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Busi ness letters of all kinds mast be written on separate sheets from letters containing news or matter for publication. Entered as Aecond class mattor June 6, 1885 at the post office at St. Paul, Minn., under act of Con' gross, March 3,1879. Hi II.IL EX-PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. Treat each maa according to bis worth as a man. Distrust all who would have any one class placed before any other. Other republics have fallen be cause the unscrupulous have substituted loyalty to class for loyalty to the people as a whole. President Roosevelt't speed5, at Tjlttle Rock, Ark. SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1909. HE SILLY SOUTH. It is agreat misfortune of the South that the leaders allow political con siderations to outweigh everything else. For instance, when, in the last Congress, a bill was offered giving to American steamers reasonable com pensation for carying mails., nearly every Southerner voted against it, be cause it was a Republican measure. The fact that such a measure would be of immense value to New Orleans, Mobile ,Pensa'cola and Galveston, had no weight whatever with the Southern Democrats. The Demo cratic caucus decided that the bill must be beaten, and it was beaten. William E. Curtis says: "There is no trade on the Missis sippi to speak of. New Orleans is not an outlet for the products-of the Mississippi valley. It would not make much difference with its foreign com merce if the river should dry up. There is plenty of water, but no boats." The same writer also mentions the immense resources of Louisianacoal, gas, salt, sulphur, existing in the ground in inexhaustible quantities, surrounded by incapables who pay no w^^^)]L^ Louis Z. Wagner, a St. Louis Afro American, was recently arrested for passing a forged check.- The newspa him: Wagner, a Negro, is a graduate, of Yale, and also studied at a Southern pers give the following account of school for the ministry. He speaks seven languagesGreek, Chinese, Spanish, Yiddish, Arabic, German and English. He writes shorthand and claims to be a member of the Mis souri Bar Association." The foregoing ought to be glad tidings to our old half Indian, half Caucasian friend ex-Governor Varda man, who has long contended that the Afro-American is ruined by higher education, but has hitherto had no samples to support his theory. He now has one, and perhaps before he goes to the happy hunting grounds he may find another. All things come to him who waits. The Yale authorities say. there is no. such name as Louis Z. Wagner on the list of alumni but that does not matter. It certainly is very pleasing to note the glory, praise and honor that is being heaped upon the Philippine Constabultary Band in Washington re cently. This famous band led the in augural parade and on last Saturday it opened the next Potomac drive, as it has been officially designated by President Taft, who was present with Mrs. Taft and many thousands of the lesser lights of the Capital. The pa pers devoted columns of their space in praise of the wonderful music pro duced by this band because of its actual worth. Therefore we say we are pleased because of the fact that the leader is an Afro-American, C'apt. Loving, ivho began his career as a musician in St. Paul where he lived for over ten years. This goes to verify the correctness of the poet who said: Honor and fame from no condition 1i i ji^u m. y$\jfe *TX?r'*^ HON. WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT. Who Was Inaugurated President of he United States March 4th. attention to them but go into hys terics when an Afro-American girl is winner in a spelling match a thousand miles away. Copyright 1909, by Harris & Ewing. HON. FRANKLIN McVEAGH, Secretary of the United States Treasury. Hit. IX&rVtZ'lk lyjju'M^ivrj.^T^ri^^nr.f'i'^.^^^riH|-'*J'v' rise, Act well your pajrt, for there all honor lies. The two JimsJeffries and Cor bett are getting all the advertis ing possible out of Jack Johnson with their daily brays in the newspapers. But as a matter of fact Johnson is in little danger of getting the Jim jams from these wind jammers. They can't take the title from Johnson by newspaper fighting, they must get in to the squared circle and do it with, their "dukes." Johnson isn't losing any sleep on their account however. Roland Post Falkner has accepted an appointment on the Liberian com mission, to take the place of Mr. Shuster, who recently declined. Mr. Falkner* is forty-three years of age, and has occupied many positions in public life. The Liberian commission is expected to sail from