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His work is to bridge the deep valley separating the age from the church, to clear off the clouds which prevent the one from seeing the realities of the other, to bring the church to the age and the age to the church. We must know that the age and the church are not hopelessly apart. The age has, as- surediy, its errors and its sins, and these the church never can condone. With the age conceived as the embodiment of errors and sins the church cannot be reconciled But these are the accidents, not the es- sentials, in the make-up of the age. For my part, I see In the present age one of the mighty upheavals which occur from time to time in humanity, causing and marking the ascending stages in its con- tinucvs progress. Humanity strengthened by centuries of reflection and toil, nourish- ed and permeated by principles of Chris- tian truth, is lifting upward its whole mass to higher regions of light and of Hberty, and demanding a fuller and more universal enjoyment of {ts God-given rights. All this is pratseworthy;.all this is beautiful and noble. ———-+e+____ Painful Suspense. From the Cleveland Post. “What,” asked the commander anxiously, “is that brisk firing off to the left?” “We are not as yet definitely inform wejoined the aid-de-camp, “whether it is a general engagement or a policeman shoot- a mad dog.” ith the fate of nations in the balance, the uncertainty was awful. Gets Even. From the Chicagn Record. “Nan, what do you do when another girl snubs you?” “I snub the next girl I meet.” UMPIRE HURST FIRM Though Raining Hard HeCompelled Pittsburg to Play. PIRATES AT THE MERCY OF MERCER O’Brien, the New Second Baseman, Shows Up Well. LENIENT WITH CAPT. TEBEAU Record of the Clubs. W. L. P.C.{_ Clubs. WwW. L. 40 19-615) Ehiladeiphia 58 82 41 20 -672| Washington. 30 20 44 24 647| Brocklyn.... 81 38 37 jew Xor! 2 3 $3 2) .532/ St. Louis.... 15 50 36 33 °522| Louisville... 12 47 Standi W. L. . Le 38 20 23 33 22 26 37 26 30 88 23 ae 36 27 a 34 26 0 Today's Schedule. Pittsburg at Washington. Baltimere at Chicago. Boston at Louisville. New York at &t. Louis. Brooklyn at Cleveland. Philadelphia at Cincinnati. FULL OF INCIDENTS. Yesterday's Base Ball Game With the Pittsburgs. All in all the game of base ball played yesterday afternoon at National Park be- tween Washington and Pittsburg was quite out of the ordinary. First of all it was be- gun in a heavy shower of rain, and play was continued, while rain was very much in evidence. Then there was a vigorous play for delay on the part of Pittsburg, in the hope that an expected downpour would end the contest prior to the completion of the fifth inning. During this interesting and somewhat exciting side show, not down on the program, Messrs. Hawley and Stenzel gave utterance to sundry remarks, uncomplimentary to Umpire Hurst, that caused emphatic resentment after the game from the master of the field. Next, Pittsburg batted out more® hits than did the locals, but Washington easily won out, and finally the game was interesting be- cause it marked the initial appearance of Jack O'Brien in a Washington uniform. O'Brien's First Appearance. O'Brien's debut was a complete success, although his first time at bat was some- what disappointing. He advanced to the flate in the first inning, and after a warm greeting, promptly struck out. In the third, however, he drove a beauty to left fer three bases, followed it up in the fourth with w double and in the sixth wait- ed for balls. On the field, O'Brien assisted in five plays and put out one man. He andled the ball neatly and cleanly and backed up” the other players in a man- ner foreign to the local club. It would seem thai O'Brien will do very well in- deed. Washington won because of a_ bunching of hits in the third inning and because Pink Hawley was remarkably generous with bases, sending nine Senators to the initial bag on bails. The home team start- ed the run-getting in the second. Seibach waited for balls, as did Lush. Tne former stole third and a moment later Lush was caugnt napping and was jumping like a shuitle between Mack and Merritt. Sel- bach started for home, but was caught, Lush landing safely on second. Cartwright struck out, but McGuire drove a double to right and Lush crossed the plate. Smith dropped De Montreville’s fly and McGuire scored. Four more were added in the third on a single by Joyce, O'Brien's three-bagger, an error by Sugden, a base on balls Lush, a hit by Cariwright, a base on balls to McGuire and a hit by De Montreville. Several times thereafter did Washington have three men on bases, but it seemed impossible to bunch hits, and additional runs were not forthcoming. After two Pirates were cut in the sixth, Smith. Sugden and Lyons singled in suc- cession, snd one score resulted. In_the eighth the performance was repeated, Sien- zel, Smith and Sugden driving out hits, one after another, and the Pittsburg total was increased to two. As things were going Washingtonward, the visitors apparently did not relish the idea of playing in the rain, and began plying Mr. Hurst with such questions as “Don't you want an umbrella?” At the opening of the fifth inning black and omnious clouds approached and the rain assumed threatening proportions. It behooved Capt. Joyce and his men to get a “move on,” and they did so. De Montre- ville and Mercer were easy outs, and Ab- bey, who played center in place of Tom Brown, who has aJame ankle, got in a hit, greatly to his surprise, for he tried hard to be put out. The plans were not to be de- feated, for he deliberately steepped off tH base and was touched out by Mack. The Fun Began. Then the fun began. The entire Pitts- burg club crowded around the“umpire, and the latter was forced to shove them aside in no gentle manner. Mack refused to go to bat, and Mercer was irstructed to pitch any how. Mack then blocked