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\ ? If you are working and saving your money and putting it in a bank where you get no Interest, keep ing It in a trunk or hiding it some where about your house ? You. Are Working for Money. If you are working and saving your money and investing it in a safe way, where it will l>-> working day and night whether you are working or not, and making you p' least six per cent, interest ? ? Your x.' Money is Working For You. * t < The Pythian Mutual Investment Association was organized in order to give us an opportunity to put the money we could save together and then put it to work. The above Is a picture of our building' on ? the Capjtjih Square dn Charleston. We , have Jdst purchased a splendid threeN story brick building or) one of the rnmrn bu?ttiess streets in the city of Huntingdon. The first floor is occupied by the Huntington ' Herald, the largest daily newspaper published in that section of the state, the second floo?.-is used for office rooms, while the third floor is a large assembly and lodge hall. 'This building is ^sujV to pay,. us "K well. After the Charleston building had been occupied only eight mop t lis our stockholders v >re: paid a "? dividend or six per cent. , Stock is still on sale at $10.0(1 per share, either paid ;ip or or on th*? installment plan. As1* your agent in your locality about it or write to this office. ? ? LET YOUR MONEY IRK FOR YOU L 0. WILSON. PRESIDENT WESTON, W. VA. At the Nation's Capital {Continued from page one.) Colored^ citizens find a genuine pleas ure in calling these days at the WSiit? House and are satisfied that they will get in on the ground floor as long as. genial Charles Dewey Hilles holds the latch-string. ' Howard Vniversity's "Council of Up per Classmen." The Council of Upper Classmen of Howard University has elected the folowing officers for the school year of ] 91 1-1912: President, Ulysses L. Houston, Med.* Vice President. L. C. Down ins. Med.: \ Secretary, Lewis Russell, Col.; Treasurer, "William Uurrell. Law; Sergeant-at-Anns, Joseph D. Cnban iss, Phar. ; Chaplain. D." O. Walker, Theol. These officers will bo installed at the next meeting of the Council, nt whh'h tinif> the new President. Mr. Houston, will announce the names of the ap point5 ve officers and the committee assignments. Following the announcement of the result of the spirited contests, the Parliamentarian, Mr. ?cott. arose in the midst of the cheering and offered a resolution of thanks and apprecia tion for the "Energetic Excellence" of the outgoing administration, headed by the brilliant and aggressive Mr. James Cl Waters. .Jr.. and under whose guid ance the Council had -reaped tsuch. golden grain. The resolution was unanimously carried, after which President Waters spoke for the ad ship medals, which the Council will ministration in acknowledgement of the resolution. A pleasing feature of the meeting was the exhibiton of the Gold scholar present to the University for award to the successful contestants in the various departments to which the med als go. The dcuors of the four medals to the Council are Dr. Gertrude Curtis, of New York City: W. W. Martin, of the Northwest Cafe: The Murray Brothers, "the Quick Printer*:," and an alumnus of the University who with holds his name. The eighth ann'">l "Ptpti" of tho Upper Classmen wil u.ve place Tues day evening. April IS. at Odd Fallows' Half. It is expected that this will he the most, enjoyable social eVent ever given by this unique organization In vitations can be had by addressing the1 Committee on Invitation. G. U. C.. Howard University. Former Steward Pinckney Deail. Henry J. Pinckney, who served as steward at the While House through out the entire Roosevelt administra tion. and a man who spf.it the greater part of his life in the service of pub lic men, died last "Wednesday night at li is home at Fairmount Heights. Mr. Pincknev's latest appointment, that of mesesnger at the "White House, came to hint from President Taft. and he was numbered among the employees there at. ihe time of his death. -Born Charleston. S. C. in 18^7. he was a lad of six years wl\en Lincoln's proc lamation set the ^embers of his rnc*? I free. While still