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1 ? f . ! \ TOQOCKXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXJOOO t"" alvocav. 8 A A WK CltKKRPUMNY PU*I,18H ALL S ? ? ? ? V /% ? M ? / ? M B /% ? ? ^ ss?r notks *,m,m Ai I n n r\ I I V I lw , /\ I r* oooooooooooooooooooooooocw> 8 ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ? ?r ^ ? '. ? , VOLUME XI. x CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, THURSDAY, Oct. 2?, 1911 ?- : ' . | ~ . ? * " 11 " ' '"' ' " ' '" ' "" - -" "" ? " " ^ ? ? I-- ' THJGD ADVOOATJO, U>VKRTISEMKNT8 '"PLAOTO OUR COLUMNS BIUNG l?w SUF/TS. TRY IT. c^oooooooooooocr^ooc*?o<ick^ . X"\ NUMBER VIII Colored Councilman \\\\s i;m;< iki> in nasiivilmo \vhi?:n IIOWSIO OIMJANI ZATIO.N WON OUT Reformers Worsted \ Alliance of lloiirbon Democrats, Lil ly While Republicans mid Prohi bitionists Lose in Contest for Con trol of City (Government. Nashville, Tenn., Oct. I(> ? The Howse organization triumphed in Nashville, Tennessee politics on Thursday. 0 et. 12th. The reform element was beaten to "a frazzle." The Negroes elected S. I'. Harris as councilman from the third ward and had a lot to do with the re-election of the Howse ticket. The Bourbon-Democrats, the "lily white" Republicans, the Prohibitions ists and t,lie minority element of Ne gro voters are all bowed down in sack-doth and ashes. They are on the losing side. The "liberal" Democrats, "the wets" and the majority elemcut. of Negro voters have all been telling! how it happened and prophesying the defeat of Governor Hooper and the re- 1 peal of he State-wide prohibition law. So they mean to go on from victory to victory in readjusting Ten nessee government to the will of the majority. The rec(r.it election was significant in that it showed conclusively the un poimla i it y ot the existing whiskey laws, and that Republican control of Tennessee will meet the fiercest kind of opposition in the next election. The Negro also made another step forward in the city government. Cot ncilnian S. P. Harris is said to h<> a man of unquestioned integrity and honor, lie is fit to enjoy all the privileges of American citizenship.1 "The white iolks say so" and the col 01 ed people of Nashville know that Harris is fully qualified to fill any po sition in the Nashville city govern ment. In spite of his fitness I\i every way, Harris was openly .opposed by some members of ills own race. He won in spite of their opposit ic.i. Those who fought him hardest were individuals who were "feeding from the fodder rack" of the white men's organization It was pitiful to note how secureiy the political pad lock had been fastened on some who from pride of race, if nothing else, should have i felt duty .oiiud to Harris in the con test. The "meat and bread" rsegro | ward-heeler did his best to earn his pay by contributing to the defeat of the Negro contestant. Harris and his supporters triumphed over all the op posing forces and the third ward of Nashville had some sick Negroes Fri day morning. They had failed to earn their pay. Dr. 10. \V. I). Isaac, Chairman Samuel .John^f/.), Lawyer .John Rhinos and o.hcr Negro leaders fought hard to behalf of Harris. They were largely' responsible for his triumph. The. Nashville Clarion was the only Negro paper s-upporting Harris and the elec tion of the colored candidate may be' very properly looked upon as a Nash-1 ville Clarion victory. There is no good reason why the colored people of Nashville should not elect three or four counciliuen to represnt them. They have the votes ;i nd majorities in as many wards of the "cfty. Tlie' trutb is, they have "been | sleeping over their opportunities. Perhaps there will be a general awak ening of the Nashville Negroes now that they have succeeded in the elec tion of Councilman S. P. Harris. Now that the city contest is over "Hie factions" have fastened their at tention on Governor Benjamin Hooper. The fusion crowd that elected him j shows a decided disposition to break , to pieces as the next state a fid nation al elections approach. The national, administration has vain hopes ofi placing Tennessee in the Republican! column but will be doomed to disap pointment unless a political earth quake happens. The administration of Taft has the political ostracism of the Negroes of Tennessee Charged to it. The white patty organization may re-nominate Taft but the Negroes will later on do some voting. If the Negroes of Ten nessee could do so, they would