the plate, but Win slammed in the ball and Connie escaped serious injury by a quick dodge. The Pirate manager-captain at last sent a fly to Selbach. Hawley, the next batter, executed the dilly-dally act and two strikes were called on him while he was several yards from the plate. Pink then suddenly came to his senses and sent the next bail pitched safely into Lush’s hands. Donovan was out, Mercer to Cartwright, and mat- ters assumed a more peaceful hue. Had a blow been etruck.during the excitement there is no doubt that the row would have grown to serious proportions, for at least one spectator had jumped on to the field, and awaited developments with a bat grasped in his hands. Again was De Montreville very much in the game, making a jump and one-hand eatch of a ball from Donovan's bat in the third the equal of which is seldom seen. Ely also played great ball, and Joyce put up as good a game at third as has been seen here this year. WASHINGTON. _{ PITTSBURG. R -H.0/4.E.| HOLA 1/0 0 0/ Donovan, rf0 1 2.0 0 213 13314 215 3400 o4o0 2100 030 2321 ine 1240 120 1150 ab 4 ou 11 oo2 oo00 112715 8 0006 010-2 ‘ashington, 2; Pittsburg, 2. Two- e, DeMontreville and O’Brien, rien. Stolen base—Selbach, ‘Sugden to Ely. First base on balls-— '; of Hawley, 8. Hit by pitched ball Struck out—By Mercer, 1; by Hawley, ‘Time—Two hours and thirty-seven minutes. Umpire—Hurst. Exeiting Game at Chicago. The most exciting game of the season oc- curred yesterday at Chicago with Balti- more. The champions took a big lead, which was held until the eighth, when the Colts batted Hoffer out of the box. In the ninth, with two out and the bases full, Clarke stepped on ,the plate after two strikes had been called and was struck by the next ball. Anson claimed it to be the third strike, but Umpire Emslie ruled otherwise. Clarke, a moment later, sent in the winning runs with a two-bagger. bs Es ¢ > | mmconsoccerstoce ig $1 commnn Renee’ SI weamcocconn? Fil wromesomc cnn! Bal omercocom-: on Ll i bits—Dablen, Anson, fou elas ee (2), Anson, Jennings, Dahlen. Stolen ar . Donncliy, Double Reitz and Doyle. out—By Terry, 2; by Hoffer, 2. THE ole NG STAR, TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1896—SIXTEEN PAGES. Of Terry, 4; off Hoffer, 8; off , 1. wid pitch Terry. | Hit with Bantteanags, Time hours and fifty minutes. Umpire—Eiaite, The Reorganized Colonels. Boston was defeated by the reorganized Colonels in an interesting game at Loula- ville. Tenney was put out of the game for objecting to decisions. Collins received a gold-headed cane, the gift of Louisville friends. - LOUISVILLE. { BOSTON. R.H.0.A.E) R.H.O.AE. Hee Bbe2z114 O.H'm't'n, ef 23100 M" 1 1 0 © O\Tenney, c..0 0100 Clarke, If.. 9 2 } © Oj/Bergen, c..0 1120 Miller, 4, ° 5 0) Bannon, rf.0 2 1 0 0 olmes 0 3 0 0} Long, ss. 01240 Dexter, ~1 1 7 1 0) Tucker, o2900 H's’ 1bO 1 9 1 O/Dufy, If...0 0 3 0 0 Cassidy, ss. 0 0 5 0 O\Collins, 3b. 0 1 1:11 Frazer, p.. 0 0 0 1 IjLowe, 2b..0 0 8 8 1 oo2i11 2 92410 8 10100012 x-5 0010010002 2; Boston, 1. First base on errors—Louisville, 1. Left on bases—Loulsville, 4; Boston, 7. Lewis, 4. 2. Home run—Hamilt, Creery. Holmes (2), First base on halls—Of Frazer, 2; Struck out—By Frazer, 5; by Lew: ‘Three-base “hit—! ‘Two-base bit—Tucher. ce Sacrifice _hitse— Stolen bases—Clingman (2), Dexter Long, Colina. Donble play—Miller, Dexter. Wild pitch—Frazer. Passed r. Time—Two hours and fifteen min- utes. Umpire— ife. @), Clarke, Close at Cleveland. It was a close contest at Cleveland with Brooklyn. Both Payne and Wallace did good work, the latter winning his game in the eighth with a two-bagger. CLEVELAND. It. A. AB. Burkett, 1f, 1 rn a) M’Aleer, ef 0 0 00 M'Kean, ss 0 5 00 Childs, 2b.. 0 4 20 Zimmer, ¢. 0 7 4a. Tebcau, 1b. 0 0 0 cm) M’Garr, 3b. 1 1 0| Shoch, 20 Blake, rf... 0 0_0) Grim,’ ¢ 10 Wallace, p. 1 10) 00 © ‘Totals... 91 10000 x-8 10000 o-1 ns—Cleveland, 1; Brooklyn, 1. Left on nd, 3; Brooklyn, 4. First base on ce. 1e—One hour and Umpire—Sheridan. thirty minutes. Well Matched at St. Louis. It was a tie at St. Louis with the Giants. Both clubs had scored runs in the ninth, but rain stopped the play, and the score reverted to the eighth. Donohue and Sul- livan both pitched good ball, but the field work of the Browns may have seen better days. Because of constant wrangling Um- Pire Keefe, in the fifth inming, refused to officiate longer and left the field. ST. LOUTS. zi -0.A.B. 1] V'Halt'n,e 1006 1 0 Os B00 209) 100 Counor, 1b.0 1 8 11 431 Meyers, 3b. 130 420 ‘ 204 10 01 desert 2 O40 Test Gea 110 11120) 010 ‘Totals... 610 2413 5 1 2 St. Louis. 3-6 w York. 030201 0-6 ew York, 2. Two-base s ses. First base on Hit by By Dono- ed ball—Ly Sullivan, 1. Ly Sullivan, 1. Umpires Meekin. Ewing’ Reds Again Win. Cincinnati easily defeated Philadelphi the latter club fielding loosely and using poor judgment on the bases. ‘The fielding ot McPhee was the feature of the game. CINCINNATT PHILADELVHIA, R.H.O.AE. RHC 41°01 0 O)Merton, of. 11 2 1130 ¢ 1001 22) 120) 1200 8168 olf 00 2 210 0 Ofitatl 10 0 0 2 4 €)Grady 50 2 o212 800 0030 420 -1 BOF o31 0 Ss ys—Smith, McVh “First hase on man, and ‘ten’ minutes. Umpi OUR NEW INFIELDER. Sacrificing the Bench for the Im- provement of the Team, The value cf the latest local base ball deal is dawning on the patrons of the game. Yesterday's performance by O'Brien has healed many a wound caused by the an- nouncement that such favorites as Crooks and Rogers were to part company wiih the Senators. The new man fs easy and fast, he has a good eye at the bat, and there is not a suspicion of stiffness about him. That he was nervous on his first appear- ance with a winning team wes natural, and it was evident from the manner In which he struck out in the first inning, but he more than atoned for this by making his rattling three-bagger that might have been stretched into a home run in the third inning, and by his