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G. W. HOLMES TONSORIAI. PARLOR First class Shaving and Hair j Cutting. Try Our Electric Clippers. 1832 North 24th St. j WE HAVE COAL TO BURN Neb. Fuel Lump, . S8.90 For Heaters or Furnace NEBRASKA FUEL CO. Tel. Doug. 430. 409 S. 18th St. North Yard at 33d and Evans Streets. Colfax 2289. Established 1890 C. I. CARLSON Dealer in Shoes and Gents’ Furnishings 1514 No. 24th St. Omaha, Neb. JOHN BAKER’S j POOL and BILLIARD PARLOR Ronma and Taxi Line. 117 E. Front St. Tel. 321 Ij GRAND ISLAND, NEB. 1 3 PROTECT YOURSELF Get a Home Casualty Company I Sick and Accident Policy The protection is for working men and women. RICHARD HUESTON, 521 N. 22d St. Lincoln, Neb. Dr. Earnest E. Graves DENTISTRY 242 North 10th .Street Telephone L 5263 LINCOLN, NEB i The CHAPMAN Drug Store I, 934 P St., Lincoln Opposite Main Door Post Office Cameras and Films, Magazines, ! Cigars, Candies and a full line orf Druggist Sindrie* McNairy’s Meliorated Oil The Best Growing Hair Prepa ration on the Market. Keeps the Hair Straight, Soft and Silky. Stops Hair From F'alling Out. TRY THE MELIORATED SYSTEM Omaha Agents Mrs. B. Gant, 2515 N. 28th Ave. Wester 4736. Mrs. A. Wood‘•.on, 122 N. 40th St. Harney 3171. Mrs. P. A. Williams, 2609 Grant St. Webster 6493. Mrs. B. Buford, 2217 Howard. Douglas 7689. Price* Hair Grower.50c a box St’-aightening Oil._..35c MISS NANNIE M’NAIRY, Manufacturer. Box 408. Bonner Springs, Has. Write for agency, inclosing postage for return mail. LIBERIAN TRADE PROSPECTS BY G. BASIL BARHAM. NOW that Liberia, that West Afri can republic lying between Sierra ; Leone and the French colony of the ivory coas', has joined the entente it would seem that there is every pros pect of improved trade relations with the country. Liberia dates from the year 1822, when various philanthropic bodies on both sides of the Atlantic formed a Negro settlement where Monrovia, the capital of the republic, now stands. Primarily intended for freed Amer ican slaves, it attracted to itself Ne groes from all parts, and in 1847 the state was constituted as the free and independent Republic of Liberia, with a constitution almost identical with that of the United S ates. The population is about two mil lions a fair proportion of whom con ! sider themselves largely independent of the central government, whose con I trol is actually mainly confined to the coastal districts. The Kroc-men, who ! are capital sailors, by the way, come I from this part of the world, and, as a geneial thing, owe more allegiance to their chiefs than to Ihe state itself. Of the coast Negroes about 50.000 may be considered as fully civilized; they j speak English in their daily lives and ! are mostly members of the Protestant | church. The franchise is confined to persons I who are landowners, and no one who is hot a Negro is allowed a vote, ex \ cepe, he be a member cf one of the ! aboriginal tribes. Efforts have been | made from time to time to get the j j franchise extended to white traders, j but without success, the chief movers in ;his agitation being the German houses, who hoped thereby to ecu re some share in the actual government of the country. It will be remembered that, mainly j through the inefficient administration > i of the national resources, Liberia had j | its finances, agriculture and military j | organization “put into commission.” a j United States receiver general, who 1 also holds the post of financial ad j viser to the Liberian government, be I ing appointed adminis-rator. He is j 1 assisted in his duties by British and j 1 French receivers, and, until recently,! i a German receiver also interested | himself in the administration. In Liberia, as in the majority of j African states and colonies, the Ger- ’ man policy of permea'icn was follow- j ed, and it is in the elimination of the German mfluence that the chief hope lies for an important development of i British trade. It was as far back as j 1880 that German influence began to; make iself felt, and a number of fac tories were established at various parts, principally along the coast. The Hamburg firm of Woermann played an important part in establishing trade relations with the Negroes, and their example was speedily followed by another Hamburg house, Messrs. Wiechers & Helm. This latter film commenced trading on a large scale in Monrovia, Marshall and Cane Pal- j mas, and were not long before they built up a large and important con nection. Germany has always realized the great trade possibilities which existed with Liberia, btu the Liberian govern ment have kept themselves fully ac quainted with German designs and have thwarted them whenever they have been strong enough to do so. The secret history of the affair in 1897, when the German consul offered to put Liberia under German protection, has yet to be written. Practically all that was allowed