MISCELLANY CLIPPINGS Bound Press Notices, 1905-09 Christiansburg Industrial Institute Describe meeting Prince Henry March 1902 - Interstate Commerce Commission says Colored People should tell its members about unjust treatment on railroad - Judge Brewer Champions Colored Man's Cause after hearing my address at A.M.A.. Oct. 1907 Afro-American Council met in New York Oct -1906 Questioned about appointment of Bruce - In North Carolina Charlotte 1906 [C]ONTENTS [N]OTICES ON MRS. MARY C. TERRELL [pro]perty of Mrs. Mary Church Terrell Arranged by R. G. Doggett [*I wrote in Col American howw Prince Henry meets B.T. Washington in Waldorf Astoria*] [*I wrote article in Colored American about meeting of Prince Henry of Germany and B. T. Washington in Waldorf-Astoria Hotel New York City*] [*10*] Mrs. Mary Church Terrell who was to have graced the city of Charleston with her presence under the auspices of the Epworth League of Bethel M. E. Church next month, has decided to postpone her visit to this city until the month of January, 1907. Mrs. Terrell is a very charming woman and presents a personality that is wonderful and clever. She is one of the brainest and most eloquent of Negro women and to hear her is a pleasure that is taken advantage of wherever she appear. Charlestonians will do well to try to hear and see this noted and gifted woman when she comes. [1907] There is a move on foot to bring Mrs. Mary Church Terrell , of Washington, D. C. to this city next month. Everybody has heard of this noted woman of international fame. She should receive an ovation. As a lecturer, this lady is logical and convincing, as a writer, she is versatile, and gets to the point in a manner that easily marks her as one of the race's greatest personages. She eas traveled extensively, at home and abroad and is in possession of a wealth of good things that you and I should hear. See announcement in another column. DON'T MISS THIS MEETING Washington to Have a Unique Training School for Women and Girls The Woman's Convention Auxiliary to National Baptist Convention is preparing to erect a well-equipped building in the District of Columbia in which all the arts and professions in which women engage will be taught in practical and comprehensive courses. A great mass-meeting, in which the plans will be discussed, will be held, at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, Nineteenth and I street, Rev. W. H. Brooks, D.D. pastor, Monday, January 7, 1907 Let every woman and man come to the morning session--10 a.m. The meeting will be on the institute order and will be profitable and interesting. Evening Session--An especially interesting program has been arranged for this hour. It will be a typical demonstration meeting and it is hoped that "the city will be present." The following persons will be present and speak: Mrs. S. Willie Layten, Philadelphia ; Dr. E. C. Morris, Arkansas ; Mrs. J. M. Layton, Washington ; Rev. A. R. Griggs, Texas ; Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Washington ; Rev. J. Franklin Walker, Ohio ; Miss Marie Mardre, Washington ; Rev. L. G. Jordan, Kentucky ; Mrs. Laura Queen, Washington ; Miss Ella Boston, Washington ; Mrs. Rosetta Lawson, Washington. Each church is requested to appoint them in time. Mrs. B. G. Frances represents the colored Y. W. C. A. Mrs. Anna Murray, Miss Emma Merritt, Miss Mattie Bowen, Mrs. Dr. Curtis and Mrs. Fernandez are now being mailed invitations to be among our special guests; also Dr. W. S. Montgomery and other prominent workers of the city. Nannie H. Burroughs, Secy. A Great Occasion At Allen University Bishop Coppin is Here--Mary Church Terrell, a Woman of Renown, Speaks Today. Mary Church Terrell, a very prominent colored woman of Washington, D. C., will speak to the alumni of Allen university tonight. Mary Church Terrell has been educated in one of the greatest schools of the country, Oberlin college, in Ohio. A few years ago she was empowered by congress commissioner of the District of Columbia. She is the only colored woman in this country to fill such a position and was reappointed last year, being the only one on the list to be reappointed. She is known as a great newspaper writer and lecturer. She speaks four languages with ease. In 1904 she delivered an address in the German language in Berlin to a large audience. Of her the Paris Temps says: "Mary Church Terrell spoke at the International Congress for Women held at Berlin and her address was the finest throughout the congress." Her writings have appeared in The Northeast Review and The Independent and in some of the greatest newspapers of this country. She has held the position of president of the National Association of Colored Women for years and is now its honorary president. Her husband is municipal judge at Washington, the only negro judge in the country. Prof. E. G. Jones of Sumter, the president of Allen's alumni, is being assisted by Prof. Garrett, Prof. Bumgardner and Prof. Myers in working up the meeting for tonight, which will be one of the greatest during the commencement. The exercises at Allen's commencement are being largely attended. Colored people are coming from every point in the State. The speaking tonight will be in the Bethel church at the corner of Taylor and Sumter streets. Last night the theological department rendered a very fine programme to a large audience. Prof. Guess and Prof. J. E. Beard have that department in charge and good work is being done in training young preachers. The faculty has arranged for the 100 trustees to be accommodated in the Coppin hall while here. The board of trustees will meet today to look after the general work of the school. Bishop L. P. Coppin is here. He is president of the board and from his plans they expect to raise $6,000 today and tomorrow. Bishop Coppin is one of the strongest men of his race. He spent four years in Africa, where he did faithful work in building up churches. His work in South Carolina has been great and his counsel to his people is always safe. Quite a number of leading negroes are here and will speak during these exercises. Among them is Dr. William D. Chappelle, secretary of the A. M. E. Sunday school union at Nashville, Tenn. Dr. Chappelle is highly educated and holds the respect of both races. He is lauded in his church and will likely be elected bishop at the next general conference. The many colored people attending the commencemnet are well behaved and show much intelligence. ALLEN COMMENCEMENT THE EXERCISES WELL ATTENDED YESTERDAY. Oratorical Contest Today, and Tomorrow Mrs. M.C. Terrell Will Address the Alumni. The commencement of Allen University is in full session. Every occasion has been largely attended, and highly applauded. The exercises yesterday were witnessed by a great crowd of people who are here from different points in the state. Rev. W. D. Johnson, president of Allen University, delivered the baccalaureate sermon in Bethel church yesterday morning and his discourse was very timely. Today at 3 o'clock the oratorical contest will take place and also an address will be delivered to the literary societies by Rev. D. A. Christie, of Vance, S.C. At 8:30 tonight the commencement of the theological department takes place. Dr. M. R. Mitchell, of Greenville, will deliver the principal address. This department is doing good work under Professors S. J. Guess and J. E. Beard. The work in general at Allen University is being done with care and is said that the trustees of the school are well pleased with things in general. Bishop Coppin, who presides over South Carolina and Alabama, is here to overlook the educational work. The bishop is president of the board of trustees and during his stay of three years here great interest has been put in the educational work of the African M.E. church. The trustees will meet in session tomorrow, at which time $6,000 will be paid on the Coppin hall fund. One of the greatest events of the commencement will be an address to the alumni tomorrow night by Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, one of the greatest colored women of her race. Prof. I. M. A. Myers has been complimented for the excellent manner in which he is handling the newspaper reports of the commencement for the white press. Commencement at the Christiansburg Industrial Institute. (Special to The Richmond PLANET.) Commencement Exercises of the Christiansburg Industrial Institute will begin Sunday, May 12th, at which time Dr. D. Webster Davis, the noted Minister, Orator, Lecturer and whose fame as a poet is second only to the lamented Dunbar will deliver the Annual Sermon. Following this will be the closing of the Primary Department and the Anniversaries of the Literary Societies on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday nights respectively. Wednesday will be Founder's Memorial Day during which time appropriate exercises will be held in honor of Capt. Charles C. Schaeffer, the Founder of the school and in memory of Charles L. Marshall whose later work placed it upon its present footing. Thursday, May 16th, the Annual Address will be delivered by Mrs. Mary Church Terrell of Washington, D.C. Mrs. Terrell was chosen as one of the speakers at the International Congress of Women which was held in Berlin, Germany, June 1904. Her address on that occasion was widely commented upon, because she was the only one of the American delegates who spoke in German. With respect to her speech on that occasion a newspaper writer has the following to say: "Mrs. Terrell was able to deliver one speech in excellent German, and one equally good in French. This achievement on the part of a colored woman, added a fine appearance and the eloquence of her words carried the audience by storm and she had to respond three times to the encores before they were satisfied. It was more than personal triumph, it was a triumph for her race." Mrs. Mary Church Terrell is one of the few women in America who can boast an international fame. She is known not only within the borders of her own land but through out the civilized world since her appearance before the International Congress of Women in Berlin, Germany in 1904. She is at present a member of the School Board of Washington D.C. being one of the two colored Members of the Board and the only colored woman who has had this distinction. 10:30 a. m. Tuesday will be class day exercises and the Alumni Association will meet at 4 p. m. the same day. The address to the same body will take place at 8:30 p. m. that night by Mrs Mary Chuch Terrell of Washington D. C. In this connection it is fitting to pass a most deserving compliment on President E. G. Jones for having secured the services of this, the greatest woman of her race in America and possible the world. It will be worth its trip to Allen's commencement, if only Mrs. Terrell is seen and heard. The Texas Freeman Published Every Saturday by Charles N. Love at 411 1/2 Travis Street, Houston, Texas. Charles N. Love Ed. and Prop. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell. Here are some things which the members of the Houston City Federation of Colored Women's clubs should bear in mind while they are deliberating on the invitation to invite one of the great national characters of the race to be with them on the occasion of the next annual meeting of the Texas Federation which has been called to meet in this city in June next: Mrs Mary Church Terrill of Washington, D.C., is doubtless the most accomplished Negro woman in America. She was the first woman appointed on the board of education in the District of Columbia, and not long ago when she went to Berlin to attend the meeting of the International Association for the Advancement of Women, she surprised the entire assemblage by being able to deliver her address in three languages, English, French and German. She was formerly from Memphis. She now devotes much time to lecturing on subjects concerning the welfare of the Negro race. Mrs. Terrell is the daughter of "Bob" Church, the colored man who startled the whole country several years ago by voluntarily subscribing $1000 to the Confederate Reunion fund when the reception committee at Memphis, Tenn., was raising money for the Confederat Reunion at Memphis. She is also the wife of Judge Robert H. Terrell, the only colored man who is filling the important position of judge of one of the United States district courts in Washington, D.C. OUR LEADING MEN & WOMEN. Mrs. MaryChurch Terrell Through the courtesy of our friend and associate editor of the Colored American, we present to our readers the picture of Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, wife o Judge R. H. Terrell, one of the three able colored men President Roosevelt has elevated to the bench. She is a native of Memphis and daughter of Col. R. R. Church, a platform orator, noted lecturer, writer of ability and one of the brainiest women of the country. Mrs. Terrell's description of the meeting of Prince Henry and Booker T. Washington given in the Colored American under the title of "Aristocracy of Brains," shows that she is a member of the craft who can wear the honors quite worthily. She says of that meeting: "If one did full justice to the meeting between these two distinguished gentlemen, it would require a column at least. It was just like this: Prince Henry invited Mr. Washington and the Hampton singers to meet him on his yacht, but a case of scarlet fever on board the Hohensollern disarranged this plan at the last minute, Then it was decided to have the meeting take place at the Waldorf-Astoria. The Hampton singers filed into an indescribably beautiful room in this palatial hotel and took seats provided for them. A profound silence fell upon those who were awaiting the Prince, as this courtly gentleman and his official escort filed in and took their seats. The singing began and Prince Henry listened with rapt attention and evident enjoyment. He was so pleased with one of the songs that he asked to have it repeated. All of a sudden Admiral Evans limped across the room from the Prince's side and approached Mr. Washington. 