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Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-02-06

The Galveston News announced that
the sudden cold wave affected the Sun.
day schools. The Sunday schools were
not all that was affected; it gave our
woodpile the swinney.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-02-06

The Bryan Eagle in a recent issue
announced the retirement of ]. M.
Carnes as editor and the election of
A. j. Buchanan as his successor. Mr..
Carnes has sold his interest in the
paper, which he served brilliantly for
several years, and will retire from the
siness.-Galveston News.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1912-02-06

With present prices it is no small
job to round up good square meal
eof victuals.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-07-13
FRENCH WOMEN RAISE FUNDS
FOR COLORED BACHELOR
FUND OF $4,000 FRANCS RAISED
BY BAZAR IN PARlS-SToRY OF
AVARiCE THAT COMES FROM
LAvAl-GIVEN so THEY CAN
MARRY-MoNEY TO GET WIVES.

Paris.-Surely there are no more
kind-hearted people in the world than
Parisians. They make a hobby of
charity, and as their pocketbooks are
not always as capacious as their
hearts, they are continually arranging
charity bazars to raise money for all
sorts of purposes. But the one recent
ly given is probably the most original
of them all. 1t was organized under
the patronage of the charming Com
tesse d'Eu, and the amount Of $4,000
francs was raised for the wonderful
purpose of enabling 110 bachelors of
the dark continent to WOO and wed the
same number of black-skinned maids.
The result was proclaimed amid
thunders of applause at the general
assembly of the French Anti-Slavery
society. presided over by NJ. lie Myre
de Villers.
This gentleman, who has played an
extremely active part in Frances
colonial expansion, explained to his
delighted audience that the society
had, in the past eighteen months, been
holding an extensive investigation into
the matrimonial customs of the ne
groes. as result of which It had as
certained that only the men who had
money enough to purchase wives were
able to wed, and that as 1t took them
many years to save. up the necessary
sum, they were becoming elderly when
they entered the marriage state. AS
for their juniors, they naturally had to
remain single until they had obtained
the wherewithal. and even when they
had won wife. they held her only by
precarious title" as her canny par
ents took advantage of the faintest
preteXt to ask for more money.
The tender hearts of the members
of the society had been melted by the
discovery that the course of true love
did not run smooth even in those
primitive regions. so they decided to
facilitate wedlock among young negro
couples by advancing to each prospec-
tive bridegroom 200 francs, which
! would be paid back in five years at the
rate of forty francs per annum. The
$4,000 francs will thus be devoted to
the setting up of 10 negro households.
by the way Of start. pending the re-
| SSiPt VI o'HSi Seheio Jus uoldtioHs' IL
is to be hoped that the parents OF
those prospective brides will not hear
of this marvellous stroke of good luck
as being already noted for their grasp.
ing proclivities, they may be tempted
to double the figure and now anti-slav.
cry. The wife's troubles often begin
with her union, and she is usual )
| bond-woman in every sense of the
word. The old saying that charity be
gins at home seems to have been rath
er overlooked on this occasion.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-07-13
REST AND MOTION IN THE UNI
VERSE.

The studies of Professor Campbell
on the radial ve!ocities of stars and
nebulae have led him to some interest
ing conclusions concerning the mo-
tlons that take place among the bodies
constituting the visible universe. He
finds that stars which the spectroscope
seems to prove are relatively old trav-
ell at higher velocity than those which
are younger and that the formless
nebulae. like those In Orion. appear to
be nearly or quite motionless in re-
gard to the stars. In explanation he
suggests that the rate of motion de-
pends upon the time during which the
condensation into stellar bodies has
been going on. When the matter is
widely scattered in minute particles
solid or gaseous, the pressure of radia-
ton, acting from all sides. counteracts
the pull of grayitation, and the nebu-
lous cloud remains at rest. But after
condensation the gravitational force
overcomes the radiation pressure, and
the condensed bodies begin to move
and their velocity increases With age
London Graphic.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-07-13
NEGROES FRIGHTENED
BY NEWLY BORN CHILD
WHEN A FEW HOURS OLD 1T
PROPHECIES END OF THE
WORLD IN NOVEMBER, THEN
DIES.

