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L ma * e “”‘w 5 w ShsRAEE vensse seBIRLAgRRAs, s a i * Hwths L L e . | - i i sessensas semsens T | Biazie UOPY - coorreneeceernes " Al artieles sent to this office for pnb gemtion, must have the writers signa zare i full, otherwise, such articles ‘il be ignored. ©hurebes and others having votices o+ pews will please have the sawe at BITO Y ']lmkrdfi)wto insure pub jestion in the weeks issue. arexponaence on live and interes Wing rubjecieiuvited. Write plainly o 1 one side of the paver. &*o;mmn is autborized to collect 8 from advertisers and 'sphscriners maless they bear the personal signa // I vezo, of the General Agént- SATURDAY AUGUST 8,1895. THE AFRO-AMERICAN celebratesits birthday aud eyrs ugon its fourth | Frar of contin ‘8 ‘r**ence with a grateful a) phecigtion of the 'confid‘ euce and by pport which it has enjoyed. B EOUIA Dot feel otherwise l than prefndiy { @hteful to those | who havelbly supported the enter-l prise whalwe te wetuber the arauous ness of tlElask pefore us, three yeirs ago, in +TEe ,}'ing to restore publicu eonfidenddM Colored Newspapers in | the midss of the wany signal failures in that line, then fresh 1n the minds , of the people. We rejoice that THE | AFRO AMERICAN after three years of t hard work is a decided success and a.i posiiive fixture in the comumercial and Lasiness hife of Baltimore. The wri ter of this, who is not the honored . Sounder of this journzl, may be per- ‘ 'mitied to say that the present pros. l periiy and success of the paper, aside com popualar support, is almost eun ely due 1o theliborious, self-sacri- I u,{, patriotie, and race loving de otion of its fouvder, the Rev. W M, ‘#fxandar aud his eonstaut co-helper, My, Jawmes K. JoLnson, the Genera Agent. Iris aun uvusaal pleasure forl } one. but for a few weeks counec(ed! with this journal, to look over the fin | aucialiecords of the office, faithfully Aept from its very begining, and find such a xratifyin: record of down rigl hounesty in the bandling and dis Lurcewent of funds.: This in a veryj Yaxze teasure, acsounts for the pop wlarity us well as the pervetuity of the sostiturion. “"Houesty is the best podey” and uewspaper Work is no au exception 1o this rale. With iucreased facilities, a sirong haeking inthe shape of the Nortu wesiern family supply Company, . aud able and experierced arsistance k“\{imh in tueeditorial, business wman apesent avd Job Departwent, our paivous may hopefuily auticipate syery proper advane: iu that direct ' 3om whieh progre sively furuishes the Yery bLest newspaper wo-k. THE AFRO-AMERICAN rejoices on ahis ies birth:day over the fact, which . A 8 editorial colums tor the three vyears past will dyioce, thatit has boen s eadfast aud @il oo able in its sdevotion to the WRrigd Interesis of Lue race, and lhw\ thousands whom the pa I‘&%#&&s;{iously read 3 week coustitate & very best f of onr 4*(}o@.7 W [mr. HoOUR, publithed iu this city i Mr. Revel H. Fooks, Maasager P»md its way into mzr fanctum, i a pedtly gotten up 5 colamin folio ing sreat faith in its ability 1o sue fully operate ppon the trouble jourvalisticses:'y, ¢ Oar young coutemporary, not ig i the presence of THE AFRO-AMERIL” Jeax and the STANDARD, has the coar auve to eonfess that neither one of hue.lournals s'reflect the progress are making in all that goesto Bunke manhood. men and insiitu ;i:ms” 1t rems no ‘eraveyard’ but ing persnaded that the fittest will ®arvive, it is conseiously sere that & spite of the trials and tribalations which await it, it will beable to out. Sive thican all ard out-distance every sana all eompetitors. We are loth to Tdiove is andacity on the part of snr yonng neigh bor, _and therefore we wust udmire its courage, though we think its diseretion rather faulty, e ¢ plenty of “‘Brains, K recman, as well as others of his way of thinYing, not content with their indifference, proceed to give the as sociation a “*black eye.” Certainly the Ideal in this matter has not been attained. Nor has our woithy con temporary, as we guppose attained an ideal asa “National Tllustrated Col ored Newspaper.” . «ouf In over-haunn&w updggoks.it is just I i el Bl o possible thatsome: ,xmy have been dropped thfo&h;%{éfi}{ffiversight. We would, therefore, esteem it a spec ial kindness, if #jioNgaf our sabscrib ers who do not pEONMEY receive THE AFRO-AMERICAN, WOl immediate ly inform us. S&S &WPstal and the watter will be pESRSSEIE atteuded to. In over-haulinfiffi’;_ is just possibl= thatsome names niay have 0 Ly 6 L R 0 2D . 