'Mr. Washington,' said he, 'His Royal Highness. Prince Henry, of Prussia, asks to have you presented to him.' With dignity and perfect composure Mr. Washington arose and crossed the room with Admiral Evans, who presented him to the brother of the Emperor of Germany. Prince Henry arose and shook hands cordially with Mr. Washington and then the two men sat side by side on a sofa. Prince Henry exhibited the liveliest animation while he was talking to Mr. Washington. He gestured and smiled as though he was enjoying the conversatian immensely. The Prince expressed a desire to have a copy of the jubilee songs and a copy of Mr. Washington's autobiography, "Up From Slavery." When Mr. Washington told him he would be glad to furnish him with both books, the Prince asked the founder of Tuskegee for his notebook, so that he might write therein his name and address. The notebook was immediately produced from an inside pocket, of course. Thus it was that Booker T. Washington secured Prince Henry;s autograph, which thousands of white Americans would give large sums to possess. After the singing was finished, Prince Henry came forward to the singers and in a speech characterized by simplicity of language and genuineness of feeling, spoke as follows: My dear young friends, you have been very kind to come here and sing for me to-day, and I have enjoyed your songs very much. God has put music into the hearts of men to bind them together. Your songs are beautiful, and I hope you will see that they are perpetuated. Again, thank you." *March 1902* Then this total son of the great and good Emperor Frederick, and the equally great and good Empress, who was the daughter of the great and good Queen Victoria, left the room with his suite to go immediately to a luncheon given him by one of New York's society queens. That very morning the great grandson of John Jay and the granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt had entertained Mr. Washington at breakfast. Thus does the ex-slave touch elbows and clasp hands with royalty as represented by the monarchial governments of Europe, and sit at the table of royalty as represented by republican America. It was a great week in New York. The colored people had their inning and acquitted themselves with credit. As I review the events which transpired, I feel that I have grown an inch taller. I am certain that I shall live ten years longer, and like the good people in the story books, I shall be happy ever after." 1907 A member of The Interstate Commerce Commission in a conversation with Bishops Walters and Smith and Mrs. Terrell remarked "We think it is high time the colored people of the United States were doing something to stop the injustices of the railroads." We think it is the proper time for Negro interstate passengers to bring their unjust treatment at the hands of the railroad officials to the attention of the Interstate Commerce Commission. If this commission is empowered to adjust the discriminations of shippers it certainly has the power to regulate the discrimination of passenger traffic. [*March 1902*] October 31, 1907. THE NEW YORK OBSERVER Congregational Benevolent Societies THEIR ANNIVERSARIES HELD IN CONNECTION WITH THE NATIONAL COUNCIL MEETING. By E. N. Packard, D.D. FOR the first time in the history of the Congregational denomination all of its six benevolent societies passed their work in review and held their annual elections in connection with the Triennial Council at Cleveland. The first experiment seems successful. The numbers attending have been very large and from all over the country. More than five hundred men constitute the Council, and each benevolent society has its own board of officers and members. Each society has the advantage of addressing a large company not directly involved in its business. Beginning with two and a half days devoted to the American board, already reported, the American Missionary Association and the Home Missionary Society had a day and a half each, while the Church Building, the Education and the Sunday-school Societies had a smaller share of the time. The trustees of the Fund for Ministerial Belief—for this is not an organized society—also presented their report through the Rev. W. A. Rice, D.D., of New York, their secretary. As soon as the American Board had sung its last hymn and said its goodbyes to departing missionaries, the National Council held the floor for the afternoon and evening of Friday, and on Saturday the forenoon came to the Education Society, the Church Building and the Sunday-school Societies. Dr. Charles H. Richards, secretary of the Church and Parsonage Building Society, reported the best three years in its history. In all its history more than five and a half millions of dollars have been put into work, the recent average for a year being $263,000. About two churches have been helped each week, and a parsonage every nine days. Direct grants of money are made, or loans without interest, all the properties aided being carefully protected by mortgage and insurance. Great applause accompanied the address of the Rev. George Eaves, D.D., of Dallas, Tex. "Our Opportunity in Cuba" was presented by Rev. G. L. Todd. The Education Society secured an excellent speaker in Prof. Albert Bushnell Hart, or Harvard, who made a strong plea for the small college and the denominational colleges to preserve the high religious ideals of education. The president of the society, the Rev. W. R. Campbell, of Boston, urged the same considerations in an eloquent address. The Sunday-school Society called to its chief secretaryship from Yale, Prof. Frank K. Sanders, who has traveled extensively over the country visiting the fields in the West, where Congregational Sunday-schools are being gathered. Brilliant addresses were made by the Rev. A. J. Sullens, of Ohio; Mrs. Gray, on "The Heart of the Rockies"; the Rev. Wm. Gonzales, on the "New South" and Prof. Nash, of Berkeley, Cal., on "The Needs of the Pacific Slope." Those who have attended the annual meetings of the American Missionary Association in former years are saying that the meeting at Cleveland surpassed its predecessors. For variety of addresses, for distinguished speakers, for splendid audiences, it could hardly be equaled. A Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, an ex-Governor of Georgia, a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, are not ordinarily brought to a missionary platform when the repressed races, the backward peoples are to be considered. The association's work lies in the Alaskan gold fields, the highlands of the Middle West, the whole South, Cuba and Hawaii. Indians, black people, Chinese, Japanese and Koreans in this land are in its schools and churches. The receipts are the best for twenty years from the churches. The receipts for the current work for the year ending Sept. 30, were $417,738. The expenditures were $404,777. Twelve thousand dollars were lifted from the debt, now standing at $54,000. Churches gave $204,000; estates gave in $125,000. From the Reserve Legacy Plan $37,000 came to the use of the work. The association cares for the disbursement of the Daniel Hand Fund for the Education of Colored People of African Descent in recent Slave States. This income was over $200,000. From all sources in the last three years over a million and a half dollars have been used by the association. An excellent secretarial paper was presented by Dr. Charles J. Ryder on the structure of the society and the precise nature of its work. J.R. Rogers, of New York, in an address raised the question whether we are not looking too much to the large gifts of the wealthy and neglecting the average or smaller offerings of the great body of our churches. What we need is not giving, but giving up. Self-denial is essential in real Christian beneficence. President A.H. Bradford laid down four principles of our action for the suppressed races: (1) The Brotherhood of Man; (2) the best in culture not too good for the lowest in humanity; (3) the worst may become the best; (4) America for all and all for America. Judge D.J. Brewer, of Washington, said: "Many of the vast multitudes of immigrants pouring into the republic are racially cold-blooded and selfish. Not a few come tainted with the spirit of anarchy and are willing to destroy all social order in the hopes of personal gain out of the wreck. These immigrants become citizens as we are citizens, and as is this colored and enfranchised race. The colored brothers are firm believers in social order. You will find among them no Johann Most, Emma Goldman, Czolgosz or Guiteau. In the struggle which may be expected to come between order and anarchy, may it not be that these people, grateful to the nation for their liberty had to the good people of the land for their uplift in knowledge, purity and social standing, prove themselves a mighty force upholding law, order and the supremacy of the nation?" Bishop Galloway, of the Methodist Church South, after saying that the Negro would never mingle socially with the whites, and that the whites would hold political control, passed to an eloquent plea for education and religious uplift for the colored people. "The Negro in his worst state is a better citizen than the white anarchist or foreign ignoramus." He never strikes, has respect for law, worships our God, enjoys our religion and loves our country. We should punish his offenses, be tolerant of his faults, patient with his failures, and with true missionary spirit endeavor to improve his morals and his religion. We must put emphasis on the Christian school. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell (colored), of Washington, made a most eloquent address, full of fire and passion, as she depicted the "hands off" policy generally adopted: "By a continual exaggeration of the colored man's vices, by a studied suppression of the proof of his marvelous advancement, by a malicious use of epithets, the South has almost succeeded in persuading the whole world that it is a martyr and the Negro a brute. In the North the tide sets against him. There is pressing need of immediate personal service in his behalf." Ex-Governor Northen, of Atlanta, known throughout the country as a Christian patriot and promoter of justice and peace between white and colored, told eloquently the story of the Christian League of Georgia, formed after the riots of a year ago in Atlanta and adopted throughout that state. The best white and the best colored men combined to suppress the mob spirit, and in many cases they have succeeded. President Mackenzie of Hartford Seminary answered the question: "Is Human Brotherhood Practicable?" and Dr. Charles E. Jefferson spoke on "Pilgrim Principles and the Race Problem." One morning four closing addresses were given, and the session of the association closed with "America." "The Highlanders," "The Economic Value of the Work," "Evangelizing Through Education and Education Through Evangelizing" were considered. The Fisk University Singers rendered delightful music through the meetings. The old Congregational Home Missionary Society, still young and vigorous, held the field for a day and a half following the sessions of the Missionary Association. This has been the first year under the changed constitution, and it has passed the critical months successfully. The National Society, organized in 1826, was in part carried on through state organizations, which had their own secretaries, treasurers and boards, the plan being that, after the State Home Missionary work was provided for, all surplus should be sent to New York for the fields beyond--the Rockies and the territories. In process of time the states began to absorb largely the funds raised for home work. Immigration made old Massachusetts as much a missionary state as Montana. The National Society felt hampered [?l] protested, but considerable friction [?s] developed, until a radical change was secured at Springfield in 1906, by which the State Societies became the National Society. Thus far the new movement has worked well, though a heavy debt rests on the treasury. The society has its work in sixteen constituent states and thirty-two other states and territories including Alaska and Cuba; [??85] missionaries preach in fifteen tongues. The total receipts for the year were $478,000. Seventy aided churches supported revivals, and the total additions [from?] confession have been 3,677. Sessions began with reports and business, and several stirring addresses on the work of Evangelizing America. The Evangelizing of immigrants was considered by the Rev. Ozora Davis of New Britain, Conn., who said that the problem [*Queens Gardens 1907*] 165 Euclid Avenue. Springfield, O., Oct. 17. Dear Mrs. Clifford--I am very sorry you have left Ohio. We need you so much in this state. We want to have you here to speak for our city federation in the near future, We had Mrs. Terrell here the 17th of October. Everybody was well pleased with her. She was royally entertained. We had an audience of over 400 people; and we have already arranged to have her here next summer for our field day. Our Phyllis Wheatley club held an entertainment at the Wiley chapel Monday night and it was a grand success in every way. We had Paul Bass of Marion, Ind., to sing. He is a noted character, 11 years of age. He has traveled since he was four. Our clubs in general are doing good work to be just starting out for the year. Miss Hallie Q. Brown, our state president, spoke here for us on the 22d of September. We had the governor of the state, Senator Hipes, the mayor, and myself. I decided, "All We Ask Is Justice." Our city federation is doing good work. I am sending you a clipping in regard to Mrs. Terrell. You can put it in Queen's Gardens, and it will encourage others to have our women talk. I find this year the ladies in general are more in favor of having lectures than ever before and the people listen more attentively. Our people are becoming more educated to the things that are elevating in their nature. This shows progress. I can see the good that our club work is doing every day, and Ohio is going to make you proud of the sacrifices that you have made for the good of the work. May God bless your efforts and crown you with wisdom and peace. I remain, Your sister in "Lifting as we climb" through "Deeds not words." MRS. HENRY LINDEN, State Treasurer. Ind., Wednesday, Octo Hope of Race Is Education [*Kokomo*] Says Gifted Colored Woman in Lecture Here [*1907*] Earnest Plea Made For Assistance in Leading the Race to Light--Subject of "Social Purity" Given Dignified and Highly Intelligent Treatment by Mary Church-Terrell With disagreeable weather to contend against, Marcy Church Terrel, probably the most highly cultured woman of the colored race in America, and conceded to be one of the most elegant phraseologists, on