New York today on the scout crusier, Chester, Salem and Birmingham, and will pro ceed direct to Monrovia. An amendment to the census ap propriation bill to give President Taft $25,000 next year for traveling expenses has been introduced by Sen ator Guggenheim. It will be consid ered when the appropriation bill comes over from the house. Who is the most talked of man in the United States now-a-days? And, we might add, the most soundly cussed. Do you give it up? Well, J. A. P. are the front letters in his name. What is coming over the South? Ninety out of the 100 counties of Virginia have voted "dry." And, there are several others of the southern states that are just as bad, or just as good according to the way you see it from your viewpoint. And they are all worshiping Base Ball now instead of the meek and Jowly Nazarehe. TbeN JMil^fed Minensota legislature has just passed an act legalizing Sunday games. j"M 11114411 IH-MH i Ml,| i i BY HELEN ROWLAND. "S Ha Stabs at Love. so superlatively good that you don't feel superior to him any more, and have nothing: to reproach him with!" "Oh, you'd never have any trouble about that," remarked the bachelor, inconsequently blowing a ring. "Two people who live together can always find plenty of things with which to reproach each other.' Even archangels could pick flaws in one another, if they had to drink coffee at the same table every morning, and to live on the same income with the same cook. That is- why there is no marrying in heaven. The music of ,the spheres couldn't drown the matrimonial squab bles and deaden the din of disapprov- al." "Yes," sighed the widow, leaning her chin in her hand thoughtfully. "Matri mony is war, and war iswell, it isn't heaven. You'd fancy that a marriage certificate was a Declaration of Inde pendence, instead of a peace 'treaty, from the way in which most people act after they have signed it." "Is it a peace treaty?" inquired the bachelor in sudden astonishment. "It ought to be," continued the widow promptly. "Then it would be not only impolite, but a breach of honor for the signers to tread on one another's private mIa 1 THE WIDOW Sa?s Marriage Contract Should Be Treaty of Fteace, Not :4 Declaration of War. HALL, I come downor will you\ come up?" inquired the widow, leaning forward in the automobile and peeping over the cliff, down which the bachelor had been sent in search of the. first spring blossoms. "That is always the question be tween a man and a woman," returned the bachelor, gravely. "ButI'll help you down" "Just, like a man exclaimed the widow, petu lantly, as she stepped from the car and seated herself on a rock from which she could observe the bachelor at work, "to expect a woman to de scend to his level!" "Just like a woman," retorted the bachelor, calmly, "to expect a man to rise to his ideals' But don't move an inch!" he added, regarding her thoughtfully '5Yo look even more moreeven more so from this dis tance." The widow snapped open her vanity case and powdered her nose hastily before replying. "You might have gone up that hill on the other side of the road," she sug gested at length, "where there was a path." "But the path was so straight and narrow," complained the bachelor. "Be- sides, it's always easier going down." "And more slippery and more dan gerous and" "More fascinating," finished the bachelor. "Are you trying to reform me?" he added, with sudden suspicion. "Heavens, no!" exclaimed the widow, with a gesture of deprecation. "I wouldn't know where to begin. You have a little of all the sins, you know, and not much of any of them. Now, if you only had some one great fail- ing!" "Would you prefer bigamy, or mur der, or burglai'y?" inquired: the bach elor, accommodatingly, as he sat down .on the trunk of a fallen tree and took out his pipe. "I could take to drink, I suppose, or.to gambling or" "Stop!" cried the widow, imperative ly, "I didn't mean any'of those things. But, if you simply had some sort of besetting sin whichwellwhich I can't think of just now! It' must be magnificent to reform a man! "And it must be awful," groaned the bachelor, "to marry a woman who wants to reform youlike marrying a human interrogation point or a cate chism. Just imagine having the Beati tudes for breakfast, and lectures for luncheon and dissertations for dinner!" "And fancy," mused the widow," "having to live with a man after you have reformed him, and he has become feelingss ,,e 9 spotsi and hurl Wheti'*^b'u enter the house of matrimony you lay aside your armor, and all your weakest points are ex posed to each other's jabs and shafts. It's barbarous to take advantage of another. "But