The Afro-American

--- VOL. XVIII. NO. 50. COLORED LEADERS PROTEST AGAINST TEXAS MURDERERS MASS MEETING HELD AND RESOLUTIONS PASSED FOR ACTION BY THE GOVERNOR. Architect Lankford a Member of Ladies' Home Journal Architectural Staff—Former Register Lyon Visiting In The Capital City—Colored Man Gets Clerkship Appointment in the War Department—Mr. Whitfield McKinley Now on the Job at Georgetown. Bureau of The Afro-American Ledger 1918 11th St., N. W. Washington, August 11—A mass meeting was held Monday evening at the Metropolitan Baptist church to protest against the wanton murder of Negroes at Palestine, Texas, and other places. The addresses, while strong and manly, were concocted in conservative language, and resolutions were adopted expressing confidence that the Governor of Texas, and his official associates will do everything in their power to bring the criminals to justice. Among the speakers were Rev. Drs. S. L. Corrothers, J. Milton Waldron, I. N. Ross, A. C. Garner and others. A large and enthusiastic audience was present. Work has been resumed on the Y. M. C. A. building. Miss Elizabeth Cook, instructor of domestic arts at the A. & M. College, Normal, Ala., was the guest of Miss Arsine E. Jones, 1918 11th street this week. Former Register of the Treasury J. W. Lyons, is in the city. He expresses confidence that the bill to reimburse the depositors of the Freed men's Bank will be passed by Congress at the session next winter. Councilman H. S. Cummings, of Baltimore, attended the banquet of the National Negro Press Association here last Saturday night. Architect J. A. Lankford has been designated as a member of the staff of the Ladies' Home Journal, and has been given an assignment on the Architectural Department. He will present eight specimens of modern architecture. Prof. L. B. Moore, Dean of Teachers' College, Howard University, has returned from an extended lecture tour in the West and Southwest. Prof. Moore is prominently mentioned in connection with the presidency of the Western University at Quindaro, Kansas. H. L. Cox, a graduate of the Teachers' College, Howard University, has been elected principal of the Colored High School at Columbia, Missouri. Mr. W. H. Stanton, of Pittsburg, has been appointed to a clerkship in the office of Chief of the Signal Corps War Department, and is the first colored man to be designated for such a position in this office. His appearance there last Monday morning is said to have caused no little consternation among the bourbons in the office, but after a consultation with the chief clerk, order was finally restored and at last accounts, Mr. Stauntou was still "on the job." Mr. Whitfield McKinlay has assumed his duties as Collector of Customs at Georgetown, D. C. He was cordially received by his subordinates all of whom are white. NEWS FROM WINCHESTER Death of a Prominent Odd Fellow— Personal Notes. (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Winchester, Va., Aug. 8—Mrs. Meridith Armstead end Miss Sarah Gaskins, who have been on the sick list are improving. Mrs. Eugene Carter has gone to Harrisburg, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. John Smith, of Cass, W. Va', is visiting in this city as the the guest of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Joseph Fletcher, has gone to Charlotteville. The funeral of Mr. John, Washington took place at St. Paul, A. M. E. Church, on last Thursday afternoon, Rev. J..H. Ross, officiating. He was a prominent member of the Odd Fellows. Misses Murray and Mary Johnson of Baltimore, are visiting in the city. The largest excursion of the season to this place came in last Sunday and brought over 300 people to spend the day here. guest of the latter's mother, Mrs. Myra Smith. Mrs. Wallace Strange who has been DUBOIS WILL EDIT NEW MAGAZINE New York Will Be Headquarters For New Magazine In Interest of The Race. (Special to the Arro-American Ledger.) New York, August 10—A magazine designed to play a great part in creating sentiment for the race, as well as to present racial questions without bias will be issued monthly beginning with September by the Association for the Advancement of the Colored People. The magazine will be known as the "Crisis" and will have as contributors some of the best known writers of both races. From mouth to mouth there will also be a summary of leading events, those which have some bearing on the colored races and questions affecting them. Dr. W.E.B. DuBois, the sociologist, who has just assumed the duties of secretary of the association, will be the editor of the publication. The publication office will be at 20 Vesey street, in the building occupied by the Eveing Post, a paper which has long been friendly to the Negro. A FARMERS' PICNIC AND DEMONSTRATION The Farmers Of Montgomery County Hold An Open-Air Demonstration In Interest Of Howard Chapel. (Special to the Afro-American.), Brookville, Md., Aug. 8.-Saturday August 6. Howard Chapel M. E. church celebrated its first grand picnic of the season. The picnic proved to be one of the finest affairs in the history of the church which was largely attended. The proceeds were for the purpose of renovating and repairing Howard chapel M. E. church. Those who participated were: Lawyers C. C. Fitzgerald and W. Ashbie Hawkins, of the Baltiirre bar; Prof. Joseph H. Lockerman, principal of Colored Training School, Mr. Howard E. Young, vice principal of School No. 115, of Baltimore. Several interesting base ball games were witnessed. The Ladies' Aid of Howard Chapel Mrs. Alice C. Duffin, president, with the assistance of Miss Maggie C. Duffin and Mrs. Sadie Howard King worked hard for the success of the picnic. Mr. W. H. McAbee, chairman and Mr. George B. Murphy, secretary, deserve great credit for the interest they have taken in Howard chapel. The proceeds amounted to $40.50. THE GENTLEMEN'S RALLY. (Special to the Afro-American Ledger.) Easton, Md., Aug. 9.—The several church services of Bothel A. M. E. church were well attended throughout the day last Sunday. Presiding Elder Jordan was with us and preached a most excellent sermon at night. He was unable to remain to hold quarter conference because he was compelled to attend the funeral of Dr. E. J. Gregg. The Gentlemen's rally was quite a success. They realized $118. The ladies tendered them a grand reception on Monday night. There are still several persons on the sick list. The pastors of the two churches will give an excursion to Brown's Grove on the 19th inst. LEDGER BREAK AWAY FROM BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES POLITICAL PARTY EMANCIATION WOULD BE A BLESSING FOR THE COLORED MAN The National Independent Political League Meets In Atlantic City-Public Sessions Held In Price Memorial A. M. E. Zion Church And Large Audiences Were Present-The Proceedings Were Not Cut-And-Dried A Ripple Was Caused When Prof. Du Bois' Name Was Announced For President. Atlantic City, Aug. 6.—With the appointment of a campaign committee of nine members to meet Sept. 28 in Washington by the first meeting of the new executive committee the third annual meeting of the National Independent Political League with 40 delegates from many states present ended Aug. 6, at noon, and the league had started on the first part of its year's work, the congressional election of 1910. The convention was a successful and a strenuous one with entire absence of the cut-and-dried. There was full freedom of speech and some wordy contests, especially when Prof Du Bois, head of the Niagara Movement, became a candidate for the presidency. But harmony always eventually prevailed. The two public evening sessions at the Price Memorial A. M. E. Zion church, where all the sessions were held, drew large audiences which packed the auditorium and applauded the speakers until midnight. The speakers Thursday night were Pres. A. Walters, who in his annual address declared for political emancipation, saying the Republican party was as bad as the Democratic in that it acquiesced in what the southern Democrats did and that unless one of these parties changed colored men would join with other men for a new party: Prof. Du Bois, on votig; Rev. J. M. Waldron, on "Why Colored men Should Be Independent in Voting;" Rev. S. L. Corrothers, who eloquently deproned Pres. Tatty's policies and urged defeating Republican congressman; and N. B. Marshall, Esq., junior counsel for the soldiers, who reviewed all the Brownsville inquiries and made amazing revelations of attempted intimidation, unfairness, partiality, improper proposals, protection of perjured government witnesses, etc., by Recorder of the Court Howard, and said this would be exposed in the next congress. Many Ohioans are clamoring for Foraker's return to the senate next March. On Friday night the speakers were W. F. S. Gook, son of Capt. Cook, who was hung with John Brown; Dr. J. L. Johnson of Ohio, who commanded Gov. Harmon; Francis H. Warren, E.q. editor of Detroit Informer, on "History of Political Independence," Mr. E. Walling of New York, executive chairman of the National Association for the Welfare of the Colored People, who said his organization simply wanted to help Colored organizations, and that the laboring classes were moving for political independence; and J. M. Summers, Esq. of Ohio. Governors Harmon of Ohio and Deeen of Illinois, were commended for their course against lynching, harmony among the race-rights organizations was urged and a hearing for Rev. Harvey Johnson on his Texas purchase plan urged. A committee of seven was appointed on the 50th anniversary of Emancipation to confer with other bodies. The election of officers resulted as follows: President, Bishop Alexander Walters, New-York; Orvanizer, Rev. J. M. Waldron, Washington; Rec. Sec. W. C. Neill, Washington; Cor. Sec. W. M. Trotter, Boston; Treas. M. W. Gibbs, Ark.; Fin Sec., Rev. S. L. Corrothers, Washington; Chaplain, Rev. L. G. Jordan, Louisville; Ser- AY, AUGUST 13, 1 geant-at-arws, Rev. J. F. Moreland; Atlantic City. Vice-Presidents—Rex. Byron Gunner, Hillburn, N. Y.; Dr. J. L. Johnson, Ohio; W. T. Furguson, Washington, Rev. J. H. Wiley., Providence; Wm. D. Johnson, Boston, Mass., and W. F. S. Cook, Maryland. A new constitution was adopted making local leagues the units. Each state and territory has a member of the National Executive committee who is director of the local work. Members were chosen for 40 states, Mrs. Givens of Louisville, being chosen for Kentucky. Boston was chosen for the 1911 convention. VISITORS CROWD ATLANTIC CITY Colored Pleasure Seekers Tax Hotel Accommodations in the Annual Bureau of the Afro-American Ledger, 1908 Arctic Avenue. Atlantic City, August 11—The crowd here last Sunday, was the largest the city ever entertained on the first Sunday in August. The Pittsburgh excursion and the visitors to the National Political Convention taxed the first class accommodation to the limit. Among the callers during the past week at the Afro-American headquarters were Mr. I. H. Porter, of New York; Editor Wm. Trotter, of the Boston Guardian; Bishop Alexander Walters; Mr. A. L. Alford, of Marietta, O.: E. L. Barrett, of Media, Pa.: Mr. William A. Ridly, a wealthy mining promoter, of Rawhide, Nev., and Mr. S. P. McDouall, of Philadelphia. Mr. Judge Hall, of Washington, is spending his vacation here. Miss Maria Lockwood, a teacher at Media, Pa., is the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Grooms, 710 Arctic avenue. Mr. W. H. Pelton of Washington Mr. W. H. Parker, of Washington is spending his vacation here. Mrs. Charles Hamilton and granddaughter, of Pittsburg, are stopping at the Indiana Cottage. Mr. S. W. Rautertord, general manager and secretarp of the National Benefit Society of Washington, and his wife, the guests of Dr. and Mrs. N. Waters, at their villa, the Sylvester, last week. After inspecting the local work, the office tendered him a reception. A very fine banner was presented to Patriarchie No. 78 by the Leah Lodge, Household of Ruth on last Thursday evening. The presentation speedh was delivered by Miss Carey. and the address accepting the banner was delivered by Capt. George Emory. THE PARENTS MUST HELP By Sending Their Children And Supporting The Work (Special to Airo-American.) Salisbury, Md., Aug. 10.—The leaders and teachers in educational matters and the ministers of the several denominational churches of the community hope to impress upon the mids of the people and parents of children the important duty of keeping in school their children, and supporting their efforts to obtain the best to be had along educational lines. The colored high school has been a success in many ways, under the leadership of Prot. Finland. Gordy, principal. The industrial departments consisting of courses in carpentry, designing, cooking, ant. millinery. This work is commendable and should be supported by the people of this central community. Walter Walle, oldest son of Lur H Wailes, met with a serious accident at Jackson No. 3 saw mill, this city, in the box department while cleaning out a saw-dust pipe under the edgeing table. Walter carelessly lifted his hand too high, badly sawing his hand causing the lost of his middle finger. District quarterly conference was held at St. Paul A. M. E. Z on churcu Monday evening, Rev. E. H. Carey, presiding elder, led in the usual order of service. Dr. G. W. Roberts is rendering good service and is certainly appreciated by our people. It is report'd that Postmaster Humphrey's brother was killed at Laurel, Del, accidentally by coming in contact with a live wire. CALLS AT THE AMERICAN EMBASSY IN OLD LONDON AND AMBASSADOR WHITE LAW REID GLADLY RECEIVES THE "GENTLEMAN FROM AMERICA" Arrives In London And Stops At A Hotel Which Advertises "No Tips."—Finding A Room For Dr. Robinson Was A Task. Attends A Performance Of Richard III To See How It Is Played In London—Attends Divine Service In Spurgeon's Tabernacle. London, England.—Here I am today in the largest city in the world, and I think it is getting time that I will have to bring my letters to an end, for it will take a long time to publish them all unless Editor Murphy will be able to put them together. In my last letter I was in Leeds, getting ready to start for London, and it was Saturday about 10 o'clock when we got on the Midland carriage for London. I tell you that train did do some running. Made the 198 miles in four hours, and did not seem tired. When we got in London there were many carriages but we desired to take a taxicab or something like that. It is a thing that goes without a horse, but makes good time just the same. We got in. I had telegraphed for a room in the Strand Palace hotel, Dr. Robinson, thinking that he would spend Sunday in Leeds, so went to the hotel, and found that they had reserved the one room only, while the other room for Dr. Robinson could not be had. This is one of the first-class hotels in London, and advertises "No tins." Now to find a room for Dr. Robinson was a task, because it seemed that all the hotels were crowded, but at last I found him one but a short distance from where I was, and then that was settled. I took an upstairs car and went out sight seeing, returning, I went with some of the men to see Richard III, which was being played by a young man named Evans. You see I am a good old Baptist and do not believe in going to the剧院, but I went this time, and as I was in England I thought it would not be considered much harm since I have been to one in America. It was an enjoyable evening. Returning to the hotel, I met some friends who desired to have me go out for a ride with them, and I accepted the invitation. It was a fine ride, and I enjoyed it very much. It was joy to get the cool breeze. Returning to the hotel we had lunch, and then I went up for a bath, getting through, I went to sleep until Sunday morning. Sunday morning we went to Spurgeon Tabernacle to hear the word of God preached. The church was not so much crowded. It is not what it was at one time, and the people all realize this. I went in after a long walk, had lunch and in the afternoon I weed to Wcstminster Abbey. I am sure that you are posted on this wonderful building, so I need not enter into it. I am cutting out all historical events. Already some of my friends have been after me to write a book, they say if I will give the information they will put it in order and let me have it. I am considering this wonderful offer and it may fall my lot to comply with their request. It would be hard for me to tell you the whole Sunday experience. I went to call on some of the dignitaries, and even went to see the American Embassador Hon. Whiteclaw Reid, and he made me welcome for a few minutes. I felt that I was some pumkins, and did not get to see all that I desired to see. Monday morning I started out for Belgium, France, Germany and other places. After breakfast I called a taxi cab to tote me to the stable to get in the carriage, but behold that fellow carried me to the wrong place, and when I found it out it was too late to make the train, hence I had to return to the hotel, and have my lunch, then take in other places. After lunch I went around to see some of the town. At 2:20 I was on the train off for Dover. I changed my ticket from second class to first-class, for reasons which will not explain in this letter. Dover is a seaport town in England and the place where you step off the English channel to go to France, Belgium. I selected to go to Belgium first. A man grabbed my suit case and got totted it on the boat. I got on and, of ed around and found that all provision had been made for sea sickness. People are expected to be sick, when the cross the English channel, because so choppy and always rough. Pleas vessels for sickness and the like. I go a seat and cal ed or got around me. Continued on page 5. DISTRICT CONFERENCE LARGELY ATTENDI Questions of Interest Affecting Church Work In Western 'Maryland' Discussed. (Special to the Afro-American Leag Frederick, Md.. Aug. 12—The gerstown District of the A. M. Church, assembled in District Conference, Wednesday in Quinn Chu Rev. C. H. Murray, presiding of The district comprises eighteenors, about thirty churches and only three thousand members. The conference organized by election of Rev. David Johnson for retary. The opening sermon preached by Rev. E. E. T. ar. of C berland, and it was held fort. Excellent papers were read by J. G. Martin, on Business; Tariff; David Johnson, on the Moral贮itions; Rev. J. W. Morris, on Pres Schools; Rev. F. S. Dennis, on Pres Schools; Rev. J. N. Still, on the E. League; Rev. E. T. Addison Sunday Schools; Rev. C. A. Will on the Mission of the A.M. E. chm and kev. J. H. Bunday, on Oh Records. On Wednesday night the seri was preached by Rev. C. A. Wilf and on Thursday night, Rev. J. Still preached to an appreciative dence. The financial reports for both th. District Conference and Sun School Convention were satisfac The visitors to the conference: Rev. John Hurst, Financial Secre of the A. M. E. Church; Rev. C. Stephanet, Prof. Jordan, of KI College; Revs. C. H. Young, D. Hill, F. A. Seaton, A. L. Gaines, K. Bertha Hurst, of Washington, M.P. Hill, President of the Wom Mite Society of the Baltimoreference. Rev. Murray, who is completein fifth year as presiding elder of district, is winding up his work marked success, and with the his respect of the entire district. CAMPMEETINGS CLOSE CHURG Are Practically Surrounded By Meetings--Crisfield Notes Crisfield, Md., Aug. 11—We are surrounded with compmeetings as a result of which our church Crisfield are practically forsake Messrs. Samuel Stirling, John ing and Taylor O. Wilson have turned from the Galilean Fisher Convention, which was held inrisburg, Pa. Dr. Harold M. Norwood, ofington has come to this city to tice his profession. He will be 215 N. 4th street. The Crisfield Corkers baseball has played thirteen games the son and won every one of the Rev. James Jeffries, accom by his wife and Mr. and M. Springs, has returned from visit to his former home. PROF. TRIGG RESIGN Head of Princess Anne Academy Poor Health—Rev. Kiah W. His Successor. (Special to Afro-American Life) Princess Anne, Md., Annel Prof. Frank Trigg, who had past eight years been principal Princess Anne Academy, on account of ill health, was succeeded by Rev. T. H. prominent minister of Conference. Rev. King and ing a promo course at MAYOR GAYNOR SHOT BY EX-EMPLOYE OF CITY On Ship Ready to Sail for Europe When Assassin Fires. HIS CHANCES OF RECOVERY ARE GOOD. Tragedy Occurred on Board the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse — "Big Bill" Edwards, Former Princeton Football Star, Saves the Mayot's Life—Prisoner is Defiant. The Victim WILLIAM J. GAYNOR, Mayor of New York, who has corrected many time-honored political abuses and given the city a business administration. Gaynor says: "Tell the people goodby," and later, "it is very strange, very strange. I wonder why he did it?" The Assassin JAMES J. GALLAGHER, political hanger-on and discharged watchman, formerly employed in the New York City Dock Department. Gallagher says: "He took the bread and butter out of my mouth. I'm sorry I didn't kill him right off. I hope he croaks. I had to get him." New York (Special)—William J. Gaynor mayor of New York city, was shot in the head and seriously wounded Tuesday morning as he stood on the promo made deck of the steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse by James J. Gallagher, discharged and discharged city employee. Gallagher was almost instantly overpowered and arrested. The shot was fired at 9:45 a.m. m. 15 minutes before the Kaiser Wilhelm derrosse was due to leave her pier at Hoboken, N. J., and the Mayor was receiving godsped from a group of friends preparatory to a vacation trip to Europe. The bullet struck him behind the right arm and ranged downward, inflicting a dangerous, though not necessarily fatal wound. And unless blood-poison develops surgeons are hopeful of the Mayor's recovery, although at his age—50 years—such a wound is essentially grave. The mayor is at St. Mary's Hospital, Hoboken, surrounded by specialists, with members of his family gathered near, waiting the outcome with anxiety. Allarly reports from the hospital were reported in tone, and in the evening six Nay negatives of the wound were taken to acillate an operation for the removal of the bullet. Gallagher, the assassin, is locked in a cell at Jersey City, held without bail, he expresses no remorse. Shows Great Fortitude. Rarely has a wounded man evinced more fortitude and cleverness than did William J. Gavnor. He evidently thought he was being carried down the comparonway from the ship on a stretcher at his wound was fatal, for he smiled sinfully and to those near him: "the people good-bye." To his wife and son, Bufus, he said at the hospital later: "It - very strange, very strange. I wonder why he did it?" But at no time did he express ill-feeling toward the man who would have killed him. And that he looked calmly in the ever-present prospect of assassination is indicated in the tone of a recent letter to a citizen who had warned him of the danger of going in the subway without an escort. To this solicitous friend, Davies Weinblatt, a lawyer, he wrote on March 22, 1917. "My Dear Mr. Weighallt: I thank you very much for your letter; but I have no fear about going out alone. I do not think anyone would do me any arm unless he was a lunatic, and it is hard to guard against lunatics." "Gallagher, judging by appearances and customs, is not a lunatic. His mind is愤然 as sound as any man's of 50 A years, but he has nourished in his heart a hatred for Mayor Gaynor ever since he was discharged as a night watchman in the Department of Docks and carries in last July for incompetency. 