The Afro-American

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN LEDGER VOL. XIX NO.26. BANKER SCHIFF SURPRISED AND GRATIFIED. SAYS TUSKEGEE IS AN OBJECT LESSON TO HIM WHICH HE WILL NEVER FORGET Sorry He Waited Until the Evening of His Life To Go There—No Greater Happiness Than That Obtained Through Honest Work—Spends Two Days With Party Of Friends Visiting Tuskegee Institute And Is Greatly Pleased. (Special to Afro-American Ledge Tuskegee, Ala., Feb. 18—Jacob H, Schiff, head of Kuhn, Loeb & Company, the New York banker and philanthropist, who, with a party of friends came from New York to visit Tuskegee Institute, spent two days in riding about the grounds visiting the shops and the farms. In a short address to the students in the Chapel last night, Mr. Schiff said: "I have long admired the work of Dr. Booker T. Washington and his co- laborers. But now that I have seen it, I cannot find words to express my surprise and gratification. It is far beyond anything I expected to see. As I walked through your grounds today, my heart filled with pride to find what had been accomplished by a single man in so short a time. It is an object lesson to me which I shall never forget, and I am only sorry that I waited until the evening of my life to see what has been done here. It has been an inspiration to me, and when I return home I intend to send my son and grandchildren here that they may get the same inspiration that I have." He said it was a mistake to assume as had been too long the case, that work was a curse. "Work," he said, "has now become the blessing of the world. There is no greater happiness than that obtained through honest work. I do not pity you your hardships. I envy you for the opportunities you have here." Mr. Schiff's party, which consists of General James H. Wilson, Mr. Leo Arnstein, Secretary of the Borough of Manhattan, and Dr. H. B. Frissell, Principal of the Hampton Institute, Virginia, left Saturday night upon the special car in which they are traveling for Montgomery and from there they will go to Jacksonville, Fla. Was Damaged by Fire to the Extent of Six Thousand Dollars. Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 23—Arrangements are being made to rebuild the Mercy Hospital, which was gutted by fire last week. The damage amounted to about $6000 and Dr. R.F. Boyd had his automobile destroyed also. The hospital was founded by Dr. Boyd and is situated near the Mehachary Medical College DR. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON King Frederick and Queen Louise of Denmark autographs of Their Majesties in acknowledgement of his work, "Up From Slavery," which they had the pleasure of reading. King Frederick and Queen Louise entertained Dr. Washington at the palace, when he was in Copepenhagen, Denmark last summer. Queen Alexandra, of England, was present on that occasion. NOT ENOUGH "ANSISTRAL PROFE" So Writes Brilliant Election Official In Denying Pro- minent Colored Man The Right to Vote. Muskogee, Ala., Feb. 22—The federal grand jury, which was in session here here a few days ago, found indictments against a number of ecti- ction officials, who denied colored men the right to register and vote in the last election. As an example of the way in which the election law was enforced, three well known men of Boley, a colored town of a population of three thousand, were denied the right to vote under the disfranchising law adopted last August. One of these men, Mr. Henry Taylor, after meeting the edu- cational test, asked the election official to write the reasons for his being denied the right to vote on the back of the affidavit. The election, official, who conducted the examination, showed his utter lack of education by writing on the back of the affidavit: "Refused for want of assistral profe." COLORED NEW YORKERS ARE WAKING UP. Will Urge The Appointment of Colored Policemen and Firemen and Organization as a State Militia. New York, Feb. 22—A largely attended meeting to urge that colored policemen, fireman and a regiment of State troops be provided for was held Sunday afternoon at the office of Mr. James C. Thomas, a leading undertaker of Harlem. The residents here are deeply in earnest about the project, and already several hundred dollars, including $100 from Bert Williams, the comedian, have subscribed for the campaign that will be waged. J. Frank Wheaton is the head of the movement. Tuskegee, Aia., Feb. 22—The executor of the estate of Mr. Andrew J. Dotger has recently turned over to the Trustees of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute $404,592.57. This goes into the endowment fund of the institution. JUSTICE WRIGHT GETS HIMSELF INTO TROUBLE THE WASHINGTON JURIST'S ALLEGED UNJUDICIAL TEMPER IS GREATLY RESENTED Impeachment Proceedings May Be Instituted—Representative Bennett Brings Matter to The Attention of Congress—Prominent Citizens Are Highly Incensed At The Remarks Credited to Justice Wright Of The District Supreme Court. Bureau of the Afro-American Ledger 1004 S. St. N. W. Washington Washington, February 23—Justice Daniel Thew Wright, of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia faces the menace of impeachment proceedings, if the charges lodged against him by some of Washington's most substantial citizens can be sustained. At the instance of a committee from the Interdenominational Ministers' Association of the District, Representative William S. Bennett of New York, introduced a resolution calling attention to the language said to have been used by Justice Wright in sentencing a colored man for perse snatching, and suggesting that "if said alleged language be found subversive to the ends of justice and fairness, that impeachment proceedings be begun at once." The committee which waited on Representative Bennett, was composed of the following gentlemen: Rev. Drs. J. Milton Waldron, F. J. Grimke, D. E. Wiseman, A. C. Garner, S. L. Corrothers; Former Judge Hewlett, Lawyers W. H. Hart, J. H. Stewart, Jones L. Neill and William Harris. The case which called forth the episode, was one in which a colored man was convicted of snatching the purse from the hands of a white woman Justice Wright in pronouncing sentence on the Nego, giving him 15 years in the penitentiary, is said to have shown evidence of passion far beyond the merits of the incident, and wholly unbecoming to a judicial officer. Among other heated and violent remarks, suggestive of intense race feeling, he is reported as saying: "From the viewpoint of the white women of the national capital, it is not to be tolerated that a colored man should dare to put his hands upon one of them. A man of your color who lays a hand on a white woman will not be tolerated, if I can help it. How dare a man of your color put his hands upon a white woman!" The charges, as filed with Congress allege that such language, accompanied by Heat, is unworthy of a Judge and advertises him as tempermentally unit-for a position on the Bench of a high court. The position taken by the complainants is that there is no color distinction in crime, and while laying no stress on the severity of the sentence, the query is presented: Is not such a crime of equal gravity if committed against a woman of any race? Would the punishment been as great, had the victim been a colored woman or the assailant a white man? Declaring sympathy with the enforcement of the law impartially against all criminals, the petitioners conclude: "The word of Justice Wright may tend to penalize one race in a different manner from the other for like offense. Any man of any race who lays a hand unlawfully upon any woman of any race should be punished according to law and not to race." The colored people of the city are deeply agitated over the unjudicial attitude of Justier Wright and indignation is universal. MARY A. CAMPBELL (Amended to Afro-American Leader) Washington, Feb. 28.—The Mary A. Campbell Circle, held its regular meeting recently at the home of Rev. and Mrs. W. R. Arnold, 419 Q. Street, N. W., Mrs. M. C. Beckett, is the president. Rev. and Mrs. Arnold have been married over fifty years, and it was a great pleasure for the Circle to hold its meeting at the home of this more than favored couple. The association has for its object the helping of the needy and extending a helping hand to the orphan and widow. After the transaction of the business a luncheon was served. Mrs. B. F. Watson, wife of the Secretary of Church Extension will entertain the Circle March 9th. COLOR LINE IN SALVATION ARMY Disciples of The Lowly Nazarine Cannot Mix With Negroes. Special to the AFBO-AFRICAN LEDGER Washington. Feb. 23-At the Interstate Conference of the Salvation Army, held in the First Congregational Church a decision was practically reached that the welfare of the organization, particularly in the South, demanded a separation of the white and colored workers. A spirited debate ensued when the question was broached, and Southern delegates clamored for segregation, while those from the North vigorously opposed snoh a revolutionary course. As an outcome steps will be taken to organize a Negro Salvation Army in the South, with a full equipment of Negro officers from top to bottom. FARMERS TO MEET. Those Of Washington County Will Meet In March And Hold An Important Meeting. (Special to the Afro-American Ledger.) Hagerstown, Md., Feb. 22.—Prof. Benjamin Smith, supervisor of the colored schools in Washington county, is arranging to hold a farmers' and industrial education conference early in March. Among those invited to speak are Mr. Harry S. Cummings, of Baltimore, and Prof. George H. G. Williams supervisor of the colored schools of Wicomico. Over 200 persons attended the reception given by the waiters of the Baldwin hotel last Thursday night. Mr. Jerry Dorsey and Mrs. Walter Coursey the latter of Frederick, led the grand march. I. N. Pindle is the headwaiter at the hotel. DR. D. WEBSTER DAVIS WILL ADDRESS STUDENTS. (Special to Afro-American Ledger.) Salisbury, Md., Feb. 22.—The High and Industrial School will close on April 27th, at which time Dr. D. Webster Davis, of Richmond, Va., will deliver the address to the graduating class. Dr. Stevens, the Superintendent of Public Instruction is also expected to be on hand. The local Business League, under the leadership of I. F. Steward, president, and Dr. C. W. Roberts, secretary, has been doing some practical work in securing Negro business enterprises of commercial value to the community. ADMIRE TUSKEGEE STUDENTS BECAUSE THEY ARE BRAVE A FIRE IN ONE OF THE DORMITORIES SHOW HOW WELL THEY ARE BEING TRAINED The Col. Makes His Annual Visit To Tuskegee And Teils What He Sees While There—Dr. Washington Doing A Great Work—Some Other Educational Institutions And What They Are Doing For The Uplift Of The Race.—Some Folks He Met In Travel. COL. J. O. MIDNIGHT. Columbus, Ga.—This is an age of get there, and I have never been made as proud of the young men of my race, as I was last week at Tuskegee Institute, and I will put the young men of that institution against the young men of the world when it comes to bravery and work of heroism, and you may tell the whole world that I told you this and have no apology for saving so. I have always been an admirer of Dr. Booker T. Washington. I have not been hanging around Tuskegee, but have gone there when I felt like it, and have told you about the great work being done there. This is all I could do and this is all you expect me to do. When I am there one no bothers me and I do not bother any one, and this is all you could expect of one of my age and experience. I made my annual visit there last week, and I felt greatly inspired, and since I have repeated this the second time I am sure you want to know what all this means. You see there were busy days around there. The Trustees met during this week, and there were many prominent white men from all parts of the country present, who desire to see the institution. Among them were wealthy men, who had been giving their money to the institution and dropped in to see what Dr. Washington was doing with the dollars which had been sent to him. Now about the young men and their heroism. The students over a thousand strong, and the faculty numbering. I do not know how many, had assembled in the chapel, and a man of wealth and influence had spoken, and then another, General Wilson, had been introduced, and was about to make a speech, or had spoken for a little while and was going on, when a young man rushed in and said a word or two to Major Ramsey, and he got Capt. Austin, and soon they were getting their men together. Little by little the young men left the chapel, and soon I heard a big whistle blow three times, and when it sounded, in less time than it took the man to blow the whistle every young man was out of the chapel. Now you want to know the trouble. It was learned that a building was on fire. One girl just jumped up and screamed, but that was not getting the fire out. She tried to get