you haven't promised to AD MIRE one another," protested the bachelor. "No," agreed the widow, "yet no body marries in order to get a life you can't blame the one who has had one another's helnlessness by plunging stage." the dagger of criticism into those weak Mr. Shea talked delightfully of many spots, especially when you have prom- things of old Boston and of new Bos- ised^to^love, cherish and honor one ton of the London'stage of Shake speare's day and of the present day of the classical drama of, present day actors. The little clock on the dress ing room table pointed past, midnight when the visitor took his leave of the delightful gentleman whp talked critic, but an ardent admirer. And Shakespeare and the Greek drama and modern actors while the stage door- the dagger, thrust in and twisted keeper walked up and down outside and wondered if he would catch the round for- putting on his armor again. Yet nagging wives and browbeating _next husbands -will continue to wonder why their once devoted partners always be come such hardened* wretches." "Of course," agreed the bachelor. "Every time a woman gives a man a "The Little Boy's Complaint. A little boy in Trenton, who has but recently mastered his catechism, con fessed his disappointment therein in the following* terms: "Say, dad, I obey the. fifth com mandment and honor my father and mother, yet my days are not a bit longer in the Iand,^for I'm put to bed every night at 7 o'clock just the same." Homeric Laugh. "And what do you know about Ho mer?" asked^ the literary person. "Lots," replied Dickey Finn, proudly. "Didn't Duckey Williams and Petey Sanksmake three homers in de last game on Goos^e Hill ?"Chicago News. i,li,l!..l.,n..M..IIll|l|lll ,M"M"M'M. piece of her mind she loses a piece of his heart," 'And every time a man stabs at his wife's little failings," retorted the widow, "he stabs at loveand even love will die! But," she added with a sudden little gurgle as she.peeped over at the bachelor, "how funny you look from up here!" "And how fearsome you look from down here!" returned the bachelor. "After all," he continued, "it's all in the viewpoint. It's the way we look at each other that distorts our vision. The average man and woman could get along fairly well together if the woman did not always insist on climb ing up on a pedestal!" '^.nd the man did not usually insist on taking the downward path?' re joined the widow. ."They ought to try to get on the same level." "Then it's your move!" announced the bachelor cal/mly. "Of course. It's always the woman's first move!" sighed the widow, pick ing up her skirts, starting down the cliff on a little run, and ending by slipping over a stone and falling breathlessly into the bachelor's arms, "There!" he cried as he released her, "Now you look human and approach able and adorable and" "Isn't it nice to be admired?" inter rupted the widow, seating herself be side him and spreading out her skirts, "So much nicer than being reform- ed!" agreed the bachelor with a sigh, of content. ."Queens and angels are all right for an inspiration occasionally but for everyday comfort give me a nice, cozy little thing who can com$ down to a chap's level once in a while!" THOMAS E. SHEA DISCUSSES PLAYS, ACTORS AND ACTING Thomas E. Shea, who is one of the most noted Shakespearian students this country has. produced and ac knowledged to be one of the greatest actors on the American stage, is a most delightful gentleman to meet, and last evening after his performance oi "The. Counsel for the Defense." he made himself comfortable in his little dressing room back of the Grand stage and talked entertainingly of many things-pertaining to the stage. "The best dramatic training for the young actor is the modern drama," he said. "Even Shakespeare should be read in the modern way. The sense of his lines and not the tones are *what should be sent over the footlights. In spite of the really great actors who maintain otherwise all old-fashioned methods are bad, very bad. I am a strong supporter of the modern as against the old-fashioned methods as applied to dramatic art. "This does not mean that I think the new plays are in any way the equal of the old. There is no author of the present day who can write a play that deals with man's conscience that will equal Othello. The new plays are very pat, very artistic, very human-^some of thembut they are not great in the sense that the old plays are great. W want the new things, but the old things are great enough to outlive them. You will find this out. The test of a play's greatness is its length of life." Mr. Shea, who was born in Cam