375 FEET TO DEATH. Hundreds See Demented Sailor Leap From High Tower. Detroit, Mich. (Special).—A Detroit urnal special from Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., says: Riley Johnson, a demented lor, committed suicide by jumping on a 375-foot tower of a wireless tele- one company here while hundreds of attractors were powerless to prevent the gedy. The sailor threatened to jump on any seman who attempted to follow him. Defined the officers to shoot. John- s home is believed to be in Chicago. had a lake seaman's card from Union. 1603. former Congressman Bound Dead. Hilton, Pa. (Special). — Franklin Broad, who was a member of the Forty- th and Fiftieth Congresses, died here. 31 year. He was a delegate to the Convention which nominated New G. Curtin for governor and a gate to the National Convention which nominated Grant for President. three Boys Killed by Train. Hilton, Pa. (Special).—Leo Rapp. 3; Walter Sloan, aged 10, and Jacobs, aged 11. were killed when rain on the Allegheny Valley Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad struck a crane and wagon in which they were ling. Rapp's body was tossed a hund- d feet from the track. Oil Well in City. On Wet in City. Itsburg, Pa. (Special)—Oil has been k in the midst of the busy hum of city. Within a few feet of a street the trolley clangs by every few a well was brought in on the side, and during the day flowed 60 Nineteen years ago this loca- known as Jacks Run; and at oil was struck, but so many a driven that the development exhausted. The strike has hurry among the neighbors. The of high grade, and is found in the dilent sand. LIVES WITH BROKEN NECK Lost an Inch of Spinal Column as Result of Auto Smash. Lawrence, Mass. (Special).—With an inch of his spinal column missing one of his vertebra having been removed, by surgeons when they believed it to be the one chance in a thousand of saving his life, Alexander Potter, of Boston, has been discharged from the hospital. His neck was broken in an automobile accident at North Reading, July 10. A companion in the accident, who at the time was thought to have been only slightly injured, Walter C. Boardman, of North Cambridge, died a few days after the smash. When he was released from the hospital, Potter was told that if he was careful how he handled his head and neck, there was no reason why he should ever suffer any inconvenience by his missing vertebra. SHAFT TO PILGRIMS. Thousands Throng the Old Bay State Town to Attend the Ceremonies. Provincetown, Mass. (Special)—The granite shaft on Town Hill, erected to memory of the Pilgrim Fathers, was dedicated at noon by President Taft. The cornerstone of the monument was laid August 7, 1907, by President Roosevelt, its dedication attracting a crowd that taxed to their limits the narrow streets of this old fishing own. The principal act of the dedication of the monument was the unveiling of a bronze tablet over the door facing the harbor, which was given by President Emeritus Charles W. Eliot, of Harvard. The town clock was striking nine when the Mayflower, bearing President Taft, came around the little white beacon at the end of Long Point and passed in between the lines of battleships. As the Mayflower headed in the first gun boomed from the flagship Connecticut, followed by 21 guns from all the ships. President Taft's dedication address was descriptive of the landing of the pilgrims at Provincetown and the causes which drove them from England. FLAMES CUT OFF EXIT SEVEN PEOPLE ROASTED Suffocated By Smoke in Their Beds. TWO WERE INJURED IN ESCAPING The Owner and His Family, Who Occupied Rooms on the Ground Floor, Escaped By Climbing Through the Windows to the Street—Two Victims Women. New York (Special)—Seven lives were lost in a fire which destroyed a threestory lodging-house in the foreign section of Jamaica, L. I. The blaze started in a hallway, the only exit, and spread so rapidly that few of the inmates had any opportunity to escape. The lodging-house was occupied for the most part by poor workmen employed in the neighborhood. The owner, Georgia Dunbek, and his family, who occupied rooms on the ground floor, escaped by climbing through the windows to the street. The dead—five men and two women—were all foreigners. They were asleep at the time and were all suffocated by smoke as they lay in their beds. The property loss will not exceed $1,500. Two persons were injured in escaping Stephen Mareus, a farmer, 35 years old, jumped from the window of his room on the third floor and was taken to a hospital suffering from concussion of the brain and internal injuries. B. D. Tague, a laborer, was badly burned and partially suffocated by smoke. A passerby who discovered the fire turned in the alarm and called a policeman, who found the hallway closed by a wall of flame. In the backyard he came upon Dunbek, dazed and panicky, wringing his hands in the midst of his family of six or seven. Apparently they had not yet given a thought to the lodgers who had been trapped on the upper floors. "Is everybody out?" asked the police man. Dunbeg shook his head. He did not know. He had seen two or three of his lodgers drop to the street from second floor windows—whether all were safe or not he did not know. There had been about 15 lodgers in the house that night, he thought. Baseball in Heaven. Mattapoisett, Mass. (Special)—"Baseball in Heaven," was the subject of a sermon preached Sunday by the Rev. C. Julian Tuthill, pastor of the Congregational Church. It said in part: "Heaven is but an evolution of this world. A Christian may love a ball game and, loving it, remain a Christian. Why, then, is it not safe to prophesy that even the game of baseball will have its place in some spiritual form in heaven?" Lightning Kills Three. Schenectady, N. Y. (Special)—Spencer Lockrow, of Groomes, Saratoga county, a farmer, and his two harvest helpers, Andrew Ecker and Simon Watson, were killed by lightning. The team they were driving also were shocked to death. Met Death in Thrasher. Celina, Ohio (Special).-Two men are dead following the explosion of a thrashing machine engine on J. A. Doner's farm, seven miles east of here. They are J. H. Vonderhaar, of Fort Recovery, and William Sudhoff, of St. Anthony. Vonderhaar was instantly killed. Sudhoff litgered until morning. 87.000 Enlisted in Army. Washington. D. C. (Special). The enlisted strength of the Army during the present fiscal year has been fixed approximately at $7,000 men under the arrangement of the estimates by Major General Leonard Wood, chief of staff, and approved by President Taft. General Wood's plan is to use the army appropriation for soldiers and materials and make reductions in other directions. The new chief of staff wants an army of fighting men equipped for business and says he is willing to make sacrifices in other 9 Stage Fauna. Stage Fauna. NIMALS is all right in their place," said the penter, "but that place ain't the drama. I legitimate stage-hand in our union but what chance peddlin' car-muffs in summer than go show." "When a dumb animal gets going, stage a stand in the way. I remember a case with cats, and they were nice, decent, well-behaving cats. We them come in. You see, the house was full of rats—most cat could handle by herself—and these trained animals tuned ratters I ever saw. Regular hobby with them. The them run loose in the theatre, because he glad to give a session, provided they don't get out in bad company—or work. "Well, to make a long story short, them cats have seen with the rats that towards the end of the week you can come back in a half-hour and find it. It's Friday night. In an entrance thinking how pretty they look sitting around big bows on their necks when I hear a kind of grumbling cats. Every one is standing up, pointed down stage, with and their tails spread. Followin' their eyes, I see what footlight guard a rat has come through and can't squeeze, looking there's a wild yell and every one of them train stands and hell bent towards the rat, trying to beat each "The audience can't see what's the trouble, and not the rat when it makes a dive over the edge past the door can see the white cats come together in a collision, then it over the footlights, not sparing drums, or any the way. It's the time of the hydrophobia scare; and a whose hat is carried away in the rush, yells, 'Mad dog,' the people for getting worked up, seeing that the rat and it over the house, between people's legs, over chairs and. There's no telling how far the panic woul'd of gone, only the edge of a private box, jumped for the stage, and made with the cats close and running well. We shut the door a business in, while the cat professor made a speech to qu ats, and they were nice, decent, well-behaving cats. We were glad to see them come in. You see, the house was full of rats—more than our house cat could handle by herself—and these trained animals turned out the swellest ratters I ever saw. Regular hobby with them. Their boss says to let them run loose in the theatre, because he's glad to give them a little diversion, provided they don't get out in bad company—or words to that effect. "Well, to make a long story short, them cats have so much amusement with the rats that towards the end of the week you can leave grub out and come back in a half-hour and find it. It's Friday night and I'm standing in an entrance thinking how pretty they look sitting around on stands with big bows on their necks when I hear a kind of grumbling sound. It's the cats. Every one is standing up, pointed down stage, with their hair on end and their tails spread. Followin' their eyes, I see what it is. Inside the footlight guard a rat has come through and can't squeeze back. While I'm looking there's a wild yell and every one of them trained cats is off the stands and hell bent towards the rat, trying to beat each other to it. "The audience can't see what's the trouble, and neither can they see the rat when it makes a dive over the edge past the drummer. But they can see the white cats come together in a collision, then untangle and rip it over the footlights, not sparing drums, drummer, or anything that blocked the way. It's the time of the hydrophobia scare; and a woman down front, whose hat is carried away in the rush, yells, 'Mad dog.' You can't blame the people for getting worked up, seeing that the rat and the cats is streaking it over the house, between people's legs, over chairs and people regardless. There's no telling how far the panic would of gone, only the rat sailed along the edge of a private box, jumped for the stage, and made the prop-room with the cats close and running well. We shut the door and kept the whole business in, while the cat professor made a speech to quiet the audience." "Did they get the rat?" asked the sad man. "I don't know," he replied. "But I do know that the boss had to make good for the woman's hat, and he took it out of the cat professor's salary, and he was so sore he forgot to remember us Saturday night."—Harper's Weekly. "I don't know," he replied. "But I do know that the good for the woman's hat, and he took it out of the cat and he was so sore he forgot to remember us Saturday Weekly. A Parable for American BNORMAL nervous excitability is often confuse with intellectual activity; nerves are mistakes the restlessness of the one for the product. Nerves are of immense importance, but they are creative. They have never developed a great even a passing inspiration to art. Many Am point to point, from interest to interest, so live in a cloud of dust, which overhangs the highway, and We trample the earth until it becomes hard under a permitting it to become rich and fertile. We rush head growths, instead of tenderly and piously fostering them. Riding one day over the plains at the end of a long General Custer made a sudden change of direction at the rank, as if an invisible hand had smitten them out of the curiosity of those at the rear of the line was excited, and the point they looked carefully to see what had caused tion, and they found in the desert a bird's nest full of the detachment of men had turned aside rather than crush the universal aridity! There is a parable in that incident which Americans study.—Art and Culture. live in a cloud of dust, which overhangs the highway, and nides the heavens. We trample the earth until it becomes hard under our feet instead of permitting it to become rich and fertile. We rush headlong over delicate growths, instead of tenderly and piously fostering them. Riding one day over the plains at the end of a long detachment of men, General Custer made a sudden change of direction at the head of the column. As the men reached a certain point they rode off to the right, rank after rank, as if an invisible hand had smitten them out of their course. The curiosity of those at the rear of the line was excited, and as they approached the point they looked carefully to see what had caused the change of direction, and they found in the desert a bird's nest full of tiny eggs. A long detachment of men had turned aside rather than crush that bit of life in the universal aridity! There is a parable in that incident which Americans would do well to study—Art and Culture. The First Medical Schools THE teaching was, except for a little anatom The schools were essentially private ventures spirit and object. Income was simply divi turers, who reaped a rich harvest besides, things which the loyalty of their former studen hands. 'Chairs' were therefore valuable piece prices varying with what was termed their recently a professor in a now defunct Louisville school, pay three thousand dollars for the combined chair of phy logy, objected strenuously to a division of the professor physiology, on the ground of 'failure of consideration'; for constituted the inducement to purchase went obviously wi for instruction who could pay his fees or recently a professor in a now defunct Louisville school, who had agreed to pay three thousand dollars for the combined chair of physiology and gynecology, objected strenuously to a division of the professorship assigning him physiology, on the ground of 'failure of consideration'; for the 'reflex' which constituted the inducement to purchase went obviously with the other subject. No applicant for instruction who could pay his fees or sign his note was turned down. State boards were not as yet in existence. The school diploma was itself a license to practice. The examinations—brief, oral, and secret—blocked almost none at all; even at Harvard, a student for whom a majority of nine professors 'voted' was passed. The man who had settled his tuition bill was thus practically assured of his degree, whether he had regularly attended lectures or not. Accordingly, the business throve—At- Finds Young Woman He Loved Engaged to Another. HE ENDS HIS LIFE WITH A BULLET Gamaliel Bradford, Third Descendant of First Governor of Plymouth Colony and Brilliant Student, Pleads in Vain to Girl to Forsake Another and Marry Him South Framingham, Mass. (Special).—With a copy of Byron's poems beside him, Gamalliel Bradford, Third, of Wellesley Hills, direct descendant of William Bradford, first governor of the Plymouth Colony, and a member of the graduating class of 1910 at Harvard, shot himself to death at a local hotel, because the girl loved and who is engaged to another, had refused him. Bradford was 23 years old and the course of his young passion broke the stern barrier of long generations of Puritan repression when he begged the young woman he loved to break her engagement to another man. His pleidings were made at the railroad station here, and concealing his agitation at the young lady's refusal, Bradford walked directly to a nearby hotel, engaged a room and, saying he was tired, locked himself in. Within half an hour four shots were heard. When hotel employees broke down the door of the young man's room he was found lying on the floor unconscious from a wound in his head. The other three shots, fire wildly, left their marks about the apartment. News of the shooting reached the young woman who had rejected him and she fainted. But upon recovery she begged to go to Bradford's bedside at the hospital, where he was taken, and there she remained until he died, a few hours later, unconscious to the end. Gamaliel Bradford second, the youth's father, and a widely-known author, said his son had long brooded over his love affairs and the family had feared such a result. NOT ASSASSINATED A Mayor Bousman Believed to Have Blown Himself Up. Ronoke, Va. (Special).—Mayer H. A. Bousman, of Ridgeway, a small town in Henry county, 60 miles south of Ronoke, on the Norfolk and Western Railway, who had both his legs blown off by dynamite while lying under a tree on the lawn of his yard Sunday night, July 24, and died several hours later, was not assassinated. The Mayor killed himself in attempting to blow off his feet, so that he might secure $6,000 accident insurance, to save himself and family from poverty. Detective Joseph Funk, of the Baldwin Detective Agency, of Ronoke, the chief detective working on the case, after following numerous clues, decided that Bousman himself set off the dynamite that caused his death, and he so officially reported to the Town Council of Ridgeway and his report has been accepted by the members of the council and by Bousman's friends generally. It has developed that Bousman was involved financially, two life policies, one for $1,000 and another for twice that amount were also taken out a short time ago. Bousman giving his notes for the premiums. It is believed all the policies will be paid. While the evidence that he was the victim of his own act convicts the public mind, it can hardly be put before a jury in such shape to prove legally that his policies are forfeited. Detective Funk believes Bousman held the stick of dynamite between his legs and lighted the fuse with his burning cigar. TWO PRESIDENTS MEET. Chili's Chief Magistrate Calls Upon Taft at Beverly. Beverly, Mass. (Special).—The President of the United States and the President of Chili met here with an exchange of formalities that were cordially informal. Occurring as it did in the quiet and secluded precincts of Burgess Point, where Mr. Taft's model-t summer cottage is located, the meeting was robbed of much of the pump and circumstances that would have been the case in Washington or in any other capitol. A The only suggestion of military ceremony came from the guns of the Presidential yacht Mayflower, which conveyed President Taft and Mrs. Mountt and several members of their suite from Boston to Beverly and paid them due honors. President and Mrs. Taft entertained the Chilean chief executive and his wife at luncheon. The other guests included the Secretary of State, Mr. Knox; Governor Draper and Mrs. Draper; Miss Mabel Boardman, president of the American Red Cross; the Chilean charge of AFFAIRS, Mr. Yuniam; Brigadier General Carter and Secretary Charles D. Norton Snake Venom His Cure. Pottsville, Pa. (Special)—Dr. L. J. Mays, of Philadelphia, the physician who has been successful in the use of rattle snake venom in the treatment of tuberculosis, is visiting in Pottsville, the guest of the Rev. J. H. Umbenhen. He informed members of the Seluyikill County Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis that his new treatments, together with open air and modern sanitary methods, employed at house, were destined to reduce phthisis fully 50 per cent, within the next decade. T Kills White Groundhog. Branchville. N. J. (Special)—Howard Cole killed a white groundhog with a club on John McDonald's farm, near here. It is the first white groundhog ever seen in Sussex county and is to be mounted. Man Bears Charmed Life. Pottstown, Pa. (Special).—When Joe St. Clair fell from the shafts of his curt, and bystanders saw one of the heavy wheels pass over his head, they ran to his side, expecting to find him dead. To their surprise they found he had escaped serious injury. St. Clair seemingly has a charmed life. Last winter, when he shot himself in the leg, doctors insisted that the limb would have to be amputated. St. Clair wouldn't have it; that way and said he would rather die than part with it. It stayed on, and he has recovered full use of it. J: P. EVANS. By John S. Lopez. NIMALS is all right in their place," said the veteran stage carpenter, "but that place ain't the drama. I bet there ain't a legitimate stage-hand in our union but what 'd rather take a chance peddlin' car-muffs in summer than go against an animal show." "When a dumb animal gets going, stage rules ain't going to stand in the way. I remember a case with a troupe of educated "Did they get the rat?" asked the sad man. --- By Hamilton Wright Mabie. BNORMAL nervous excitability is often confused in this country with intellectual activity; nerves are mistaken for brains, and the restlessness of the one for the productivity of the other. Nerves are of immense importance, but they are distinctly noncreative. They have never developed a great thought, nor given even a passing inspiration to art. Many Americans move from point to point, from interest to interest, so constantly that they ```markdown ``` By Abraham Flexner ABraham Flexner HE teaching was, except for a little anatomy, wholly didactic. The schools were essentially private ventures, money-making in spirit and object. Income was simply divided among the lecturers, who reaped a rich harvest besides, through the consultations which the loyalty of their former students threw into their hands. 