The Afro-American

THE AFFAIR AMERICAN LEDGER. VOL. XVIII. NO. 31. THE COLONEL WILL SOON BE ON THE OCEAN SLEEPS IN ROOM ONCE OCCUPIED BY BOOKER T. WASHINGTON IN HOTEL MT. VERNON. And In Consequence Thinks He Is Somebody—Bishop Grant Also Stopped In The Same Room—Receives A Number Of Contributions To Help Him Cross The "Big Pond"—Visits A Northern School And Several Conferences, And Meets Many New Friends. COL. J. O. MIDNIGHT. Norfolk, Va.—You want to know where I am, and I am willing to tell you that I am in hotel Mt. Vernon, and room 17, one of the finest hotels in this country, occupied by our people, and then I am in the room which Bishop Grant occupied during the general conference and you know it must be all right. There is no use in talking about it L. W. Bright has kept up his hotel, and he deserve credit. It was opened as a first-class hotel and it has kept up its reputation. May it ever continue thus. I am glad to say that we are able to keep a hotel first-class in the south, and the people are supporting it. L. W. Bright is a man, and he has proven this to the world. He knows how to conduct business. A. W. Norris, is the head clerk and has been ever since the hotel opened. He knows his business, and is a right hand man to Mr. Bright. It is fortunate when our business men can get competent men to look after business for them. This has had much to do with the success of Hotel Mt. Vernon. Editor Murphy has made friends of the proprietor, and he is a friend to the race. With all of his busy life, Mr. Bright is always ready and willing to contribute to the church and church people. He is always ready to give some money for the work. I failed to inform you that I am occupying the room which Dr. Booker T. Washington occupied when he was here You see this is a place where Dr. Washington has stopped and many of our other people. Mr. Bright is getting ready a photograph of the hotel to send to Tuskegee to Mr. Washington, and I am sure that our people will be delighted to look at the photograph. You will observe that it will be only a few days before I will leave this count try for Scotland, and my friends are getting in earnest about my going. I am going, for I have some money in addition to that which I have already. I have received since last week the following amounts: Bishop E. W. Lampon, $25; the North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association, $10; Chas. Banks, $5.00 John R. Hawkins, $5; Dr. U. G. Mason, $5; the men at Sparrows Point $5; Women at Sparrows Point $5, Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, Baltimore; $2.61; L. M. Bright, $10; and from this you will see that my friends are meaning business and they mean to help me, and I intend to go. I shall sail on S. S. Caledonia, Anchor Line, June 4, and my room mates will be Rev. J. P. Robinson, D. D., of Little Rock, and J. W. Rankin, D. D., of Waxahachie, Texas. I have been doing a little riding since I wrote to you last. I have been doing some going, and I am going to do some more, because I will be in Atlanta Ga. Sunday night, and you will see that I am in this part of the world today. Last week I had the pleasure of attending the New Jersey Conference of the A. M. E. Zion church which was held in Trenton, N. J., and presided over by Bishop G. W. Clinton, D. D., of Charlotte N. O. Mrs. Clinton is a great woman, and she is side by side with her husband in this work of betterment of our people. She is a refined cultured woman, and one of the sweetest singers of this country, saying nothing about race or color. I came to this city to deliver a lecture to the people at Varick Temple. In the afternoon I spoke to the women of the city, and they were glad to see me. Miss Laura Jefferson dropped in but did not remain. I desire to express my thanks to Mrs. Annie Blackwell, the J. H. wife of Bishop Blackwell, of the Zion church for arranging the meeting. In the evening I delivered a special lecture to men. Rev. Battles, a young man, is pastor of the church and he is doing a great work for God and the race. I returned to the conference Thursday and met Bishop J. W. Smith, of Washington, D. C., who was formerly editor of the A. M. E. Star of Zion, the official organ of the church. He has made a good bishop. Then I also met Bishop J. S. Caldwell, who is worthy of the position he was elevated to a new years ago. Among the general officers I met were Revs. Coffey, Jackson, Morrisey and Moreland, and it would not be out of order for me to say that Rev. C. D. Hazel is the presiding elder. Next I made a visit to Bordentown, N. J., where is located the State of New Jersey Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth, and at the head of this institution is Prof. J. Thomas Caruthers. It is fine school site, located on the Delaware river. I have never seen more beauty in a school site since I have been in the world. The teachers are all up to date and fully understand their business. They have a fine set of students. Now you see I have been to some schools in the north, and all this adds to my limited education. Last Saturday I went to Philadelphia met fome friends I had the pleasure of meeting Mrs. Mabel Bailey, and her friend. Mrs. Annie Hyland. They showed me around Philadelphia, carrying me to see the show, and at night I returned to the house slept like a log until 5 o'clock Sunday morning, when I got up and started for Baltimore, reaching there on time Sunday morning, went to the home of Editor Murphy and joined the family in eating, and started for church. I shall not enter Continued on page 5. ODD FELLOWS CELEBRATE Their Anniversary By Attending Divine Worship And Hearing (Special to the Afro-American Ledger.) Denton, Md., May 12—The G. U. O. Odd Fellows held their anniversary at Union Bethel A. M. E. church at this place last Sunday. Although there was a heavy down pour of rain during the morning hours the weather was ideal in the afternoon. Female loveliness and beauty and the new pastor, Rev. J. G. Bryant, added to the attraction of the occasion. The church was filled to its utmost capacity and the choir elicited much praise. It was Rev. Bryant's first Sunday in his new charge; his sermon, to the Odd Fellows was thoughtful, practical and helpful. He spoke as one versed in the mystery of Odd Fellowism. PASTOR WELL RECEIVED Special to the Afro-American Cause. Pocomoke City, Md., May 11.—The new pastor, Rev. John S. Collins, began his year's work under very favorable circumstances last Sunday at St. John's A. M. E. church, notwithstanding the unfavorable weather. It was tru tees' day and there was a good turn out especially at night, and the collections were good. Misses Cassie J. Quinn and Georgia James, who have been on the sick list, are improving. Mrs. Mary Grimm is on the sick list. The funeral of Mrs. Florence Dickerson took place from St. John's church; Tuesday morning, Rev. John S. Collins off-lading, assisted by several other ministers. She is survived by six sisters, two brothers and nine children. BALTIMORE. SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1910. BISHOP COTTRELL IS OPPOSED TO MORE BISHOPS MINORITY REPORT OF COMMITTEE APPROVBD REFUSING SEAT TO DR.C. H. PHILLIPS, JR. Is A Son of Bishop Phillips Much Interrst Manifested In The Selection of Bishops-The Bishops Recommend The Election of Two-Bishop Cottrell Opposes Election of Any More Thinks There Is Only Enough Work for the Present Fench Of Bishops. (Staff Correspondence.) Augusta, Ga., May 9—The General Conference of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, in its tenth quadrennial session, which opened in this city last Wednesday in the historic Trinity C.M.E. Church, having completed all preliminary business, and is ready for the transaction of the important matters that will come before it. Bishop Isaac Lane preached the opening sermon Wednesday, at which session the senior bishop, L. H. Holsey, presided. The Bishops' message recommended several new features, including the election of two bishops, the creation of a financial department, which will in effect, separate that department from the publishing house; and the institution of the office of deaconess. A comprehensive review of the educational and missionary interests was made, and the recommendation that the general church take up African work. The minority report of the committee on credentials, which recommended that Dr. C. H. Phillips, Jr., the son of Bishop C. H. Phillips, of Nashville, be refused a seat in the conference for an alleged illegality in his election was adopted. Thus all the delegates sent by the various annual conferences were seated save Dr. Phill ps. All the committees have been appointed and are hard at work. The laymen's caucus this afternoon decided to stand solidly in conference for no bishops, claiming that the church does not need them, and that the money for these additional high salaried officials could be well utilized in the miss on field.- Bishop Oottrell in a signed statement in the Daily Index, is leading, the fight for no bishops, while Bishop Phillips is the undeniable champion of the cause of Dr. R. T. Brown, the Christian Index editor. Altogether the biggest interest of the conference is centered in this election, and there several pronounced candidates in the field, including Dr. G. W. Steward, Secretary of Church Extension; Dr. John W. acknney and Dr. M. H. Johnson. A number of strong addresses have been made before the confeance, among the speaker's being. Dr. C. T. Walker, Dr. Silas X. Fioyd, Dr. R. L. Boyd, of the National Baptist Publishing B aid. and Dr. (Jr.) W. Walker, President of Paine College. (Special to Afro-American Ledger.) Cambridge. Md. May 11—The Odd Fellows and Household of Ruth held their Annual Thanksgiving services Sunday afternoon, at Waugh, M. E. Church. The sermon was preached by Rev. S. S. Jolley. Rev. James G. Martin of Baltimore, was in Cambridge, Monday of last week. Mr. Wm. A. Cornish left Tuesday morning for Asbury Park, N.J. Dr. and Mrs. Garria of Annapois', were in Cambridge, Tuesday Mrs. Mary, A. Henry is visiting her sir, Mr. Hemenon Henry, of Washing- ton. LIBERIANS GIVE MINISTER LYON HEARTY WELCOME BISHOP SCOTT ADDRESSES PASSENGERS OF STEAMER CAMPANIA WHILE GOING ABROAD Minister Lyon Entertains Captain And Other Officials of The Cruiser Birmingham At American Legation-President Barclay Also Entertains Captain Fletcher And Staff - College Session Begins-Liberian Conference Holding Annual Session Liberia, West Africa, April 7—After much anxiety on the part of the Liberian public, awaiting to hear from the United States of America, the Cruiser Birmingham reached this harbor early Monday morning, the 4th of April. At 8 o'clock a. m., a salute of 21 guns was fired by the cruiser; this salute was immediately answered by the guns on Fort Norris, the historic promontory overlooking the sea to the west of the city. At 8.30, the launch Newport steamed out of the harbor, carrying Mr. Geo. W. Ellis, Secretary of the Legation, Dr. J. H. Reed, Vice Consul-General, Miss Annabel Lyon, clerk of the American Legation, and Prof. W. F. Walker, of the College of West Africa, who went out to meet the Minister. After meeting the captain and officers of the ship and exchanging greetings and sentiments of regard, the party embarked on the launch to come ashore. At the departure of the minister, a salute of 13 guns was fired. The tannah was soon ashore, where a large concourse of Liberian citizens had assembled to greet the Minister. After some salutations and hearty hand-suakes, the Minister soon found himself at the American Legation, surrounded by friends and well-wishes, where soon afterwards he was called on by Government officials and other distinguished Liberian citizens. The captain of the cruiser came ashore at 3 o'clock p. m., 90 meet the President and his cabinet. The cruiser will be here for several days yet, and her presence means much of hop in the breasts of Liberians for the future of the Republic. Captain Fletcher and Dr. Woodward of the cruiser Birmingham, were entertained at a private dinner by Minister Lyon, at the American Legion on Tuesday, April 5th. There were also present Bishop I. B. Scott, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Dr. J. H. Reed, Vice Consul-General, and Mr. G. W. Ellis, Secretary of the American Legation. Dr. Woodward is planning, while here to open a free clinic in the city, in which many who are suffering may be treated. Bishop Scott returned from Junk on Thursday, the 1st ult., and reports a great field for mi sionary operations within the radius of the sixty miles or more traveled by him in the interior. Bishop Scott, on the voyage from New York to Liverpool, spoke to the passenger of the steamer Campania on the Sunday evening. The Bulletin published on the ship said: "Bishop Isaiah B Scott delivered a very interesting address on Liberia as night in the main dining saloon. The reverend speaker, in homely, yet attractive manner, learned dealt with the industrial, social political and religious aspect of the country, and his description of the salvation of Africa was listened to by a sympathetic audience." President Barclay entertained Captain Fletcher and his official staff of the U. S. S. Cruiser Birchingham, at lunch, on Saturday, April 9th, at the Executive Mansion. The American Mini-train entrained Captain Fletner and the officers of the U. S. S. Cruiser Birmingham at lunch American Legation, April 6th. The session of the College of West Africa for 1910, begun on Monday morning, March 14, with a large attendance. Addresses were delivered at the opening by Dr. W. T. Magan, District Superintendent of Monrovia District; Rev J. A. Simpson, pastor U. S. MINISTER LYON of First M. E. church. Rev. J. J. Powell and Mr. Sam McKeown. Associate Justice Toliver of the Supreme Court of Liberia, was recently confirmed as Chief Justice, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late Chief Justice Roberts. The Hon. A. J. Woods of Cape Palms, was made Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Mr. Eiwin J. Barclay has been confirmed as Secretary of Education, and Mr. J. Edmestone Barnes as Director of Public Works. LIDERIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE. The Liberia annual conference convened at Lower Buchanan, Grand Bassa county, at St. Peter Methodist Episcopal church, on Wednesday morning, March 2, 1910, Bishop I. B. Scott, presiding. The conference met this session under quite unfavorable circumstances, by reason of the disturbances in Maryland county, where the native Grebe Tribe had taken up arms against the Liberian Government. This caused the ministers and lay workers from that section to be absent from the conference. Despite this fact, the session was fruitful of much good to the community, and gratifying in the reports for the year. Bishops I. B. Scott and Alexander Walters are on the field. Bishop Walters is out for the first time in the interest of the missions of the A. M. E. Zion church. The two bishops with Secretary Joh son, were recently entertained at dinner by Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Ree1 at the College of West Africa. While in the city, Bishop Walters was the guest of Secretary F. E. R. Johnson Mr. Payton, of New York city, arrived at Monrovia on March, per S. S. Falaba, of the Elder. D mp ter Line. He is the guest of Secretary Johnson, Liberia and West-Africa. The Influence of The Baltimore Annual Conference Will Long Be Felt By The People In Crisfield And Vicinity. (Special to the Afro-American Ledger.) Crisfield, Md., May 13.