday-sehOol workers was
held at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama,
and while they were in session several
teleFaphie invitations, supported by q
special delegation from Oklahoma with
inyitations, were received inviting the
Eighth Annual Session TO come West
and see the possibilities for future de-
vsloPmsnt Of religious sundaysehOOI
work.
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FIFTY YEARS OF FREEDOM.

Mr.. Charles Edward Russell, the
noted writer and sOeiOlOgist, win ad-
dress the Negro Fellowship League,
$3.50 State street, Sunday, December
%, at 4 O'Clock. Mr.. Russell il one Of
the foremost thinkers and speakers Of
the present day and he Is absolutely
sound on questions affecting the race,
and all agree that he Is one Of the bold
est spoilers against race outragss in
this country today. An are cordially
invited to hear the eloquent man. Adj
mission free. Good music. Ladies' espe-
eially invited-Ida B. WsIlsBaznstt.
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Reduced Rates.
BALL BY THE FIRST
REGIMENT UNIFoRM RANK
KNIGHTS OF PYFHAs.

Wednesday evening, December 25,
the First Regiment Uniform Rank
Knights Of Pythias; will give a grand
Christmas ball at the Coliseum Annex,
fifteenth street and Wabash avenue.
Both halls will be used for the oe-
casiOn and two orthestras will discourse
music for the evening.
COL h. H. BIGGs, Chairman.
(see adj in another column Of this
paper).
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Dr.. N. T. Mossen, founder Ct the
Frsderisk Douglass Memorial Hospital
and Training School, Philadelphia,
Pa, this week, favored us with a me-
moral souvenir program, pertaining
20 eslsbrating FOUNDERS Day, fron
1895 70 1912 Il Is very neatly gotten
up and Il contains An interesting story
q TIE sxpsnsion Of the HOSPITAL from
IS inception 70 TIE present time
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Now, unless you want to be a pneu-
monia victim, don't breathe dirty air.
Don't sleep in a bed room with the
windows closed. Get all the good, fresh
air you can. Live temporarily. Don I
overeat. Keep regular hours. Don t
dissipate.
The broad ax., 1912-12-21

In a recent ten days campaign the
Negroes of Baltimore, Maryland, pledg-
ed $4,000 towards 9 Young Men Is
Christian Association building. This is
another one of the cities to cover the
$4,000 offered by Mr.. julius ROsen.
valid, the Chicago philanthropist.
The broad ax., 1912-12-21

An investigation in Kansas City
Kansas, reveals some interesting facts
about the Negroes Of that city. 1t has
been found that out of a Negro pop.
ulation Of 1886, eight hundred were
property owners. The Negro property
was assessed at $1,400,O0O. Fifty Ne.
groes owned property valued at $1O,.
900; one hundred Negroes between S..
900 and $4,000; two hundred between
$1,000 and 5000; and four hundred
and fifty between $500 and 1000. The
figures 60 to show that the Negro Of
Kansas City is worth S2s.01 more than
the average Negro Of the United
States. A canvass among 5000 en-.
ployed Negroes in Kansas City be-
tween the ages Of II and go give this
result: BARRIERS, 24o; dentists, 4; doe.
tors, %; janitOrs, $50; laborers, 5000;
lawyers, 6; police service, 8; postal
service, 20; barber shop pOrters, s75;
hotel pOrters, 40; saloon porters, 600;
Independent proprietorS, go; pool hall
owners, IS; preachers, 25; Pullman
service, 140; railway service, ESQ;
teachers, 30; teamsters, 21o; walters,
$40.
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The National Reflector, Wichita, Kan
sas, has an interesting article on George
NJ. Fox's steam laundry. Mr.. Fox runs
five delivery wagons and one automo-
bile. During the past year he has in
stalled four thousand dollars worth of
improved laundry equipment.
The broad ax., 1912-12-21

Sherman n Dudley, and his ever
popular 'fsmart Set" Company; have
for the past week been engaged in
playing, 'Dr. Beans from Boston, at
the Pekin Thsatsr, eaeh performance
being fairly ven attended. sunday
night they played to = eapaeity hOosa.
The broad ax., 1912-12-21

Fred N. johnson, one Of San Juan
hill heroes, has invented q belt feed
rife that win fire 500 shots in success
sion, at the rate of twenty shots a
second.
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Some OF Them wiz Have To Live
Apart For One Or Two Years Or Run
The Chances OF Being Arrested For
Living In A State OF Adultery.
The broad ax., 1912-12-21

The Colored people Of Brooklyn, N.
Y, are to have an up-to-date restau-
rant. Edgar NJ. Miller and Isaiah Wall
ker are the proprietors.
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OKLAHOMA CAPTURES THE CON-
GREss-EIGHTH ANNUAL SEES
SION OF sUNDAY-sCHooL WORK
Frs WILL ASSEMBLE AT MUS
KoGEE.

