VOLUME X. NO. 32. DETROIT MICH., DECEMBER 16, 1892. WHOLE NO. 501. be allowed to seduce ignorant peo­ If she had no great beauty of face, ple into the notion of going to Afri­ she had Infinite beauty of soul, which ca. They would be almost as well shone upon all her friends. CELEBRATED GWALS off, if they were being advised to Bertha sacrificed health and lite go to the devil." Yet Mr. Cald­ to save her patient. When she fell The Great Possibilities of a lireat well is not ashamed to advise us A Worthy Attachee of Provident at the post of duty the end came Who Have Left a Memory of Bril­ R. H. TRAVER to remain In the hands of the devil, swiftly. Her physicians and her Country Set Forth. and wishes to have all the colored Hospital Gone. friends were without hope almost liant Achievement. Any man can male•:prices.—The rogue preachers of the South to adopt a from the beginning. She died too policy of preaching which, if It did early, at the very moment when can quote as low a price as the honest AMERICA AND AFRICA «OTRASTED not send them to the devil, would A TOM GIRL'S GREAT SACRIFICE she was beginning to put forth NOTEDINWAMOMRBDINPM; man—BUT only the honest man wdlgite send them to their grave* in less fresh sprouts and blossom into some­ then twenty-four hours. If we col­ thing worthy of herself, and yet none full value for the price—This is the point Bishop Turner Beplies to M. W. Oaldwell. ored preachers of the South, were Successful in Her Ohoeen Profession She who knew her will think she lived Men of African Blood—The Black valiant —Arrican 01im»te and Resource*.— to take the advice of this new Solon in vain. She was, Indeed, a good We claim to give fulled value for the very Early Succumbs to the Grim D?as in Brazil--The Honored I/Over­ A Vigorous Letter. there would not be a colored influence among her people while she lowest prices—Prorc it, test it by COM- preacher in these Southern States Monster, Death. was still with them. There may be ture, Presso and others. PARISOX—Do you notice thai none of to fill a single pulpit next Sab-., better nurses In the land, but not a bath. If Mr. Caldwell Is such a nurse among the generations had a the other stores talk of comparison f i To the Editor of the Plalndcaler: — Chicago Inter Ocean:—The ceme­ From the Courant:—Ttoe disting­ I noticed in your itsue of the 2nd brave and knowing man, why does tery of Oakwoods has taken among better heart-. She will not be for­ uished honor now being bestowed met, that one Mr. M. W. Caldwell, he not expend some of his wise its white slabs another fresh mound. gotten. As she was remembered en General Dodos by tin* people of counsel upon the members of the of Chicago, 111., in his tirade against When evening comes at the Provi­ in the tremulous prayers of a tender France to only another illustration African immigration, has worked United States Supreme court, whose mother, in the impassioned longing of the fact that Negroes of softliery decisions have wrapped the South­ dent hospital, physicians and pa­ of friends in tears, so the serene himself almost into a fury over tient** looks to the door for a fig­ abillty have always been more nad- what I fear, he has given but lit­ ern Negro In elvll and political and pitying voice of divine consola­ lly recognized by European nations, 'NOW tle attention. chains. Why does he not take a ure that is gone. The body of tion gave her comfort and peace and especially by Southern European club or bludgeon in his hand and go . Si, He does me the honor of Inform­ Bertha Eetes, one of the trained to the end. nations, than by their Er-.Vtoh to Washington City and make Con­ nurses of that worthy young insti­ speaking brethren. • 1) ing the country, that I am intelli­ gress pass a few laws, that will The poet who wrote these lines, GENTLEMEN gent. I am grateful for that little negative some of the infernal de­ tution, has been laid in the ground. although In a mtld fit of pessimism. During the reign el Phillip 11. ef bit. yet a man may be Intelligent cisions which the courts of the land She went cheerfully where duty must have had in mind such a life of Spain, when the notorious Di.