—The Baltimore Annual Conference session was largely attended by both colored and white citizens and marked interest was manifested. The ministers, delegate and visitors all expressed themselves as having been highly entertained at their homes. Since the adjournment there has been nothing but loneliness, the pastors are all gone to their fields of labor, delegates and visitors to their homes. Hundred of the citizens old and young men and women, and boys and girls have gone out to engage in picking strawberries for the next three weeks. Our churches have but a corporal's guard left. Strawberry harvest this sea on will be abundant. AN AFRO-AMERICAN First Location in Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Reservations Aberdeen. S. D., May 7-Calvin Bowdy, an undersized colored man, thirty years old from Bismark, N. D., stepped up to the map in the land office here and put his finger, on a spot where he wished to locate in the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River reservations. When W. H. Engle of Butte N. b., disqualified himself by filin on another homes had before he drw N. 1, Bowdy, with No. 2, became first. The opening is proceeding under Federal supervision. THE NEGRO MUST BE TRUE TO HIMSELF, TRUE TO HIS ENTERPRISES AND FRIENDS Time To Wake Up—Negro Babyhood Has Passed And He Must Now Look Out For Himself—Must Not Be Ashamed Of His Race, His Hair, His Skin of His Lips—God Made Them and He Knew What He Was Doing—Tho Negro Must Assist In His Educational Work. (Staff Correspondence.) Suffolk, Va., May 11. "We have long since realized that what we will be in this country depends on what we do for ourselves and not so much on what others may do for us, hence we are not sitting around." "White people to carry on but we are now struggling ourselves," was the deed made by the Rev. Dr. R. H. B. ring, of Norfolk, in calling to order the 48d annual session of the Virginia Baptist State Convention this morning. "We have passed the age of baby hood as a race, and now we must stand alone or fall, for there is no one to hold us up. We are always willing to receive help from our wun friends, but it does not mean that we intend to sit down and ask others to do us under the guise of cooperation. We are striving to teach our people to do or themselves. We be have self help, in fact it is the motto of the convention." Fully 500 delights took part in the opening of the convention this morning and listened to the timely address of the president, Dr. Bowling "You are as welcome as the flower in May," said Rev. W. W. Gaines pastor of the church where the convention is being held in his address of welcome, and assured them that all the people of the city were glad to have them. He read a letter from the Mayor expressing regret that he could not be present on account of sickness. Addresses of welcome were delivered by Rev J. T. Wilson, or line B Baptist church; Rev. S. S. Morr. or the A. M. E. church, and W. H. Checker, a prominent Negro underaker Rev. W. R. Brown, of Roanoke, responded to the addresses. A number of short addresses were made. "I was in the organization of this convention," said the Rev J. Anderson Taylor, of Washington, D. W. "and I intend to attend it as long as I am living and able to get here. We must fight sin and the devil. We must reach out after the unreachable of our own race." "Race Loyalty," was the keynote of the President's annual address delivered in the afternoon session. Dr. Bowling condemned in strong language any man or woman of his race or who sought in any way to unrace himself, "The Negro ust his tru to himself, to his own enterprises, an he will and many friends, who will help him. I have no ove for a man who seeks to go away from his race or is ashamed of his feet, hair, skin or tips. This is God's work, and he knew his buines. At the conclusion of the address the rule was suspended, and Dr. Bowling was elected President for another year. Dr. W. T. Hall, of Danville, B. Tyrrell, Lynchburg, W. W. Galces, Sut folk a d J. B Smite of Concord, was elected vice presidents; O. E. Miller Salem, secretary; Deacon A. Ulm bles, Lynchbur, treasurer. Dr. Alexander Gordon, of Phi alpha, delivered an address on the Educational Work of the American Negro." He declared that the Negro would have to do much toward educating his own children and in would be respected. He had been interested in the work of Virginia for (Continued on page 4.) They Have a Long Talk at the New Palace. EMPEROR WILLIAM'S CORDIAL GREETING The Colonel Sits Beside The Empress At Luncheon — Emperor Shows The Roosevelts Through The Sans- soul Palace And Arranges For A Sham Battle Today — Roosevelt's Threat Still Giving Him Much Annoyance. Berlin (Special). — The o'dore Roosevelt and Emperor William had their first long conversation after Luncheon at Potsdam. Standing apart from the other guests they talked earnestly together for more than an hour. The Emperor's welcome to the former president was exceedingly cordial. Wearing the white and gold uniform of the Garde duCorps, with a brazen helmet surmounted by a silver eagle with outspread wings, the Emperor appeared at the entrance of the new palace on the arrival of the carriages which brought Colonel and Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss Ethel and Kermit to the palace gates. He advanced quickly and shook hands warmly with each one of them. Preceded by the Lord Chamberlain Count zu Eulenberg and Master of the Imperial Household Baron von Lyncker, the Emperor, with Mr. Roosevelt at his right, entered the pale and, passing through the large apartment popularly known as the shellroom, showed his guests into the smaller salon beyond. Mrs. Roosevelt entered on the arm of General von Lowenfeld, and in turn was followed by Ambassador and Mrs. Hil. Miss Roosevelt and Kermit. Received By The Empress. Within the salon the party was received by Empress Auguste Victoria, Crown Prince Frederick William, Crown Princess Cecile, Princess Victoria Louise, Prince Joachim and Prince Oscar. The luncheon that followed was attended by a large number, including many government officials and others prominent in public life. At one of these were seated His Majesty, with Mrs. Roosevelt at his left and the crown princess on his right; the chancellor, General Von Plessin, Kernit Roosevelt, Count Zu Eulenberg, Mr. Hill, General Lowenfeld, and Leutenant Commander Belknan. At another table the Empress was seated between Mr. Roosevelt and the Crown Prince. The young Princess Victoria was seated at the Colonel's left. Others at the table were Miss Roosevelt, Captain Sharite, Foreign Minister Von Schoen, Mrs. Hill, Prince Solms-Bareuth and the Colonel Keller. dovel Carriages Late. gretable incident occurred on rival of the Roosevelt party atrin, from Stockholm, when the royal carriages intended for their use failed to reach the station in time, and Ambassador Hill was missing from among the officials who had gathered to greet the ex-President. This was due to a misunderstanding regarding the arrival of the special train. The Roosevelts drove to the American embassy, and shortly afterward Colonel Roosevelt kept an appointment with Professor Fraenkel, a throat specialist, who made a careful examination. At Potsdam the Emperor and Empress treated their American guests with great cordiality, engaging them in prolonged conversation in the small drawing-room, with other members of the royal family, before lunch. The Emperor, after the other guests had gone, showed Colonel Roosevelt and his family through the Sansevant Palace himself. Without making any definite statement regarding the condition in which he found Colonel Roosevelt's throat the physian explained that laryngitis often follows a long residence in the tropics, and that in his opinion the hoarseness in this case is not due to the strain of speaking. Colonel Roosevelt, he thinks, should be entirely recovered within a week. Bureau Of Mines. Washington, D. C. (Special).—The House adopted the conference report on the bill for the creation of a bureau of mines and it will become law when signed by the President. It makes provision for a study of mining explosions and other accidents with a view to the enactment of scientific methods of avoiding such catastrophes. The Friar Lands Purchase. Washington, D. C. (Special).—The House passed a series of resolutions calling on the War Department for information as to the actual purchasers of the Philippine flar lands under the guise of the Mindoro Development Company, which represente*ative Martin, of Colorado, claims was backed by the American Sugar Refining Company. Corporation: Tax Returns. Washington, D. C. (Special).—Total assessments on account of the corporation tax to date have been $28,023,879 and collections $224,161. Recovered Eyesight On Birthday. San Francisco (Special).—College with the celebration of his eighty-fifth birthday, Prof. George Davidson, a well-known scientist and author, recovered his sight. For almost a year Prof. Davidson has been totally blind because of a cataract. Two operations performed in the last six months proved their success yesterday when the clouds that obscured the aged scientist's vision were partially lifted. PUT CHECK ON ARMAMENTS Roosevelt's Advice to the European Powers. The Colonel's Voice Giving Way Under Strain Of Making Speeches Daily—Fails Him Several Times In His Address Before The Nobel Prize Committee At Christianity—He Advocated Development Of The Haguc Tribunal —Scheme Of International Police Power. ROOSEVELT. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy. Something should be done soon as possible to check the growth of armament, especially naval armaments, by international agreement. It would be a master-stroke if those great powers honestly hent on peace would form a league of peace, not only to keep the peace among themselves, but to prevent, by force, if necessary, its being broken by others. JOHN LUND. But it is not Norway alone but the entire civilized world which has reason to be grateful to the United States. Millions upon millions from Europe, poor and often downtrodden, but capable, have found in the new world that happiness and prosperity which we have afforded them. In many ways the United States has reached the goal for which Europe is still sighing. Christiania, Norway (Special).—Theodore Roosevelt delivered his address on "International Peace" before the Nobel prize committee here. The former president of the United States entered upon the most difficult field of European politics, and in the coexistence of a carefully worked and well-advocated international agreement that would serve to check the growth of armaments, especially naval armament, and the formation by those great powers honestly bent on peace of a league peace "not only to keep the peace among themselves, but to prevent by force, if necessary, its being broken by others." What Mr. Roosevelt had to say before the King and Queen of Norway and other representative personages constituted the basic of the private conversations which he is having with the statesmen of Europe as occasion arises concerning the practical possibilities of collective action by the various governments for the enforcement of universal peace. "No man is worth calling a man," said the speaker, "who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong." This principle Mr. Roosevelt applied to nations. As he proceeded, Mr. Roosevelt's voice plainly showed the effect of the strain to which it has been subjected by the daily speechmaking since March 1. It failed him several times, and toward the close of his address, which was delivered with unusual emphasis, he had difficulty in making himself heard. The whole house arose and stood with bowed heads for a moment when Mr. Roosevelt referred to Bjornson, whose death, he said, "leaves a gap in the literature of the whole world." He alluded to Bjornson as a man who had always stood for the right as he conceived the right to be. As Mr. Roosevelt proceeded with his address the Norwegians commented one to another upon the resemblance between the ex-President and Bjornson to the same style of public speaking, to the same favorite gesture with the clinched hand. The address was broken by abundant applause in which the King joined. At its conclusion the Queen stood and joined the audience in giving nine short cheers for Roosevelt. The Colonel proposed three cheers for Norway and led the cheering, but the house broke away and gave nine, following the Norwegian custom. The audience then sang the Norwegian national anthem and dispersed. The Interstate Commerce Commission consented to act as arbitrator of the import traffic rate controversy between the Eastern railroads, precipitated more than a year and half ago by the Boston and Maine Railroad, and suggested that pending investigation the present rates remain. The House Judiciary Committee reported a resolution calling upon the Attorney General o report whether the Department of Justice had investigated the wheat pool in 1909. The House passed the administration railroad bill, with many of the original provisions stricken out. The Senate passed a resolution for an investigation into alleged abuses of the franking privilege. A postal Savings Bank Bill was tentatively agreed upon by the House committee. Mrs. Charles W. Morse appeared in the House and Senate with a petition to the President requesting a pardon for her husband, the New York financier, who is serving a term in the Atlanta prison. The President has signed eight more proclamations restoring to the public domain 177,246 acres from the national forces of Washintgon, Idaho and Colorado. The Interstate Commerce Commission announced that it will not tolerate a continuance of abuses of its rulings by shippers and carriers. Explosion Lays Waste Country for Mile and a Half Around. SAD DISASTER NEAR HULL, QUEBEC Terrific Explosion At The Plant Of The General Explosives Company Of Canada—Giant Trees Snapped Off Close And Barns And Dwellings Converted Into Kindling Wood —Holiday Crowd A Thousand Yards Off Smitten—Bodies Frightfully Mangled. Ottawa, On. (Special).—An explosion which wrecked the plant of the General Explosives Company of Canada, situated a mile from Hull, Que., and four miles from this city, killed fifteen persons and injured more than fifty others. The force of the explosion was terrifying. The country for miles around was laid waste and many small dwellings in the city of Hull on the side nearest the scene of the explosion were flattened to the ground. A baseball game was in progress a short distance from the powder works about 6 o'clock. The teams were playing the last innings and when a fire was seen in one of the small buildings of the powder plant the crowd began to swarm up the hill to get a better view of the blaze. Warning the danger came to the onlookers in two minor explosions soon after the fire got well under way. A shower of sparks and fragments of the wrecked building fell among the spectators and there was a scurrying out of what was considered the danger zone. Some men in the crowd, aware of the possibilities of the danger when the main magazine was reached, pleaded with the crowd to go still further back and many of them headed the warning. Others, apparently enjoying the element of danger in the spectacle, stood within 1,000 yards of the burning buildings. They were kept on the quivile by detonations which sent showers of burning brands in all directions. The baseball game broke up and the remainder of the spectators and the players rushed up to join the crowd at the fire. It was then that the main magazine exploded. There were two stunning detonations. Everything within a radius of a mile and a half was torn and shattered. Giant trees were snapped off close to the earth; barns and dwellings houses were converted into kindling wood and even in Ottawa, four miles from the scene, hundreds of plate glass windows were broken. The scene where the crowd from the ball field stood resembled a battlefield. Headless, armless and legless bodies were lying about among scores of unconscious forms. To the few who retained a flicker of consciousness it appeared as though over 100 had been killed. WILL RAISE THE MAINE. Congress Passes Bill To Remove Wreck Of Battleship. Washington, D. C. (Special). After twelve years the ill-fated battleship Maine is to be removed from Havana Harbor, and the bodies which went down with the vessel will be interred in the National Cemetery at Arlington. A bill providing for such removal and burial which passed the House was passed by the Senate. The bill directs the raising of the vessel by the Secretary of War and the Board of Engineers with "all convenient speed." The bodies in the ship are to be buried in Arlington and the mast lifted above their graves as a monument. MINISTER IS HORSEWHIPPED. Mother Of Girl Applies Lash Until She Faints. Savannah Ga. (Special)—Following charges against Rev. J. H. Wilson by Miss Mute Monseses, of the Lutheran Church of the Ascension here, Miss Monseses, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Kate Monseses, went to the church in a taxcab and, calling the pastor from his study, horse-whipped him until the elder woman was too faint to lash. Seeing that her mother's blows were becoming ineffectual, the daughter begged to have her turn at wielding the whip. At this stage the secretary of the church council appeared upon the scene and put a stop to the whipping. TO TAKE TWO-YEARS' WALK. Rev. Augustin Jones To Travel Through China, Etc., Afoot. Chicago (Special).—Rev. Augustin Jones, pastor of the Fourth Congregational Church, of Oak Park, a suburb, who takes pleasure walks of from 40 to 60 miles, has resigned, and after a year's study in Edinburg, Scotland, will start on a two years' walk through Southern Europe, Asia Minor, India and China. Mrs. Jones will accompany him, but she will travel by railroads, camels and other conveyances. Mr. Jones is five feet three inches tall and acquired his remarkable pedestrian ability in the Rocky Mountains, where he went for the benefit of his health. It Rained Peanuts. Poughkeepsie, N. Y. (Special).— An explosion of a peanut-roasting machine, on Market Street here, was followed by freak results. Timothy Nolan, a young man had one of his shoes blown off and his foot badly scaled. Edward Clayton, another pedestrian, had his watch blown out of his pocket, and an unknown woman was spattered with gasoline, which failed to burn. It rained peanuts for a time. OF GREAT BRITAIN DEAD His Son Succeeds Him As King George V.