bury Taft politically for 'the prevailing opinion here is that the present Chief lO.xecutive is one of the biggest mis takes that ever sat in tin; chair of the President of the Cnited States. .Miss 10s I HI a .lames entertained Misses Mamie Viney, lOsther luniks, Mary I'reston, Aristes Johnson, and Mrs. Aileen Bibb at six o'clock dinner in honor of Miss Aristes .Johnson. Miss Kslher Fulks gave a buffet lunch Saturday, Im honor of Miss Ar istes Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. ('has. Preston enter ing ned informally, . riday evening, in honor of Miss Ariste .Johrtson. Negro Presbyterians Hold Annual Council MINLSTMKS, KI,1>MIIS AM) LAY MIOX OF MIDDLE ATI/AN Tit STAT MS TO IMMMT IN MHJII T MM NTH V MA.lt LY CONKMJt MNCM NEXT WMMK. Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. IS. ? 'i no eighteen Hi annual session of the Afro American Presbyterian Council will begin at Berean Presbyterian Church, Thursday of next week and continue until the following Sunday. The council is composed of ministers, lay men and eiders in New York, Penn sylvania. New Jersey, Delaware, Mary land and the District of Columbia. Dr. Mat hew W. AMerson, pastor ol Presbyterian Church, and Rev. Dr. .Joseph W. Cochran, secretary of edu cation in the Presbyterian Church, will deliver addresses at the opening session. The response will be made by the retiring president, Rev. Charles S. Freeman, of Jersey City. The an nual sermtu will be preached by Rev. H. G. Miller, of New York, at night. The morning and afternoon session of the second day will be taken up with addresses 011 various topics by Revs. J. T. Colbert. Chambersburg, Pa.; Charles S. Freeman, Jersey City; Charles H. Trusty. Pittsburgh; W. E. Griffin, Englewood, N. .1.; G. F. Haw kins, Reading, Pa.; 1,. Z. Johnscvi, Baltimore, Md.: R. 11. Armstrong, Gennantown, Pa.; .James Carlisle,'! roy, X. Y.; T. C. lines, Philadelphia, Pa.; S. \Y. Johnson, Oxford, lJa.; C. Brown, of Goshen, X. Y., who will read a pape' on ..as the Christian Church iu the United States Been the Chief Factor in the Progress of the Afro-American," i.'.icl Francis J. Griinke, of Washington, who w/ill 1 (?a<l the discussion 011 "Tne True Standard by Which to Esti-i mate Individuals and Races." Others who speak during the session include Rev. George S. Stark, Prince ton, N. J.; Rev. Thomas 11. Amos, Paterson, N. .J.; E. F. Eggleston New ark, N. .J.; B. I\1 . Ward, York, Pa.; Perry vv. Seward, Washington vilie, N. Y. ; E. A. Johnson, Pleasantville, NT. .J.; B. F. Glasco, - thvatic City; W. A. Byrd, Rochester, N. Y., who will read a paper on "A Vigorous Propaga tion of the Work of the Presbyterian Church Among Negroes," and Rev. . Edward Williams, Baltimore, who will read a paper on "The Jim Crow Car Laws and the Federal Constitution." The Women's Auxiliary will meet Fri day night. The convention will end Sunday night with a platform meethig. Negro to be in Coming Campaign mi.u:s, who is likicly to 1 k KLKCTKI> NATIONAL CHAIR MAN, l<;\ l*KCTKI) TO (i\ \ I) COIi OliKI) >!i:\ A SHOW. Washington, I). C., Oct. 2f>. ? The Negro citizens are getting ready to take an active part in the approaching campaign. They are eager for the meeting of the Republican National Committee, so that I he work can he organized and the line of battle mark ed out. Committees from clubs and individuals of prominence, as well as men of the press, will have much to say concerning the Natinal Cm mittee, touching the direction of the | campaign among the colored voters in the pivotal states. It is expected that a regularly-constituted represen tative will be selected to keep the rank and file of the race in touch with the National Committee, and a press bu reau will be given lis cue what to do in the way of making sentiment that will hold the black voters in line of the Republican ticket. Although there will be a commendable degree ! of anxiety to work for the party, it | is not believed there will be any ser ! ious clash over the problem of lead 1 ership. At a conference, this phase of the situation will be gone over in I a spirit of harmony, and when the del i egation goes to see the Hon. Charles j I). Hilles, who is likely to oe elected I chairman, a solid front will be pre ' sented. There is enough work to keep I every willing hand busy, and there will be ample glory for all. II is generally recognized thai the lighl will be an interesting one ? a battle of giants? ! and there is *10 time to lose. By the middle of December, according to one1 of I he militant Republican leaders, , "the fur will begin to flv." I _ I w i im:ss disaitivXhs, New York, ()<?