'Chairs' were therefore valuable pieces of property, their prices varying with what was termed their 'reflex' value; only They Were Preferred By Representative Bartholdt and Have Been Submitted for Approval to State Department—The Subjects to Be Discussed. Washington, D. C. (Special):—The American group of delegates to the conference of the Interparliamentary Union, at Brussels, August 29 to September 2, sailed from New York Tuesday. They will present several resolutions looking toward the establishment of permanent peace between the nations of the world. These were submitted to the State Department by Representative Richard Bartholdt, ow Missouri, chairman of the American group. One of the resolutions will ask the conference to request governments which are signatory to The Hague Peace Conference and the London Naval Conference to sanction the American proposition that the international prize court invested with the jurisdiction of an international court of arbitral justice. Another resolution will ask the conference to request each of the governments represented to appoint a commission, analogous to that recently appointed by the United States. These commissions would report to their respective parliaments, prior to the third Hague Peace Conference in 1915, a well-defined scheme looking to the perfection of a system of world federation, in addition to an international judiciary. The object of submitting the resolutions to the State Department was to prevent any possible conflict of opinion with the department on questions of international peace. The American delegation consists of Representative Bartholtt, of Missouri, chairman; Senator Burten, of Ohio; Flint, of California, and Smith, of Michigan; Representatives Keifer, of Ohio; Moon, Barchfeld, Burke and Wheeler, of Pennsylvania; Richardson, of Alabama; Hanna, of North Dakota; Fairchild, Cox and Goldfogle, of New York; Parker and Kinkaid, of New Jersey, and Delegate Larrivaga, of Porto Rico. Chirman Bartholtt will make the principal address in support of the American propositions. Representative Keifer will speak, on the subject of fortification of the Panama Canal, to which work he is opposed. All of the American delegates, Chairman Bartholtt said, were opposed to the spending of millions of dollars in fortifying the canal. SLUMP IN AUTO BUSINESS Bottom Seems to Have Dropped Out Notwithstanding Boosting Efforts of Manufacturers. New York.—Indications point to the bottom having fallen out of the automobile business. The manufacturers, it is reported in trade circles, are making strenuous efforts to keep up a show of continued prosperity, but it is also said that they are not selling their product, but are storing machines throughout the country at their various agencies to prevent the public realizing the true conditions of the market. Several large concerns are laying off men and giving all sorts of reasons for so doing except the statement that they are overstocked. Two or three of the largest factories recently closed entirely, ostensibly for the purpose of taking inventory, but the workmen were not given any definite time at which to again report for work, and it is not expected that these factories will again be in operation this year. A well-known automobile agent of this city said yesterday that all cars would undoubtedly be selling at from 25 per cent, to 50 per cent, less than present list prices within the next two or three months. He added: "The trouble with the automobile business is that the farmers and people of the smaller cities and towns have not taken as kindly to the idea as was anticipated. The farmers find that the cost of keeping them in repair and operation is more than the cost of keeping horses to perform the same work, and while there was, for a time, a tendency among the farmers to invest in the machines, the demand for cars from this class of buyers has practically stopped, and I venture to say we will not again sell to the farmers to any extent until prices are materially reduced." THE FIRST WOMAN POLICE Mrs. Alice Stebbins Wells Will Patrol Los Angeles. Los Angels, Cal. (Special)—The office of "policewoman," which was created by a recent ordinance, will be filled at once by the police commission. Mrs., Alice Stubbins Wells, formerly of Chicago, whose earnest and persistent work, backed by ministers and clubwomen of Los Angeles, caused the creation of the office, will receive the appointment. She will be the first woman to hold a position of this kind in Southern California. Mrs. Wells discussed her plans for filling the position. "My field of work will be chiefly wherever young people gather for entertainment in parks, penny arcades, moving picture shows and dance halls," she said. "I will deal chiefly with the proprietors of such places, seeing that all laws are obeyed, and that the places are kept clean and moral. In the dance balls I may find it necessary to talk to some of the young people personally." 500 Sec Man. Kill Himself. St. Louis (Special).—A man identified from papers in his pockets as Henry E. Wasson, formerly traveling auditor of the Missouri Pacific, who has been missing from his home in Leavenworth, Karr, shot and killed himself on the baseball grounds of Carondelet Park. Wasson's brother-in-law had asked the police to assist him in searching for Wasson. Five hundred picknickers saw the man kill himself. BOTH PHONES—C. & P. Mt. Verdon 3803 Md. Courtland 1928. No branch offices. Not conacted with any other firm. No Agents. ▲ reward will be offered to anyone who detects any person doing business under the name of Felix B. Pye, Sr. Expert Embalming, Courteous Attendants, Shipping Funerals a Specialty. Rubber Tire Carriages for hire for all occasions. Both Phones. Day or Night. JOHN H. TOADVIN FUNERAL DIRECTOR PARLORS— 141 W. HILL STREET, 826 DRUID HILL AVENUE. Hacks for all Occasions. Hemsley, Funeral Director and Embracer Announce to the generous public that I am still doing business, 578 W. BIDDLE ST. Thanking the public for being for a continuance of the same. Carriage for parties and funerals; and special attention given to a Yours, ALEX. HEMSLEY. Mt. Vernon 2578 Main Office. GEORGE H. HOLLAND, Manager. C. & P. Phone: 585 Y- E LOAN MONEY ON Furniture and Chattelle Payments Lowest Prices CENSOR LOAN CO., CENSOR ST., Near Monument Hand Shoe Repairing Co... THROW YOUR OLD SHOES AWAY! We them mended here for a very Low Price what condition they are we guarantee to a perfect new shape. R-Prices: Men's soles, 30c. Heels, 15c. Hand seals Lowest Prices. Best White Oak Leather used. in 15 minutes while you wait. GENHEIM, 705 Druid Hill A NEAR ST. MARY STREET. Alex. Hemsley, Funeral Director and Embalmer Wish to announce to the generous public that I am still doing business at my old stand, 578 W. BIDDLE ST. Thanking the public for all past favors and hoping for a continuance of the same. Carriage for hire for weddings, parties and funerals, and special attention given to all orders day or night. Yours, ALEX. HEMSLEY, Mt. Vernon 2578 Main Office. GEORGE H. HOLLAND, Manager. C. & P. Phone: 585 Y-Madison. WE LOAN MONEY Furniture and Chattels Easy Payments Lowest Rates 635 ENSOR ST., Near Monument St. ...Maryland Shoe Repairing Co... DON'T THROW YOUR OLD SHOES AWAY! You can have them mended here for a very Low Price No matter in what condition they are we guarantee to bring them in a perfect new shape. Look at our Prices: Men's soles, 30c. Heels, 15c. Hand sewed, 60c. Ladies and boys Lowest Prices. Best White Oak Leather used. Repairing in 15 minutes while you wait. SAM. WAGENHEIM, 705 Druid Hill Avenne, NEAR ST. MARY STREET. LOOK FOR SIGN. UREKA COMB CO., 2121 Druid Hill A Mail Orders Promptly Attended. F IMITATIONS J CAN MAKE MONE A PLAN WHEREBY Every Boy in Baltimore LOOK FOR SIGN. OFFICE EUREKA COMB CO., 2121 Druid Hill Avenue Mail Orders Promptly Attended. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS ...YOU CAN MAKE MONEY.. WE HAVE A PLAN WHEREBY Can Make Money. I really supposed that YOUR UNCLE SAM, ONLY PERSON in this country that has the KE MONEY, and possibly he has, but to be in a position to show any num LING BOYS not only the way to Y but to make GOOD MONEY at that you are a HUSTLER and WANT TO Y and make it fast, all you have got to ot the Afro American Office 307 St P 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 assume 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-American Ledgers 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 girls need not come around. Many of our HUSTLERS ARE MAKING GOOD MONEY, and if you do 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. 307 ST PAUL STREET Most Convenient and Satisfactory. LO OFFICE EUREKA Mail BEWARE OF IMITA ...YOU CAN WE HAVE A PLAN Every Near Calvert ECTOR Md. Courtland 1926. other firm. No Agents. person doing business under Sr. ELLIOTT Undertaker VE. Shipping Funerals a fire for all occasions. or Night. DVIN RECTOR STREET, ALL AVENUE. General Director and Embalmer I am still doing business bringing the public for all past Carriage for hire for station given to all orders 7S Main Office. Manager. P. Phone: 585 Y-Madison. MONEY Chattels Lowest Rates N CO., For Monument St. 15c. Hand sewed, 60c ink Leather used. Druid Hill Avenne, EUREKA COMB CO. Price $1.50 Mrs. Mitchell's Im proved Hair Cream ...Stops Falling Hair... Makes Hair Grow Soft and Glossy Try it for Thin Places on Temples. Scalp Treatment and Hair Straightener. GN. I Druid Hill Avenue ended. MONEY... imore UNCLE SAMUEL is try that has the right he has, but we asso any number of the way to MAKE NEY at that WANT TO MAKE you have got to do is ice, 307 St. Paul St. of The Afro-Ameri- em, and any SMART LAMP CAP ```markdown ``` A "PROFESSIONAL YARD-CLEANER." When Dick came home from the Sunbeam Band one bright Sunday afternoon, he was "grumpy," as h.s sister Marie expressed it. His face was all twisted up into a frown instead of a smile, and he looked anything but a Sunbeam. "Why, dear me, what's the matter with Dick?" his mother exclaimed when she saw him. "Matter enough! Just look what Miss Nora gave us to put our money in," said Dick, showing her a tiny United States mail box to drop stray pennies in. "And where are any pennies to come from, I'd like to know; I'm in school all day, and then, I can't do anything like girls can—sell candy and stuff like that. It just drop out of the Sunbeam Band, that's all." Mamma looked serious, for indeed Dick had tried to earn extra pennies and had found it hard. There seemed few things for a boy of his age to do. And yet it would never do for him to leave the Sunbeam Band. What grief it would cause Miss Nora, who was so patient and kind. "I have one little job I would like done, but it isn't one you like to do," his mother said at last. "My back yard needs a general cleaning. These winter days it gets into a bad state. Will you clean it for me?" Now if there was anything that Dick hated to do it was to clean a yard. Nothing seemed so thirsty as to go about raking up piles of trash and picking up pieces of paper. He was about to say that he didn't think he would have time for a job of that kind, when something Miss Nora had said that afternoon came to him. "You may not find a pleasant way every time to earn the money for missions. But you should do it all the same." "I'll do it, mother," Dick said, hastily as if he were afraid he would clean his mind. "Why not be a professional yard-cleaner, making a sort of business of it on Saturday; hang up a sign to let people know you are willing to do that sort of work?" suggested his mother. Now Dick liked this. He liked businesslike ways, and the idea of a sign reading, "Dick Ellis, Professional Yard-Cleaner," pleased him. He would get it up in his best style, and he had a brand-new wagon that would make the work easier. By the next Sunday the sign hung bravely on the side of the yard and many passersby stopped to read and smiled as they went on. "I thought Dick was too much of a dandy to clean anyone's yard, even its mother," one neighbor said. "I'll call on him to put mine to rights next week." And she did, and so did several others; in fact, the telephone rang so often, and always for Dick, that the rest of the family refused to answer it. In fact, Dick had to employ a helper very soon: it seemed that yard-cleaning was not a popular occupation by any means. Dick looked very important with his overalls on and his tools flung over his shoulder. He found time to do little jobs now and then after school, and the cold crisp air was good for him—much better than sling about the fire reading a book, as he had done so many afternoons. And how his mail box overflowed, and how interested he became each week in counting up his savings? He had never before realized how pennies soon make dimes and that work of any kind if well done was pleasant. He grew strong and ruddy in the winter sunshine and his cheeks were red as apples sometimes. The whole street on which he lived took on a different appearance. Tin cans were rarely seen in th back yards and housekeepers began to plan for more vines and flowers when springtime came. since Dick promised to put the flower beds in order. "How did we ever get along in our town without a 'professional yard-cleaner'?" one lady said to him one day: "every town needs one." And Dick was pleased for he had solved the problem of earning all his mission money and learned that to be busy is to be happy and contented, whatever the work may be.—Baptist Boys and Girls. HONEY BEE AND THE ROSE. "Good morning, Red Rose," said Honey Bee as he flew up and lit on the rose bush. "Good morning," blushed Red Rose—she was very fond of Honey Bee. "Before I go to work," said the Honey Bee. "I would like to tell you what happened yesterday." The Red Rose threw off one of her outside petals and settled down to listen. She looked very beautiful, and the Honey Bee regarded her admiringly. "You are more beautiful each day," he said. "Go on with your story," said the Red Rose bashfully. "Well," began Honey Bee, "after I left you yesterday, I was flying along quite peacefully, when all of a sudden something whizzed right past me, almost striking me." "Oh, dear," said the Red Rose. then continued. "It didn't hit me, and after I had gotten over my surprise, I started after it. What do you think it was?" "I never could guess," said the Red Rose. "Lady Bug in her alrship," said the Bumble Bee. "I flew after her and went quite a long way with her. Red Rose grew quite pale with jealousy, and the Honey Bee, looking out of the corner of his eye, was quite pleased. "Do you like her better than you do me?" asked the Red Rose timidly, dropping her beautiful head very low. "My dear," said Honey Bee, "for me there is no one as sweet as Red Rose." The Red Rose raised her beautiful head, the Honey Bee stooped down and kissed her, then circled high in the air, delirious with delight, for the Red Rose had yielded to him from the very depths of her crimson heart one drop of her own sweetness.—Farmer Smith, in the New York Globe. A SCHOOL CARNIVAL. Last October our school held a carnival in honor of the Hudson-Fulton celebration and I thought perhaps you would like to hear about it. We held it in the basement, and when it was decorated with autumn leaves, flowers, cornstalks, lanters and banners it presented quite a festive appearance. Each class had a room or department, over which it had charge. The freshmen had a gypsy camp: the sophomores, a lunch room; the juniors, historical tableaus; and the seniors, the curios and the bank, which was the place where silver was changed into coppers, for nothing but pennies was accepted at the affair. Of course, there were other booths, where candy, fruit, flowers, fancy articles, etc., were sold, and besides these there was a Japanese tea room, an ice cream and cake parlor and an old oaken bucket. There ice cold punch was drawn up from the well, which looked quite natural in its dress of evergreens and brilliant leaves. There were, of course, many "fake" shows, which proved rather attractive. In the auditorium, however, two good fares were going on alternately, which were well worth seeing. When the visitors became tired there were many cosey corners where they could rest and enjoy the gay scene. Our carnival proved quite a success, for we netted a large sum, which, when divided among the associations, was a great benefit to each.—Winifred Flatman, in the New York Tribune. STORY OF THE PANSIES I want to tell you about my garden. I have cut a round bed, and in it planted pansies and geraniums, and in the centre a large bunch of August lilies. I keep the grass cut close about it, and it looks quite nice. I have picked hundreds of pansies this spring and given them away. I dearly love flowers, and my flower bed is my first thought in the morning after I uncover Polly. Perhaps the young readers would like to know the story I am told about the pansies. There are five leaves to the pansy, two are plain and three are of many colors. I am told that the colored leaves represent a mother and her two daughters, very much dressed; the plain ones are her step-daughters, who are dressed very much more plainly than her own daughters. I am sorry to think that step-mothers could be so partial. Pansies are affectionate little flowers, and love to be planted near the house. Mine are just under the dining room windows. They always turn their faces to the sun. We have had so much rain this spring it has made my garden grow fine.—Mary James, in the New York Tribune. "No, father, that isn't its head: that's its tail. Don't you see now?" So said a young daughter to her father as they stood at the aquarium, in front of a tank containing the four eyes, a sprightly and very pretty fish that grows to be three or four inches in length and comes from Bermuda. The foureyes, says The New York Fish, is a thin but deep-bodied little fish that swims on edge and that has on either side at the base of the tall a little round black spot suggesting an eye. Hence the name. To those unfamiliar with it fish appears to have four eyes, and it might be difficult at first to tell whether the little fish was going forward or backward. RIDDLES. How do bees dispose of their honey? They sell (cell) it. What is better than presence of mind in a railway accident? Absence of body. What colors were the winds and the waves in the storm? The winds blue (blew) and the waves rose. Why is a lover like a tailor? Because he presses his suit—Home Notes. There's a lot of hot air used in toy balloons and soaring eloquence exclaims the Boston Post. Doing nothing, preaches the Chicago Tribune, is learning to do wrong. Many educational authorities believe that fraternities in schools and colleges ought to be suppressed. Initiatives are said to have been responsible for the death or permanent injury of many a promising scholar. They certainly have been responsible for very much disorder and disgrace, admits the Philadelphia Ledger. The fault lies not with the fraternity, but with the individual. The cap and gown cannot change a rowdy disposition. These students of Wesleyan, guilty of disgraceful conduct at Saybrook, would have been hoodlums anywhere. They were not suddenly transformed into "muckers" under the aegis and cabalistic emblem of their Greek letter society. In his early days, Herr Arthur Nikisch, the famous conductor, who has been fulfilling some important London engagements, was appointed to conduct a performance of "Tannhauser" at the Leipsic opera, calls London Tit-Bits. He was buried a young chorus master at the time, and the orchestra absolutely refused to play under so youthful a conductor. They were only induced to do so when a director said that if they were of the same mind after the overture had been played, they could then and there hand in their resignations. The overture was a veritable triumph for Nikisch, and with profuse apologies the orchestra offered him their congratulations. Probably owing to discussion of the inefficiency of the Paris telephone system, caused by the prosecution of a well known Parisian actress for using expletives on the telephone to an exchange girl, the telephone regulations have been revised. Hitherto the subscriber using strong language to operators could be cut off from all communication without warning. Henceforth, proclaims the New York Tribune, the short tempered will receive an admonition on a first offence. On a second display of feeling they will be cut off for two days, while a series of personal complaints of a subscriber's language will lead to abrogation of the contract. Drivers of automobiles are doubtless to be commended for trying to steer their machines so as to avoid striking persons who are in the road, especially when they do so, as some have done, at the cost of wrecking the machines and endangering their own lives. But we must confess ourselves to be at a loss to understand the need of doing it. Why do they not stop the cars, since, as we are assured, that can be done easily and quickly, argues the New York Tribune. It has been said that a car running at top speed can be stopped within the distance of a few yards. Surely, then, a car running at the moderate pace required on city streets could be stopped in a few feet. That would be much better than frantically zigzagging and perhaps butting into other vehicles or lamp posts. "Dechurched districts" is a term employed in a report to the recent conference of Congregational church as to make visits from its tive of localities where the gospel is not preached. There are discoverable in that State, as the Boston Transcript learns from the proceedings of the conference, occasional districts having ten to twenty families which are entirely outside church and religious influences. These are at such distances from any active church as to make visits from its pastors impracticable. The committee which considered this field waiting for the missionaries recommended "intensive cultivation." to be supplemented during the winter months by stated visits at arranged intervals. This picture of the churchless condition of communities remote from established pulpits is an effective plan for diverting to them a portion of the large stream of contributions that flow toward the "heathen" of Asia and Africa. The very great decrease in typhoid fever in Philadelphia, says the Ledger, since the establishment of the filtration system is in harmony with general experience. According to a recent bulletin of the Vermont State Board of Health, the effect of change in the water supply in seven American cities has been to reduce the combined annual average death rate from typhoid fever by some 70 per cent. But it must not be forgotten that while polluted water is a main cause of epidemics of typhoid, it is not the only carrier. The same authority believes that about 80 per cent of all cases are borne by water or by milk. In the other 20 per cent the disease may be spread by the agency of flies, personal contact, shellfish raised in polluted waters, or fruit or vegetables raised in polluted soil. These various agencies will explain why filtration of the water alone does not entirely eradicate typhoid, while at the same time it is evident that this is the first and most important step in the suppression of the disease. It is only the wife who doesn't love her husband very much, submits the Portsmouth Star, who is satisfied when he ignores pretty speeches, no matter how prompt he may be with money. THE OLD RELIABLE DRESSING FOR KINNY OR CURLY HAIR. IT'S USE MAKES STUBBORN, HARSH HAIR SOFTER, MORE PLAXABLE AND GLOSSY, EASY TO COMB AND PUT UP IN ANY STYLE THE LENGTH WILL PERMIT. WRITE FOR TESTIMONIES, TELLING HOW THIS REMARKABLE REMEDY MAKES SHORT, KINNY HAIR GROW LONG AND WAYY. BEST POMADE ON THE MARKET FOR DANDRUFF, ITCHING OF THE SCALP AND FALLING OUT OF THE HAIR. