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Business letters of all kinds must be written on separate sheets from let ters containing news or master for pub lication. Entered as second class matter June G, 1SS5 at the postoffice at St. Paul, Minn., under act of Congress, March 3, 1879. -A** ^KM|P"W 9H| ^T 'v:% It 3M A A PRESIDENT TAFT. Copyright 1900, by Harris & Ewlng. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1911. POPULATION OF FLORIDA AC CORDING TO COLOR. A very interesting preliminary statement has been issued from the Census Bureau this week relative to the population of Florida according to color, taken as of April 15, 1910. It shows that the total population of Florida in 1910 was subdivided as to color as follows: Whites, 443,646 Afro-American, 308,669 all other per sons, including Indians, Chinese, JaiD anese and other Asiatics, 304. The equivalent figures for 1900 were: Whites, 297,333 Afro-American, 230,- 730 all others, 479. For 1890 they were: Whites, 224,949 Afro-Amer icans, 166,180 all others, 293, The Afro-American population con stituted 41 per cent, of the total popu lation of the state in 1910, as against 43.7 per cent, in 1900 and 42.5 per cent, in 1890. There has been an increase since 1900 in the Afro-American population of 77,939, or 33.8 per cent., as com pared with an increase during the pre ceding decade of 64,550, or 38.8 per cent. From 1900 to 1910 the white population increased at a much great- i i1* er rate than for the decade 1890 to 1900, the increase being, respectively, 146,313, or 49.2 per cent., as against. 72,384, or 32.2 per cent. Jacksonville city had a population in 1910 of 57,699, comprising 28,331 whites, 29,293 Afro-Americans and 75 other persons (Indians, Chinese and Japanese). The equivalent figures for 1900 were: Whites, 12,158 Afro Americans, 16,236 all others, 35. For 1890 they were: Whites, 7,372 Afro Americans, 9,801 all others, 28. The Afro-American population of Jacksonville constituted barely more than 50 per cent. (50.8) of the total in 1910, as against 57.1 per cent, in 1900, and 57 per cent, in 1890. The rate of increase in the whites from 1900 to 1910 more than doubled that of the preceding decade, the increase being 16,173, or 133 per cent, as against 4,- 786, or 64.9 per cent, from 1890 to 1900. The Afro-American population shows an increase of 13,057, or 80.4 per cent., from 1900 to 1910, as com pared with an increase of 6,435, or 65.7 per cent, from 1890 to 1900. Conditions in Russia and America Similar. Mr. Suvorin, editor of the St. Pe tersburg Novoe Vremya, said in a re cent interview: "I have nothing against the Jews personally, but as a Russian Patriot, I am opposed to them. If the Jews were given freedom in Russia, the entire native population, be cause it is so uncultured, would find itself in the hands of the Jews. All the wealth of Russia would go over to the Jewish people." He admitted that "the struggle is beyond question a savage one, but then our people are savages. HON. HARRY S. NEW, Chairman of the Sub-Committee in Charge of Arrangements for the Re- publican National Convention of 1912. The Best Man for This Important Work. The editor's statement is brutal and reminds one of some of the utteran ces of Tillman, Vardaman. Heflin, Hoax Smith and other famous or in famous American statesmen. In the days when the "bustle" was a very necessary adjunct to a fash ionably attired female a lot of fun was poked at the bustle and its wear ers. They usd to be made of all sorts of things, good, bad and indif ferent, but it remains for an old wo man in Portland, Me., to have the most valuable stuffing for hers. It seems that although the bustle went out of style many years ago, she clung to hers, and when she died suddenly a few days ago and an examination of her bustle disclosed the fact that she had $10,000 in bills in it, and none of th'em of a more recent issue than 1886. The simple interest on $10,000 for the 25 years since 1886 at 6 per cent, will amount to $15,000. A rather expensive article of the toilet it has been, to saythe least. A recent census bulletin shows that the white population is increasing at a much greater proportional rate than the Afro-American population. Ex cluding Alaska, Porto Rico and the outlying possessions, the total popu lation of the United States at the last census was 91,972,266, of which 81,- 732,687 were whites, 9,828,294 Afro Americans and 411,285 Indians, Chi nese, Japanese and other non-Caucas ian races. The increase in the white population since 1900 was 14,923,491, or 22.3 per cent, as compared with, an increase of 994,300, or 11.3 per cent, in the Afro-American population. If any one is anxious to see an honest man, Minnesota can produce him. Twenty-one years ago F. A. Bean, a miller of Faribault, failed for $100,000. Bean was 51 years old when the crash came, but he put on his hustling clothes and accumulated a couple of hundred thousand dollars, and now, at the age of 72, he is pay ing off all the old claims against him and paying 6 per cent, interest be sides, although none of the claims are legal, having outlawed. However, he is in New Prague distributing his $200,000 among his old creditors as Christmas gifts. He is a real Santa Claus. The Christmas spirit is