(. 17.-- Staling lh;it his ; most important witness, I'oliee Lieu | tenant Quinn, who. it is said, was an i observer of the affair, had disap peared and I hat two other witnesses were out of town, James I. Moore, counsel lor the defendant in the trial 1 of II. K. I'lrich on the charge of as saulting I'ooker T. Washington, Negro pro lessor ol Tnskegee I'niversity. sue- J ! ceeded today in having the case ad I ionrtied until November Washington Prosecutes MAX WIIO ItKVTALIiY ASS A ll/l 101) I1IM IX NKW VOltK ( ITV LAST SI/MM H 11 Pleads For Delay riihli Claims Inability to Product* Materia) Witness ami Asks for n Continuance, Case lleing Sol Im>i November Sixth.. Now York City, Oct. IT. ? Harry A. Uirk'li, the drunken thug, who so bru tally attacked Dr. Booker T. Wash ington, the Tuskegee educator, on a public street in this city last March, was "brought to book" in the Court of Special Sessions, Part V# today, Judges Zeiler, Mayo and Kyan pre siding. Dr. Washington was in court to prosecute Ulricli; present also were his secretary, Emmett .J. Scott; Cliaa. W. Andersen, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Second District of New York; Fred R. Moore, editor and publisher of The New York Age; Ralph W. Tyler, auditor for the Navy Department, Washington, D. C. ; George WJ. Harris, of the Amsterdam News, and other of Dr. Washington's friends. The people of the State of New York were represented by Assistant District Attorney James E. Smith. Dr. Wash-! ingto ?'s .personal attorney. Wilford 11. Smith, was present as consulting at torney. ririch has continued to have this case delayed each time it has been called for trial, hoping that Dr. Wash ington would drop the prosecution; j today, through his counsel, he again j pleaded lor delay, claiming that, he had not been able to get his witnesses into court ? this despite the fact that he has been seven months to do so. District Attorney Smith opposed thei motion, claiming that Ulricli had no witnesses, and that his plea for delay was simply an effort, to avoid the consequences . of his brutal and un called-tor assault. The judges decided they would give him one more chance,; and have set the case down for trial l Monday, November (>. Dr. Washing ton has notified the District Attor ney's otfice that he will cancel the series of engagements he has for Wis consin and the West, made long since, so as to be in court and prosecute I'lrich. The assau It, occurred several months ago, and Ulricli at that time told con- i tradictory stories of what led to it. To the police he said that he had taken Dr. Washington for n burgler, but. to the reporters he said that Dr. Wesli ington had insulted Mrs. Ulricli, his wife. Ulricli, however, was never married to the woman he claimed was his wife, and the real wife of IJlrich, who lives i'n New Jersey, and was de serted by him, several years ago, con fronted him in court when he was to day arraigned foi* trial. Rcjoice Over 13th Amendment ( ULOKKD CITIZIONS OK IHSTKK T Ol'1 COLl'MBl A TO CHLKIIKATK HJtfi - ANNIVKttSARY ~ OK ITS A D(|>PTIO\. Washington, I). Oct. 25. ? The colored citizens oC the District arc 10 fittingly mark the 46th anniversary of the adoption of the K'th amendment to J he Constitution of the District of Columbia. The celebration, which is to be on an elaborate scale, will be held December IS at the Cosmopolitan Baptist Church, under the general di rection of its energetic pastor. Rev. Simon P. W. Drew. The 1 '? t li amend ment abolishes slavery in the United States. This is tne first time the an niversary of this event has ever been observed here, and the occasion is attracting widespread attention. The principal address will be delivered by fox-Senator John B. Henderson, of Missouri, the author of the Pith amendment. Among those invited to be present are Presidc.it W. H. Tan, Vice-President .1. tt. Sherman, Speaker Champ ('lark, William Jennings Bry an, Booker T. Washington, John ('. Daney, Henry Lincoln Johnson, Re corder of Deeds, Assistant AttoiMey (leneral W. II. l>ewis, Auditor Ralph W. Tyler. Register J. C. Napier, Form er Speaker J. (J. (,'atinoii, Congress man Caleb Powefs. Collector White field McKinlay, Judge Robert II. Ter rell, all of the local ministers, and many others of like prominence. Con tributions are bein