pretty double in the fourth. The infield, has evidently been greatly strengthened, to say nothing of the batting list. It is a good sign to get a man who can make a recofd in the third post on the list in the place of a man who bare- ly_held his own at number seven. The real strength of this deal lies right here: Rogers wes a first-class, good sub- stitute, a man who could at a moment's notice play third base in fine style, and who could also take charge of first bag without weakening the infield. He could not play second, however, without long training for that position. There was no probability that P's services would be needed as long as Joyce and Cartwright kept in condition, and the chances were that he might play one game in twelve. Was it noi good policy, then, to exchange him for a player ecknowledged to be not only a comer, but a star fielder in the present, who cculd play in every game, better the infield twenty per cent and the batting list forty per cent, and add to the all-round sprightliness of the team? Of course, it was to be regretted that either Crooks or Rogers should go, but Louisville would not make the deal without those men were included in the transaction, and the Falls City management held out long and stubbornly on this point, until Mr. Wagner feared that he would lose O'Brien altogether. To him the money consideration was a small matter. Louisville wanted a third baseman who could also play first, and Rogers was just the man. They were willing to accept Crooks for second base work in the hope of more than gaining the ground lost by the release of O’Brien at other points of the diamond. With Washington, then, it was a question of strengthening the field and the batting department at the expense of the bench. In such an emergency tiere is little room tor aouu. - LENIENT with T ‘EBEAU. The League Directors Cnme Near Ex- pelling Him. A special sent out from Pittsburg declares the real cause of the fining of Manager Te- beau of the Cleveland club by the mag- nates at their meeting last week to have been for addressing filthy language to Pres- ident Stuckey, who was with his wife and daughter at the time. In the disputed game at Loufsville, ac- cording to the story, President Stuckey was in a box with his wife and daughter. In the next box was a ball crank, who was making life a burden to Tebeau. The Cleveland manager thought it was Stuckey who was making all the fuss, and after an exceptionally hot shot from the boxes Te- beau, the story goes, ran over to the grand stand and made a remark to Dr. Stuckey relating to Mrs. and Miss Stuckey. i ‘The entire Stuckey family left the box at once, as did all within the hearing of Te- beau. There is a rumor that the magnates at their meeting thought seriously of ex- pelling Tebeau from the National League at once, instead of fining him, as they afterward did. At all events, the Cleveland people have been given to understand that the magnates do not care whether Tebeau [ae his fine within the time limit or not, it that he will be expelled within one hour after the time is up. - QOall It Sandbagging. A special from Cincinnati says: The Na- tional League having recalled Turner from St. Paul, the Western League will demand the return to that blub of Mertes. Comiskey insists that McGill and the loan of Turner for the séason were the consid- erations for which he gave up Mertes. If he cannot have furner he does not want McGill. The affair,js looked upon in the [ane League ag, a case of “sandbag- ing. : Umpire Hyrst’s Course. In referring to the pugilistic incident at National Park yesterday the Philadelphia Inquirer says: uv “While the action of Mr. Hurst will be condemned by every lover of the national pastime who only. sees the game from a distance, it will be condoned by every one who is familiar with the abuses to which the umpire is subjected. The trouble is not so much with the umpire and players as with the sycophantic and hypocritical club own- ers, who get together twice a year and pass rules for the government of the game, which they will not see enforced, and which they do not mean shall be enforced. If the own- ers of the twelve clubs constituting the league had the slightest regard for their word such scenes as that of yesterday would be impossible.”” Roasting the Phillies. The Philadelphia Times grows poetic in speaking of the departure of the Phillies for the western trips. Following are sample verses: Hark! hark! The dogs do bark! ‘The Phillies are out of town. If some good soul will keep them there, We promise not to frown. Hey, diddle-diddle, the cat and the fiddle; The Phillies play ball—they do. The little dog laughs to see such sport, And every one else laughs, too. The fireworks fiends having burned up all the grass in Philadelphia, it is reported that the goat has to get a living off the left field seats, which have become mossy for want of use. Notes. Pittsburg again today. Another ladies’ day. Last game here until July 81. Hurst again demonstrated that he is an umpire in every sense of the word. Joyce was presented with a costly um- brella as he went to bat in the first inning. Sugden was unfortunate. He suffered a rumber of slight injuries. Abbey made a great slide to first in the third in an effort to reach the bag prior to Connie Mack, the latter fielding the ball. O'Brien placed his hits very skillfully. De Montreville’s single to left in the third would easily have been 2 two-bagger had second bare been clear. Stenzel shut out several Washingten runs in the ceventh by a good running catch. Three men were on bases, with two out, at the time. Many of the spectators followed Umpire Hurst around the left field seats and there seems to be no doubt that the umpire struck Hawley and Sterzel. The pair falled to retaliate, but the incident caused some ex- citement. The defeat of the Phillies yesterday sent thein into