bridge, Mass., and knows Boston as most men know a favorite book, im presses the casual visitor to his dress ing room as a man of rare mental qualities, high ideals in all departments of human life. But he is especially fond of the plays that deal with the psychic, intangible things of life. His standard of art is truth. Because he is of that make he is fond of playing "The Bells," and "Othello," and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." Because of the same reason he has always refused to play "Shylbck." Going back to the subject of th young actor, Mr. Shea said: "Most young actors lack imagina tion. This is because they lack knowl edge of the world and of the other arts. The study of any department of life and learning will quicken the im agination and without a highly de veloped imagination no aftor can hope to become great. It is the soul of acting. "The greatest actor on the American stage today is Henry Miller. He is great because he never loses sight of the very highest ideals of dramatic art. He is ever working along lines of ar tistic progress is always spreading out along new lines. He is the pioneer of the American stage. Always ready to put on a new play if it has artistic merit, he never allows commercialism to dim his faith. He is the only man ager in the 'country who ^vould put on "The Servant in the House. "Another great actor is Otis Skinner. He has worked hard and seriously and has a true conception of his art. His playes havealwayalways not good &"***> *v. i.v.i mivaj uccu guuu DiaVS one another' tenderes hav not showbeeprogressplays, owl car. but this is, perhaps, not his fault "Sothern is also another great actor a man of the highest ideals and stand ards and an artist in every way. He has done much for the American Great Scheme. "How did you get rich?" "I saved up till, I had enough money to buy an automobile. Then I didn't buy it."Cleveland Leader. Our Standing Army. Capt. SeaverThis falling off of re cruits for the regular army is getting fierce. Maj. WeaverI should say it was. Why, there isn't hardly enough men per regiment to do the work about the officers' 'quarters, to say nothing of shaving me and caring for the babies. Puck. Successful Ad. Several weeks ago a Kansas editor advertised the fact that he had lost his umbrella, and requested the finder to keep it. He now reports: "The find er has done so. It pays to advertise^" Kansas City Journal., i*ir Ses.sio Th SchooTcSfiStewS* iml aci MHstFial Institute TUSKEGEE ALABAMA. (INCORPORATED) Jrgranieed July*, 1881, by the State Ieirie .mature as The Tnskegee State Normal School. Sxempt from taxation. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Principal. WARREN LOGAN, Treasurer. LOCATION In the Black- Belt of Alabama where the ilacks outnumber the whites three to one. ENROLLMENT AND FACULTY Enrollment last year 1,253 males, 882 .'emales, 371. Average attendance, 1,105.- Instructors, 88. COURSE OP STUDY English education combined with industrial '--raising 28Ihdttstries In constant operation. VALUE O PROPERTY Property consisting of 2.267 acres of land. '0 buildings almost wholly built with student abor, is valued.at $350,000, and no mortgage. NEEDS $50annually for the education of' each stn. dent ($200 enables one to finish the course (1,000creates permanent scholarship. Students pay their own board in cash and labor.} Coney in any amount for current expenses and building. Besides the work done by graduates as class room and industrial leaders, thousands k.rs reached through the Tuskegee Negro Confer* ence. Tuskegee Is 40 miles east of Montgomery and 136 miles west of Atlanta, on the Western Rail* roao. o~w Alabama. Tuskegee is a quiet, beautiful old Southern town, and Is an ideal place for study. The cli mate is at all times mild and uniform, thu* waking the place aa excellent winter resc~* TILLOTSON COLLEGE AUSTIN. TEXAS. The Oldest and Best School in Texas for Colored Students. Faculty mostlv graduates of well known colleges in the riorth. Reputation unsurpassed. Manua. training a part of the regular course. Music a special feature of the school. Rn-ecial advantages for earnest students seeking to help themselves. Send for catalogue and circular to REV. MARSHALL R. GAINES, A. M., President. AUSTIN. TEXAS. AVERY COLLEGE. TRADES SCHOOL ALLEGHENY. PA. A Practical, Literary and Industrial Trades School for Afro-American Boys and Girls. Unusual advantages for Girts and a separate building. Address. Joseph Ds Mahoney, Principal. Allegheny, Pa. Newtngland CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC BOSTON, Mass. All the advantages of the finest and mom completely