8 cents Winter follows \‘ assurely as night follows the" . and it would, by no means be a ba®idea for many of our people in very humblw ¢irezm stances to bear thisin mind. Employ ment, these hard-times, is not always so sure, 2and when one thinks of the coming winter with its many possi bilities ilt should incline him to be as economical and saving as opossible in order that he may have something laid by for the * hard season.” After all it isnot so much what we make as it is what we save. ‘‘A stitchin time,” as the old saying runs, “‘save nine.” The Democratic State Convention assembled in this city on last Wednes day and after a brief session promul gated the “‘cat and dried” program and nominations as ordeired by Boss Gorman. Mr. Gorman’s ticket vhich | was formally ratified by Jhis conven- ‘ tion,is as follows: For Governor. John E. Hurst, of Baltimore vity; Comptroller, Mainor DeKalb Smith, of Kent county; Attorney general, Chas. Crothers, of Cecil county. There seems to bea great row in the Democratic Camp which appar ently is beyond the powers of the State Boss, May the Republican Convention which is to assemble shortly, profit by the Demoeratic dis. aster and dissentions, and give to th people of Maryland a good ticket for State officers. Weshould make naste slowly, and use t he present opportun i ities for all they are worth, These opportunities ouly come, very often, ovce iua quarter ofa centur ~ anpd 1t would be extreme folly on the part of I the Republicaps to invite defeat, on acecuot of theirsupremne intoxication l with delight, by afailure to do the | light and sensible thing. THE CONTEST FOR THE GOVERNORSHIP. The time for the great political pattle is upon us. If we may judge our chances for success by the demor alizations aud divisions iu the camp of the Democracy then victory is in the air. Butit should be constantly borne in miud that although indica tions are most favorable to us, yet such bright prospects forsuccess are contingent upon harmony and ag gressive action on our part. To miss such a chance would hardly be less than treason to the great principles for which the Grand Old Party has a'ways stood. As we have repeated ly said the question isto WIN. Both Mr. Malsterand Mr, Lowndes have made a prelimivary canvas for the nomination. The people have heard the merits and demerits of both the candidates. Now is the time for aec tion. When the primaries assemble in a few days delegates to the state Convention, which is to make the nowiunation, will be elected. Let there ke a fairand houest, expression of the will of the people, without in terference crdickering upon the part of the “‘political bosses,” and the ver diet attained under such circumnstan_ ! ces will be satisfactory, wheter 1t be | tor Malster, Lowndes or some one else. We shall be satisfied with such i an expression upon the part of the : people, and the nominee of the Cam. \ bridge Convention, whoever he may be, can rely upon the united support nf Ihe party and lead the Republican host to victory. This isa bad year for ‘‘Gormanism” and “Bossism” whether in the Dem ocratic or Republican parties, and we now warn all hot'headed and ov er-zealous political hucksters of the awful wrath of the people awaiting them, should they, by ways that are davk and tricks thst are contempt ible, couspire to pervert and stifle the voice of the peoble. The plain, everyday, hard-working people of this city have every reason for believin ¢ that Malster is the man of the people and for the people and that in the case of his nomination and election he will be the people’: Governor. Bull-dozing and ruffian ism in the primaries in att¢mpting to hinder such a popular el{bression of the confidence of the people in their chieftain, Wm. T. Halster, will mest. surely and 'disastrously re-act upon the success of the party, and uniyi-takably hold up to public con political death all litical he val, Let ble W “, : : 1 : | A Great Institution of the Preshy- terian Church. Scotia Seminarv, Concord, N. C for the 'ucation of Colored Women. Sometime during the year 1866, Rev. Dr. Logan, secretary of the Frecdmen’s Committee of the North ern General Assembly, visited Concord, and the conclusion reached was that this was a good place for a girls’ school. In January 1867, Rev. Luke Dorland and his wife reached this place, and settled down to stay and grow old in their work. No one now can realize how much of moral courage and pa. tience it took to lay these foundations in those times when sectional feeling was so biiter. In course of time a pa rocial school was started and a church organized. Probably the first building erected was that known as a Manse, then close by No. 1, known in late days as Georgia. In 1870 letters patent were issued by the Governor of the State and the paro chial school become a seminary. The first seminary building was the afore said No. 1, a one story building, 20x22 feet. During this year a two story building, 24x40 feet wag put unp, of which Dr. Dorland said: ¢I have han. dled nearly every stick of it myself.' This was No, 2, This has since been moved, and is now used for a laundry. No. 3 was a small building, like No. 1. The Manse, No. land No. 3 were all moved outside the seminary grounds tc make room for Faith Hall. 1876 the first brick building was be gun, the front of what we call the old building. 