eighth place, Washington having the better of them by the fraction of a per cent. Pitcher Harper has heen recalled by Brooklyn ard left Scranton last night to jein that club at Cleveland. ‘The Philadelphia Club {s unloading play- ers at a rapid rate. Lucid and Beam are the latest to go, and they, with Brouthers, make three that were served with notices inside of forty-cight hours. The Louis club is reported to be al- ready showing the effects of getting rid of the factions, harmony being alone respons- ible for yesterday’s victory. Another shake- up was made last night. First Baseman Hass'.maer and Catcher Kinslow were re- leased. Catcher Warner and Pitcher Cun- ningham are on the ragged edge. Holme: has been reinstated fn center field and Dex- ter brought behind the bat. Crooks will be irstalled at second base this afternoon and Rogers at third,-Clinkman going to short and Cassidy to first. For the first time in months all the players are in harmony and are on speaking terms. Loulsville is said to re stil ready to give Fraser and a bonus to Fhiladelphia for Lave Cross. Haverford’s Team Abroad. In the cricket match between the Hailey- bury, England, College eleven and the eleven from Haverford, Pa., yesterday the Americans made 245 runs for three wickets. Mifflin made $6; Adams, 123; Howson, 0: Lester, 18, and not out, and Hinchman, 8, and not out. Haileybury made 157 runs for three wickets cee ees The Speed of B To the Editor of The Brening Star: A few days ago I saw published the pro- posed police regulations to go into effect July 9 regarding the speed and control of bicyeles and other vehicles. I have been a wheelman for twelve years, and, with others who use the wheel as an aid to business, as well as pleasure, I am glad that rules have been promulgated to restrain reckless travel on our city streets. When the legal speed of bicycles was an- nounced as twelve miles per hour between crossings and eight miles at crossings I regarded the rate as a Just one which no careful wheelman would allow himself to exceed In the present crowded conditions of our thoroughfares. But now the Commis- sioners reduce the speed to eight miles between crossings and to the very slow rate of six miles at crossings in all parts of the city. Many riders use thelr wheels almost entirely to ald in quickly going from place to place on business, hoping in s0 doing to be able to do betier than the cable cars, especially in the less fre- quented streets, put if the new rules are enforced it will practically make the wheel useless to the many riders who are as care- ful, if not more so, than any driver or pe- destrian who use the streets. The cars, weighing many hundred times more than the wheel and rider, are al- lowed to cross the most crowded thorough- fares, such as Pennsylvania avenue and ith street, 9th and F streets, and 7th and F streets, etc., at ten miles per hour, places where good wheelmen (not the fools who would endanger life no matter what the law provided) would not trust themselves to travel at any greater speed. The waeel may be guided around the pedestrian, while the cars cannot. The wheel may be stop- ped much quicker than the heavy car. A collision between the wheel ang the pedes- trian does not approach the danger of a collision with the car. The result of such a collision to the wheel and rider is much more disastrous than to the car. The wheelman has his own limbs, property and life at stake, where the car or other ve- hicle has not, The fact that the proposed rules were hastened, if not created, because one care- inexcusable ricer (not a, true wheel- man) caused the death of a pedestrian, has been roted by all wheelmen, who were in no way responsible, and who.would gladly aid in the apprehens'on and punishment of the criminal; but the fact remains that they are in reality to be punished for the recklessness cf oné who-has no right to ride the wheel. I have no doubt but that all wheelmen, many of whom haye traversed our city streets for a number of years at greater speed than twelve mfles per hour without accident, are willing to comply with the eight to twelve Miles rate, for the sake of common safety, Sveminsuch At Is less than at allowed the motor and cable cars. Gini: ‘The Stir, through its kind of- fices, secure to these’of its readers who use the wheel as ay: adjunct to business the right to move thropgh the streets at least the cable car’ ae ieee’ Mey HE DOBSON, M.D. ——+__ It Was a Wonderfal Egg. From the San Francfico Post. ‘An amusing, tue Story is related of a farmer who camé into a village grocery in one of our wesiefn states and exhibited to an admiring crowd ai, enormous egg about six inches long, which was laid by one of his old hens, says the Independent. He had it packed in cotton, and wouldn't allow anybody to handle {t for fear of breaking the phenomenon. The groceryman examin- ed it with the rest, and, intending to chaff the countryman, said: “Pshaw! I’ve got something in the egg line that will beat that.” “I'll bet you five dollars you haven't, "said the countryman, getting ex- cited. “Take it up,” said the groceryman; and, going behind the counter, he brought out a wire eggbeater. “There's something in the egg line that will beat it, I fees." said he, reaching for the stakes. “Hold cn thete!l” agid the farmer, “let’s see you beat it,” and handed it to the grocer. The lat- ter held out his hand for it, but dropped it in surprise on the counter, where it broke two soup plates and a platter. It was of fron, painted white. “Some folks think they are tarnation cute,” muttered the far- mer, as he pocketed the stakes and left: ae *tair’t no use buckin’ ag’inst the solid ‘ts, TO HELP THEIR RACE National Federation of Afro-Ameri- ean Women’s First Convention. TP WILL ASSEMBLE ERE JOLY 20 How the Movement Originated and Some of Those Interested. PROMINENT PEOPLEEXPECTED The same