sent from Mutner otts sources, to help defray the ex pense of the meeting. Persons desir ing to assist can scud contribution to Rev. Simon P. W. Drew. 1MH I Nth street northwest, Washington, I). C. Colored Voters Will Organize i . FIFTY THOUSAND OF TH 10 >1 WILL (MOT T(K?' lOTHljlt IN MAItYLAXI) L\l) Is 1 1 LKADKRSIIIP OF XiYOX TO FKJIIT FOR AYHOLIC llKPUIl LICAX TICKKT. Baltimore, M d . , Oct. IS. ? Dr. ISrnest L. Lyon, former United States minis ter to Liberia, has' been invited to or ganize the r?O,0OO e'oiored voters ol* the State in behalf of 'Phillips Lee Golds Corough and the-' remainder of the State ticket. He will associate with himself prominent 'colored men of the city, who will ast,as an auxiliary of the State Ceutral "Committee. The Ministerial' Alliance, at its monthly meeting (it Grace Presbyter ian Church, yesterday, passed a res olution endorsing L)r. Lyon as the man best suited for the' work to aid the Republican party, and urged that spec ial efforts be made to encompass the defeat of the Diggs disfranchising bills. Dr. Lyon has had considerable ex perience in political work among the race, and was a member of the aux iliary advisory committee to Repub lican National Coiutnittee in the presi dential campaigns 6f 11*00 and 1 1)04 . 1 Superintendent Addresses Parents I > ! v . DAVIDSON WASHINGTON < MTV CONTRASTS Kl> l" CATION ATj METHODS OF TO DAV WITH l\\$T. Washington, D. C., Oct. 25.? Dr. W. M. Davidson, superintendent of the Washington public jSchools, was greet ed by a large and representative audi ence last Friday Evening at Sumner Building. He spoke to the parents of the colored students primarily, under the auspices of thd Home and School Association of Nof?inaI School No. 2, which orga-nization'thus opened its fall season. The Superintendent's address was eloquent and abounded in practi cal suggestions. He'contrasted the ed ucational metliftiiSi. and opportunities of today with those of iifty years ago, and declared that there is no excuse in this day for a boy or girl in good health 'not to have an education. He justified the use of the rod in extreme cases, but advised that punishment l)e tempered with love and discretion. Power and discipline were exalted as prime .requisites to any shrine of training. His happy references to Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frances Wil lard, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, John Brown and Booker T. Washington were heartily applauded. He argues for an education that fitted an individual for the work that ho is best fitted to do, and believed that tne life's vocation should be determ ined at the earliest possible stage of a child's career. He made no 'references to the "color liue, ' and his live, lib eral and whole-souled western ways made a pleasing impression upon his hearers. All bcspeaK for him a suc cessful administration of the public schools here. The musical part of the program was a delightful feature. Mr. Joseph II. Douglass, now professor of or chestral music and the violin at How ard University, gave two violin solos, accompanied on the piano by Mrs. Fannie Howard Douglass; a trio was rendered by H. Leonard Jeter, 'cello, TT. S. Fortune, violin and Miss- -Ruth Grimshaw piano; Miss Ruth Weather less iViicl Celestine Lott contributed piano solos. The officers of the Home and School Home Association of Nor mal St'liool No. L\ one of the oldest in this now increasing group of parent teacher-pupil organizations, are as fol lows: President, Dr. C. W. Childs; vice-president, L. M. Hers'haw; cor responding secretary, R. W. Thomp son; recording secretary, Charles M. Thomas: treasurer, George D. Jf'iiier: chairman of the Advisory Council, Dr. Lucy 10. Moten. principal of Normal School No. -. The' next meeting, November IT, will be addressed by Judge W. H. De Lacy, of the Juvenile Court of the District. The musical numbers arc furnished by Mrs. Harriet Oibbs Mar shall, principal of the Washington Conservatory of Music. - ? ? sroi HSH r.n r, masons. I la |i imore, Mil., Oct. 1 7. ? Scott ish Rite Masons ol the southern .) 11 r is<H <? Mou held 1 1i ? ? i i" annual session yester clsi.v at Galilean Kishermen Hall. -I <?l> ! 