1t might well be called Mor ris Hall, in memory of RRev. sir. Morris, of Pennsylvania, one of the most liberal friends the Seminary has ever had, to whom also we are largely indebted for the wnoney to pay for the church erected in 1880 and 1881. The name ¢ Scotia” was the choice of Matthew Scott of Ohio, one of the first to come to the support of our cause. Having made a liberal gift, he was asked to find a name for the infant. He modestly preferred to have it bear the name of his native land, rather than his own- In 81 and 82 the stem was added, completing the T, almost the entire ex- ! pense being met by a gift of eight thous. | and dotlars, sent by E. A, Graves, Esq.. of New Jersey, whose name is placed over the parlor, from the estate of his deceased brother, Augutus Graves, for whom the additton is named. In 1885 the two and one-half story trame building was erected for the use of the Industrial Department, which was since moved, and now serves the purpose of a music hall, In the spring of 1890 Mrs. Satter— tield visited Cincinnati. 0., and spoke before a meeting of the ladies there iu the interest of the enlargement of the work. A committee was appointed soon afterward by the Home Missionary Society of the Presbytery ot Cincinnatti to raise fund for th's purpose, of whick Mrs. Sidney D. Maxwell was appointed president; Rev. Doc. J. J. Francis was requested to act as corresponding secre tary. On commencement Day, 1891, the corner stone of the new building was laid by Mrs. Maxwell, who gave to it the name ¢*Faith Hall,” It waseom. pleted and ready for use by November 15. and by December 1, was full. The entire expense for the improvement— about s22,ooo—was met without draw ing anything from the treasury of the Board. About $16,000 was raised by the committee in Cincinnatti, The chapel was named in honor of Mr. Duncan Mackay of Morristown, 111., whose bequest of $2,000 came just while we were building. The heating plant of the two buildings was paid for out of the bequest of Wm. F. Childs, of Niagara Falls, received August, 1838 When Dr. Dorland retired in 186, he estimnated the expense for land and} improvements at $34,750. Not les: than $25.000 have been added since. We take pleasure in saying that the credit of the Seminary in the communi ty is quite good. It is not often that 2 business man refuses to trade with us, During the last nine years the treasurer . has paid out, by check or otherwise.} ako 1t $200.000, nor has he had a single ; paper protesied or account disputed. 1 In its first year the Seminary enroll. ed fortv-five, twelve of whom were boarders in the little 20x22 house. The first class graduated in '76, a class of nine, in what was then the teacher’s cour:e, now the grammer school. The total enrollment to date 18 1,767, The number having completed the gram mer school course is 270, while rixty have taken higher course. Of these graduates. some are teaching, some fill ing woman’s higheet sphere and doing her noblest work-—home-mmaking ; some are in heaven, some are helping Scota by sending us their children; one bas already completed a full course in the - Missionary Training School in Chicago; one a course in kindergarten work in Philadelphia ; two have taken the nurses’ trairing in Boston; one has taken the full medical course in Philadelphia, and was highly complimented for her exam ination before the Medical Board of North Carolina; another is pursuing the same course. Acrd of nearly all it can be said without boasting, they are, in a quiet way, bringing the light into dark places and helping to make the world better. their associates happier, and to reflect honor on their alma ma ter and their Master. ANAFRO-AMERICANSTENO- GRAPHER EMPLOYED BY A SOUTHERN WHITE L ,‘ mx' WHAT THE INTER-OCEAN HAS TO 52%. firm in Richmond, Va., has given oI N ego SEnostib el the labor Southern men who have becn most sen sitive about nolor line in social affairs and in politics, have generally allowed the Negro to work at any trade er pro fession that he chose to follow. White men did not object to working wiih Negroes before the labor unions organ iz -d in the South. . A few years ago in any southern city white and black men could be seen at work on the same building and in the same factory., Fach each man was earning his own bread and finding no fault with the other for earning his bread in the same way. But the labor union, professing to represent the great brotherhood of labor, punched in to the South, organized the white men denied the same . membership to the Negro, and proclaimed that the Negro should not where they could dictate At the sgj&fime the union cries out against the Negroes for taking the places @f white men who stiike for higher%ges. Tlee union deserves no sympathy in such a contest of such complaints. But the employment of this Negro stenographer has offended more than the labor agitators. The firm employ ing has unconsciously