the lecture platform anywhere, attracted a large audience to the Congregational church Tuesday evening to hear her lecture delivered under the auspices of the local W. C. T. U. Complying with a request of the organization whose guest she was Mrs. Terrell spoke on "Social Purity." Knowing her race as only a thorough student of that race can know it, Mrs. Terrell dealt with the subject as applied to that race in a most interesting and convincing way. She excused none of the faults of the race and offered no apologies for its easy acceptance of a flexible moral code, but she dwelt eloquently upon the handicap under which the race had striven through all the years of its existence in America and pleaded earnestly for assistance in the work of leading it to the light. She strongly opposed a commingling of the blood of the two races and argued convincingly that the salvation of the blacks is to be worked out through education and not through any utopian process making for social equality. [A]mong the most interesting things [at th?]e lecture were the speaker's per- [sonal] experiences with some of the race problems. She dealt with these frankly, but always with dignity and always with fairness to both sides. She did not spare the whites who have contributed so greatly to the moral obliquity of the blacks. There was no trucelence in her address. She did not gloss over facts that needed to be told. She knew she had a message that needed to be delivered and she delivered it courageously. Those who heard her felt more than repaid for the hour they spent listening to her lecture. Mrs. Terrell's life has been vastly different from that of the average colored woman. It so fell out that her parents were possessed of considerable wealth, and in her girlhood, and throughout her entire life, in fact, she has had means for education, travel and all the other things that make for culture, at her command. She was graduated from Oberlin college twenty-five years ago, and has long been considered one of the most distinguished allumnae of that well known institution. For several years she was an instructor there, having the chair of Greek. She has traveled extensively in Europe and the Holy Land and has been all over the United States. Her husband is a lawyer of much prominence in Washington, D. C., and she has two children in the schools there. She has a brother who was educated at West Point and a sister who is now in school at Oberlin. When she was a student in Oberlin she was popular with the entire student body, her remarkable mental gifts and her attractive personality seeming to render her comparatively free from race prejudice among her classmates. (While in Kokomo she had the pleasure of a call at her apartments at the Frances hotel of two of her old school fellows, Horace M. Cooper and his sister, Mrs. Will L. Laughlin. The three had a pleasant visit and recalled many agreeable memories of the days they had spent in the old school. Singularly enough Mrs. Terrell has kept track of nearly all of her old college friends through the quarter of a century that has passed since her graduation, and to her callers she was able to impart many bits of news regarding old acquaintances.) There were happy tidings of some of them, but of others there were sorrowful things that needs must be related. --And this is the way it is always when one wonders into the past. Y, OCTOBER 18, 1907. COLORED WOMAN ORATOR TO SPEAK AT QUINN CHAPEL. MRS. MARY CHURCH TERRELL, who will deliver a lecture at Quinn Chapel, Twentyfourth street and Wabash avenue, next Tuesday evening, is considered specially gifted in speech and in her platform appearances she is said to captivate her audiences. Mrs. Terrell was born in Memphis, Tenn., of colored parentage. She was taken to Oberlin when a child, and was graduated from the classical course of Oberlin College. She was invited to become registrar and tutor in the college, but she declined because she was about to be married to Mr. Terrell. After the wedding the couple spent some years in Europe. Mrs. Terrell studying French and German in the capitals of the two countries, and art in Italy. 34 TELEPHONE 3923 MADISON SQ. Intended for Mrs Lenald "O wad some power the giftie gi'e us To see oursel's as ithers see us." W HENRY ROMEIKE, Inc. 110-112 West 26th St. N. Y. City. CABLE ADDRESS, "ROMEIKE" NEW YORK NEW YORK The First Established and Most Complete Newspaper Cutting Bureau in the World From .......................... Address .......INDIANAPOLIS, IND Date .......................1907 Est GIFTED COLORED WOMAN TO SPEAK IN THIS CITY Mrs. Mary Church Terrell to Deliver an Address at Jones Tabernacle on October 28. The coming of Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, who is regarded as one of the ablest women, from an educational view point, the negro race has produced, is creating much interest. Mrs. Terrell's appearance here Monday evening, October 28, at Jones's tabernacle, North and Blackford streets, will be under the auspices of the Indiana branch of the National Association of Social Purity, which organization will hold its national congress at Battle Creek, Mich., October 31 to November 6, and at which Mrs. Terrell will be one of the speakers, The State society has arranged, therefore, for Mrs. Terrell to deliver several addresses on the way to the congress. Mrs. Terrell is fitted for public life by educational advantages acquired in American colleges, which have been supplemented by seven years spend in the universities of Berlin, Heidelberg and Paris. Her education has been rounded out by extensive travel and by keeping closely in touch with live topics and the current affairs of the day. Added to this she has an engaging personality. She is especially interested in the moral elevation of her race, and devotes many of her efforts to sane suggestions along this line. In recognition of her educational acquirements she was made a member of the Board of Education of Washington, D. C., to which position she has been re-elected consecutively for several years. Her husband, Judge Robert H. Terrell, is the only colored man to hold a judicial position in the courts of the District of Columbia. Colored Physicians Organize. The fourteen colored physicians of the city, each of whom is a regular graduate from a reputable school of medicine, and several of whom have taken special post-graduate courses in advanced schools of medicine and surgery, have organized themselves into a society for their own improvement and betterment of sanitary and hygienic conditions among colored people. It is planned to extend the organization into a State body to become affiliated with the National Medical Association among colored physicians, which has a membership of between 700 and 800. The local society will be known as the AEsculapian, and has for its officers: President, Dr. W. E. Brown; vice-president, Dr. Akins; secretary, Dr. J. O. Puryear; treasurer, Dr. H. L. Hummous. A judiciary committee was chosen, consisting of Drs. W. H. Armistead, J. N. Nelson and Atkins. Meetings will be held the third Wednesday in each month, at the office of one of the members. 4 TELEPHONE 3923 MADISON SQ. Intended for [*Mrs Terrald*] "O wad some power the giftie gi'e us To see oursel's as ithers see us." HENRY ROMEIKE, Inc. 110-112 West 26th St. N. Y. City. CABLE ADDRESS, "ROMEIKE" NEW YORK NEW YORK The First Established and Most Complete Newspaper Cutting Bureau in the World From....STAR. Address.....WASHINGTON, D. C. Date........OCT 14 1907 Establis District Speaker at Church Meeting. CLEVELAND, Ohio, October 14--Today's sessions of the Congregational national council were devoted to the annual meeting of the American Missionary Association. The annual survey of the field was presented by Mr. Charles A. Hull of New York City, and a paper on "The Need of the Hour" was given by Mr. John R. Rogers. Mrs. Mary C. Terrell of the board of education, Washington, D. C., spoke upon "The Strongest for the Weakest," and the annual address of the president, Rev. A. H. Bradford, D. D., of Montclair, N. J., closed the morning session. A male quartet from Fisk University furnished greatly enjoyed songs The Weekly Guide Published by The Weekly Guide Pub. Co. 600 North w Street Baltimore, MD. G. R. Waller, L. D., Editor. October 20 1906 Editorial Note and Comment. Straws wafted by the autumn winds point to the waning of the influence and popularity of Mr. Booker T. Washington. In the recent session of the Afro-American Council held in New York city, obviously the manhood school was in the saddle. Every attempt at trimming was roughly thrust to one side and sternly rebuked. The break-down of Mr. Washington's peace-without-honor-policy, brings in its train the collapse of its author's meteoric flight, and his start of Ephramitic insanity is fast fading horizonward. The spirits materialized at the Afro-American Council were Gilbert, Brooks, Morris, Wetmore, Parden, Milholland, McMullen, Manning, Smith and Anderson. Standing between was Walters. Sulking in his tent was the hobbled war horse T. Thomas Fortune. There there came walking delicately and with apologetic step, Washington, Kelly Miller, Napier, Mrs. Terrell, Emmett Scott, and the most fragile and mincing lady, Fannie Barrier Williams, whose paper, read at the feet of Mr. Washington, was distinguished only for its intense devotion to her ideal and its flagrant unfairness to everybody else. There were giants stalking abroad in New York at this meeting. Men with real blood in their arteries and in their eyes. Fighting George W. Lee, the indomitable Corrothers, the persistent and invincible Sinclair, the quiet but forceful Bulkley, George H. White, J. H. Gordon, William H. Steward, L. G. Jordan, John W. Johnson, O. G. Villard, F. M. Jacobs and Granville Martin. Standing between where there was neither darkness nor light, we notice the outlines of Bishop G. W. Clinton, John R. Francis, M. D., R. L. Stokes, Rev. T. W. Henderson, Wilfred H. smith, R. W. Lawton, D. Macon Webster, E. P. Roberts, Wm. T. Dixon, John C. Dancy, and then on bended knee, with open hands and upturned eyes, we saw the form of a man, Fred R. Moore. We believe, however, he was doing his best. Oct- 1906 COUNTRY. Dr. S. L. Corrothers in another column of The Bee is not at all satisfied with the address to the country of the Afro-American League, because he is of the opinion that Mr. Booker Washington's views predominated the committee of the COuncil. Dr. Corrothers is laboring under a false impression. It is true the friends of Dr. Washington were on the committee, but their views did not predominate. Prof. Kelly Miller was about the only member of the committee who challenged the views of others. Because when the editor of The Bee offered a resolution in the Council under a suspension of rules, Prof. Kelly Miller declared that he was personally opposed to itm but he was personally informed that his opinion and personal objections did not amount to anything so far as the editor of The Bee was concerned. The resolution was added to the address to the country over the views and personal objections of Professor Miller. Dr. Corrothers had the same opportunity to combat the views of the committee, because he was on that committee. Mr. Washington had nothing to do with the address of the Afro-American Council, unless he consulted Professor Miller, and that could not have been, because the address was completed before the arrival of Mr. Washington. Mrs. Terrell also had to teach Professor a lesson in English, which she can do. Every friend of Mr. Washington on the Committee of Address was very liberal in his views. The Bee will admit that the address of the Council is weak, but whose fault is it? VOL. X, NO. 37. [* The Weekly Guide*] WASHINGTON [*Sept-22-1906*] NEWS NOTES Mrs. Mary Church Terrell Interviewed by our Washington Correspondent. Social Phases and Personel Of the Niagara Conference at Harper's Ferry. As Seen by the Guide Correspondent. The following interview, which took place by a representative of the Press Bureau, will throw some light on the feelings of the community respecting the school situation at the national capital. Q. Mrs. Terrell, there is widespread alarm over the disposing of Mr. Birney Clark and the appointment of Mr. Roscoe Conkling Bruce; because, it is feared, thereby, a step has been taken to strengthen the Tuskegee Idea and increase the influence of Dr. Washington in the District of Columbia that the future education of the Negro will be different from that of the white man. Is there any reasonable or probable ground for this belief? A. "Candidly, I do not believe a man who uses his brain, is honest and free from the desire to stir up strife and dissension in the community is 'alarmed' over the appointment of such a thoroughly equipped, upright man as Roscoe Conkling Bruce. I strongly advocated the appointment of Roscoe Conkling Bruce' because I am acquainted with no colored person in this country who has done more to prove the colored man's capacity for the highest and best education it is possible to secure in the United States." Q. In your opinion, as a member of the Board of Education, is it best for the system to depose and experienced man like Mr. Clark to make a place for Mr. Bruce, as it is seriously claimed in the case? A. "On general principles I shoula oppose removing one teacher to make a place for another. Nobody who wishes to be just and honest and who values his reputation for veracity in the community would claim that Mr. Clark has been deposed to make room for Mr. Bruce, either seriously or otherwise." Q. Would it be wise to apply the rule of education in the District of Columbia that was advocated by Dr. Washington at Cincinnati this year, viz.: Education which will best fit the children to follow the pursuits and callings of their parents, after a true ascertainment of the vacations and avocations of their parents has been carefully arrived at? A. Children should have the king of education their parents can give them and want them to have. Then, when there is a conflict of opinion between parent and child as to what is the best education to acquire, the child should follow the parents' advice until he is in a position to carry into successful fruition his own ideas concerning the course he wishes to pursue. I believe the young should decide as largely as possible what kind of an education they shall acquire, after they have been properly advised and