—Pneumonia, Following Bronchitis the Cause of King Edward's Death—Worry Over Political Situation Aggravated His Illness ---England In Gloom. KING GEORGE V. PROCLAIMED THE DEAD KING AND ROYAL FAMILY. Born November 9, 1841, in Buckingham Palace. Was christened Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. His various titles were Duke of Cornwell, Earl of Chester, Duke of Rothesay, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prince of Saxony, Earl of Carrick, Earl of Dublin, Baron Renfrew and Lord of the Isles. Married Princess Alexandra, daughter of King Christian of Denmark, March 10, 1863. Their children were Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (dead); Prince George Frederick Ernest Albert, Duke of Wales, formerly Duke of York and now King; Princess Louisa Victoria Alexandra Dagmar, Duchess of Fife; Princess Victoria Alexandra Olga Mary; Princess Maude Charlotte Mary Victoria, now Queen of Denmark; Prince Alexander John Charles Albert (dead). As Prince of Wales, he stopped the United States in 1880, stopping in Baltimore and Washington. Travelled extensively and won plaques went under the title of Baron Renewef. Ascended the throne in 1901, upon the death of Queen Victoria. Was crowned with Queen Alexandra on August 2, 1902. Alexandra on Karen. Edward's last words: "Well, it is all over, but I think I have done my duty." THE NEW KING. The new King was born June 3, 1865, and married Princess May of Teck July 6, 1893. They have four children. King George V. has been a sailor most of his life and is very unlike his father. He is extremely domestic, dislikes foreigners and speaks only the English language. TRIBUTES TO KING EDWARD. President Taft to Queen Alexandra: "The profound sympathy of the people and the government of the United States and my personal sympathy and my appreciation of those high qualities which made the life of the late king so potent an influence toward peace and justice among nations." Cardinal Gibbons: "The death of King Edward is one of the greatest calamities that could befall England and all of the British possessions." Baron Uchida, Japanese ambassador: "The foremost friend of the world's peace." London (Special)—King Edward VII, who returned to England from a vacation of 10 days ago in the best of health, died at 11.45 o'clock Friday night in the presence of his family after an illness of less than a week, which was serious hardly more than three days. The Tomb To Be In The Albert Memorial Chapel At Windsor—A Poem By The Poet Laureate of England—The New Queen To Be Designated Queen Mary—She Is Likely To Exert Much Influence On The Court Surroundings—Messages From Americans. HONORS TO THE DEAD. The funeral of King Edward set for May 20, the remains to lie beneath the Albert Memorial chapel at Windsor. The remains of the dead monarch will lie in state in Westminster Hall. Services of memorial character held in St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey and other churches in London. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Dean of Westminster, the Bishop of London and the Vicar of Windsor, as well as the Catholic Archbishop of Westminster pay tributes to the dead king. William O'Brien, the Irish leader, refers to King Edward as a peace maker in Ireland. The Salvation Army, by permission of the Dowager Queen Alexandra, held a prayer and song service on the palace grounds beneath the windows of the death chamber. The new Queen will be designated as Queen Mary. London ('Special'). — The future steps remorselessly on the heels of Must Carry Wireless. Washington, D. C. (Special)—The Senate passed a bill requiring every ocean-going steamer carrying 50 or more persons on it be equipped with wireless apparatus capable of sending and receiving messages over a distance of the ocean at night or day. The provisions of the bill do not apply to steamers flying between ports less than 200 miles apart. A fine of not less than $1,000 nor more than $5,000 is provided for the violations of the law. The Prince of Wales succeeded to the crown immediately, according to the laws of the kingdom, without official ceremony. His first official act was to dispatch to the Lord Mayor the announcement of his father's death, in pursuance of custom. His telegram read: I am deeply grieved to inform you that my beloved father, the King, passed away peacefully at 11.45 tonight. (Silenced) George. (Signed The physicians soon afterward issued their official bulletin, which follows: May 6, 11.50 P. M., His Majesty, the King, breathed his last at 11.45 tonight, in the presence of Her Majesty Queen Alexandra, the Prince and Princess of Wales, Princess Royal, the Duchess of Fife, Princess Victoria and Princess Louisa, the Duchess of Argyll. (Signed) Laking. Cause Of Death. Pneumonia, following bronchitis, is believed to have been the cause of death, but the doctors thus far have refused to make a statement. Some of the King's friends are convinced that worry over the critical political situation which confronted him, with sleepless nights, aggravated, if it did not cause, the fatal illness. The intelligence that the end of King Edward's reign had come was not a surprise at the last. The people had been expecting to hear of it at any hour since the evening's bulletin was posted at Buckingham Palace and flashed throughout the kingdom. The capital received it without excitement, but sadly, for the King with his own people was unquestionably one of the most popular rulers in the world. They regarded him as one of the strongest forces making for the stability of the peace of the empire. Notifying Other Rulers. Within a few minutes after the death of the King, the Home Office was telegraphing the intelligence to the heads of other governments and the British diplomats and colonial officials throughout the world. All who knew the King anticipated that his death would be sudden, and it would not have occasioned great surprise if it had occurred without warnings at some social function as a result of a terrible trouble. Almost to the end the refusal to take the crown and was sitting up in large chair, so the palace stolies go, corroborating the description of him as an unruly patient. One of the last utterances attributed to King Edward was: "Well, it is all over, but I think I have done my duty." He seemed then to have reached a full realization that his end was fast approaching. The Queen and others of the royal family and four doctors have been constantly in the slick room throughout the day. Several hours before his death the King was in a comatose condition, but he rallied slightly between 9 and 10 o'clock, and appeared to recognize his family. Then he relapsed into unconsciousness, which ended in his passing. the past. While the body of the dead King Edward lies awaiting removal from Buckingham Palace to Windsor Castle and the hearts of the royal family and the loyal subjects are wrung with sincere grief, official preparations are being made with dignified haste for the installation of his successor, George V., into the great office from which death suddenly removed Edward VII. Practically everything is now arranged for the proclamation if George V., and during Monday morning, with all stately forms and ceremonies handed down from England's historic and picturesque past, the new sovereign will be proclaimed King and Emperor in the metropolis and the other great cities of the empire. The nation is yet too much dominated by its acute sense of the loss sustained by King Edward's death to bestow more than formal well wishes upon his little-known and diffident George V. Begins Well. London (Special)—George V. was proclaimed King throughout the Empire with all the traditional ceremony of past centuries. In Dublin the Ulster King-at-Arms read the proclamation in the presence of Lord Aberdeen, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and Lady Aberdeen. The country is now beginning to resume its normal life, the King's earnest desire being that, except on the day of 10th April, Edward which is now formally needed for May 20, the national mourning should inflict no unnecessary sacrifices upon the people. Pension Roll Decreasing. Washington, D. C. (Special).—In less than fifteen minutes' time the Senate considered and passed the pension appropriation bill, carrying about $155,000,000. Senator Scott, who was in charge of the bill, stated that henceforth there would be a rapid fallin' off in the amount required for the payment of pensions. He said that 31,000 pensioners had died last year. Weekly Review of Trade and Market Reports. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: The unsettled and apprehensive feeling prevailing for sometime past in the financial markets, resulting in declining prices, has been allayed to some extent, although there has been a disappointing check to the buoyant movement existing in mercantile lines at the beginning of the year. The causes of the financial recession were partly economic, partly political. It is to be noted, however, that the effect upon the industrial and mercantile situation has been slow, and in some parts of the country it was hardly noticeable. Efforts to remove the obstacle of over-production from the pig-iron situation are proving successful, as evidenced by returns covering the output during April, which show the smallest total, with one exception, since September, 1909. Buyers still pursue a waiting attitude and hesitation is also apparent in the markets for finished materials, consumers delaying in the hope of securing price concessions. In some divisions a larger inquiry is noted, especially for structural steel, on which more business is in sight, and bids have been opened on 25,000 tons of plates required, for the Panama Canal locks. Wholesale Markets. New York.—Wheat—Spot firm. No. 2 red, 116c, nominal c. l. f.; No. 1 Northern, 1.21½, f. o. b., opening navigation. Corn—Spot steady; steamer 65c, nominal elevator export basis; export No. 2, 66 nominal f. o. b. Oats—Spot steady; mixed, 26@ 32 lbs. nominal; natural white, 26@ 32 lbs., 45½@48; clipped white, 34@42 lbs., 46½@52. Cheese about steady; receipts, 2,107 boxes. State full cream, new, average best, 13c; state full cream, new, common, 10½@11. Poultry — Alive quiet. Fowls, 17½%; turkeys, 10@15. Dressed easy. Fowls, 15@20; Western turk keys, 17@23. Philadelphia.—Wheat—Strong and 1c. higher. Contract grade. May, 111@113c. Corn—Steady. May, 62@62½c. Oats—Firm, ½c. higher. No. 2 white, natural, 48½@49c. Eggs—Firm, good demand. Pennsylvania and other nearby firsts, free cases. 22c at mark; do, current receipts, in returnable cases, 21 at mark; Western firsts, free cases, 22 at mark; do, current receipts, free cases, 21 at mark. Cheese—Steady. New York full creams, chole, 17½@17¾c; do, fair to good, 16½@17; do, chole, new, 14½; do, fair to good, new, 13@14. Live poultry—Firm. Fowls 18@19c; old roosters, 13½@14; broiling chickens, 35@38; ducks, 14@15; geese, 12@13. Baltimore. — Wheat — No. 2 red Western, 107¾c; No. 2 red, 1.07¾; No. 3 red, 1.03¾. Corn—Spot and July, 62¾c; June, 61¾; bld; July, 56¾. Oats—White, No. 2, as to weight, 48½@49¾c; No. 3, do, 46½@48; No. 4, do, 44@45. Mixed—No. 2, 46½@47c; No. 3, 45½@46. Rye—No. 2 rye, Western, domestic, 83 @84c; No. 3, do., 77 @78; bag lots, as to quality and condition, 70 @74. Hay—We quote, per ton; No. 1 Timothy, $20.50; No. 2, do., $19.50 @20.00; No. 3, do., $17.00 @18.50; choice clover mixed, $19.50; No. 1, do., $19.00; No. 2, do., $17.50 @18.50; No. 1 clover, $18.00 @19.00; No. 2, do., $16.50 @17.50. Butter—Creamery, fancy, 30 @30 %c.; creamy, choice, 28 @29; creamy, good, 26 @27; creamy, imitation, 21 @23. Cheese—The market is steady. We quote, jobbing prices, per lb. 10 @10 %c. Eggs. We quote, per dozen: Maryland, Pennsylvania and nearby firsts, 21c.; Western, firsts, 21; West Virginia firsts, 21; Southern firsts, 20; guinea eggs, 10 @11. Live Poultry — We quote, per lb: Chickens—Old hens, heavy, 18¢; do, small to medium, 18; old roosters, 12; winter, as to size, 25@28; spring, 1¼ lbs. and over, per lb, 35@38; do, small, 30@33; ducks, large, 14; do, small, 14; do, muscovey and mongrel, 14; pigeons, young, per pair, 25@30; do, old, do, 25@30; guinea fowl, old, each, 25; do, young, 1¼ lbs. and over, 40¢; do, small, 25@30. Live Stock. Chicago —Cattle —Market higher. Steers, $6.25@8.40; cows, 4.85@ 7; heifers, $4.25@7.50; bulls, $4.75@ 7.65; calves, $3@8.60; stockers and feeders, $4.75@6.50. Hogs —Receipts estimated at 8,000. Market 20@30c. higher. Choice heavy, $6.95@7.15; butchers, $9.65@ 9.70; light mixed, 9.55@9.60; choice light, $9.60@9.70; packing, 9.60@9.70; pligs, $9.10@9.50; bulk of sales, $9.60@9.70. Sheep —Market steady. Sheep, $6.75@7.75; yearlings, 7.50@8.10; lambs, $7.75@8.90; spring lambs, $10@12. Kansas City, Mo. —Cattle —Market steady to 10c. higher. Choice export and dressed beef steers, $7.30@8.10; fair to good, $6.25@7.25; Western steers, $6@7.75; stockers and feeders, $4@5.40; Southern steers, $5.25@ 7.50; Southern cows, $3.25@7.55; native cows, $3.50@7.50; native heifers, $4.50@7.50; bulls, $4.25@ 6.50; calves, $4@8.25. Hogs — Market 15@20c, higher, Top, $9.50; bulk of sales, $9.25@ 9.40; heavy, $9.35@9.50; packers' and butchers', $9.20@9.45; light, $9.10@9.35; plgs, $8.50@8.75 UNITED ELKDOM ~ SALE We have forsale a great number of two. and three story homes in N. W. Baltimore. You can buy’a home today on terms of.a small deposit down and payments weekly or monthly, as easy asrent. ., EPHRAIM MACHT REAL ESTATE AND BANKING Macht Building, Ml E. FAYETTE ST. St. Paw} 2370. ee Treaty of Amnesty Signed by Both Warring Factions, ARTIGLES OF AGREEMENT FAIR Diptomatic Move by Dr. W. E. Atkins, Who Presented the Name of Dr. J. E. Mills to Preside Over Annual Con- vention to Be Held In Washington Next July. By N. BARNETT DODSON. Throughout the country the eyes of all fraternal organizations are directed toward the efforts of the peace confer- ence held in Wilmingtoa, Del., Jan. 25 | and 26, 1910, under the auspices of the ‘united grand lodges of the I. B. P. 0. | B. W. That the terms of unification "as effected at that meeting have gained the admiration of the entire order of Afro-Ameyican Elks is beyond ques- tion, and much credit is due to the two | grand heads, Dr. Willlam B. Atkins oon ——-_ + +; +(e meet FELIX B. PYE, 8r., 402 E. Mulberry St. Near Calvert FUNERAL DIREGTOR BOTH PHONES—C. & 'P. Mt. Veruon 3603 Md. Courtland 1926, No branch offices, Not conaected with any other firm. No Agents. ‘A reward will be offered to anyone who detects any person doing business under ° the name of Felix B. Pye, Sr. Puy ieee Pepcrper en XC) Sie. | ae be os 2 we ee Poe ee ee i Ro ks ROBERT A. ELLIOTT Baltimore’s Leading Undertaker 506 ROGERS AVE. Expert Embalming, Courteous Attendants, Shipping Funerals a Specialty, Rubber Tire Carriages for hire for all occasions. Both Phones. Day or Night. rrr JOHN H. TOADVIN ssssenseee UP@TO-DATE .ccssseecees FUNERAL DIRECTOR 141 W, HILL STREET, PARLORS— 326 DRUID HILL AVENUE. Flacks tor all Occasions. % WILLIAM E. ATKINS, M.D. and Dr. J, EB. Mills. both of Virginia, for their conservatism and diplomacy manifested at this meeting. Seareely had the convention been in session before it was apparent to the many visitors there assembled that these two grand heads had alrendy united the organization, and there was an enthusiastic seene when they both announced the terms to the commit- tee. ‘The terms In vowise affected the organization's just rights. The broadness and fairness of the articles of ngreement so casily effected at this meeting were beyond the expec: tation of the most sanguine. Not ouly aid this magnanimous effort on the part of the two grand heads create enthnsiasm, lut there was another cause for prolonged applause when Dr. William B. Atkins presented the name of Dr. J. 1, Mills to preside over the united grand bodies next July in ‘Washington. In taking a retrospective view of the organization of Negro Elks one cov- ‘yersant with the order is made aware that Its efforts for the last ten years haye not been along tranquil lines, for i } Funeral Director Alex. Hemsley, 0°" and Embatmer Wish to announce to the generous public that I am still doing busiu:ss at my old stand, 578 W. BIDDLB ST. ‘Thanking the public for all past favors and hoping for a contiauance of the same. Carriage for hice for weddings, parties and funerals, and special attention givea to all orders day or night. Yours, ALEX, HEMSLEY. C. & P. Phone: 585 Y-Madison. Mt. Vernon 2578 Main Office. GEORGE H. HOLLAND, Manager. eee ooo z | ( MARSHALL Q . i" ' 4 ; GROCERIES & PROVISIONS @ 4 Butter, Eggs and Poultry ; C. &P. Phone, Mt. Vernon 793-R ; 3535 Dolphin St., ; Cor. Division f pee Law eo = lee ee Lo See | A a eee aoe”, Seg LB Nae, fo ek ) pe RET cae sl frees tase hs a se ate Ae ae eee eps. Les ee : Sti Sees ee ae Fe oa ee See a ety & Pah rae si 8 oe ee eer Ge gree 20K eed TNA YOU CAN MAKE MONEY.. WE HAVE A PLAN WHEREBY ___— Every Boy in Baltimore Can Make Money. # # It is generally supposed that YOUR UNCLE SAMUEL is the ONLY PERSON in this country that has the right to MAKE MONEY, and possibly he has, but we as- sume to be in a position to show any number _of HUSTLING BOYS not only the way to MAKE MONEY but to make GOOD MONEY at that Now if you are a HUSTLER and WANT TO MAKE MONEY and make it fast, all you have got to do is to call at the, Afro-American Office, 307 St. Paul St., Saturday morning get a bundle of The Afro-Ameri- can. angers and go out and sell them, and any SMART BOY OR GIRL can do that. : We do not want you unless you can HUSTLE, Dull boys and Riis need not come around. Many of our HUSTLERS ARE MAKING GOOD MONEY, and if you a not believe it just ask them. We have a lot of good live hustling fellows working for us, no, for themselves, and you can do the same, Girls can do as well as boys. Don’t Cost You A Cent To Try It. Call at the Afro-American Office and let us explain how you can make real good money. Best ‘ _ chance in Baltimore. : 7 Ca jae, >. 