touched the social side of tne question by taking him into «:a semi-confidential” relagions. There is another inconsi:tency in this ebjection. The Negro was in slayeey and has Leen since in more than ‘‘a ” relation, He wag sie master's valet and the mistress’ sigwe. He waited up on both and becai#e he was black he could do many ser¥ises that a white 'man could not withesi suspigion of in ‘delicacy on the part: of Bis master or ‘mistress. This samesrule of slavery ~days bas held good since then with 'many Negroes employed as servants. The trouble with this stenographer is that his work is now regarded as belung ing to the professions. He must sit in the office with his employer and near bim when taking his dictation. To goine of the supersensitive that seems to be 1 more confidential relation than the position of a valet. because it carries with it the suggession of quality. It reaches back to the old time prejulice against teaching the Negro to read and write - It is encouraging to note that this Richmond firm has more backbone than had Governor O’Ferrell a few months ago when he received an official visit from. Massachusetts legislative commi~ jee, one of whom was a Negro and then | apologized for doing his duty =as | state executive. This firm has replied 1 to all its critics that the Nero stenogra pher suits his employers, has their en lire confidence, and will remain where ne is as long he choses. Nathanial McKay, the noted ship builder, of Boston, has written a letter | of congratulation to the Richmond firm. He alsq;l;asifi Negro stenographer who has traveled with him in Europe and America holding ¢.semi-confidential re lations” t 6 him. and justifying them by his faithful service. Mr. McKay calls attention to the faet that this Negro stenographer has everywhere been treated with the respect due a private secretary, and in South America and Europe he has had the same attention shown his employer. Itis humiliating to confess it, bui free America seems to be the only country which has a color line, Other countries have all sorts of distinctions and degrees of social equal ity, but the color line isn’t one of them. In Europe the color of a man’s skin does not degrade him in the eyes of white men. That distinction isreserved for America, the land of freecom, where we declare that all men are crea ted with equal rights and vpportunities, This was born of slavery and it will take several generations to move away from it. But the education of the Ne gro and the property he is rapidly ac quiring will do much to wipe out such | distinctions, and the stand taken by this Richmond firm, that it will employ - whom it pleases in confidential and other business relations. will remove another barrier. 'The labor unions can not dictate to employers as to who shall work and what kind of work they shall do. Business men will always be guid ed by their own judgement and confi dence in the employment of men who are to hold their confidential or semi | confidential relations with them, GOOD ADVICE FOR AFROC- AMERICANS: A WHITE FRIEND OF THE RACE WRITES WISELY. The weak, the ignorance, and the poor have ever been the victims of injustice and ever will be till man learns from -beneficient experience that justice like honesty is the best policy. =~ The world despises them everywhere and of whatever color, because they are of little or no value to it, but it respects the thrifty and well to do because they are of no value to it and it canpot afford to, nor is it able to treat them unjustly. ' Negroes therefore suffer injustice, not so much because they are black, but because as a race they are weak, lignorant and poor and therefore of little value to the world. Now, are Negroes ever to remain valueless and therefore the victims of injustice? Not necessorily, but their redemption rests mainly with themselves and must come from improving their own mater. ial condition, So long as they remain as they are. they are except as menials and drudges of small value to the world, and the world thinks it has nc interest in treat ing them justly. On the contrary it despises them and what jone despises he is pretty sure to kick aud cuff. | How then can the Negroes improve their material condition ? Primarily and essentially by economy, by saving money, however small the wages, and putting itiin savings’ banks, managed by men of acknowledged capacity, where shough safe, it will be beyond ready reach. Where it will notbe burning the fingers, ‘where it cannot be easily loaned to l:?dy friends; and where it will be drawing interes{. ' The elevating effect of having a bm;} account however small is amazing a makes one feel like a man as soon he has one. fierulnly one does not feel like a man with empty pockets and ‘knowning ot where money is to colne cents a week putin a mite box snd de posit when they have a dollar. The poor man seldom makes a step upward antil he has mouey laid up somewhere, There are many ways. live cents here, and ten cents there, in which money is wasted ;: stop them and one will be sur prised to find how easy he can hocome a bank depositor. This will require self-denial, because the poor who should be the most frugal and economical are comparatively the most wastful and ex travagant and it is dillicult to break up old habits. While economy usnally meaus mere iy the saving of money, there ars other kinds of economy worc important than economy in money, because they pre cede the saving of money and render it possible. 