abroad in the land, and there are very few peo ple who are not doing all they can to carry it out, and many will "go broke" doing so. It, however, seems that Mrs. George J. Gould is to be the Lady Bountiful of the season, as she has arranged to give a present to ev ery child in her home town, Drybrook, Del. What a happy lot of kids there will be, but Mrs. Gould, who will be present at the distribution, will de rive more pleasure out of it than any one, upon the principle that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Of course, the Republican National Committee on last Tuesday decided to hold the Republican National Conven tion in Chicago, June 18, to nominate candidates for President and Vice President of the United States. Of course, where else would they hold it? The Afro-American citizens of Wash ington, D. C, did well to honor the memory of the late Justice John M. Harlan, who was a staunch friend of the race. Similar memorial meetings should be held in every city in the country. Since Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad, the show girls, were acquitted of shooting E. D. Stokes in the legs, we may look for some other notoriety hunting girls to try the trick. Look out, fellows. HON. FRANK O. LOWDEN. Illinois Member of the Republican National Committee, Member of the Committee to Draft the Call for the Republican National Con-, vention. A Man of Whom Illinois is Proud 4 .-fci***.a p^t^y *fc^tf. ^^?|i^ "&rfi^: I* ^Ai.'^AV ^jgB^^^S^^^^^^^^^SSSSBK'5teia2^^^^Ki H*Jft ft Wds LL around the season of the Coming of Love as a little Child there have sprung legends and be liefs, like blossoms In a gracious clime, which testify with subtlety to the depth of the appeal of the birth of Christ. Here divinely spiritual symbolism and there sweet human tenderness and pathos appear, and, blended, they evidence the world's belief that this was both Son of Man ?nd Son of God. An Irish legend tells that, on Christ mas eve. the Christ-Child wanders out In the darkness and cold, and the peasants still put lighted candles in their windows to guide the sacred lit tle feet, that they may not stumble on their way to their homes. And in Hungary the people go yet further in their tenderness for the Child, they spread feasts and leave their doors open that He may enter at His will, while throughout Christendom there is a belief that no evil can touch any child who is born on.Christmas eve. The legend which tells how the very hay which lined the manger in which the" Holy Babe was laid put forth liv ing red blossoms at midwinter at the touch of the Babe's body could only have arisen from belief In the renewal of life through the Lord of Life. Christmas Rose. NOTHER of those spiritual parables is the legend of the Christmas rose, and it tells how good things, fit for giving, spring up ready to the hand which earnestly desires to give to the Child. It is said that a certain maiden of Bethlehem was so poor that she had nothing to give to the Babe to whom kings brought wealth from afar, and, as she stood, longing and mourning, and angel appeared to her, saying: "Look at thy feet, beneath the snow," and lo! on obeying the maiden found that a new flower had miraculously sprung up and blossomed at her needs. Every since then, runs this story, this exquisite flower, with its snowy petals just touched by suggestions of pinkish bloom, is to be found at this season and, indeed, its half-opened cups are like chalices of love, and its fully spread petals are like a happy inno cence, fit symbo|s for the gifts for the Babe of spotless innocence, whose heart was the vessel of love. as Foe Legends. HERE are several exceeding ly touching legends concern ing bells, which are heard ringing from buried cities and villages at this season. fOne belongs to a vil lage near Raleigh, in Nottingham shire, and the story runs that once, where there is now but a valley, there was a village which, with every trace of life and habitation, had been swal lowed by an earthquake but ever since, at Christmas, the bells of the buried church are heard to ring as of old. A similar legend is told of Preston, in Lancashire, and yet another and First Christmas Observance Christmas gets its name from the mass celebrated in the early days of the Christian church in honor of the birth of Christ, its first solemnization having been ordered by Pope Telesphorus. This was in or liefore the year 138, for in that year Pope Teles phorus died. At first Christmas was what is known as a movable feast, just as Eas ter is now, and owing to misunder standings was celebrated as late as April or May. In the fourth century &n ecclesiastical investigation was or- fefi*S"T more moving one comes from the Netherlands. It is said that the city of Been was notorious for its black and shameless sins, as well as re nowned for its beauty and magnifi cence. To the Sodom of the middls ages came our Savior on one anni versary of his birth, and went as a beggar from door to door, but not one in all that Christmas keeping city gave the Master of the abundance. Sin he saw rampant on every side, but not a trace of Christmas bounty and good will, and he called to the sea, which, as of old, obeyed his voice, and Been, the city of sin, was buried deep, clean out of sight, beneath