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NEGRO CONFERENCE TO OPEN AT SCHOOLTenth Annual Session Will Be One of Much Importance to [tie Colored RaceINSTRUCTIVE PROGRAM ARRANGEDOfficials of the Department of Agriculture Will Address the Students —Work Pertaining to the Farm Will Be Thoroughly Discussed and Explained.Tin- tenth aiimiii! session of tin? Hampton Negro Conference will open In Cleveland IIxilJ at the llumptan Normal ami Agricultural lnslltul.I Ills morning. Quite a number l prominent mom hen; of the moo from all sect Iona of thu count ty are here l« til ten,| the cun vent inn. The? con rent Ion will lie In session throe days.The program for thu conference iH given below:WEDNESDAY* JUNE 27,Morning Session* 10 O’clock.Introductory Remarks—n r jrj.jS.roll.F.u inernT Day— Edgar A Hi shop -oijieiiaiendeiit lt;jf agricultural department.Address oil Agriculture—Dr. Sen iiinn A. Knapp, u, S. department o' iigrtnilim-o.Open discussion and guest ions on In ruling.Afternoon, 2 O'clock.All visitors will meet In Cleveland Hall, where guides will direel lliein hi ilie following exhibit;; which arc to he carefully explained by special Isis.Model house and room for troal* uient of consumption.Free literature on health, farming,etc.New school barn,Division fur horses, horseshoeing, lockjaw.Division for cows, silos, how to prevent bovine con sum pi icm.Housing of pigs, hojj choleraRepair mil.lit, how to repair and can* for harness and farm Implements.Models or hume-mude farm imph meats.School farm. 'Crops, cultivation, rotation, fur* nlkers,Orchard—How to spray.School gardens. » tPoultry houses.Dmneslie science •building.Care of animals.Class room agriculture with ex* hlblts on soils, moisture, crops, fertilizers. etc.Farm literature,Evening Session, 8 O’clock.Agricultural education in school* for colored people, W T, 11, Williams, I kiiuptou* Va.Discussion nlid questions,Agriculture and nation, Dr. Seaman A. Knapp,THURSDAY* JUNE 20.Morning Session, 10 O’clock.The negro minister, Rev* E, O. I\ Cheek, Farnivide, Va.Discussion of ministers’ work ami training* to ho opened by Rev* W. 11. Aslilnmi. Manchester, Va.Negro criminality, W, S. Scarborough, Ph. D-, Wlltierforee University,Afternoon Round Tables.2 o'clock, Academic buildings.How Can the Women Help? As sent Id y room.Immranco and Ranking* Science building, room 113.Legal Imposition, Science building, room 112.Evening Session, 8 O’clock.How to Prevent Consumption* M. M. Waldron, M. I., resident physician Hampton institute.I lousing and Sanitation. D, RobertLewis. Instructor of mechanical drawing, HamjUon institute*Infantile Mortality, J. y. Lay cock, M. D., Norfolk. Va.FRIDAY, JUNE 29.Morning Session, 10 O’clock.Some Baltimore Houses, J. H. N. Waring, Raltiuiore. Md.Discussion opened by R. It. Wright, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa.Report of committee on resolutions.Wdoueaday, Thursday and Friday executive sessions* principal's olttcu, P o’clock.P BURIALS IN CUBA.Coxtoma i'Uut Henilnd One of theI'urBcpa (if Dulubn}-.Uurtat customs in Cuba are almost is Bt rouge as llie Psirsce customs and their towers of tdlencc In Bombay. It Bi-ems that the reopening of graves hi Cuba Is the result of a long established custom of bury tut; as many bodice as possible in n single grave. The cemetery routine Is tike this:First sumo one* usually the head of a family, buys a plot, lie at once seta to work digging Ills own grave and graves for nil thu members of Ids family. He digs several glaives six feet long for adults anti one grave four feet long to provide for the possible death of n child. When the entire area of the plot Is thus In open graves the digger turns unison and plasterer, lie cements each grave, bottom and sides. Thou he llils in thu cemented graves with soil and goes home with the satisfactory thought that he may look upon his own grave during bis lifetime and that It Is ready for bim ut any time he Is ready fur ll.Rut the weirdest part of this custom is yet to Ik* told, lu the middle of the plot a square grave in dug. a hole about six feet each way. This square hole Is cemented like the graves and tilled in with moil, ll should be explained here that the bodies in the graves are covered with quicklime, When the Hesh has disappeared and only the bones are left tin; bones are tukuu out of iin? grave ami thrown Into thu square hole in the center of the plot. Thus tin* graves are used over and over again until the square hole in thu cuiiter is tilled with the hones of the members of this or ilmt family, Then the hole Is seated over, and that particular family plot Is abandoned and a new ouu purchased.—Loudon Tlt-Bits.BE A BUSINECS MAN*Do Not luuure die .Winter Sidn or Your Yucnlfuii.No matter what your vocation may be, you in list be a business man tlrat or you will always he placed at a great disadvantage iti the practical affairs of life. We cannot entirely Ignore the money wide of existence any mure than we can the food side, anil the very foundation -of a practical, successful life Is the alOilty io know bow to manage the money side effectively.It Is Infinitely harder to save money mid to invest it wisely than to mnbe it, and if even the most practical men* men who have had a long training in scieu title business methods, llud It a difficult thing to hold on to money after they make It, what is likely to happen to people who have bad practically no training In business methods?If every child in America had a thorough business training tens of thousands of promoters, lung headed, eun* nlng schemers, who have thrived on the people’s Ignorance, would be out of an occupation.I believe that the business colleges are among the grin test blessings in Arnerlcun civilization today, been use they have saved thousands of homes from being wrecked and huvo mndo happy and comfortable tens of thousands of people who might otherwise he living In poverty and wretchedness. —Success Magazine,Why Ere« Oct Red,The eyeball coutiiiiifj ti high percentage of blood, and why, therefore, ts It white? The answer Is that the blood vessels which supply Its surface nre so exceedingly minute that usually they do not admit the little red corpuscles to which the ordinary red appcur-auee of thu blood is due* Blood without these corpuscles is colorless, or* at most, of the faintest yellow tint* But occasionally when the eye la irritated or when there Is any slight or considerable derangement of the system certain of the little vessels enlarge sufficiently to allow the corpuscles to enter* thereby producing the well known red streaks or lullumed appearance of the eyeball*ITiireaJiunahtr,My husband, an Id n young wife, 'is n very unreasonable man!“In what way?’ asked u friend*Tie expects me to live on nothing and save half.
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Newport News, Virginia, US
Wed, Jun 27, 1906
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