are old enough to form opinions for themselves." Q. Do you think that the lack of wealth among negroes should require a different standard of education for them than that given to the whites? A. Everything I have said in public and private, all my written and spoken words prove conclusively that I think the colored people should have the best possible education- the highest they can secure. The great trouble is, we as a people, have had dense ignorance forced upon us for centuries and have not yet been able, from the nature of the case, to cultivate our minds. Wealth has absolutely nothing to do with the kind of education a child shall receive, whether he be black or white. We shall never be able to accomplish much along any line until we train our minds." Q. Do you believe that those persons who have charges against them should, according to the high tenets of the Anglo-Saxon, be allowed to be heard in their own defense? A. If charges affect the teacher's character, I certainly think he should be given an opportunity to prove them false. Q. It is rumored that much vindictiveness is being shown by certain persons high in authority. Is there any reasonable or probable ground for this being true? A. "So far as I know, no vindictiveness has been shown by those high in authority. There is neither reasonable nor probable ground for believing such a thing." The appointment of Miss Harriett E. Riggs as director of English instruction for the colored schools for the District of Columbia meets with universal approval. Miss Riggs is one of the strongest women in our race and, perhaps, is our greatest teacher since the days of Fannie Coppin. She can rightfully say, "Let all mortals who would follow me, love virtue; she alone is free." The Press Bureau congratulates the system upon its wisdom, and whatever may be the criticisms of the new board, this act is a monument to their wisdom, a just reward of merit and virtue. The many objections that have been raised against Mr. Bryan will subside in the near future and he will again be the hero of his part. He is a sincere man, but a great politician and he is going to win in the end. In many respects, he is the greatest living American and deserves to be followed a party greater than his own. Had he lived in the fifties, he would have been an abolitionist as he is a radical today. He goes wrong, but is always able to get right, as he sees the right. What the country needs more now than anything else, is a great moral awakening which will bring the nation back to the bedrock of the republic. The grand old party needs to rise in its might and return to the old way, that all men, white and black alike, will be equal. Feb. 22, 1906 The Charlotte Gazette. Mrs. M. Church Terrell According to appointment Mrs. Church Terrell, of Washington, D.C., and whose versatile mind and facile pen has produced delightful reading for many of us, was here last week. So althogather satisfactory was her brief sojourn that the afterglow of her gracious presence lingers still. Speak of charm of manner, it was truly exemplified in Mrs. Terrell. She truly might have been the subject of Wordsworth's lines: "A perfect woman, nobly planned," etc. Her admirable address replete in proffound thought of limpid clearness, was an easy flow of choice language woven into logical and graceful periods, enlivened here and there with rich and sparkling humor. So true did each word ring that her highly appreciative audience gave close and sympathetic attention from the opening sentence to the close of the address, which seemed to come by far too soon. The race should thank God for such types of cultured womanhood. The literary and musical program, rendered by the flower of Charlotte's talent, was heartily enjoyed. It's rendition made possible a much needed rest for Mrs. Terrell, who was forced by untoward circumstances to travel part of her journey to Charlotte on a freight train. A delightful reception was tendered Mrs. Terrell at the residence of Mr. E. J. Young by the Puskin Literary and Social Circle. 000 Mrs. Mary Church Terrill, wife of Judge Terrell and prominent public speaker will be in Charleston Jan. 30, and will speak at Old Bethel M. E. church under the auspices of the Epworth League of that church. No one who has ever heard this popular and noted woman will fail to take advantage of the opportunity that the Epworth League is offering. Mrs. Terrell is preeminently a woman of a wonderful depth of thought with a masterly delivery and a magnificent vocabulary. 1906 000 ber Song played. Feb-15-1906 N.C. -Charlotte THE COMING OF MARY CHURCH TERRELL --Not too often is the Queen City the hostess to such a distinguished personage as visited us on Thursday of last week. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, the lecturer of whose international reputation most know, was in our city, and lectured at Friendship Baptist church. Mrs. Terrell arrived in the city Thursday afternoon, and as had been arranged, the Pushkin Literary and Social club tendered in her honor a reception at the beautiful and well appointed home of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis J. Young. The hours were filled with mirth and good feeling--all enjoying the introduction into the acquaintance of this distinguished woman of our race. The ladies receiving for the Pushkin Club, in the parlor, were: Mrs. M. Clay Clinton, in a beautiful gown of white landsdowne, with chiffon and applique; Mrs. R. B. Bruce, handsomely gowned in black silk, with white chiffon and lace; and Mrs. E. J. Young in a magnificent creation of green silk and imported lace. Mrs. G. E. Davis, in diaphanous costume of white organdie with lace and ribbons; Mrs. A. A. Wyche, tastefully clad in black silk with medallions; Mrs. S. B. Pride, in tailored gown of brown broadcloth, and Mrs. W. E. Hill, costumed in silk and voile, did the reception honors in the dining hall. Gathered here in this beautiful home, between the hours of 5 and 8, was a collection of men and women representative of the city's, yes and of the race's, best brain. For in the merry concourse were to be seen men and women representative of all professions and artistic accomplishments. And they were all assembled to "do honor" to one, of whom the Negro is justly proud. At the hour arranged Friendship church was filled with an expectant audience, and the program in connection with the lecture was begun. The first number, "The Rustle of Spring," and instrumental selection, was rendered by Mrs. W. A. Pethel. Following invocation by Rev. G. E. Bullock, Mr. Albert T. James, with the artistic melody of which his superb tenor is capable, rendered "Toreador" from "Carmen." Miss Bessie Johnson, at this point in the program, rendered "Thanatopsis;" nor was there anything in the rendition to gain say her already-won reputation as a reciter. Following this number, Mrs. G. C. Clement sang "Robert, O Robert," from Meyerbeer's "Robert le Diable." It is sufficient to record that the performer merited the hearty applause given at the close of her number. In the next number "The Execution of Montrose" Miss Willie C. Massey accomplished what is always her reward in public recitation--the generous applause of the audience. Mrs. G. E. Davis then, in a very pleasing maner, renderd "Penelope's Christmas Dance." Following this number Mrs. M. Clay Clinton rendered in her usual artistic manner "Let Me Love Thee" (Arditi.) At this juncture Mrs. A. A. Wyche, a former Washingonian and friend, in a choice introductory address, presented to the audience the speaker of the occasion, Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, on of the foremost lecturers of the race regardless of sex. Mrs. Terrell, handsomely attired in an imported gown of crepe de chine and duchess lace, came forward amid great applause, showing herself to be, before she had spoken, a woman of marked personality; and with a winsome smile and pleasing voice literally "took captive" the audience which was her willing slave throughout the lecture. Mrs. Terrell began by giving as her subject "The Light Side of a Dark Picture;" and in a most pleasing manner talked of what she termed "the human and not the race problem." Reference was made to the Negro's insatiable thirst for knowledge; his indomitable courage; his miraculous material progress and his happy, singing disposition, as sure indications of his ultimate success. The speaker expressed herself as an optimist, hooting the idea of despair and discouragement; and certainly showed herself conversant with the facts bearing on the subject. The lecture was replete with wholesome suggestion and advice; and the many illustrations of a humorous as well as of a serious class made the lecture one not soon to be forgotten The last number of the program of the occasion was the solo selection, "The King of the Winds," by Prof. Walter T. Singleton. As usual Prof. Singleton pleased the audience. Mrs. Terrell left on the early train Friday morning for Durham, where she had an engagement to lecture that night. We bid her God speed; and if she comes this way again our latch string is on the outside. Telephone 3929 Madison Sq. Intended for Mrs. C. Terrell K3[?] "O wad some power the giftie gi'e us To see oursel's as ithers see us." Henry Romeike, Inc. 110-112 West 26th St. N. Y. City Cable Address, New York "Romeike" New York The First Established and Most Complete Newspaper Cutting Bureau in the World From Post Address Pittsburgh, PA Date Jun 9-1907 Est [?????] 1884 Negro Women's Clubs. Five years ago the several negro women's clubs of Pittsburgh formed themselves into a city federation, and finding the plan successful, about a year ago decided to organize a county federation. This was accomplished with an enrollment of seven clubs, and having Mrs. Sadie Hamilton, of Allegheny, as president. The constitution calls for quarterly meetings, but during its first year it was found expedient to hold monthly meeting, each club entertaining in turn at the home of one of its members. There will be one more meeting before the close of the season, the time and place to be announced later. Under the auspices of the County Federation Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, of Washington, D. C., spoke Friday evening to a large audience in the Grace Memorial Church, Arthur street. Mrs. Terrell has been speaking on the "Brighter Side of a Dark Subject," and her message is always one of encouragement for her race. She is especially gifted in speech and succeeds in holding her audience wherever she appears. Her earnestness invariably carries with it conviction. Her work among the women of her race all through our county cannot receive too high praise. She has assumed an important mission, the elevation of her people, and thus far her efforts have met with wonderful success. Mrs. Terrel has deservedly been called "The Female Booker T. Washington." She is a strong advocate of woman's clubs among the colored people, believing that they will prove a source of mutual help, and in drawing the women more closely in touch with each other ambition will be aroused and great advancement will be the result. Gazette Times Pittsburgh PA June 8, 1907 Addresses County Federation Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, wife of Judge Terrell of Washington D.C., spoke before the County Federation of Negro Women's clubs last evening in Grace Memorial Presbyterian church, Allegheny. She is an official of the Colored Women's league, which is working to ameliorate and to solve some of the hard problems which control the negro women of today. She was one of the speakers at the International Congress of women held about three years ago in Berlin, where her address created a sensation. The negro women of Pennsylvania have organized into clubs in different parts of the state and are pledged to build a home for the orphan and destitute negro children. They have so far succeeded that, having secured a charter, they expect to be able to dedicate the home in a few months. The proceeds of the lecture of Mrs. Terrell last evening will be devoted to this object. Gazette Times Pittsburgh, PA Jun 7-1907 To Lecture to Colored Women. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, wife of Judge Terrell of Washington D.C., will lecture in the Grace Memorial Presbyterian church, Arthur street, this evening, under the auspices of the County Federation of Negro Women's clubs. She is the honorary president of the National Association of Colored Women and the proceeds of the lecture will be devoted to the Home for Destitute Children which the county organization hopes to open in September. DISPATCH PITTSBURGH, PA JUN 7 - 1907 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, wife of Judge Robert Terrell of Washington, D.C., will lecture in the Grace Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church, Arthur street, at 8:15 o'clock this evening. She will speak under the auspices of the County Federation of Negro Women's Clubs. Mrs. Terrell is honorary president of the National association. DISPATCH PITTSBURGH, PA JUN 7 - 1907 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell of Washington, D.C., will speak on "The Bright Side of a Dark Subject" this evening at 8 o'clock in the Grace Memorial Church, Arthur street, near Center avenue, under the auspices of the Allegheny County Federation of Negro Women's Clubs. Mrs. Terrell was the first president of the National Association of Negro Women and is now honorary life president She was the first negro woman to serve on the board of trustees of the public schools of Washington, and is one of the best-known women workers in the cause of uplifting her race. She will make an address next Tuesday evening in Sewickley under the auspices of the Negro Woman's Club of that place. Second Russian-"Ah, yes! His imperial majesty is pleasedskoff to be a trifleski sarcastic."