great body of representative colored women of the United States who met last year at Atlanta, Ga., as a con- grees of Afro-Americans, and which sub- sequently was officially invited by the mayor of Nashville, the president of the beard of trade and the leading men of that city, to attend the ceremonies of the recent centennial, will assemble in Washington, as heretofore stated in The Star, July 20, end continue in session for three days as “The first annual ccnvention of the Na- tional Federation of Afro-American Wo- men.” The meetings will be held in the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, of which Rey. Dr. Walter H. Brooks 1s pastor. The National Federation was organized in Boston July 31, 1895, and since that time the officers there chosen have at great expense of time and resuurce, put forth earnest efforts in the matter of arousing the representative coiored women through- out the Union to the nec ity of organ- izing for cifecting needed reforms in all eines touching their home and national e. Results Accomplished. “According to the usual method of com- puting results,” said one of the leaders to @ Star report-r, “we have little to show, and it would argue our cause unimportant in the extreme if more could have been accomplished in so short a time, particu- larly when the newness of such movements and the slowness or our people, generali Speaking, to act upon co-operative lines, is taken into consideratien. f, however, we could estimate the value of the National Federation as a source of wholesome in: auion, not only to many languishing clubs, but our struggling wo- men wherever situated or approximate the Possible good towing from its suggestive influence, viewed from a public and racial standpoint; then, indeed, would we hav just and abundant cause for great rejoic- DE. “Many clubs have been organized and the Federation greatly sirengihened. The poor mothers out on the plantations of the tar south have been reached and they will speak in no uncertain tones at our coming convention, “In the eyes of the pubiic we have suc- ceeded in establishing the fact that our women are thoroughly alive to the great possibilities of a powerful body of Afro- American women in influencing public sen- timent and legisiation in favor of the race at large, and having accomplished this -much at great odds, we have appealed to our women wherever tuated to come to our aid, and by their sympaihy and co-op- eration a: in making the approaching convention an educative influence on ali the peopl “Washington was selected as the place of meeting in order to give our-women an op- portunity of attenuing hristian En- deavor meeting, thereby taking advantage of the cur rates. In every way compatitne with dignity and cunsistency we have striven to unify the affairs of our women, and we beleve we have tne confidence of the public in this our crucial year to suc- ceed in this as well as other grave ques- tons of the hour, and we have urged our women to strengthen the efforts made by the officers by raliying enthustastically and attending the convention, for, as we be- lieve, ‘the battle for womanhood is the bat- tle for the race The Ladies’ Auxiliary. The Ladies’ Auxiliary of Washington, Mrs. B. K. Bruce, chairman, and Mrs. Jesse Lawson, secretary, is taking great interest in the convention, and is doing much to make the visit of the delegates, as they hope, a pleasant one, and Mrs. Lawson is chairman of a large committee on hospi- tality, while she has been and is tireless in her efforts to do ali that can be done to- ward ‘assuring a hearty and enthusiastic recepticn to the women who will be here from all parts of the Union. It is considered remarkable by those who have taken a leading intercst in the up- building of the National Federation that in cne yeer it should have grown to twice its criginal size, and that it should awaken in- terest in and receive responses from the women of the race all over the country, and is believed to speak well not only for the future of organized work among color- ed people, but also for the energy, intel- ligence and self-sacrifice of the ofticers. ‘The ccnvention promises to be a remark- able one, not only for the characters of the women who will assemble and be represent- ed, but also fer the sccpe of the work which has been planned. Some Topics to Be Discussed. ‘The need of Christian homes for wayward end erring girls will be an issue. The sep- arate car law will be generally discussed and measure, it 1s hoped, adopted for hav- ing it expunged from the statute books of the states in which the system operates. “The decision of the Supreme Court of the United States on the separate car law ccmes as a disappointment,” said one of those who expects to take a prominent pas in the debates of the convention to a Star reporter; “but hardly as a surprise to mil- lions of loyal American citizens. “It cannot be denied that sentiment against the negro ard his rights is growing rapidly. As the black man acquires mone and education new barriers are raised against him; sometimes o!d obstacles, which pity for helplessness and ignorance caused to be removed, are being rebuilt, and it is only to a few enlightened minds that the caure of the negro hes any interest at all. ‘In time the problem must work itself out and in the meantime ike negro has got to make himself felt. There is no wisdom, virtue, policy or manhood in bearing every. thing put upon one. ‘Appeals for justice by voice or pen go very little ways at present: practically no attention whatever is paid to ther and the time has come when they must be backed by aggressive action and a physical as well as mental resistance to every abrogation of manhood rights. “If laws are unjust they must be con- tinually broken until they are killed or altered. The thing to do is to force the recognition cf manhood by any and all No