Young People Of 10000 sunday-schoOls
Of the National Baptist Convention
WIN Observe Golden Jubilee Com
memorating the Fifty Years that
have ELAPSED Since the Emancipation
Proclamation was Issued by the In
mortal Abraham Lincoln.
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PLAN AND PURPOSE OF THE CON
FERENCE.

The Tuskegee Negro conference is,
in effect, mass meeting Of the Negro
people. 1t brings together representa-
tives of the masses of the people, espe-
eially farmers and those who are work
ing for them and with them, the teach
ers and leaders from all parts of the
South. Its purpose is less to teach than
TO inspire.
The first day is taken up for the
most part with informal reports and
personal experiences Of representative
individuals, the purpose Of which is to
afford a broad view of actual eondi-
tions and of what the people themselves
either as individuals or through their
churches and the schools, are doing to
improve them.
The second day is given over to what
is called "The Workers Conference, I"
that is to say, a conference of teachers
and others who are engaged in some
definite form of work for the improve
ment of the masses of the Negro peo-
pie.
The conference, which began twenty
two years ago with a meeting of a few
farmers, ministers and teachers from
the surrounding country, has extended
its influence and strengthened its hold
upon the masses of the people from
year to year since that time. The rec
ord Of its work is in thousands of indi-
vidual lives which it has inspired with
fresh hope and new ambition in the
struggle for better things.
Reduced Rates.
As in former years, a reduced rate
will most likely be granted by the rail-
roads. Persons intending to be present
should ask their ticket agents for the
reduced rate granted on account of the
annual Tuskegee Negro Conference to
be held at Tuskegee Institute, Ala
bama, January 1928, 1913.
The broad ax., 1912-12-21

The Supreme Court Of this State, this
week in its far reaching decision on
the present marriage law which has
been in force and effect since July /,
1905, in relation 10 very warm men
and women who are hot or bent on
getting remarked to some one else be-
fore they have been divorced from
each other for one or two years as the
law plainly provides, have been dealt
a knock out or body blow, they will
now have a chance to cool of for a
while, for the ruling Of the court of
last resort on this all important ques-
tiOn has not only struck terror into
the hearts Of many Of the most prom
inent white ladies and gentlemen, in
this city, as well as striking terror
into the hearts Of many Of the lead
ing Colored ladies and gentlemen also
residing in this city who like the white
ladies and gentlemen, seemingly could
not hold themselves together for two
hours after securing their divorce
without rushing of and tying up with
another man or woman as the case
might be.
So the long and the short of this
new ruling of the Supreme Court on
an old subject is simply this that I'M
less all couples who have broke away
from each other in the divorce courts
and then caught onto a new husband
or a new wife in the very next minute
or hour, remarry within a short time
they win be arrested for living in a
state Of adultery, providing they do
not live apart for one or two years
and the law and the courts viii not
permit them to slip or slide around
and get together either night or day.
The opinion of the Supreme Court in
this respect is as follows:
1. The marriage Of a divorced per-
son within one year Of fling Of divorce
decree is void.
2 Children born of such marriages
are Legitimate.
Parties Face Pines.
8. Each party to such a marriage is
amenable to the penal code Of the
state and faces fine or imprisonment
or both.
4. That the marriage was contracted |
in another state in good faith is no de-
Tense, because the law is open and ex-
plcit and has been on the statute books |
since July /, 1905.
5. If the status Of the family Is to !
be maintained the parties must be re-
married.
6. Neither party to such marriage
has any rights, dover or otherwise, to |
the estate Of the other.
z. There is no law compelling par.
ties to rema-ry, but If they do not,
after . reasonable time, they are sub
Jet to arrest on statutory charges.
s. Decisions Of the Probate Court,
dispOsing Of the property Of one 30
divorced and remarked, ara subject to |
revision.
Any Of the fair ladies, who have in
the past persisted, in heaving dishes
butcher knives and other articles at |
the heads Of their husbands; pouring |
hot boiling water over them and beat
ing them up and running them cut Of |
the house, with q broom stick; win |
have no kick coming, If their husbands
duck them for good; for under the nsW
marriage law; that is, Is it applies 10
those who have been divorced and re-
married again before the. expiration Of |
one year, cannot force nor compel their
husbands to return home and i've VITA
them.
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WHAT'S THE DITFERENcE1