1 mean economy of time and labor. Surely how to economize (imeo and labor, because this Kkind of econciny enzbles one to do mwore. and thus make more money in the same time, or if no money is to be made, it gives one more time to rest and rest is cssential to ele vation. 7The cne who labors, even though he may not drudge, from mo:n ing to night, is little likely to elevate bis mind or soul to improve his body. Our colored friends are *o prone to slave in the old ruts and reje :t improvements and labor saving devices. In doing this they are standing in their own light and working out their continued degrada tion. 1t is no longer muscle, but brains that enables onc to get on only by economy of time and labor can one secure the means and the time to cul. tivate and develop the brain, Aunother thing essentiul to improve materfal condition is increased earn ing capacity and this ean onlv be in cveased piide in work and increased faithfulness in work leads to excel lence, and excellencs leads to bigger wages, Negroes receive small wages principally because they fail to ap preciate thiz fact. Let them add one fourth to their earsing ecapacity and they would be surprised at increased welfare and at the decreased injustice they suffer. increase through inereased skill and faitbfuiness their earning cu pacity. : I say nothing of education, because in the earlier stages of development education is tco apt to be employed by the educated to prey moresuccess fully upon the ignorance, btut improve the marerial coudition and education morality. refinement and all other gvood things will naturally follow, and you will then be of too much valoe for the world to visit you with in- of in- justice. There are other things to be done, but do the foregoing and these other things will follow as naturally as day follows the nicht. The road how ever, is long and difficult and heset with discouragements and time will be reauired, but pursevere and the har vest will come at last. It is either improved material condition or continual degradation, either this or to remain drudges and meniais forever. Do this and the whites will the more likely be convinced that their prozperity is depend ent uprn your elevation and will lend a helping hand.—l.. H 8.. in Planet, TEMPERANCE. - THE VOICE OF TEMPERANCE. T ear the voice of Temperance ealling In her clearest, sweetest tones, Clear as sparkling waters falling Over flowers an:l precious stones. Like some holy inspiration, Sweening down the heavenly vlains, Temperance comes to save the Nation, Free her slaves, and break their chaina, Evarywhere her armies raliy. Tvervwhere poor vietims wait Thronzine avenue and allev, Hovel door, and palace gate, List! the holv inspiration Sweepine down the heavenly nlain~y Temperance comes Lo save tha Nation, Free her slaves and break their chains, Men and women, vouth and maiden [n the temnter’s toils are found, Weak and helpless, sorrow-laden, Demon-ledgand horror-hound. T.:=+! the holv inspiration, Sweenine down the heavenly nlains, Temperance comes to save the Nation, Free her slaves and break their chains, See God’s imaze, searred, degraded, Teeling throurh the templed street, *Neath the sacred spires paraded . Where the dens of misery resk. List! the holv iunspiration, Sweeping down the heavenly plainsg, Temperance comes to save the Nation, Free her slaves and break their chaing, Soui of manhood! heart of woman! With the Christ-love which constrains, QCast this hydra-headed demon Out of man, and break his chains. List! the holy inspiration, Sweeping down the heavenly vlaing, Temperance comes to save the Nation. Free her slaves an:d break their chaing, INTEMPERANCE AXND CRIME, In the annual report of the State Boarl of Pardons of Ohio attzntion is ealled to tho fact the Board has in most cases deemed it prudent to include in the recommen lation for pardon a condition requiring abstinence frcm the use of intoxicating lHquor. This is done in the belief that it will lessen the liability of the pardoned prisoner to azain ecommit erime. *'l %@émsp@anom fact.” says the report, ‘‘that in nearly every case of erime against th person, the offeander was either under the influence of liquor or became involved in an affair Ly reason of being in a place Where intoxicating liquor was sold.” TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. 