gaint to come but it seems that faint was off on a vacation and would not come to her. I tell you it was but a few minutes before every girl was out of that big chapel and how they emptied that chapel so quick I am unable to tell. But it did empty and soon 'every young man was at work. They are trained that when they hear the whistle to break for their post and while Dr. Washington was getting them to set down the blowing of the whistle commenced and there was nothing else to do, because they knew what it meant, and they were told to go. It was the barracks. Now the barracks are two long frame PETER H. BURTON buildings, just back of the chapel. How it caught fire none can tell; one of the buildings was destroyed but the young men saved the other one, and in addition to this risked their lives in saving the chapel which was about to go up also. Wonderful was the work of the young men. Every young man worked and nothing stood in the way. Dr. Washington make a good fire chief Major Ramsey his assistant, and Capt. Austin next. The men of Chicago or New York never fought a fire more desperately: Dr. Washington is a great man and Tuskegee is a great place and let us all rejoice that God hath given us such a man. Visit Tuskegee Institute, see 1500 young men and women move like the works in a clock and see his brains behind all and you will say we have no time to criticise, but let us all drop a H. O. TANNER DINED Noted Negro Artist Guest of Mrs. Celia Parker Wooley Chicago, Feb. 17- Henry O. Tanner, the artist, whose paintings are on exhibition at Thurber's gallery, was the guest of honor at a reception given by Mrs. Cecelia Parker Wooley at the Frederick Centre last Thursdow evening. Mr. Tanner in a little speech, told the guests of his travels in the Holy Land and of the inspiration it gave him for his pictures. Brief addresses of praise were delivered by Dr. J. T. Jenifer, Prof. R. T. Greener, S. Laing Williams, Mrs. George C. Hall and others. Mr. Tanner was born in Pittsburgh in 1859, where his father, Bishop B. Tanner, had charge of a church. He has resided in Paris for some years and his paintings are highly regarded. CHESTERTOWN NOTES (Special to Afro-American) Chestertown, Feb. 21.—The funeral of Mrs. Annie Jones took place at Bethel Church Sunday afternoon, and was conducted by Rev. J. A. Young. Mr. Harrison Jenkins paid a visit to Wilmington this week. Rev. V. H. Holland visited Dover this week and preached at the State College. Mr. Joseph Jones is confined to his York, Pa., Feb. 23.-Dr. G., W- Bowles, M. D., addressed a large and enthusiastic audience at Bethel A. M. E. Church, Sunday afternoon. Mr. A. Forrester, of 44 Broadway avenue, who has been sick for some weeks is improving. Leon Johnson, 115 E. South street, is agent for the Afro-American Ledger. To Discontinue Jim Crow Cars. Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 24.-The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which has for sometime been running jimcrow local cars from Maryland in to this city has agreed to discontinue the practice, following the filing of protests by a number of leading citizens. POWER OF SELF PROTECTION. New York Senator Deplores Lynching and Peonage in the South and Warns Congress Not to Surrender Its Rights In the Matter of Regulating the National Franchise. By OLIVER RANDOLPH. Washington—The recent speech of Senator Ellihu Root of New York in the senate of the United States is being discussed on all sides by leading colored men of Washington and by other leading colored men who have been here lately. Mr. Root, as is well known, is one of the greatest lawyers in the senate. By some he is considered the greatest not only in the senate, but in this country, and his remarks on the vital and farreaching question of Negro suffrage are of the deepest significance. Mr. Root addressed the senate in opposition to the resolution offered by Mr. Borah of Idaho which provides for the election of senators by the people of the several states instead of their election by the legislatures of the states. What brought up the discussion of the suffrage of black men was that the Borah resolution takes from congress the right in any way to have any voice in the election of senators by omitting that clause of the fourth section of the first article of the constitution which reads. * * * "But congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations" etc. Mr. Root took the strong position that congress should not surrender its right to interfere in the matter and strengthened his position by pointing out instances that it may become necessary for congress to act. Mr. Root said in part: "It is true, Mr. President, that the fourteenth C. G. H. and fifteenth amendments will still remain in the constitution, but so far as those amendments affect the exercise of the power of the states or of the individual voters in the states to constitute a member of this body the second part of this resolution would rob the government of the United States of the power to make those preliminary dispositions regarding elections necessary for the enforcement of the amendments." He administered a sarcastic rebuke to Senator Percy of Mississippi, who had said that the "exteusion of the power of the federal government as provided by the Sutherland amendment is a price greater than the south is willing to pay for the election of senators by the direct vote of the people," by telling him that "the time has not yet come when the people of this nation are entering the market place to buy from them or from any of them the right to preserve and protect by the exercise of our own national power the government of the United States under its constitution." But it was in answer to a question by Senator Bacon of Georgia that Senator. Root spoke with such cernality and much emphasis. M. Bacon wanted to know what were the things to which Mr. Root alluded in a part of his speech when he said that there were things happening in the southern states which the southern states ought not to permit and which, if the southern states do permit, the national government should correct and prohibit. Mr. Root gave the answer to Mr. Bacon in unmistakable language. He said: Mr. President, the senator from Georgia will recall that I was discussing the surrender by the government of the United States of the power necessary effectively to enforce the fourteenth amendment, those amendments were designed to give to the black men of the south protection through the exercise of the power that rests in suffrage. The power of self protection was one of the great moving considerations of the fourteenth amendment. Sir, there have been in the south—and my remarks are limited to the south, because it is there that the questions arise under the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, and for no other reason, and I accompanied it, the senator will remember, by a frank admission that there are many things done in the north also which call for the reservation of the same power on the part of the national government, there have been seen in South Loychings in the midwinter by the senator from Georgia in a mischief—there has been equally with myself; there have been introduced into the constitutions of the southern states clauses which are grouped under the general description of "grandfather clauses" and which are apparently adapted to the four-fifth, six-fifth, and six-fifth appurtenances. Mr. President, the people of the United States are willing apparently to hold their hands and to give goodgespots to the people of the south in working out the great and difficult problem that is before them; but, still, the people of the United States that the protection of the blacks, which was designed in these amendments, is not being secured—if it should come that the people of the United States are convinced that injustice and oppression are not the only means to reserve power of the national government to enforce in full the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, will be exercised and ought to be exercised. So long as the people of the south are working out their difficult lem in indifference so as to lose the power of the national government looks on with sympathy, and with good wishes. But if it shall ever come that the spirit of lynching and denounce ties to those poor people the protection that these amendments of the constitution were designed to give them then the reserve that we must give them that. That is what I meant by what I said. My proposition is that if the members of the senate are to be elected at popular elections the government of the United States must give that power to the senate honest and fair, and free, the power to say, if the regulations prescribed by the state are not adequate to that end, that they shall be superseded by regulations made by the congress of the United States. My proposition, furthermore, that the power to plan this change in the method of the election of senators, if the change be made, the government of the United States has surrendered the power for its own preservation and protection. Again did Senator Root put the Georgian senator to flight when he inconveniently answered another question propounded by Mr. Bacon. The question of Mr. Bacon and Mr. Root's reply follow: M. Bacon—Mr. President, do I understand the senator from New York to mean that if the states have now upon their statute books laws which regulate the suffrage in those states, such as the senator speaks of as "the grandfather clause," then the senator should govern in its character which relates to a general class of legislation—does the senator mean that, with the laws now upon the statute books of the several southern states, if the proposed amendment of the senator from Utah [Mr. Sutherland] should be adopted and we should pass legislation, it should be ratified by three-fourths of the states, it would then be within the power of congress, if it conceived that these grandfather clauses, as they are called, all the body of laws with reference to the regulations and limitations of the state, should give the press should conceive that they were unconstitutional—does the senator mean that in his opinion congress would have the power under the amendment of the senator from Utah to annul those provisions and to make federal laws to control the rights of the people to ensure the right to vote to all persons thought by congress to be entitled to vote? Mr. Root—Without the slightest doubt. One of the afternoon papers stated that Mr. Root's reply was "so direct, so unequivocal, that Mr. Bacon was silent for a minute." When Mr. Bacon recovered he said: "Well, Mr. President, it is well that we are given this notice of what the senator does mean and of what the Sutherland amendment means." To which Mr. Root replied: "I meant to put you on notice, and I mean to put the whole country on notice, if my words are able to do so." Mr. Root's speech has had the effect of lining up the colored men either against the Borah resolution or putting them on record as being pronouncedly in favor of the Sutherland amendment. This amendment proposes "to carry over to the new body of electors," as Senator Root expressed it, the same control which the present constitution attaches to the existing power of electors. A prominent colored business man and politician who comes from one of the middle western states, where the Negroes hold the balance of power, was heard to express his high approval of Senator Root's position. "The colored voters of the middle west," he said, "should at once take up the question in earnest and petition their senators and representatives to stand by the Sutherland amendment." A remarkable feature of the debate was the attitude taken by Senators Borah and Reveridge as to the Sutherland amendment. Both of these gentlemen expressed regret that the question of Negro suffrage should be brought into the debate. Both of them carefully avoided expressing themselves on the Sutherland amendment. Mr. Beveridge said: "I regret that it was ever brought into the case. I am not without sympathy with the senator's proposition, though I do not believe that I am prepared to go as far as to say that I would be willing to preserve that power and lose the main thing." Mr. Borah showed evident dissatisfaction over the present turn of the debate when he said, "The question of lynching and the question of peonage can have no possible relation with this subject in any way, shape or form, and every one understands precisely why they were brought into this debate." Both Senator Beveridge and Senator Borah are from states with a large number of colored voters. The larger questions connected with the election of senators by the people instead of the legislatures have been opened by Senator Root, and it is very evident that the rights of the colored man to participate in elections in the future will not be very bright if congress should surrender its