a vottth ho went to Albany. N. Y.. and found empiovment at the State Capitol. He served suc I eessivelv as messenger for Governors /? A STAUNCH FRIEND OF THE NEGRO g\ Thf. Indi-pexdfnt was founded in 1848 as a Weekly .Maga zine to secure the freedom of American slaves. In the sixty-two years that have followed, il has always been the friend and champion of the Negro Race. W e have printed frequent articles from prominent Negroes and have closely followed their activi ties and successes. This attitude- ha* cost us many thousand subscribers, 1 mi t we have the courage of our own convictions. We feel we are publishing a Magazine that every Negro should read. , SEND $1.00 FOR SIX MONTHS To acquaint yoti with the character and policy of Thf. Tnde it.ni>k n't. we shall be glad to accept a six months subscription for one dollar. Our regular price is $.} a year. We believe that by reading Thf. 1 nihjm.nhk.xt you will realize our fair attitude and position, Renumber, T.'if I xr/FP!.xM:xT is an Illus trated Weekly Magazine, and that you will therefore receive 26 copies for about f >ur cents each, t'sc this blank. THE INDEPENDI.N r Rrntilar SubKcrlpttQR P^'ce 130 FULTON STHEET *3.00 a Year NEW YOIIK * ^ Enclosed find One Dollar for tc7//Y// please send me Tjik iNnciTKm NT every week i or Six Months. Flower. Black and Hoosevelt. - When Col. Roosevelt* left Albany, Mr. Pinck ney continued in his service at Oyster Bay, and afterwards became Mis me? senerer when Col. Roosevelt was here as Vice-President. At the close of the Roosevelt administration President Tatt retained him at the White House as a messenger. Doings of -the Theatrical People. "The Smart Set," with S. H. Dudley Aida Overton Walker. Ella Anderson1 and Andrew Tribble. is in the second week of a record-breaking engagement at the New Howard. Tinder the su perb local management of .Miss Flor in? M. Tyson, who is also treasurer, this beautiful playhouse has ditered upon a permanent season of prosperity. Beginning next Monday, the. Whitney Musical Comedy Company, headed by S. Tutt Whitney, comes to the Howard for a run of four weeks. "George Washington B." made famous by Ern est Hogan and -S. II. .Dudley, will be be offered as the opening attraction. Mrs. Aida Overton Walker will go out next season at the head of a big musical comedy, in which her work is especially featured and n is probable that she will have a part calling for strong lines, showing ofr to advantage her dramatic ability, as well as her etellar finality as a danseuse and sing er. Mr. Walker, w'th Miss Anna Jarrett and Miss Hazel Thompson, are the gnest of Mr. and Mrs. Hudnell at the Cameron. Mrs. Walker is becom ing quite proficient as a performer or. the 'cello. Miss Ella Anderson, the "Merry Widow Brown" of the Smart Set. is stopping with Dr. and Mrs. John V. Turner, 004 It. street northwest. The An) phi 011 Glee Club, directed by Pi of. J. Henry I jew is, will produce Gilbert & Sullivan's tuneful opera "The Pirates of Penzance' at the Howard in June. The Amphions have been or ga nixed twenty years and have ap nea reel before some of i7u< naTfcnV nirtst notable people. The Odeon, owned by H. H. Elliott, which opened a fortnight, ago for white pat rons, will - be turned over to the colored people at the end of?th*j pres ent month. The place has been leased to Mr. II. C. Smith, who will operate it in addition to his "Blue Mouse." at M. stieet. and Rock Creek. The Odeon i? on Church sireet in a block populated iMtirely by Negroes. The signers who made the erection of the Odeon pos sible. were all Negroes , How Mr. Klliott conceived the 'notion that he eould make this house, pretty as it is, a white resort, is beyond the reach of tho average man. Miss Madeline Cooper. ("Kinky,") returns to Ford Dabney's this week, and is; going big. Jeff DeMount and Miss Muriel Dinggold, comedian and comedienne par excellence, are putting on new stuff and continue to^draw the crowds. Manager J. H. Mutual! is now a magnate who doesn't -take a back seat for Oscar Hammersteln or "Bob" Motts. The Mir.nehaha reopens Raster Mon day with the Thomas' brothers at the helm. T. Spencer Finlfy has accepted an indefinite engagement at the Fairy land. Miss Tillie Seguin and Miss Sadie Britton are still capitivatlng the crush nightly at the Foraker. t. The story that Ford T. Dabney had married the widow of Joe flans in Bal timore Is denied by those said to be in a position to know. President. Taft is said to have w.heu be heard tbttt 8, ?''V Xri ' * '<& r. T> ' ?