1 1 \V. Middle street. Reports were received front subordinate bodies in various sect ic-.is of the country, as well as from thr- various officers. Wil liam I'1. Powell, former American minister to Haiti, represented the northern iurisd ict ion as a fraternal d'-leuatc. and delivered a brief address. The Lieutenant Son verelmt ('.rand Commander, K. L. Pendleton, of Wash in.uLvi. presided in the place of Jos eph L. Smith, of this city, who has been ill for somet lnv?. Own Nearly All Couutry IX WIIICII MARSHALL, TKXAS IS SITI A I MI) DO HARl WORK ING Nl'XJKOKS Racial Progress In Kvidi'iicc in Many Oilier Commu nities ol" (lie South, One Colored Man Having. Over Sixteen Huii tlred Acres I'mler Cultivation is Uepou ol Business League. In Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Ark ansas and Kansas are thousands ol' Negroes who own farms which are well stocked and on which they live in com fort and contentment, just as do their white neighbors. The opportunities fpr the black man in farming are more and better in the South than anywhere else in, or outside of this country. For instance: Negro farmers own nearly all the county in which Mar shall, Texas, is the coutv seat. More over this county has the reputation of being one of the most fertile in the State. The (Jalveston News (white) recent ly had this to say through its corres pondent at Brenham, Texas: "Miles Motley, a colored farmer who owns a large Brazos River farm noSr Chapel Hill, was iti Brenham Thursday, and when asked how many acres he had in cultivation, modestly replied, about six or seven hundred in corn and one thousand in cotton Miles is a frugal, hardworking' colored man, and has made his success in lite by hard work and st.rict.vattention to business." Mr. Motley besides owning several j thousand acres of land, controls a j steam gin, store, etc., and otherwise is making good. At Mansfield, La., DeSoto Parish, lives J. T. Henderson, who not only runs a large woodyard and is a man ufacturer of soft drinks, but also, is a farmer on an extensive scale, own ing over 900 acres of fertile land and is reputed to be worth $175,000. Other colored farmers in the same neighborhood are Philip Wiggins, who rai>es an abundance of corn, potatoes, cane ami cotton on 1100 acres and the Rev. .Jack Fuller who is the fortunate possessor of over 1,000 acres of rich, bottom land bordering the Red River. Charles Dnplantier, who resides at Buntville, La., is also a very large planter. He owns about. ".,700 acres, on which lie raises cane by the ton, cotton by the hundred bales, corn po tatoes and peas by the thousands of bushels. He has seventy-live heads of stock, a hundred of hogs. Last year he furnished the State farm with meat at $100 per month. His home place is worth $115,000 while his possessions elsewhere will aggregate $70,000, or more. Dr. 15. R. Bluitt. of Dallas. Texas, owns one of the finest and most, com- l 1 plet.e sanitariums that any member of the race has in the country. It cost over $12,0(M) and was established in June, 1005. Over four hundred pa tients have received medical treat ment therein. Some of the most skillful operations known to the sur gical world have been performed in t his . institution by Negro physicians. It is the proud boast of the manage ment that ninety-eight per cent of all flic "operative cases ~ t rented there have recovered. Dr. Bluitt has associated with him some of t lie very best surgical Negro talent in 1 lie Sout h. The appointment of John M. Wright to the? position of city treasurer of To peka, Kansas, is highly gratifying to those who Know him. There is not a better qualified man for the position in Shawnee connt.y, having served twenty years as deputy treasurer. Km hermore, Mr. Wright is congenial and approachable and enjoys ihe dis tinction of having as many good and J substant ial friends of both races as * any other man in the state of Kansas. Perhaps there is no other man con tributing more towards racial develop ment and opportunity along industrial lines than K. S. llolloway, the gen eral contractor and builder. f?s:; Harri son street. Kan -as City. Mo. .Mr. t fol low a > has been a contractor and -. very successful one for many years. As monuments to his ability and {skill, he can point* to the handsome J new Graham flats at ITl'I Highland I avenue, the splendid flats lie built for one. Kratik Johnson, at Tenth and Woodland, the Wheeler Sixrn and ('berry -fleets, the building.* at and f>v:; Harrison, the large store I 4 , room at Sixth and Hales avenue, an elegant residence on Main and many other snialer buildings elsewhere in the cjfv. f , Mr. 11 olio way <? 