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS, GET THE GENUINE, PUT UP IN 25* AND 50* BOTTLES WITH 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. 50* THE OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. 216 LAKE DEPT. N., 2 CHICAGO, IL. AGENTS WANTED. Western Siberia is seven times as large as the German empire. —CA MDENHOUSE— Formerly Brinkley's 225 and 227 West Camden Street Remodeled and refurnished with all modern conveniences. Baths, a specialty. Superb Restaurant. Furnished rooms 75c. and $100. furnished rooms for light house keeping $1.50 to $2.00 per week. Rooms with board $3.50 per week. Mrs. Leatha Smith, Prop. C. & P. Phone 3586-M St. Paul. BALTIMORE & OHIO R.R. Daily. Daily, except Sunday. $ Sunday only. Nationwide. L. M. Royal, L. Camden CHICAGO (via Pitta). Daily. Daily. GOOGLE GOOGLE. Daily. 4:14 P.M. 4:30 P.M. CINTE. ST. L. Daily. 4:14 P.M. 4:30 P.M. WHLG. Daily. 8:45 A.M. 8:45 A.M. CINTE. ST. L. Daily. 2:33 P.M. 3:00 P.M. CINTE. ST. L. Daily. 10:36 P.M. 11:30 P.M. PITTSBURG. Daily. 9:48 A.M. 9:48 A.M. PITTSBURG. Daily. 8:00 P.M. PITTSBURG. Daily. 11:32 P.M. 12:00 P.M. COLS. & WHLG. Daily. 4:14 P.M. 4:30 P.M. Trains "Every Hour on the Train" From Camden Station to Washington with Pullman Service. Earlier Departures from Mt. Royal Station. GO TO..... Louis Aidt's Shoe House For Your Shoes A full line of Ladies', Misses, Child Iren, Men, Boys and Youth For Shoes atReasonable Prices. Present the "ad" in this paper a ten (10) extra stamps will give with your purchase. A full line of Rubber Boots Iro-American-Ledger, Published Every Saturday AT THE AFRO-AMERICAN BUILDING, 307 Saint Paul Street. BY THE AFRO-AMERICAN CO. J. H. MURPHY, Manager. UP-TOWN OFFICE: 1320 Druid Hill Avenue. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year.....One Dollar Two Months.....Fifty Cents Three Months.....Twenty-five Cents Single Copy.....Three Cents Postage Prepaid by Publishers. Entered at the Baltimore Post Office second-class matter. We are not responsible for the return or preservation of unsolicited contributions on any subject. All articles sent to this office for publication, must have the writer's signature or otherwise such article will be ignored. Churches and others having news notices will please have the same in the office by Thursday to insure publication in the week's issue. Correspondents will please have all communications in the office by noon Wednesdays. All communications intended for publication should be addressed to THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER, 807 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, Md. Advertising rates made known on application. All Checks, Money Orders and Drafts should be made payable to The Afro-American Co. MD. PHONE 6891 W. O. & P. PHONE, ST. PAUL 8864 M- BALTIMORE, AUG. 13, 1910 Slowly but surely the Negro politician and officeholder is being eliminated from the South. Have you had your vacation yet? Better get it pretty soon for vacation time will soon be over. The personal column is booming these days. Folks want to let folks know that they are doing the summering places. Jersey justice should be short and built with the intended murderer of Mayor Gaynor. The sooner this class of individuals understand that there will be no delay in railroading them to prison with hard work back of it the sooner they will come to the conclusion that it won't pay to do this kind of trick. We often hear young men complaining that there is no opportunity opened to them to get a decent thing after coming out of school. I have ootur thought that there are plenty of opportunities lying round loose waiting for some one pick them up. Mr. W. H. J. Beckett had the same idea. Instead of waiting for opportunity to come to him, he n't after opportunity and got a triangle hold on it and now has opportunities hunting for him. Instead of beating along ruts he hitched out into a new field and the result is that it not being overcrowded he is enabled to take the best offered while others are beginning that the places they are looking after are either already occupied or too long standing. As we read on a card sometime too, "do not sit down and wait for a cow to come up and be milked, cup up and go after the cow." REMARKABLE MAN AND A REMARKABLE WORK. Among the many good and strong addresses made at the late Hampden Conference, was one by the venant Archdeacon James S. Russell principal of St. Paul's School, Lawville, Va. Possibly, there is no more interesting story of coercion work and achievement among prominent colored leaders than at which centers, around Archdeacon Russell. To begin with Archdeacon Russell was not "born in the hiscopic Church." When a young man, from the rural districts of Coldenburg county Virginia, and undergraduate of the Hampton school in the year 1878, he went own to Petersburg where he enter the training school for the Episcopal ministry. In 1882 he was origned a deacon, and went to forth to work. He was sent to Lawville in Brunswick, where he remained to this day. Brunswick is right in the very heart of the black Belt, "and in all the adjacnt counties there was no such institution as a "Colored Episcopal church." Lawrenceville, he organized St. Paul's, his first church. Today, through his labors and great influence there are six colored Episcopal churches alone in the county of Brunswick; seven in Mechlenburg, and three each in Lunenburg and Dinwiddie county, all adjoining the county in which he resides. In addition he has built up at Lawrenceville, the largest Negro institution under the auspices of the Episcopal Church, having in attendance about five hundred pupils, being an industrial school after the model of Hampton. About six years ago he instituted among the colored farmers of the county, an annual "Farmers' Conference," which has exerted a most remarkable influence on our people in all the surrounding counties. At the late Farmers Conference, held in July, Archdeacon Russell, its president, recounting the progress made, stated that the total valuation of real and personal property for the county of Brunswick, of our people was six years ago, $325,000; now $515,209.15. Number of acres owned then, 40,500; now, 54,000. The Negroes of the county own a little over one-seventh of the land area of the county, and one sixth of its taxable values. Very striking and interesting is the showing with respect to the criminal conditions in that county among the Negroes. Six years ago the criminal expenses amounted to $1,944.20; now, $954. a decrease of more than one-half. The county jail stood open for a half a year, and until March of this year there were only two prisoners. Only one murder was committed in the county during this year, and neither the victim or his murderer were natives of either the county or State. Archdeacon Russell is a very quite, modest and reticent man, but his good work proves him a most effective worker, indeed. It is just such records of the ordinary country youth, without great magnetism or wonderful personal charms, which contribute so much to inspire the aspiring young men of the race. WHAT ABOUT OUR SABBATH? Less than a generation ago such men as Craft, Cook, Meridith, King and many others saw the drift in public sentiment and life, toward the oriental Sabbath, and they fell ahtwart the track of Sabbath dissertation, and for a while in certain quarters arrested the drift. In some cities street cars were stopped on the Sabbath and the shops were closed. Sunday was really a day of peace and rest, such as the Creator ordained that it should be. Many persons who cannot now, went to church then and were improved in their moral and religious life; for in the preaching of the Word they learned their duty both to God and their fellowman. The Sabbath was a sort of oasis in life's desert, where their minds and souls were watered and refreshed, and on Monday morning, with high and noble thoughts filling their minds, they went back to labor and toil with high resolves to live and do better than they had ever done before. The Sabbath was a blessed day in the family for the toiler and the cottager; for on the quiet of the Sabbath they had a little time with those they loved who had a little or no opportunity for fellowship, with them in the work days of the week. But all of this is changed. The Christian Sabbath is gone, and with it is going all the moral leverage of the good old days, when whole families from the workman's home sat down together in the church for Christian instruction. Today, traffic does not stop on the Sabbath, but on all the public carriers, extra effort has to be made to move the crowds hurrying on in the search for pleasure. Nearly every open field furnishes its compliment of baseball players, while the parks and playgrounds are full of pleasure-seekers from early morning till late in the night. Churches, Sunday Schools, Epworth Leagues, B. Y. P. U.'s and Christian Endeavors Societies have all been deserted and the people, young and old, are gone. So the Christian Sabbath, one of the footing stones of a Christian nation is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Now does this mean anything? You have only to read the daily record of thefts, murders, suicides, divorces and kindred crimes, to see that the nation is rapidly losing its moral conscience. The going of the Christian Sabbath is reflecting itself in the lax moral life of the nation. Unless somehow we shall be able to hold the nation face to face with the decalogue and the Sermon on the Mount. We are going to see a continuation of the present deterioration of public morals until some Luther or Savanoralla again rises to call the nation back to Christ. Today things are going from bad to worse as to the Christian Sabbath, and there is apparently no protest, either from the great nails of the land or the pulpit. not time that the press and pulpit began to sound the alarm against Sabbath discursion? HOW HE EMPLOYS HIS VACATION President Taft is taking a vacation and devoting his spare time to playing golf. Now playing golf is not by any means a bad way of spending one's time, and to it we have not the slightest objection, and if that was all perhaps this editorial would not have been written. But while all this is going on something else is going on at the same time. Chopping of Negro officeholders' heads seems to be on a par with playing golf, and probably with the President, is mere pastime. But off they come just the same. With a few possible exceptions, scattered here and there at long and rare intervals, every prominent Negro who held office in the South has been compelled to walk the plank by the pirate-that sits in the White House at Washington. He is surely carrying out his plan of obliterating the Negro from Federal politics in the South. And the South? Well it is laughing in its sleeve at a Republican President removing Negro office holders without the possibility of carrying one Southern State. And so the good work goes on. Where are now the Negro newspapers who fought, so hard and were calling names because certain independent editors would not be caught in the trap of supporting a "lily white" for President? Eating crow we suspect. THE PEOPLE'S FORUM. THE PEOPLE'S FORUM. FREDERICK VOTERS NEED NO ADVICE. EDITOR OF THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEEDER The colored voters of Frederick county note that one of our leading race journals of Baltimore has seen fit to advise us to unite upon one H. B. Warner of Montgomery county as our Congressional candidate. We resent such interference on the part of outsiders and consider it a reflection upon our intelgence to be advised by those who have no political suffrage in this matter. The colored voters of this district are capable of selecting their own candidate and even the political bosses of the several counties dare not dictate to whom they should support. Their intelligence and political independence have always been manifest for the good of the race, and we will never look upon Warner as the proper type of man to represent this district. Who is H. B. Warner any way? The editor of this paper should know and ought to know that he was one of those serving upon the Committee of Arrangements for the International Sunday School Union which convened in Washington last spring who discriminated against colored children participating in the street parade. The voters of this district remember this insult and even if the white men should nominate him the colored men will take pride in defeating him. NOTED MASON DEAD Suddenly on Thursday, August 11th, about 3.30 p. m., Charles Doughty, citizen, churchman, citizen and prominent in fraernal organizations, dropped out at his home 225 Myrtle avenue, of acute lodgement, in his 43rd year. The deceased, on the night before complained of feeling unwell, but the next morning lound him at work. He, however, was obliged to leave his work, and started for home, arriving just in time to reach home, falling dead in the yard. The deceased was an active worker in Leadenhall Street Baptist church, serving various important offices for seventeen years. Not only was Mr. Doughty a prominent worker in religious and civil affairs, but was a Mason of high rank and good fellowship with the entire craft. His popularity can be attested by the following Orders and positions in each which he filled and great honor to the craft and himself. P. M.-King David Lodge, No. 18, F. and A. M. P. H. P.-Celestial Chapter, No. 3, and present M. E. Grand High Priest of Himn Holy Royal Arch Grand Chapter, R. A. M. Member of Alpha Council No. 1, R. and S. M. -P. C. C.-Rising Sun Commandery. No. 1, Knights Templar, and present treasurer. Member of Jerusalem Temple, No. 4, A. E. A. O. Nobles of Mystic Shrine and of Hiram Ousistory, and No. 4, A. A. S. R. of F. M. Mr. Doughty is survived by a wife and two children, who were visiting in Virginia at hs death; a mother Mrs. Dinah Doughty and four sisters: The funeral will take pace from Leadenhall St. Baptist Church, Sunday afternoon. AFTER NEEDHAM'S SCALP. Washington, Aug. 10.—Lawyer W. C. Martin has announced his candidacy f for the office of Grand Secretary of the G. U. O. of F. subject to the decision of B. M. C., which meets next month in Baltimore. The present incumbent, Jares F. Needham, about eight VIRGINIA FARMERS MAKE GOOD SHOWING Hold Sixth Annual Session and Show Large Increase in both Land and Money. (Special to Afro-American.) Lawrenceville, Va., Aug. 5—The St. Papil Farmer's Conference closed its sixth annual session last week with a total attendance for the two days of over 2500. All sections of the county were represented. The principal feature of the meeting was the annual address 6. President Russell Recounting the progress since the conference began to operate, he said the total valuation of real and personal property had increased almost $200,000 and the number of acres owned increased by 14,000. Three years ago, criminal prosecutions were 124, last year, 18. The speaker also said the jail stood open for half a year and until March 15 this year there were only two prisoners. The lack of prisoners has caused the sheriff in the revenue of the sheriff for feeding the prisoners that he declares the crimes is about to starve him out. He decided that the Negroes of the county owned a little over one-seventh of the land area of the county and one-sixth of the taxable values. In the four years of the school extension work. President Russell said that nearly $1300 had been raised by self-taxation. Other addresses were delivered by Bishop Strange, of East Carolina and Dr. Allen W Freeman, Assistant State Health Commissioner. WILMINGTON NEWS. A Large Number of People Going Away For The Summer. Special to the AFEO-AMERICAN LEDGER Wilmington, Del., August 11—Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Brown are spending their vacation at Atlantic City. Mr. Thomas J. Johnson and daughter, Aletha, lest last Wednesday to visit Washington and other points South. Mrs. Olivia Pryor, of Washington, is visitig her daughter, Mrs. George H. Morris. Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Smith of Philadelphia, have returned home after having a pleasant stay as the guests of their mother Mrs. Laura B. Young. Mrs. V. W. A仕ins spent Sunday in Baltimore. Rev. Benjamin Briggs spent Satur day and Sunday in Philadelphia. Mrs. Laura B. Young and daughter Miss Mary Byard are spending a week in Philadelphia. Miss Clemos A. Millis has returned from Centreville, Md., where she was the guest of Rev. and Mrs. J. E. A. Jolins. Mrs. Martha E. Frazier spent Saturday in Philadelphia as the guest of her sister, Mrs. Helen R. Gray. Mrs. Mary Washington, of 1006 French street, is visiting friends in Washington. MANY VISITORS AT CAMBRIDGE. (Special to Afro-American Ledger.) Cambridge, Md., Aug. 10—Mrs. C. H. Fowler and daughters Ruth and Esther, and Miss Blanch Woodland, of Baltimore, were the guests of Mrs. H. M. StClair last week. Miss Lillie M. Henry has returned from an extended trip to Atlantic City. Miss Hattie Tilghman, of Easton, is visiting her sister, Mrs. John Matthews. Miss Mary L. Camper and Mr. Robert Farrow will return home Sunday morning after visiting relatives in Atlantic City and Philadelphia. Mr. John Matthew, of High street, who has been quite sick is convalescing. PRESS ASSOCIATION TO HOLD MEETING Negro Editors and Writers Will Discuss Practical Newspaper Problems In New York. (Special to Afro-American Ledger.) New York, August 11—The National Negro Press Association, which was organized at Louisville, Ky., last August, as an affiliated body of the National Negro Business League, will hold its second annual session in this city on Tuesday, August 16. The exercises will begin at 10 o'clock in the Metropolitan Building, corner 46th street and 8th avenue. The program for the day will embrace discussion of practical new-paper problems by eminent members of the craft, and at night a public meeting will be held, which will be addressed by a number of the leading thinkers and orators of the country. The widespread publications in connection with the National Negro Business League, with its reduced transportation rates and numerous social phased by the Press Association. The general headquarters of the Association will be at the Hotel Maceo, 53d street, where a bureau of information will be e-tablished. Mr. R. W. Thompson, of Washington, is president; and Kev R. H. Boyd, of Nashville, Tenn., is corresponding Notes for this column addressed to Mr. Beckett, care of this office, will receive careful attention.—Ed. Take some form of outdoor recrea- tive exercise. What has your vacation done for you in the way of building a strong body? A good heart, strong lungs, perfect digestion and regular habits sustains life. A coat of tan is not the full measure or a physical benefit from a summer vacation. Parents and Neighborhood Day was held at School No. 106 Playground, Hill street, near Sharp. Thursday, August 11th. The occasion was well attained. Ring and athletic games were indulged in by the children, and Mr. Hawkins addressed the children and their parents. A pleasant evening was enjoyed by all who attended. School No. 100, Saratoga and Mount streets, held a Playground Festival. The neighborhood was there in goodly numbers. The boys and girls were very enthusiastic in their ring and athletic games. The affair was well attended and considerable interest manifested in the work. Carey Street Playground will hold a Playground Fete, Thursday, Aug. 18th, from 4 to 7 P. M. Songs, folk games and athletic contests will be one of the features of the program. The Silvery Moon Quartet is to render several slections. The friends and interested folks are invited to attend. Mr. Henderson is director. Come, come and bring a baby to the Playground Occasion and Baby Show at Jefferson St. Playground, Thursday, August 18th. The occasion promises to be the finest of its kind and many are expected to attend. Prizes will be given to the most popular baby, the largest and the prettiest. Mrs. Cooper and Mr. McDaniels are arranging the games and special features. Carey Street whitewashed the Druid Hill Park lads in voiley, playground and dodge ball games. The Carey Streeters were in full force to meet the Parkites but few appeared. Playground ball (large boys) 27-7. Playground ball (small boys) 11-5. Volley ball (large boys) 20-2. Dodge ball—forfeited to Carey St. Gans has held the respect of the sporting world. His ability as a fighter and ring general was unexcelled. Its everything to do what you are doing, do it well and be the best. The world mourns his loss, he'll be missed but not forgotten. Johnson will keep in the limelight. The sporting world awaits his next move. The Baltimorees are playing championship ball and if they keep it up somebody will see the Eastern League pennant floating to the zephyrbreezes in the Monumental City. Mount Street administered defeat to the Hill Street boys August 6th No. 110 Playground is in the lead of the Southwest group. No. 112 is leading the Northeast group. The schedule is not yet completed, and the question is who will play the final? The championship games will be played August 29th at Druid Hill Park Playground. The Cheasapeake Giants, Brooklyn Working Men's Club, Maryland Athletic Club, Smart Set and Trinity are giving Ba tumore a chance to see what colored ball teams can do. Why not these teams form a league next season? A fine thing, organize. The Trinity Sunday School team defeated the Working Men's Athletic Club of Brooklyn, July 20th, to the tune of 13 to 8, and the Roland Park Star on July 29th, 19 to 7. We will accept challenges from all uniformed teams. James Brooks, manager, 533 Presstman street. The closing Play Festival of the colored playground will be held August 29th. The public is invited to attend; full details will be given later. Get a prize boys, win a prize. Athletic prizes will be given the boys at Druid Hill Park, August 29th. The best runners, jumpers and ball "Come on let us go down to Brown's Grove, this afternoon," said Teddy as we were dreaming over the Sunday paper last Sunday afternoon. "What in the world do you want to go down there for today?" was our reply. "It is too hot to go to Sunday School, and I must just go somewhere, and that is as good a place as I know anything about," was Teddy's reply. And of course, as usual there was nothing to do, but get up and go, and so after getting our dinners we took a street car bound for Miller's Wharf. "All off for Brown's Grove," was the shout of the conductor, to our surprise on reaching the corner of Lancaster and Caroline streets. We did not know that the street car conductors were that much interested in their colored