power to regulate and supervise those elections. Athletic Carnival in Atlantic City. At the big athletic carnival held at Young's pier, Atlantic City, recently there were thirty events, in which 200 persons took part. Among the participants were many high school boys who contested for the valuable prizes offered. Ralph Deaver, the well-known sprinter, came in second in the one title race. THEAFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER Undoubtedly the most interesting city in the world—at any rate, to Europeans and Americans—is Rome. For twenty-five centuries she has been passing through exciting scenes such as have been but occasional with other cities. And her changes have been no less remarkable. There was the austere purity of the republic, the prolificity of the empire, her almost obliteration following the many attacks of her enemies, the petty quarrels and villaines of the middle ages. Perhaps the most despicable period at Rome was during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Within this period every head of a family inhabited his tower or stronghold, in which he defended himself against every other family. There were the Orsini, the Borgias, the Colonna and many other clans whose business it was to fight slaughter or poison one another. Some of them grew rich through plunder—there was then no other way—and built enormous palaces, where they lived with their retainers in princely style. During a visit to Rome I occupied a room in one of these palazzi. The building is very long and has been cut up into sections by partition walls. Not that there is, any regularity in these partitions; they occur any and everywhere; and it is not easy to tell which ones were a part of the original palace and which have been built it since. I was curious about the plea for though I was then but twenty-five years old I had read much about medieval Italy, and I knew the history of the house from its building. It was erected by one of the most villainous of the Roman family lenders that flourished in the fifteenth century. A number of times his enemies besieged his palace, overcame his followers, but could never capture him. The fox had means of escape that enabled him to go forth a free man, though every avenue of exit was carefully watched. My room was on the second story on a corridor with apartments on either hand and was near one extremity. On the terminal wall was a mural picture. Being interested, as I have said, in the building, I one day questioned the maid who took care of my room about its construction. The only information I elicited was that none of the rooms between me and the near end of the hall was occupied. This may have been because the summer season was coming on, when travelers seek more northerly climates. Nevertheless one morning on leaving my room I was just in time to see a lady advance from this unoccupied region. Perhaps it was the work of my imagination, perhaps some arrangement of her costume borrowed from two or three centuries agone, but it seemed to me that the lady belonged to medieval times. There may be an other reason why I should have thus considered her, the fact that I had not expected her to come, so it seemed, out of the wall. For had not the mald told me that none of the rooms from whence she came was occupied? However, I was so struck with the vision of loveliness that swept by me that "whence she came or what's her name" occupied a comparatively small part of my thoughts concerning her. I watched her till she reached the center of the corridor and passed down the staircase. At that moment the maid came along, with her brooms and bucket, and I asked her about the rooms she had told me were vacant. She assured me that they were. Slipping a couple of lira into her hands, I asked her to unlock them. She opened every door, and there was nothing but the bare furniture in any one of them. Nor was there any opening or stairway leading elsewhere. In other words, the end of the corridor was a complete pocket. From whence had the lady come? I regretted that I had not followed her downstairs to see whether she went. It was but 9 o'clock in the morning, and it occurred to me that she might have gone to the cafe on the first floor for breakfast. I went down there, but she was nowhere to be seen. She was in street costume and had doubtless gone out. For several days I spent all my time going about the city, hoping to meet the mysterious lady, visiting every gallery, ruin or subterranean excavation in Rome. I did not happen to meet her. I kept an eye for her in the palazzo, both in the cafe and other parts of the building where I would be likely to meet her. My watchfulness availed me nothing. I experienced a strange sinking about the heart at thinking she might have left Rome. Then one evening, ascending the staircase in the palazzo, I started down the corridor. No lights had yet been lit, and objects were very dim. As I was putting my key into the door of my room I felt a current of air and, turning, caught a glimpse of the mysterious lady going in the same direction as before. I was then young, and superstitious that have a greater hold I think on youth than experienced age had not yet worn away. Somehow I was impressed with the belflet that the mysterious lady, was one of those who had hinned the palazzo; several 'centri ries before. This feeling paralyzed me just long enough to permit her to escape me. Then, coming to my senses, I ran after her and down the staircase. I was too late. She had either passed on to the rooms at the other end of the corridor or had left the building. Probably she had entered some private apartment, for it was growing dark and too late for any lady, especially one young and beautiful, to be out on the street alone. The next morning at an hour when the most light made its way into the corridor, having bribed the maid to lend me her pass key, I opened every door of those in the mysterious region and explored every room for some exit. I found none. Then I tapped the terminal wall, but got no sound indicating anything wooden or hollow. The mural painting was a landscape in which was a woman's figure in the dress of ancient Rome. The picture must have been very old, for the colors were much faded, and it had evidently been painted in the sliff style that had been in vogue when the palazzo was built. My examinations led me to no discovery whatever. When it rains in Rome it rains hard. When a afternoon when a torrent was pouring from the clouds and it was consequently very dark in the palazzo, going to my room, I saw a marvelous sight. It seemed that the wall beyond my room had been removed and the corridor had been indefinitely extended. There were a few dim lights about me, and the corridor in its whole length was lighted by similar ones. Owing to the dizziness all this was barely perceptible. Then the extension melted away, and there was only the lil defined space at the end of the corridor to which I had been used. Thinking there must be something the matter with my eyes, I put a fist against each of them and gave them a prolonged rubbing. When I took my fists away for another look there was the mysterious lady coming toward me. She smiled as she passed me. Possibly my sensibilities were much overwrought and my imagination exaggerated everything, but it seemed to me that smile was the sweetest I had ever seen on a woman's face. Again my superstitions instincts caused me to stand stock still while I might have determined whether the vision were ghost or flesh and blood by means of touch. But it seemed to me that I had been swung back to medieval times and this woman was moving within the palazzo as she had moved there several centuries before. When she had passed beyond me, instead of following her I crammed my fists against my eyes to restore a normal sight. When I removed them the vision had disappeared. That was the last view I had of the mysterious lady at the palazzo. In vain I waited for her to appear again, vowing that if she did I would seize her and detain her till I could determine whether she were flesh and blood. But after several weeks' patient waiting, since she did not appear and I met her nowhere in Rome, I was forced to conclude that if she were a ghost she had been exorcized and if she were flesh and blood she had left the Eternal City. I made no effort to get an explanation, for in the first place I didn't care to let any one know how superstitious or perhaps stupid I had been, and the secret was one that I preferred to keep down at the bottom of my heart. I left Rome still uncertain whether I had been bewitched by a medieval ghost or my charmer were a real person. Fate brought me a solution. Returning to America, a few days out from Southampton one morning on deck I passed the mysterious lady sitting in a steamer chair. I looked at her in amazement. She burst into a laugh. "You and I don't need an introduction," she said. "We have met before. Be seated," pointing to a vacant chair beside her, "and I will tell you all about it." I accepted the invitation, and she continued: "I occupied rooms in the compartment next to yours in the palazzio. One who knew every book and corner, every secret passage, in the building showed me a wall dividing a corridor filled by a mirror. Touching a spring, the wall swung on a pivot, and when reversed a mural painting was where the mirror had been. "It occurred to me that I would like to astonish one one by passing through this passageway. To heighten the effect I wore a dress which is a modernized costume of the sixteenth century. The first person I hit upon was you, and I enjoyed your look of wonder immensely. The last time I appeared to you when I was passing the wall I saw you near the staircase. Crouching, I turned the mirror toward you, thus giving you a reflection of the corridor in which you stood. This, I knew, would cause the hall to appear to you continuous. Then when you covered your eyes I swung back the reverse." "What a fool I was!" I exclaimed. "I have been in doubt whether you were an apparition of a medieval dame or flesh and blood." "Have you?" she exclaimed, with delight. "Had I known that how much more pleasure I should have derived from the freak." "I presume," I said musingly, "that the passage through the wall was built and used by the fox who first owned and occupied the palazzo?" "Yes. I was told that on one occasion it saved his life." "He must have had skillful workmen to make it. I examined it carefully, even knocking on it, but could find nothing more than a blank wall." The next summer the mysterious lady and I made a wedding trip to Rome, stopped at the palazzo, and I made a very critical search for the spring that opened it. My wife was obliged to show me, where it was. HOMESEEKERS, ATTENTION! Thousands of satisfied customers are buying houses from us on the EASY PAYMENT plan. Why not call on us and let us explain to YOU what we can do. We have for sale a large list of houses all on easy terms on Druid Hill avenue, Argyle avenue, Bloom street, Division street, Dolphin street Mosher street and cross streets. We have over half a million dollars to put out on homes for you. 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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. 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. 628 N. EUTAW STREET ROYAL The Royal represents economy in more ways than ONE. 