1t fewer fathers were moderate drinkers, fower sons would become immoderate drunkards. The twin villages of Plymouth and Terry ville, Conn., have had “no license” for nine teen years. Mo;e than three millions of dollars pass daily into the coffers of the liquor traffic of this country. S—tfitistics-show that the entire results of the labor of the people for one day in every pine go to support the liquor traffic. Danbury, N. Y., has a society of 400 young women who are pledged to marry no man who drinks. It is known as the St. Peter’s Ladies’ Temperancs Society. The Norweigan Children’s Temperance Association was founded April 17, 1894, Its object is to train boys and zirls to keep to the principles of total abstinence. The French Parliament has passed a bill flrobibiting the manufacture or sale of quors or spirits which the Academy of Med jcine may declare dangerous. This meas ure is aimed chiefly at absinthe. Some railroad men of Kansas have ex g;aasedtheir gggmeiaflon of the W. C. T. U. saying that W. C. T. U. women were the only ones that ever visited them when “only & railroad man” was hurt or killed. ~ Ass matter Chorus. Chorus Chorus Choru=. Chorus. ection against possible refuse to have anything The Latest Nows Gloaned From Various Parts of the States. Charles Ringo, of H:ntington, who was | tried at the recent term of the Criminal | Court, charged with tha killing of one of his littls step-children, and was released, and who is now indicted for the killing of the other one, made @ confes-ion. He states that | bis wife; the mother of the two lttle boys, kllled them and threw their bodies into the river.. He states that he was an eye-witness 10 the terrible affair, lut the reason he did not divulge this before was on' aecount of bis love for the woman. He said that now sinee she was trying so ba-d to soavict him he was going to give the whsls affair away. He exhib ts some letters which have scme Learing cn the subject Hesavs she took the children to a fleet of timij@r j .st below the whar!, and aiter stranglingilem threw them into the river. The authoMlles are working on the case and Mrs_#@@iwill probably Le arrested. She progiiliias BeF innocence, John B. Minor, EEg B @0 es<or of com mon acd statute JEW S the Univer:ity of Virginia died Mondagy * Mr. M nor was eighty-‘wo years of age, having be-n born June 9, 1813; in the county of Loui-a. His early eJucativn was acquired at Kenyoa College, Ohis. Later he pursued academical and legal stu !ies at tie Univer si yof Virginia. Leaving the University, he resided first in Bedford county and then in Albemarie, at whose bar he begun the prac tics of law, with his brother, the late lucian Minor. i L G L g g T s sLt T Laett i o The jury In the Massey-Pilot libel suig rendered a verdict in faver of Massey, awarding him damages to the amount of §1.600. The amount claimed for alleged damages was $50,000. The verdict is againsg Sam Small, and R E. Byrd and the Pilot Newspaper Company, clearing the directors of the Pilct. Thesu t grew out of publica tions in the Pilot, then edited by Sam Small, formerly well known as an evangelist, charging br.bery against Masses, who is superintendent of public instruetion of Vir ginia, in connection with the State’s dealings with what is termed the American-School- B.o: Trust. The libel suit was on trial tweaty nine days. i Messrs. Wise and Fiournoy, of Richmonl who hav: undertaken the the task of recur ing a new trial for Mary Abernatby and Pokey Rarnes, have gone to work in earnest, They are certain of the inzecence of the women. It is said that a prominent white oitizen has sent Mr. Wise s2stowards defray ing the expen:es that willbe fucurrel, and from sanother white gentlémam $lO was received. & Mrs. William Pierces of Middleport, N. Y., large family boghnd teavel by river, opera gy ‘**‘t&;@" o tin: a mercfsgo-round, were drowned at Cerelo. Mg ‘Z yfle walking ontherear of the boat aesidentally fell into the river. Her son jumped in to rescue her and the current swept them both under a foat of barges lying just below. Both bodies were re, cuvered. John H ck’s kousa st Big Stone Gap wa® purned. Four of his children were burned to death and his wife and one more child were badly burned, It caught from a siove and burned very rapidly while the family slept. The fire was pot dis covered until it was too late to do more than save the par- ' ents and one child on the lower floor. Upoa the coastruction of the phrase ¢ Works of Negessity’’ depends whether in the ‘uture Richmond shall b 2 a strictly mo al city on the Satbath, Chia! of Police Howard in a public letter states that in view ] of the fact that a newsdealer has taksn an a 1 peal as to the enforcement of the Sunday closing law in his business that no arrests | will be made until the decision of the Hust- | ings Court has been given on this subject, but that a list of every newsdeale: who keep 3 open on Sunday will be kept, and it the court’s decision is favorable