The other day an explosion in an in
dustrial plant pear Chicago killed three
men and injured several others; now
the grand jury has been asked to in
vestigate the matter with q view Of
fixing the responsibility for so terrible
q disaster. Last month in Chicago 365
persons were killed with pneumonia,
and for the eleven months Of this year,
4,445 people were killed by the same
dirty air disease.
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Has Struck Terror Into The Hearts OF
Many AfrO-Americans In This City.
The broad ax., 1912-12-21

AIlensworth, California, Negro col
ony, is completing q new grammar
school. Gone of the best colony schools
in the state" the neighbOring papers
say.
The broad ax., 1912-12-21

Henry Goings, of Shreveport, La, .
still a strong admirer Of The Broa4
Az, and he is inducing some Of rs
many friends in that city to subscnOe
for it.
The broad ax., 1912-12-21

The Philadelphia Tribune celebrated
its twenty-eighth anniversary by pur-
chasing an 5000 building into which
it is shortly to move.
The broad ax., 1912-12-21

The North Carolina Mutual and Prov
ident Association, of Durham, North
Carolina, has decided to invest its sur
plus earnings in securities that will
yield the safest returns. Following
this plan the company invested $780,
900 in Georgia state bonds, on Satur-
day, November %.
The broad ax., 1912-12-21

A new printing plant has been open
ed in Toledo, Ohio, by Messrs. B. Har-
~ LAsher, W. II: Harrison and How
ard Kirk.
The broad ax., 1912-12-21

TIE DECIsIoN OF TIE SUPREME
COURT OF ILLINOIS ON MAR
RIAGEs.
The broad ax., 1912-12-21

Il is reported On good authority;
that Alderman Albert R. Tearney, has
induced States Attorney 1laelay
Hoyns, to ssiest EdEatd Z. wilson,
e one Of his assistants
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CHIPS.

Rev. A. J. Carey returned home Wed
nesday evening from a short visit !"
Keokuk, Iowa.
The broad ax., 1912-12-21

Mrs. Wheeler, 5O25 Armour avenue
left Wednesday evening to spend tns
holidays with friends at her old h0ns
in Mendoza, Ill.
The broad ax., 1912-12-21

lntSrOd a. Second Cass Nattsr AuR. n.
unasE Act e March Z INA
The broad ax., 1912-12-21

Gilehrist Stewart, of New York cry
son Of T. MeCant Stewart, who wa
one Of the wen known lawyers iOi
q number Of years in the eastern sso
ton Of the country, was in this eis
the FIRST Of the week and stopped WI.
mine host, Capt. John L. Fry, OF tD'
Keystone Hotel, sO2s South State street.
The broad ax., 1912-12-21

Here we have it: Three persons
killed and half a dozen injured by an
explosion and the citizens Of the town
are demanding an investigation to find
out who were responsible and if possible
the cause, to the end that in the future
such disasters might be prevented. But
up to date there has been no public
concern or excitement over the 4,445
deaths caused by a preventable disease
here in Chicago.
The broad ax., 1912-12-21

The Negroes of Guthrie, Oklahoma,
support a wide-awake library. 1t was
established by Negro club women in
1908. In a city of fewer that $500
Negroes, this library has had 1900
visits in one month; has loaned $50
books in the same length of time, and
has added to its shelves 765 volumes.
The report Of the third quarter is as
follows: Registered visits, 1000; books
loaned, 1000; books added, PCS; mem
bers to date, 800. Since the opening
in 1908: Registered visits, 27,O56; books
loaned, 1O,s1O; books donated, more
than 1000. The library maintains a
Young Mems Christian Association, a
ehildren's story hour club, and a lee
ture course on domestic science and
home making for our women. There is
no such institution in the State doing
so much for race uplift. Mrs. J. C.
Horton is the librarian.
The broad ax., 1912-12-21

Pneumonia is a house disease and
occurs only in houses where the air
is continually foul and bad. 1t is es-
sentially a dirty-air disease. It is
most prevalent during the fall, winter
and early spring months, as the follow
ing figures show: In January of this
year the pneumonia deaths in Chiea-
60 were 716; in February, 692; in
March, 65s; in April, $40; in May, S7s;
in June, 26O; and this decrease con-
tinues until the month Of September
when the minimum for the year, l66
deaths, was reached. No better proof
could be submitted showing that pneu-
monia is due to the bad air conditions
in our work places, amusement halls
and public eonveyanees than the fig
ures above given.
The broad ax., 1912-12-21