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FARM ORCHARD AND GARDEN BY F.ETRIGG CENTRAL POINT ROGUE RIVER VALLEY OREGON CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED [This matter must not be reprinted with- out special permission.] [This matter must not be reprinted without special permission.] ABOUT GETTING AHEAD. In the face of a good deal of criticism leveled at what are alleged as unjust and unequal economic conditions by a large class of folks who slew along on bare ground financially year after year it is well to take account of one or two factors which played an important part in the endeavors of those who do get on in the world in a material way. In the first place, even in the case of many who have achieved great wealth, there has been a period at the start when they had to count their penniles and exercise prudence and thrift in their expenditures and the management of their affairs. With a vast majority of those who are today moderately well fixed there has been a similar period in which the saving habit had to be cultivated and when there was a definite purpose to have the receipts exceed the expenditures year after year. The achievement of a condition of financial independence and competence, therefore, is not a matter of luck or chance, but of not definite purpose and design. Often so simple a thing as the disposition of 40 cents a day by an individual or family, whether the saving of it or the spending of it for useless or painful things, will spell thrift or poverty in the course of a few years. With many, in fact, the surplus above actual cost of living, wisely or unwisely handled, is not more than 20 or 25 cents per day. Forty cents a day saved means $125 for the year, counting 313 working days. Figuring interest at 6 per cent on the accumulation of an annual saving of $125 for a period of ten years and leaving the accumulated interest in the fund gives the sung sum of $1,025, the reward of saving four dimes a day. If 25 cents were saved per day it would mean about $1,012 for the same period. There is no money so easily earned as that which one's money wisely invested will earn, yet how many of the rank and file fail to profit from this source simply by neglecting the first steps—the saving of relatively small sums from day to day. This plan really embraces the philosophy of getting ahead. More who have been wont to bewail, their lot should take stock of it and put it into practical operation. CERTIFIED MILK. The term "certified" is properly applied to milk which contains 3½ per cent or more of butter fat and contains less than 10,000 bacteria per cubic centimeter. The milk must be produced under conditions of greatest cleanliness, and the cows producing it must be pronounced in perfect health by an authorized veterinarian. Milk produced under average farm conditions costs from 4 to 5 cents per quart, while that produced under the conditions existing in a certified plant would probably cost twice as much. One of these certified dairies is located near Duluth, Minn. It is under the direct supervision of the dairy department of the University of Minnesota, and in the management of it every detail laid down is carried out. The precautions taken are not only instructive to the dairman, but instructive as well from the standpoint of the general reader. The health of the cows is looked after by a competent veterinarian, and any animals not showing the best condition of health are at once removed. The barns are well lighted, well ventilated and kept scrupulously clean. The cows are carefully brushed before each milking, and their udders and under parts are kept clipped short to prevent dirt clinging thereto. The milkers are dressed in clean white suits, and each carries a damp cloth to wipe off the cow's udder. Covered milk pails are used, and the milk is strained in a seep, rate room. It is then removed to the dairy, where it is aerated and cooled to a temperature of about 40 degrees. The milk is then bottled and put on ice. The owner of this particular dairy is not taking all of these palms for his health. He gets 14 cents per quart for his product from city customers and cannot begin to supply the demand. THEYRE GETTING TIRED. IF northwestern fruit growers had not decided on the move before, the beggarly prices, which they have been able to realize on their best fruit, the past season, when trash not fit for bog feed has been shipped, from 2,000 to 3,000 miles and sold at retail, at $2 per box, will furnish the last argument needed to unite them into an effective organization whose prime object will be the systematic and co-operative marketing of their fruit, which will cut out two or three classes of jobbers that have been gouging them with the one hand and robbing the consumer with the other. The jobbers, got souked in the apple deal they tried to pull off four or five years ago, and they have been taking heavy toll of the producers ever since. The latter are getting wise. Filth is the handmaiden of disease, and this is true of the cow stable, the piggen, the henhouse and the home-stead. A gasoline engine is much like some other things that might be named—a great aid and labor saver if rightly handled and well behaved and an all around bugbear otherwise. The actual loss in the handling of one "lofer" in the dairy herd in the course of a year will often more than pay for a Babcock milk tester, which can be bought at between $4 and $5. While many folks lay great store by luck, so called, it is always well to reduce the operation of this uncertain factor to a minimum, which can be done by the use of one's wits, good judgment and careful planning. While there is some conflict in aim in the attempt to secure a type of cattle having beef and dairy capacity in marked degree, there is in the case of sheep no difficulty in the raising of a type which will do well in the line of both wool and mutton. General thriftiness and vigor are the prime essentials in the case of both meat and wool. Time was not many years ago when cotton seed was considered a virtually useless byproduct of the cotton raising industry. Today, in addition to furnishing enormous quantities of oil used for various commercial purposes, the seed is ground into meal, which contains a considerably larger protein content than flaxseed meal and costs about the same per ton. Many a street laborer looks with longing at the brownstone front and wishes he were the owner of it, while the owner of the same brownstone front, with health knocked out by the strain and tension of business cares, would probably give a small fortune for the appetite and zest with which the laborer consumes his midday lunch of bread and meat. Now and then a lawyer may be the instrument of getting a fellow into trouble. As often, if consulted, he may make it possible for one to avoid a good deal of trouble. In the above we have in mind referring to a good lawyer contracts or other legal instruments involving obligations to be assumed. Such advice may cost several dollars, but it may save as many hundred. During 1010 the federal fish commission distributed 3,233,032,572 fish and fish eggs, which exceeds the record of the previous year by 4 per cent. Of this total 433,177,000 eggs and 7,425 fish were delivered to several state fish commissions, and 500,000 salmon and trout eggs were shipped to France, Japan and Argentina. The report shows that the commercial fisheries of the country represent an investment of about $85,000,000, while the value of the output for the year is placed at $2,000,000. While Sun Jose scale is more frequently observed on the limbs and trunks of trees which it infests, it often appears on mature fruit. In the case of apples like the yellow Newtown its presence is indicated by small deep red spots slightly raised in the center where the scale is established and shading to a thinner color in much the same way as would a boll or sore on one's hand. Often these scale spots may not appear at the time the fruit is packed, but develop by the time it reaches its destination or is taken from storage. Import statistics gathered by the department of commerce and labor show that of the coffee imported into the United States in the year ended July, 1010, 97.2 per cent came from South and Central America and Mexico. Of the small remainder, 0.1 of 1 per cent came from Aden and was sold as Mocha, and 1.3 was Java coffee and came from the East Indies. It is interesting to note that, while the import price of all the coffee shipped in from American countries averaged but a small fraction over 5 cents per pound, it cost the consumer from 20 to 35 cents per pound. While the raising of horses is attended with greater risk than the raising of cattle or sheep, the fact remains that, when properly conducted, the horse business is one of the most profitable lines of animal husbandry. With prices continuing at present levels one can count on from 10 to 12 cents per pound at from two to three years old, depending upon individuality and type. In this connection it is well worth remembering that it costs no more to raise a fine, well-bred animal than it does, a scrub, while the returns may be from one and a half to two times as large, and the satisfaction to be had is many times as great. That bountiful crop production is very closely associated with what we undoistely as "good times" and prosperity may be realized in the case of the two leading products of the country—corn and cotton. The value of the first in-ground numbers, for 1000 was $1,500,000,000, which is said to be sufficient to pay, the interest bearing debt of the United States and exceed by a considerable value all the gold and silver dug out of the earth in the year 1000. The value of the cotton crop for the year just past is placed at $000,000,000, which would be enough to just about wipe, out the national debt. When these and numerous other crops, aggregating values, correspondingly large are produced from the soil of the United States annually it is, alized the more readily why our country is one of the wealthiest and most prosperous in the earth. Shelled corn, grits and water may be all right, for the bunch of old Biddles that are being fattened for pie, but if eggs are wanted something that will furnish a protein element will have to be provided bran, oilmeal, tankage, bran, clover or alfalfa. An investigation into the probable cause of rust spots appearing on apples shipped from some Pacific coast points made by Professor D. J. O'Gara, fruit disease expert, leads film to the conclusion that the spots in question are due to impurities contained in the arsenate of lead used in spraying the trees and not to any fungous or scale pest. While they may not be able to analyze the philosophy of it, it is remarkable at how early an age little children seem to acquire a sense and appreciation of what is right, just and fair. Many a parent ignores this faculty in the early years, only to wake up later to a realization of the fact that both the respect and confidence of the child have been forfeited. The jungle fowl of India, supposed to be a distant cousin of our modern breeds of domestic fowls, follows out her natural instinct and lays a clutch or two of eggs a year, as many at one time as she can effectively cover and incubate. It is because of this natural habit of their early ancestors that the modern dock of hens incline under average conditions to produce 60 rather than 200 eggs in a year. Until recently plaster was seldom used in the interior finishing of Pacific slope houses, owing to the fact that it so frequently became loose and fell off during the rainy weather. Instead, the rooms were finished with matched sheathing, heavy building paper or cloth and the paper put on over this. Since the introduction of wood fiber plaster it is being quite generally used in the section mentioned. In a recent statement published by Chief Forester Graves the estimate is made that 84 per cent of the loss from forest fires during the year 1003 was directly traceable to carelessness on the part of settlers in burning their timber clearings and similar carelessness on the part of the railroads through failure to use effective spark arresters. Here is a type of conservation of natural resources that can be put into practice without the necessity of legislative deliberation or executive decree to make it effective. As the result of a law passed by congress last year it will bereafter be unlawful to offer for sale in territory under federal jurisdiction adulterated or misbranded insecticides or to ship such articles from one state to another. The act specifically mentions paris green and arsenate of lead, the two chemicals most widely used by orchardists. The new law will be a real boon to fruit and vegetable growers, as it will compel manufacturers to properly label their products, and enable the purchaser to know exactly what he is paying for. An extensive hog raiser of whom we heard the other day attributes his freedom from loss by cholera to the practice he follows of removing well hogs from any pen or lot in which sick ones have been noticed rather than removing and isolating the all ing ones, a practice quite generally followed. The plan he has adopted seems to be based on sound principle, for it means the removal of unfaeced animals to entirely clean and wholesome surroundings, where there could not be any possibility of contamination from disease germs. There is no doubt good profit in the poultry business if the same degree of brains and energy is devoted to it as would make success possible in other lines. Many novices launch into the business make the common mistake of taking it up on 100 large a scale at the start. They naturally argue that if ten hen will not get $200 a year 100 hens will not $200 and 1,000 hens $2,000. More money, but this has been made off 1,000 hens, but hens was by men of long experience! and wide information in the poultry business. If one wishes to go into chicken raising it is far better to work into it gradually, increasing the size of the flock, as experience, is gained. Such a course would likely invert not only disappointment, but serious loss. If it were not for the small boy who ferret, trap and gin, there would be many 'localities' literally cursed and overrun with the rabbit pest. Like rats, they are prolific breeders, and no amount of exterminations during any winter season seems to prevent multiplication of the pest the following season. Notwithstanding the fact that the young trees in the orchard may have been amply protected, with this or that trunk covering, it is well to make a trip of inspection through the orchard every few days to see that everything is all right. Osten's snow will drift higher than the coverings in which case, the upper trunk and branches, will be exposed to attack. The writer remembers just such an occurrence in his own orchard following a big storm when there were drifts six feet deep, which enabled the rabbits to go at will among the lower branches. Where such a condition exists about the only safeguard, aside from trapping and shooting, is putting out pieces of apples on the exposed surfaces of which powdered arsenic has been rubbed. Afro-American Co. J. H. MURPHY, Manager. C. & P. Phone, Mt Vernon 2833. UP-TOWN OFFICE: 1320 Druid Hill Avenue. C. & P. Phone, Madison 432. 