-Life. Give Me My Dreams. A. J. Waterhouse in Los Angeles Herald. Give me my dream. All else is naught, At price of pain success is bought; We struggle upward but to fall; The prize we grasp but holds us thrall; The lips that cheer us through the years Some day smile not for all our tears; We build awhile, we know not what, And the toiler is forgot Give me my dreams. Give me my dreams. A child am I Who stands in darkness but to sigh, Until a hand doth backward roll The gray, damp mists about my soul, And then-oh, dream of dreams that cheers- They come, the loved of other years, And voices whisper soft and low The loving words of long ago. Give me my dreams. Give me my dreams. Oh, little maid, With whom of old I laughed and played, They say the ivy loves to creep Above the grave where now you sleep; Can wake you as it did of your. What matter? Still in dreams you creep Unto my side-a tryst to keep- Give me my dreams. Give me my dreams. All else is dross, But still I count it little loss, For yet in dreams the bright stars burn As in the years to which I turn: White hands reach to me through the mist, By lips I loved my lips are kissed; And all life's fields are love aglow, As they were once, oh, long ago- Give me my dreams. In the Storm. From the Chicago Record. My child, your hero may not be, In truth, a hero all the time; Remember, it must chance that he Shall still have rugged steeps to climb. Don't place him on too high a plane, In fancy; then he will not fall In your esteem and my attain To something noble after all. My boy, don't think your sweetheart bears A halo on her golden hair; A crown of purity she wears, And you must help to keep it there. But she will have her trying moods, And be not always kind and sweet; These are life's nerving interludes-- Sad pitfalls for unwary feet, You both are far from perfect yet, And quarrels will, unhaply, com-- both may be wrong; so don't forget, In anger's blind delirium, That sweet concessions each must make, And tender promises renew; Or else a loving heart may break. Wireless Telegraphy. [????er] carefully from our respective fathers, who through hardly straight-laced in their own conduct, might not have shown the same leniency toward the escapades of their children. My mother was of about the same height as Anna, and if she could be kept from speech might very pass for her. So, with this plan to rehearse, Will went back into the pleasant and quiet room where my mother sat calmly at her knitting. At first she would not listen to a word. What! would she put on a child's cap and cloak? She might be in danger, but thank God! she had garments of her own, which she could wear without being beholden to any. Besides, what would she wear afterward? If they should meet any one who knew her in the plantations, it was not Anna Mark's cap and cloak that she would care to appear in. The shame would cause her to sink into the ground. But Will reassured her by offering to smuggle anything she wished out for her. She went joyfully to make the bundle ready. It proved to be almost a boat load of itself, and she was with difficulty advised to restrict herself to a cloak with a hood, a warm underkirtle and a light muslin gown, which she selected from the vast store of women's clothes which Capt. Stansfield had put at her disposal. Anna's only baggage was a store of white kerchiefs. It was curious how little thought my mother gave herself about some matters. But then she had always expected to be provided for, and took all gifts as her due, having been an only child and (save in the matter of marriage) allowed her own way all her life. As for Anna Mark, she would not have touched a bonnet string in all the pirate's hoard with a pair of tongs. But my mother, on the other side, was proud and satisfied, and indeed had spent a great deal of her time since we came to the Isle of the Winds remaking and embellishing the wardrobe which she found ready for her use. I do not suppose it ever crossed her mind to ask who had worn them before. (To be continued.) ART NOTES. The days of sunshine that filter through the stern mask of winter and forerun the new life lure the artist and the lover of the fields from the hibernation of studio and fireside with irresistible power. The winter woods are uncompromising. Stripped of the gauzy glamor of tender green and the opening buds of spring, and denied the gor- [?????] drapery that autumn wears[?] nature TELEPHONE 3923 MADISON SQ. Intended for [*Mrs Terreld*] "O wad some power the giftie gi'e us To see oursel's as ithers see us." HENRY ROMEIKE, Inc. 110-112 West 26th St. N. Y. City. CABLE ADDRESS, "ROMEIKE" NEW YORK NEW YORK The First Established and Most Complete Newspaper Cutting Bureau in the World From....POST Address.....PITTSBURGH, PA Date........JUN 6 1907 East Liberty Y.W.C.A. The Young Women's Christian association of East Liberty will hold its annual garden party at the home of Mrs. Alexander King, North Negley avenue, the afternoon of June 18. As the grounds are large and beautiful and extensive preparations are being made, the affair promises to be most enjoyable. The women's societies of the following churches will assist in making the event successful: The Friendship Avenue Presbyterian Church, the Sixth United Presbyterian, the Tabernacle Presbyterian, the Point Breeze Presbyterian, the Shadyside United Presbyterian, the Emory Methodist and the East Liberty Presbyterian Church. Lecture by Mary Church Terrell. Under the auspices of the County Federation of Negro Women's Clubs, Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, of Washington, D.C., will speak to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock at the Grace Memorial Church, Arthur street, near Center avenue. Her subject will be "The Bright Side of a Dark Subject," her object being to enlighten and encourage negro women and break down some of the prejudice existing against her race. Mrs. Terrell may be called one of the really successful women of this country. She has been termed deservedly the "Female Booker T. Washington." Her work among colored women has been most efficient, and wherever she has spoken, good results have followed. Mrs. Terrell was the first negro woman to serve on the board of trustees of the Washington public schools, and through her energy and intelligence made her influence felt throughout the system. She was the first president of the National Association of Negro Women, to which position she was elected three times, and declining to serve further, was made honorary president for life. Next Tuesday evening she will speak in Sewickley under the auspices of the Negro Woman's club of that place. [*June 11*] TELEPHONE 3923 MADISON SQ. Intended for [*M C. Terrell*] "O wad some power the giftie gi'e us To see oursel's as ithers see us." HENRY ROMEIKE, Inc. 110-112 West 26th St. N. Y. City. CABLE ADDRESS, "ROMEIKE" NEW YORK NEW YORK The First Established and Most Complete Newspaper Cutting Bureau in the World From....SUN. Address.....PITTSBURGH, PA Date........JUN 5 1907 FOR DESTITUTE CHILDREN. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, wife of Judge Terrell, of Washington, D.C., will lecture in Grace Memorial Presbyterian Church, Arthur street, near Center, Friday evening June 7, at 8:15 o'clock. Mrs. Terrell comes under the auspices of the County Federation of Negro Women's clubs. The proceeds are for the Home for Destitute Children, which it is hoped to open in September. [*C 1*] TELEPHONE 3923 MADISON SQ. Intended for [*M C. Terrell*] "O wad some power the giftie gi'e us To see oursel's as ithers see us." HENRY ROMEIKE, Inc. 110-112 West 26th St. N. Y. City. CABLE ADDRESS, "ROMEIKE" NEW YORK NEW YORK The First Established and Most Complete Newspaper Cutting Bureau in the World From....POST Address.....PITTSBURGH, PA Date........JUN 2 1907 the week. Elevation of Negro Women. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, called the "Female Booker T. Washington," is coming to Pittsburgh and will lecture on the progress of her race, particularly its women, on Friday evening at the Grace Memorial Presbyterian Church, Arthur street, near Center avenue, under the auspices of the County Federation of Negro Women's club. The object of the lecture is to raise money for the Home for Destitute Children in New Castle, which the State Federation of Negro Women's clubs hopes to open in Spetember. Mrs. Terrell is as unusually magnetic speaker and treats her subject with a dignity, enthusiasm and intelligence worthy of the theme. Thoe who had the pleasure of listening to Mrs. Terrell when she addressed the Twentieth Century club in April werer loud in her praise, ad hope that her coming this month will be attended with the greatest success. Mrs. Terrell has been invited to speak in Sewickley on the 11th of June, and the members of the Woman's Club of Sewickley Valley have been asked to lend their support. [*Photo of Phyllis and myself. National Association of Colored Woman Meet in Detroit_A woman says the members are jealous of me.*] CONTENTS GENERAL PRESS NOTICES ON MRS. MARY CHURCH TERRELL Property of Mrs. Marcy Church Terrell Arranged by R. G. Doggett ASSESSMENT NO. 84 IS NOW DUE. The Lady Maccabee Official Organ Great Hive Ladies of the Modern Maccabees. PORT HURON, MICHIGAN, MAY 1, 1906 THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN. 06 The annual meeting of the National Council of Women was held in Toledo, April 1 to 5. The first public meeting was at the Valentine Theater on Sunday evening, Postmaster Tucker giving an address of welcome, which was responded to by the president, Mrs. Mary Wood Swift. Mrs. Lillian M. Hollister, supreme commander of the Lady Maccabees of the World, made a strong plea for the equal rights of women and men, particularly for an equal wage, on behalf of the five million women and girls who are in the industrial and professional ranks. The Rev. Thomas C. O'Reilly, D. D., of Cleveland, in his address, "The Religious Influence of Women," declared woman to be the helpmate of man and not his rival, and said that she achieves her greatest triumph when fulfilling the will of her Creator, who destined her to be man's helpmate. Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett, noted for her noble work among unfortunate women, followed with a brief but stirring address, saying the day had come when women had not only found themselves, but found each other, and added, if no other good comes of the council, it would be worth while to show that a unity of feeling exists between people of different denominations. Mrs. May Wright Sewall, honorary president of the council, made and eloquent address on "America As An International World Power," in which she paid a tribute to the late Susan B. Anthony. Mrs. Florence Kelley gave an interesting talk on child labor, and appealed to the women to ask their legislators to support pending bills for improvement of conditions in their various localities. The addresses were interspersed with delightful music by members of the Eurydice club. The morning meetings were given up to special work of the council. The Collingwood, where the meetings were held was tastefully decorated with the national colors, with "Old Glory" and the "Union Jack" at either end of the platform, upon which was a profusion of palms. On Monday afternoon Mayor Whitlock gave an address of welcome in be- half of the city, which was responded to by our great commander, Mrs. Frances E. Burns, in her usual charming and forceful style. There were also greetings from the local clubs and fraternal societies. In the evening a delightful reception was tendered the officers and delegates, which was largely attended. During the week a number of interesting addresses were given, among them Mrs. Florence Kelley, Chicago; Miss Mary E. Zats, Chicago; Rex W. Wells, Toledo, O.; W.L. Bodine, Chicago; Mrs. Lucy Ames Mead, New York; John E. Gunckel, Toledo; Mrs. Mary Church Terrill, and others. Reports of work done for the past year in the various affiliated societies were given by the delegates present and were of exceeding interest. The evening meetings were well attended and much interest manifested by the Toledo people. The report of Mrs. May Wright Sewall, chairman of the committee on resolutions, honoring Susan B. Anthony, recommended that a universal memorial service be held in late October or early November, and that subscriptions be raised to the amount of $1,000 to purchase a bust of the great woman suffragist, to be placed in the capitol at Washington, the judiciary committee room being suggested as a place for it. The following resolutions were adopted: Declaring for peace by arbitration and using influence to that end in family, church, schools and public office; urging teachers and educational authorities to prevent, by instruction in principles underlying a pure life, the immoral contamination of pupils through vitiated imaginations and garbled information conveyed by companions and immoral literature. Urging the administration to use influence at The Hague conference to promote neutralization of private property at sea in time of war, establishment of arbitration treaties and gradual disarmament; invoking the aid of the United States in suppression of the alleged atrocities in the Congo Free State. Favoring the abolition of capital punishment. Providing that discussion of sectarian religion and partisan politics before the national council shall not be permitted; protesting against the setting apart of a special district in the city of Washington of immoral residents. Thanks for courtesies extended to the council, special mention being made of the press, the chairman and her committee, the Eurydice club, Mrs. S. M. Jones, the Settlement association and the local council of women. To ask the president to use his moral influence to settle governorship of the Congo Free State. Chicago was selected as the next place of meeting. An interesting woman who attended the council was Mrs. Rebecca E. Little, of Salt Lake, Utah. Mrs. Little is a member of the board of regents of the University of Utah. She is also a member of the board of directors of the National Woman's Relief society, a mam- moth charitable organization, numbering more than 37,000; also vice president in an auxiliary society in Salt Lake City, including more than 400 members. Mrs. Clarissa Smith Williams, who also represented the Woman's Relief society of Salt Lake City, is a daughter of one of the original pioneers with Brigham Young, who went to Utah in 1847. Mrs. Williams is an active member in the Utah State Society of the Daughters of the Revolution, having served in the various capacities of treasurer, Chaplain and regent. Another interesting character was Mrs. Mary Church Terrill, who is called the female Booker T. Washington because of her efforts on behalf of her race. She is an unusually gifted woman, and an eloquent speaker, her diction being almost classical, and her boice strong and musical. She represents the National Association of Colored Women. Mrs. Terrill was one of the speakers at the International Congress of Women, which was held in Berlin last year, her addresses being made in German as well as French, she being the only American delegate who could speak German. She has spent several years in Europe in travel and study, and has had unusual opportunities for broad culture. Mrs. Terrill is a member of the board of education for the District of Columbia. THE DETROIT NEWS their entertainment so far, and are [hs??] Founded by them have sent messages by Clark wire JAMES E. SCRIPPS TUESDAY JULY 10, 1906. 