Thomasville, Ga.-According to re-
ports received here the negroes around
Pelham, over in Mitchell county, are
much stirred up over an infant phe
nomenon which. 1t is said, spoke when
only few hours old, and among other
things predicted the end of the world
Several negroes here have received
letters from friends in Pelham telling
of this child. which, they affirm. turn
ed and spoke to its mother when 1t
had been born only eight hours The
child, so the story goes, told its
mother that it would die In two hours
and she would die in four hours and
the world would come to an end in six
months. Mother and child are both
said to have departed this life on
schedule time, and now the colored
population have no doubt whatever
that the remainder of the prophecy
Another portion of the prophecy
will be fulfilled.
which the child is alleged to have ut
tered and which showed that 1t pos
sessed voice of wisdom was that It
would rain "off and on" until the end
of the world AS the showers in this
section have undoubtedly been of that
character of late and are liable to con-
tinue so there is no difficulty in recti-
flying the truth of the utterance, which
Is, of course. he'd up as a confirmation
of the whole matter.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-07-13

Working Ones Way Through Col
ege and University "a. C. McClurg &
Coz by Calvin Dill Wilson. discusses
all phases of the problem now upper
most of the minds of thousands Of our
boys and girls. Mr.. Wilson's advice is
helpful and optimistic. His extensive
Investigations have revealed the fact
there is no college In the United States
where it is impossible for self-sup-
porting young man to complete his
course: that there are some where the
number of students partly or entirely
earning their way runs as high as 80
per cent, and that even at the most
The Colorado statesman., 1912-07-13

With regard to the walters strike
lnow in existence in this city we have
two suggestions:
First: Wherever the hotel proprie-
tors employ colored people, they ought
not to use them in this crisis as cats
paw. They should not be used merely
to break the strike, and after the
strike is broken. be put out on the
bricks" Such course would work
irreparable loss to the cause of the
colored walters, and would create
prejudice far worse than now exists
against them. We hope that wher
ever colored walters enter employment
formerly held by white walters. they
will have 1t clearly understood that
they are to keep their jobs permanent
ly. and not only for the time being.
Second: We wish to urge upon the
walters the Importance of doing the
work as efficiently as the whits wait
ers This means that the colored
waiter who would keep the job must
keep his body and clothes clean and
attractive, and must study his work
Just as the white waiter does. He must
not use his job merely as stepping
stone to something else, but must
master every detail of it.
The colored waiter cannot get situa-
tions in first-class hotels and restau-
rants If he sits up all night or a good
part of the night, and then goes to his
post sleepy and filthy next morning
He must be just as clean. attractive
and wide awake as the white waiter
II he pursue the right policy the
chances are that many of the colored
walters will obtain permanent en-,
ployment in this city
The Colorado statesman., 1912-07-13

Negroes lose out in contesting with
white people because they cannot pre-
sent a united front when making de-
mands. This was forcibly illustrated
at the General Conference of the NJ
e. church at Minneapolis, Mimi. by
the Negro delegates on the matter of
a Negro bishop. AS soon as these dele
gates arrived there, they split up, and
leadership of them was impossible
White men know that splitting up
Negroes is the best way to control
or misuse them, and in every instance
our men gulp down this same old bait.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-07-13
STILL CAUTIOUS.

There is rumor afioat that Old
Goldrox is dead" said the editor.
Yes" replied the reporter II was
Just down to the house"
"It is so?"
Well, his wife said that her hus.
band would neither confirm nor deny
the rumor"-Yonkers Statesman
The Colorado statesman., 1912-07-13

Little police protection is afforded
our girls of today because while we
have an efficient police department,
our present officers have not the inter-
est In negro social uplift, nor have
they the opportunity to acquaint them
selves with conditions that threaten
our girls future, and right here we
will say that even one good negro
officer could do more for the moral and
social safety of the negro girl than all
our present county, city, township and
school officers together We need this
protection for our girls, but it can only
come by safeguard or an alliance to
save the girls led by some of our good
and capable negro women who have
the future of their race at heart. Agi-
tation will bring the protection and or
ganization will do the saving of our
(Ill) Citizen.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-07-13

Chicago negroes are catching the
progressive spirit. We learn from the
Defender that the Lincoln State Saw
ings bank has opened its doors and
that the outlook is most promising.
We hope for our neighbors in the
Windy City much success.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-07-13

Inquiry is being made for Stella
oliver of ST. Paul, as there is sum
of money left to her by Nettie Ora
ham of Chicago.-St. Paul Guide.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-07-13