to be known about the matter was that Great Britain and the United States promptly put a veto on the proposition, and the German consul was immediately censured by Berlin and withdrawn from his post. Liberia has ample resources, but needs development. Her total yearly rpver.ue stands at about $300,000 and her foreign bonded debt at $96,000. She has a floating debt of about $200, 000, of which $150,000 is held by for eign merchants. Her total debt is only slightly over $800,000, which, as will be seen by the figures quoted, is equal to only three years’ reveneu. Her financial position, therefore, is not so bad, and certainly is not nearly so hopeless as has been made out by in terested parties. Amongst the prin cipal imports of the country may be mentioned hardware of all kinds, cot ton goods, silks, earthenware of fair to medium quality, liquors, guns and gunpowder, rice, stockfish, salt and tobacco. In connection with the im port trade, it must be emphasized that hardware of the modern pattern will not sell in the republic; pots, pans, fire irons, everything possible, in short, must be modelled on fifteenth century patterns. Amongst the ex ports, the more important are coffee, rubber, ginger, ivory, hides, cocoa, kola nuts, palm kernels and oil, raw cotton, peppers, mahogany, teak, copal gum and fibre, and, as showing the fact that since the beginning of the war German influence has received a heavy setback, it is worthy of note ■that in 1915 the Liberian exports to the United Kingdom were roughly about five times the value of the pre war average. Before the war the only direct cable ■i communication which the republic had with Europe was in German hands, and one of the two wireless stations was also German owned. German films had also commenced a motor boat transport service along the rivers of the count ry, and this would have quickly proved a paying proposition, as the local roads are neither conven ient as regards direction nor well made. L'nfortur British schemes and proposals v - some time looked upon with - in Liberia,'as a result of th~ dispute over the northwest I -of the state. There is no - ''ere to go in o the circumstances led *o the arrival of British warships in a Liberian port, , and the subsequent improvement of j the British coastline where Sierra ! Leone adjoined the Negro state, bu' it J doubtful whether, from a trade point i of view, the action of Great Britain was altogether wise. But tha is largely a matter of ancient history. ; and the time is now opportune for British trading houses to step in and | esciblish themselves firmly in the j country, and so prevent Hun influ- | ence ever again getting into the j ascendency.—African Times and Ori ent Review. • PALESTINE, TEXAS A. G. Howard, Agent Things are looking good around here. All the Methodist people are getting ready to leave town to go to their different conferences and some of them will not get back to this place any more. The Rev. H. Mc Kinna had his last service at the Grant Chapel A. M. E. church Sun day and the Rev. A. W. Williams had his last sermon at Mt. Vernon A. M. E. church Sunday. The Rev. S. M. Bolden had his last sendee Sunday at St. Paul’s M. E. church, and he was at his best. All of the above will leave for their different appointments on Tuesday. St. Paul M. E. church raised for j heir pastor $84.00, and he will leave ! his conference well pleased. We had for our guest Sunday at i St. Paul’s the Revs. J. E. Lee, J. J. j Jordon and E. M. Griggs. We are having some good weather J now. but bad a tremendous rain here last Friday, and it is somewhat colder now. Visitors to the office today were j Mrs. Price. Mr. H. L. Price, Mr. Sam j Clasco. The 'own is getting rid of the in- j fluenza and things are looming up ; now. 1,4 GRANGE, TEXAS H. L Vincent, Agent Mr. Jas. KeiT Lep, East Bernard, spent a few days in the city on busi- { ness. Mr. James Henry Robinson, i formerly of I .a Grange, but now of , East Bernard, accompanied Mr. Lee. They returned Thursday morning, Mr. 1 Lee leaving a one year's subscription ' for The Monitor. Mr. Geo. W. Bratcher, Muldoon, was here last Wednesday on business. Mr. John Branch. Houston, arrived hero last Wednesday nigh' to at- 1 tend to some business with the. war i department. Mrs. Hallie Johnson left Wednesday morning to spend a few days with her ; husband, Mr. James Johnson in Cuerc. J Rev. S. A. Tillman, after spending the week in various places left last j Saturday morning for Eagle Lake to ! preach Sunday and conduct a rally for Mt. Olive Baptist church. Prof. Stikes, principal of the Co lumbus Colored high school, passed through the city Saturday en route to Austin, carrying with him his wife who died at Columbus last Fri day. She will be buried at Austin. Mr. Hal Davis and Mrs. Sarah Scott left here last Sunday for Camp Travis, where the latter has a very sick son. Miss