307 ST. 9.9L STREET DR. J, B MILLS. hardly had the organization begun to assume huge proportions than an at- tack from opposing forces endeavored to atay its progress. ‘One of. the greatest drawbacks that held the organization in abeyance -was the many traltora that sprang up Ip {ts ranks and began slowly to sap out its existence. It seemed as if at one time the order would disintegrate Both Dr. Atkins and Dr. Mills held ow to the remaining shattered threads, however, and after years of hard work they clasped hands across the hideous cbasm once ahd for all. ‘This may ‘be considered the ne plus ultra of Afro-American Elks, for the ‘combination of these two forces with pe ose ave wee Mas rast at any Come ee NaH Oo Ne :theit! dptermination: to.carry thelr cage “fo ‘the ‘supreme: court on. the grounds.of -unjust discrimination’presents' ‘some thing new in ‘all efforts for racial up- Uf: ‘The public is keenly witching ihe result of the outeome of the ltiga- ton in the higher courts. “fhe decision there renéered will mean much to all organized efforts of the Negro race, and tbe indications are that this pioneer move will in the near future stimulate a fraterual cou- gress of all Afro-American organizn- tions in order to give a greater impulse to thelr efforts, ‘The united grand lodges will meet in Washington next July. It bids fair to be one of the ‘grentest ‘gatherings of Afro-Amergaus held in Washington for many vars. From all over the country represeuta- tives from over 200 lodges will be there for one common purpose aud one common cause. The united committees representing both grand lodges at Washington are earnestly prepuring to entertain this host of Negro Elks. It is the consensus of opinion that Dr, J, E. Mills will be clected grand exalted ruler of the united, organiz- tion, for bis untiring efforts and strong determination to perfect the organiza- tlon have been evidenced In his work- tugs since the beginning of the orgau- Saution. Dr, William B, Atkins is a close per- sonal friend of Dr. Mills, and with these two men understanding each otb- er, with their knowledge of the organ- ization, there can be nothing in the future but the greatest success, em- ansting from that grand and glorious gathering, the peace conference beld in Wilwingtov, Del, last January, where hearts were made glad and the organization made one. The growth of the order under try- ing difficulties has been phenomenal. In 1906, when Dr, Atklus was elected grand exalted ruler, there were only seventeen lodges and one temple, Now there are 107 male lodges and 26 female temples, representing an aggregate membership of 20,000. NO MORAL FORCE IN THIS. Mulattoes Trying to Lose Their Identi- ty With the Negro Race. Under the caption “Losing Their Identity" “the Amsterdam News of New York city says: “There is a growing disposition on the part of the mulattoes in this clty to lose thelr identity with the colored race, which is"suggestive and revives a pernicious condition past und pres: ent that reveals nether honor uor mor- al force for the Caucasian or Negro. The depraved condition of the days of slavery account for some things that exist in the life of.our people to- day, but let the stigma be removed as briefly as possible by being one thing or the other or true to whatever you tesolve.” SOCIETY OF. THE SONS OF NORTH CAROLINA. Dr. R. C. Ransom In Annual Sermon Gives Thrifty Organization of Southern Men: Sound Advice. At Bethel A. M. E. ebureb, West Twenty-fifth street, New York, recent: ly the Rey. Dr. R. C. Rausom preached the aunual sermon fur the Society of the Sons ef North Carolina ayd the women's auxiliary to that organiza: tou. ‘The society Is one of the largest aud strongest financial nonsecret organiza tions of its kind in Brooklyu. For the snke of variety and the conven: jence of many of its members who re side in New York city the society shift ed {ts annual religious function this year to Bethel churcb. ‘The soclety was organized in Brook. lyn on May 5, 1895; object, mutual benefit of its members; wembership, 161; deaths, 13; admission fee, $8; club rates, $5; monthly dues, 35 cents; sick benefits, $5 a week: sick benefits pald, $2,000; death claims, $1,800; charitable purposes, $500; In bank, $3,000. Off cers: F. F. Giles, president; S. L. Tay- lor, financial secretary; W. J. Butler, recording secretary; C. H. Walker, cor responding secretary; I. D. Loftou, treasurer; R. 5. Waddell, chaplain Dennis Green, sergeant-at-arms; Wit liam Swindle, custodian, Dr. Ransom in his prelude sald that the Virginia Negro was the best in physigue and brain and that the Negrc of North Carolina aud’ Maryland was the overflow of the Virginia Negro ‘The rule of Virginin was not to sell 1 Negro who was helpful ia a measure, But .be also said that some of the greatest men of the race are Nort! Carolinians. Pensioned For Saving Lifo of Boy. Mrs, Martha Generais. an aged Airo- Amerlean woman of Wilkesbarre, Pa., hag been granted a bronze medal ant a pension of $20 a month by the Carne- gle hero commission for ker brarety fn saving the life of little Join ‘Walkes, four years ago. Phe boy took hold of a broken wire on the stfeet whieh was heavily chaz3- ed with electricity and was being bad- ly burned. Mrs. Generals rescued him. In doing so she was severely shocked herself. me Ciub of Patriotic Young Women. To show their patriotism the mem- hers of the newly organized Delphian club of Pittsburg will In the near fu- ture present the Delaney rifles with an American flag. The club will give a barn dance on Tuesday evening, May 17, for the purpose of ralsing fonds with which to accomplish thelr object. Miss Marion Nicholas {s pres- fdent, Miss Lila B, Waters secretary and Miss Susie Fov.er treasurer, FES RUM NEIATE Teena Te AG fee] q " ( Vee een ce Zo ap YR y THE OLD RPO DRESSING FOR KINKY OR-CORLY HAIR.IT'S USE MAKES ‘STUBBORN, HARSH HAIR SOFTER, MORE PLIABLE AND GLOSSY, EASY TO COMB AND DOT UPIN AMY STYLE THE LENGTH WILL PERMIT. WRITE FOR TESTIMONIES, TELLING HOW THIS REMARKABLE REMEDY MARES SHORT, KINAY HAIR GROW LONG AND WAVY, BEST POMADE ON THE MARKET F FOR DANDRUFF, 1TCHING OF THE SCALP AND FALLING OUT OF THE HAIR. # BEWARE OF IMITATIONS, GET THE GEHUINE,PUT UP IK 25¢AND 50+ BOTTLES witt CHARLES. FORD'S NAME_ON EVERY. PACKAGE. * SOLD: BY: DRUGGISTS. * IF YOUR DRUGGIST CANNOT SUPPLY ‘YOU, WE WILL SEND IT To YOu DIRECT AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES, SMALL SIZED BOTTLE, 25¢ LARGE SIZED BOTTLE.SO+ THE OZOKIZED OX MARROW ©, ZIG LANEST.DEPT. _CHICAGO,ILL. f "AGENTS WANTED. Alfred H. Harrison in an article re. tently published in the Nineteenth Century sets forth his bellet in the success of any expedition which will simply drift across the North Pole. Calculations based on the drift of casks convince Mr. Harrison that he can float right across the centre of the Arctic Ocean within easy'reach of the Pole, and that he will finally emerge somewhere near Spltzbergen, He ar. gues that an expedition when drifting can house Stself in Hskimo huts, and that it can maintain itself by means of provisions safely cached on the ice. It ds-his:idea to start at Pulen Island in October of this year or in 1911. Three years’ supplies are to be placed an the ice.—Sclentific American, MINES AND BURIED TREASURES he mineral wealth of the south has hardly been scratched. Untold mil- lions in gold. silver, iron end copper mines await the fortunate man or men who discover their true location. A wonderful instrument called the Magnetic Needle has recently been per- fected, which has been used’ with won- derful’ accuracy in discovering both mines and treasures The needle has interchangeable parts designed for use to indicate the particular minesal sought for. Tost end buried treasures of money. gold and silver, are located. Successful miners and prospectors use these needles, but in the past they have been difficult to obtain. 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With the almost endless number of varieous racial organizations in its city and State, it would seem if we had sufficient machinery so as organization is concerned, and yet, the fact remains that there no organization, despite the any, having for its sole object the wing of an honest chance for the educational and cooperative enegy of the race itself, along the ties pertaining to its civil welfare. What is needed, primarily, is not a organization simply to gatheroney, to be expended by some other honorable its in m This notion is often times of great emergency that suggested in connected the political distranchisement, and from Crow" laws. But the rea- ted behind that which appears in this stress, is for wide spread en- glement among the masses of people with repect to the su- reme importance of maintaining all our civil rights, as well as the duties and responsibilities fol- lowing from the possession of such. I cannot be the least doubt in world, that in proportion as engagement prevails the masses of people, that the necessary people that the necessary money will be forth coming. And is also true that the principle reason that the financial response made such appeals at present is sadly efficient, is to be sought in a that the money may not alis be wisely and economically nt. Whatever organization may be led into being to serve the interests of the people must be shaped constituted in the light of present experience and past failures, by organization which really acts the people, and seeks, as such as possible, for the people themselves to determine their own policies, and the expenditure of the money raised by them, which studiously seek to impose responsibility and honors upon the many, rather on upon the few, must eventually succeed. In realizing such an organization lines that are naturally suggested are those which characterize political divisions into wards and precincts. In other words, that is needed is the systematic orderly formation of "circles" ten or a dozen persons, men and women, in every precinct in the city, outmost simplicity and direct should characteriz: such an organization. Each of these circles must be complete in itself, they could raise their own money, and they would appropriate and extend the same by their own vote authority. But the great value such an organization would lie its educational aspect. Where we are ten or twelve persons in any all phases of questions and action taken, but while we are only ten persons in the circle, it should be remembered more, allied by 300 would many of 3000 men and women being systematically educated in civic and public affairs. Under such a plan was contemplated, the chairmen of the several precincts in a given ward, representing their circles, would assemble and elect one of their number as ward chairman, and thus the twenty-four ward chairmen would constitute an "Executive Committee" for the whole city, but they would have no power of themselves; they could not promulgate what they chose; levy assessments upon the people, etc. Their real function would simply be to gather up the expressed will of the whole body of the people, and see that it is carried into execution Such an Executive Committee would consider plans and policies calling for racial co-operation, aloug some specific line, and they could even put such into shape and declare their mind upon the same, and then send them down to all the circles to be debated, and acted upon. And this privilege would be no more than that which pertained to any of the local circles who could originate plans and have the body of the membership passed upon the same. The whole plan is a most simple one, and is certainly worthy of the thought of all serious persons among us, who really want to see our people brought closer together in genuine co-operation and fellowship. Call it the "Douglass League," if you will, with its ever increasing number of "circles," all free and independent in themselves, but confederate in every cause for the uplift of our people. We end these thoughts as we begin. It is not the financial end that needs the greatest emphasis in such an organization, but rather that of the educational value, in the largest sense of that word, which creates a well informed constituency, keenly alive to the importance of the various phases of our civil life. Surely, there must be many among us, men and women, who think along the lines here suggested. To all such, we have but to say, avail yourselves of our "Open Forum," and let us have your thoughts. 19 President Taft has appointed his "Old College Chump" as Dinkelspiel would say, to the position of Receiver of Public Monies, at New Orleans, La., in the place of A. P. Kennedy, an Afro-American, who has held the job for sometime. Thus the "Old Guard" one by one is making way for the so-called superior race. This is Taftism and just what we expected. We can surely say "We told you so." "AINT SHE GOT NO PEOPLE." This exclamatory inquiry was heard out in the crowd, as a plain coffin was being pushed into a dead wagon with all that was mortal of one whom somebody loved. No back, no funeral cortege, no apparent mourner was at hand. The dead seemed deserted, friendless, alone. It was not so, but so it seemed, for there was no one who followed the body to the dead wagon on that sad nav. Into this, somebody inquired and it was learned that the death and going out of that life, was increasingly sad, because the poverty of friends held back their hands from the tender services in which their hearts would have taken great delight. The crowd standing by saw the driver and undertaker mount the dead wagon and drive away to the Potter's Field. This is but one of many cases of the same kind happening in our city every month among our people. We ask, is there no remedy, can we not do better for our beloved dead than that? With all of the beneficial orders of Baltimore into which our people are received for a visitance, with a multitude of insurance companies selling insurance in any sum from five cents a week up, cannot our people provide for the day of death? Is it possible that any self-respecting man or woman cares nothing about how they are put away after death? Does it make any difference whether we are buried in a decent way or whether we are hauled out to the Potter's Field in a dead wagon? Colored men and women of Baltimore, let every one of us get into some beneficial society or take out some insurance in some one of the many companies and so provide for a decent burial, for you surely must die. We have several splendid colored insurance companies which will be glad to furnish our people with safe insurance at very reasonable rates. Certainly no one ought to go to the Potter's Field when five cents a week prevents it. In a church announcement in an Indianapolis paper—Afro-American—it is gravely announced that "The Ethical Culture Society" meets at P.M. We had no idea that Indianapolis was so bad off that it had to have a society for ethical SOME NEW CANDIDATES FOR The following publication has recently made application to a place at the Exchange Table of the Afro-American Ledger, and are herb by given a cordial welcome. Not a few of them show real newspaper enterprise, and in this connection, we may say that of late we have noticed with pleasure a great improvement in our exchanges. Some of them, are real newspapers and are seemingly on the road to success. The Sun, of New Berne, N. C., is peculiar, in that it is a white newspaper, and proclaims itself as being the only Democratic paper in the county, and yet it has a whole page devoted to the interests of the Afro-American and the Afro-American editor who says what he pleases and say it real well. Here is progress. The names of the others follow: Western North Carolina Advocate, published at Asheville, N. C.; The Helping-Hand, Montgomery, Ala; The Detroit Leader, Detroit, Mich; The Illinois Chronical, Chicago, Ill; The Georgia Broad Ax. Macon, Ga.; The Trenton Call, Trenton, N. J.; The Wadesboro Enterprise, Wadesboro, N. C.; and last but not least by any means The Central Afro-American, St. Louis, Mo. Gentlemen here is our hand and we bid you welcome. Come in and take a sea; and make yourselves at home. Monday, May 9th, we received the verses found below, credited to the Chicago Post, and not having the knowledge of the sender, on the spur of the moment composed the 4 verses over our signature. THE EMPTY LIVES. So many die who have not lived at all. It is as though they yourneyed thro the years Upon a path hedged by a gloomy wall Of other people's little frets and fears Beyond the wall the joyous fields stretch out And there are little paths to lure the feet But duty framed by others of theirdoutt Has made them feel the by-paths are not meet. To spend their days with friends they did not choose. They toil at tasks unfitted for their hands. They join the chorus of them that abuse The one who lives—because he understande. They sing the songs the others bid them sing. While in their souls the stifled marvel strains They build and they destroy, they fetch and bring. They fume at petty losses and of gains. They count as truth the rote that they are told They spurn as lies whatever they are bid. They ban as heretic the overbold, The one who would uncover what is hid And they succeed—they say they hate success. And call another careless, blind and weak Who find the joy they may not even Who reaches goals they may not even seek. What if some dazzling outburst of the light Should show them how supremely far they miss The core of life, the lasting truth and right? But fate is kind and does not deal them this. It is as though they plodded though dead years. Upoh a path hedged by a barren wall Of other people's little frets and fears: So many die and have not lived at all. —Chicago Post. There are no empty lives But that God knows, And with his knowledge Gives them sweet repose. There are no empty lives But that he cares, And sends there sunshine awares There are no empty lives, But that His shadows linger there And hides and covers up the gloom besides. The souls of empty lives sour high Beyond the gloom, beyond the storm up in the skies. There only find they meat to satisfy The cravings of their empty lives. Respectfully dedicated to anonymous or Job's Comforter. JOSEPH L. BUTLER Finest Musical Program Fever Given At A Literary Meeting in Boston. Boston, Mass, May 2 —Even the extra seats brought in to fill every available bit of the St. Paul Baptist church Monday night, were inadequate to hold the people who flocked thither to the regular meeting of the Boston Literary and Historical association: Wm. M. Trotter as president opened the meeting. Mr. Moses Hamilton Hodges, introduced as the premier Colored baritone of the world, entranced his hearers who simply refused to be denied an encore, which was most meldious: Mrs. Jessie E. Shaw delighted with a piano solo, pronounced one of the finest heard in Boston, and she too was simply compelled to encore to stop the anbiause — "The Guardian," Boston, Mass. Another View Of The "Black Mammy" Question. In the Afro-American Ledger of the 7th inst., appears an article over the signature of George F. Brggg, Jr., in which that gentleman takes issue with an editorial utterance of the Ledger opposing the proposed erection by Southern whites of a monument to their autebellum foster mothers of the black race common known as the "black mammy. Among other things Mr. Bragg writes: "Now it is a fact which cannot be denied that the best men of the South and women too for that, during the period before the Civil War were brought up and trained by an army of Negro women." I suppose Mr. Bragg meant to write "the best white men of the South," If he meant that he is very much mistaken The best white men of the South were those splendid rugged get.tlemen of the hills who never owned a slave—who were opposed to slavery in the days of Andrew Jackson—such men as the Birneys of Northern Alabama, anti-slavery characters, and that other type, who from the mountains of East Tennessee came by thousands to follow Grant in his Vicksburg and Chattanooga campaign. They were not addicted to the forcible prostitution of black women, nor to the emasculation of black men. Again he writes: "It would be extremely ungrateful upon our part for one moment to question their sense of high honor, and the possession of those finer qualities which have always (separated the refined from the vulgar." I am unable to understand what Mr. Bragg means by "their sense of high honor." The men to which he evidently refers were the slaveholders of the South." Slavery, concubinage and degradation are not found in any community dominated by a "sense of high honor"—it is not even found among cattle thieves. Robert Toombs and John C. Calhoun were the type who had their "black mammies"—the one boasted that the day would come when he would call the roll of his slaves from Bunker Hill—the other defended the system with an ability which only Daniel Webster could meet. Had these Southern gentlemen prevailed in the great moral warfare involving the question of slavery extension, conditions in this country to lay would be malignant that no free black man would be able to live within it and maintain his self respect. It is difficult for him to do it now South of the Mason and Dixon line. Again he writes: "It is a serious mistake of the younger generation who know nothing of the pleasant relationships which existed before the war between the best white people and the best colored people." This reminds me of a line from the pen of a very prominent colored man in a publication recently placed before the people, wherein he speaks of the relations between master and slave on certain plantations as having been "normal and happy." I would have the younger generation steep themselves in the autobiography of Frederick Douglass. I am very much of the opinion that he knew more about the "relationship which existed before the war" between the races than does Mr. Bragg. Mr. Douglass tell quite another story—in fact those "relationships" were so insufferable to him that he was constantly in rebellion against the inlay to which he as a slave was subjected until he finally ran away from it—taking chances on losing his life or suffering the awful penalty of being sold to the Southern slave markets. There was nothing in the institution of slavery which needs be told the "younger generation" except the utter horror and depravity of it. Such black men and women as enjoyed immunity from the lash, were not unlike domesticated cats with both their teeth and claws extracted. The proposed monument is brought forward simply to remind intelligent and progressive colored men and women of the degradation of their mothers, an insidious insult to the race delivered under the guise of gratitude for the Negro blood the white South drew into its veins from the bosoms of helpless black women: If the South desired to honor its "black mammies" it can do by relieving such of them as still live from the degrading burden of the "jim Crow" car and their descendants from the degradation of statutory prescriptions without equal in intamy in the history of civilization, Permit me to express in your columns a few words which appear to me be timely in reference to the sad death of our most worthy friend, Heber E. Wharton. Death under any and all circumstances is a sad event. To family and friends who feel the loss of a dear one it is but natural, but when a man or woman by the exercise of marked ability, exceptional devotion to the public welfare, by unselfish service for the uplift of mankind, by a masterly leadership among men and by a proper display and use of exceptional powers of mind and soul. When such an one dies, respect, love and honor for him or her goes far beyond the immediate ties of home and family, and for such an one, as it were, a whole community mourns. Such is the case which confronts us in the death (seemingly untimely) and loss of our own Heber. To have known him, was to respect, admire and love him. He was diligent, ambitious and determined. No task was too great for him to tackle, no goal, too far distant for him to strive for. He possessed to a rare degree an unusual amount of common sense, which together with his great amount of intellectual force and ability made him a great power for good. He was kind, gentle and courteous, which qualities drew men to him and placed them within the range of his wholesome influence. An orator of unusual force, cloquence and persuasion, he delighted, instructed and convinced thousands. Ready at all times to render us selfish service to any movement for his people's advancement. He was a loving and devoted man to his family an exemplary husband and father, an obedient son and a faithful brother. He was a Christian gentleman, a faithful worker and official in the church. He had lived to receive the great honor of being rewarded for faithful services by appointment to one of the highest positions in our public school system, through which he had passed from boyhood up. He crowded into a brief life untold deeds of worth, an example which will live on. The best satisfaction derived from his life and the greatest consolation in his death, in this community. It is impossible for the influence of his life and character to die. In this instance, it can be truly said: "There is no death, the sun goes down." To shine upon some fairer shore; And there in heaven's jeweled crown, It shines forever more." As all that is mortal of this dear beloved friend is borne to his last earthly resting place, and as tears of sorrow shall moist the cheeks of the thousands of his friends and admirers, let us all breathe in silence a fervent prayer of thankfulness to Almighty God, that He has left us as a priceless heritage, the young and brilliant life, the emulative and exemplary character of this young man. HARRY S. CUMMINGS. CHESAPEAKE LINE'S NEW STEAMERS Will Be The Finest on the Bosom Of The Magnificent Chesapeake Bay. Two new magnificent steamers will soon be added to the large fleet of passenger steamers and freight carriers now plying the waters of the Chesapeake Bay. Bids were recently opened and the awards have been made by the Chesapeake Steamship Company for two magnificent and palatial steamers to ply between Baltimore and Norfolk, Va., and are to be named Baltimore and Norfolk, respectively. They are to be sister ships and will be identical in construction, and passengers using either will receive the same accommodation. This line, the most recent of the two lines between this city and Norfolk, has made remarkable progress and has more than divided the patronage of the Bay with the older line, better known as the Old Bay Line. This has been brought about largely because, of the universally fair treatment accorded all classes of passengers on its boats. When finished these two vessels will be superior to anything now on the Bay, and that will mean that the Chesapeake Steamboat Company will be in a position to command all the business that may possible come its way at present and looking well into the future. Mr. Compton, the new president, has been in the business for the past twenty years, and has come up from the bottom, and knows his business from end to end. Mr. E. J. Chism, the general passenger agent, is one of the best known men in the business and to him is largely due the great success that has come to the company. The Marathon race last Saturday was a success. Mahoney, of Washington, the winner, covered the distance from Laurel to Baltimore in two hours and twelve minutes. Miller, of Baltimore, was second, only five seconds behind. It was inspiring to see the young lads finish at the tape in front of the Court House. Such sport should be encouraged among colored young men. Yesterday the High School track team and the Dunbar Athletic Association, held a meet at Clifton, the results will be found in this column the next issue. The Dunbar Athletic Association is composed of graduates of the High School and other persons interested in athletics. This is a promising sign, for it will afford an opportunity for young men who desire to keep up athletic training after leaving the High School. This organization plans to carry on work of various kinds in season: Howard's meet is off today. How many records will be broken? It is expected that a faet meet will be pulled off. Take care of the health of the children and the future men and women will be healthy. How many children go to school breakfastless or at least hungry? These children grow up weak, stunted, inefficient, hopeless. They fill our poor houses, reformatories and jails. They become the burden and criminals of our race. Awake and be a doing for a stronger race physically that is able to ward off the onrush of disease. The High School and Catonsville Giants played a tie game—score 10 to 10. The High School played at Elkridge Thursday. Captain Carroll is managing his squad in fine shape. Captain Johnson is working hard with his men to get them in shape for the 20th. Carroll and Gibson are handling the shot like veterans. Wade, Murray, Dennis, Parker, Briggs, Hill and Jones are hitting the mile run in fine shape. Tinsley, Johnson and Gibson are high jumping. Others in their respective events are showing promise: Boley, Hughes, Mason, Sampson, Wright, Cromwell, Adams, Brown and Curtis. Coach Beckett is laboring hard to have the boys prove their skill and team spirit. Bring back the "Loving Cup" and a few medals. Jones, Bantum. Wilson, Peck, Watts, Moore, Davis, Hubert and Blackwell have entered the I. S. A. A. meet to be held in Washington, D.C., May 30th. We wish the Dunbar Athletic Association success. Whatever game you play, play it fair and victory when it comes will be sweeter. The pugilist trains to fight, the wrestler to wrestle, the fencer to fence, the runner to run, the jumper to jump, the ball player to bat and throw the ball, each feels its essential to attain success. How about the man who is to fight the battles of life and meet the demands of the day? Does not he need training to develop necessary stamina with to fight successfully. The Trinity Sunday School Base Ball team has organized with the following players: Naman Hiner, William Beckett, Charles Cromwell, Alex Chase, Clarence Bennett, John Wiggins, Hermen Dickerson, formerly of the Maryland Club; Ellison Swann, Edgar Cornish, Victor Makel, Wm. Johnson, James Brooks, Frank Chase, Wm. Martin, Clifton Watkins, James Harris and Chester Thomas. We are soliciting challenges from all teams of the city or State, Sparrows Point Gray excepted, Address all challenges to James M. Brooks, manager, 533 Presstman street. Reception To Retiring Pastor Pocomoke City, Maryland, Mav 12. A reception was given the retiring pastor, Rev J. D. Banks, atst, John's hall on Wednesday night, at which a large number of his former members were present. GREAT PREPERATIONS FOR ANNUAL FIELD DAY Sermon Bureau of the Afro-American Ledger 1908 Arctic Avenue. Atlantic City, N. J., May 12—Patriarchie No. 78, Past Grand Master's Council No. 102, Atlantic City Lodge, Oceanic Lodge, Pacific Lodge, Arctic Lodge, three households and visiting members, numbering over 1000, marched to the Union Temple, South Carolina avenue, to attend the annual sermon, by Rev. A. L. Martin, of Asbury M. E. Church. Hundreds of persons were unable to gain admission. Great preparations are being made here for the annual field day which will take place in Philadelphia. May 30th, under the auspices of the Third Regiment, Patriarchie, of the G. U. O. of Odd Fellows, at which time a handsome regimental flag will be the prize for the best drilled patriarchie. The regiment is composed of companies from Philadelphia, New York, Harrisburg, Brooklyn, Carlisle, Williamsport, Atlantic City, Mariette, Princeton, Chambersburg and Camden. Atlantic City will have 50 men and over 300 citizens in Philadelphia that day. Dr. and Mrs. Waters have leased the cottage 34 N. Ohio avenue and will move in next week. Mr. Levi Fosset has returned from a trip to Baltimore. Mrs. Reny Harris, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph McQuinn, presented her husband with a fine daughter last Tuesday. In order to thoroughly introduce the Afro-American Ledger to the people of Atlantic City, the A. E. Edwards Publishing Co. local agents, will give to any person, subscribing to the Afro-American Ledger three months in advance, the Atlantic City Weekly Topic and their choice of any other co oed paper; three papers in all for the price of only one. Apply only at the Atlantic City office, 1908 Arctic avenue. (Continued from Page 1) into details, but I met some friends on the car, among them we miss E Marie Carter. I went to the Ebenezer church where I found the pastor. Rev. Morris teaching a Bible class. It was soon over and we went up in the beautiful auditorium where the people were waiting. I preached the sermon to a fine congregation, and they have invited me to return. It will be in August when I will preach there again and deliver a special lecture in the afternoon women only. I hope at this time to save the pleasure of meeting men of Baltimore and saying a word to them. After church I took dinner with Dr. Morris and his family, and started for parrows Point. I got on the street car and went to sleep, and when I reached the getting off place, Dr. Reed and I got off, finding a committee of gentlemen waiting for me to convey me to the place where I was to address men. I made the speech to the men in the church, and then to the M. E. church, where I spoke to the women, and they gave me some money, both men and women on my trip abroad. M. Returning to Baltimore I went to the ice got my mail and then to Washington, where I spent the night. I reined over night, and early Monday morning started for this place. I say this place, but I went to Lynchburg, reaching there a little late, but soon out to the Virginia Theologi Seminary and College. Dr. J. R. Diggs is doing a great work and the ple are pleased with him. He has right kind of educational stuff in and he is going to be felt. Theients are proud of him, and his chers are working side by side with will talk tonight for Rev. L. H.ynolds, and will tell you about it week. Send all mail for me to Atlanta Baptist College, Atlanta, I will leave there for Scotland. my people have said that they are going to see me off. I shall occupy Albino both going and returning. I it to go first-class and this is because my of my friends have said so. I de to thank them all. There will be more, and I will tell you about every cent that comes to me, and when I write about my trip they shall have due credit. Those who are not taking the Afro- American Ledger should subscribe now, because they should not miss my trip abroad. I am going to tell you every detail. I am sure it will be of some interest for you to read after an old man like me. MINISTERS "MUST FIGHT SIN AND THE DEVIL" (Continued from 1st. Page.) number of years. Dr. Gordon has a church in Philadelphia, with a large membership and receives a salary of $2,000 per annum. Rev. Dr. M. D. Norman, cf Washington, preached the annual sermon tonight, and following the sermon, Dr. J. B. L. Diggs, president of the Virginia, Theological Seminary, delivered and address. TO WED FOURTH WIFE Charlotte Courthouse, Va., May 6—Mr. Abram Brown, colored. 