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WIFE BEATER PUNISHED-HE WAS A NEGRO. Of all men in this world a wife beater is one of the most detestable, and we have no sympathy with one when the same sort of thing is applied to his back, and consequently whatever may be said in this article has no application to a beast of this sort. This week at the jail a colored man suffered the penalty of his meanness by having the cat-o-nine tails applied to his back, and we have no sympathy with him, but what we wish to ask Judge Duffy, is this the first case of wife beating that has come into his court? And we wish further to ask why it that out of the number of wife beaters who have suffered the penalty of this law the more than three-fourths of them have been colored. As a matter of fact only one white man has so suffered. It looks very much to us like there is a little one-sidedness in the administration of certain laws in this State. Even Sheriff Hanson felt it to be his sole duty to administer the punishment. We are wondering whether he would have been so eager to do his duty had the victim been a white man. Now the thing is started let Judge Duffy see to it that every white beater who comes into his court receives the same punishment, and if so we guarantee that there will be fewer cases of wife beating. Approximately in this city there are nearly a hundred thousand Negroes, and we are glad to say, many of them fairly well off in this world's goods. Whether they are well off or whether they are poor, all of them have to eat and wear clothes of some sort or kind. In addition to this they have to have houses to live in, and most of them wear shoes. They spend on an average, to say the very least, one dollar a day, averaging a hundred thousand dollars a day or six hundred thousand dollars per week, and the largest part of which goes into the pockets of the white merchants, with which proceeding under present conditions we have no fight. But cannot this be changed and a large amount of this money go into the pockets of Negroes, if so how? As has been said we have to eat, and the most of us do so. Here is one of the very largest items in the bill. Is there not some way we can get some of this money that floes to feed this large population? Of course we can. In order to do so, however, we must have stores and storekeepers. On one corner of a popular street in this city, near the centre of a large colored population, not many years ago a white mau set up a little store and commenced to sell groceries and provisions to colored people, and now he is fast getting on the road to wealth. A colored man might have done the very same thing. We must awake to the fact that the Negro population of this city is large enough to provide everything needful to feed, clothe and house every member of it, and not only to feed, clothe and house them, but provide employment for every member of the race. There are a hundred cities in the United States which have a very much smaller population than that of the Negro population of Baltimore and they provide all they want in one way or the other. If these can do it we surely can if we will only get it into our heads that we ought and can do it. True it cannot all be done at once, but we can begin to do it and begin today. OUR BUSINESS MEN. A glance at the 1911 edition of the National Baptist Sunday School Lesson Commentary shows that as, heretofore, the Baptists have marched steadily onward, making rapid improvement in their Sunday-school publications, periodicals and prerequisites. The better part of the study of the Sunday-school lessons this year will be in the Old Testament, but this does not seem to have daunted the editorial staff who prepared the present publication which is brimful of useful helps, references and information on the Bible. It has its exposition on each lesson, its revised and authorized texts as well as primary questions. The book on the whole is about as useful and complete a commentary as has been turned out, with a dictionary for each quarter's lesson, a calendar for the year, and the subjects and texts for the kessons of 1912. The book is edited by Rev. R. H. Boyd, D. D., secretary of the Baptist Publishing Board, and Rev. W. S. Ellington, A. B., D. D., editorial secretary of the Publishing Board, who has charge of all the editorial work. Dr. Boyd states that the edition last year was about 10,005. Just what it will be this year has not yet been determined, as it is too early in the season, but, however, one edition is already exhausted. Bishop J. Albert Johnson Penny Club. A number of members of Trinity A. M. E. Church met in a social way, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Bell, 1030 Druid Hill avenue, last Monday night. After considerable time spent in social exchanges, the pastor, Rev. A. L. Gaines, was asked how the gathering might be launched into avenues of church usefulness. In a short address he called attention to the purposes and needs of our South African work under Bishop J. Albert Johnson, and the West African work under Bishop W. H. Heard, as well as the local needs of ministers who are on mission work within the bounds of our Conference and to the local needs of Trinity Church. The appeal met with ready response and it was decided unanimously to organize an association under the supervision of the church to be known as the Bishop J. Albert Johnson Penny Club. The association was launched with the following officers and members: president, Mrs. Bettie Bell; vice, Mrs. Elizabeth Custis, secretary, Mrs. Nellie Bell; assistant, Miss Lizzie Bell, treasurer; Miss Sadie Trower; Mesdames Louisa Bivens, Emma Henson, Sallie H. Haskerville, Ida Waters, Mary Bond, Lucy Ford, Elizabeth Hayward, Sarah Simpson; Misses Kitty Mapp, Alice Redden, Eliza Dean, N. H. Gatlin; Rev. J. O. Custis, Messrs. Cyrus Bell, James Custis, Robert Henson, and John Bond. An offering was lifted and $1.15 was placed in the hands of the treasurer. After the organization of the club the friends present were invited to the dining room where refreshments were served and every one left with the idea of making the Bishop J. Albert Johnson Penny Club one of the strongest organizations of Trinity Church. REV. J- F. WAGONER DEAD. Hagerstown, Md., Feb. 24.—The funeral of Rev. John F. Wagoner, a superanuated minister, who died Tuesday at his home here, was held at Bethel A. M. E. church on Thursday of last week and was largely attended, Rev. C. H. Murray, P. E., preached the sermon. Revs. A. L. Gaines and Rev. J.G. Martin, of Baltimore, and Rev. Harris, of Frederick, were among the out-of-town ministers who attended the funeral. Mr. James Saunders died at his home on High street Tuesday evening. on high street Tuesday evening. Rev. Dennis and congregation held the first services in their new chapel Sunday. Sunday. A large crowd attended the debate at the Free-Will Baptist Church Tuesday night. WINCHESTER NOTES Winchester, Va., Feb. 22. Mr. and Mrs. William Bannister who have been ill at their home on South Market St., are able to be out again. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Finley are receiving congratulation upon the birth of a daughter. Quarterly conference was held at John Mann M. E. Church, Rev. L. A. Carter, pastor. Timanus Does Not Look So Good to The Colored Voters. The Republican organizations of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Wards have endorsed E. Clay Timanue for the mayoralty nomination. As the leaders in both of the wards are staunch followers of Collector Stone, head of the Republican machine, it indicates that the Collector is behind Timanus, Mr. Stone sometime ago said he was not behind Mr. Timanus, but two men on the street were overheard in the following conversation: "I thought 'Bill' Stone was absolutely hands off in the Mayoralty fight. The Seventeenth ward organization has indorsed Timanus, "Stone is not behind anyone; he is only leading the way, and Mr. Timanus is following," was the reply. The attempt of the organization to make the people acquiesce in Stone's mayoralty choice is not being, taken any too kindly and many freely predictsthat if Timanus is nominated again, he will be slaughtered as he was four years ago. While Charles H. Torch, the antiorganization candidate, is not arousing too much enthusiasm among the voters, he is regarded as head and shoulders above Mr. Timanus in general ability, and a number will turn, to him rather than support a man who is said not to regard the Negro any too kindly. Davenport Against Cummings. The Seventh ward councilmanic fight is already beginning to wax warm, and the boys are beginning to line up. The friends of Councilman Cummings are already predicting his renomination, while the friends of L. H. Davenport declare they are going to give Cummings the run of his life. The fight for the councilmanic nomination from the Fourth District is growing in interest. W. H. Pairo, a former member of the Legislature; J. Webb Thomas, former Supervisor of Elections and Councilman C. H. Heinizman are in the fight. Charles J. F, Steiner, who was defeated by Charles Main in the last Congressional primaries in the Third District, will be the organization's candidate for the Second Branch City Council in the First Council-imagic District. Goldsmith and Binswanger Hustling Councilman A. C. Biuswanger and Mr. William Goldsmith are stirring up things in the Fourteenth ward. "Biusy" has been a member of the City Council since 1907 and is regarded as a most capable man. Mr. Goldsmith runs a department store on Pennsylvania avenue, and has a very large circle of friends in the ward. He is making a vigorous campaign and has already attracted some of the most influential men in the ward to his candidacy. McCurdy Scared Off Up in the Sixteenth ward, Councilman Robert McCurdy has been seared out of the fight by reason of the hostile attitude of the colored voters- Following the publication in the Afro-American Ledger that McCurdy did not show up in the City Council to vote either for or against the West segregation law, many of the colored voters got "lot in the collar" and declared that they would slaughter him if he ran again. International Congress on Tuberculosis to Meet in Rome. When the International Congress on Tuberculosis meets at Rome next September, representatives of over thirty national and provincial associations organized to fight tuberculosis will be present. Among the associations which will be represented are The United States, Canada, Cuba, Trinidad, England, Wales, Ireland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Greece, Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria, *New Zealand*, Japan, Cape Colony, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Newfoundland, Roumania, Fruguay and Venezuela. "Be prepared" is a boy scout motto. It is a good motto for all sorts and conditions of people. Success material and spiritual depends upon preparation few flowers at the feet of the man while he is living and can enjoy their fragrance, and not load him down with flowers and praises after he is gone. I would like to here pay my respects to Emmett J. Scott, but I will put it off until another time. I have a few things to tell you about this wonderful young man. I was in Mobile when I took my pen in hand to write to you the last time, and now I am in Columbus, Ga., and before this letter can get very far I will be in Texas. I left Mobile in company with a number of the bishops. They came along to see what was going on and I had to be with them. Soon we were on the way to Montgomery, and at this point I got off. Had the pleasure of meeting Dr. J. C. Caldwell, and the Rev. Dr. Pope, and I am not able to tell you all the others I met there. I had the pleasure of talking at St. John A. M. E. Church to a large crowd of people, and then I made the ride to see the schools and other things. Charles Sterrs has erected a new house out of an old one and he and his wife are just making things go. From Montgomery I went out to Mr. Meigs to see Miss Georgia Washington, and she sent me over to