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SATURDAY, JAN. 2. 1909.

'A Writer of tbe Heart. As a rule, tbe eulogists of the late Donald G. Mitchell try to prove too much. Not the generation that produced Ik Marvel nor the one following that has alone had the good taste and spiritual insight to read and appreciate "Reveries of a Bachelor.” Young people of the present have not only discovered for themselves the treasure house opened by the genial Ik Marvel’s pen, but often have made Its riches known for the first to their seniors. The philosopher of the simple life found his audience early, yet no period has neglected him. Even the embarrassment of literary riches poured out the last few years could not make the'"Reveries” a back number. Readers who , have their Kipling and Jerome/ K. Jerome by heart will turn to Ik Marvel for an antidote to weariness. One can be surfeited with flippancy as well as with sentiment. Ik Marvel’s sentiment was of the wholesome sort. He wrote for the sound hearted, not the soft headed. His ideals appeal to the twentieth century, and possibly it will be more loyal to him than was the century which revealed him. To the past- he was an entertainer; to the present he is mentor and confidant

Tile relation between aeroplanes and stock quotations is very cloudy, except that neither seem to regulate their ups and downs by schedule.

It turns out that the kaiser was merely trying to earn his salary by talking, and it takes a "heap big talk” to balance $10,000,000 per annum. That man who violated the "kiss, but never tell” code should pay the $10,000 fine, if he has it. otherwise be jugged for ten years.

The Baptist Ministers’ Alliance, at their meeting at Corrinthian Baptist church, Monday Jan. 4, at 11 a m , will have as its order of the day a continuation of th^study of “The hprch the Mystery oN God,’’ which was introduced at last Monday’s Bible reading by Rev. C. W. McColl. The pastors of the city will meet with the Me oil Bible class the first Sunday morning in the new year, from 8:00 till 9:00 a. m., at the Colored Y. M. C. A. This class - meets and closes on the minute.

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Golonel Goethals’ shovelers never waited an instant to find out whether Uncle Sam’s "Panama” is on straight.

Castro went to Berlin to find peace, tfnd he probably found company for his misery Tn the German capital.

The Interdenominational meeting | of colored ministers will hold its regular meeting at the Colored Y. M. C. A. next Tuesday, Jan, 5, at 10:30 a. m. The Rev. H L. Herod will be install, ed as president.

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The new woman on the stage was evidently shipped "from somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the yorst,” tftit what particular land Is responsible for her can never be guessed from her taste in the matter of clothes.

It Is a relief to learn from the manager of the Pullman company that the tipping of porters is purely a voluntary matter. Most travelers find it a case of "down yith the dust” or no 'dusting. , Doubtless Standard Oil folk\don't care a bit whether the newspapers call it "that $29,000,000 fine” or $29,240,000, but to the common people $240,000 Is not a trifle to be lost sight of. r If ever hostilities between congress and the president go too far the kaiser’s fellow feeling will be likely to see the “psychological moment” before the czar’s gratitude gets awake.

Union Tabernacle Baptist Church. Services were largely attended. Sun day school and B. Y. P. U. services were'well attended. Offering $16.70. One addition. The cantata, entitled, “Waiting for Santa,” managed by Mrs. Irene Bagty and Mrs. Bertha Daugherty, was a brilliant success in every way. The pastor was bountifully remember by a bifshel basket and two smaller baskets of provisions and dry goods. Revival services will begin to-mor-row. Jan. 3 1909. Everybody is well tome.

England also has Its somebody who says things about other folks. Recently Premier^ Asquith called the Louse of lords "a set of irresponsibles.”

■ Whether these big fines for hugging or kissing the wrong woman are ex'cesslve aud confiscatory depends upon the woman in the case.

A Graceful Tribute to Poe. The University of Virginia arranged to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe on^fin. 19 in a manner to do Justice to the memory of one of the truest poets America has produced. Distinguished representatives of literature in the old world were invited to participate in order to make the occasion something more than a local tribute, for Poe was once a student at the university. The reading circle that has been delighted by the genius of Poe spreads over two hemispheres. It is most unfortunate that his weaknesses dimmed for half a century the imperishable beauty of the writings left at the tragic close of his short and stormy life. Equally with the statesman and the soldier, the poet, it would seem, Is worthy of commemoration and regard because of the influence of his works upon the minds of men. The host of admirers of Poe will be rejoiced to know that at last it Is proposed to erect a fitting ‘memorial to tbelr hero of song.