76 years old, who is the father of 46 children and who has lost count of his grandchildren, applied to the county clerk here today for a license to marry his fourth wife, who is 35 years old. The cost of the license was defrayed by the clerks present. U. M. E. Conference Adjourns The Baltimore Annual Conference of the U. M. E. Church, closed its twelfth annual session, Monday May 2nd, Bishop Dixson of the first Episcopal district presiding. Appointments for the year. Baltimore District—James Gibson, presiding elder. Geo. D. Curtis, Mt. Zion, East Baltimore; Theodore O. McKee, Hall's Chapel; W. A. Simms, Offord; James H. Hall, St. J seph, Martintown; J. H. Edwards, Calvert Md. Washington District—J. E. Hackett presiding elder. J. H. Meekins, Farfield. Md.; Clarence Moore, Jones-town; John W. Jones. Long Green; Murray Henry. Hall's. Washington. Annapolis District—Dr. J. Motem presiding elder. Wintrop Heights to be supplied; Camp Parole, to be supplied. The State Federation Of Christian Women Will Hold Their SEMI-ANNUAL MEETING On Wednesday evening May 18th at 7.45 P. M. at Sharp Street Memorial M. E. Church. All Clubs are kindly requested to be present and wear their badges and respond to roll-call. A splendid programme has been prepared and the delegates for the National Convention which meets in Louisville Kentucky July 11, 1910, will be elected. Refreshments will be on sale under the auspices of the Federation. Mrs. E. J. Truxon, pres. Mrs. Jennie Ross, rec. sec. Mrs. F. K. Owens, cor. sec. -Notice- North Pole Entertainment Given by the Cook Expedition Company of Sharp Street Memorial M. E. Church. on Thursday evening May 19th, 1910, for the benefit of the Spring Rally. The person who discovers Prof Cook at the North Pole will be rewarded with a gold dollar which will be found on the person of Prof. Cook. Admission 10 Cents Refreshments at Moderate Prices Miss Emma Mitchell, Capt. of the Cook Expedition Co. Mrs. Gertie Christmas, Sec. Rev. W. A. C. Hutchison Poster The John A. Holmes Chapter, Epworth League of the Metropolitan M. E. Church Invite You To Their CLOSING EXERCISES SUNDAY AFTERNOON MAY 15, AT 5 P. M. In The Main Auditorium A splendid programme has been prepared for the occasion. Mr. John Simpson, President, Mr. Harry Mc Claim, Secretary, Mrs. E. J. Truxon Leader, Rev. J. A. Holmes, pastor. Sharp Street Memorial M. E. Church Sunday May 15th, 1910 at 3. P. M. Rev. D. G. Mack, pastor of Macedonia Baptist Church will preach. His Choir and Congregation will be present. Mr. I. P. Patterson, Choir leader. Proceeds for the benefit of the Spring Rally. Miss Emma Mitchell, Captain. Mrs. Gertie Christmas, Sec. Rev. W. A. C. Hughes, Pastor Of Course We Are Going! Where? Why To The 56th ANNUAL SERMON OF THE G. U. Q. of Nazarites At their Tabernacle, Calvert St near Centre, on Whit Sunday, May 15th 1910 at 3 P. M. The Sermon will be preached by Rev. W. H. Gaines, D. D., Pastor of John Wesley M. E. Church, who will be accompanied by his choir. Alfred H. Pitts, G. C. of R. Notice—The 56th Annual Demonstration and Passover will take place Monday, May 16th at 8 P.M. Tickets 25. Cents Passover Free By Rev. Edward Williams, on the occasion of the Paint. and Paper Rally, at Grace Presbyterian church, April 24th, 3.30 P.M. You will find St. Paul's picture of a good woman in 2d Timothy, 5:10 "If she have brought up children; if she have lodged strangers; if she have washed the saint's feet; if she have diligently followed every good work." To put the text in a word, Paul's conception of a good woman's life was loving service rendered to individuals. All human beings are born for service. Jesus said, "Whoseever will be great amoung you, let him be your minister, and whosever will be chiel let him be your servant." Man goes forth to its labor till the evening, woman works at home. Home is man's resting place; it is woman's workshop and battlefield. Sometimes duty calls a woman to do a share of man's work, but even then shee never does less of woman's work in the home, save to her own detriment and to the destruction of the best that is in her. The woman who goes out to work with her hands, comes home to, not rest, but begin her headwork and her heart-work. Man does his ordinary work, provides the bread and butter for those dependent upon him and is content, even thankful, if no call comes to him demanding service to the young the helpless, the suffering and the needy. But not so the woman. She demands the voluntary service to these. Man does live by the sweat of his brow—and woman lives by the pangs of her loving heart. The pastor then dwelt on the proper exercise of the mother-love inate in the true woman-hood of the race; the duty to the stranger; the power to recognize and serve the saint, and the relief of the afflicted. He urged the duty and privilege of being mothers to the motherless, letting the stranger find a home in their hearts, the succoring of the needy and the encouragement to be given the struggling good. April 24th, 1910 Through Mrs. Alex Williams, chair- man of the Committee. 35 00 Mrs. M. E. Murphy. 1 00 * Sophia Simpson. 1 00 * Alexander Williams. 1 00 * Joseph Parker. 5 00 * Sarah Smith. 5 00 * Maggie White. 5 00 * Cornelia Hebron. 2 50 * Ellen G. Johnson. 2 50 * Olivia Thomas. 2 50 * Ellen Turner. 1 00 * Sadie Fishback. 1 00 * Alice Carter. 5 00 * E. P. Calloway. 5 00 * Elizabeth Stephens. 5 00 * Hattie R. Wells. 3 50 * Leah Manokao. 1 00 * Harriet Wallace. 5 00 * Ethel Perry. 2 00 * Melissa Minor. 1 00 * Rosenberg. 2 50 * Hess, Washington. 1 00 * S. Potter. 1 00 * W. A. Upshur, Philadelphia. 1 00 * W. Wilson. 1 00 * W. B. Hamer. 1 00 * Jane Tilghman. 1 00 * Queenie Taylor, Cleveland., 1 00 * Mary Irving. 1 00 * Elizabeth Keys. 1 00 * Julia Perry. 1 00 Afro-American Co. 1 00 Woman's Missionary, Sharon Bapt- ist church. 1 00 Miss F. Johnson. 18 * Charlotte Davage. 1 00 * Julia Anderson. 1 00 * Helen Bishop. 5 00 * S. Manokao. 1 00 * C. Carter, Washington. 16 48 * Carter. 30 * Emma Edwards. 1 00 * Maria Smith. 1 00 Mr. Alexander Williams. 1 00 Rev. George F Bragg, jr. 5 00 Mr. Richard Hudgins. 1 00 Hon. Wm. F. Stone. 1 00 * Charles R. Schirm. 1 00 Cash. 3 27 Frank Tilghman, Atlantic City. 1 00 Mrs. Martha Johnson. $1 00 * Henrietta Allen. 1 00 * Eliza Cummings. 5 00 * Martha Thompson. 1 00 * Eleanor Stegall. 5 00 * H. A. Hilliard. 1 00 * Emma Taylor. 5 00 * Jennie Sampson. 1 00 * Heurietta Davis. 2 50 * Mary F. Handy. 1 00 * Ava Mason. 1 00 * Fannie Freeland. 1 00 * Betty Cornish. 1 00 * Eliza Sturgis. 1 00 * Susie Carroll. 1 00 * Susan Jefferson. 1 00 * Margaret Gaskins. 1 00 * Francis Devine. 5 00 * Fannie Seward. 1 00 * Lydia Burke. 1 00 Miss Fannie Taylor. 5 00 * Clara Galloway. 1 00 * Ethel Warran. 1 00 * Annie Green. 2 50 * E. T. Johnson. 1 00 * Lucy Bailey. 1 03 * Alice Smith. 5 00 * E. T. Edwards. 5 00 * Evelyn Mackall. 1 00 * Alice Jeekins. 1 00 * Alice Hill. 2 00 * Margaret Lewis. 1 25 * Emma Bright. 1 00 Mrs. Rachel Taylor. 1 00 * Minnie Howard. 1 00 * Annie E. Butler. 1 00 * Mary Claggett. 1 6 0 * Nilcah Lambden. 1 00 * Lizz e Thornton. 1 00 * Eleanor Wright. 1 00 * Sidney Turner. 6 0 "Hairdresser to Society" FIRST, LAST and ALL THE TIME EXPERT MASSAGING AND MANICURING 831 DRUID HILL AVE. MRS. ROBERTA CREDITT 1871 N. Carey Street SCALP SPECIALIST AND MASSEAU Indifferent and slow growing hair, scalp diseases and premature gray given special attention. All kinds of hair sold and made up. Dyeing and Bleaching. Only purest cosmetics used. Is your skin bad? See me A reduction for a course of treatments. Customers treated by appointment. Hours: 10 A. M. to 5 P. M. This Ad and 25c. secures one treatment from May 16th to 20th. MR. LEWIS H. MURRAY PRESENTS Mr. Travis M. Tucker IN THE "Prince of Dollars" ALBAUGH'S THEATRE FRIDAY, MAY 27, '10. 8.15 P. M. Prices: 25, 35, 50, 75 and $1 GREENWOOD ELECTRIC PARK Undoubtedly the best Park for your Summer Outing Easiest way to Make Money Without Risk. SPACIOUS DANCING PAVILION ABUNDANCE OF SHADE PLENTY GOOD WATER USE OF PIANO GRAND SLIDE SEE-SAWS SWINGS TABLES BOOTH STOVE TUBS HURRY FOR DATES A Few Good Ones Left. SEE CHAS. F. WOODLAND Catonsville C. & P. 54W Citizen's Campaign. Committee of the Provident Hospital. Please Help! House to house canuass. Solicitor will call. See the beautiful certificate he brings! JOHN H. SMITH, Financial Agent. Gates' Pharmacy Cor. Carey and Presstman Sts. Madison. 4125. Get Your Rooms Papered Now My prices are reasonable, Special and prompt attention given to all Country Calls. Apply to Winfield Richardson. 146 Dolphin street. Wanted - A young or middle aged woman, for general house work. Only two in family, no children; settled person preferred. Good salary to the right person, with good reference. Apply to Mime Julia, 422 6th ave., New York, N. Y. Stock For Sale. Make me an offer on five shares capital stock, Metropolitan Mercantile Realty Co., par value $25.00 per share. Apply to L. W., care of Afro-American Office, 307 St. Paul St For Rent-A Furnished Room 621 W. Biddle street. 2t WHATCOAT M. E. CHURCH, Franklin and Fine Sts. "King's Hill" Rev. Alired Young, Pastor. 11.00 A. M., Special Sermon by the Pastor, subject: "Sacred Dreams and Visions." 3.00 P. M., Sunday School. 8.00 P. M., Sermon by Rev. M. J. Naylor, Dist Sup. W. C. Tongue, Supt. Miss E. Cooper, Pres. E. L. Monday, May 16th, Grand Military Drill by the Pythian Cadets. Admission, 10 Cents. EASTERN M. E. CHURCH M. Elderry St. & Patterson Park Av. Rev. James H. Jenkins. Pastor. 900 Class Meeting, D. I. Fowler, leader. 11 A. M., Sermon by Rev. John M. Barnes. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 6.00 P. M., Epworth League. 8.00 P. M., Sermon by Pastor, subject: When Do We Lay Uo Treasures in Heaven. All invited. John M. Barnes, Pres. E. L. J. W. Jones, Supt. S. S. JOHN WESLEY M. E. CHURCH Sharp and Montgomery Sts. Rev. W. H. Gaines, D. D., Pastor. Women's Day, May 15th. 9.30 A. M., 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 11 A. M., Women's Day Exercises Address by Mrs. Cummings. 3 P. M., Address by Rev. Mrs. Holmes. 5 P. M., Epworth League. 9.00 P. M., A Saered Concert by the Juvenile Troubadours, under the direction of Prof. Toomey. You cannot afford to miss this treat. Come and enjoy this happy day with your friends and ladies. Mr. E. Hughes, Supt. S. S. Mr. T. H Lee, Pres. E. L. AMES MEM. M. E. CHURCH, Carey and Baker Sts. Rev. D. D. Turpean, Pastor. 6.00 A. M., Class-meeting. 11 A. M., Preaching. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 5.00 P. M., Epworth League. 7.00 P. M., brotherhood Service. 8 P. M., Preaching. The Pastor will preach Sunday night, May 15th, on the subject, "What Men Like in Women." This is the first of a series of sermons the pastor will preach on domestic happiness—in aid to Christian living. Everybody cordially invited. CENTENNIAL M. E. CHURCH Gor. S. Caroline and Bank St. Rev. Daniel W. Shaw, D. D., pastor. 11 A.M., Sermon by the Pastor, topic, Last Bottle of a great King 4 P.M. Epworth Laegue, Miss Clara Stanley, Leader. 8 P.M. Grand Sacred Musicale, Instrumental and vocal-solos, duets, quartettes and choruses. Short addresses by interesting speakers. Monday, night, Mikado Tea and Contest Concert. ASBURY M. E. CHURCH, Lexington St. and Rogers Avenue, Rev. C. G. Cummings, B. D., Pastor. 9:30 A.M. and 2:30 P.M. S. S. 3 P. M. Epworth League 8 P. M. Pastor, choir and congregation will worship at Bethel church Strangers cordially welcomed. Chas T. Stewart, Supt. Julian W. Ross, Pres. of E. L. GREEN SPRING M. E. CHURCH, Chattolanee, Md. Rev. R. A. Green, Pastor. 11.00 A. M., Sermon by Rev. S. D. Davis. 3 P. M., Sunday School. 4.30 P. M., Epworth League, at which time Rev. S. D. Davis will address the League. Mr. S. S. Oliver, Supt. Mrs. Jane Milligan, Pres. E. L. GILLIS MEM. M. P. CHURCH Parrish St. near Mulberry St Rev. B. H. Knight. Pastor. 10.00 A. M. Class Meeting 11.00 A. M., Rev. Tinsley. 2:00 P. M., Sunday School 3.00 P. M., Rev. Jacob Brickhouse 6.30 P. M., Christian Endeavor S P. M., Rev. E. W. Scott, D. D. G. W. Richardson, Pres. C. E. Rev G. W. Kennard, Pastor 11 A. M., Sermon by Rev. Richard Thomas. 2 P. M., Sunday School 7:30 P. M., Preaching by an abie divine. The Musical Treat of the Season. The Peerless Quartet will Appear in Jubilee and Classical Concert at Asbury M. E. Church, Monday Evening, May 16, under the auspices of the Junior Methodist Brotherhood. Admission 15 Cents. Miss Mamie V. Woolford, Directress Rev C. G. Cummings, Pastor. CHURCHNOTICES TRINITY A. M. E. CHURCH. Linden Ave. and Biodle St. Rev. A. L. Gaines, D. D., Pastor. 11 A. M., Preaching. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School session. 6.30 I. M., A. C. E. League. 7.30 P. M., Preaching. T. J. Holliday, Supt. Miss A. L. Martin, Pres. A. C. E. L. ALLEN A. M. E. CHURCH. Lexington St. near Carrollton Ave. Rev. J. G. Martin, Pastor. Sunday, May 15th, 1910. 11.00 A. M., Presiding by the Pastor. Subject: Signs of the Time —"Halley's Comet" What Does it Mean? members are requested to be present 500 souvenirs cut of the Baltimore Conference ministers and church at Crisfield, Md., given to each person who come. Joseph Deshields, Sec. EBENEZER A. M. E. CHURCH Rev. J. W. Norris, Pastor 11.00 A. M., Sermon by the Pastor 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 6.00 P. M., Allen C. E. League. 8.00 P. M., Sermon by Bishop W. H. Heard, D. D., of West Africa. The Bishop will attend the Allan C. E. League and will speak on Africa. Rev. Dr D. P. Seaton, Pastor. 11 A. M., The Pastor will preach subject: "Increasing Spiritual Power Assured." 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 4.30 P. M., Allen C. E. League. 7.45 P. M., The Pastor, subject: "The Scheme that Failed." Rev. D. G. Hill, D. D., Pastor 11 A. M., Sermon by the Pastor. 3 P. M., Special sermon by the Pastor to the Grand Body "Seven Wise Men" of the State of Maryland. 7.30 P. M., We anticipate the Annual Fraternal Visit of the Pastor Rev. C. G. Cummings; his excellent choir and magnificent congregation. Sermon by Dr. Cummings. Let all of our members be present at these services prepared to aid us to the extent of fifty and a hundred cents. For Trustees Department. ST. MATTHEW'S A. U. M. P. CHURCH. Lexington St. near Alisquith Rev. J. T. Molock, Pastor. 10 A. M., Class Meeting 11 A. M. Preaching by a Stranger 2 P. M., Sunday School. 5 P. M., Christian Endeavor 8 P. M., Preaching, Stranger. J. D. Townsend, Supt. S. S. Mrs. Mattie Burley, Pres C, F. Miss Ida Gray, See. Penna. Ave. near Dolphin Street Rev. J. A. S. Cole, Pastor. 11 A. M., Preaching by the Rev. M. L. Blalock, of Harrisburg, Pa. 2.00 P. M. Sunday School. 3 P. M., Sermon to the Good Hopes 6.00 P. M., V. C. E., Arminta Cox President. 7.30 P. M., Farewell Sermon by Pastor. Extraordinary! A Modern Son of Inunder. Rev. W. H. Dean, of Litchburg, Va., will preach Sunday, May 22nd at Asbury M. E. Church. Subject: "The Hand Writing on the Wall." Come hear this eloquent and fiery praescher. Rev. C. G. Cunmings, Pastor 1200 Druid Hill Avenue. Willing Workers' Day, Sunday 15th 5 P.M., Mrs. M. Miner, Chairman, and will preside. Mr. Thomas Turner of the High School Faculty will address the meeting. All invited. Good music. Mrs. M. E. Murphy, Pres. Miss E. E. Bright, Sect. By Special Request The Pastor of Sharp Street Mem. M. E. Church, Rev. W. A. C. Hughes will repeat the sermon sub. Tonius Pilate's Wife" to the Women of the church on Sunday May15th at 8 P. M. All women of the sister churches are invited. Mrs. Naomi Wright, Pres. Extra at the Old Church Bethel A. M. E. Church, Saratoga street near Gay, Farewell Ministerial Concert given by the ministers of Baltimore City and vicinity on Monday, May 16, 1910. Proceeds for the benefit of the new church. Admission 10 Cents. Polite ushers Edw. F. Barnett. Chairman Mrs. Carrie Gray. Treasurer Miss Edna Mason. Secretary Rev. D. G. Hill, Pastor. The Touch That Failed. The portly old gentleman had just finished a sumptuous dinner. As he turned to leave, the waist touched his arm, and in an insinuating manner, said: "Haven't you-er-forgotten something, sir?" "Why, yes, so I have," replied the old gentleman, "thank you for the reminder." Lifting a plate, he pocketed the bill which had lain underneath it, and stalked out past the crestfallen waiter.—National Monthly. A. Peculiar Code Of Honor. "Some men." said Al Trotter, well known clubman, at a banquet recently, "have very queer ideas of honor. I was riding from Pitsburg to Philadelphia in the smoking compartment of a Pullman. There were perhaps six of us in the compartment, smoking and reading. All of a sudden a door banged and the conductor's voice cried: "'All tickets please!" "Then one of the men in the compartment leaped to his feet, scanned the faces of the rest of us and said slowly and impressively: 'Gentlemen, I trust to your honor.' "And he dived under the seat and remained there in a small silent knot until the conductor was safely past."—Philadelphia Times. Why The Minister Was Mad. John Garvin, one of the elevator men at the state house, manages to get into speaking terms with almost every passenger he carries. The other day a heavy weight stepped into the elevator, carrying two heavy suit cases. John sized him up as the elevator started for the fourth floor. "Your goods in a liquid state?" he ventured, taking the visitor for a "jughouse" man. "I'll have you understand," replied the visitor caustically, "that I am a Methodist minister, and am on my way to the conference at Atchison." But the preacher saw the joke in a moment and laughed along with Garvin, who refused to apologize:—Topeka Capital. Universe Running Down. It is absolutely certain that the machinery of the solar system is running down. The earth, with its mass of 3,000 trillion tons, moving through space a thousand times faster than the express train goes, is being retarded by the friction of the atmosphere and tides to the extent that it loses about an hour in 16,000 years—a very slow process, it would, seem, but one that will inevitably bring the earth to a standstill ultimately. And what is true of the earth is true of all the worlds and suns. Sir Isaac Newton maintained that the motions of all bodies in space suffer retardation, and that their velocity is steadily becoming less and will finally cease. Solar systems, like everything else, have their time to be born and their time to die.—Chicago Examiner. Jumping To Conclusions. Bishop Talbot's tolerance and rudmindedness are proverbial in South London. There is a story told of one of his young lady parishioners who on one occasion asked her mother for permission to accompany her "young man" to a local music hall. "Music hall!" exclaimed the parent: "and what will the bishop say when he knows you've been there?" "The bishop?" said the girl, "why, he won't mind. I've heard him humming 'Stop Yer Tickling, Jock,' on top of a tram."