to the Common wealth each will be summoned to show cause why he should not be finel fora vio jation of the lJaw. The same action wil be taken as to the street-car companies, and, in fact, as to every business conducted on Sunday, with the single exception of the sale of medicines. The city attorney has given his opinion in regard to the matter, but it amounts to lit tle more than quoting the law, as he does not say what constitutes works of necessity. In conclud®hg his opinion the city attorney said: *“I am of opinion that in attempting to enforee this law you should have no other guide except what you believe to be de manded by the need,habits and views of the people of this Biate.” INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITZ. L Largs Number of Important Events fir the ‘Wo:k. T.apotts to the Manufacturers’ Record show a lar.e increase in the trafiie of Bouthern railroa s, especially those. in the coal and fron regions. The Alabama Car Association repor:s having handled nearly 21,000 cars in June azains: 12,00) in June of last year. The improvement in rallroad affairs is bringing t> the front a large numbe: of riilroad ex rensions of existing systems and also quite a number of short linss, which are be:ing ore ganize iin many parts of* the South, every State being represented. "The number of cotton mills orzanized for the weex is even larger than usual, and in ciudes two m lls to cost $240,000 each at Greensboro, N. C., and@e more bsing worked up at ths -amadiiße but not yet definite y assured ;adl W at Lumber ton, N. C.; o SlOO/008 Bt fgecon, Ga. ;an increase of capitgh Ul 15870,000 for the enlargemect of a TENESNEe mill; 8 $60,000 mill company at Salisbury, N. C., a new mill in Alabama: a $50,000 mill at Athens, Ga ;a 1 large knitting mill at Newport News, Ya,, to t.rn out 200 dozen garments a day;a pro jeeted mill to cost $lOO,OOO in Texas aad a number of enlargemeunts of establisned mills at differeat points, Other important events for the week in clude the letting of a ¢ ntract for tho Bal timore courthouse at a cost of $1,800,000 bids for contracts for extensive whacfs, docks and piers for the Southern Rallway at Nor folk ; a sloo,o)osewer pipe company in Texas} | econtraet lor nine miles of belt raiiroad and grain elevators and coiton compresses at N:w Ocle ans; a $300,000 cigar and tobacco company in Fiorida, and a pumber of mis. ! ceilaneous enterprises in uifferent parts of the sou.b. Present ind eations point to an unusually large eorn crop, while the fruit erop, in the aggregate is proba.ly the largest most vaiuable ever raised in the South. fact, all erops except cotton will doubtiegs be un usuaily heavy. The assurance of erops gives promise of increased activ y ia the early futare. G U R Prot. Garner will bo sent back to tfll of Afriea with his iron cage to learn | the lan:uages of apes. A company, Jng Protessor 8. Peabody, of the Un TR » Lesson Text: f‘f , : : Spiles,” Numy XU, T 8 SOV i 4 a e R ey B3—Golden Taxt; Num. Xiv,g = 9—Cominentury, = i 17. Having lelt 87 reb, witere (Rey Hig g cen 5o long encam gl they cameto Kale arnea, on the go@gleborder of thé lan i vhich was eleveit JB¥s Journey from Hore! y lere the peqple asked that spies Tnight Ge ent to search out %& And and bring-Syor s to the best way to enter ( m;gg .5 & 2). It seems strango Shat - Mosesßuoutd leased with this 5%‘%%’"% ‘ vhen God had said thag it was M‘m%, j arge land flowing with milk and A ii., §), and when God Simself alivays Wheg § setore them in thecloud, but we remomnbaill he story of Bobati ib7 St 18. Since God had testified as to ghe lan l ‘ and had said that He sbanid .%wg £to thenfi what did it matter whether t Q‘%fltlf b were few or pany, stking or: ! not the God of Israel sho wa thet His powerd's n Egypt and af (e B ¥on, and was nof § His prosencd & stffi- in tndsuranee? But | hey did so fdrget Bodjusk as wedo, . | 19. It looks e;%‘i{ sley welk poing to see iF'T God meant wha ‘ #aid, gnd if He was as | cood as His word V. %S, ‘_;fiux wiil. 6,3). But one may Ga}si‘f?@; & fault with tho spies when Gad cot vy, Heled them (verses 1 2)? But a littls atten '\ tohbeut.d., 29, will ' { show that God only po% uiti M thont to have their own way il ti'\ i Por, 48 € wdid afterward in that of a &, N Sam W% 7.31. 92y, \G R 20. 1t seems odd to tell has toßeof |4\ courage when unbelief w¢ » nding® ={l forth. It requires fait—li‘ffi i youkl @ one to be of gocd cournge, |g’ et W iMo word wa: trov WOUR |G 3, T i ; courage. Listen to Paul int ' forn o § ’. when everything seemgd agaillE Hm, “IR | lieve God, that it shall'be even § | it wastol me” (Acts xxvii,, 28k @ B 0 . 23,\24. One wou}{L % ._r‘ afl’ | would be dispelled ;’?&* tvthe sey ¥ place where Abrahdm, Jsaae 8. neob . ay buried. How could they h. s&¢h. king of the faith of Abraham and belfg «rengthe ened thereby? Then such grapes fih;’{"fi granates and figs—~how e¢ould their hearts help erying out, *‘ltis @ii‘iust; Lmé :H& Some.one has suggested that these two car-J rying the grapes make us %fi?