As we approach the Lincoln centenary it is well to recall the marvelous mastery of the English language acquired by one who had but u few months’ real school training in hi* Vbole life. This country has produced no man of letters whose style is more worthy of study than Lincoln’s Born In a cabin aud reared in the backwoods. Hie great emancipator became one of the greatest masters of English prose in the nineteenth century. Not alone his Gettysburg address, which every schoolboy and schoolgirl should know by heart, but bis inaugurals and some of his letters and speeches are worthy of study as masterpieces of American literature.

Y. M C. A. Notes. The winter term of the Y. M. C. A. night school will open Jan. 4, ’09. All who contemplate joining should do so

now.

* Don’t forget our Bible classes on Wednesday evening and Sunday morning. Every man in the city should try and attend these classes. Sunday morning classes is held from 8 till 9 a. m., Rev. C. W. McCall, instructor, (ednesday evening class, 8:30 p. m.

v. D. F. White, instructor.

Commencing Monday, Jan. 4th. and continuing 10 days, during the special revival services in the city, a Union noon day meeting will be held in the Association poms each day, beginning promptly at 12:lo p. m., and running to 12:45 p. m. A 15 minute talk will be given each day by some pastor. Monday, Rev. II. J. Callis. Tuesday, Rev. P. C. Williams, Wednesday, Rev White, and so on each day. T.ie pub-

lic is invited. *

“Overcomers” will be the unique subject of a strong address to be delivered Sunday at the “Monster Meeting,” which is held in Jones Tabernanacle. Rev. C. W. McColl, the President of the National < olored AntiSaloon League of A me ica, will be the speaker of the day, and a rare treat is in store for all who turn-out to hear him. The meeting begins promptly at 3 p.m. The orchestra will furnish

special music.

The regular activities of the Asso ciation will resume next week. The winter term of night and day school will begin next week. A special rate of $1.00 for three months tuition is offer to all men who wish to, join.,

Meetings for Baptist Alliance The Ctripred Baptist Ministers’ h liance, beginning with Jan. 11, and continuing for seven weeks, will meet at the following named churches in the order named, and hold two^essions at each church. The morning sessions will begin at 11 a. m., and will be devoted to business. The evening sessions will be held at 8 o’clock for Bible study, and evangelism. The Rev. C. W. McColl will conduct the Bible study: Union Tabernacle Baptist church, Jan. 11th. Olivet Baptist church, Jan. 18th. New Bethel Baptist church, Jan. 25. Second Baptist church, Frcnklin, Feb. 1st. Corrinthian Baptist church Feb.Sth Second Baptist church, Irvington, Feb. 15th. Metropolitan Baptist church, Feb. 22. All sessions are open to the public, and the Alliance especially invites the public to attend.

New Presiding Elder in City

Rev. J. H. Manby, I>. 1)., of Little Ro k, Ark,, is in the city to succeed Dr. W. II. Chambers as Presiding Eldotr of the Indianapolis district A. M. E. Z. church. Dr. Manby was pastor of St. Paul church in Little Rock, and is known as the Sankey of the Zion connection. He will conduct communion services as follows: Dec. 27th, at Jones Tabernable. Jan. 3rd. at Walters chapel. Jan. 10th, at Pennick chapel. Jan. 17th. at Caldwell chapel. Jan. 24th, at < ampbell chapel. Jan. 26th, at the Ray Street Mission Dr. and Mrs. Manby will reside in this city.

tectives descries as “the true secret history of the urownsville raid.” Apol ogies are made by the private detective because his man Lawson is illiterate, cannot even write his own name and relies wholly on his memory as to the declaration-of Conyers. The conversation between Conyers and Lawson are said to have occurred in Atlanta, last June, and the deposition by Lawson was made from memory in Wasaington in October. James Powell, who was discharged by the sleuth Lawson as a corroborative witness for Conyers* is excused because it turns out that he was never in Brownsville

at any time'

The story now credited to Conyers and the evidence before the Senate committee do not agree. But details are unnecessary in this place. The President’s message submitted to Congress at the opening session, is an extraordinary climax of an extraordinary course of unwarranted accuasioq, and of disregard of justice and the rules of evidence. It adds no evidence against the discharged soldiers. Its savor of manufactured evidence dis credits the case of the administration. The public, little concerned in the cause of justice for the negro troops in the first place, and influenced by) '

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Services at Wayman Chapel Sunday with preaching at 10;45 and 7:45 by pastor. Rev. A. Jackson. David Adam class leader and Mr. Comer, Supt. of the Sundayschool at 2:30. Tuesday night Official board and Class with W B. Clemons leader. Thursday night Prayer meeting and Trustee Board.