Germany. by forbidding marriage be.
tween natives OF Samoa and the
whites, is virtually legalizing immoral
ity over there.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-07-13
AFRO-AMER|CAN CULL|NCS

merous opportunities in the way
of scholarships and honor prizes for
the student in need of financial as
sistance.
Mr. Wilson tells OF colored student
at the Northwestern university med
ical school, one of the most eXacting
courses in any college, who for two
years acted as porter on the Twen-
tieth Century Limited between Chicago
and Cleveland. He would leave Chi
cago at 2:30 p. m. one day, return at
1920 the next morning, attend school
all that day and the next morning, and
go out again on the 2:30 train on that
third afternoon. He earned about $50
month and supported an invalid
father a mother and a sister during
his time in college Another young
man at that same university, which
magazine writer whom Mr.. Wilson
quotes calls the paradise of the self
supporting student" after having been
successfully a locomotive fireman,
truckman, a department store sales
man and a switchman, entered college
and during a part of his time lived
over barn and did his own cooking.
third more than met his expenses
by selling honey and eggs to boarding
house keepers.-New York Sun.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-07-13

There is a set of miserable human
beings in this world who possess one
talent CD and this one is put to us
ury more than ten times and the re-
suits usually are hundred-fold. Their
creed is: Say of others and do unto
Others all that will hurt or hinder, es-
pecially if you cannot succeed" This
religion they promulgate with all their
might and main and it is in many
cases a habit, a mania. A man is
-'knocker'' as he may be a kleptoma-
MAC and If he is known to be the latter
we are rather inclined to pity him than
to censure, but the "knocker"-his dis
ease is the more insidious and deadly
because it is spread through words,
through insinuations, innuendoes and is
well nigh incurable. so deep are its
roots in the human mind Opinions
or criticisms, the latter favorable or
unfayorable, are justifiable If warrant
ed and vice versa and the weakness OF
a man or woman is displayed If he or
she shrinks from the expressions OF
his fellow-men in regard to ability, at
tainment or character. Freedom OF
speech is the boast of modern civiliza-
tion and woe be unto those who would
make mankind less privileged by seek
ing to curtail the right of any to this
boasted freedom.
Knockers" cannot be classed as
identical with those who would make
the world of men better by placing be-
fore them higher standard of NOR
ality or religion or social ethics. The
fna nd
their mission is to upbuild but the
former puts, forth his efforts to
destroy and hinder the progress of all.
In all phases of life this contempti-
BILE sneak is met with. Too indolent
or ignorant to strive for success, he
finds fault with, condemns and often
maligns the man who is making hon
est efforts to succeed. This is true in
many cases of our colored men. They
are not content to let each man gain
success in his chosen work or pro-
fession. but think 1t their bounden
duty to say all the evil that can be
said and in this way destroy all pros
poets of his attainment of any work
or noble purpose. The honest colored
man undertakes a business enterprise
"a hundred hands go up to pull him
down to the depths from whence they
reach, a hundred voices say, 81 won't
patronize b "a, he is trying to get rich.
he is too proud anyway, he is rising
too rapidly The worthy and enter
prising professional man undertakes
a work uplifting to himself and his
fellow creatures. The chronic plague
breeders begin their work with him.
He is knocked" and suffers in proper
ton to the weight" of the hammers"
used
Comment has been made before in
regard to this class of individuals,
After all there is nothing new under
the sum-" nor Is there anything new
about this statement of the "knocker"
and his accomplishments, but right
minded men and women do not wish
to gain membership in this class. do
not wish this disgusting habit to grow
upon them. Guard thy speech" and
the attitude of mind toward all men
plainly. put aside yer hammer and
quit yer knockin' Chicago Chron-
icle.
The Colorado statesman., 1912-07-13