passengers to tell them when to get off to go to a colored pleasure resort. Reaching the wharf we found the boat well filled. Rev. Williams had advertised a day's meeting at the grove, but we did not know it. And so after waiting a good while for the stragglers to come we were off. A fine breeze was blowing, and Teddy sought out a good place and securing seats we were soon enjoying the delightful breeze from the headwaters of the Chesapeake Bay. The ride down was delightful, and as we blew the smoke from our fragrant Havanas, we were at peace with the world. The grove was reached in remarkably short time, for the Starlight is a swift boat, and we went ashore. Did we find a meeting in full blast? Not at all. The dining pavilion was the Mecca of all and the way chicken and other edible were being destroyed looked like the people had just come there for that particular purpose. The flying horses and other amusements were in full blast, and even a few persons were enjoying themselves in the skating rink, but we heard nothing of any consequence that sounded like a church service. "Not much church business here," said Teddy, and he was right at least for once in his life. We however took in the grove and its surroundings and it safe to say that there is no proposition owned by colored people in Baltimore and vicinity that deserves more credit that does the Steamer Starlight and Brown's Grove. Teddy is a very restless fellow and not being satisfied to sit around and look at other people he wanted to take a motor boat ride, and so we approached Mr. Abraham White, who is in charge of that department and we were soon whirling around Rock Creek and exploring its many nooks and crauys. Returning we went on the boat for the return trip. Mr. Brown informed us that he had carried on his boat during the month of June 29,000 people. And Teddy said: "My that's a crowd." Teddy was hungry and as the committee had prepared nothing to feed the people on their return trip, he went after Mr. Brown, and told his tale of woe. Accommodatingly, Mr. Brown soon had us sitting in the dining room with a fine Porter house beefsteak before us, and were correspondingly happy. Arriving again at the wharf the Starlight discharged its over 800 passengers, and tired and sleepy we wended our way home. Teddy says he is going again, and most likely he will. ANTIOCH BAPTIST CHURCH GIVES The annual excursion of the Antioch Baptist church to the Greater Brown's Grove. August 5th, 1910, was a great success, every member of the church, with but few exceptions rendered their best service. And even nature itself seemed to have been in harmony with the occasion for no better day for pleasure has 1910 given to the world than last Friday. The whole crowd was one loving, family so far as place and pleasure go. We heartily thank our many friends who took part with us. Rev. R. T. Reed, B. Th., Pastor. players: Everybody has a chance. Ask your playground director to enter your name. Do it now, you are a winner. Mrs. Mitchell warns all customers against an imitation of her excellent hair cream. I employ no agent to sell from door to door, without prooo's. There are other hair goods but none like mine doing the work. Yours truly, Mrs. I. W. Mitchell. [Name] GAME FIGHTER LOSES OUT IN HIS FINAL BOUT Joe Gans, who for seven years was the undisputed lightweight champion of the world, died at the home of his foster mother 1026 Argyle avenue at 808 A.M. Wednesday, surrounded by his devoted and loving wife, his kind, loving and affectionate foster mother, his children Jimmy and Julia, his faithful chum "Kid" North, and his nurse, the old master gave up his brave struggle and passed to the great beyond. For four or five months he had striven to resist the ravages of the "white plague" brought on, it is supposed by frequent training for his battles. When advised by his physician that a trip to the West would benefit him, accompanied by his wife he left Phoenix, Arizona. Finding this point against him, he went to Prescott, where it was cooler; at this place his condition varied until he gradually but surely gave evidence that his case was hopeless. When he realized this he determined to die in Baltimore, surrounded by wife, mother, children and friends. Notwithstanding the risk, he left Prescott accompanied by his wife and Dr. Southcomb, a specialist, and the race with death began. Several times during the trip it was feared that he would die, but with native grit and determination which has characterized his many battles, he warded off the monster and arrived at his native home on Friday afternoon; the 5th ins. He was able to greet his waiting mother with a smile, and to grasp the hand of many of his friends. He lived just five days, long enough to gratify his ambition—attend to his affairs of business -- turn his thoughts to things "above," to sing, pray and make his peace with his God. What a consolation to wife, mother, children and friends to know that under the ministration of Rev. C. G. Cummings, who was with him daily, and Revs. Alfred Young and F. R. Williams, this brave little champion, almost in this dying breath sang: "I Am So Glad That Jesus Loves Me." Joe Gans was born in Baltimore 34 years ago. He arose from humble surroundings. He worked around the fish markets and was always regarded as a boy of exceptional qualities. He began his ring career early in life, at the old Monumental Theatre, where he showed signs of becoming the great boxer, which he afterwards became. Encouraged by his success, his ambition was to become the champion of his class. Under the shrewd management of "Al" Herford, his friend and manager, he began to ascend round by round the ladder of fame until he reached the goal and won the championship by knocking out Frank Erne at Fort Erie in two seconds of the first round, a feat unknown before or since in the history of the prize ring. For more than seven years he defended his title against all comers, and lost it only when nature succumbed to the severe tests it had been put to in former training and battles. He lost to Bartling Nelson. Joe Gans is by all odds the most remarkable boxer who ever put on a mit—a general in the ring with unnerring eye and cat-like agility, cool, calm and determined whether in or out of a mix-up; serupulously fair, who of those who have seen him go, have not applauded, as he lifted his fallen loe? Gentlemanly in deportment, free from boasting, a stranger to brawls and fist fights—to sum it all up, he was a gentleman: Whether he had the advantages of much education or not, he did not show it. He was a brightminded, shrewd business man. This is fully shown when he started out to do not only his fighting but to be his own manager. During the two or three years that he managed his affairs he earned more than $100,000. He made and spent several fortunes, but was wise enough to die leaving a hotel; The Goldfeld, a monument to his memory, and in addition to leave sufficient to care for his wife, mother and children. His popularity could in no way be better demonstrated than by the thousands white and colored, high in official life and lowly in the world all classes who journey to his mother's home to take the last sad look at their idol, the great, little boy who had brought name and fame to himself and his native city. His funeral will take place from Whatcoat Church, in which his body lay in state from 8 00 A. M. to 12 noon, and viewed by thousands. The funeral services will begin at 1 00 o'clock and be conducted by Rev. Carroll G. Cummings assisted by Rev. Alfred Young and Rev. Frank R. Williams. Rev. Cummings, under whose ministrations the deceased became converted, spoke feelingly of his last days and testified to the factof his conversion. The Elks and Pythians will guard the body and served as active pallbearers. The honorary pallbearers were, "Al" Herford, "Kid" North, Caleb Barnes City Councilman Harry S. Cummings, Thomas R. Smith, Wallace L. Smith, Jacob C. Nicholson, Eddie Meyers, Harry, Lyons, John T. Hawkins, J. L. Louderman, Alfred Haines. FUNERAL TAKES PLACE TODAY. 7 30 A. M. Rev. C. G. Cummings will conduct a short service at his late residence for the family and a few friends. 8 00 A. M. to 12 noon, the body will lie in state in Whatcoat M. E. Church, Pine and Franklin streets. The following order of service will be in charge of Rev. Gummings; 9 H仪犹istic services by Monumental Lodge, No. I.B.P.O.E.W. and Knights of Pythians. 10 "I Am So Glad That, Jesus Loves Me," choir, and congregation. 11 Interment in Mount Auburn CALLS AT THE AMERICAN EMBASSY IN OLD LONDON Continued from Page 1. them little things thinking I would get stylish and he beck for manners. The people passed and looked at me with all them things around me, and one woman said something to me. Don't ask me that she said, because I do not know, but she rubbed my head with her hand and said something. I think she was feeling sorry for me, because she returned with a bottle of lemonade for me. Well I got, on the outside of it, and get up and walked around. It took three hours to cross, and the sickness has not reached me yet. Getting off at Ostend, in Belgium, the man carried off my case, and it went before a big man who said something to me. I opened it, and he asked me a question. I do not know what he said, but I answered no, and he put a chalk mark on my grip and I closed it up, and the man started out with it. This is the first time I had met with hotel runners, and I tell you they were by the hundreds seemingly, and all wanted me to go their hotel. Some could talk English and others could not. They were pulling after me, and two men got into a fight over me. I stopped here and asked "Whom am I?" I never had all this fuss made over me at home. I thought that I had turned into Koosevelt. At last I accepted the invitation to stop at one hotel. I stopped at hotel Royal Du Phare; which fronted on the channel, and just facing the lighthouse. It is a beautiful place. It is a beautiful place. I cordially received. It looked as if the whole hotel turned out to receive the "Gentleman from America." I was escorted to my room on the second floor, from the window I could look out at at the lighthouse and view the dancing waters and listen to the sweet music sent forth from the hillows. I dressed for dinner, and was soon down sending more good things into eternity. They had two waiters serving me, and my dinner was served in courses. The dining room was right on the street, so to speak, and hundreds of people gathered around the window to see me eat. I had a fine time looking at them and they seemed to have a fine time looking at me. Dinner was over and then out in the street. As I walked the streets great crowds followed me. I went in a store where the woman could speak English, and purchased a few small things from her, then went to a band concert in the public square. I attracted more attention than the band. People wanted to walk with me, ladies sought to get acquainted with me, but I could not understand what they are saying, and I just looked at them, but acted friendly. I accepted an invitation to go with some ladies to a fine concert. The orchestra was composed of 500. They had some singing and reciting, but I did not understand it. After the concert was over I was followed by another one on me remaining, and some of them fine dressed ladies wanted to have a dance with me, but I could not go in this time, and had to decline. I reached my hotel about 2 o'clock in the morning, sit up for a while looking out at the water, and then went to bed. While sitting there alone, I thought "Here I am thousands of miles away from friends, and relatives. Not a soul here knows me and I do not know a one of them. Here I am in this country alone. No one to speak English. I then look at my passport, and said I thank God I am an American man. I thank God I am a protector me here." 6 o'clock next morning some one knocked on the door and told me to get up, as I was going to catch a train at 7 o'clock for Brussels. I went down and had breakfast, and was soon in the bus off for the station. Several hundred people were at the station to see me off the next morning. I was seated in a carriage, with a large chair. All along the the ride the people looked at me. Traveling first-class made them think that I was some big king or something else, and I was really a show once in my life. Brussels was reached about 9:30, and I purchased a ticket and went to Antwerp for an hour or two. I walked around the streets and then returned to Brussels. I was met at the station by a young man, who presented me with Exposition tickets, and of some one. I did not understand him, but he carried me to a large hotel. I went out to see the town, and was soon on my way to the Exposition. Some one sent a carriage for me. I went out to see the Exposition, but could not understand the people. I just looked wise. It seemed that all the sideshows wanted to have me visit them. At this place I was made to feel like shouting, for this is the first time I had seen any member of my race, since I left Dr. Robinson in London, and when I went in one of the shows there I found some American gentlemen, making good in music. They were Samuel Taylor, Robert Henry Jones, Dave Brown, Thornton Burkley, Samuel Marshall, Robert Jackson and Gus Belsigsee. I was glad to see them and they had to stop playing to shuffle hands with them. The children little, who rushed up and shook hands with me, and said, "We are niggers and white folks down in Georgia, but we are all one here." I did not reply to him. He wanted me to have a drink with him, but I am not the drinking man. He saw that the big white people were making so much over me, he wanted to edge in, but could not. Well I got around the Exposition and then returned to my hotel, and went out to see the sights of Brussels. It was a very beautiful city, and the things I saw that night in Brussels: I had an opportunity to study life in that city, and I am prepared to talk about some few things when I return home. I thought I knew something, but I was mistaken. I did not know much. I think I am educated now, and will teach school. I will be no longer Col. Midnight, but believe I will be "Prof." Midnight in the future, for I have been to school. Paris. While I could not speak French and the like, still" was able to make them understand what I wanted, and I am doing all this getting around alone. I went to bed, as I was good and tired. I was disturbed sometime in the morning by a man who came into my carriage, and disturbed my sleep. He said something, and went on, and then another one came in and said something and I said yes, but that did not satisfy him, and he said something else, pointing at my suit case, making a sign for me. I was well made, but I make him understand, and he could not make me, but I got up opened it, and he passed on, and then another one came in and looked in, asking me something, and I said "No. No," and he passed on, and nothing else disturbed me until I reached Paris the next morning. I am now in Paris, and I think I will bring this letter to a close. I will spend the next letter in writing about Paris, London, Leeds, and return to America. I will soon be home. In fact I will be in America when you read this letter. EASTON NOTES Easton Base Ball Team Has Made An Enviable Record. Easton, Md., Aug. 10—A number of excursionists to tak advantage of a delightful trip on Sunday from Dover Bridge to Easton Point on the Steamer Avalon. "The Easton baseball team has won ten games this season, lost two and tied one. They are considered the fastest aggregation of ball players on the Eastern Shore. Mr. Walter Blackwell is spending some time in Baltimore. Camp began at Dixon's woods last Sunday. August 7th and will continue during the month. Mary L. Murray left this week for Salisbury, as the guest of her aunt, Mrs. James F. Steward. Leaves Fortune to Charity. Edward J. Faten, the well-known colored caterer, who died last week in his home, 213 Richmond street, left the bulk of his estate, said to be worth nearly $50,000 for the founding of an institution in Prince Georges county to be known as the Edward James Faten Industrial, Agricultural and Collegiate School, for the education of members of his race and for the shelter of aged men and women. The will was filed in the Orphans Court this week, but it is to be contested by the sister of the testator, Mrs. Harriet Brown, who filed a petition through Attorney Alva A. Lamkin, requesting that the paper be not admitted to probate until she has a chance to testify. The proposed school would be situated on what is known as Independence Farm, in Prince Georges county. The place consists of 500 acres. The farm is left in trust for that purpose to Rev. Daniel G. Hill, Rev. William Alexander, Rev. Geo. F. Brown, jr., Rev. W. A. C. Hughes Milton Johnson and Robert Stanley, of this city, and Rev. Edward F. Eggkston, of Newark, N. J., and Solonon T. Houston, of Salisbury, Md. The school according to the will, is to be open to colored people at the least possible cost. To assist in its establishment the property of the Mr. Faten, situated in Catniosville, Baltimore city, Green Spring Valley, Philadelphia and in Cumberland county, Va., shares of stock in the Commonwealth Bank and his personal property are to be sold. The will provides that the house at 213 Richmond, street, is to be torn down and another erected at a cost of not more than $1,500, for his sister, Mrs. Brown. Bequests amounting to about $400 are made to other relatives. Mr. Faven was a widower and had no living children. The Funeral of Mrs. Ellias. The funeral of Mrs. Louise Ellias, who died as the sun was sitting on Sunday evening, July 24th, was solemnized at her home, "Floral Bower," on Thursday, July 28th, and was largely attended. The reception room, library, parlors and enclosed verandas, being filled with sympatizing friends, the body rested in the music room in a rosewood casket, heavily pannelled and covered with uncut silk velvet, with massive silver handles and plaques. The deceased was robed in a black satin princess gown with lavender satin front bordered with round point lace and looked strikingly like-like, and beautiful with a peaceful smile as if sleeping. The floral tributes were numerous and beautiful. At the cemetery the daughters lined the grave and casket with flowers, wishing their mother to rest in a bed of roses. The Great Day's Meeting at Conochaeque Island, under the auspices of the executive board of Zion and Freewill Baptist Churches, was held last Sunday, August 9th. Services were conducted by Rev. Chas. Plater, assisted by Mrs. Plater; three conversions were made. Forty-five hundred persons came to the meeting over the Norfolk, Western and Cumberland Valley R. R., one thousand in vehicles and automobiles. To lead this large assemblage, one thousand and fifteen fowls were used, and then this was not enough to supply their wants after two o'clock. JOHN WESLEY M. B. CHURCH JOHN WEDDY M. B. CHURCH Sharp and Montgomery Sts. Rev. W. H. Gaines, D. D., Pastor. 9.30 A. M., and 2.30 P. M. S. S. 11 A. M., Sermon by Pastor. 8.00 P. M., Sermon by the Pastor Everybody welcome. Mr. E. Hughes, S. S. Supt. 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. 11 A. M., Sermon by Rev. I. H. Wilson. 5 P. M., Open-air Service, Chest- nut and Low streets. '8 P. M., Sermon by Rev. John P. James. Strangers cordially welcomed. EASTERN M. E. CHURCH McElderry St. & Patterson Park Av. Rev. James H. Jenkius, Pastor. 11 A. M., Sermon by Rev. John M. Barnes. 5.00 P. M., Open-air Meeting on Duncan street near McElderry St. 8 P. M., Sermon by Rev. John M. Barnes. J. W. Jones, Supt. S. S. J. M. Barnes, Pres. E. L. WHATCOAT M. E. CHURCH, Franklin and Pine Sts. "King's Hill" Rev. Alfred Young, Pastor. 11 A. M., Sermon by the Pastor. 3 P. M., Sunday School, W. C. Tongue, Sunt. 3.30 P. M., Baby Rally. All babies in the city are invited to be present. Singing, speaking and crying, Mrs. Jamie Thomas, Mrs. Mary West, Mrs. C. Beaty, Committee 8 P. M., Sermon by Pastor: subject, Ethiopia has Stretched Forth Her Hand. On Aug. 14th, Dr. A. Young will preach the great Rail Road Sermon at Bynum Camp Ground on the Md. and Pa. R. R. GREEN SPRING M. E. CHURCH, 8 P. M., Communion of the Lord's Supper. At which time the General Rules will be read. Mr. S. S. Oliver. Supt. Mrs. Jane Milligan, P.E. L. 1200 Druid Hill Avenue. Grace Presbyterian Church, 5 P. M., Kev. Jones Watkins and congregation will be present: Mrs. M. E. Murphy, Pres. Miss E. E. Bright, Sec'y: The Annual Camp for Magothy M. E. Church, in Anne Arundel Co., Md., will open in the grove, August 28th, and will close Monday morning, Sept. 5th. Tickets can be obtained from the following persons: Rev. H. A Carroll, 1343 Carey street; Mrs. Tilda Butler, 2218 Eight street; Mr. John Tyler, 1157 Whatcoat street, and Capt. George Brown at the wharf. The Starlight will leave Mille's Wharf, both Sunday, August 28th and Sept. 4th, for the camp at 8:00 and 11.30 A.M. 2.30 and 5 P.M. Returning will leave the head Rock Creek at 7 and 11.30 P.M. for Baltimore. And will return on Monday morning, Sept. 5th, leaving the head of Rock Greek at 12 noon. Sunday, Aug. 28th, at 11 A.M., preaching by Rev. Alfred Young, pastor of the King's Hill. Tickets can be had from Rev. Young. At 3 P.M., by Rev. William H. Gaines, pastor of John Wesley M. E. Church. Ticket can be secured from Brother Gaines. Thursday, Sept. 1st, preaching by Rev. Moses Lake, pastor from Sparrows Point. Preaching by strang ers all day. The grand march will commence Monday, September 5th at 5 A.M. The camp will close with general experience meeting. Rev. H. A. Carroll, Pastor. Rev. Joseph Wheeler, D. S. of the Anaapolis District. Baby Show And Fair. Bring the Babies! Popular babies! Fat Babies! Prstty Babies! Babies! Babies! Babies! Bring a baby if you have to borrow a Baby. The baby selling the highest number of tickets will receive the first prize; the greatest baby the second prize, the prettiest baby the third prize. Fancy Articles and Refreshments for sale. WATERS A. M. B. CHURCH Aisquith St., near Jefferson. Rev. Dr. D. P. Seaton. Pastor. 11 A. M., The Pastor will preach Subject: "Christian Steadfastness" 2.00 P. M., Sunday School. 8.00 P. M., The pastor will preach subject: "True Friendship." Rev. David Johnson, Pastor The Class Leaders of Baltimore, and their classes are cordially invited to be present at a reunion of Class Leaders at 3 00 P. M., to witness a special sermon by Rev. C. H. Stepthean, P. E., of Potomac District under a 50 feet canvass on lot opposite the church on Carroll street. Edward Sprrell, Supt. EBENEZER A. M. E. CHURCH Rev. J. W. Norris, Pastor 11.00 A. M., Sermon by Pastor 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 8.00 P. M., Song Service. Classes—Sunday at 6 A. M., Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 8 Herbert Frisby, Supt. Lincen Ave. and Biddle St. Rev. A. L. Gaines, D. D., Pastor. 