equipped Conservatory building in the world, tbe at mosphere of a recognized center of Art and Music and association with tbe masters in tbe Profession are offered students at tbe New England Conservatory ot Imuslc. Thorough work in all departments of music. Courses can be arranged in Elocution and Oratory. GEORGE W. CHADWICK. Musical Director. AUpttrHeuIart and ytwt book will be tent on application. CDLLEBEB JUTS BCHDDLB fcM**M BulMUn* Boy* HalL Ston* Hail. airln* _ ATLANTA UNIVERSITY. Atlanta. Oa. An unaeotarian Christian Institution, atoratad MKMI.II. and information, address 'rMldon^O^c&BUMSTBADrSfflU HOWARD UNIVERSITY Annu Forty firs month^h SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. REV. W. P. THIRK I ELD, L.L. D., 1867 Robert Reyburna,l M. D. Dean FOUR YEARS' GRADED COURSE IN MEDICINE THREE YEARS' GRADED COURSE IN DENTAL SURGERY. THREE YEARS' GRADED COURSE IN PHARMACY. AN OPTIONAL FIVE.YEAR COURSE IN MEDICINE IS OFFERED. i Full corps of instructors. Well equipped laboratories. The New Freedmen's Hospital, which adjoins the Medical College, just completed9yMa at a cost of $500,000, offers unexcelled clinical facilities. cumpieiea -n 1 of the Post-Graduate Schoo and Polyclini will begin l!K9 and continue six weeks for Medical Course and four weeks for Dental Course 1 l'or furtner information or catalogue, write W. C. McNEILL, D., Secretary 539 Florida Avenue, Washington, D. C. 80 1 iriUoo^alfmS^S^5-I owl mo^^L^HS? 11 0 868 ?f bo 5 M^ndKsi^te^n^l^^f HORLICK's AttAVXA* OBOBaiA AIMS AND METHODS. The aim of this school is to do prac tical work in helping men towards suc cess in the ministry. Its course of study is broad and practical its ideas are high its work is thorough its methods ara fresh, systematic, clear and simple. COURSE OP STUDY. The regular course of study occupies three years, and covers the lines of work in the several departments of theological .instruction usually pursued in the lead ing theological seminaries of he country. EXPENSES AND AID. Tuition and room rent are free. The apartments for students are plainly fur ttished. Good board can bte dollars per month. Buildings heated steam. _, MorristownNormalCollege FOUNDED IN 1M1. Fourteen teachers, luiegant and com moaious buildings. Climate unsurpassed Departments: College Preparatory Nor mal, English. Music, Shorthand. Type writing and Industrial Training:. FIFTY DOLLARS IN ADVANCE will pay for board, room, light, fuel, tui tion and Incidentals for the entire year. Board $6.00 per month tuition $2.J0 per tcrm. Thorough work done in each de 'partment. Send tor circular to the p'resi dent, Rev. Jtidson S. Hill, D. D.. M"*rristown. Tenn. SCOTIA SBMINABT MMfll, M. This well known gchool, established for the higher education .of girls will open for the next term October 1. Every effort wlli bo made to provide for the comfort, health and thorough instruction of students. Expense for board, light, fuel, washing, $45.. for term of eight months. Address Rev. D. J. SATTERFIELD. D. D., Concord. N. C. 8AMUEL HUSTON COLLEGE. A CHRISTIAN SCHOOL,. Able and Experienced Fncalty. Progressive in All departments, best Methods of- Instruction, Health of Stu dents carsfu'iy looked after. Stuaent* taugnt to do manual labor as well as think. For catalogue and other informa tion, write to the president. School ChildrenShould Drink f,?l Out* ML*!** .j%M__J_mm- Virginia Normal GollfHa* PBTEBSBDBQ, YA Departmantt-Normal and uoui fiata Speoial attention to Toed AfrfcoltTira, Sawing and Cookin*. Healthy Location haatedT by board, tuition, light and haat, |0C For catalog and particulars WrU .1908 W. C1, McNeill,d M. D. Secretary Sessio,n will begin October 1908, an continue eight Schools. Filty-five Dollars a Year dica SLBred?'11? Cftl and Agricultural. Mechanical. Normal and Common tujfcon. fuel, light and furnished room. Separate home for *J TUSKEGEE ttl .y8 ftom6 *O5IOT Monoa in Septemberr Sen io catalogue President of KnoxWle Obllege, aoxvul% Termb&slart 8AMM0N THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 4 had for,seveynb withou interest and loan gifts of friends, are granted to deserv- grace, gifts, and energy, need be deprived of the advantages now opened \c. him in this Seminary- For further particular-? address REV. J. W. E. BOWEN, D. D. Pres. Gammon Theological Seminary. BRAINERD INSTITUTE CHESTER, S. C. A normal and industrial school with a graded course of study, designed to give a thorough, symmetrical and complete English education, and lav a solid foun dation for success and usefulness in every vocation of life. Board and boarding hall R. 8. LCVtNGGOOD. Austin.. Texas. l'_ ''X