J. G. Hogan, 5O1s Armour avenue
has been seriously sick, and he n-
been removed from his home to 'n0
hospital Some Of his friends isH
that he win never be able to rally h'
former strength and pull through do
severe attack Of illness.
The broad ax., 1912-12-21

A dollars worth of Red C,o,, =
may be the means of cH,; S'O'' SeaL
Sumptive. a sOa.
- as-W~e-
If Il you C11 don't know where to s,, D.,
Cross Christmas Seals, ask sons 81 q BED
Every penny you invest
Cross Christmas Seals u,;n u Led
you, your friends and relatir.. 70
per cent. interest in health. ~"
The broad ax., 1912-12-21
A LINZ A DAY.

You are nsgleetful Of your health II
you don't buy Red Cross Christmas
Seals The money from these goes to
protect you from tuberculosis.
The broad ax., 1912-12-21

Are yOu using Red Cross Seals on
your Christmas paskagssf
The broad ax., 1912-12-21

Miss Dilpha Boyer, nee Mrs. VII
liam G.. Anderson, will for some TINE
to come devote her time to her nus
cal studies at the Chicago Musical COf
lege. She win reside with her par
ents at their old home in Aurora, LII
]. N. Blaekshear has returned F"
the city from a pleasant visit to Los
Angeles, Cal, and while in that cry
he met our old friend, Noah D. ThonF
son, who is successfully running :
grocery store there and making money
The broad ax., 1912-12-21

I'd gladly take a licking,
And maybe I'd take two,
If I could be the Red Cross Seal
On the back Of my letter to YOU.
The broad ax., 1912-12-21

II you want to do Sone real cheer
ing this Christmas buy Red crOs,
Seals.
The broad ax., 1912-12-21

Makes all the difference in the world,
doesn't it, how people are killed. A
chance spark coming in contact with
the fine, impalpable dust in a starch
factory, kills three or four people and
Injuries as many more. The whole COM
munity is shocked and everybody wants
to know all about it. But when 1913
persons are killed by one of the dirty
air diseases in a single week in Chiea-
go, these needless deaths, a needless
sacrifice Of human lives, excite no
horror, and arouse little or no interest
as to why they occurred or as to the
means to be employed to prevent pneu-
mOnia from killing nearly 5000 of Chi
cago's people next year, that being
about the number Of its victims for the
year 1912.
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NOTES INDICATING NRaRo PROG.

As Furnishsd By the National Business
League.
The broad ax., 1912-12-21

HiPpity hop to the Christmas shop,
To buy some Red Cross Sealsl
With one on each letter
OF course, you feel better;
You we heeded your brothers appeals
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U1zUS =. zAxIOa. .alssp..aPsBu.A-
The broad ax., 1912-12-21
RED CROSS SEAL JINGLRs.

Here's to the little Red Cross Seal,
That messenger 20 eheeryi
It bears kind greetings near and far,
It helps make life less dreary.
With every penny seal you place
On package, card or letter,
You help to fight the great white
plague
And break its deadly fettsr.
The broad ax., 1912-12-21
THE BROAD AK

RHONR DKxxL GSsA
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-24
ON SECRET MISSION.
GARDENERS Believed to Be Probing
Attempt on Kings Life.
Special Cablegram to The Star.

Special Cablegram to The Star.
NAPLES, March 23.-Several members
of royal carabineers arrived here today on
a secret mission which is believed to be
connected with the investigation into the
attempt on the life of King Victor
Emmanuel
Following the arrival of the officers,
who came from Rome, a report arose that
Antonio Galba, the would-be assassin,
who is in jail in Rome, was a member
of the Neapolitan Cammorra and that his
attempt against the kings life was the
result of brooding over the Viterbo trial.
Despite the precautions of the authori-
ties 1t has been evident for some time
that Enrico Alfano, head of the Camorra,
who is still confined at Viterbo, has been
in communication with the Camorrists in
this city
Whether or not the attempt on the
kings life was inspired by Alfano or
"Erricone,' as he is known to the police,
is a question not yet settled to the
satisfaction Of the authorities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-24
POLITICS DAY BY DAY