11 A. M., Sermon by Pastor 2.30 P. M., Suncay School session, 8 P. M., Special Services. Speaker. Prof. D. J. Jordan, of North Carolina. T. J. Holliday, Supt. PENNA. AVE. A. M. E. ZION CHURCH, Penna. Ave. near Dolphin Street Rev. J. Harvey Anderson, D. D., Ph. D. Pastor. 11 A. M., Preaching by the Pastor subject: "The Cry of Despair." 2.30 P. M., Sunday School Mrs. Anna Perry, Supt. 3 P. M., Sermon to Naval Forces of the Sept. Rally, by Rev. Roy Mohr; Mrs. Anna Perry, Commander. 4.00 P. M., Class Meeting. 800 P./M., sermon by Pastor, subject: "Walking on the Bottom Sea." All are welcome. Steward's Day. 10.00 A. M. Class Meeting. 11.00 A. M., Rev. Taylor. 2.00 P. M., Sunday School. 6.30 P. M., Praise Meeting. 8.00 P. M., Rev. P. Robertson. T. H. McGowan, Sunt. Catonsville Camp Meeting By Grace A. M. E. Church. The unprecedented crowds that throng this camp on Sundays, have given a new impetus to this worthy cause each Sunday. Sunday 14th inst, special services at S P. M., by Rev. M. W. Travers, D. D., of Kingston. N. Y. Rush for seats in the pavilion. Rev. John Porter, Pastor. Every Sunday. Take Ioland Park car get off at the Water Tower. A car line transfer to Roland Park. Rev. C. A. Belt, D. D., Sunday 3 P. M. Eay's Meeting and Greeting Ol Potomac District Conference at Camp Parole, Rev. R. T. Leek, B. D., Fastor, Rt. Rev. L. I. Coppin, D. D., Presiding Bishop. Closing, August 21. Special car will leave W. B. & A. R. R., Liberty street, 9.35 A. M. Rev. C. H. Steptan, P. E., will preach a special sermon. Sare. Round Trip $1.00. 2t ANNUAL CAMPEETING PARADISE GROVE Under the auspices of Bethel, Mt. Calvary and Payne Memorial A. M. E. Churches. Ample arrangements have been made to accommodate all who will come and worship with us. Earnest preaching, prayer and song services each Sabbath at 3 and 8 P. M. Take the Edmonson avenue cars going west, Rev, P. H. Green, president. Rev, P. W. Wortham, Secretary. Rev, D. G. Hill, Treasurer: CHURCH REOPENING. There will be a reopening of Mt. Pisby U. M. E. Church, Dover street southwest Baltimore near Fremont street, Sunday, Aug. 28th, of the Baltimore Annual Conference of the Union Methodist Episcopal Church. The reopening address will be delivered by the Rt. Rev. Josiah Dixon, Bishop of the First Episcopal District at 11.00 A. M. At 3.00 P. M. Preaching by Rev. J. E. Hackett, of the Washington District. Addresses will be delivered by Rev. Dr. J. S. Dorsy, (white) and Rev. Dr. MoTen, presiding elder Annapolis district. 7:30 P. M. preaching by Rev. James Gibson, presiding elder Baltimore district. Communion at night. GEORGE DAKEN "What have you to say to this charge of bigamy; why did you have so many wives?" "Well, judge, I expected to weed out a few of them later." RAW ECZEMA ON HANDS I had eczema on my hands for ten years. I had three good doctors but none of them did any good. I then used one box of Cuticura Ointment and three bottles of Cuticura Resolvent and was completely cured. My hands were raw all over, inside and out, and the eczema was spreading all over my body and limbs. Before I had used one bottle, together with the Cuticura Ointment, my sores were nearly healed over, and by the time I had used the third bottle, I was entirely well. To any one who has any skin or blood disease I would honestly advise them to fool with nothing else, but get Cuticura and get well. My hands have never given me the least bit of trouble up to now. "My daughter's hands this summer became perfectly raw with eczema. She could get nothing that would do them any good until she tried Cuticura. She used Cuticura Resolvent and Cuticura Ointment and in two weeks they were entirely cured. I have used Cuticura for other members of my family and it always proved successful. Mrs. M. E. Fallin, Speers Ferry, Va., Oct. 19, 1900." The Wrong Sort. An old Irish peasant was one Sunday sitting in front of his cottage puffing away furiously at his pipe. Match after match he lighted, pulling hard at the pipe the while, until at last the ground all round his feet was strewed with struck matches. "Come in to your dinner, Patsy," at length called out his wife. "Faith, and Ol will in a minute, Bidy," said he. "Moke Mulrooney has been a telling in that that Ol shmoked a bit av ghlass Ol'cud see the shots on the sun. Ol'dn't know whether Moke's been a-fooling me or whether Ol've got hold av the wrong kind of grills." Scraps. Seeking Comfort "I've got a long way to go and I'm not used to travel," said the applicant at the railway ticket office. "I want to be just as comfortable as I can, regardless of expense." "Parlor car?" "No. I don't care for parlor fix-ins." "Sleeper?" "No. I want to stay awake an watch the scenery." "Then what do you want?" "Wek, if it wouldn't be too much trouble, I wish you'd put me up in one of these refrigerator cars I've And so much about." An Unnecessary System. "You ought to have a burglar alarm system in your house," said the electrical supply agent, "so that you will be awakened if a burglar raises one of the windows or opens a door at night." "No burglar can get in here while we are peacefully sleeping," replied Mr. Newpup. "We are weaning our baby." Not Really Famous. "Did he ever attain real eminence?" "I don't think so. He was never looked on as the 'hope of the white mca.'"—Detroit Free Press. If a fireman antagonizes you tell him to go blazes. No Trouble A Saucer, A little Cream, and Post Toasties right from the box. Breakfast in a minute, and you have a meal as delightful as it is wholesome. Post Toasties are crisp and flavour—golden- brown, fluffy bits that al- most melt in the mouth. "The Memory Lingers" POSTUM CEREAL CO., LTD., Battle Creek, Mich. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR AUGUST 14. Subject: The Laborers in the Vineyard, Matt. 20:1:16—Commit Verses 6, 7. GOLDEN TEXT.—"Many that are first shall be last, and the last shall be first." Matt. 19:30. TIME. March, A. D. 30. EXPOSITION—I. The Call to Service, 1-7. Peter's question (Matt. 19:27) led Jesus to utter the parable of the lesson. There is the most intimate connection between the question and the parable, as the central truth of the parable is that those get most who are not trying to drive a bargain with the Lord as to what reward they shall receive for their sacrifice and service. The parable is preceded and closed with the same statement, "Many shall be last that are first and first that are last" (v. 16; cf. Matt. 19:30). Many that are last become first because they work without stimulating the reward, while many that are first become last because they work long, but work for pro (vs. 12-14). The great historical fulfillment of the general principle is found in the Jews and Gentiles (Matt. 8:11, 12; Lu. 13:28-30; Rom. 9:30-33). There is likely to be another fulfillment in our day in America and England and the heathen nations; we today are first in privilege, but they are likely to be first because of our neglect of privilege. The householder in this parable represents God (cf. 13:27; 21:33, 43). The vineyard represents the kingdom (cf. Isa. 5:7; Matt. 21:33). Those first called into the vineyard represent those who early in life are called to service. Jesus had in mind the immediate company of disciples (ch. 39:27). The penny represents the reward for service. Its real value is about seventeen cents and was a fair day's wages in those times. The truth taught is that no one works for God without adequate pay (Eph. 6:1; Heb. 6:10). Before we can work for God in his vineyard the call must come from God Himself. No one started to work before called (cf. Jno. 15:16). The call was a call to service: Peter's own call had been a call to service (Mk. 1:17). The householder did not make as definite a bargain with those called at the third hour, nor did they require it, as with those called at the first hour. Theirs was a higher type of service. Those called at the first hour may have done a larger amount of service, but not so high a quality. Character of service counts more with God than quantity of service. Those that did the higher service got a larger reward in proportion to the amount of service rendered. If a man works for the reward he will get just what he works for; if he works in simple trust, leaving the question of amount of reward to God, he will get exceedingly abundantly above all he asks or thinks. The householder promised those called at the third hour that he would give them "whatsoever is right;" he did that and much more. In Abraham we have an example of one called at a late hour (Gen. 12:4; Josh. 24:3, 4). Even at the eleventh hour, when there was only one hour of the working day left, he found men still idle. God puts to them (v. 6). Every one the householder found outside the vineyard was an idler; there is no real work except in God's vineyard. II. The Rewards of Service. 8-10. The reckoning was made at the close of the working day (cf. 2 Tim. 4:8). Each one of us must appear before the judgment seat of Christ to receive the deeds done in the body (2 Cor. 5:10). Christ is represented by the steward of the parable (Heb. 2:6; Jno. 5:27; Rev. 2:7, 10, 17, 28). A whole day's pay was given for those who began at the eleventh hour. They received more than they had a right to expect because they had trusted grace instead of demanding justice. Those who expect the largest reward are those who get the least reward. The parable does not teach that those who bear the burden and heat of the day will get no more than those who work only one cool evening hour (cf. 2 Tim. 2:12; 2 Cor. 4:17), but it does teach that one hour's service in the spirit of humble trust that leaves the reward as a matter of grace to God will be at least as abundantly rewarded as twelve hours legal service that tries to drive a close bargain with God and seeks a reward as a matter of debt. Those who worked the twelve hours received their pay with grumbling, but they had no right to murmur; they were paid every penny they agreed for. He dealt with the eleventh hour men in grace: he paid the first all that was their due. He had a right to do with his own what he would and they had no right to be envious because he was gracious. God will give to every man at least his just due. He deals in grace with those who trust His grace. Those who murmur at the distribution of rewards are murmuring against God. All murmuring in the last analysis is against Him (Ex. 16:8). Murmuring against God is one of the most heinous of all sins. There are four points in the householder's answer to the murmurers: First, "I have paid you all I promised;" second, "I have a right to do as I will with My own;" third, "I will do with those who trust My grace more than I agreed;" fourth, "Your complaint only reveals your own selfish envy and not any injustice on My part." God has a right to do what He will with His own, and no man has any ground of complaint against Him (cf. Ex. 33:19; Jer. 27:5; Rom. 9:15-21; Eph. 1:11). When men murmur at God's dealings, the difficulty is not with Him, but with their own vision. God is under no obligation to explain why He does as He pleases. He always pleases to do right. What They Are. It is not what the best men do, but what they are, that constitutes their trust benefaction to their fellow men.—Philips Brooks. Plucky Mrs. Givens Refused to Be Discriminated Against on Steamer. Among the passengers on the steamship Adriatic, which arrived at New York from Liverpool on Thursday, Aug. 4. was Mrs. J. E. Givens of Louisville, Ky. Mrs. Givens sailed for Edinburgh, Scotland, early in June as a delegate from the national Baptist convention to the world's missionary conference. Speaking of her treatment on the Adriatic on her return trip, Mrs. Givens says that the steamship officers started right away to draw the color line, and at the first meal she and her friends were placed at the bandmen's table in a corner. She told the second cabin steward that she would not sit there and would resist any attempt to make her dine timcrow style. For more than two days and nights, she says, she got no food; as she was determined to starve rather than recede from her stand. On the third day Mrs. Givens demanded a written statement from Captain Smith. That demand caused a counsel of officers, and Mrs. Givens was summoned. In the course of a heated discussion, she says, she demanded the same privileges as the white passengers, as she had paid for such, and announced she would die before she would eat food under prosecution. Orders were given that she be placed at any table in the dining room. The affair has created considerable discussion in steaenship circles, and it is hinted that the incident is not closed. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE MUST NOT BE FORGOTTEN. Negroes Plan to Celebrate Hundredth Anniversary of Great Benefactor. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell of Washington calls the attention of the race to the fact that the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Harriet Beecher Stowe will occur June 14, 1911. One year, says she, is none too long in which to devise ways and means fittingly to celebrate the centenary of this great and good woman's birth. Few authors have rendered the cause of liberty such striking and signal service with the pen as has Harriet Beecher Stowe. By the colored people of the United States, her name will ever be spoken with grateful, affectionate reverence, and her memory will always be cherished and her praise forever sung. All organizations of colored women and colored men formed for the elevation or improvement of the race along any line of human endeavor are urgently requested to do everything in their power to make the Harriet W. H. MRS. MARY CHURCH TERRELL. Beecher Stowe centenary worthy of the important event which we celebrate. In the proposition to honor the memory of their illustrious relative the members of the Beecher and Stowe families who have been conferred with heartily concur. Suggestions concerning the exercises which should be held in schools or public assemblies of any kind will be gratefully received. Right Won the Day In This Instance. In recognizing the right of the Negro to hold public office in the state the Georgia house of representatives showed that it could rise above race prejudice in doing its duty. The Negro is a citizen and is entitled to all the rights and privileges of citizenship, such as are accorded to other races and nationalities. When this is done race prejudice will cease to be a factor in the interpretation of the law. Georgia Against Fight Pictures. The Savannah (Ga.) Tribune says: The Savannah (Ga.) Tribune says: "When the agitation was first begin against the moving pictures of the Johnson-Jeffries fight we surmised that the main objection was that of race. "In this we have been justified by the action of the Georgia legislature in simply prohibiting the showing of pictures where the races are concerned." Potent Forces In Race Progress. The colored bank, the colored newspaper and the colored business man are all coming up to the help of the colored church and the colored schools, says the Dallas (Tex.) Express. When they can all understand each other, they will make up a combination which will know nothing but success. National Organization of Editors and Publishers to Cover Every Phase of Newspaper Work—Broad Gauged Journalism Their Aim—President Thompson's Career. By N. BARNETT DODSON. The second annual meeting of the National Negro Press association will be held in New York on Tuesday; Aug. 16, the day before the meeting of the National Negro Business league. At the day session there will be papers, addresses and "round table" discussions of the practical phases of newspaper work. At night a public meeting will be held for the exploitation of the ethical and general problems surrounding the relation of the press to the people. Many representative editors, publishers and correspondents and others allied in various ways to the well being of the "fourth estate" have signified their intention to be present. The indications point to a very successful and profitable convention. The place of meeting for the two sessions is being arranged by the local committee, comprising the principal journalists of New York and its environs, and due announcement will J. H. H. R. W. THOMPSON. be made at the Maceo hotel, 213 West Fifty-third street, and in the New York daily press. The Genesis of the Organization. The National Negro Press association was formed in Louisville, Ky., in August, 1909, and the charter members embraced some of the race's strongest molders of public sentiment. A constitution was adopted, and officers were elected as follows: President, R. W. Thompson of Indiana, residing in Washington; first vice president, M. M. Lewey, Pensacola, Fla.; second vice president, Dr. P. R. Peters, Louisville, Ky.; corresponding secretary, Dr. R. H. Boyd, Nashville, Tenn.; recording secretary, George F. Collins, Washington; treasurer, Rev. L. G. Jordan, Louisville, Ky. The executive committee is made up of the general officers and one member from each state represented in the body. In order to flud a common ground on which the Negro press might meet with a minimum of friction and with the accomplishment of the most productive results it was agreed to restrict all discussions to the business side of journalistic development. The Press Association's Departments. "To facilitate the objects of the association a number of 'departments' or groups have been formed. The title suggests the lines of investigation along which each will labor, and the report of the several chairmen will form the basis of their discussion at the annual sessions. They are as follows: 'Our Relations With the Associated Press.' Emmett J. Scott, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama; "Editorial and News Policies." T. Thomas Fortune, Trenton, N. J.; "General Correspondents," Cary B. Lewis, Chicago; "The Syndicated News Service." N. Barnett Dodson, New York. "Journalism and the Law." Albert S. White, Louisville, Ky.; "The Development of Special Features." Lester A. Walton, New York; "Religious Publications," R. R. Wright, Jr., Philadelphia; "Circulation Building," George L. Knox, Indianapolis, Ind.; "Advertising," N. D. Brasher, Cleveland, O.; "Mechanical Equipment and Physical Valuation." Dr. R. H. Boyd, Nashville, Tenn.; "Books and Magazines," H. T. Kealing, Nashville, Tenn.; "Fraternity Journals." E. W. Brown, Richmond, Va.; "Woman's Work In Journalism." Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Washington NELSON WALKER THE CUP OF TEA MILK TEA THE CUP OF TEA MILK TEA For cleansing the Scalp and removing Dandruff, use our ARABAIM SHAMPOO CREAM. Nothing better. ...Prices... In original Glass Jars. Small Size.....15¢ Medium Size.....25¢ Large Size.....50¢ Only sent by Express. Hair Dressing in stock. Please ask for Wholesale Orders on application. DR & SONS, MANUFACTURERS OF JUMERY Baltimore, Md. Washington, D. C. Life Insurance Co., HOGE, President, City and Clay St., Baltimore, Md. Price Company in Maryland. Just contracts. Issued on ages from 2 to 70, from the homes of the insured ...Prices.... of Superior Hair Dressing in original Bed Boxes. Sent by Mail Small Size.....15c. .....25c Medium Size.....25c .....40c Large Size.....50c. Druggist should keep Superior Hair Dressing in store or it or write direct to us. Prices for Wholesale Orders. M. TREGOR & SONS WHOLESALE MANUFACTURERS PERFUMER 1181 East Baltimore Street, 1229 E treet, N. W. The Baltimore Life Insurance F. S. STROBRIDGE, President, Home Office, S. S. Corr. Liberty and Clay Sta. The leading Life Insurance Company in N. Issues the best contracts. Life Insurance Policies issued on ages from Premiums collected weekly from the homes of The leading Life Insurance Company in Maryland. Issues the best contracts. Life Insurance Policies issued on ages from 2 to 70 Premiums collected weekly from the homes of the insured T. G. MARSHALL GROCERIES & PROVISION Butter, Eggs and Poultry C. & P. Phone, Mt. Vernon 793-R 535 Dolphin S Cor. Division PROVISIONS and Poultry Mt. Vernon 793-R phin St., Division GROCERIES & PROVISIONS Butter, Eggs and Poultry C. & P. Phone, Mt. Vernon 793-R 535 Dolphin St. Cor. Division 2145 Division St. (Dwelling) House in Northwest Baltimore linen, white, blue and pink, $1.50 to shoes 25 cents to $1.00. Trimmed nets to $1.50. Separate skirts, full 's clothing sold very cheap. Call and able. Open from 8 A.M. to 11 P.M. Sundays Sale Days. M. C. BROWN, 2145 Divis (Private Dwelling) Largest and Cheapest House in Northwest Ladies' long and short coat suits, linen, white, blue or $4.50. Separate coats, 50 cents. Shoes 25 cents to hats, 25 cents. Shirt waists, 25 cents to $1.50. Sep dress suits and wedding gowns. Men's suits, Misses' and Children's clothing sold very examine the stock. Terms reasonable. Open from 8 Monday and Saturdays Sale Days. M. C. BROWN, 2145 Division St. (Private Dwelling) Largest and Cheapest House in Northwest Baltimore Ladies, long and short coat suits, linen, white, blue and pink, $1.50 to $4.50. Separate coats, 50 cents. Shoes 25 cents to $1.00. Trimmed hats, 25 cents. Shirt waists, 25 cents to$1.50. Separate skirts, full dress suits and wedding gowns. dress suits and Wedding gowns Men's suits, Misses and Children's clothing sold very cheap. Call and examine the stock. Terms reasonable. Open from 8 A.M. to 11 P.M. Monday and Saturdays Sale Days. Chesapeake Steamship Co "Chesapeake Line" ELEGANT PASSEGGER STEAM ERS "COLUMBIA" AND AU- GUSTA For OLD AND NEW NORFOLK COMPORT and NORFOLK. Steamers leave Baltimore daily (except Sunday) at 6:30 P. M., arriving. Old Point Comfort at 6:00 A.M., and Norfolk at 7:00 A.M., where connection is made with the Rail Lines for all points South. "York River Line." "ATLANTA" BEN WEST POINT and RICHMOND FOR WEST POINT and RICHMOND Steamers leave Baltimore Tuesday Thursday and Saturday, at 5.00 P. M. and arrives West Point at 7.45 A. M. and Richmond at 9.30 A. M. Steamers call at Gloucester Point Yorktown, Clement's, Clay Bank and Allnolds weather and ice conditions permitting. STEAMERS LEAVE BALTIMORE Through Tickets to all points may be secured, baggage checked and; state rooms reserve from the City Ticket Offices, 119 Epalithic Street, AR. THUR ROBSON. Agent, 127 E. Saitam. more Street T. H. DIENER & CO. Agents, 127 E. Baltimore Street; T. H. EAGER, Agent, 106 N. Charles Street or the General Offices, Light and Lee Streets, Baltimore, Md. E. J. CHISMA, Genl. Pass. Agt. CHAPMAN. Asst. Genl. Pass Agt. P. W. BOOKER. Wholesale and Retail Dealer Ice Coal and wood 1345 WHATCOAT STREET Give us a trial as we want your pa- tronage. The best Burning Coal at the Cherpest Prices. All orders promptly attended to. Open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. THE BEST Beware of Bad Imitations None Genuine Without Original Photo Is recommended by testimonials from far and near as the finest Hair Dressing, especially for Ladies and Children. CLOTHING McCall's Magazine will help you dress stylishly at a moderate expense by keeping you posted on the clothes and hats. 60 New Fashion Designs in each issue. Also valuable information on all home and personal matters. On one page, you can find a free pattern. Subscribe today or send for free sample copy. McCALLS·MAGAZINE help you dress stylish and express your expense by keeping you posted on the latest fashions in clothes and hats. 60 New Fashion Designs in Luxury. 