Thelma Leah Sanford is vis iting a few (lays in Smithville. Mrs. Clara E. Kirkpatrick and her three children of Ft. Worth, returned home last Sunday, after spending sev eral weeks here with her sick sister, Mrs. L. E. Moore. Sick—Mrs. Julia King and a few families with the “Du.” The Rev. J. V. B. Gains, P. E., of the A. M. E. church, was in town Saturday en route to the Bethlehem community to hold his last quarterly conference. The Rev. William White was at his post and conducted regular services at^St. James M. E. church here Sun day. The Colored city school here opened Monday morning, 18th inst., after be ing closed for one month on account of the flu. Mrs. Lizzie May Jetson of Schulen burg is visiting here. THANK YOU To the Editor of The Monitor. Sir: You will find enclosed a check for $2.00. I began reading your pa per because a blind man asked me to do so, but I read it now because it is one of the best papers that comes to my office. Yours truly, W. D. WILSON, M. D., Shreveport, La. COMINGLING OF MANY RACES In the following quotation from ‘‘The Churches at Work.” Dr. Charles i L. White, the author, describes the mixed relations in'o which an Ameri can enters in ordinary every day con tact with people: I . “On Monday morning a Roumanian T'sh-man cleaned his cellar and a Pole i whitewashed its walls. A Hollander , pruned his vine; a German plumber ■ came to stop a leak in his bathroom and his man’s helper was a Dane. He remembered that his cook was a Swede and the waitress was a Nor wegian. As he left his home for his office a seamstress entered to help his wife. She was a Relgian, and the man who was painting his front fence was from Switzerland. He left his laundry with a Chinaman. Later he visited his Russian tailor, ordered i groceries of a Welshman, meat of a i Scotchman, and purchased his fish dinner the next day at a Frenchman’s more. As he waited for an electric car an Italian vegetable man passed, while he was talking with an Irish policeman. The next day he bought some hardware from an Armenian and learned that his milkman was a Lapp, and his cobbler was a Hangar- j ian. That evening a Philippine bell- I boy showed him to a room in a hotel and he learned that among its waiters was Slovaks, Greeks and Servians. The next day he lunched in a Turk ish restaurant, engaged a Syrian to mend his rugs and purchased two more of an Armenian. In the after noon he met by accident a college classmate, a Bulgarian, who introduc ed him to a Montenegrin. That eve ning he learned that the Austrian con sul of the city had rented the house j opposite. The following Sunday he met a Cuban Protestant at church 1 and found a Mexican, a Brazilian, a Lithuanian, a Peruvian, and a Haitian in a popular Sunday School class of one hundred men. That evening a Japanese merchant and his family at tended service and the next day, as chairman of the committee that look ed after the repairs of the church, he learned tha the Portugese sex ton had died, and he selected a Cana dian in his place. The following day <he man who washed his office win | down proved to be a Spaniard, and a Jew wished him a merry Christmas. Soon after this, in an early train, he counted twenty-eight passengers in the car. Four were reading German papers, twelve Jewish, six kalian, and he concluded that the only American born man in the car besides himself wan a Negro!” . Lincoln News MRS. SARAH WALKER. NATIO N A L ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE Masonic Hall, Friday, Nov. 22, 1018. i Meeting called to order by Acting j President Harry M. Hill. 1. Song by audience, “America,” led by J. E. Jeltz. 2. Prayer by Rev. O. J. Burck hai'dt. Statement of purpose of meet : ing and aims and work laid .u for 1 the association for the ensuing year j by Mr. Hill. 4. Grievance report by Rev. O. J. Burckhardt. A—Action taken against objection able discrimination signs, the specific case of Peterson’s restaurant, the same having been removed. B—Prates' s to Governor Neville and council of defense against such plays as “The Birth of a Nation.” 5. Reports on new memberships. Sixteen new prospects by Rev. Mr. Burekkhardt and Mr. Jeltz, the latter reporting the name of Governor-elect S. R. McKelvie. 6. Awing President Hill calls for the election of officers which result ed as follows: President—Rev. I. B. Smith. Vice President—Mr. M. C. James.’ Secretary—Trago T. McWilliams. Treasorer—Mrs. Maude Gates. Executive Committee—Mr. William Woods, Mr. J. E. Jeltz, Mr. L. P. Gates, Mr. V. B. Young, Mr. Ray Poole. Acting President Harry M. Hill was given a standing vo e of thanks for the good work he has rendered the association. The very efficient Lincoln corre spondent of The Monitor, Mrs. Sarah Walker, will have charge of the asso | ciation’s publicity department for the j ensuing year. TRAGO M. WILLIAMS, Mrs. Arthur Patrick went to Cliil licothe, Mo., Tuesday to visit her par i ents dring Thanksgiving and the hol idays. Clyde Malone is expected home for Thanksgiving. Bert Patrick was in the vity Tues day on business for The Monitor. Mrs. Henry Williams returned home last Thursday from Chicago, where she was called several days ago on account of the illness of her brother, Mr. George Kelley, whom she left in a much improved condition. Mrs. Alice Perry passed away at 9:10 a. m. Saturday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Stella Cruse. She had been ill but a very short time, having contracted pneumonia a little over a week ago. Though she had the tenderest of care, all efforts to save her were unavailing. The body was ■'aken to Salina, Kas., Monday morn ing for burial. Mrs. Odessa Johnson, who has been very ill for several days, is conval escing slowly. Mr. I.. 11. McGhee, who has been confined in doors for several days, is able to be out again. The Woman’s Davis club gave a supper at Masonic hall last Thursday, whitfi met with a great success. Mr. Bert Patrick, The Monitor’s energetic business manager, was a visitor in our city Monday and Tues day. Mr. Charles Haynes :s very ill at his home this week suffering from an a tack of pneumonia. In Lincoln we have a very- up-to date, thriving, well managed tailoring business, conducted by an enterprising, progressive race man, Mr. V. B. Yeung. He meets everybody with a smile, which seems a ray of sunshine for every customer. Ho is taking a step forward and is now offering to his many customers an invitation to inspect the samples from the greatest woolen mills in America. He is de serving of every courtesy that, may be shown and is worthy of intensive sup port. His establishment is located at 219 North 10th street. ■ Have Your Suit and Overcoat TAILOR MADE From the Best and Most Celebrated Woollens in America j V. B. YOUNG & CO. 219 North 10th Street. Lincoln, Neb. Our Thanksgiving Offer Free Turkey A Ilig Live Com Fed Tur key Free with Every Suit and Overcoat at $20.00 and Up. A This sale starts Satur- ( day, November 23, and ends Wednesday, November 27. PALACE CLOTHING CO. 14th and Douglas ^Classified Advertising HATES—1 centH a word for single In sertions; 1 cent a word for two or more insertions. No advertisement taken for less than 15 cents. Cash should accom pany advertisement. FURNISHED ROOM8 FOR RENT? Neatly furnished rooms for light housekeeping. 722 N. 16th st. Tel. Doug. 9027. J. L. Webster.—Adv. —-——--- — i. Furnished Rooms—Strictly modern. With or without board. 1516 North Kith St. Tel. Web. 1983. Two or three unfurnished rooms for ligh. housekeeping in private home. Call Webster 4419. 1518 N. 24th st. Furnished room for man and wife or women. Tel. Web. 1654. 2115 Clark street. Furnished room, strictly modern, 911 Capitol avenue. Mrs. J. H. Broomfield. Douglas 2378. Neatly furnished room in private home. Strictly modem. 2524 North Twenty-fifth street. 10-27 P'URNISHEI) rooms; strictly mod em; men preferred. 2204 N. 19th st. Tel. Web. 3308. FOR BENT — Nicely furnished j rooms; strictly modern. Mib. Annas. Alexander, 1923 N. 27th st. Web. 2941. \ FOR RENT—Right at 24th st. car ' line; two nice, large furnished rooms for couple; also a smaller room. 2317 Charles. Webster 4745. A furnished room for rent. Mrs. E. M. Wright, 2620 Burdette st. Webster 5543. FURNISHED rooms for runt. 2622 Grant st. For Rent—Newly furnished rooms. 1518 North 24th street. Tel. Web. 4419. FOR RENT OR FOR SALE—Six room house, furnished. Call Webster 6639. 1809 North 23d st. Furnished Rooms—Strictly modem furnished rooms for man and wife or for men. 2417 Caldwell. Mrs. G. Holmes. Furnished rooms. Strictly modem. 2705 Douglas street. Harney 6829. Mrs. I. Falls. A neat furnished room in modem home for man and wife, 3702 North Twenty-third street. Webster 3727 9-21 Neatly furnished rooms in private family. Strictly modem. Webster 1196. 9-21-4t First class rooming house, steam heat, bath, electric light. On Dodge and 24th st. car line. Mrs. Ann- Banks, 924 North 20th st. Doug. 437;,. Furnished Rooms—Neatly furnish ed rooms in a strictly modem home; one-half block off car line. Tel. Web. 4983. 1516 North 16th. ’ Furnished RooniH—Strictly modem furnished room for man and wife. Mrs. Hueston, 2805 Ohio. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms. Call Webster 5639. Furnished Rooms—Strictly modem. W. Harvell. Webster 4760. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms, all modem. 2706 Parker st. Web. 1250. First-class modem furnished room*. Mrs. L. M. Bentley Webster, llo* North Twenty-sixth street, fhono Webster 4769. Neatly furnished rooms in a pri vate home. Modem except heat. Men onlv . Webster 1760. Neatly furnished rooms, 1842 North 27th St. Call Webster 2812. Two furnished rooms, 2416 Indiana avenue. Tyler 3399-W. For Rent—Modern furnished rooms. 2320 North 28th Ave. Phone Web ster 2058.