—M. A. P. An Ignorant Uubeliever. "A coarse, swaggering fellow," he would begin, "declared in a barber shop: "I don't believe in no hereafter. You live and die, and that's the end of ve." "Why, you must be a Unitarian, George,' the barber said. "Huh, not me,' was the reply. I'm to fond o' me meat for that."—New York Times. A Sceptic. Nickler—My dear, I was detaile ed at the office. Mrs. Knicker—I won't bellive it unless you have data and a scientific companion.—Harper's Bazar. Children Especially Like The sweet, "toastie" flavour of Post Toasties Crisp, fluffy bits of perfectly ripe white corn—cooked, rolled and then toasted to an appetizing brown. Served with cream and sometimes fruit, this dainty food pleases the whole family. Give the home-folks a treat, "The Memory Lingers" Packages 10c and 15c.) POSTUM CEREAL COMPANY, Ltd.; Battle Creek, Mich. NEW LITERARY CIRCLE FORMED Brooklyn Organization Starts Off With Flying Colors. POWER OF THE PRESS FELT. Opening Meeting of the Concord Literary Circle Largely Attended—Miss Vera Lee's Reading, Captivates the Audience, and N. Barnett Dodson Delivers Stirring Address. Since the publication of the article on the need of more literary clubs which appeared in many of the leading Afro-American papers in various sections of the country many such organizations have been perfected. Conspicuous among them is the Concord Literary circle of Brooklyn. The circle has already a substantial membership, which is growing rapidly. The members will make a study of the works of prominent Negro authors a specialty. Lectures, readings, dramas, debates and the discussion of current happenings in the nation, state and community will also be features of the work of the organization. Meetings are held twice a month, on the second and fourth Thursday evenings. At the first public meeting recently held a large and representative audience was present. The program was of a high literary character and was greatly enjoyed. Miss Jennie E. Harris was the pianist, and the musical program was conducted by Professor Charles E. Murrow. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Curl rendered violin and piano selections. The reading by Miss Vera Lee wrought the audience to a high pitch of enthusiasm. Miss Lee is the possessor of a well cultivated voice, resouant and persuasive. She has the style of a THE LADY OF THE ROSE MISS VERA LEE trained elocutionist, and her delivery courses attention. If she continues her studies the literary field will claim her as one of its brightest productions. The address of the evening was delivered by N. Barnett Dodson, who spoke of the importance of literary organizations and why they should be supported. He commended the young men and women for organizing the circle and pointed out some of the benefits to be derived from an educational work of that character. The speaker called attention to the census enumeration which is now being taken by the government and emphasized its importance at this particular time. Continuing, he intimated that it seemed to be the purpose of the scheduled plan to show that the Negro population of the United States had decreased during the past decade. This view was based on the fact that formerly all persons having Negro blood in their veins were counted on our side, while, according to the present arrangement, mulattoes, octoaroons and quadrooons are put in a class by themselves. He condemned the report of the Brownsville court of inquiry as a miscarriage of justice. Concluding, he said that it was far from being satisfactory to the race, in that it did not find a true bill against the discharged soldiers, who should be given the benefit of any doubt. Temporary President W. K. Taylor announced that at the meeting to be held on Thursday evening, May 26, officers for 1910-11 would be elected and that on Thursday evening, June 23, the circle would close for the summer with a musical and social reception. Cuban Negro Political Leader Dies. In the recent death of Martin Morua Deigado at Havana Cuban Negroes have lost the ablest statesman and the most influential political leader among them. He was secretary of agriculture in the recently reorganized Cuban cabinet and former president of the senate. THE NEGRO IN SIMPLE LIFE: Roseland's Pictures of Negro Life In the SOUTH Admired. The Harry Roseland exhibition of Negro life in the south has attracted a good many southerners to the Clark galleries in New York recently. Many expressions of appreciation of the accuracy of Mr. Roseland's interpretation of the everyday life of the southern Negro have been heard. The artist does not exaggerate or twist away from the truth in his depicting the life of the Negro. When he pictures an individual it shows the Negro in a well reorganized occupation, such as on deck of a Mississippi boat, standing by a mast and turning to give directions to his superior in tu follhouse. He preserves old traditions in "The Old Ox Cart," where a Negro and his wife, drawn by a yoke of oxen in an old cart, stop for a chat with a young woman who might be a daughter of a cotton planter. There is a real touch of the simple life in "Fishing In the Mississippi," a Negro girl comfortably whiling away the time while waiting for a "bite." There are pictures of white people, too, one a stirring scene on a Long Island coast, "Child of the Dunes," her hair adoat in the breeze, standing in a luminous atmosphere. Two landscapes on Long Island are also worthy of note. LET FULL JUSTICE BE DONE. Give Brave Men of Twenty-fifth Infantry Benefit of Doubt. There is widespread dissatisfaction among Afro-Americans as well as many other persons who believe in justice and fair play on account of the one sided and despicable report of the Brownsville court of inquiry. To further show the loyalty of the race to the brave soldiers of the Twenty-fifth United States infantry the National Independent Political league calls upon all its members, individually and in local and state branches collectively, to protest at once to national senators and representatives against the gross injustice of the report of the Brownville court in refusing to re-enlist all but fourteen soldiers of the Twenty-fifth infantry, while admitting they discovered no soldier guilty. The league appeals to all other Americans, especially all colored Americans, to do likewise. COLORED REPUBLICANS HAVE JOLLY GOOD TIME. Westchester County Politicians Gather In Large Numbers at Annual Dinner In New Rochelle. The recent annual dinner given at New Rochelle, N. Y., by the Republican club of the city, at which the Hon. Charles W. Anderson, internal revenue collector for the Second New York district, was the guest of honor, was the most largely attended affair of its kind ever given by colored Republicans in Westchester county. Four long tables extending the length of the main hall, flanked by another extending almost its entire width and reserved for the invited guests of the club, were filled on both sides with politicians from all over the county. The hall and its approaches were beautifully decorated with the new Japanese cherry blossoms, which were donated by Alderman John H. Troy, owner of the Mount Hissarlik nurseries. In his speech Mr. Troy said: "To the Colored Republican club of New Rochelle, of which all Republicans are proud, belong the honor and the distinction of being the first organization in the United States to have its banquet hall and tables decorated with this rare Japanese blossom." The menu was furnished by the celebrated Terhune Catering company of New York city, and the New Amsterdam orchestra discoursed sweet music during the evening. Following is the program: Invocation, Rev. W. H. Slater; welcome address, S. J. Davis; "Municipal Government," Mayor H. E. Colwell; "American Citizenship," Hon. Henry Scherp, sheriff; "The Negro In Law," Deputy Assistant District Attorney C. W. McDougall; "Beautifying a City," Alderman John H. Troy; "The Value of Owning Real Estate," City Judge Samuel Swinburne; "The Negro In Politics," Hon. C. W. Anderson; "Organization," Hon. H. S. Clarke; "Our Women," Dr. C. P. McClendon, M. D.; "Our Constitutional Rights," Hon. George E. Wibecan. J. Howard Harper acted as toastmaster and acquitted himself admirably. Immediately following the invocation J. E. "Bruce Grit" was called on by the toastmaster to read the letters of regret from distinguished gentlemen who could not for various reasons be present. The guests' table was profusely decorated with flowers and Japanese cherry blossoms. Especial credit is due Secretary S. J. Davls, Festus Walden, George Eccles, Dr. C. P. McClendon, Jr.; Howard Harper and other members of the club for the great success of the dinner, which was the most memorable in the annals of the club. Young Men's Club to Hear J. E. Bruce. The Young Men's club, a literary organization of the Plane Street Presbyterian church, Newark, N. J., has prepared a special program of music and readings for the meeting to be held on Friday evening, May 20. John E. Bruce. the well known newspaper correspondent of Yonkers, N. Y., will deliver the printal address. OF R. L. WARING Whose New Book Presents Two Sides of Southern Life. PATHETIC MORAL TRUTH-TOLD Ambitious Young Barrister's Strong Plea For the Race In "As We See It" From the Standpoint of the Educated Negro Who Feels the Sting of Prejudice Keenly. Of the most remarkable books of the year by a Negro author thus far has just been turned out by the C, F. Sudwarth Press of Washington. The author of the new publication, which is entitled "As We See It," is Robert Lewis Waring. In a foreword the author says books upon books have been written upon the Negro question, but none has told the story "As We See It." By "we" is meant the educated Negroes—those Negroes of cultured families of the third and fourth generation, those who see things as other men of their mental caliber see them and those who feel the sting of race prejudice most keenly. The work is intended to reveal two sides of southern life which are carefully obscured intentionally, avoided or deliberately misstated by many newspaper and magazine writers. The WILLIAM H. HARRIS ROBERT L. WARING. book first pictures that class of Negroes which is accomplishing something tangible in life. The second scene portrays vividly the character of another class, lower both morally and mentally than the Negro. But even with conditions as they are with this latter class of persons the author takes an optimistic view of the future. The popularity of the doctrine of rope and torch for the Negro is on the wane. The author reviews conditions as they existed in the days of southern reconstruction and paints a picture which reveals a moral truth which is truly pathetic. The work as a whole is thoroughly reliable in data, strong in its presentation of facts, fearless and uncompromising in its conclusions. Robert Lewis Waring, author of "As We See It," was born in Kalamazoo, Mich., in 1805. He is the third son of the Rev. William Waring, who was the pastor of the Berean Baptist church, in the District of Columbia, for twenty-five years. Mr. Waring was also an employee in the sixth auditor's office at Washington for thirty-five years. 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GOLDEN TEXT.—"He that is not with Me is against Me; and he that gathereth not with Me scattereth abroad."—Matt, 12:30. TIME—Midsummer, A. D. 28. PLACE—Gallilee. EXPOSITION.—I. The Unpardonable Sin, 22:32. Again we see on one hand the awful power of demons and on the other the gracious power of our Saviour, setting men entirely free from the power of the evil one (v. 22). Satan shuts the eyes and mouth of many a man to-day, but Jesus has power to open the eyes and enable the dumb to speak. The multitudes at once saw in Jesus' power to open eyes and lips the evidence that He was the Messiah. The old Testament prophets had foretold that the Messiah would do these things (Is. 29:18, 32:3, 4). The Pharisees in their unwillingness to yield to the truth had another explanation: it was Zeedebuh, the Prince of demons, casting out demons. The Scribes and Pharisees had come down from Jerusalem to discover something to find fault with and accuse Him (cf. Mark 3:2, 6:7; Luke 5:17, 21; Matt 21:15, 16). They did not accept the natural and true explanation because their own hearts were wicked, and they were unwilling to give the inheritance to the real heir (John 3:19, 20; 11:47, 48; Mark 12:7). This was not the only instance in which this accusation was brought against Jesus (Mitt. 9:34; John 7:20; 8:48, 52; 10:20). These charges broke the heart of our loving Lord (Ps. 69:20). It was for our sakes that he "endured the contradiction of sinners against Himself" (Is. 63:3). He did not meet these outrageous charges with anger and invective, but lovingly sought to open the eyes of those who brought them that they might not be lost forever. The Pharisees had not made these charges directly to him, but He had read their thoughts (Mitt. 12:25; Luke 11:17). and by "knowing their thoughts" had proved Himself divine. He exposes the utter folly of their charge (vs. 25, 26). As it was not by Satan's power that He cast out demons, He showed them that it must be by the Spirit of God (v. 28; Luke 11:20). He who could thus put forth the "finger of God" and bring Satan's power to naught Himself be divine. Satan is a strong man (Mark 3:27; Luke 11:21, 22), but Jesus is stronger. He has power to blind the strong man and take his goods out of his hands (v. 29). The one who is under Satan's influence is a slave, bound and guarded by the strong man (Luke 11:21). If one is under the mighty power of Satan, there is only One to whom we can look for deliverance. There are but two classes of persons in the world, those who are with Christ openly, whole-heartedly, and those who are against Christ (v. 20). All sins but one are pardonable. No matter how often a man has sinned or how grievous he can find pardon, if he will only receive the One who hasborne our sins in His own body on the tree (1 Pet. 2:24; Acts 10:43, 13:39). 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Carey street, who has charge of the fund, will be acknowledged in this paper. Pretty Wedding A very pretty wedding took place on Saturday evening April 30 1910 at 8 o'clock t 917 Myrtle avenue The contracting parties were Miss Lily Rosetta Boston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Boston and Mr. Louron Millard. The ceremony was performed by Rev. John A. Holmes of Metropolitan M. E. Church. A reception was served from 8 to 10 o'clock and was attended by a number of guests from New York Washington, West Virginia a and this city. The bride was attended by Miss Inez Tuck, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, by cousin and Miss Butler Myers. The bride was attired in a handsome gown of hand embroidered pougee. The groom was attended by Messrs. Clarence Davis and William Boston, of Catonsville. The parlor and dining room were decorated with white and pink carnations and couple were made one under a large bell of flowers. The presents were numerous and costly. The guests from Washington were Mrs. Florence Millard, and Mr. Clarence Millard, mother and brother of the groom. Mr. and Mrs. C. Freeman, Mrs. M. Woods, Mr. Brown, Mrs. Julia Miller and son, Messrs. James Lacey and Charles Jones and Mrs. Ann Freeman, of West Virginia. Mr. Joseph Cook, of Pittsburg; Mr. Chas. Bradford, of England, Mr. and Mrs. James Lee of Teunesse, Mr. Burley, of Buffalo; Mrs. Lyones Coe, Mr. Thomas Boston, Mr. George Bozlow, an Rossie Matthews, of Outusville and many others. OFFICERS INSTALLED. Enterprise Tabernacle, No. 41 Grand United Order Brothers and Sisters, Sons and Daughters, f Moses, at its last regular meeting installed the following officers: John W. Talbott, W. S.; Bhel Batson, W. P. V.; John R Fisher, W. R. S; Mary Reynolds, W. V.; Ella Williams, P. S. V.; Howard Cole, W. P; Joshua Jones, W. P; Muggia Boley, W R. H. S.; Nannie Boom, W. L. H. C, and John P. Albert, instructor. At the conclusion of the exercises, the officers of the Tabernacle gave a surprise supper to Instructor, John B. Albert, at his home, 640 Sterling street, which was a very pleasant affair. MEETING LARGELY ATTENDED The Maryland Medical, Pharmaceutical and Dental Association held its sixth annual Public Meeting last Friday night at Ames Memorial Church, Carey and Baker streets. The principal speaker was Dr. W. C. Childs, of Washington, who delivered an instructive address on "Tuberculosis". In the course of his address, Dr. Childs asserted that colored people were not any more susceptible to consumption than white people. Dr. K. Garland Chissell, of this city read a paper on "Some Aspects of Tuberculosis" and Dr. A. O Reid of this city read a paper on "The relation of Dental Hygiene and Tuberculosis". Following the meeting, Dr. Childs was the guest of honor at a banquet at the home of Dr. W. H. Wright, president of the Association. Caterer Mack served the banquet. CONCERT A SUCCESS The Dockins Combination gave a Grand Musical Concert and Entertainment at Grace A. M. E. Church Catonsville, which was a great success. The members of the Combination were honored with a grand reception given them by the ladies of the Mortgage Club of the said church. Mrs. Dockins and Mrs. Lula Green were presented with a boquet by the members of the Mortgage Club. Rev. John Porter is the marjorie of the church. S. & D's Eau De Quinine Hair Tonic Unquestionably the most elegant preparation ever prepared for the hair. It softens the hair when hard and dry It soothes the irritated scalp skin It affords the richest lustre It lifts the largest is effort It is excellent for preventing dandruff. MANUFACTURED ONLY STOKES AND DERRY Druid Hill avenue and Oxford street Your Druggist Can Get It Or A BISHOP HEARD