A third more than met his expenses
by selling honey and eggs to boarding
house keepers.-New York Sun.
Genius can never develop until the
mind is free enough to follow it's own
thoughts. The conventional always
stiles anything like a genius. Imag-
inc Edison as having spent four years
at college as young man and then
becoming a professor. Would his ge-
nious have ever blossomed forth? I'm
agine Theodore Roosevelt as having
become a dentist at 25, and settled
down in a city of 5000 Would his ge-
MUS for leadership have ever carried
him to the presidents chair?
Those who become great, under our
present modes of thinking, and under
our present ways of educating the
young, are those who feel a mighty
urge from natural ability We do not
make it easy for genius to develop.
We do not encourage genius by our
customs. We do not welcome origin
ality. AS it is now, no one but an in
tense egotist has courage to do his
own thinking and follow his genius to
success. Only an intense egotist has
power sufficient to overcome mental
laziness and get away from the cur
rents of conventional thought.
There is an original vein in every
man. There is a path to original de-
velopment open to every one. There
is something you can do that no one
else can do quite SO well. You have
work all your own. But you will
not find it by slipping into the ruts of
the conventional and lolling at ease
in the ideas of your teachers and as
sociates.
The great genius is animated with
in himself. He weighs all suggestions
from the outside and he accords each
suggestion only SO much weight as it
seems to him to be entitled to. He
does not attach Importance to a doc
trine or a theory simply because it
has been accepted by the crowd
The most Of us never tap the real
source of original power within our
selves because we are so busy follow
ing out the suggestions offered to us
from the outside.
Insist on yourself, never initiate"
says Emerson. And this is the secret
of power and genius.-Southern Life
Magazine.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-07

state. being composed OF Montgomery.
Telfair, Dodge, Irwin and Ben Hill.
Since Wheeler county is to be carved
out of Montgomery. this district will
have six. and by the rotation system il
would take twelve years TO give each
county a senator.
The Fourteenth district now has fou~
counties-Pulaski, Crisp. Dooiy and
Wilcox. The creation of Buckley out
of part of Pulaski will raise the Four
teenth to five counties, recurring ten
years to get around By. the rotation
system.
Each of these districts has popula
ton sufficient to spare one, two or
three counties and still be larger in
population than several senatorial dis
tricts that now have only three or four
counties
The Fourteenth district. by the lasr
census, had 1925. and the Fifteenth
1871 There are now ten districts
with only three counties each having
population of less than 10000 two being
below 1000 Five of these ten are i'm
the southern half of the state and five
in the northern half.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-07
5000 NEGROES
To CATHERHERE
Parade and Grand Ball To Be
Features of CoIored Odd
Fellows Meet.

Atlanta negroes are making prepare
lions to entertain 5000 members Of
their race when on Monday morning
the biennial movable committee of the
Grand United Order of odd Fellows
the largest negro secret organization
in America. convenes at the Auditorium
for a weeks session.
Governor Brown, Mayor VIM and
Miss Lucille Dennis will be among the
welcoming speakers at the first session
which will be presided over by Henry
Lincoln Johnson, registrar of deeds in
the District Of Columbia.
parade in which 10000 negroes are
scheduled to take part on Thursday in
the march to Ponce DeLeon park for
their annual prize drill and the grand
ball Thursday night at the Auditorium
probably viii prove the features of the
gathering.
The order is composed of % state or
CARNATIONS, and each state is to be rep
resented by delegate from each sub
ordinate lodge and by it's district Of
f1cers.
Tuskeeee Band To Be Here.
The order has membership Of half
a million in America and it's records
show property valued at $2,OO0,OOO.
During the week the biennial NOV
able committee viii meet in the Audito-
rum, the grand household in the First
Congregational church, colored the
grand staff council in Bethel Methodist
church. colored, and the P. C. NJ. coun-
Gil in Wheat Street Baptist church. col
ored.
All entertainment features will be in
charge of NJ. B. Morton, of Athens.
Tuesday night the biennial address will
be delivered by Fl. S. Cummings of
Maryland, attorney general of the order
a musical by the Tuskegee band will
follow this.
A free entertainment for the benefit
OF the delegates and visitors will be
given a the Auditorium Wednesday
night.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-07