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The Gift.

By\ FRANK H. SW^ET. [Copyright, 1008, by American Press Association.] r T*HE Cl ristmas chimes are sounuing I on the air, ^ And, as I sit and listen to their sweet, Unearthly music, gone is every care, Forgot is all the turmoil of the street. The troubles that the path of man beset, The vast anxieties of human life, All fade away, an«f every fond regret Is lost in all their glad and joyous strife. 1 A IsMAT though I Beem alone or this fair day, * “ From happy comradeship •stand isolate, With none to greet me as I walk my way. . To merely live Ldount a happy fate— To merely listep^to those joyous sounds That through the crisp of winter call so free, Although the merrymakers on their rounds Pause not to think of or remember me. 1ST not enough that on this ChristI mas morn, 1 This glad birth morn of him whose day it is, My heart, but yesterday so sad, forlorn, Doth open to the message that was * his? Is’t not enough to know that from above The tidings of a sacrifice divine Com* as a gift an eternal love That I have but to take to make if mine?

CARACAS REVOLUTION

Author Back From Venezuela Says It

Looked Like Opera Bouffe.

Samuel Hopkins Adams, the author, who recently returned to New York, was in Caracas, Venezuela, when President Castro sailed for Europe and saw the rioting in Caracas Dee. 14, which constituted a revolution, he thinks, that lifted Acting President Gomez into the permanent place of president, so far as any office is permanent in Venezuela. The “revoluT tlon”was like an opera bouffe to Mr. Adams and other foreign observers. "Few r believe that Castro will ever return to Venezuela,” said Mr. Adams. “He Is really sick with liver and kidney trouble, aud, besides, he must soon know that it would be foolhardy to go back there now. He carried with him and sent out before he started some $8,000,000 which he had

squeezed out of the country.

"Castro is very unpopular with his own people. He ruled for private profit In the nine years that he had been president, so far as I could find out, he put his hand upon every sort of trade or enterprise out of which money could be made, calling It a government monopoly and taking money for It. Thus the necessities of life were made monopolies a^d farmed

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World’s Biggest Log Raft. What will unquestionably be the biggest log raft ever set afloat will be towed from the Columbia river to San Diego, Cal., next summer. The raft will be a cigar shaped bundle of big Oregon fir sticks and will be 1,000 feet long by 60 feet wide, with the top rising about ten feet out of the water. It will contain about 7,000,000 feet of lumber.

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PLANNER GUILD. The first program of the season will be given Sunday afternoon, Jan. 3rd, at 5 p. m. Rev. Dr. Callis of Zion A M. E. Church, will be the speaker j Subject, “The Educated Citizens Responsibility to the Masses.” Solo, Miss Hattie Colen n. Recitation, The Maniac, Mr. Orlando Rodman, formerly of Frankfort, Ky. Special music by the Guild orchestra. Twenty-eight children were given Christmas tokens last Friday afternoon. Twelve presents were sent to tbe little tots who could not come. The women’s club donated to help us in making the little ones happy. Fifteen packages of candy were distributed to the colored patients in the city hospital. The Mother’s auxilarywill hold their next meeting Friday afternoon, Jan. 8th. The Guild Boys Club gave a party Dec. 28th, for their young friends in the assembly hall, which was beautifuily decorated. There was about 40 present. Light refreshments were served. Tne evening was spent in round table talk. The Y. M. C. A. orchestra furbished music. The mechanics will hold their next meeting Jan. 6th. Business of importance

Why Saifit Nicholas?