* ? ?- *" : , a character whose chief ambition waa to /'shave President." ItN devei 'ops that the President has no need foj* "l|t8 Honor, the Barber." He sha^ himself. . The laugh is on "Raspberry Snowy ? ? ' v \ * AssietaiiL-Attorney-General W. H. Lewi a ts trtying a close study to^thtf law** bar Hi* on Indian Depredation Claims. * e Bruce l?-vans. principal of th^r ^ Armstrong Manual \ Tralpit\g; SchuqpV .spdke on "The FujsJuyo S^ave I^aw" last Friday night before the .National IPistorlc.nl \S?)cletyi. or Tbe n^w tx>lored school at Ivy -City is/rtiajrrtxl in ' honor of the -late Dr Alexander Crummell, for mikny years rector of St Luke's P. E. School. "The Atonement" was presented i',ij excellent style, Wednesday night at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church -by the 8r. Colerldge-Tt^ylor Choral Society* TVMss.Parl{>> Alexander. of St. l,ouis\ Dr. Sumner Wofnlley. Miss C. M. Wallace and' Morrison Goodrich sang the lead ing roles:- v Senator Lodec of Masachusetts. has introduced a bill for the establishment of a national memorial home for afced an\d infirm Colored i>eople and work ing girls an^ of an industrial farm for Imys. The measure provides that the "two hundred thousand dollars due the estates of deceased colored soldiers of the civil war, which was repaid into t.be Treasury of the United. States." shall be appropriated for the establish ment of the \iomo and the industrial farm. The home is to, be in the Dis* trict and the farm will be located in Virginia. Rev. James L. White is vigorously pushing the bill. Col. Henry Lincoln Jolvnson, Re corder of Deeds, has purchased a beau tiful home on Oth si reel, northeast, and i will move his family tbcre shortly. 'An important conference of the col ored administration leaders is on for1 the near future. Miss Elizabeth C. Carter, of New Bedford, Mass., president of the Na tiCMal Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, addressed Bethel Literary and Historical Association Tuesday night. Former ~ Recorder John C- Dancy lectures in I^ouisville in June, and As- j sistant. Attorney-General W. H. LewU tlllflr commcnccmni- engagements in Virginia ?.vid Arkansas. A visit from Prof. Charles H. Moore, national organizer of the Na tional Business League, is sadly needed. The annual session of. the Philadel phia and Baltimore Conference of the A. Zibn ch#rh, will be iv , at Metropolitan Wesley Church, D street southwest, opening May IS. Bishop Alexander Walters will preside. Mrs. Ida V. Smith. w>idow of the late Bishop J. ?W. Smith, is visit'ug relatives in Carlisle. Pa. The plant of the Old Fellows' Jour nal has been installed at.l'.M 4 U street and a new s fet c\f office fixtures has been put into pla^e. The outfit pre sents quite an Imposing appearance. Editor and Manager H. P. Slaughter is "on the job'1 in good shape. ? ? ; 9 COING TO INTERNATIONAL. MED ICAL CONVENTION. Dr. A. M. Curtis, president of the ; >tetional Medical; ?> Association, has named the following well-known phy sicians as delegates to the Tnterna | t.ionaJ Medical Association for the Pre vention of War, pursuant to the in vitation extended by that body. to have the N. M. A. represented therein: Dr. George C. Hall, of Chicago, 111.; Dr. John E. Hunter, of Lexington, Ky.; Dr. A. M. Brown, of Birmingham, Ala ; Dr. Marcus F. Wheatland, of Newport, R. I.: Dr. (rporge E. Cannon, of Jer sey City, N. J., and Dr. M. O. Dumas, of Washington. D. C. The International Asociation will meet at Paris, France, in June, and the body will comprise hundreds of the most learned disciples of Esculapius in the world. Each civilized govern* ment. will send a personal represnta tive, and it is hoped that, the United SHIRLEY PRESIDENT SUSPENDERS vV" V The land that mott men we**1. Notice the cord back and the front end*. They slide in frictionle?9 tubes and fno've a* you move. You will quickly tee why Shirley Presi dent SiHpenclcTS are comforts We and eco nomical for the working men or business man. light. Medium or Extra Heary Weights ? Extra Lengths for Tall Men. Price 50 Ccsts from your local dealet df by mail from the factory.' y Sifted Gaaraxtee M erery pair - ' \ THE C. A. EDMRTOR IRFO. CO. ' m MAiimim, shout, mas*. ? fc, I I" ^ ,1 . ? .? ?; ;.v ? '? - ??