Ar was 81 veteran from the Soldiers
home given days holiday. and he
bore under his arm a dog cared copy
.oi the song book he had loved for a
generation. If l was YOU Ia get out
am Injunction a'gin them felers."
Al the Tabernacle, President James.
Wao leads the United Sacred Harp as
Soclaton was equally RS firm in the
assertion that his was the real Sacred
Harp. authorized and correct. He said
his convention VAS made up of dele
gates from Sacred, Harp societies all
over the South and many had come
from a long way OF TO attend the meet
lrg. And la both conventions there
was an atmosphere Of ferlid deterni
nation. OF uncompromising intolerance.
which might have had its foundation
IN % vital question of theology rather
IMAM .n a collection OF sacred songs.
Singing MsrvelousIy Musical.
Bat whatever their differences. the
singing IN both conventions was mar
velously musical There was inspira-
tion in the old hymns as sung by these
enthusiasts, First the leader announced
the hmyn. there was a rustling Of
pages, and then the singers burst into
the music. singing the notes MI. Fa.
Sol La ana giving no heed to the
words. Then the words were sung
with every voice joining Justify and
confidently Then a moments rest and
the selection of another hymn The
leaders were changed frequently. for
every man and woman at these con
venuons is a trained conductor The
sessions begin early in the morning
and continue through afternoon and
evening. They VIII close tomorrow
afternoon,
An excerpt from the preface OF the
newer song b~ shows the slirf, in
watch the 81 . Harp Singers regard
;hs'r hymns and discard the melodies
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-07
TWELVE CAUGHT
IN RAID IN DENS'
LED BY GIRL
Arrests Follow Disclosures of
Workings of Death Trust"
in Chicago Resort.

CHICAGO. Sept. Twelve persons,
two men and ten women. are under
arrest today as a result of the anti
vice war at West Hammond. Police
and detectives are seeking another
woman alleged By Ethel Parker, known
also as Frankie Ford, whose confess
ion exposes the death trust to
know all the ms and out Of the re-
markable series of crimes she alleges
took place in West Hammond. The
woman sought is .'Kittie2 Clark She
is said to be hiding in Gary. Ind, and
police there have been asked TO help
in locating he
The arrests at West Hammond fol-
lowed raid by county, city and Fed
eral officers, led by Miss Virginia
Brooks. who has headed the vice cru
sade, and by MS John +. Bass. chi
cago society woman. Whoh as become
interested in the case.
Today a heavy guard has been
thrown about Miss Brooks home in
West Hammond TO prevent its destruc-
rion by dive keepers and their friends.
TIE raid was the cause Of great
disorder in tEe village. A bowling mob
surrounded the jail where the arrest
ed persons wee lodged, and as a re-
suit police TODAY planned to remove
them AL to the cook county jail
Mob Planned Rescue, Rumored.
The mob was not dispersed until
long after midnight. Ugly stories Of
"a planned effort by thugs and gun
men from the vice district to rescue
the prisoners made the police believe
that il would be we'll to r7move the
prisoners
The two men under arrest are Henry
Foss. proprietor Of the resort in which
Messmaker met his death, and Con
Moore, proprietor Of Che Colonial hotel.
resort.
The white slave charge against Foss
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-07
Son of Publisher of Sacred Harp Raps Rival NeuUBook
RIVAL SINGERS FEUD BITTER
Clans of Unique Organization
Differ Only in HymnaIS Used.
Notes Shaped"

Sticking ioyally to their chosen hymn
BOOKS and their favorite leaders, the
rival conventions of the Sacred Harp
Singers continued their separate meet
ings today though the singers IA the
two churches numbered hardly more
than enough for one big chorus. But
the Internationals, in the Woodward
Avenue church, and the Uniteds, at the
old Baptist Tabernacle, made up in
vgor and enthusiasm whatever may
have been lacking IN volume. and
everybody was happy.
From the Tabernacle windows ioated
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-07
NEW SORORITY AT
BRENAU TO HAVE
HOME OF ITS OWN

Interest in sou GRITTY life al Brenau
viii be increased by the establishment
.of another sorority in its own home
handsome chapter house for the Phi
Mu sorority is nearing completion. In
addition to an attractive club room the
house will contain accommodations for
twenty students, a chaperon and a
faculty member,
These sorority houses constitute
unique and Characteristic feature Of
Brenau There are now seven. the Phi
Mu Gammas, the Alpha Sigma Alpha
the Sigma Iota Chi, the Alpha Delta
Phi, the Alpha Chi Omega, the Mu Phi
Epsilon and the Phi Mu.
About twenty students reside in
each of these houses under the care Of
a chaperon. The Beta Sigma Omicron
sorority and the zeta Tau Alpha own
beautiful club houses, but their mem
bers live in the dormitories, while the
M Sigma sorority will occupy an en-
tire floor Of the Bailey building, in
which is located also their attractive
club room.
Many OLD students have signifed
their intention of coming back for the
opening to help their various sororities
through the so-called rushing sea
son"