SPEAKS. Bishop W. H. Heard, who has charge of the A. M. E. Church in West Africa, was the principal speaker at a mass meeting in the interest of African missions, at Trinity A. M. B. Church last Sunday afternoon. Among the ministers present were Revs. A. L. Guines, David Jobson, J. G. Martin, J. W. Norris, A. D. Holder, D. G. Hill and O. T. Davis, of West Virginia. Bishop Heard preached at Trinity Church in the morning and at Allen Church at night. TO MEET IN HARRISBURG, PA. The fifty-eighth annual session of the Philadelphia and Baltimore Conference of the A. M. E. Zion Church, will be held at Union Wesley Church, Harrisburg, Pa., next Wednesday, with Bishop J. W. Smith, presiding. Among the probable changes will be the sending of a new pastor to the Pennsylvania Avenue Church, this city, to succeed Rev. Dr. J. A. S. Cole. Among those mentioned as possible successors are Rev. Dr. S. L. Corrothers, of Galbraith Church, Washington; Rev. C. G. Alleye, of Washington; and Rev. M. L. Blalock, whose term as presiding elder of the Washington district expires this year. Rev. Joseph L. Butler, of this city, will attend the conference. Rev. Dr. Gole was tendered a farewell reception at the Pennsylvania Avenue A. M. E. Zion Church Thursday night. An elaborate program was rendered, at the conclusion of which Dr. Gole was presented a purse. In Memoriam H00 ER-In loving remembrance of my dear husband, John W. Hooper who entered into rest one year ago, 1909. Calm on the bosom, of thy God Fair Spirit rest the now Euen while with us thy foot-steps trod. Lone are the paths and sad the hours. Whence thy meck smile is gone; But, oh a brighter home than ours In heaven is now thine own. BOSTON—In sad but loving remembrance of our dear wife and mother, Elizabeth H. Boston, who departed this life fourteen years ago May 11th 1896, at her residence Catonsville, Md. In the graveyard softly sleeping Where the flowers gently wave. Lies the one we love so dearly In her lonely silent grave. She is safe at home with Jesus now The friend she loved so well. The glories of that land unseen No mortal tongue can tell. She will never be forgotten. Never shall her memory fade Sweetest thoughts shall ever linger 'Round the grave where my wife and out mother is laid. GORDON—In sad but loving remembrance of our darling little boy, Benjamin Gordon Rose, who departed this life 5 years ago to-day. May 10th 1905 GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN As each year rolls around It brings sadness to my heart We tried so hard to keep him CONTEE—In sad but loving remembrance of my dear husband Richard A. Contee, who departed this life one year ago to-day, May 10 h 1909. I miss you dear husband I miss your tender care I miss your kind and tender care I miss you everywhere By his loving wife, H. A. Contee. THE NEW YORK WHIRL. "Don't you lose time by living in Jersey City?" "Not, much," answered the Wall Street man. "I have deskroom on a ferryboat."—Louisville Courier-Journal. SRECIAL NOTICES. SUMMER BOARD Mrs. William L. Passey, Boarding for summer, by week or month. Five minutes walk from St. George, station on the W. M. Railroad. Short walk from Emory Grove Carline. Locust Cottage, St. George P. O., Baltimore, County, Md. The Annual Sermon of the Grand United Order of St. Luke will be preached at Handy Chapel, Baker and Bauce streets on Sunday May 15th, 1910 at 7:30 P. M. An address by Mr. J. Bouldin, Secretary of the Penny Savings Bank. James W. Frey, R. W. G. P. C. E. V. Randolph, G. W. F. S. Rev. Joseph Gwyun, B. D., Pastor The Knights of Pythias Band Under the direction of Mr. John Maxneld will render some of their best selections at a Prize Entertain- ment under the auspices of the A. C. E. League of Allen. A. M. E. Church, Friday May 27th 1910 Admission to all, 25 Cents Refreshments At Moderate Prices The Musical Treat of the Season. The Peerless Quartet Will Appear in Jubilee and Classical Concert at Eastern M. E. Church, Patterson Park Avenue and McElderry Street, Wednesday Evening, May 18, under the auspices of the Sunday School. Admission 10 Cts. Miss M. V. Woolford, Directress. Rev. J. H. Jenkins, Pastor. The Crowning of Love, a Beautiful Cantata will be rendered at the Macedonia Baptist Church, Saratoga St., cor. Vincent, on Thursday Evening. May 19. Admission 10 Cents. Refreshments on Sale. Excursion Season, Baltimore, Md. Str. River Queen Secure Your Date Now. Booking & Charters Now Ready. Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis ...Railway... Wm. Lewis, Baltimore Exc. Mgr. Office and residence, 1319 Argyle Av. Hours: 7 to 9 A.M. 4 to 7 P.M. daily Liberal inducement to make money SPECIAL NOTICES. ...Highland Electric Park... Formerly Pitts' Park Now Open—5 cents carfare on Koland Park line after 1 P.M. For Dates apply to Ernest Roye, 2122 Druid Hill avenue. Don't Fail to attend the Park Officials' Admission 15 Cents C. I. Lane, jr., Gen'l Manager H. Williams, Pres., S. Cooper, Treas. Book Your Dates Now For Brown's Grove. Special Notice Please secure your complimentary ticket for the Opening Day of Brown's Grove, at Wharf on Wed- nesday, May 18, Day of the Open- ing. May 30, Centennial M. E. Church, St. Michaels [June 16, Order of Moses, No. 52, Cambridge. June 1st, East Baltimore Social. June 2, Bethlehem Baptist Church and Sunday School. and Sunday School June 8, Federation Christian Women June 14th, Eastern M. E. Church June 15, Maryland Mutual Im. Provement Society and Sunday School June 19, Baptizing, Rev. Belt. June 23rd, Allen A. M. E. S. S. June 26, Mt. Zion M. E. Church and Sunday School. June 27th, Nonparcel Beneficial Society. June 28th, Epworth League Jubilee June 29, The Board of Lady Managers of Provident Hospital agers of Provident Hospital June 30. Willing Workers of Ames M. E. Church. July L, Good Hope Baptist Sunday School School. July 4. Furniture Men's Association July 6. Neighborhood Club. July 11. Providence Beneficial So- July 12. John Wesley S. S. July 14tn Perkins Sq. Bapt. Church ciety. July 18. The Baltimore Progressive Building and Loan Association. July 21. Sharon Baptist Church Sunday School. MOONLIGHTS: June 2. Ways and Means Commit the, Grand Chapter, Order East ern Star. June 10. Merry Widows, No. 2, and Jolly Boys. June 13. N. Charles St. Porters. June 15. Tourist Party and Gente- nial M. E. Church. Juvenile Troubadors. under direction of Prof. I. E. Toomey will render the program at Sharp St. Memorial Church, Sunday, May 29th, at 4 P. M., under auspices of the Baby Association of the Church. Don't fail to hear these boys. They are wonders. Positively Silver offering. Mrs. Jennie H. Ross, President. Mrs. Faunie Johnson, Secretary. Rev. W. A. C. Hughes, Pastor. Under Supervision of the Commonwealt Employee Association Grand Sacred Concert at Brown's Grove Sunday, June 5th, 1910 Concert by full Commonwealth Concert Band HARRY CARPENTER, Director Boat leaves Miller's Wharf, foot of Caroline street 10 A.M., 1 and 4 P. M. Round Trip. 25 Cents Grand Memorial Day Excursion TO ST. MICHEL GIVEN BY THE T Of The Centennn Rev. Daniel W. Sibley MONDAY, M On the Palatial Ste TICKETS Children under 1 MUSIC BY THE "NEW Funds for the June Rally. Steamer leaves Millers' Street 8.8. LOW RATE—Now is the ..SUPPLY For the lowest prices, thoroughl prompt s SMITH BROS., 542 Write or Pho A Great Display Will be Given by Baltimore G. U. O. C AT NEW GOOD 667 W. Lexi ON MONDAY EVEN There is a great deal of significance more will be the battleground of the which will take place at the Oriole Hall. Prof. George Johnson Orchestra occasion. Prof. Fred. Dabney, F. Comt. Major George L. Dent, Chairman Ad. Gen. Hamilton N. Hays, Major Thomas 8. Slater, Host Capt. J. Harry Owings. First Lieut. J. Harvey Smith Asst. Quartermaster, Ias. M. Allen. TICKETS Gran d Organ Recital and At St. Paul M. E. Church, On Monday Evening Given by Prof. W. This Is The First Recital O Proceeds for benefit of the Church Pearl: Mr. Winslow Weeks, violin Scott, Mr. Harry Sheridan ADM. Rev. S. H. No. THE METROPOLITAN 1637 Penna. Ave. bet. M. Dry Goods, Notions, Lady Grocery Special Bargains every W JOHN H. OWEN Undertakers $75.00 FUNE A fine casket worth $65.00, in highly polished oak or walnut outside either black, gray or white, to matte images, new and up-to-date, flug-bur advertise funeral, six pairs of gloves, cifix when desired, rugs, chairs etc., this funeral cost elsewhere..... Our price..... Saving you..... No charge for removal of Shipping Funerals, $25. 1222 Division St., bet. Dolphin and ...Something Novel... Prof. Nelson's Moving Pictures AT WATERS A. M. E. CHURCH TO ST. MICHAELS, MD., GIVEN BY THE TOURIST PARTIES Of The Centennial M. E. Church Rev. Daniel W. Shaw, D. D., Pastor. MONDAY, MAY 30, 1911 On the Palatital Steamer New Starlight TICKETS : 50 CENTS Children under 12 years, 25 cents MUSIC BY THE 'NEW TWILIGHT ORCHESTRA' Funds for the June Rally. Tickets Now on Sa Steamer.leaves Millers' Wharf foot of Carolin Street 8.30 A. M. ATE—Now is the time to lay in . SUPPLY OF COAL. West prices, thoroughly clean COAL, honest prompt service try TH BROS., 542-46 UNION ST. Write or Phone—C. & P., Mt. Ver. Great Display Drill. Given by Baltimore Patriarchie G. U. O. Odd Fellows, NEW GOOD HOPE HILL 667 W. Lexington Street. ON MONDAY EVENING, MAY 16th, 1911 Great deal of significance attached to this a the battleground of the great! National C place at the Oriole Baseball Park next Se ge Johnson Orchestra will render up-to-da of Fred. Dabney, Floormanager. For the lowest prices, thoroughly clean COAL, honest weight and prompt service try SMITH BROS., 542-46 UNION STREET. Write or Phone-C. & P., Mt. Vernon 2338 Y. AT NEW GOOD HOPE HALL, 667 W. Lexington Street. ON MONDAY EVENING, MAY 16th, 1910. There is a great deal of significance attached to this affair, as Baltimore will be the battleground of the great National Competition Drill which will take place at the Oriole Baseball Park next September. Prof. George Johnson Orchestra will render up-to-date music for the occasion. Prof. Fred. Dabney, Floormanager. Committee: Major George L. Dent, Chairman. Quartermaster W. N. Jordon. Ad. Gen. Hamilton N. Hays. M V. P., Richard Brooks. Major Thomas B. Slater, Hospital Steward, George L. Blake, Capt. J. Harry Owings. W. P., Moses E. Ewell. First Lieut. J. Harvev Smith. Second Lieut. Wm. Palmer, Asst. Quartermaster, Jas. M. Allen, Genl. Ticket Agent, 515 Gold Street TICKETS CTS. TICKETS CTS. And Organ Recital and Instrumental Concert Paul M. E. Church, Saratoga St., near Omaha On Monday Evening, May 16th, 1910 Given by Prof. W. E. J. Howard. Is The First Recital On The New Muller on benefit of the Church. The following unslow Weeks, violinist; Mine. V. T. Reeves Bryery Sheridan ADMISSION 15 CENTS. Rev. S. H. Norwood, Pastor. METROPOLITAN DEPARTMENT Penna. Ave. bet. McMechen and Wilson Bids, Notions, Ladies and Gents' Fun Groceries Bargains every Wednesday and Saturdays. JOHN H. OWENS @ SOUTH Undertakers & Embalmer $75.00 FUNERALS $65.00. Net worth $65.00, in black cloth, steel gray oak or walnut outside case; beautiful rub ray or white, to match casket, as desired; and up-to-date; fine burial robe, embalming, six pairs of gloves, door crepe, candles, dried, rugs, chairs etc., all of the latest design general cost elsewhere. BOU. No charge for removal of remains from Hospital. Hoping Funerals, $25.00 and $50.00 Compl St., bet. Dolphin and Lanvale. C. & P. Ph. Proceeds for benefit of the Church. The following artist will appear: Mr. Winslow Weeks, violinist; Mme. V. T. Ross, Mme. Lula Scott, Mr. Harry Sheridan ADMISSION 15 CENTS. Rev. S. H. Norwood, Pastor. THE METROPOLITAN DEPARTMENT STORE, 1637 Penna. Ave. bet. McMechen and Wilson Sts. Dry Goods, Notions, Ladies and Gents' Furnishings Groceries Special Bargains every Wednesday and Saturday A fine casket worth $65.00, in black cloth, steel gray or white plush; highly polished oak or walnut outside case; beautiful rubber-tired hearse; other black, gray or white, to match casket, as designed; five heated carriages, new and up-to-date; fling burial robe, embalming, opening grave, advertise funeral, six pairs of gloves, door crepe, candles, candelabra, crucifix when desired, rugs, chairs etc., all of the latest designs. Thursday Eve May 19 1910 The great life of Moses, illustrated with comic scenery. Given under the auspices of the Mite Missionary and Rose Bud Circle. Admission 10 Cents. Mrs. Lette Seaton, Pres., Mrs. Hallie Anderson, Sect. Com.: Mrs. Mary Cephas, Mrs. H. A. Hilliard Miss Mabel Brown. Dipors Open At 7:30 P. M. Rev. D. P. Seaton, Pastor. HAELS, MD.; COURIST PARTIES Central M. E. Church Haw, D. D.; Pastor. MAY 30, 1910 Gamer New Starlight 50 CENTS 22 years, 25 cents "WILIGHT ORCHESTRA" Tickets Now on Sale Wharf foot of Caroline 50 A. M. The time to lay in your winter OF COAL.. By clean COAL, honest weight and service try 2-46 UNION STREET, One-C. & P., Mt. Vernon 2338 Y. Day Drill... More Patriarchie, No. 9, Odd Fellows, DOD HOPE HALL, Bington Street. ING, MAY 16th, 1910. Once attached to this affair, as Balti- ne great National Competition Drill. Baseball Park next September. It will render up-to-date music for the doormanager. Committee: A. Quartermaster W. N. Jordon. M. V. P., Richard Brooks. Capital Steward, George L. Blake, W. P., Moses E. Ewell. Second Lietu. Wm. Palmer, Genl. Ticket Agent, 515 Gold Street CTS. And Instrumental Concert, Saratoga St., near Carey St. ing, May 16th, 1910 W. E. J. Howard. On The New Muller Organ Church. The following artist will ap- ist; Mme. V. T. Ross, Mme. Lula MISSION 15 CENTS. Ewood, Pastor. DEPARTMENT STORE, McMechen and Wilson Sts. Games and Gents' Furnishings Series Wednesday and Saturday. GENS @ SON & Embalmers ORALS $65.00. Black cloth, steel gray or white plush; de case; beautiful rubber-tired hearse, th casket, as desired; five heated car- ial robe, embalming, opening grave, door crepe, candles, candelabra, cru- ull of the latest designs. $136.00 75.00 61.00 It remains from Hospitals. 00 and $50.00 Complete. Lanvale. C. & P. Phone Mad. 4067 The closing services of Allen Christian Bodeavor League of the Allen A. M. E. Church will take place on Sunday May 22nd at 8 P.M., in the Auditorium of the church. There will be afternoon service. A silver offering is expected from all who enter. Good Music and an Excellent Programme William Jutler, Pres. Rev. J. G. Martin, Pastor Committee: Mrs. Cornelia Parks and son Charles, of Lancaster, Va., were in the city, this week, the guest of Mr. Jacob Bishop, of 525 Laurens St. Rev. G. R. Waller, pastor of Trinity Baptist Church, is in New York attending the meeting of the National Negro Committee. Mr. Columbus Gordon, of 816 S. Eutaw street; as returned from a visit to Galilean Fishermen lodges in Chester, Pa; Grand Decoration Day Excursion to St. Michaels on the New Star light, May 30th, 1910. Get your ticket. Rev. O. T. Daxis, of Keyser, W Va., was in the city this week Rev. Davis was a resident of this city some years ago. Mrs. Thomas H. Smith, of 2125 Druid Hill Avenue, who has been ill for the past month, has gone to Philadelphia, accompanied by her mother Mrs. Bettie Daniels where she will spend a few weeks with her sister Mrs. Rosa Ashton of Carpenter street. Mrs. Annie Williams, of 1032 Druid Hill avenue was called to the bedside of her aunt, Rev. Mrs. Sturgis, who is very ill at her home in Morristown, N. J. Rev. D. D. Turpeau, pastor of Ames Memorial Church, has been confined to his home with a slight attack of tonsilitis. Mrs. Janie Thomas, of Miriam Court No. 1. of Nazarites, and Grand Shepherdess of the Juveniles is now visiting the Juveniles located in Philadelphia and Atlantic City. Mrs. Ruth M. Collet, has returned to Baltimore and is stopping at the residence of Dr. C. H. Fowler, 1065 W. Lexington street. Mrs. Collet is representing the Voice of Missions, the organ of the Missionary department of the A. M. E. Church. Mr. Joseph S. Roberts, of Gammon Seminary, of Atlanta, Ga., who has been visiting his brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Roberts, of 531 W., Lee street is now visiting his mother in Salisbury, Md. The Board of Lady Managers of Provident Hospital, are highly gratified at the success of the Japanese Tea Party held for the benefit of the Hospital, May 5th and 6th. Amount received from tickets and donations amounted to $52.00 The expenses amounted to $8.88, leaving net proceeds of $43.17. Mrs. Bertha Scott is president of the Board. Mrs. Bertha Scott is president of the Board. MEN'S DAY SERVICES At The Grace Presbyterian Church SUNDAY MAY 15th 1910 11.00 A. M. 4.00 P. M. 8.00 P. M. Rev. L. N. Rendall, D. D., L. L. D. President Emeritus of Lincoln University. Come and Hear Him. DuROIS TO SPEAK Dr. W. B. B. DuBois, of Atlanta University, will address the twenty second annual commencement of the Colored High School, which takes place at the Academy of Music, June 17th. The invocation will be by Dr. Harvey Johnson. DELEGATES TO B. M. C. Bishop A. W. Wavman Lodge. Odd Fellows, last Monday night, elected Mr. George H. C. King a delegate to the Biennial Movable Committee, which meets here in September. A collation was served after the election. Rev. A. L. Gaines has been elected by Baltimore City Lodge a delegate to the B. M. C. JACKSON-SHORT. Miss Jane Teresa Short, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Short, of Govans, and Mr. Walter R. Jackson were married at the parish house of St. Francis Xavier Church, last Thursday night by Rev. J. J. Plantevigne. They will reside at 409 N. Eden street. For proper instruction in Dress Making and the McDowell System join the night classes now being conducted at 232 Dolphin St., on Tuesday and Friday evenings from 8 to 10 o'clock. Separate classes in Embroidery and Millinery. Miss Maria Griesondt