9,19 MARY C. TERRELL HAS RARE GIFT OF ORATORY MRS. MARY C. TERRELL AND DAUGHTER Among the noted ladies who will attend the fifth annual convention of the National Association of Colored Women, which opened in Detroit today is Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, who is recognized throughout America as the leading colored woman orator of the day, rivaling even Booket T. Washington in eloquence. She is a woman of rare personality, being specially gifted in speech, and is so profoundly in earnest with whatever subject she is discussing that she carries conviction to those who hear her. She was born in Memphis, Tenn., and was taken to Oberlin, O., when a child, where she graduated later from the classical course of Oberlin college. She was invited after her graduation to become registrar and tutor in Oberlin college, which would have made her a member of the faculty. Mrs. Terrell, who then was Miss Church, declined the call, because she was soon to marry Mr. Terrell. She has traveled extensively abroad and speaks French, German, Italian and English fluently. Mrs. Terrell was elected delegate to the International congress of women, held in Berlin, Germany, and was the only foreign delegate who delivered her lecture in German. She is especially interested in home affiliations and is devoted to her daughter and husband, although her time is greatly taken up in educational work in Washington, D.C. A pleasing feature of an interview with Mrs. Terrell is her utter lack of self-consciousness. The sessions begin at 9 o'clock this morning and continue through the week. A memorial hour for the dead will be held between 11 and 12 during which speeches concerning Susan B. Anthony and the dead colored leaders will be made. Mayor Codd welcomes the delegates in the evening. Wednesday night a river and lake ride will be taken and automobile and carriage rides will intersperse the program on other days. The notable addresses of the convention will be made by Mrs. Booker T. Washington, Mrs. Mary Church Terrell and Mrs. Lucy Thurman. THE DETROIT FREE PRESS: FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1906. NOTED COLORED WOMEN COMING TO DETROIT TO ATTEND CONVENTION MRS. C. S. SMITH. MRS. LUCY THURMAN. COMING TO DETROIT Convention of National Association of Colored Woman. Members Leaders Of Race Two Hundred Delegates, From All Over the United States, WIll Discuss Questions of Vital Interest to Their People-Many Entertainments Planned for Visitors. Beginning Monday, July 9, Detroit will be the scene of a remarkable convention when the National Association of Colored Women will hold their tenth annual meeting. The convention will be remarkable as representing the highest pinnacle to which the American colored women has attained. The two hundred delegates who are to attend represent ten times that number of women all over the United States whose education and refinement make them leaders of their race. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, honorary president of the association, will come from Washington. She is a graduate of Oberlin college, has studied abroad and is one of the few women who ever addressed the students of Cornell. Mrs. Booker T. Washington, a graduate of Fisk university, Mrs. Josephine Bruce, for many years a teacher in the Cleveland schools, and many other women of prominence will attend the convention. Several of the national officers will be entertained at the home of Bishop and Mrs. C.S. Smith, 39 East Columbia street. The officers are: President, Mrs. J. Silone Yates, Jefferson City, Mo.; vice-president, Mrs. Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, Ala.; recording secretaries, Miss E.C. Carter, New Bedford, Mass.; Miss Josephine Holmes, Atlanta, Ga.; and Mrs. M.E. Steward, Louisville, Ky.; corresponding secretary, Miss Cornelia Bowen, Waugh, Ala.; treasurer, Mr. L.C. Anthony, Jefferson, Mo.; chairman of ways and means committee, Mrs. Lucy Thurman, Jackson, Mich.; chairman executive committee, Mrs. Josephne Bruce, Josephine, Miss.; national organizer, Mrs. L.A. Davis, Chicago, Ill. The local committees are made up of the following well known Detroit women; Mrs. Delia Barrier, Mrs. C.S. Smith, Miss Mollie Lewis, Mrs. Frances E. Preston, Mrs. Paul Alford, Mrs. Benjamin Pelham, Mrs. J.A. Loomis, Mrs. W. Abernathy, Mrs. J.W. Johnson, Miss Lulu Gregory, Mrs. R.B. Duporte, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, Mrs. Sarah Warsaw, Miss Meta E. Pelham, Miss Estelle Owen, and Mrs. Ella Bradford. The business sessions will be held in Bethel A.M.E. church, corner Hastings and Napoleon streets. On Wednesday evening, July 11, a reception will be given the delegates on board one of the river boats and several other entertainments have been planned for the visitors. MARY CHURCH TERRELL. DETROIT TRIBUNE- TUESDAY, AUGUST 28,1900 WILL STICK Mrs. Thurman Speaks For The Colored Race. AMERICA WANTED NEGROES She Declares That Now the People Intend to Stay by the Stars and Stripes. The executive board of the National Association of Colored Women last night said farewell to Detroit. A mass meeting was held at the Bethel A.M. E. church, at the corner of Napoleon and Hastings street, that the colored ladies of the city of Detroit might have an opportunity of meeting the visitors. Short addresses were made by several of the executive board. Mrs. Booker T. Washington had charge of the meeting. Mrs. Jackson of Jefferson City, Mo., read a paper on "The trinity of woman's nature." Mrs. Jackson spoke of woman from three different standpoints, moral, intellectual, and physical. The perfect woman needs all three equally developed. The lack of any one line of development may lead to the death of the soul. Mrs. Lyles of St. Paul spoke of the John Brown society, of which she is the founder. The object of the society is the raising of money for the purpose of erecting a monument for the great martyr. Six thousand dollars has already been raised, and $4,000 more is needed. A bronze statue is now being cast which will be raised in Jackson park, Chicago. Mrs. Terrell of Washington, D.C., the president of the national association, made a speech, inviting the ladies of Detroit to attend the next annual convention at Buffalo. The fireworks of the meeting was furnished by Mrs. Lucy Thurman. In brief, she said: "Our race is not going to die out. Remember that before tomorrow morn 500 colored children will be born in this country. We are here, and here to stay. We did not come as other nations crying for liberty. They wanted us so bad that they built great ships and favored us with free transportation. Even Boston, the intellectual center of this country, joined in. When we came in such a way, we won't give up the stars and stripes. It is our flag and we will stand by it. There have been lynchings that have made our blood run cold. The separate car act has been held constitutional, but still we will not believe that injustice was intended. God moves in a mysterious way. We wonder how good could come from such scenes as those at New Orleans, New York, and more recently at Akron. But still good will come, and still we are growing. The national association itself is an emblem of advancement." EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. It Has Decided to Meet the Next Time at Buffalo. At the executive meeting of the executive committee of the National Association of Colored Women yesterday but little was done of interest to the public. It was decided to hold the next meeting of the convention at Buffalo, the second week of next July. The committee will continue to publish the official organ, known as "National Association Notes," of which Mrs. Booker T. Washington is the editor. It was decided that the association would join the National Council of Women (white.) The treasurer reported that the association has $250 in the treasury. The executive committee is composed of the president of the association, Mary Church Terrell of Washington, D.C.; Mrs. Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee, Ala., Mrs. Lucy Thurman of Jackson, Mich., Carrie WIlliams Clifford of Cleveland, Mrs. M.V. Lee of Charleston, W. Va., Mrs. T.H. Lyles of St. Paul, Ida Joyce Jackson of Jefferson City, Mo., Mrs. Jerome Jeffrey, Rochester, N.Y. THE WATCHMAN Editors, Edmind F. Merriam and Joseph S. Swaim May 3, 1906 Vol. 8 editing of the Helping Hand. The Board of the Society adopted an extended note descriptive of Mrs. Waterbury's connection with the Society and their appreciation. This appears in full on page 29 and we wish to commend and adopt the sentiments expressed as our own. It is a rare and exceptional service Mrs. Waterbury has done for missions, and a hardly less useful work be expected from her in the future. - Mrs. Mary Church Terrell of Washington, D.C., who speaks this week at the Anniversary of the Woman's Baptist Home Mission Society at Beverly, is probably the most brilliant woman of the negro race of America. She was born in Memphis, Tenn., and graduated at Oberlin College, Ohio, and has studied in Europe. She is widely known as a lecturer. She was one of the speakers at the International Congress of Women in Berlin, June, 1904, the only one of the American delegates who spoke in German. She also delivered an address in French, and M. Remy, the correspondent of the Paris Temps, wrote that Mrs. Terrell was the woman who made the best appearance at the convention, an opinion which was endorsed by Mrs. Ida Husted Harper and the Washington Post. Mrs. Terrell's husband, Hon. Robert H. Terrell, is a graduate of Harvard University and a judge in the courts of the District of Columbia. [* Detroit Free Press July 14 - 1906 *] FIGHT AT ELECTION Big Rumpus at Session of Colored Women's Convention. SHARP WORDS BANDIED ABOUT Charges Made That One Candidate for President Had Too White a Skin--After Ten Hours of Squabbling Lucy Thurman, of Jackson, Is Elected. Behind closed doors, carefully guarded by one of their number, 181 delegates to the National Association of Colored Women closeted themselves from 11 o'clock a. m. until a quarter of six p. m. at Bethel A. M. E. church yesterday so that the election of officers might be conducted with the strictest secrecy. All this time dozens of women visitors to the convention from all of the country waited outside much disgruntled at their eviction from the executive meeting. "It's a right down shame--they've no right to keep us out--they've got nerve" and similar expressions of displeasure were heard on all sides. Every little while the door was opened just far enough to allow some half fainting elector to get out of the hot room where the stormy session was being conducted by women whose debating powers were not one whit weakened because they were for nine and ten hours without a bite to eat. Causes of Contention. Of the five candidates for the presidency, Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, of Washington, Mrs. Booker T. Washington, Mrs. Lucy Thurman, of Jackson, Mich., and Mrs. Josephine Bruce, of Josephine, Miss., were the causes of contention. Eight ballots were cast for president. Mrs. Booker T. Washington dropped out early in the fray. The the fight waxed hot over the other three. Early it had been angrily alleged by her supporters that they didn't want Mrs. Bruce because she was too light in color and that she only went with people of her own color at home. "They won't give Mrs. Mary Church Terrell half a show--they're all jealous of her, but she's the choice of the people all the same," said one stylishly dressed young woman trying to get a peep through the keyhole. "They're determined to get Mrs. Thurman in because she's a Michigan woman. Mrs. Thurman is smart and a good club woman, but Mrs. Terrell can speak five languages." There was no small feeling of antagonism among the excluded visitors from the election. Never Saw Such a Rumpus. "I've been to conventions all my life --G. A. R. King's Daughters and all the rest," said one woman, "but I declare I never saw the like of such a rumpus as they're having over electing a few colored folks to office." The visitors were not told that they would be barred from the meeting until it began, and so were prevented from joining excursions and other pleasures that might have passed the day pleasantly. The officers who won out in the ballot battle were: President, Mrs. Lucy Thurman; vice-president, Mrs. E. C. Carter; chairman of the executive committee, Mrs. Booker T. Washington; corresponding secretary, Miss Cornelia Bowen; recording secretaries, Miss Josephine Holmes, Mrs. M. E. Steward and Mrs. E. B. Clark; treasurer, Mrs. L. C. Anthony; national organizer, Mrs. Wm. A. Hunton; chairman of ways and means committee, ANGRY AT "JIM CROW" RULES Colored Women Protest Against Lynching and Southern Ideas. "Inasmuch as our people are constantly subjected to humiliating treatment on railroads, street cars and in other public conveyances, while first-class fare is demanded. "Resolved, That we unite in advising our people to refrain so far as possible from using these conveyances where discrimination exists. "Resolved, That we especially condemn the patronage of excursions in sections where discrimination exists, not only as a protest against discrimination, but because of the great immoral tendencies and effects of these excursions." In resolutions presented last night by Mrs. W. A. Hunton, of Georgia, and adopted by the convention of the National Association of Colored Women, another effort was made to fight southern race discrimination with boycott. Other resolutions demanded cessation of lynchings and equally good schools for whites and blacks. The meeting was held in Woodard Avenue Baptist church. Mrs. Josephine Yates, president, had with her on the platform Mrs. Lucy Thurman, of Michigan, president-elect; Mrs. Booker T. Washington, Mrs. B. K. Bruce, and one or two others. Views of