see Miss Cornelia Bowen and her wonderful work, and Miss Bowen sent me back to the Reformatory to see the boys and then back to Miss Washington where I spent the night at the school. It was a wonderful visit. These people are doing great work. I met Miss H. K. Pattrick who use to be at Normal years ago. Miss Bertha Lee Tate was one of the teachers, but I must not start to naming teachers. The students at both schools seemed glad to see me and treated me like I was one of the great men of the race and age. Miss Washington sent me over to the station in the morning and there I started for Tuskegee. they had a carriage down to meet me like I was one of them big educators comingr I tell you they know how to treat you. Mr. Stevenson, of the Y. M. C./A. received the guests. Met H. D. Slatter, N. D. Thompson, and hundreds of others. Prof. J. R. E. Lee, is devoting his time in preparing for the commencement and at the same time preparing for the big convention of teachers of the youth of my race which will come off in July in St. Louis, Mo. His whole heart seems to be in it, and I will have a few things to say about it later. The workingest men I know of in this country on conventions are J. R. E. Lee and Henry Allen Boyd, of the National Publishing Board. Mr. Boyd is now working on the next session of the Sunday School Congress which is to be held in June in Meridian, Miss., and promises to be the greatest meeting yet held, because Boyd is connected with it. Then off to Columbus was the next stop and I spent last Sunday here. Wm W. Allen, was there to meet me when I reached this town, and soon had my things in a carriage headed for his home. Rev. W. D. Johnson, pastor of St. James, is another busy man, and I will have a few things to say to you about him in another letter. You must excuse me for this week but I will write to you again next week. Sheriff is Slain; Police Chief Shot. Deputy Sheriff George Munford was killed and the chief of police, A. O. Glover, of Wilson, N. C., was probably fatally wounded by a colored desperado. The officers were attempting to arrest the man on advices from Dunn; where he was charged with breaking into a store. Splinter Kills Wood Chopper. George Rarig, a young wood chopper of Conyngham valley, near Hazleton, Pa., died of lockjaw, contracted through infection of a wound caused by a splinter in one of his fingers three weeks ago. Eight People 19 M. Lemartin, the French aviator, broke the world's passenger carrying record at Pau, France. Piloting a mono- plane, he carried up seven passengers for a five-minute flight. GENERAL MARKETS PHILADELPHIA — FLOUR firm; winter clear, $3.65@.com; city mills, city mills RYB FLOUR firm, at $4@4.15 per barrel. WHEAT quiet; No. 2 red, new, 93 @9% CORN quiet; No. 2 yellow, 52% @52%c. OATS steady; No. 2 white, 37½@ lower, grades 36½c. POULTRY: Live steady; hens. 16@16½c.; old roosters, 10½@11c. Dressed firm; turkeys, choice, 23c.; choice fowls, 16½c.; old roosters, 12c. BUTTER steady; extra creamery, 29c. per lb. PITTSBURG (Union:Stock Yards)- CATTLE BURG choice, $60.60@68.5; 40.60@60.00. SHEEP涨; prime wetthers, $4.25 @4.40; culls and common, $2.50@3.25; lambs, $4.50@ per calves, $2.50@3.25; irrinses, $3.25; wrinkles, $7.90@8; mediums, $8.40; heavy Yorkers, $8.40@8.45; light Yorkers, $8.65@7.0; pigs, $7.00@7.85; roughs, $7.50@7.25 EPWORTH LEAGUE NOTES By Miss M. Edyth Cooper, Editor. Mrs. E. J. Truxon Asso. Ed. Address all contributions to $Editor 1216 Drud Hill ave. or to this office To be young at this period in the history of the world is indeed a blessing. Make the most of it. Owing to the illness of Mrs. E. J. Truxon, 1st vice president of the J. A. Holmes Chapter of Metropolitan Mr. Garret W. Rawlings, the 4th, vice president has been presiding at Sunday afternoon services. Mr. Rawlings has conducted several excellent programs. The Holmes Chapter's Social on last Friday night was largely attended. Their next social will be held in March. Misses Violet Holmes and Ellen Dutton are arranging the program for this affair, while Miss Helen Jackson and Mr. John Purviance will provide special music for the occasion. To get Christ's point of view on life is the all important thing in the development of Christian character. The Norris Chapter of John Wesley church, held a very interesting service Sunday, Mr. Benjamin Burke presided. Among those appearing on the program were Madam Maud Gross, Miss Mamie Woolford Messrs. Norris and Waters. This Lengue held a sawing contest on the 16th. This entertainment was mirth provoking in character and offered an opportunity for the Social Department to do some effective work. Rev. G. F. Bragg Speaks At Ministerial Alliance That the Negro will reach a position of superiority in the affairs of the world if he models his life after the principles expressed in the Beatitudes was the contention made by Rev. Dr. George F. Bragg, Jr., in an address before the Ministerial Alliance, at its monthly meeting at Grace Presbyterian Church last Monday. "The long enslavement of the Negro race," said Dr. Bragg, "as well as his subsequent and present humiliation, are but disciplinary and preparatory for a great work of high destiny. And that special mission or work, as it seems to me, ls of giving the highest setting to the law of love as unfolded in our Lord's great sermon on the Mount. In preaching that sermon, our Lord took for his text the elements of superiority as expressed in the Beatitudes. This, then, is the measure of superiority. "There is a great and urgent need in the world of a concrete illustration of the law of love, and this is to be the peculiar glory of the sons of Ham. They may excel in arts and other branches of industry and science they may become distinguished just as men of other races, but the one unique mission of the sons of Ham is of a spiritual and moral character. They are to be God's people, that He may use them in teaching and influencing for good the nations of the earth in the direction of holiness and righteousness." In his rebuttal, Dr. Bragg declared that the possession of money was not a test of superiority. Among those who discussed the paper were Rev. Drs. Harvey Johnson, A. L. Gaines, W. J. Winston and L. Z. Johnson. DOG MOURNED TO DEATH Big Collie' Refused to Eat After His Master Died. A fine Scotch collie, the dog of Benjamin Bemkins, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., who died several days ago, gave his life in mourning for his master. Since Mr. Bemkin's death the dog refused to eat and showed by his every action the sorrow that was breaking his heart. Dainties that he liked were, placed before him without tempting his appetite, and he gradually grew so wasted that Mrs. Bemkins had him killed to prevent his starving himself to death. San Francisco Assured of Fair. San Francisco Association San Francisco won the unanimous vote of the senate committee on industrial expositions for the Panama Canal exposition. New Orleans has abandoned the fight and there is little doubt now that the resolution sending the 1915 fair to the Pacific coast will be adopted in the senate without opposition. Marketing Texas Strawberries Early Texas strawberries are being marketed from Alvin and Pasadena. First shipments were reported from those points Wednesday. This early movement of the crop is due to the usually mild weather recently southern Texas. (Special to the Afro-American Leger). Washington, Feb. 28...In a decision handed down here in Circuit Court, No. 1, Justice Anderson held that a Pullman porter was a railroad employee within the meaning of the employers' liability law. The decision was rendered in the case of George E. Robinson, who sued the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for $15,000 damages for injuries, sustained in a rear-end collision in West Virginia, last April. The railroad set forth the contention that it was not liable for damages as Robinson, when he entered the employ of the Pullman Company in 1905, had signed a contract exempting the railroad for any injuries that might be sustained, but any railroad company which used the Pullman cars. The case came up under demurrer of the plaintiff to the railroad's contention In his opinion Justice Anderson, relying on the Voigt case in the United States Supreme Court, holds that if, as was said there, an express messenger employee of a railroad company, the same must certainly be true of a Pullman porter, in consequence of the joint business conducted by the defendant railroad company and the Fullman company. The court points out that the passengers in the Pullman cars are the passengers of the railroad company, and the Pullman company, under its contract, is obliged to furnish porters for the comfort of defendant's passengers. Moreover, it is pointed out, by his contract of employment, the porters are required to obey the rules and regulations of the railroad company made for the government of its employees, and the ground company accepts his services on these conditions. Being an employee, Justice Anderson holds, Robinson was entitled to the protection of the employees' liability act, and declares null and void the contract made before the passage of the act by the porter with the Pullman company exonerating any railroad company over whose lines he might be carried from liability in the case of accident resulting from the negligence of another employee of the railroad, as falling under the prohibition of section 5 of the employees' act. A Memorial Statement Attorney D. D. Dickson, in obedience to the duty owed to his profession was called to part 2 of the Criminal Court* of Baltimore City though quite indisposed, to defend one of his clients on the 24 day of February. 1908. Mr. Dickson, after trial and acquittal of his client, who was on bail for sometime, proceeded to the dining room of one of our most highly respected citizens to pay the debt he owed to his bail man. Mr. Dickson was not in the business part of the building at all. Mr. Dickson's client's bailman, states Mr. Dickson, came into the dining room in that soft gentlemanly way and manner as he has always known him. He had just left the court room in a hurry to get to his office, with his law book and papers. The deceased was only in the dining room about three minutes before death. Mr. Dickson was prominent in almost all affairs in church and state and president of many organizations, among the moss prominent was the John Sherman League. He was the first colored delegate at large ever elected in Maryland to a National Convention. He attended the Chicago Convention and supported John Sherman as the nominee for the presidency. He was the author of the resolutions adopted in the Convention in memory of Grant Logan, Arthur, and Conkling. The many good deeds and acts of kindness, rendered the public and his many friends, will ever find a soft spot in the hearts of his fellow men. His life shall live on for such a life can never die. Mr. Dickson died in the dining room. JOHN MUNDER The Equity Dramatic Circle. Will render the following program at Asbury M. E. League, Feb. 26th at 5 o'clock. Opening Chorus, by Circle; Solo, Mrs Lavinia Hamilton; Solo, Miss Georgetta Billips, Paper, Miss Lillie Johnson; Duet, Miss Carrie Giles and Co.; Solo, Mr Paul Brooks; Chorus, Circle; Address, Mr. Wilbert Harris; Duet, Madam Peters and Miss Johnson; Solo, Mr Johnrigler; Soler, Mrs. Augustus Smith; Closing Chorus, by Circle. A Free Will Offering at the door All cordially invited. Mr. Julian Ross, Pres. Miss Alma Smith, Sec. Miss Mary R. Johnson, Treas. PETER H. BURTON Dear Sirs: The announcement that Mr. William Goldsmith, the well known Department Store owner, would consent to become a Candidate for election to the City Council, representing the Fourteenth Ward, has aroused unbounded enthusiasm in this bailiwick. Mr. Goldsmith is not a seeker after political preferment, and much persuasion was brought into play to have him consent to the use of his name, and now that this is insured the Republican Voters of the Ward, in all factions are getting together in a unit. No citizen in this section of the city is more highly respected or has achieved a more current position in the social and commercial life in this part of the city than he, and in connection with this, Mr. Goldsmith is a good mixer." He personally comes in contact with hundreds of citizens each day, talks with and sympathizes in their troubles and knows their needs. The Republican Voters of the Ward will find no man better able to lead the Party to success in the 14th Ward than William Goldsmith Mr. Goldsmith as a business man for nineteen years, can be depended upon to serve the people with business principles. Primary Election APRIL 4th, 1911 To the Voters of the Fourteenth Ward The undersigned committee of voters have carefully investigated the career of Mr. William Goldsmith during the past 19 years, most of which time has been spent as a merchant and department store owner