Differences With Other Organiza- tions. It is stated that many people labor un- der the mistaken {dea that thereare differ- ences between the National Federation of Afro-American Women and other organi- zations, and this is denied by those best in- formed: . “Until the movement,” sald one of these, “inaugurated by the women of Boston which resulted in the formation of the Na- tional Federation was pioneered to suc- cess, the colored woman as a factor in club life, except locally, was unknown. Not so now, and the National Federatton feels justifiably encouraged. At the com- ing convention efforts will be made to ac- complish tafgible results by bringing to- gether the women who have founded homes, orphanages and hospitals, that our coming women may gather inspiration and the public be educated as to the actual work our women are striving against odds to do. Origin of the Movement, The National Federation is the outgrowth of a movement started by Mrs. Booker T. Washington a few years ago in the town of Tuskegee, Ala., in which the institu- tion over which her husband presides is Iccated. Mrs. Washington fs an able coadjutor of her husband in his educational work, and although she, with him, had for years’ been engaged in efforts to improve the mental and business qualities of the students com- mitted to their care, her mind was for a long time filled with anxiety to do some- thing to benefit the poor colored women of Fuskecage rho appeared to be deprived of évery advan for mental and moral im- provement It was t source of much grief to Mrs. Washington that each Saturday a large number of women living in Tuskeegee and many from the surrounding country would gather in the streets of the town and spend their time in idle conversation with men and with each other. After giving the subject a great deal of consideration, Mrs. Washington secured a vacant room over a large store, and caused announcement to be made that on the fol- lowing Saturday and at a given hour she would be pleased to meet all the women who chose to call there. The hour arrived. Mrs. Washington was in her place to receive visitors, but none came. Finally a small boy peeped into the room. Mrs. Washington spoke to him kind- ly and he ventured farther in. Mrs. Wash- ington asked the boy if he had seen any ‘women down the street, and he replied, lots of them. At Mrs. Washington’s request the boy went back to the street and told every women he met that there was a lady in the room who wanted to see her, and after much persuasion about a dozen agreed to go and meet the lady. As they entered the room Mrs. Washing- ton, as she afterward told a friend, was filled with fear and trembling. She want- ed to tell them of the plans she had formed to help them to be and to do better, but for a while her speech fatled her. At last. however, the words came to her, and her hearers received her message gladly anc promised hearty co-operation. A club was at once formed, and ever since it has been meeting regularly. The handful of members with which it was Started has increased to more than 200, and it is said that the amount of good that has been done by the members is almost incaiculable. Some Who Are Expected. Among those who are expected to attend the convention besides those already named are: Mrs. Frances E, W. Harper and Mrs. Fanny Jackson Coppin of Philadelphia, Pa.; Mrs. Katie V. Karmand of New York, Mrs. Adelini Donge, Albany, N. Y.; Mrs. R. Jcrome Jeffery, Rochester, N. Y.; Mrs. A. A. Casneau, Miss Elizabeth Smith, Mrs. J. St. Pierre Ruffin, Mrs. Agnes Adams, Bos- Mrs. M. F. Pitts, St. Louis, Mrs. Sylvania F. Williams, New Or- Miss Mary V. Cook, Cane Springs, Mrs. A. S. Gray, Mrs. M. C. Terrell, Mrs. B. K. Bruce and Mrs. Rosetta Law- son, Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Ida De Priest, Denver, Col.; Mrs. Willie Layton, Los Angeles, Cal; Miss Ida B, Wells, Mrs. W. E. Matthews, Flora Batson Bergen, Fan- nie Barrier Williams, Mrs. Amanda Smith, Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield and hosts of others. Prominent among those who are expected to address the convention during its de- liberations are: Mrs. Booker T. Washing- ton, Mrs. Francis E. W. Harper, Mrs. F. J. Coppin, Mrs. Matthews, Mrs. Jesse Law- son, Mrs. A. S. Gray and Miss Ida B. Wells. Mrs. Booker T. Washington. Mrs. Booker T. Was&ington, the wife of the founder of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, in the black belt of Alabama, is a graduate of Fisk University. She was elected president of the National Federation of Afro-American Wemen i Boston in July last, and has, through ear- nest and well-directed effort, kept the ob- ject and aims constantly before the colored women of the country. She has accom- plished wonderful results through organ- ized womanhood in her own section, and in an incredibly short time the Tuskegee Wo- man's Club has grown to more than two hundred members under her direction. Say she in an address to the women of hi : “Trae honored womanhood, enlight- motherhood, and happy, comfortable s can only be secured by concerted effort on the part of ihe women of cur land.” Her ardent desire seems to be to unite the women of her race in a purpose noble and true, tending to the upbuilding of the masses. She was first vice president of the AUan- congress and did much to add to the suc of that organization; is an indefati- gable worker along lines of intellectual and industrial education, and a woman of strong Christian piety... Mrs. Frances E. W. Harper. Mrs. Frances E. W. Harper was born in Baltimore, Md., in 1825. Her parents were and yet she was subjected to the ronveniences and il influences of the slave law, which held within its grasp both bond and free. Before her third year her mother died, and from that time until she was thirteen years old she was cared for by her uncle, who sent her to school. Before she was