> ? Excursion Tickets Will Be Sold Trains and at Rate As it ? * ? v . Follows: Stat ions. l.eav O au ley Bridge Glen Ferris . Boomer .... Smithers .... Cannelton , . . London . . . . . Htigheston . . Crdar Grove . Dickinson.,-. . . Maiden ' h. . . . Dana Fare to Columbus, O. Ttmo of Tffljnrand Tl^i u.'n 8:00 f 8 : 07 8:24 8:30 8 f8 Charleston f. ? Watts Street . . . . ^ : West Charleston Dunbar Sattes ?v: l^ock Seyen .... Raymond City . Black Betsy . . . . Plymouth ..... 33 44 f8: 4 8 . ,8:56 v 9:10 f 9 : 27 f 0 : 3 0 ' 30:00 fl 0 : 06 P. P. P. P. P. P. P. P. P. V. P. P. P. 10:10 .P. fl 0 : 1 8 1 0 : 35 .10:44 fl 0 : 5 8 11:04 fl 1 : 0f> P. P. P. P. P. P. u\i. M. tM. M. \I. M'. M. M. At. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M . #2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 r>.oo 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.t>fi 2.00 _ :? . o o 2.00 2.00 2.00 j. I j. , \i u A . .11. Si .WW Arrive at Columbus, O,, at 6:00 a. m., Sunday, April T6th. COLUMBUS VS. MINNEAPOLIS ? * ? First Sunday game of the American Association at Columbus. Thin will bo an .dyo|ting, gamo and no one should miss this opportunity of seeing these two team.s battle for tlic supremac y, c!^,, t he opening gam^ ' . 7 RETURNING. Excursion tickets will be returning ONLY on Special Train '.caving Columbus, O., at 7:30 P. M. Sun day, April 1 6th, 1 91 1. This U the first excursion run by the Kanawha & Michigan Railway Ibis season. ? \ BAGGAGE WILL NOT J3E CHECKED ON THIS TRAIN. ? !, 4 Reduced, rate faro cannot be accented by conductors on trains. To obtain this concession passen^ora must purchase tickets at ticket offices. For further information, call on 'Agents or write. J. F. General Superintendent Charleston, W. Va. General Passenger Agent Charleston, W. Va. States government* will name O. A. M. Curtis, president of the M. A., as its special envoy for this occasion. Has Millions of Friends. How Would you like to number your friends, by millions as Bucklen'a Ari>ica Salve (Vfes? Its astounding ctires In fch$ pa?( forty years made them., Its the be?t Salve in the world for sores, U,le?fs, eczema,, burns, boils, fcalds; $uts, corn*,: sore eyes, sphMris, swellings bruises, cold sores. Has no equal for piles. 25c at all druggists. V 3-2 -5 1 C HltfMJO <JKAIX MAKKKT ^ 7T w. - ? ??? * . Chicag#; April 12. ? Wheat closed at 8* 1-2, corcf 4 9, oats 31 1-2; * FINANCIAL BOARD Washington , t>. C., April 12.? The thirty-ninth annual meeting of the financial board, of the A. M. E . church will be held here next week at the financial ^headquarters of the denomination, when Rev. Dr. John Hurst, financial secretary of the de nomination, will make hie annual re port. Bishop H. Blanton Parks, who ha? charge of the worjc of the late Bishop Grant, will preside. s Tf he m4mbq#* af t hnfr*b oar fl t ^ "'K * r ?* ? T*- -*+?*' ^ * ? ? ^ *4 v * *. ? '* * x * V . ? ' \ First episcopal district, Rev. A. L. Murray, Atlantic City; Second, Rev. John T. Jenifer, Chicago; Third, Rev. Charles S. Bundy, Cleveland, O.; Fourth, Rev. A. J. Carey. Chi cago: Fifth, Rev. J. R. R. Ransom, Topeka, Kan.; Sixth, Rev. E. \V. Lee. Morris College, Atlanta, Oa.; Sev enth, Rev, N. h. Streett, Charleston, S. C.; Eighth, Revjft W* T. Strong, Jackson, Miss.; Ninth, Rev. ,1. M. ^ Corner, Little. RocK, Ark.; Tenth, P. ? C. Hunt, Palestine, Tex.; Eleventh, Rev. A. J. Kershaw, , Tallahasse, Fla.; Twelfth, Rev. C. M. Shelto, Memphis,' Tenn. ; Thirteenth, - C. II. Johnstone, Idty^rla, West Africa; A. Fortune. Cane Town, South Africa. . \ ? ? . . " 111 u GARRETT AND HAZLEWOD UNDERTAKERS . ?ARTHUR L. GARRETT, LICENSED EMBALMER > \ ' Why pay large prices when we can'fnrnish yon with the same quality of service and goods for less money. We carry a large stock of goods. Prompt ambulance service. Open day and night. Boll Phone 33fl, 000 Smnnicr Street. 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