60 valuable information on all home and personal matters. Only 60 c.c. a year, including a postpaid. Sub scribe today or send for free sample copy. McCall Patterns will enable you to make in your own home, with your own bands, clothing for yourself and children which will be perfect in style and children which will be perfect in style and children which will be perfect for free Pattern Catalogue. We Will Give You Fine Presents for getting subscriptions among your friends. Send for free Premium Catalogue and Cash Prize Offer. THE McCALL COMPANY, 239 to 249 West 37th St., NEW YORK 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. Anyone sending a sketch and description may quickly assert our opinion free whether an invention is probable or confidential. HANDBOOK on Patents sent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, at the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest circulation of any scientific journal. Terms: $1 a year; four months. $1. Sold by all newd sler. MUNN & Co. 361 Broadway, New York. F. E. F. Vasikoppa, D.C. CLOTHING Mrs. Jacob Karr, 406 Broad street, logway, D.L., says: "I suffered the worst kind of path through my back, the kidneys were weak and I had dizzy spells. For a long time I was unable to attend to my work and was confined to bed for weeks. I doctored constantly to no avail. Doan's Kid the kidneys were weak and I had dizzy spells. For a long time I was unable to attend to my work and was confined to bed for weeks. I doctored constantly to no avail. Doan's Kidney Pills helped me right away, and soon I was cured. I am better and stronger than in years." Remember the name—Doan's. For sale by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. You have got to know a business before you can make a success of it. Dr. Pierree's Pleasant Pellets regulate and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels. sugar-coated, tiny granules, easy to take. Do not gripe. Life is two-thirds bluff, law is three-thirds tyranny, pity is nine-tenths retense. Be genuine and poor if you could die respected. For COLDS and GRIP Hicks' CAPDINE is the best remedy—reveals the aching and fearfulness—cures the ailing and normal conditions. The liquid-effects immediately, like, Sec. and Sec. & drug stores. Men who sit in silence are either meditating good or evil—money making for self, or making money to go to enefit others. 119 Years Old When He Died. Paddy Blake, who was born at Balgregreen, parish of Klinasoolagh. County Clare, Ireland, 119 years ago, has died in the Corofin Union hospital. Paddy had a clear memory of events that happened a hundred years ago and was one of those who went to see Daniel O'Connell passing through Bunatty Pike on his way to Ennis for the great election of 1828. What They Did With Them. An American who spends much of its time in England tells of a cockney who went to a dealer in dogs and thus described what he wanted. "Hi wants kind of dog about so 'igh an' so long, it's a kind of gr'yound, an' yet it isn't a gr'yound, because 'is tyle is horter nor any o' these 'ere gr'yound, n' is nose is shorter, an' e' ain't so lim round the body. But still 'e's kind o' gr'yound. Do you keep suchogs?" "We do not," said the dog man. We drown 'em." It Wouldn't Stretch. The assessor was doing the very best he could, but the farmer was brewd and wary. "How many acres of farming land you?" he inquired warily. "Bout 20, I guess," said Reuben. "Twenty! Why. It looks to me like earer 120. Come now, can't you increase that a little? There are surely more than 20 acres in that tract. Suppose you stretch that a little." "Say, feller," said the farmer, "this isn't no rubber plantation."—Harper's monthly. Why She Brought It Up. "Do you remember," she asked, that you said once that unless you promised to be yours the sun would ease to shine? "I don't remember it now, but I suppose I may have said something if the kind." "And have you forgotten that you assured me that unless I permitted on to claim me as your own the moon would fall from her place in the eavens?" "Oh, well, what if I did say so? why do you want to bring that up, ow?" "I merely wished to assure you that m sorry I didn't shut my eyes and it her fall." A COOL PROPOSITION And a Sure One. The Body Does Not Feel Heat Unpleasantly if it has Proper Food— Grape=Nuts People can live in a temperature which feels from ten to twenty degrees colder than their neighbors enjoy, by sulating the diet. The plan is to avoid meat entirely for breakfast; use a goodly allowance of nut, either fresh or cooked. Then follow with a sauce containing about four cupping teaspoonfuls of Grape-Nuts, treated with a little rich cream. Add to this about two slices of crisp toast with meager amount of butter, and one up of well-made Postum. By this selection of food the bodily energy is preserved, while the hot, carcoused foods have been left out. The result is a very marked difference in the temperature of the body, and this comfortable condition is added the certainty of ease and perfect digestion, for the food being partially pregested is quickly assimilated by the digestive machinery. Experience and experiment in food; and its application to the human body as brought out these facts. They are made use of and add materially to the comfort of the user. Read the little book, "The Road to callelu," in pigs, "There's a Reason." * NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE Will Meet in Palm Garden, New York, Aug. 17 to 19, Inclusive. The eleventh annual meeting and tenth anniversary of the National Negro Business league will be held in New York Aug. 17 to 19, inclusive. Palm Garden, 150 East Fifty-eighth street, near Lexington avenue, a centrally located and commodious building, has been secured for the meetings. Addresses of welcome will be made, among others, by his honor Mayor William J. Gaynor and Hon. Charles W. Anderson, collector of internal revenue for the Second district of New York. In addition to those who will speak representing Negro business enterprises throughout the country are George McAenny, borough president of Manhattan; Oswald Garrison Villard, editor New York. Evening Post, and Jacob W. Mack of New York. Ample accommodations are being arranged by the local Negro Business league of New York for delegates intended to be present. Those planning to be present are urgently requested to send notice of such intention to B: F. Thomas, 213 West Fifty-third street, New York, or Fred R. Moore, chairman of the committee on arrangements, 247 West Forty-sixth street, New York. The Hotel Macco has been selected by the local league of New York city as convention headquarters. On the social side every possible arrangement for the comfort and pleasure of the delegates will be provided, including a reception to visiting ladies on Thursday afternoon. Aug. 18, by the Negro Woman's Business League of Greater New York. On Friday evening, Aug. 10, at 7 o'clock a banquet and reception will be tendered the delegates at Grand Central palace, Lexington avenue, and Forty-third street, which has been specially secured for the occasion, by the local Negro Business league of New York. AFRO-AMERICANS AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. AFRO-AMERICANS AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. Thousands Have Joined Democratic Party Since Discharge of Soldiers. Under the caption "Sulzer For Governor" Editor Sumner H. Lark of the Brooklyn Eye says: "Already there is a lively interest being taken by intelligent Afro-Americans of the state, and Greater New York particularly, in the approaching campaign for governor of the state. On all sides there seems to be a popular demand, so far as the colored voters are concerned, for the nomination of Hon. William Sulzer. "Mr. Sulzer's popularity among Afro-Americans is have to his vigorous and unsolicited support of the bill in congress last session which had as its object the re-enlistment of the 167 brave soldiers who were so unjustly and summarily discharged from the army by President Roosevelt. "This soldier question is the primary cause of fully 20,000 colored voters of New York deserting the Republican ranks within the past two years, and every one of them will be solidly cast for Mr. Sulzer should be finally persuaded to make the race for governor." GOLD BELT FOR JOHNSON. Nation Wide Movement by the Race to Honor Champion. Headed by "Baron" Wilkins of New York and sporting men in other cities, a movement is on foot to secure by public subscription to the amount of $25,000 a diamond studded gold belt for Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson. The movement is to be national in scope, so as to afford members of the race throughout the United States an opportunity to share in the honor. Already, it is said, $5,000 has been contributed by New Yorkers alone. The belt is to be of solid gold, studded with 200 diamonds of different sizes. The center stone is to be in weight more than four carats. It is the intention of the promoters of the idea to have the required amount in hand by the early part of November or December. Socialists Stand by Working Class. The Socialists will vote to a man against the disfranchisement of any section of the working class, be he white, black, yellow or red, says "Old Hickory" in the Dallas (Tex.) Express. If this stand will earn us the usual title "Nigger lover," then be it so. After all, the brotherly love of the working people—black and white—is preferable to the sexual love that has existed for a century between the white master and the female portion of the Negro race. The Quickest Way to Handle a Mob. Lynching could have been stamped out long ago, says the Richmond (Va.) Planet. If all of the sworn officials would do their duty, if a sheriff intends to surrender a prisoner he should be man enough to arm him and give him a chance for his life. The quickest way to handle a mob is to shoot the life out of it. After the lynching is committed, a best way is to hang the ringleader and place the followers in the penitentiary. Johnson's Extended Tour Abroad. Champion John Arthur Johnson has decided to go abroad on a year's theatrical tour. He is booked to sell for London on Monday, Aug. 3. Beginning in London at an early date, his schedule of forty weeks will include every country in Europe. He will not engage in any prizefights during his tour. PANAMA'S ABLE BUSINESS MAN Who Founded International Trading Company, Limited. HAS HAD WIDE EXPERIENCE. How the Completion of the Panama Canal Will Benefit the Commerce of the World—South American's Anxious to Get In Touch With Colored Americans in the United States. Upon the completion of the Panama canal a few years hence a gateway to the commerce of the world will have been opened and those who have been wise enough to see their opportunity will reap the reward of their labors. The countries to the south of the United States will be drawn closer to us in a business way, and we shall be able to touch elbows oftener with their inhabitants than we are now able to do. There are many Negroes in South America who are engaged in industrial and commercial pursuits. They are anxious to come in touch with their American brethren. Perhaps one of the most progressive and enterprising of these South American Negro business men is T. A. Brown, founder and pres- A. B. PRESIDENT T. A. BROWN. ident of the International Trading company, limited, of Panama and Boceas del Toro. Mr. Brown was born in Jamaica, B. W. L. and left home at about the age of fourteen for Europe. He visited the principal cities and towns in Europe. Africa, including Egypt, India, China, Japan, Philippine Islands, Fijian islands, New Zealand, Tasmania and Australia. In the latter country he engaged in business and lived there twenty-two years, doing a prosperous business in Sydney, South Australia, West Australia and New Zealand. Later on he engaged in the real estate business and the sale of mining stocks (Australia is a great gold producing country). He had offices in King William street, Adelaide, South Australia, and Pitt street, Sydney. N. S. W. Being a practical gold miner and prospector, he went to Bookers Hill silver fields, where he did prospecting and some real mining work. From there he went to Coolgardie gold fields and the Murchison fields, where he prospected and found the Cireate mine in the Murchison fields, which he sold for a good round sum. While in Sydney in 1902 he founded the Coloured Progressive association, which is still in existence and doing well, leaving Australia the same year for his home in Jamaica, via Japan, India, France and England. He reached home Aug. 20, 1903, with a well defined plan for the betterment of the commercial and industrial condition of his people and with experience gathered in many countries he founded the company of which he is now president. As the people in the West Indies were in bad shape financially, he transferred the company to the republic of Panama in 1904. Three months thereafter the International Trading company, limited, was registered under the laws of Panama and opened up for business July 27, 1907. This company does an important export business, conducts a general mercantile business and a savings bank. It has agencies in Colon, Port Limon, Costa Rica and the West Indian islands. Inside of twenty-two months it paid its stockholders a dividend of $ cents on the dollar. increased its capital stock from $25,000 (gold) to $75,000 (gold) and is free from debt. Its main office is in the city of Panama. The possibilities of this race venture are encouraging to those who have taken the trouble to investigate it. President Brown has laid his foundation broad and deep. Pythians Hold Biennial Meeting. The supreme lodge. Knigbits of Pythias, which concluded its biennial session at Lima/O, recently was the largest gathering of its kind which has assembled in Lima for years. It has a membership of 75,000. The uniform rank and the woman's department also held important sessions at the same time and place. The supreme lodge was, presided over by Supreme Chancellor, W. S. Green of New Orleans. New York—Bradstreet's says: Trade reports are still quiet in fall demand, though the advance of the season and the force of crops toward harvest has aided in enlarging jobbing demand at some important Western centers. Chicago and St. Louis report the first of the fall jobbing excursions helping to expand trade at those cities while the rather better results of spring wheat harvest are evoking more optimistic reports from Northwestern centers. Buying is still conservative, however. Retail trade is still confined largely to clearance sales of summer goods at concessions. At the East there is slightly more doing in some lines for fall. Cotton goods feel the effects of mill curtailment in increased steadiness of prices and raw wool of fleece grades is still active despite the rather sharp advances noted last week. Collections as yet show little improvement and are slow as a whole. In leading industries there are few new features. Building returns for July show a heavy decrease from a year ago, much of which is, however, accounted for by the reduction at the metropolis, and there are still more grins than losses at the country's cities as compared with the midsummer month a year ago. Iron and steel are quiet. Wholesale Markets. NEW YORK—Flour steady, with a quiet demand. Kansas straight, $4.85@ $5.10. Receipts, 16,361 bbls; shipments, 1,836. Rye flour steady. Cornmeal steady. Rye dull. Barley quiet. Wheat—Spot firm. new; firm. No. 2 red. 108% c. elevator, and 107% f. o. b. afoat; No. 1 Northern, and 107% f. o. b. Corn—Spot firm; No. 2, 72e, nominal elevator domestic basis to arrive. Oats—Spot stendy; mixed 20@22 lbs, nominal; natural white 20@22 lbs, 48@42 @48c.; clipped white, 34@42 lbs, 48@ 50. Cheese farmer; state, whole milk, special, 15@10c; fowls, 14@14c; gce, do, average prime, 14@14c; do, fair to goo, 12%@14c; do, common, 9%@11c; skims, full to special, 2%@12c; Poultry-Alive, irregular; Western broilers, 17c; fowls, 16%@17; turkeys, 10@14; Dressed steady; Western broilers 17@18; fowls, 14@18; turkeys, 16@20. PILHADELPHIA—Wheat, 1/2c, higher, contract grade, No. 2 red, in export elevator, 90@100c. Corn steady; No. 2 yellow, for local trade. 72%@73%. Oats firm; No. 2 white natural 47% @48c. Butter le. higher; extra Western creamery, 31c. extra nearby prints, 32. Eggs—First le. higher; Pennsylvania and other nearby firsts, free cases, 22c. at mark; do, current receipts, 20 at mark; Western firsts, free cases, 22 at mark; do, current receipts, free cases, 20 at mark. Love Poultry—Chickens lower; fowls, 17% @18c; old roosters, 13; broiling chickens, 17@19; ducks, 16@10; geese, 12@18. Dressed pentry firm. Fresh killed fowls, nearby, 18%c; do, Western, 18@18%; old roosters, 13; broiling chickens as to size, nearby, 20@23; do, Western, 14@20; spring ducks, 14@18%. BALTIMORE—Wheat. The market for Western opened firmer, September, 100% @100c. Spot No.2 red wheat early was 98%c, while No. 2 red Weste n was 101%c, and August wheat early ruled about 98%. December was 104%c. at the opening. Corn—Receipts, 12,336 bur. Western; shipments from elevators, 4,900; stack in elevators, 88,178. Western opened dull; spot, 68,178. nominal. The demand for corn continues light and mainly local, and buyers are supplying their immediate wants only. Settling price posted for contract was 68%12. The closing was dull; spot, 68%12. nominal. Oats—Receipts, 3,582 bur. window- and buyers are supplying their stock in elevators, 4,512. These quotations are for old oats. White—No. 2, as to weight, 48%12@43c. No. 3, do, 48%12@71c. No. 4, do, 44%15. Mixed—No. 2, 45%12@46c. No. 3, 44%145. Hay—quote old, hay per ton: No. 1 timothy, No. 2 timothy, $21.50@ 22; No. 3 timothy, $18@20; choice clever, mixed, $21.50@21; No. 1 clover, mixed, $20.50@21; No. 2 clover, mixed, $18@19.50; No. 1 clover, $15.50@11; No. 2 clover, $13@15 meadow grass and packing hay, $10@12; no grade hay, as to kind, quality and condition, $8@12. Creamery, money ..... 29 to 30 Creamery, choice ..... 28 to 28½ Creamery, good ..... 27 to 27½ Creamery, imitation ..... 21 to 23 Creamery, prints ..... 29 to 31 Creamery, blocks ..... 28 to 30 Cheese—Market steady. Jobbing prices per lb. 17\*17\*17c. Eggs—We quote, per dozen, loss off Maryland, Pennsylvania and nearby firsts. 21c.; Western firsts. 21; West Virginia firsts. 20; Southern firsts. 19; guinea eggs. 10\*11. Live Poultry—We quote: 'Chickens—Old hens, heavy, per lb. 17c.; do small to medium, do. 17; do old roosters, do. 11; spring, large, do. 18\*19; spring, small to medium, do. 18\*19. Ducks—Large, per lb. 13\*14c; small, do. 12; Muscovy and mongrel, do. 12\*13; spring, 3 lb. and over, do. 15\*17; do smaller, do. 13\*14. Pigeons—Young, per pair, old, do. 20. Guinea fowl, old, each 25c. Live Stock CHICAGO — Cattle — Market strong; bees, $4.00@8.30; Texas steers, $3.50@6.00; Western steers, $4.67@5.75; stockers and feeders, $4.62@5.75; cows and heifers, $2.7@6.60; calves, $6.50@8.50. Hogs — Market for good, steady; others weak to 5c, lower than early; light, $3.40@8.55; mixed, $7.60@8.50; heavy, $7.60@8.40; rough, $7.60@7.85; good to choice heavy, $7.85@8.40; pigs, $8.25@9; bulk of sales, $5@8.30. Sheep — Market strong; native, $2.60@4.60; Western, $2.75@4.60; yearlings, $4.50@5.75; lambs, native, $4.50@7.10; Western, $4.50@7.1. KANSAS CITY; MO. — Cattle — Market steady to strong. Dressed beef and export steers, $6.50@8.20; fair to good, $4.75@6.35; Western steers, $4.25@7.5; stockers and feeders, $3@6.25; Southern steers, $3.50@5.25; Southern cows, $2.25@4; native cows, $2.50@7.5; native heifers, $3.25@5.0; bulls, $4.50; calves, $3.50@7.0. Hogs — Market steady to 5c, lower. Bulk of sales, $8.40@8.40; heavy, $7.00@8.15; packers and butchers, $0.55@8.30. It was one of these experimental farmers, who put green spectacles on his cow and fed her shayings. His theory was that it didn't matter what the cow ate so long as she was fed. The questions of digestion and nourishment had not entered into his calculations. It's only a "tenderfoot" farmer that would try such an experiment with a cow. But many a farmer feeds him self regardless of digestion and nutrition. He might almost as well eat shayings for all the good he gets out of his food. The result is that the stomach grows "weak" the action of the organs of digestion and nutrition are impaired and the man suffers the miseries of dyspepsia and the agonies of nervousness. To strengthen the stomach, restore the activity of the organs of digestion and nutrition and brace up the nerves, use Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It is an unfalling remedy, and has the confidence of physicians as well as the praise thousands healed by its use. In the strictest sense "Golden Medical Discovery" is a temperance medicine. It contains neither intoxicants nor narcotics, and is as free from alcohol as from opium, cocaine and other dangerous drugs. All ingredients printed on its outside wrapper. Don't let a dealer delude you for his own profit. There is no medicine for stomach, liver and blood "just as good" as "Golden Medical Discovery." self regardless of digestion and nutrition. He might almost as well eat shavings for all the good he gets out of his food. The result is that the stomach grows "weak" the action of the organs of digestion and nutrition are impaired and the man suffers the miseries of dyspepsia and the agonies of nervousness. To strengthen the stomach, restore the activity of the organs of digestion and nutrition and brace up the nerves, use Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It is an unfailing remedy, and has the confidence of physicians as well as the praise thousands healed by its use. In the strictest sense "Golden Medical Discovery" is a temperance medicine. It contains neither intoxicants nor narcotics, and is as free from alcohol as from opium, cocaine and other dangerous drugs. All ingredients printed on its outside wrapper. Don't let a dealer desider you for his own profit. There is medicine for stomach liver and blood, "just as good" as "Golden Medical Discovery." ```markdown ``` WILLY WAS TOO LIBERAL. Oversupply of Alcoholic Stimulants Disturbed Schedule of Funeral Arrangements. Dean Ramsay's memoirs contain an anecdote of an old woman of Strathemp. Just before her death she solemnly instructed her grandnephew: "Willy, I'm deinl, and as you'll hae the charge o' a' I have, mind now that as much whisky is to be used at my funeral as there was at my baptism." Willy, having no record of the quantity consumed at the baptism, decided to give every mourner as much as he wished, with the result that the funeral procession, having to traverse ten miles to the churchyard on a short November day, arrived only at nightfall. Then it was discovered that the mourners, halting at a wayside inn, had rested the coffin on a dyke and left it there when they resumed their journey. The corpse was a day late in arriving at the grave. It Was the Other Way. "Mr. Jones," said the senior partner in the wholesale dry goods house to the drummer who stood before him in the private office, "you have been with us for the past ten years." "Yes, sir." "And you ought to know the rules of the house. One of them is that no man of ours shall take a side line." "But I have none, sir." "But you have lately got married." "Yes; but can you call that a side line, Mr. Jones?" "Technically, it may not be." "You needn't fear that having a wife is going to bring me in on a trip any sooner." "Oh, I don't. It is the fear that having a wife at home you'll want to stay out on the road altogether!" The Nurse's Opinion. A nurse had been called as a witness to prove the correctness of the bill of a physician. "Let us get at the facts in the case," said the lawyer, who was doing a cross-examination stunt. "Didn't the doctor make several visits after the patient was out of danger?" "No, sir," answered the nurse. "I considered the patient in danger as long as the doctor continued his visits." Fine School. "Your daughter should attend my school of education." "She shan't! She's attended one, and she's positively—" "Ah, but I teach a new system. When my pupils are asked to recite they are trained to refuse." The Motive Power "A western editor says nobody was ever hurt while taking a 'joy ride' on the handles of a plow." "That's where he's mistaken. Many a good man has been kicked by a mule."