of age her first volume, “Forest Leaves,” was published. She took a great interest in the slavery agitation, and assisted many slaves In escaping from bondage to freedom, Mrs. Harper has for many years been a most energetic temperance worker, and has held sway with the Woman's Christian ‘Temperance Union as no other Afro-Ameri- can woman has ever done, and her work in this respect has given the race great prestige before the world. She is regarded as a profound writer in both prose and poetry; a lecturer of no or- inary tact and ability; a master-hand at whatever she applies herself. Her pen is ever at work; her tings are many and varied. Mrs. Fannie M. Jackson Coppin. Of Mrs. Fannie M. Jackson Coppin it is said: “She has a giant intellect and powerful force of character, with keen insight to duty, and a wise zeatousness in the discharge of the same, with well-devel- eped business capacity of unusual pro- portions, and supported by strong exec- utive and financial abilides.” Mrs. Coppin was born a slave in Wash- ington, D. C., and was purchased by her aunt, Mrs. Sarah Clark. She was then sent to Newport, R. 1., where she attend- ed school, graduating some years later at the High School. She then entered Oberlin Coliege, Olio, where she took the men's course, because in the course laid down for the women there were certain studies omitted. She proved herself equal to the task and stood side by side, and shoulder to shoulder with the men, in whose de- partment she had entered. Mrs. Jackson has the honor of being the first colored person to teach a class at Oberlin College, which she did with suc- cess for two years. After relinquishing her position at Ober- lin she removed to Philadelphia, where abcut 18d6-'s8 she began a movement to have an industrial school opened, so that colored young men and women could learn trades that would be useful to them in after life. She succeeded in purchasing a lot of land at a cost of $17,000, and erected thereon buildings in which nearly 400 per- sons are learning trade: ‘The men learn stone masonry, plastering, bricklaying, carpentry, shocmaking, ta! orng and typewriting, and the women. dre making, millinery and cooking. Te immense undertsEing has been from its beginning the work of Mrs. Coppin, who he cessfully carried 4t to completion, her own personal efforts every cent of the enormous cost of this indu: trial work. Sh2 hasetraveled extensively ited States and also in foreign W. E. Matthews, Mrs. W. E. Matthews, “Victoria Earle,” who is regarded as a very gifted writer, was born May 27, 1861, in Fort Valley, Ga., being the youngest of nine children, all of whom were slaves. She left Georgia in 1869, spent about three years in Virginia and reached New York in 1872, where she entered the public schools, in which she re- mained four years, only being compelled by necessity to leave and go to work fer the support of @ widowed mother and her- self. Despite this great obstacle to one so young and so intensely fond of study, she did not stop her pursuit of knowledge be- cause of obstacles and discouragements, Dut pushed her way onward, hewing out a pathway for herself; and in this way she has applied her powers as a thinker and writer. About ten years ago she began to write stories, and has also edited the “household columns” in several journals, and has from time to time contributed to most if not all the leading Afro-American journals and magazines. She has worked on many of the New York leading dailies for years as a “sub,” among them, the Times, Herald, Mail and Express, Earth, Sunday Mercury and the Phonographic World, and has also written articles for Rimgwood’s Journal of Fashion. Among her stories are “Aunt Lindy “Little Things,” “Well,” “Under the Elm,” “The Underground Way,” “Steadfast and True,” “Nettie Mills,” “Eugenia’s Mis- take,” “Zelika” and others of pecutiar in- terest. Mrs. Jesse Lawson. Mrs. Jesse Lawson was educated in the public schools of the District of Columbia, and is a graduate of the C. L. 8. C. She has had an unbroker connection with the W. ©. T. U. for fourteen years, and acted as clerk to the superintendent of public schools of the District of Columbia for congress, and was the first colored woman to be honored with the work of one of the departments of the District of Columbia W. C. T. U. work, and has the confidence and respect of the executive committtee and its workers. She has organized a number of unions among the people of her race during the year of her supcrinten- dency, having frequently addresed the Ministers’ Unions on the subject she so proudly espouses—temperance. Two mem- bers of the executive committee of the National Federation of Afro-American Women reside in this city—Mrs, Arthur 3. Gray and Mrs. Jesse Lawson. Mrs. Arthur Gray. Mrs. Gray is a Kansas woman, which is quite sufficient to speak for the zeal she puts Into any enterprise she undertakes, She was financial secretary of the Atlanta congress, superinterdent of the District of Columbia exhibits at Atlanta, and h acted as state missionary at home. She brings to this city her excellent methods of doing missionary work, which she has exemplified in large measure in the moth- ers’ meetings and in misionary work at University Park Mission during the past two years of her residence here. Jaa B. Wells. Ida. B. Wells was born in Holly Springs, Miss. When the Freedmen’s School was es- tablished there she attended it, but in con- sequence of the death of both her parents by yellow fever within a few days of each other, in 1878, she was under the necessity of leaving school for the purpose of under- taking the support and education of the five children, younger than herself, who had been so suddenly committed to her care. For three years she taught in the Mar- shall and Tate counties public schools of Mississippi, amd attending Rust University between the terms. She