the waves. But ever at Christmas up from beneath the covering waters comes the sweet call ing of church bells buried In Been. It is a legend which appears to tell in parable that nothing which ever be longed to the Christ, and was dedi cated to his service, is ever wholly lost from him and alienated from service that ever and again something of their inherent beauty and compelling sweet ness rises from the depths through all seeming ruin. rHolp Thorn is not BO many centuries ago since there was that holy thorn at Glastonbury which blossomed every Christmas, and, so ran the legend, had done ever since St. Joseph of Arimathea, having come as apostle to Britain, and, landing at Glastonbury, had stuck his staff of dry hawthorn into the soil, commanding it to put forth leaves and blossoms. This the staff straightway did, and thereby was the king converted to the Chris tian faith, the faith which preached life from death. The holy thorn of Glastonbury flour ished during the centuries until the civil wars. During those It was up rooted but several persons had had trees growing from cuttings from the original tree, and those continued to bloom at the Christ-season, just as their parent, which had grown from St. Joseph's staff, had bloomed. And about the middle of the 18th century it waB recorded in the Gentleman's Magazine how the famous holy thorn would not deign to recognize the new style calendar, which had then come into force but would persist in blos soming as of old on old Christmas day! In those days the anniversary of the advent of the Babe had certainly meant more to the common people than merely a time for feasting and revelry, for giving and receiving it had been also a season for holy ob servances, for they refused to go to church on New Christmas day, the holy thorn not being then in blossom. So serious became the trouble that the clergy found it prudent to announce that Old Christmas day should also be kept sacred as before. Only an other story of men's weak, supersti tious minds? True, perhaps but they are better who evidence some spiritual weakness than those who wallow in the wholly material, and when we cease to be careful of the cup and the platter, we become not over careful of their contents. As to a Friend. "He's too irascible." "I know. He says things that he doesn't really mean. He got mad at me once and called me a poet." dered, and upon the authority of th tables of the censors in the Roman archives December 25 was agreed up on as the date of the Savior's nativ ity. Tradition fixed the hour of birth at about midnight, and this led to the celebration of a midnight mass in all the churches, a second at dawn and a third in the later morning. Making Sure of His Vegetal?!* "Are you going to start a garden next year?" "I am not." replied the luckless ama teur. "Next year, instead of burying good stuff in the ground, I'm going t eat it." Knowles Building. Boys' Hall. 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For further particulars address THE PRESIDENT, Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta. Georgia. Washington Conservatory of Music and School of Expression 902 STREET, WASHINGTON, D. C. LARGE AND COMPETENT FACULTY DEPARTMENTS Piano,Voiceand Violin, Piano Tumng.Theory Analy sis, Harmony, Counterpoint, Fugue.Vocal Expression, Wind instruments, History of Music, Methods. Scholarships Awarded Artists* Recitals HARRIET GIBBS-MARSHALL, President. GEORGE WILLIAM COOK, Treasurer. ABBY WILLIAMS, Secretary. LEWIS G. GREGORY, Financial Secretary. ANNIE E. GRINAGE. gJjMi Ituueratltj This-institutton of learning, established in 1865, has industrial departments tor both young men and young women, as well as college, normal and preparatory departments. There are also Schools of Law, Medicine, Pharmacy and Theology. The facilities have recently been increased. Other improvements are being planned that will be completed within the next two years. Applications should be made several months or a year in advance, for it has become impossible during the last few years to receive all who apply. The present enrollment is over 500. The academic year begins on the Thursday nearest the first day of October and continues for thirty-two consecutive weeks. The charges ^re moderate. Catalogues furnished upon application.. Address THE PRESIDENT Shaw University, Raleigh, N. AVERY COLLEGE TRAINING SCHOOL NORTH SIDE, PITTSBURGH, PA. A Practical Literary and Industrial Trades School for Afro-American Boys and Girls. Unusual advantages for Girls and a separate building. Address Joseph D. Mahoney, Principal. Box, 154. North Side, Pittsburgh, Pa. StraJgHterv up. Why do you wash in the hardest pos sible way? Use PEARLINE. there's no bending over the tub, no ba.ck kinks, no work to speak of, no we ar a.nd tear from rubbing. Millions use PEAR.LINE. No matter how or when you use PEAR.LINE, or however delicate your hands or th fa.bric, it is absolutely harmless. 636 Peedrline is right WANTED, A SAMARITAN. Prone in the road he lay. Wounded and sore bestead: Priests, Levites past that way, And turned aside the head. They were not hardened men In human service slack: His need was great: but then His face, you see, was black, From the New York Independent. &Wi$ffi\ Defective Page 3* -A "'r I-