on Pennsylvania avenue. We find him to have always been a friend to our people, giving employment when possible, and always contributing and speeding money among us when practical. During the High School controversy Mr. Goldsmith was in no way connected with it, as it was done by the Northwest Baltimore Improvement Association. Mr. Goldsmith is not a member and never has had any connection with the Northwest Improvement Association. The reported opposition to the carnival by Mr. Goldsmith is without foundation. The facts in the case are: Mr. Goldsmith protested against the wholesale arrests of inoffensive colored people on Pennsylvania avenue giving as reasons for the protest that the police were driving business from the s reet. When the infamous West ordinance was enacted into a law, Mr. Goldsmith, in company with Rev. Dr. W. M. Alexander, Mr. J. H. Smith and Mr. Macbeth, was the first to offer bail for Mrs. Dixon who had been arrested under the provisions of the law. To our covenant knowledge the rumors are not substantiated by the facts in the several indictments. Mr. Goldsmith is a worthy citizen, a good friend to the colored people and well worthy of the support of the colored voters of the 14th Ward Signed REV. J. H. MARTIN, D. D. REV. D. D. TURPEAU REV. JUNIUS GRAY, D. D. REV. SAMUEL WARD, D. D. REV. A. B. CALLIS, D. D. MR. SAMUEL YOUNG BISHOP J. DIXON ABRAHAM LINCOLN SAID: "Never Swap Horse While Crossing A Stream." For First Branch City Council 14th WARD AUGUSTUS C. BINSWANGER Baltimore [American], Feb. 19, 1911 Says; Mr. Binswanger is carrying his cause directly to the people and is running on his record, which is an excellent one. He has been a prominent figure in the First Branch City Council, and seldom if ever has the Fourteenth Ward, or any other ward in the city been better represented. Mr. Binswanger's advocacy of the of the Pure Milk Bill his opposition to the Warren Deal, his fight for Cheaper Gas and Electricity and his earnest support of better paving and lighting methods for the city have brought him prominently before the people. It was Mr. Bintwanger's amendment in 1908 which reduced taxpayers bills by the cutting in half of the commissions allowed ex-Governor Frank Brown as state collector of taxes. The leaders are desirous that a candidate be nominated who will attract strength to the ticket. He stumped the city against the Poe and Straue Disfranchising Amendments in 1905 and 1909. He fearlessly opposed the West Segregation Ordinance in the City Council. He has protected the colored man's right to register and vote as the legal representative of the Republican party in contested election cases for many years. He has been prominently active for progressive measures in the City Council, and has stronely stood for the principles and candidates of the Republican Party for the past fifteen years. IF THE VOTERS OF THE FOURTEENTH WARD DESIRE A COUNCILMAN WHO CAN PROPERLY REPRESENT THEM IN THE CITY HALL, LET THEM VOTE FOR BINSWANGER Republican Primary Election APRIL 4th, 1911 Dr. Payn's Painless Dentistry Perfect Fitting Set of Teeth All Work Guaranteed. For Twenty Years: Plate Work $5.00 Fillings 50 cents, Gold, $1.00 Crown and Bridge Work $3 to $5.00 All work done by Small Payments. —EASY TERMS— EXAMINATION FREE 118 W. LEXINGTON St MINES AND BURIED TREASURES DISCOVERED. The mineral wealth of the South has nardly been scratched. Untold mili- lions in gold, silver, iron and copper mines await the fortunate man or men who discover their true location. A wonderful instrument called the Magnetic Needle has recently been perfected, which has been used with wonderful accuracy in discovering both mines and treasures. The needle has interchangeable parts designed for use to indicate the particular mineral sought for. Lost end buried treasures of money, gold and silver, are located. Successful miners and prospectors use these needles, but in the past they have been difficult to obtain. The Prospectors and Miners Agency of Palmyra, Pa, handle a complete line of these needles and other mineral rods and would be glad to correspond with anyone interested in the subject. They issue a large catalogue which will be mailed free to anyone writing 'the'. Address: P. & M Agency, 128 2nd St. Palmyra, Pa. 436 W. BIDDLE ST. Instructor of Vocal Music, also Piano, Organ, Pedal Organ, Violin, Cornet Mandolin, Guitar, Banjo and SPECIAL NOTICES. The A. M. E. Preachers' Meeting will meet in Bethel Church, Monday Subject for discussion, A General Assessment for Conference Claims, against the Present Method of Collecting the Same, by Rev. C. E. Herbert. E. T. Addison, Sec'y. ORATORIO. Baltimore Choral Study Club presents THE HOLY CITY in Song at the Perkins Square Baptist Church, George and Ogston streets, Sunday, Feb. 26th, at 4:00 P. M. sharp. Positively a Silver Offering. Miss C. Beatrice Brown, Directress Miss Rosalia Fisher, Accompanist, F. R. Williams, D. D., Pastor. You and your friends are invited to attend a St. James Luncheon at Mrs. Alexander Williams of 1022 Druid Hill Avenue, proceeds to the benefit of St. James Rectory renovation, Monday Night. Feb. 27, 1911 Mrs. A. Williams, Warden The Great Southern Temple, No. 30 I. B. P. O. E. Will have. their first Annual Sermon At Asbury M. E. Church, March 5 1911 at 7.30 P. M. Public and friends are cordially invited to be present. Oetavia Washington, Daugh. Ruler Mamie Wilkerson, Fin. Secretary Rev. C. (j) Cummings, Pastor Y. M. C. A. At Grace Presbyterian Church, Sunday, Feb. 26th, at 4.30. Sharp St. Church choir sings. Dr. W. P. Thirkield, speaker. Everybody invited. SPECIAL NOTICE. The Great Allen League of Eben- zer A. M. E. Church will render se- lections at the Allen C. E. League of Waters A. M. E. church; this Sunday at 5:45 P. M. Brilliant program. Good Singing. Every body welcome. Mayme Woolford, Pres. tf C. A. Carey, Secretary. C. Y. W. C. A. 1200 Drunth Hill Avenue. Mrs. K. Bertha Hurst, of Washington, D. C., will address the 5 o'clock services of the C. Y. W. O. A. Sunday. Helping Hand Day, Emma Mitchell, President. All women welcome. Good music. Mrs. M. E. Murphy, Pres. Miss L. E. Bright, Sec'y. A Card of Thanks I wish to thank my many friends for their many kindnesses following the death of my wife, Ida Purviance Edward Purviance NOTICE. Mrs. Mary A. Gross, of 1103 Drudil Hill avenue, is still carrying on her business of shrouding, bonnet and regalia making also remodeling old and second handed r.gallias. Special attention is given to Societies. Thanking the Societies for their past favors, hoping to merit a continuance of the same in the future. The Widows Great Classic Concert—The Widows of Waters A.M. E. Church, Aisquith St. near Jefferson will give their First Concert at the above named church, Thursday Evening, March 2nd. 1911 under the direction of Miss Mayme Woolford, the Widows of the various churches will take part, You will be entertained with solos, duets quartets and choruses. The gallery will be reserved for the Bachelors and Widowers. Admission 10 cents Mrs. Mollie Giles, Manager, Miss Jennie M. Fisher, Pianist Rev: D. P. Seaton, Pastor Has re-opened, and in connection an Employment Agency, all under new management, with same accommodations. We do this so that those seeking employment can depend on us to find lodging, and guarantee them work at short notice. Propietress, Mrs. Lethia Smith St. P. 6773. fe18-1m Frank A. Simmons House Painter And Paper Hanger 1932 Druid Hill Avenue Phone C. & P. Madison, 2129—Y fe 11-mar4 Furnished rooms and Lodgers also Children Boarders. Good home to the right party. Apply To the Ladies. Mrs. M. E. Wilson, Dressmaker and Ladies' Tailor, formerly 1232 Division street, wish to thank her many friends and customers for past favors, and hope to have continuance of same at her present address, 427 Mosher street. First-class work specially solicited GREEN SPRING. M. E. CHURCH, Chattolanee, Md. Rev. R. A. Green, Pastor. 10.00 A. M., Class Meeting. 11 A. M., Sermon by Pastor. 3.00 P. M., Sunday School. 5.30 P. M., Epworth League. 8 P. M., Sermon by Pastor. Mr. S. S. Oliver, Supt. Mrs. Jane Milligan, Pres. E. L. JOHN WESLEY M. E. CHURCH, Sharp and Montgomery Sts. Dr. Desmond Hastie. Dr. Ernest Lyon, Pastor. Sunday School at 9 A. M., and 2.30 P. M. Young Ladies' Day Services will be held at 11 A. M., 3 P. M., and 8 P. M. An interesting program will be rendered. 8 P. M., A Sacred Concert. Silver offering at the Door. All are invited Sunday, March, 5th. 11 A. M., Sermon by Rev. W. M. Alexander, D. D., of Sharon Baptist Church. His choir and congregation will be present. At 3 P. M., Sermon by Rev. L. S. Flagg, of St. John's A. M. B. church. His choir and congregation will be present. 8 P. M., Special Sermon to the Singing Bands of all churches. An invitation is extended to all to be present. AMES MEM: M. E. CHURCH, Carey and Baker Sts. Rev. D. D. Turpeur, Pastor. Sunday at 11 A. M., sermon by Pastor, subject: "Book of Seven Seals." WHATCOAT M. E.CHURCH, Franklin and Pine Sts. "King's Hill" Rev. Alfred Young, Pastor. 11 A. M., Sermon by Dr. W. P. Thirkield, president of Howard University, Washington, D. C. Rev. C. E. Jones, of Mt. Winans, and his congregation will unite with King's Hill at this service. W. C. Tongue, Supt. Miss Edyth Cooper, Pres. E. L. EASTERN M. E. CHURCH McElderry St. & Patterson Park Av Rev. James H. Jenkins, Pastor. Boys' and Girls' Day. 11 A. M., Sermon by Rev. Wm. L. Curney. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 3.00 P. M., Sermon by Rev. Daniel W. Shaw, D. D., to the Johnson's juveniles Jobs, No. 2. 6 P. M., Junior League exercises accompanied by the Stanley Sisters. All Leagues and schools are invited. Miss Bessie Simms, President. Miss Martha Anderson, Sec'y. 8.00 P. M., Sermon by Pastor. All are cordially invited. J. W. Jones, Supt. S. S. J. M. Barnes, Pres. E. L. Monday night Pan-Cake Toss. Admission 5 Cents. ASBURY M. E. CHURCH, Lexington St. and Rogers Avenue, Rev. C. G. Cummings, B. D., Pastor. 9.30 A. M., Bible Class. 11 A. M., Sermon by Rev. B. F. Myers. 8 P. M., Sermon by the Pastor to Enterprise Tabernacle, No. 41, Order of Moses. Grand Master Solomon Bond and other Tabernacles will be present. Strangers cordially welcomed, Chas. T. Stewart, Supt. Julian W. Koss, Pres. of E. L. PERKINS SQ. BAPT. CHURCH, George and Ogston Sts. F. K. Williams; D. D. Pastor. 11 A. M., Special sermon by Pastor. 7.30 P. M., Sermon by Pastor. Choice music by choir. Sunday School 9.30 A. M., and 2.30 P. M. Excellent program. All are invited. GRACE PRESBYTE'JAN CHURCH Dolohin and Fring Sts. Dipinn and Bring Ols Rev. W. Edw. Williams, Minister, The Manse: 623 W. Lanvale Street; 11 A. M., Sermon by the Minister. 3.00 P. M., Sunday School. 8 P. M., Sermon by the Minister. Lecture and Prayer Meeting every Wednesday, 8 P. M. Seats free. All welcome. GILLIS MEM. M. P. CHURCH Parrish St. near Mulberry St Rev. B. H. Knight, Pastor. Will move to our new church the first Sunday in March, on Stockton street, near Baltimore. 10.00 A. M. Class 11. A. M., Stranger. 2.00 P. M., Sunday School. 6 30 P. M., Christian Endeavor. 8. P. M., Pastor or Stranger. T. H. McGowan, Supt. J. W. Fowler, Pres. C. E. ST. JOHN'S A. M. E. CHURCH, Lexington St. near Pine, Rev. L. S. Flagg, Pastor. Sunday, Feb. 26. 11.00 A. M., Special Sermon by the Pastor. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School, H. W. Ebb, Supt. On account of misunderstanding in arranging dates, Rev. A. L. Gains will not be with us at 3 P.M. The Pastor will preach by request the subject "In the toils of Samson and Delilah." 5.30 P. M., A. C. E. League J. Holman, President 7.30 P. M., Platform Meeting. Addresses and Songs special for the occasion. A souvenir to every man. 3t WAYMAN MEM. A.M.E. CHURCH Carroll Street near Carey Rev. David Johnson, Pastor 4th. Quarterly Meeting. 11 A. M., Sermon by the Pastor; subject: "Running with the footmen and contending with Horses." 2.00 P. M., Sunday School. 6.30 P. M., Alten C. E. League. 7.30 P. M., Special farewell sermon by C. H. Murray, P. E. All invited, Quarterly conference and reception Tuesday night. Aisquit St., near Jefferson. Rev. Dr. D. P. Seaton, Pastor. 11 A. M.; The Pastor will preach subject: "The End of Time." 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 5.45 P. M., The Allen C. E. League 7.30 P. M., The Sermon will be preached by Rev. P. J. Jordan, P. E. All are welcome. Mr. C. A. Carey, Director. I. F. Waters, Supt. PAYNE. MEM A. M. E. CHURCH Laurens and Callion St. Rev. P. W. Wortham, Pastor 11 A. M., Sermon by the Pastor, subject: "Pacing the Judgment." 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 5.00 P. C. E. League. 7.30 P. M., Sermon by Rev. J. H. Howard, pastor of West Baltimore Station M. E. Church. Andrew Gassaway, Supt. T. Andrew Jones, Pres. A. C. E. L. MEN'S DAY AT TRINTYA M. E. CHURCH 2.30 P. M., Suncay School session. 3 P. M., Serm. by Rev. W. A. C. Hughes, D. D., and music by Sharp. St. M. E. choir. 6.15 P. M., Allen C. E. League. 