was appointed to a position in the Memphis public schools in 1ss4, and re- mained taere seven years. While teaching in Memphis she began to write for the pub- lic press, appearing first in the Memphis Living Way, for which she wrote some time under the nom de plume of “Iola.” She dealt mostly with some one or other of the phases of the race problem, and her views were widely quoted by other news- papers of the country. She iecame a regu- lar contributor for the Kansas City Gate City Press, the Detroit Plain Dealer, the American Baptist, the Christian Index and other race papers. In June, 1SS0, she secured a one-third interest in the Mem- phis Free Speech, and became its editor. Because of utterances of the Free Speech regarding the management of the public schools, in 1NM1, the school board decided that they could not employ s0 severe a critic; hence she was not re-elected to her position for the session of ISt1-!2. She then gave her entire time to the paper, and suc- ceeded in building up for it a large circu- lation. The efforts of Miss Wells, both in this country and Europe, to create a sentiment against lynch law are weil known to all newspaper readers. It is said by a leading writer “that few women have a higher conception of the re- sponsibilities and the possibilities of her sex than Miss Wells. She has all of a wo- man’s tenderness in all that affects our common humanity, but she has also the courage of the great women of the past, who believed that they could still be wo- manly while being more than ciphers in the world’s broad field of battle. A DAM AS A LANDMARK. Discovery of an Ancient Home of Beavers Saves Rich Land. From the Pittsburg T aph. A very interesting suit has just cided in the court of common Huntingdon county. About two years ago a Clearfield county surveyor, Thomas W. Moore, applied at the land office in Harrisburg for a war- rant upon a tract of land in Carbon town- ship, this county, claiming that the land was vaca The warrant be ssued, the Rockhill Iron and Coal Company dis- covered that the tract was one of their most valued pieces of coal land, worth $40,000. They, therefore, filed a caveat pro- testing against Moore's claim, and at the hearing Secretary Stewart decided that the controversy was too complicated for him or his office, and referred it to the courts of this county for settlement. Upon the trial of the case, which oc- cupied six days of court, Moore claimed that the land called for in the old war- rant of 1786, on which the company based their title, was not located on the tract in dispute at all, but somewhere else in the township. The line trees having nearly all dtsap- peared the company would have had some trouble establishing their title had it not been that their old warrant of 1786 called for a beaver dam in Great Trough creek, and that the company had taken the pre- caution to send Prof. Wilcox of Phila- delphia, un expert on beavers and their habits, and two surveyors down to search for the old dam. The professor and his assistants dug down into the bottom of the stream at the point where legend fixed its jocation, After taking out a couple of feet cf wash and gravel which hed accumulated in the bed of the creek within the last century, they were renarded by finding the old dam made by the beavers during or prior to the revolutionary war. The cribbing sticks of the Gam were found buried side by side in regular order, and the marks of the beav- ere’ teeth were plainly visible in the wood. When the sticks came into contact with the air they crumbled away to such an ex- tent that it was with difficulty any were preserved ard brought into court. These relics from the beaver dam, with Prof. Wilcox’s testimony, turned the tide in favor of the Rock Hill Company, and the jury had little trouble in agreeing upon a verdict in cheir favor. Judge Longe- necker of Bedford presided, Judge Bailey having been once corcerned in the case. WOES OF THE FAT. Answer to Some of the Questions Always Asked. From the Texas Sifter. Fat man (to inguisitive party who has asked Fatty’s weight)—? weigh 345 pounds. I am fat. I know I am fat. I am growing fatter eve I am growing larger eve! I cannot tell you how much larger I am going to get. I do not know how much larger I am go- ing to get. I expect to grow until I either die or burst. Yes, I have a good appetite. No, I do not eat all the time. Yes, I am going to stop eatin No, | was not always as la row. 1 do not remember when I was as thin as you. "Jen, my father was a large man. Yes, my mother was a large woman. I cannot tell how long it will take you to get as fat as I am. I do not know if you will ever be as fat as lam. I like to be told that I am fat. I like to be stared at. I like to have people stop in the street and laugh at me. I like people who give me advice about reducing my weight. Yes, I have tried diet. Yes, 1 have tried antifat. It did not do me any good. If there is any other question you can think of that I've not answered, don’t be eas lam bashtul. Just ask ft, and T'll try and an- swer it. Are you going? Well, good-bye. « Lack of Realism. From the Indianapolis ‘ Mr. Wickwih What ridiculous, imposst- ble things these fashion plates are. Mrs. Wickwire—“I know they used to be, but most of them are engraved from photo- Mr. Wickwire—“This one can’t be. Here are two women going in opposite directions, both with brand new gowns on and neither looking back at the other.” SORES The Passing Hon From the Indianapolis Journal, He—“Why, we've got a cricket in the house! Isn't it cheerful?” She—“Yes. And so intelligent. Hear him talking about the furniture. How distinctly he says ‘Cheap! cheap!” However, as she had been that day on a visit to her sister, whose husband was get- ting $18 a week, while her own dear new hubby got but $14, perhaps her discontent twelve years. She organized the Atlanta! was excusable.