Mrs. Washington. Papers were read by Mrs. Sarah A. J. Garnett, Brooklyn, on "The Afro-American Woman and Suffrage," Miss E. C. Carter on "The Wage-Earner," and Mrs. Guy, Topeka, Kan., on "The Afro-American Woman in Business." A business session will be held at Bethel church this morning, at which the next place of meeting will be chosen. "What do you think of the future of the colored race?" was asked last night of Mrs. Booker T. Washington. "I think," she said, "that the future of the colored race is like that MRS. LUCY THURMAN. Newly-Elected President National Association of Colored Women. of any other race. It depends upon the people getting up and doing something and keeping their engagements. "But there is a chance for the people if the individuals will get to work and depend on themselves." One of the pleasing features of the evening's session of the convention was the introduction of Rabbi Leo M. Franklin, of Temple Beth El, by Rev. Dr. McCollester, pastor of the Church of Our Father. Dr. Franklin spoke of the things that the liberal Jew and liberal Christian have in common. "Both are pioneers," said Dr. Franklin, "That they are few is to their credit, for progressive people are always few in number, and always are leaders. They are an example of the progress of the age." DETROIT JOURNAL Published by the DETROIT JOURNAL CO. Journal Building, Fort street, corner Wayne, Detroit, Mich. President.................................E.D. STAIR Vice President............HENRY STEPHENS Secretary Treasurer......CHAS. L. PALMS Managing Editor...H.P. HETHERINGTON Business Manager.....WILLIAM B. LOWE TUMULT OF HISSES MARS CONVENTION Executive Session Angered Visitors [*1906*] COLORED WOMEN'S CONVENTION Whiter Blood Not Wanted In Officers. The first display of emotional excitement and feeling that has yet been noted at the sessions of the National Association of Colored Women came Friday morning at the Bethel A.M.E. church when the official body voted for an executive session during the election of officers. The result was a deal of noisy debate and considerable hissing. A large number of visitors who had come miles to this convention as well as a number of local people were on hand and were anxious to be present during the election which, it was known, was to be something of a contest. They were sorely disappointed when they were forced from the room and many of them expressed themselves forcibly. Miss E. C. Carter of New Bedford, Mass., one of the recording secretaries, made the motion that started the trouble. The tumult began at once. Mrs. Janes, the first lady recognized by the chair, pleaded for an open session for the sake of the travelers who wished to learn something and had come a long way for the purpose. She was answered by Mrs. Talbot, who spoke in favor of the motion and whose remarks were interrupted by a great noise of hissing. "This very disrespect to the convention which these people who are hissing show is the best evidence why we should have an executive session," she said. The motion was carried and the room cleared with difficulty, but as the people filed out there were many murmurs of discontent. The election contest is over the office of president. Mrs. Yates, the present encumbent, cannot serve again according to the constitution, and the candidates mentioned are Mrs. Josephine B. Bruce of Josephine, Miss., whose husband was a United States senator; Mrs. Booker T. Washington; Mrs. Lucy Thurman of Jackson, Mich.; Miss Cornelia Bowen of Waugh, Ala.; Miss Jones of Ann Arbor, and Mrs. Judge Terrell of Washington. About the latter there is some doubt, as it is said she is prevented by the constitution from serving. White Blood Not Wanted. The real cause of the feeling displayed in the order for an executive session is the fact that there is a faction against Mrs. Bruce. It is not a personal feeling against the lady, for her qualities are recognized and admitted; but is due to the fact that she has considerable white blood in her veins. As one of the visitors said, the colored people are drawing the color line themselves. However, the opponents of Mrs. Bruce feel that a Negress of pure blood should have the office so that whatever good the chief executive accomplished can be shown as a proof of the colored people's ability. No one can then say that the ability came from white blood. "The colored people are their own worst enemies," said Mrs. Terrell in JULY 13, 1906. NO. 270 [PICTURE] MRS. MARY CHURCH TERRELL, Mentioned as a Candidate for the Presidency of the National Association of Colored Women, and One of the Most Conspicuous Members fo the Organization. _________________________ discussing the ruling for an executive session with one of he disgruntled visitors. Mrs. Terrell is one of he most conspicuous members of the convention. In 1896 congress empowered the commissioners of the District of Columbia to appoint two women on the board of education. Mrs. Terrell was appointed and served five years. It was determined that no one who had been on the board should serve again, but an exception was made in Mrs. Terrell's favor and she was reappointed. During the progress of the morning's session a telegram of greeting was sent to President Roosevelt, whose name, when mentioned on several occasions, has brought forth enthusiastic applause. [* W 6*] TELEPHONE 1118-GRAMERCY Intended for [*Mrs Terron*] "O wad some power the giftie gi'e us To see oursel's as ithers see us." HENRY ROMEIKE, Inc. 33 UNION SQUARE, BROADWAY CABLE ADDRESS, "ROMEIKE" NEW YORK NEW YORK The First Established and Most Complete Newspaper Cutting Bureau in the World From....[*WAY AGE*] [*1907*] Address.....NEW YORK CITY Date........AUG 16 1907 SCRAP in the WOMEN'S FEDERATION. The echoes of the meeting of the National Federation of Colored Women, held in the goodly city of Detroit last month, are still heard in the land. It appears to have not been only a great convention, but decidedly warm in spots. Scrapping debates came along in droves, and the dear ladies had a real bang up time. The scrap biggest and most provoking came over the election of officers, of course, when the demonstration of the ladies who were not members of the convention caused Miss Carter, of Massachusetts, to make a motion that all except members be excluded pending the election. The visiting ladies did not like this at all, but the action was not only parliamentary but a cautious provision to secure a fair election uninfluenced by outside enthusiasm. The delegates who drew the color line in a color line created the scrap, and did a mighty bad day's job. In the election of Mrs. Lucy Thurman as presidentess they were outvoted badly, as Mrs. Thurman could only pass as a black woman, in the sense meant by the protesting members, when it is very dark in the place where she stands. One of the delegates stated the case as follows: "We prefer a woman who is altogether Negro, because, while the lighter women have been the greatest leaders and are among the most brilliant of the association, their cleverness and ability is attributed to their white blood. We want to demonstrate that the African is as talented. That is bad and evil-producing argument to advance in any Afro-American convention, whether of men or of women. We can't afford, under any circumstances, to draw the color line in a color line. But the springing of he questions brings to mind the fact that all of the presidents of the Federation have been Afro-American colored women with nary a black one in the list. The presidents have been: Mrs. Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, of Massachusetts; Mrs Booker T. Washington, of Alabama; Mrs. Mary Churchill Terrell, of the District of Columbia; Mrs. Josephine Silone Yates, of Missouri; and , now Mrs. Lucy Thurman, of Michigan. All of these ladies are colored, some of them being almost white, As we believe in fair play, we propose that the next president of the Federation be a black lady. We take no stock whatever in the argument that the ladies should have had no scraps in their convention. They have as much right to scrap as men in like circumstances, And it should not be overlooked for a moment that the white ladies have scraps and plenty of them in their conventions, The Daughters of the Revolution, the Daughters of the Confederacy, and the like, in their last conventions, opened and closed with shindies of the scrappiest character. A convention without scraps is a dead thing. We are pleased that our ladies not only know how to maintain a great organization which has accomplished much good work, and is doing so still, but that they can hold great conventions in which all of the human elements that show character and worth and real fighting spunk are present, Let the ladies have great conventions, and let them scrap all they care to within parliamentary lines, however. MRS. MANCHESTER LEFT THE CITY [*Toledo Blade*] Without Presenting Report to National Council. WOMEN CHANGED FRONT [*April 6*] Rescinded the Sherwood Resolution After It Was Too Late— Closing Sessions. [*April 6 - 1906*] The resolution adopted at yesterday morning's session of the National Council of Women, which prohibited any public report which might arouse sectarian feeling, was completely effective in smothering the paper that was to have been read by Mrs. I. C. Manchester, the delegate representing the Loyal Women of American Liberty. After the damage had been done and Mrs. Manchester had left the city, much chagrined over her treatment, the council reversed itself and rescinded the resolution of Mrs. Sherwood. This action was taken at an executive session this morning, but too late to save the report of the Loyal Women, which was known to contain some unpleasant references to Catholicism. An opportunity for Mrs. Manchester to present her report had been offered early in the week, but she was not prepared at the time. Last evening she requested permission to read it, but, as the Sherwood resolution, aimed at this very thing, was in force, she was refused. The officers suggested that the report be given at an executive session, but Mrs. Manchester declined to have her paper buried, and left early this morning for Union City, Pa. Mrs. Manchester was at the Collingwood last evening, and, in conversation with a number of people, declared that she was not at all hostile to Catholics, that she was simply upholding the constitution of the United States, She was still inconsolable over the action of the council, although the officers were unceasing in their efforts to comfort her. Mrs. Frances Burns, secretary of the council, speaking yesterday of the resolution of Mrs. Manchester which was so unanimously rejected, said: "I have long felt that this has been a blot upon the council." Aside from this unpleasantness, the convention has been one of profit and broadly educational in its effect, particularly along the line of women's work, in behalf of child labor reform, rescue work for unfortunate women and preventive measures against vice. With the exception of the executive session which was held this morning at the Boody House, the convention concluded yesterday. Last evening a patriotic program was given. Preceding the opening of the exercises the report of the president, Mrs. Swift, was read. The report included a resume of the work done by the council, and a striking feather was the report of the committee on divorce, which deplored the great evil which has fastened itself on this country. Speaking of her own state, California, Mrs. Swift said that 1,266 divorces had been granted there in six months, and that the state was gaining for itself the reputation of South Dakota as a place for securing divorces. Mrs. Kate Brownlee Sherwood made an address on "Patriotic Teaching," and the South Side Newsboy Cadets gave their famous drill, officered by Captain Harold Kleuter and Lieutenant John Rogge. The boys have had their headquarters at Mrs. Van Ormer's house for fourteen years, and she is very proud of them. Mr. John Gunckel made an interesting talk on the Newsboys' association , which won every delegate present. Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead gave a scholarly address on "The Internationalism." Mrs. Mildred Peters gave two beautiful violin solos, and Elmer Spyglass sang an aria from Verdi in splendid style, responding to an encore with Mone's Drink to Me With Only Thine Eyes." Council Reverses Itself. Behind the closed doors of an executive session held at the Boody House this morning the Council of Women repented of yesterday's action, and Mrs. Sherwood's resolution, which prohibited any sectarian reports in public sessions until such reports had been passed upon by a committee was reconsidered. This was done with Mrs. Sherwood the only delegate opposing. She was then requested to modify her resolutions, but the new offering was not satisfactory, and, after it was voted down, the subject was dropped. The trouble was started this morning by Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, delegate from the National Colored Woman's association, who protested against the resolution, declaring it as prohibiting free speech. A number of the delegates spoke in favor of Mrs. Terrell's motion, which was finally adopted. Mrs. Sherwood immediately gave notice of an amendment to the constitution providing against any report being presented that would bring about a discussion of religious, sectarian or political faiths. The remainder of the meeting was given up to routine work. Mrs. Swift's recommendations on divorce were referred back to her, and she was instructed to request President Roosevelt to appoint one or two women on whatever committee or commission was created to investigate the divorce evil. Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett, with Mrs. Carey Winans and Mrs. Mary Church Terrell were appointed a committee to investigate the condition of the women in Panama. The two invitations for holding the next convention—one from Denver and one from Chicago—were referred to the executive committee. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED Include References to International Affairs and Local Courtesies. The committee on resolutions reported favorably and the council adopted the following resolutions submitted by individual delegates: By Elizabeth Grannis — Declaring for peace by arbitration and using influence to that end in family, church, schools and public office; urging teachers and educational authorities to prevent, by instruction in principles underlying a pure life, the immoral contamination of pupils through vitiated imaginations and garbled information conveyed by companions and immoral literature. By Lucia Ames Mead—Urging the administration to use influence at The Hague conference to promote neutralization of private property at sea in time of war, establishment of arbitration treaties and gradual disarmament; invoking the aid of the United States in suppression of the alleged atrocities in the Congo Free State. By Emma S. Olds — Favoring the abolition of capital punishment. By Mrs. Sherwood — Providing that discussion of sectarian religion and partisan politics before the national council shall not be permitted; protesting against the setting apart of a special district in the city of Washington for immoral residents. By Miss American — Resolutions of thanks for courtesies extended to the council, special mention being made of the press, the chairman and her committee, the Eurydice club, Mrs. S. M. Jones, the Settlement association and the local council of women. [* 6 THE TOLEDO TIMES, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 7, 1908 *] COUNCIL OF WOMEN RESCINDS ACTION Reconsiders Vote on Resolution Barring Sectarian Discussion and Postpones it Indefinitely--Completes Its Labors. At the closing executive session of the National Council of Women, held in the parlors of the Boody house Friday morning, Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, representing the National Association of Colored Women, moved that Mrs. Sherwood's resolution of Thursday, to the effect that all reports of affiliated organizations be submitted to the executive committee before being given a public reading, be reconsidered. Mrs. Terrell declared that she objected to any attempt to curtail freedom of speech. The vote was then reconsidered and Mrs. Sherwood was asked to re-word her resolution, but this, when done, still failing to meet with unanimous approval, it was voted that action upon this resolution be indefinitely postponed. Mrs. Sherwood thereupon gave notice of an amendment to the constitution, to the effect that no discussion of sectarian religion or partisan politics be permitted in the council meetings. Disapproval was expressed by some members of the exploitation by newspapers of certain features of the council's proceedings, but no action was taken upon a suggestion by Mrs. Frances Burns, national secretary, that in the future executive sessions should be held. It was maintained by others that there would be no need for this if the discussion of matters foreign to the great humanitarian aims of the council were debarred. Mrs. I. C. Manchester, the delegate representing the Loyal Women of American Liberty, whose report was not read Thursday because of Mrs. Sherwood's resolution, left Toledo for her home at Union City, Pa., early yesterday morning. Divorce Question. Other matters acted upon at the session Friday morning were: The referring of the divorce question to the national president, who was instructed to ask congress that one or more women be appointed upon any commission for the investigation of that question; and the extending of an official invitation to the D. A. R., the Woman's Trade Union league, the National Order of Railway Conductors and all other national organization not now affiliated with the National Council of Women to join the same. A motion by Mrs. Kate Waller Barrett that the president of the council be authorized to appoint a committee of three to investigate the condition of the women of Panama was passed. It was also voted that the council express to President Roosevelt its appreciation of his efforts in behalf of child labor and other needed reforms with which the Council of Women is in sympathy. Mrs. S. M. Jones rose to express her gratitude to the council for the many kindly sentiments expressed in regard to her late husband during the present convention; and she distributed among the delegates copies of the poem written by Mayor Jones and which, as set to music by herself, was sung at one of the meetings of the week. The question of the meeting place for the next annual session of the council was left to the decision of the general officers. A letter from Mrs. Emma Wallace of Chicago stated that, if the council should decide to accept that city's invitation, she would endeavor to organize a local council there before that time. [* April 6 - 1906 Toledo Ohio *] ONE DELEGATE LEFT IN TEARS After Rebuke in National Coun- cil of Women. ______________ RELIGIOUS TROUBLES ______________ Caused Serious Break in Feeling of Harmony--Attack on Catholics Is Frustrated. _______________ The unanimous rejection of a resolution presented by Mrs. I. C. Manchester, a delegate of the National Association of Loyal Women of American Liberty, pro- [PICTURE] [*MRS. EMMA OLDS Mrs. Emma S. Olds, of Elyria, Ohio, who is chairman of the resolutions com- mittee, is a delegate from the order of the Ladies of the Maccabees of the World. Mrs. Olds stands at the head of the 25,000 Ohio Ladies of the Maccabees, having been five times re-elected unani- mously to the office of great commander during the past ten years.*] testing against the appropriation of any money by congress for the support of sec- tarian schools, and the delegate retiring weeping from the convention hall, was the sensation of the morning session of the National Council of Women. Following this, Mrs. Kate Brownlee Sherwood, in an impassioned defense of the Catholic church, presented a resolu- tion to prevent any report from being made in public if it contained anything inimical to any creed or political belief. The received the unanimous approval of the council. "In the name of 100,00 Catholic wo- men I thank Mrs. Sherwood," said Mrs. Elizabeth McGowan, president of the Ladies' Catholic Benevolent association. "In the name of 50,000 women of the Mormon church, I thank Mrs. Sher- wood," said Mrs. Clarissa Williams, of the National Woman's Relief society of the Mormon church. Mrs. Manchester retired to the next room and several of the national officers tried in vain to comfort her. The adoption of Mrs. Sherwood's resolu- tion prevents Mrs. Manchester's report being read before it is passed upon by the executive committee, and she declared that unless she is allowed to read it in full she will withdraw her association from the council. It became known yesterday that Mrs. Manchester's report contained charges against the Catholic church. That the threatened war of France against Germany is in revenge for the action of the French government to- wards the vatican, and that the pope is using Emperor William as a cats- paw is one of the allegations in the report; and that the Jesuits were re- sponsible for eight of the wars that have involved so many nations in re- cent years is another. The motto of the National Council is the Golden Rule, and in the dis- cussion this morning there was a unanimous defense of this policy. The council adjourned at 1 o'clock without transacting any business of importance apart from the adoption of the report of the resolution com- mittee, the resolutions touching upon many matters of interest to the pub- lic. BALLOT FOR WOMEN Advocated by Representatives of Cen- tral Labor Union. James P. Egan, the doughty president of the Central Labor union, gallantly declaring in favor of the ballot for wom- en, and Thomas Rumsey, the business agent of the union supporting him, were two of the features of yesterday after- noon's meeting of the convention of the National Council of Women, where the two well-known labor leaders appeared to extend fraternal greetings from their organization. "On behalf of ten thousand men and women, of whom I have the honor to be the executive, I extend you greetings," said Mr. Egan. "We know what a noble work you are doing, and what a great structure you are rearing in building up such an organization. You stand for everything good, and I question if pure democracy has come to us when the bal- lot is denied to women and given to the man who will sell his vote for a drink of whisky or for a two-dollar note." Mr. Egan closed with an eloquent tribute to Susan B. Anthony. Mr. Rumsey addressed the convention [PICTURE] NELLIE. C. V. HEPPERT Of Akron, Supreme Finance Keeper Lady Maccabees of the World. _____________________ and advocated an equal wage for women and men. Speaking of child labor Mr. Rumsey said: "Our legislature adjourned without doing anything for child labor, though we worked hard to obtain it, but the money power that opposed us was too powerful. If you women had been our representatives instead of the men who where there, we would have had leg- islation that favored children." A cordial invitation was extended the delegates and officers to attend the mass meeting in Memorial hall Friday even- ing, at which Mrs. Florence Kelley will be the speaker. APPEAL OF COLORED RACE __________________ Eloquently Presented by Mrs. Mary ... ... Church Terrell. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, one of the leading colored women of America, member of the board of education of the city of Washington and a leader in the Colored Woman's Suffrage association, made an impassioned appeal for her race before the convention last evening. "If the future of our women is to be judged by our past, we need have no fear," said she, reviewing and pointing out the prog- ress the colored women have made, al- though only a little more than forty years ago the shackles of slavery had been broken away from them. "Their ability to develop intellectually has been demonstrated over and over again in our schools and academies," she said. Among the evils which they are trying to stamp out is the one-room cabin, so conducive to demoralizing family life. "The atrocities suffered by the peas- antry of Russia are no more horrible than those inflicted on the people of my race in the convict pens of the south, where men and women are the victims of a new slavery, crueler than the old. The horrors of the slave pen are inde- scribable. "Colored people are being displaced everywhere in industrial ranks and the opportunities for labor are disappearing with alarming rapidity," said the speaker, who closed her address with an appeal to the dominant race, men and women to give the colored man an op- portunity to earn his bread. Mr. Rex E. Wells, who was a teacher in the Philippines, made an interesting talk on the "Children of the Philip- pines," describing their school, church and home life, and their general charac- ter. Closing Mr. Wells said: "I think all the Filipinos are children, and whether you agree with me or not, I be- lieve that they need our care, and I be- lieve, too, they are enjoying more lib- erty under our government than under Spanish rule and more than they would if given independence." Mrs. Thomas Davies sang several beautiful selection, accompanied by Miss Alice Schroeder. The closing session will be held this evening and the program will be a patriotic one, a newsboys flag drill by the South Side newsboys, under the di- rection of Captain Harold Kleuter, Lieu- tenant John Rogge and Colonel Barney Hine to be a feature. John Gunckel will speak on the National Newsboys' asso- ciation. REAL EDUCATION __________ Means More Than Mere Instruction, Says Mrs. Steinem. Mrs. Pauline Steinem, who was hon- ored at the last convention by being made chairman of the committee on education, presented her report at the afternoon meeting and was greeted with a round of applause. The report was an outline and a plan of work rather than a report of work accomplished. "I think you will agree with me," said Mrs. Steinem, "when I say that the subject of educa- tion is the most important presenting itself to the attention of thinking men and women today, for, in the right kind of education we must look for the solution of all social problems. To realize this we must know what educa- tion means, and we find that it means development or evolution. Education should not be confounded with instruc- tion, for education includes instruction, but instruction does not always include education. "We believe we are educating chil- dren when we are cramming their minds with facts, while, in reality, facts are of secondary importance. To develop the latent power and knowl- edge and the good in the child, ignoring the evil, is true education. Educa- tion, in the broad sense of evolution, is, therefore, not confined to the school, nor is it altogether a matter of home, but has to do with our existence from the cradle to the grave. "The final test of good education is not in the amount of geography or his- tory it has helped us to accumulate in our brain, but in how much it has en- abled us to increase in helpfulness, usefulness and the ability to govern ourselves." The report recommended that or- ganizations affiliated with the council appoint a committee on education to work in harmony with the national chairmen, and these chairmen consti- tute the national committee. The duty of this committee should be to study educational problems as presented in the homes and school life generally disseminating in every way possible a better understanding of the real mean- ing of education, and a better knowl- edge of the child and its possibilities. The establishment of mothers' clubs in connection with schools was recom- mended, that a better co-operation might exist between home and school. Mrs. Little, of Salt Lake City, pre- sented the report of the National Wo- man's Relief society, an organization numbering many thousand women. Their work includes the care of the un- fortunates and sick and training nurses who care for those who are too poor to have professional care. Another philanthropic work carried on by them is the storing of grain against a time of need, when drouth or floods destroy the crop. Mothers' work and erecting buildings for society purposes is another phase of its work, and visit- ing the sick in far away places. Mrs. Elizabeth McGoGwan, national president of the Ladies' Catholic Be- nevolent association, presented a re- port of the work of their organization, which has a membership of 100,000. The music at the afternoon session was particularly fine. Miss Edith Whittaker's violin solos, rendered so exquisitely, and vocal solos by Miss Norinne Cowan, with Mrs. S. M. Jones as accompanist, made up the program. Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.