in any other state in the Union. At the
primaries last Tuesday, only about per
cent of the vote was for Mr.. Taft
Five OF the seven congressional dls-
tricts which selected delegates last week
are in states to which the republican
party must turn for its support if 1t Is 10
win in November. The other two are IN
southern states. which have never cast a
single republican electoral vote since the
days OF reconstruction. OF these five dlS-
tricts, the first was the second Oklahoma,
which instructed its two delegates for
Col. Roosevelt. The next was the seventh
Michigan, where the Taft people were de-
feated in strenuous effort to secure
the instruction of the delegates for Taft.
The third was the fourteenth Missouri.
where the Roosevelt men controlled over
whelmingly and instructed their dele
gates for Roosevelt. Part of the Taft
ton on the sidewalk In the effort to lay
the foundation for a contest, but this was
too raw for a considerable number of the
Taft men who stayed in the convention
to the end.
George Fred Williams one of the close
political friends of William Jennings
Bryan, said in Boston yesterday that the
the ballot at the Massachusetts presi-
dentital primary next month.
Mr. Bryan, l understand, is not a
candidate for the presidency, said Mr.
Williams.
At the practical close of party activi-
ties preceding the primaries Tuesday
next Chairman Koenig of the New York
county republican committee issued a.
statement predicting that there would be
a vote Of between 10000 and $1,000 of
enrolled party membership in the county
and claimed that of this number the
Roosevelt delegates would not poll 10000
votes.
1t was announced last night at Roose-
Welt headquarters that Col. Roosevelt
will make five speeches in various parts
Of this city the night before primary day.
He will start on his western speech-mak-
ing tour Tuesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-24

TOT the DlStrict OF columbia and Mary
land, rain and warmer Sunday Monday
probably fair moderate southerly winds,
becoming variable
A disturbance that was near the mouth
of the Rio Grande Friday night has
moved to western Tennessee with in
creased intensity, and there has been a
general and decided fall in pressure over
the eastern half of the country. attended
by rains over the middle and southern
districts. There We're also SHOWS in the
central and southern Rocky mountain re-
gion, Kansas, and Oklahoma, and rains
in the west gulf states. Heavy rains fell
in the lower Mississippi valley. In the
extreme west the weather was generally
fair.
1t is colder in the south Atlantic and
north Pacific states, but elsewhere tenn
peratures have risen, a rule, although
they are still below the seasonal average
over most districts.
The southwestern storm will move
northeastward Sunday, attended by rains
In the Ohio valley the middle and south
Atlantic and east gulf states, and SHOWS
or rains from the southern upper lake
region eastward into New England. In
the west fair weather will prevail Sun
day. and 1t will be fair generally on
Monday throughout the country, except
in the northeast, where SHOWS or rains
Will likely continue.
1t will be colder Sunday in the least
gulf states and warmer In the northwest,
and 1t will be warmer Monday over all
districts between the rockies and the AL
legheny mountains.
Storm warnings are displayed on the
Atlantic coast from Norfolk to Jackson
vile, and on the gulf coast from Mobile
to Cedar Keys.
coast will be moderate to brisk and
| mostly southerly; on the middle Atlantic
| coast increasing southeasterly; on the
south Atlantic coast brick to high
northeast and east; on the east gulf coas,
! brisk to high and shifting over northern
moderate south and southwest over
southern portion: on the west gulf coast
moderate north and northeast; on Lake
Michigan moderate north and northwest
Yesterdays Temperatures.
Midnight, 80; am. 80; am. 81; {
40; 2 pm, ~; pm, n; 6 pm, 3s; s
pm, SO; 10 pm. 80; highest, 45; lowest
Temperature same date last year
Highest, AZ; lowest. ..
Relative Humidity.
Sam. 81; 2 pm. SO: pm, "a. Rain
| fall Is pm. to p.m), O.26; hours of sun
shine, 60; per cent of possible sunshine
%.
Tide Tables.
Io0dH-lOW tue, 0.bo an. anu y. T.
PM: high tide, 11.j6 am.
/ TOmorrow-Low tide, 6:23 am. and "a:
pm; high tide. 1919 am. and 1852 pm
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose 5:56 am; sun set.
SIG pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises 5:55 am.
Moon sets 1901 pm. today.
The City Lights.
The city lights and naphtha lamps al
lighted by thirty minutes after sunset
extinguishing begun one hour befor,
sunrise. All arc and incandescen
lamps lighted fifteen minutes after sun
set and extinguished forty-five minute!
before sunrise
Temperatures in other Cities.