1 1 1 p 1 < > > s a force of ' about twenty men, consisting of brick layers. stone masons, earpcuters. hod : carriers and common laborers, mak ing his weekly pay roll average about $350. o K Wichita, Kansas, has a large colored population, who are seemingly in a well-to-do condition. Many are en gaged in the different kinds of busi ness pursuits and a very large number own their own homes, which in many instances are quite beautiful. Some of the prosperous members of the race here are Thomas Glover, Sev enth and Market streets, who is esti mated to be worth about $8,000. He sides his home place, he owns three other valuable residences and a $1,500 automobile. His son is head book keeper in the National Hank; the Rev. J. H. Vanburen. who not only has some valuable city property, but also owns two or three farms worth about $:;0,000; l,. France who is said to own some of the finest farifi land in Sedge wick county, about 600 acres valued at $ 1 fiO.OO per acre. Then there is \V. II. Jones whose holdings in city reality amount to at least $12,000. while Capt. X. Clark Smith owns a business block and residence combined, located on the corner of Main and Eleventh streets, nearly opposite the county courthouse, easily worth over $10,000. Captain Smith is the efficient band master of the celebrated T^tiskegee Ins- 1 titute Band. I Disfranchment National Question AND NOT COX ri MOD KOIjKLV TO THIC NHGRO IS THK (X)XTKX-| TION OF .1. C. MANNING SPKAK \\{i iu:roKi: mixistkkial Ali LIA XCK AT HA I.TIMOKK. lialtimore, Mil., Oct. 17. ? That dis franchisement in the South was a question lor the nation and that it. was not a Nemo question was the con tention made by Joseph C. Manning, of Bi nn high am, Ala., in an address yesterday before the Colored Minister ial Alliance at Grace Presbyterian Church, Dolphin and lotting streets. Mr. Manning was formerly postmast er at Alexander City, Ala., and has recently delivered a number of ad dresses in the North, in which lie de clared that the non-officeholder white ma'a of the South was the greatest sufferer because of disfranchising | laws. Answering that the amendment to the constitution ofAlabama disfran- J ehising voters was defeated by big majorities in the white counties or that State, while the black counties were reported as giving majorities for I it, he declared that one day the North' would wake up to the fact that the whole country was the sufferer there by. There were, he said 0.000,000 men of voti'Mg age in the South. Of these, 2, r, 00, 000 were colored, and of the total there were only 1,500,000 with the right to vote. He said that there were .'500,000 white males of voting age i.n Alabama and 200,000 colored men, and that the Democrats in the I last election elected their ticket in a total vote of less than 7 *>,000. De claring that the white school children of Alabama only got an average of six months' schooling ir.i a year, while the colored schools got three months, he maintained that such conditions would be wiped out with an untrain tuelod ballot, which he regarded as t he bulwark of t he nation. "Our friends South," he continued, "have with so much success plead to let the South alone that now a man whose prestige has been gained through the disfranchisement of thousands of Alabama is said to be an aspirant for the presidency. Lynch-" ings and other discriminations will pass away with an aroused public sentiment, and we must see that their virus does not inoculate the whole corMtry. Abraham Lincoln said that this republic could not exist, half slave and half free, and we must see that the conditions that make one white man in the South count for six men in the North are eliminated." ; Tuskejjee Entertains I lU'SSI.W NOIUJO.MAN .\ N I ) Will-;, who < omi; to ' >n:i; r omo or niK omo.v n,sr i;m catous i i\ .vmiokm \." ! Tnsket?ce, Ala.. OH, II. ? Count I liasil d'Kp-n, Councilor ol' State, St. i l'etersbn iR. Russia, and Countess j d'lOK^n 'have hecn spending several 1 <lays a; Tuskeuee Institute this week. , Count d'lOuert eame lo Tuske^ee, as j he states i!, "to inert (/,1c of th?' &reai i ost edjueators in America," atid "to J see something of the work of that man j has done lor his race." Coiiiii d 10;;ert ' and Countess d'lOtferi expressed them : selves as being greatly pleased with all that i hey have seen and heard here, i a i the school . Mr. and Mrs. 10. U. Carter nxTTTou i the < ongrat illations of their many I friends a> a reception Friday, at their home on Washington street. Manv out i j of-town guests were present. I Cordial Reception W.