&e of A> the GoTemor of North Carolina and have but very little common self-sacrifice as that of young Bertha have decreed against the rights of called, and her eful young life Alva was sent to resublugnt. the said to tlie Governor of Seuth Carolina sense. That Is the phrase usually his race? Estes: Netherlands, and to rapture the •it's a long time between- wall, waim employed by white people when was an early sc ice. Hundreds Prince of Orange the fasaidus Negro they wish to compliment a Negro. Bnt why should I waste my time of fresh mounds rounded up in We toil through pain and wrong, weather spells"—There's four mentfas We fight and fly Avhom the Spaniards can "Mack They rarely, if ever speak of a Ne­ In attempting to reply to the in­ the cemet Valiant" so demeaned httnseb in of s h i-v-e r j. coll weather before u» telligent Jargon of Mr- Caldwell? For ay by day, und We love, we lose, and then, ere long gro as being able, wise, learned, quickly forgotten, but the life of that campaign that ha was pro­ and how about a Winter Suit and Ov of great, but they invariably say, his letter Is unquestionably intelli­ Stone dead we lie. moted to a high poet of honor bv ercoatf gently written, and It betrays some a heroine was extinguished when O, life! to all thy song "that is a smart Negro or an in­ Bertha died. Her friends shall nev­ Alva and Phillip himself, did nor You want the Strictly Sty fish— ire' ce got 'em. telligent Negro,' which may apply reading, but, oh! my God, where is Endure—and die? hesitate to compliment htm, nnd the sense, where is the thought, er again see Bertha in her pretty Tou want the Finest Materials—we're got 'em to a dog or a monkey with equal nurse costume—she was Bertha with With such simple rites as are since then the name of Black Val­ You waul the Tailor Made - we've got 'em appropriateness, though it may be where to the logic, where is the usual with patients who die of in­ iant has been embalmed - in «cng philosophy, where is the practica­ all who knew her, in affection, not You want the Best that s made— we as got 'em 'somewhat enlarged in consideration fectious or contagious diseases, Ber­ and story by Spanish writers. that he is a human being of an bility? I do not question has stand­ in disrespect—nor hear her speak tou want your money's worth—we're got it with pride of the badge of the tha was buried on Thursday. On Brazilian historian* love to tell inferior rank- But the term intelli­ ing as a gentleman, his habits of Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock me­ morality, his refinement and culture. King's Daughters which she wore of the brave deeds of Henry Diaz gent, of late hi used so interchange­ morial services for her will be held For it was to hie great generalship ably with other complimentary I judge I would find him a man of upon her breast. at Bethel church, Thirtieth and Dear­ excellent social habits and propin­ ana" strategy that Portugal rwed words, that I would not dare ques­ It was on Oct. 27, of the present born streets. The dead girl was her long possession of Brazil. When tion the courtesy of its use as ap­ quities with a seal without knowl­ year, that four young colored wo­ a devout and earnest member of edge. in the early part of the ITtr. «-en- plied to myself. I beg to say how­ men of noble ambition and self-sac­ this church. Dr. Graham, the pastor, tnry war hung like a flood over ever, that the dispatch of Nov. 23, But suppose all the colored rificing character were graduated will preach the memorial sermon. that unfortunate country anti the referred to, viz.: That "the color­ preachers South were to advise the from the Provident Hospital Train­ Dr. Thomas, the presiding elder of Dutch were expending million- of ed preachers of Atlanta, are advis­ people to go to Africa. where would ing School for nurses. The Impres­ the district, to her uncle, and will treasures on armies and tortlfVa ing their flocks ' to emigrate to they be going? Would they be go­ sive exercises took place at Bethel probably take part in the solemn tions to dispossessed the natives. Africa, declaring it the only salva­ ing to the penitentiary, to the church, Dearborn and Thirtieth service*. It was Henry Diaz the Negrc gep tion of the Negro race in the world," lynch limb of a tree, or to hell as streets, in the presence of a nota­ eral whose genius saved the eaaa Is not true. Atlanta has as many Mr. Caldwell says? No, but they ble gathering which was addressed try.