-Birmingham Age-Herald. TO DRIVE QET MALARIA TO DRIVE AND BUILD UP THE SYSTEM Take the old Standard GROVES TASTELESS form. The GROVES are plain on every bottle, showing it is simply Colinein and in a taste- less form. The Quineine does out the material and the iron builds up the system. Sold by all dealers for 30 years. Price $20 cents. How would it do to try the experiment of going to the erring with love, instead of law? Wouldn't it be a step nearer to paradise? For Red, Eyelashes Eyelidia, Cysts, Styes Falling Eyelashes and All Eyes That Need Care Try Murine Eye Salve. Aseptic Tubes-Trial Size=25c. Ask Your Drug- ger to Write Murine Eye Remedy Co, Chicago. What's become of the hookworm fake? Gone out of Stiles? When will they get into Stiles again? Eh, Dr. Stiles? For HEADACHE-Hicks' CAPUDINE Whether from Colds, Heat, Stomach or Nervous Troubles. Capudine is likely to cause a tachycardia. Take a tachycardia. Try it. Ioc., 25c., and 30 cents at drug stores. Man wants more and more of a re- ward each year. Familiarity breeds contempt, even of a man's own sal- ary. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind cold. Soon a bottle I have been to feasts of arguments where the only result was a constipa- tion of real original ideas. MICA MAPLEINE GEORGE BAKER Ella—A man is as old as he feels. Stella—How about woman? Ella—She is as young as she can bluff people into thinking she is. - Only One Cobb The morning after Judge Andrew Cobb, a one-time justice of the supreme court of Georgia, tendered his resignation, an Atlanta lawyer and a shoe drummer sat in the same seat in an outgoing train. The lawyer bought a newspaper and looked over the headlines. Then he turned to the drummer and said: "Well, I see Cobb has resigned." "Gee!" said the drummer. "What will Detroit do now?"—Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post. Worder Why Said the proprietor of the big drug store with a soda fountain annex to his white jacketed dispenser: "Jimmy, you will have to cut out that new drink of yours; I notice that every man who comes in and tries it immediately begins to feel around for the brass rail with his foot." When a girl marries for a home-seldom boasts of what she gets. Four Pellets of MUNYON'S DYSPEPSIA every hour will heal snout and invigorate worn out stomachs and relieve distress. bowels with harsh cathartics, and you'll need physic always. Help them gently, with candy. Cascarets, and you'll need them rarely. Once learn the difference, and you'll never take a harsher laxative than these. 858 Vest-pocket box, 10 cents-at drug-stores. Each tablet of the genuine is marked C C C. AWSORBINE Will reduce inflamed, strained, swollen Tendons, Ligaments, Muscles or muscles, and stop pain from the Lameness and sop pain from the Spilt, Side Bone or Bone Spavin. No blister, no hair gone. Horse can be used. Horse Book 2 E free. ABSORBINE Will reduce inflamed, strained, muscles or Bruises, Cure the Lameness and stop pain from a no blister, no hair glove. Horse can be used. $2.00 a bottle. Book Hook B F free ABSORBINE BK, BK for mankind, $1 and $2 Bredes strained ligaments, enlarged glands. Drug can supply and give references. Will tell you how to write. Book Free. Mid only by W. P. 10506, P. H. 1, 22 Temple St, Springfield, Hamm. Rapid Fire HayPress You will lose money to buy notograft or- lar and prices. Address William Hay Press Co. Mira- tory, BALTIMORE, Md., TURNER, Baltimore, Md. BUCHOLS, Richmond, Virginia. DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY gives quick relief and groom- worst cuts. Book of treatments and 100DAYS' treatment Free. Dr. H. G. GLEMENS 605, B. R. RINSON 605. W. N. U., BALTIMORE, NO. 33-1910. Colored People Few and Far Between But They Are Doing Well. Mr. D. Bernard Taylor, the prominent caterer and society man, who has just returned from a month's stay abroad, told a representative of the Afro-American Ledger the other day that a colored man could get work in London at anything for which he is fitted but that the wages were very small. "I do not think," said Mr. Taylor "that I saw altogether two dozen colored people while abroad, and most of those were actors. The colored vaudeville seems to be making good in London. I also learned that England does not set the fashion for men's clothes any more, but that a New York cut is just the thing. "The leading tailor shop in London, which makes a specialty of American cut clothes, is run by two colored men—Kraton and Gregory—and are doing a fine business. The head of the firm, Harry Kraton, used to do an expert hoop-rolling oct in the Smart Set and other shows. A former member, Williams and Walker's show runs the only American restaurant in town, and is well patronized. "I there is very little prejudice in London; in fact you only notice it when some Yankee seems to think he is over here, and run things against us, but the Englishmen laugh in derision at tdem. "Paris is a fine and gay city, where prejudice is hardly known." FISHERMEN TO START The National Grand Tabernacle of Galilean Fisherman will start on a new era, according to Mr. Columbus Gordon, of this city who was elected National Grand Ruler of the order last week. Among the reforms contemplated are the strengthening of the Endowment department, the adoption of more business like methods and retrenchment along some lines. Mr. Joseph P. Evans, who was re-elected treasurer last week, and who wholed the movement which resulted in Mr. Gordon's election, says he will back up Mr. Gordon in his efforts to put the order on a firmer foundation. A meeting of the Board of Directors was held last night and plans for the upbuilding of the Order were discussed In cooperation with State Grand Ruler Joseph P. Evans the National Grand Ruler is planning a massmeeting of the members of the order to stimulate a greater interest for progress. FUNERAL OF REV. GREGG The funeral of Rev. Dr. E, J. Gregg who died at the residence of Mrs. Mary Gordon, 1257 N. Carey street last Friday morning after, sev ral month's illness from a complication of disesae, took place on Monday afternoon at St. John's A. M. E. Church. The services were in charge of the Baltimore Preacher's Meeting. The eulogy was delivered by Rev. A. L. Gaines. Others who took part in the services included Revs. John Hurst, L. S. Flag, D. P, Seaton, Joseph Gwynn, P. J. Jordan, J. W. Norris, P.H. Green, C.H. Murray, and David Johnson. Interment was in Mt. Auburn Cemetery. One sad feature of Rev. Gregg's death was that he had been in failing health since the death of his wife last February and that Rev. J. C. Waters who succeeded him at St. John's Church in April and whose place Dr. Gregg took at Chestertown, Md., died just six weeks ago. A strange coincidence was that Rev. Waters and Rev. Gregg, followed each other in their pastorates in the South. The deceased was born in Georgetown, S. C., about 51 years ago. He pastored a number of prominent charges in the South, aud in 1904 was choosen by the A. M. B. General Conference superintendent of the Allen Christian Endevor League. In 1908 he returned to the pastorate. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Mary P. Vanderhorst, of Georgetown, S. C., a half brother, and several children. LADIES ENTERTAINED. Mrs. Mory Haney entertained the ladies of Progressive Circle at 242 Forrest street, on Monday, August 8th. At the close of business the Ladies Progressive Circle of Baltimore, were refreshed from a table filled with the delicacies of the season. Mrs Irena Carpenter, president; Sara Sank, A. See'v. tortoise society. August 19, Bethel A. M. E. church, and Asbury M. E. church from Easton to Grove Easton to Grove August 21, Ames M. P. Church. August 22, Missionary Society and Education Committee of 1st Bap. August 23, Ashbury M. P. Church to Port Deposit. August 24, Agents of Home Beneficial and Prateral Society. August 25, Bethel A.M. E. Church of Port Deposit to Brown's Grove. August 26, Ebenezer Baptist Church and Sunday School. August 28, Mt. Zion M. E. Church. August 29, Eastern M. E. S. S. and Epworth League. August 30, Trinity A. M. E. Sunday School. August 31, Sharon Social. September 1, Allen C. E. League of Allen A. M. E. church. Allen A. M. E. church. September 5, Nonpareil Benefit Society. September 7, Johnson Juvenile No. Jobs. Church, to Cambridge. Rev. Belt MOONLIGHTS. August 15. Willing Workers Ames August 15, Willing Workers Ames M. E. Church. M. E. Church. August 17, Linden Beneficial Society August 18, Violet Leaf Pleasure Social and Huntsmen. Rev. Belt. September 5. New Bethel Church Club. September 12. Centennial Church. ..Goldfield Orchestra.. Up-to-Date and Appropriate Music for all Occasions. For Terms and Particulars, address Samuel W. Proctor, Director 408 N. Central Avenue. C. & P. 'Phone, Wolfe 3421-R. ..A BOOK OF SERMONS.. By REV. C. A. TINDLEY, D. D. Price $1.25 Is now ready for sale. Cards containing thirty-one of his sermon subjects will be sent to any one making application for the same. MRS. EMMA J. DUNCAN, Agent. 1348 S. Bouvier St. Philadelphia, Pa. Bell 'Phone. The 46th Annual Session of the Grand Council, Grand United Order of St. Luke, will hold its session in Odd Fellows Hall, 549 West Biddle street, August 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th, James W. Frey, R. W. G. C. H. E. Frey, R. W. G. K. On August 18th, a public installation and reception will be held at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Addresses by prominent speakers. At night at 7:30 o'clock, on Aug. 18th, a lawn fete and auto ride will be given by the grand officers of the G. U. O. of St. Luke, at the above named hall. Admission 5 cents. Mary Haughton, Pres. Eliza Howe and Ella Braxton, secretaries. Gates' Pharmacy Cor. Carey and Presstman Sts. PURE DRUGS PRESCRIPTION SPECIALIST Madison 4125. HOMES FOR DELEGATES WANTED. The 15th B. M. C. of the G. U. O. of Odd Fellows will convene in Baltimore September 12th to 17th inclusive. All persons desiring to accommodate delegates will apply to any of the following: Rates $1.50 per day for board and lodging: J. C. Johnson, 1234 Etting street. Oscar J. Mason, 526 McMechen street. K. J. Turner, 1015 D uid Hill avenue. John W. Wells, 607 Pierce street. John Oronwell, 931 South Sharp street. Richard Brooks, 525 Dolphin St. George Hazelton, 626 W. Lanvale street. D. B. Sawden, 1717 Barnes St. Henry Dockins, 1725 McCubbin street. Abnic R. Johnson, 905 Myrtle avenue. Mary R. Burkett, Reisterstown. Mary R Grace, 320 S. Caroline street. Of Metropolitan M. E. Sunday School To Port Deposit, Md. FRIDAY; AUGUST 19 1910 STEAMER ANNAPOLIS The re-union of the present and former members. Concert by Associate Bachelors. MUSIC BY KERR'S ORCHESTRA Round Trip, Adults 50 Cents Children under 10 years, 25 Cents On sale at Sunday School building, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Rev. J. A. Holmes, Pastor Chas, Redden, Fin. Sec. G. A. Owens, Supt. Boat leaves Pier 13, Light St. Wharf, 8 00 A. M. HENRY SONNEBORN EMPLOYEES DAY'S OUTING OF BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH At Greenwood Electric Park, Catonsville, Friday, August 19, 1910 Music by Huntsman Band, Prof. Richard Patterson, Leader. Special attractions in this beautiful grove. Swings, Flying Horses, Toboggans. Admission, Adults, 15 Cents. Children, 10 Cents. Take Ellicott City Cars and get off at Winters Auenue. Thaddeus Copeland, Chair. J. Barnett, Sec. Rev. D. G. Hill, Pastor MEET YOUR FRIENDS AT Highland Electric Park THE SODA WATER CLUB Has arranged to give you the "Danciest" evening of the season. Soda Checks to first 100 Ladies. On Monday Evening, August 15th, 1910, HENDERSON KERR'S CHOP SUEY ORCHESTRA ADMISSION Jas. Murray, Pres. Pred. Johns. Percy Loesome, Sec. Aubrey Brown Charles Butter GREENWOOD ELECTRIC PARK=CATONSVILLE The BEST PARK for your SUMMER OUTING Easiest way to make money without risk. All up-to-date convenience and amusement for renters. Apply at once for the few dates that are now open for the balance of the season. See, CHARLES C. WOODLAND, HOWARD D. BRENT, President JOHN T. MAXFIELD, Leader 806 George Street 9 S. Stockton Street Chas. Tolson, Vice President, 506 Baker St. Brig. General George H. Carter, 502 W. Biddle Street. For the lowest prices, thoroughly clean COAL, honest weight and prompt service try Write or Phone—Home, 1837 Mt. Vernon. Office, C. & P., Mt. Vernon 2338 Y. SMITH BROS., 542-46 UNION STREET. JOHN H. OWENS @ SON Undertakers & Embalmers $65.00 FUNERALS $75.00. 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, either black, gray or white, to match casket, as desired; five heated carriages, new and up-to-date; fine 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. 1222 Division St., bet. Dolphin and Lanyale. C. & P. Phone Mad. 4067 The ideal place to spend your vacation on Saturday and Sunday holidays. Delightfully located one block from the ocean. Thoroughly up-to-date in equipment and operation. Perfect in cuisine and service. Boating, bathing and fishing. Write for description booklet and free information. Address all mail to P. B. PARKER 100 W. 10TH ST. How to reach hotel. Take any Rockaway Beach train to Hammels Station. Telephone connection. Will open June 15th to Sept. Y. M. C. A. Rev. James J. Baker will talk to Men, Sunday, Aug. 14th at 4:30 P.M. 1619 Drum Hill Avenue, Spirited Singing. Short Service. Many improvements made for accommodation. Bathing water near. Many pleasures are afforded to all. All Ladies and Gentlemen are invited to come and have a pleasant time. Boys and girls are safe here. A HOUSE OF CREDIT. Address, MRS. CARRIE PRANN, Shady Side, P. O. A. A. Co. Md The Ladies are for POINDEXTER "Hairdresser to Society" FIRST, LAST and ALL THE TIME EXPERT MASSAGING AND MANICURING 831 DRUID HILL AVE. Miss Helen F. Thomas is visiting friends in Kent County, Md., the guest of Mrs. Katie Dorsey. Dr. J. M. Cargill, of W. Biddle St. is spending a few weeks in Atlantic City, Philadelphia and other points. His headquarters will be at 131 N. Teann avenue Miss Marie Young, of 904 Linden avenue, has left the city for the remainder of the summer. Mrs. John R. Pratt Jr wife of the well known Manager of Fitzgerald Auditorium who has been ill at her home 33 N. Kentucky avenue is slowly improving. Miss Nellie E. Johnson, who with Bishop and Mrs. J. W. Smith of Washington, has spent a few weeks visiting several towns in Maryland and Pennsylvania, also the great Cdncochague camp meeting near Chambersburg, Pa., returned home this week to spend a few days with relatives at 1433 Argyle avenue Rev. Dr. Cooper, of Salem N. J., and Miss Irven of Norfolk Va. were the guests of Mrs. C. J. Wilson 529 W. Hoffman street for the past week Mrs. Annie E. Lester, of 1204 Argyle avenue, is quite sick at her home. Mr. and Mrs. Fox, of Pittsburg, will be the guest of Mrs. Thos. Billups of 1204 Argyle avenue Miss. Augusta Rohobt is spending some time in Westmoreland Co. Va. Misses. Violet Clements and Villa Hughes will leave Monday for Atlantic City and New York. Miss Edna Jackson, left Thrusday for a short trip to Washington. Mrs. C. Clements who, was visiting her cousin in Balto Co has retruned home Mrs. Pessie Coleman, leaves Monday for Indianapolis Ind. who will be the guest of Mrs. Weaver. Mr. Walter Butler, of Phila., Fa. was in the city this week the guest of the Misses Briscoe of Druid Hill avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. F. Farr, of 1508 Orleans street, are visiting friends in Philadelphia and Atlantic City. Mrs. James A. Grooms, of St. Mary street, has gone to Niagara Falls, Toronto, Canada, and on return will stop at Buffalo, and Boston, Mass. Rev. J. E. Jackson, pastor of St. Joseph A. M. E. Church, Durham, N. C., is the guest of Rev. P. W. Wortham, of Calhoun street. Mr. Henry D. Perry of New York spent last Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Perry, of 505 Bloom street. Misses Adah B. Watts and Anna D. Perry will leave Sunday to spend the rest of the season at Laytonsville, Md. Mrs. E. B. Gross, of Wilson street has joined her daughter, Miss Hilda Biddle, at Atlantic City, where she has been spending the summer. Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Davis will be in Baltimore after the 19th of August at 530 W. Biddle street. Messrs L. H. Davenport, of Baltimore, and C. K. Davenport, of Rochester, N. Y., are visiting relatives in Northumberland Co., Va. Misses Beulah Boyd and Phyllis Holland, of 503 McMechen street will spend the months of August and September visiting relatives in North Carolina. Miss Cornelia E. Brooks, of 654 W. Hoffman street, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs Thomas L. Johnson, of Boston, left Monday for New York. A farewell luncheon was given in honor of Mrs. Walter J. Davis, of Oakland Cal., on Monday of last week, by her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher H.Marshall of Park avenue. Mrs. Robert Coleman and children have returned from a pleasant stay in Mt. Gilboa, Md. Mr. Levi Moore, who was recently appointed instructor in woodwork at the high school, is in the city. Mrs. William Anderson and her daughter are spending August in Monkton. Mr. William Anderson, of 1513 Druid Hill avenue, left Thursday for a weeks' stay of Charlottsville, Va. Before returning he will visit Mr. R. Percy Allen, of Harrisburg. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Forrest, of Washington, D. C., and their two daughters Misses Lillian and Minnie spent last Sunday in this city. They were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Kelson, of Presstman st. Mrs. Thomas P. Kelson and Mrs. Major P. Kelson left Thursday for Philadelphia and Atlantic City to visit relatives and friends Mr. and Mrs. John R. Monr will spend Sunday in Pendleton for visiting the sister of Mr. Monr. Mrs. Agnes Reed and her son will spend the summer in Blue Ridge Mountains. Mr. Samuel J. Perviance is spending his vacation at St. Michael's the guest of Mrs. Frances Brown. Mrs. Ephriam Jackson of Carey street has gone to Frederick Md. to visit her father Rev. I. Valentine. Mrs. Matilda Green and daughter of W. Langleale street have got to Prince George's country for fortnight. The Misses Katie and Marcel Jolley and Miss Helen Carter are spending the month of August a Glen Arm, Md. Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Marshall's Park avenue gave a farewell land con to his sister Mrs. Walter Johnson of Oakland, Cal. on Monday Miss Mary West, of. Sharp street entertained Miss Cora Butler, of New York, this week. Mrs. Walter Davis, of Oakland Cal., was entertained at breaking by Miss Mary West and at a reception by Miss Mary Marshall. Mrs. Lizzie Coats, of 809 Pierce street, spent quite an enjoyable time in Harrisburg, Pa., as a delegate to the Galilean Fishermen Convention. Mrs. Martha Thompson, of 214 Division street was surprised by the ladies of the Federation and the Pres, and secretary of the Fresh A. Circle. They came in a body, and the table was laid with all sorts of good things. Miss Ida Cummings was mistress of ceremonies and a toast from each lady was given, and a presentation was made to Mrs. Thompson by Mrs. M. R. Bruce. Mrs. Thompson will leave for Ridgewa Warren Co., N. C. Those preserve Misses Ida Cummings, and Ann Barnes; Mesdames E. J. Truxon Jennie Ross, Machel Taylor, V. J Lawson, C. Price, Susie Ross, M. R. Bruce, Joseph Fendall, and Mrs Howard. GREAT DAY AT THE SILVE SPRING SOCIAL PARLOE Sunday, July 31st, was a great day in East Baltimore. The occasion was the visit of the Monday Club, of Wilmington, Del., to the home of the members of the Silver Spring Social, of 1119 Mullifield street. Upon the arriving in the city, the guests were escorted to the rooms of the local social, where dinner, consisting of meats, gan and fruits, the choiceest that could be gotten, awaited their appetite Mr. James Langston acted as master of ceremonies. Toasts, toasting upon current topics of the day social, literary and ceremonies, were made by both visiting local guests. Those coming from Delaware were: John M. Blair, Pres. Richard Craig Bengmin Laws Richard D. Weeks Mark Wilson Walter S. Geoquill Philip Sadler Charles Burton Philip Sadler Charles Burton Oliver Wright Elwood Clarkson Harry Gilbert Samuel Anderson Harvey Hedges George Butler John R. Smith Frestis Hance Isaac Scott James Brown Otis Harris George W. Jefferson Frank Brown George Epps James Foreman Charles Lambert M. Griffith John Gibson Gilbert Hill Weasley Hinson Horace Molton Wm. Marshall Richard Anderson Elwood Norton Burney Murray Charles Curby Frank Rigeway Harry Coleman David Murray I. Bechles Robert Johnson George N. Wright O. Moore Wilbert Harris Samuel Adams Mrs. Lilin Williams Miss Ellen M. Miller Miss Carrie Fisher Miss Maud Ambrose Miss J. Looper Miss M. Ambrose Miss O. White After touring the city the que departed on a late train, they spent a day of unalloyed pleasure Mr. Harry Lyles is president the Silver Spring Social and Stephen Edward secretary.