\s that TKNDICKKI) WAHH I NCiTOX 1'AHTY BY THItlV IX(? LITTLJS TOWN. Large Influence Wielded by l?est Klement of Negroe* Over White People and Relation# I let ween the Hares are Cordial In C'-orsicnna Where First Colored , School Was Erected. ! Corsicana, Texas, Oct. IT. ? Al though it. was Sunday when Dr. Hooker T. Washington, on his recent tour through the state of Texas, vis ited the little city of Corslcanu, the whole party met a reception, that for wholesomeness and genuine cordial ity could not be excelled in a larger . town. According to the last census, Corsicana has a population of about nine ' thousand, but enthusiastic res- * idents place it at about fourteen thousand. It is the centre of the great cotton lharket of Central Texas, and its glory and prosperity is shared alike by black and white. Here in Corsicana, are a multi plicity of examples, such as Dr. Wash ington calls the kind worth while, indicating that, kind of progress that he often insists upon as being of the character most worth while. Scores of instances can be pointed out right here where Negroes from very hum ble beginnings have succeeded in an admirable way in commercial enter prises. To be sure, none of them are captains of finance, but. in their hum ble way, they have solved the brea<J. and butter question, have bank <\Qz counts, own their own homes, are .good citizens and a number of them | are very large tax payers. The colored people generally live off#cotton raising and by working in the manufacture of its by-products, and a- large number of them own their homes. As in all towns, there are a few leading colored citizens --- who have a kjrge influence witb the best element of white people, aTicl ' who are regarded as of the best ele ment of their own people by' the whites. To a corresponding degree, they are looked upon by colored peo ple as the real leaders of the people. In his address at Corsicana, Dr. Washington pointed out, as at some other places, that in certain callings in the South black people were in.*a large measure being replaced by the whites. This remark, upon investi gation was not found to have particrr-., lar bearing upon the situation at Corsicana, and especially as it re- n lates to the barber business. \ In Corsicana, it is true that the Negro barbers bold their own, and here in this small town, one will find the best paying shops, the most cleanly and neat in appearance run by Ne groes. Of this class there are three, one by Itobert 11. Durham, the other " by .Johnson and McKinney and the third by W. W. McKinney. II. H. Durham, perhaps stands In the lead. He has been in the busiAi ness for nearly thirty years, &ntf came lo Corsicana broken down in health and with the stupendous cap ital of eleven dollars. He has a clean, up-to-date business, is regard ed by the whites as a sober-minded, clear-headed man and by the black* jis a leader. Mr. Durham has a good ly amount of real estate, a comforta ble home and is educating lYtfTT7irfil^~~ re 11. He was one of the leaders in the reception accorded Dr. Washing ton and his party. His success, as well as that of a number of colored men in this town show conclusively the folly of despising the day of small t hinss. Iii going tlu? rounds of the c\t$ Mr. Durham calls t lie attention to a large number of men who had be gun on 'nothing.' Such, for example, is the case of S. .1. Chestnut, one of the largest retail grocers in the city, who does a business tkat approaches ten thousand dollars per year. Mr. Chestnut started in business on $ 1 5-0 which ho borrowed from his children. In a novel way he has laid aside five cents per day for each of his three children, and when the amount reached $ I ">0, fills sum was borrowed from them to go into business. Another man borrowed thjrty-llv? dollars from Mr. Durham with which to open a small eating house. This man. Henry Smith, now owns and I operates a general merchandise store, | a first class restaurant and a moving (picture show, and as money goes among colored people, is rated in pretty good circumstances. A young man and a cripple, Wooddie Hall, started as a vender of popcorn ami peanuts. lie now runs a grocery store with a good iine of trade, auU has not yet given up his pop-corn! After three years in business in a populous Negro district. Norton Drot tiers, two unlettered and uncshooV ed men. but men with a lot of hard. (Continued .on page Three.) *