&m& and New Testaments—ihe one ah:ad did notNg see what he was carrying. but the one be. hind saw both the o nhead and.the grapes § too. Yet both carried the same fruit. Jesus, the True Vine, is the burden of the wholed, book. but is more clearly réveitled in thef ~ New Testamet . Pl RN ;fir 3 95. “And they returned {rom searching of the land after forty dayfi”’&"‘fi?@““”‘ or their unbelief they, though 20 mearly poss sessing the land, were turned back into ! o | wilderness to wander for ferty years, a year' for each day (Num. tiv., 84). *’éloin'a‘timag}:?; will see a deeper measing in all the “foity | day’ experiences of Serptures = o ! 96, 27. They could n:wt,,bn&f@g a good report of ihe land; they could Cse suy aught slse concerning it |thamn ¥Sureiy it doweths with miik and hongy, and this is the feait off it.” God always mcans what He says, andl we are perféetly safe in taking Him at Hisgy - word. QWhque males W statement, we mustl either dionop'k fim t?b@mfia ¢it or dizuonod % Him #y our unbelief apd bm'&im a Pl | (1 John v.; 10), Rataer iof 3k iieve .8 - every word, and thus set to oursealthaf God is true. ; Ly i 98, 29. “‘Nevertheless the peqple be stsgnge. ™ And so they talk of the giants, and a¥f tha , inhabitants of the land and the walled dicies; God had mentiondd these Nations end had '/ said that He would drive them out (Ex.' xxxiv., 11). Observe is sovenfoly “Iwill,” beginning and ending w.th *Tam/ shovah,” | in Ex. vi.. 6-8, and sce what def erate unss heliof these men were guilty offiy sutting M least obstacle before the pedy j, instel the Tiving God who had 49 iy dos wondrously for them, ' ¥tvi refreshing turn to Caleb, and Jisten to hims. 30. ‘Lot us 20 up iy sy “@fi ' for we are well able to oveTßo e TREEE is confldence in God, sud it 15 Vel BE —it rests on His power who H66Y & and of whom the prophet #s ¥, God, behold Thow hast madayhe Sew, the earth by Thy gréat POREER SHG 5 SO out arm. and there, 157 )nflt%,,, L 180 &V Thee ' (Jéi: wmxilg 17). Tiese ensfivaging words by which @hieb 86 apch _’ N g‘"'":g‘ ple were from his heart ( fiafiw*’?; «%‘f’ he wholly foitowed the. R 31. *‘We be not able to g 8 up ageinst § people, for they are stronger #hao dve.” 9 was tot & question of “th% and we," by only of them and God, He who brought them out of Euvypt was able to brifig thes jnto Cannau, and in that light Cideb 89 | Joshua saw It. for they sa%?, “The Lord 1 with us; fear them not” (xiy., 9). ®ntil we have learned our own inubifiiyt Vo o | selves, we will not be likely to let She, Loed | save ug, and until we hava learned "‘{@ bility to keep ourselves »“#H not Bu ffie joy of His keeping pow-t. WWe Wil eofir ; Jk nowledge and experience of all £ jifi‘; D clnded in the words, “Not £ but CESt." L 32, 33. “They and Wel *» b nnbos | lievers suggestive of giants Bud STEEAD DEX, @ | and resulted in u-mc}l‘l Weapllngfs T ing on the part of the people My Lo/ . | anew captain who woumggmd“_ ) jj, ’ r | Egvpt, sochaf the ifio’ d hf ”%! . SRS Moses: “How long will Uisonit St save 2| Moz How long will it pee EaCH fm F | Me,for all tl}e (siignsliw '*%"wkf‘mw it e | among them?” (xiv., 117 & BE el wa s | selves face to face with oux ‘B;\, £ :‘; will ofttimes be dise: !'335‘9‘3‘: ww# place our difficulties e mf%&’ fit‘i then vietory is sure, g peacy &I owa i ours. 'The matter thy He makes wud as good as accoraplisid. mg:i‘ S in confidence ig qur frength (158 X y { —Lesson Helper.. g ekl ABOUT NOTED PEOELSy & S g Rabbl I-aac M. Wise says that Jewish Americans have practically a diflem@% ion from Jewish Ru sia?q; Poles, *fiagfi;}im ians, Lithuanians, ete., just ac ths J. w.sh Germans and Englls‘;ixen niaia stan separate. It 18 the natibnal spirit workiog) ' in each community,and i$ but aucther preof of the fallacy of the clatn] that there is such 4 thinzasa Jevfln&*w@ o 0 S : Frank E. Hedog, & Bopjomore in the'y Univorsity of Chisage, bas been suspended for ayear for getting married. His wile, who is a Miss Florence Da-Mond, fel: in love with him whi'e watehing hity play foot badl, The consent of the parents was obtainid, bat the iaculty objscted, and after solemi sitting on the matler, declins | he must punished by the suspension prder. J Mme, Rejane i notgnrfil;y , Wk her American trip. BShe i fickle putile in haviag flocke L 8 *ffig Ta hart and given Cogeelin "‘L 5%% k while showing a mueh less fnff flend audiences showed so litle 7 d way b ‘hefr eyes on her,” as they_ Je/ing—"‘ixl noidea of what was passigfid, “but B“‘3 & The Rev, Father MoMjh zFntheir brains Church of the Paulj mn‘pmfimfiiwl on Sunday, on thé sul: Egh&%m4 ks Closing of Saloops ii-et itmw ay Generally.” Heglnd Sabbath Observe only the selling # strongly eondemed patronizing of g mb‘% | ported his pg son that day, sué by toral letter Ly quoting frou thed @ Gonactl o o tue Thica iR R pental 8 ! :% , y S