By ROBERT DONNELL. [Copyright] 190S, by American Press Association.] N A THY is Santa Claus sometimes Wl cal,ed St - Nicholas? For ^ \l the most excellent reason ^ that Nicholas is the real name of the saint. Until comparatively recent years there was no Santa Claus at Christmas time. When the old saint comes down the chimney Dec. 24, Christmas eve, and deposits gifts for the children in the suspended stockings he is just nineteen days behind time, for his true aud proper time is Dec. 5, that being the eve of St. Nicholas day. Just how Nicholas got to be the Christmas eve saint is not altogether clear, but those iconoclasts who dig^ in^o ancient matters are probing this^&cret. They have discovered, or claim to have discovered, that the Christmas eve Santa Claus really originated in America, being transported to England from New York. In the saints’ calendar Dec. 6 is St. Nicholas day. Nicholas was bishop of Myra, in Lycia. He is believed to have lived under the Emperors Diocletian and Constantine and is the patron saint of poor maidens, sailors, travelers, merchants and children. Rich maidens, of course, are also qtftte witling to acknowledge him when he comes along with diamond dog collars, necklaces and tiaras. Before the great religious reformation the custom of giving presents on St. Nicholas eve was general throughout Christian Europe. When the worship of the saints was abolished the practice died out in England, where for about three centuries St. Nicholas failed to visit households on the evening of Dec. 5 to leave presents for good children. By the way, it should be pointed out that Nicholas was noted even in infancy as a particularly good and pious child. Therefore his visits are not made to bad children—only to those whose parents can vouch for their good behavior during the previous year. In Austria, Holland and Poland St Nicholas eve is still observed. Good children get presents, secretly left In their shoes placed upon the hearthstone for the purpose or in their stockings hung from the maptel. When New York was settled by Hollanders the devout Dutchmen brought over to America their religious customs, not forgetting that of St. Nicholas eve. In old New Amsterdam the saint made his visits the night of Dec. 5, St. Nicholas day being celebrated by the settlers as a holiday. In time the Dutch were supplanted by the English, New Amsterdam became New York, and the old St. Nicholas eve gift giving custom was reintroduced into England from New York. But in England the custom of giftmaking on Christmas eve had grown up. There was, however, no Santa Claus ceremony. Gifts were made outright and without secrecy. When St. Nicholas sailed back to England there was consternation among fond papas and mammas in the tight little Isle. , “What! Shall we have two days of 1 gift giving and less than three weeks j apart?” they cried. Thrifty English parents, it is supposed, determined that one day of giving was enough, and so they simply transferred St. Nicholas to Christmas eve. Have You Voted? WEBER AND ZIMMER. Take the little ones to see the Santa Claus Headquarters at Weber and Zimmer’sstore 322-324 Virginia nvenue also at Fountain Square, Virginia’ avenue. Elegant line of toys and holiday novelties, holiday furnishings for men, women aud children. Good and courteous treatment. You trade solicited.

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Emancipation Day Program and Exer cises at Bethel A. M. E. Church

F.mancipation day will be appropri ately observed by the colored people of the city Jan. 1, 1909. Three meetings will be held. All of them will be at Bethel A. M. E. church. At 11 o’clock Dr. Booker T. Washington w ill speak to the colored teachers and the public in general in connection with the days observance. The afternoon meeting w ill be addressed by Dr. P. W. Isaacs of Nashville, Tenn. Dr. Isaacs iscohceded to be one of the mos brilliant speakers in the country. There will be no admission fee for either the morning or afternoon meeetings. In the evening, under.the auspices of the Interdenominational Ministers’ meeting “Ye Olden Tim^ Literarie Socie tie” will be given for the benefit of the City Charity Organization Society A small admission fee will be charged for this entertainment. There will be s ecial musical features at each assetn bly All of the churches, the various clubs—literary, social, charitable and political—the fraternal organizations, inde*ed, the entire colored population isexpected feo join in celebrating th\s day. For the evening’sentertainment G. W Beasley lias been chosen president. Dinner will be served at the church'by the Mary Campbell Mite Missionary Society and the stewardess board of Bethel church. These organizations will be at home to their f rierd in the church parlors

Services at Campbell Chapel by pastor at 11 a. m., Sunday school at 2. p. m., preaching at 3 and 8 p. m. by Dr. Marling, our new presiding elder. Rev. Geo. W. Harding, D. D., Pastor.

eemont Free Baptist church 2121 Martindale ave. Sunday services Sundayschool at9:30 a. m.; preaching 10;45 a. m., and 7:30 p, m. Prayer meeting Tuesday exening. Communion. fourth Sunday in each month A cordial invitation is extended the pub lie. Rev. Joseph Anderson, pastor; Mrs. Emma Brown clerk.

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