7.30 P. M., Platform Meeting. Opening Hymn, Charles Turner; Prayer, H. B. Phillips; Selection, Male Choir; Notices, C. A. Tyler. "What Are Our Men Doing." Five Minutes Addresses. "As to Education, J. R. Paul Brock; "As to Law" W. A. Hawkins; "As to Y. M. C. A. Work; G. S. Whyte; "As Medicine" Dr. E. V. Fitzgerald; "As to Eatering the Ministry" Rev. Joseph Thomas; Class Leaders' Chorus, Trini- Leaders. OFFICERS.-H. Albert Whittington, President; Egbert Arundell, Vice President; Georg Gibson, Treasurer; Robert Henson, Secretary; John O. Ewell, Assistant Secretary. EBENEZER A. M. E. CHUROH Rev. J. W. Norris, Pastor Grand Contest Rally. All the ladies will sit on the east side of the church and all the gentlemen on the west side. Mrs. Mary Fratt will lead the ladies, and Mr. James Bidle will lead the gentlemen. 11.00 A. M., Sermon by Rev. R. T. Queen, of Bennings, D. C. 2.30 P. M., School. 6 P. M., Allen C. E. League. Rev. R. T. Queen will be present. 7.30 P. M., Sermon by Rev. R. T. Queen. Classes—Sunday at 6 A. M., Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 6 Herbert Fresh. Supt. Lloyd J. M. Martin, Pastor: Sunday, Feb. 26. Sunday, Trustees' Day. Roll Call 3 30; all members to report. 11 A. M., Preaching by Pastor. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 3.30 P. M., Preaching by Rev. S. H. Norwood, of St. Paul church, choir and congregation. 4.30 P. M., League Service. 8 P. M., Preaching by Rev. J. G. Bryant, of Denton, Md. Howard D. Brent, Supt. Wm. H. Butler, Pres. League. beg the privilege to notify the Public that they are now able to render Musical Programs, whole or in part. Secular or Sacred. Communicate with Wm. Wilson, President, 924 Leadenhall Street or Wm. O. Johnson, Director 1138 Druid Hill avenue Mt. Zion M. E. Church and its pastor, Rev. Matthias Williams. Mr. Samuel E. Young, globe trotter, thirty-third degree Mason, war veteran and dispenser of good cheer, celebrated the seventy-fifth anniversary of his birth at his home, 525 Presstman street, Thursday of last week. Owing to the fact that Mrs. Young is just recovering from burns caused by her dress accidentally catching on fire, no reception was held, but a number of persons called to wish "Uncle Sam" long life and continued good health. Mr. Young was born in this city and has had a most eventful career. He was a steamship steward for a number of years and has visited all parts of the globe. At one time he took considerable interest in politics, and during the incumbency of the incumbency of the late Mayor Malster served as messenger to the Mayor. He is now engaged in pushing the candidacy of William Goldsmith, one of the Republican councilmanic candidates in the Fourteenth ward. Mr. Young has served as grand master of the Maryland Grand Lodge of Masons, and has also served several terms on the local grand jury. Mt. Zion M. E. Church The Purchaser—The Consideration Was $3,700.00. The congregation of Payne Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church, which recently purchased the church at the corner of Presstman and Calhoun streets, has sold its present house of worship to the congregation of Zion Methodist Episcopal Church, now worshipping at the corner of Riggs avenue and Vincent street, Rev Matthias Williams, pastor. The price paid being $3,700. Rev. Williams has been in charge here for the past two years, and has brought the membership from twenty, when the took charge, to 150 membership at present. He round the church heavily in debt but how it is entirely out of debt. Rev. Williams is an energetic young man and deserves great credit for his work. He expects to enter his new church about September the first. Birthday Anniversaries Celebrated At Payne Memorial A. M. E. Church. The birthdays of Richard Allen, the founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church; Abraham Lincoln, the war President, and Fredrick Douglas, the anti-slavery orator, were observed with impressive services at Payne Memorial A. M. B. Church last Sunday night. Addresses were made by Misses E. Talbott, M. Breckenridge and Laura Worthan, and Messrs. John W. Woodhouse, Charles T. Gilles, Charles Dorsey, Hugh E. Macbeth and others. The addresses were interspersed with recitations and music. Miss Mattie Leakin, of New York, was in the city this week looking after her interests in the estate of the late Margaret Carroll, for many years a prominent member of St. Mary's Episcopal Church. Celebrated his Seventy-fifth Anniversary SAMUEL E. YOUNG Dr. W. M. Alexander Will Remain As Pastor Members Voted Unanimously Not To Accept His Resignation As Pastor Of Sharon. At a recent meeting of the members of the Sharon Baptist Church it was voted unanimously not to accept the resignation of the pastor. Rev. W. M. Alexander. Dr. Alexander offered the resignation several weeks ago, but the members of the church were reluctant to part with him. FORCE An Ordinary Fifty Frequently the effect which splits a tall chim power dew of lightning the word is so small. Scientists nary" stroke horsepower, drive the lair at top speed, however, tra miles per so flash of light. Exercises incident to the twenty-sixth anniversary of the church and of the incumbency of Dr. Alexander were held Thursday evening of last week. Addresses were delivered by Revs. D. D. Turpeau, P. W. Wortham, Jones Watkins and D. G. Mack, Messrs. Harry T. Pratt, Hugh E. Macbeth, Louis H. Davenport, Geo. B. Murphy and others. At the conclusion of the exercises Dr. Alexander was presented a suit of clothes, the gift of the members of the church, Mr. C. H. Jones made the presentation speech, and Dr. Alexander responded in a fitting manner. Dr. F. N. Cardozo presided. The Ladies are for POINDEXTER "Hairdresser to Society" FIRST, LAST and ALL THE TIME EXPERT MASSAGING AND MANICURING 831 DRUID HILL AVE Tuskegee Institute SUMMER SCHOOL FOR TEACHERS Four Weeks: June 19th to July 14th, 1911 Course: Methods: Primary and Advanced Literary Subjects: Elementary and Advances. Industries, including Manual Training, Cooking, Sewing Baskettry, etc. Agriculture: Preparator for teaching in Public Schools. Community Work for Teachers, Other features by special arrangement Booker T. Washington, Prin. Tuskegee Institute, Ala. FORCE OF LIGHTNING. An Ordinary Stroke Is About Equal to Fifty Thousand Horsepower. Frequently surprise is expressed at the effect of a stroke of lightning which splinters a large tree or wrecks a tall chimney, but if the enormous power developed by an ordinary stroke of lightning is taken into consideration the wonder will be that the effect is so small. Scientists estimate that an "ordinary" stroke of lightning is of 50,000 horsepower. That is force sufficient to drive the largest battleship ever built at top speed. The lightning stroke, however, travels at a speed of 186,000 miles per second. We think we see a flash of lightning, but as a matter of fact what we see is only the memory of a flash. The electrical current has been absorbed by the earth long before we are conscious of having seen the flash. A person struck by a direct flash would never see it. The average electromotive force of a "bolt" of lightning is about 3,500,000 volts, and the current is 14,000,000 amperes. In such a "bolt" there is energy equal to 2,450,000 volts, or 2,384,182 horsepower. Some day a wizard will arise who will capture and bind a "bolt" of lightning and with it turn all the wheels of a great city. The time required for the discharge of a "bolt" of lightning is about one twenty-thousandth of a second.—Chicago Tribune. The following bit, quoted from Lord Cromer by Helen Barrett Montgomery in her "Western Women In Eastern Lands," presents a picture of the monotony and deprivation of the life of the Egyptian lady that pages of statistics might fail to convey. The seclusion of women exercises a most harmful influence on eastern society. This seclusion by confining the sphere of woman's interest to a very limited horizon cramps the intellect and withers the mental development of one-half the population of Moslem countries. An Englishwoman once asked an Egyptian lady how she passed her time. "I sit on this sofa," she replied, "and when I am tired I cross over and sit on that." Stubbs was feeling his way to the kitchen stove in the dark when he fell over the coal scuttle. "Oh, John," called Mrs. Stubbs sweetly, "I know what you need. You should get what they have on battleships." "What's that?" growled Stubbs as he rubbed his shins. "Why, a range finder." And what Stubbs said about woman's wit was plenty.—New York American. Nothing to Do: SECRET SOCIETY HEARS SERMON BADGE FOR WORTHY MATRON Peinsottia Social Club Dined by Mrs. Seth W. Thomas at the Marcellle. Female Assistant Pastor at Price Memorial Church—William Johnson as Coach at Horse Show. BY A. E. EDWARDS. Atlantic City, N. J.—One of the most brilliant social functions of recent date in the city by the sea was given by Mrs. Seth W. Thomas at her beautiful cottage, the Marcelle, having as her guests the members of the popular Poinsettia club. The Poinsettia is the leading social organization in Atlantic City and numbers in its membership some of the most prominent persons in the town. By long experience as proprietor of the Marcelle cottage, which she has so successfully conducted, Mrs. Thomas brought to bear on this occasion with telling effect her most aesthetic taste in the arrangement of decorations for the dining hall and parlor and in the composition of the menu. Among the many present were Miss Theresa Robinson, Miss Peterson, Mrs THE WORLD'S FINEST ACTRESS MRS. SETH W. TROAS. Ethel Minton, Nettie Hutton, Clara Lewis, Mr. Leon Williams, Dr. Bymum, Miss Estelle and Maudo Fitzgerald, Miss Bessie Bankis, Mrs. Thomas, and Charles Deaver. Thrifty Auxiliary to Masonics. The secret society event was the anniversary sermon to Atlantic chapter No. 15, Order of the Eastern Star, which was preached by the Rev. Mr. Gregory in the Union Baptist church, of which he is the pastor. The members and friends of the organization turned out in large numbers, which, with the congregation of the church, filled every seat in the spacious auditorium. Atlantic chapter is an auxiliary to the Free and Accepted Masons and is composed largely of the energetic business women of this place. The history of the order was read by the worthy financial secretary, Mrs. Alice M. Holbert, after which the worthy past matron, Mrs. Ida Lewis, was presented with a handsome past matron's badge. While the organization is young, it is doing a great work in the community. The Rev. Miss Mary E. Taylor, the noted Biblical scholar and evangelist, has been assigned to Price Memorial church, North Ohio avenue, as assistant to the Rev. Dr. Jackson, who is now traveling in the far south on business pertaining to the Zion connection. Dr. Jackson will probably return home by Easter. Miss Taylor before coming to this city labored in Key West, Fla.; Birmingham, Ala.; Big Westley church in Philadelphia, Mother Zion in New York, and other churches in various parts of the country. The church has recently been repainted inside, and a new electric heating plant has also been installed. The property is the most valuable in the city, it being situated near the leading business street and running one-half city square deep and nearly 200 feet wide. The drill team of the L. D. K. K., one of the high branches of the Knights of Pythias of New Jersey, was entertained recently by Mr. William Johnson. After the social features the members discussed plans for increasing the membership of the team and how to make the work of drilling more interesting. The genial host is quite prominent in business and social circles. For years, white coaching entries for the annual horse show on Young's pier, Mr. Johnson has landed blue ribbon after blue ribbon for his employers. No better judge of horseflesh and handler of blooded stock can be found in the state. BRILLAT-SAVARIN. Tribulations of the Famous French Epicure and Jurist. Brillat-Savarin, the author of "The Physiology of Taste," was the absolute realization of the typical good liver. The French revolution confiscated his property and removed him from his office as civil judge. He fed to Switzerland and then to the United States, where he played a fiddle in a New York theater to gain a living. His property was afterward returned to him, and he was made a counselor of the supreme court, an office he clung to successfully through changes of empire and kingdom. His "Physiology of Taste" shared the fate of many celebrated books. It was refused by several publishers and eventually was published at the author's expense, but without his name attached to it, as he considered the nature of the work incompatible with his judicial functions. It was Brillat-Savarin who declared that "the discovery of a new food does more for the happiness of the human race than the discovery of a star." "Monsieur the counselor," a hostess asked him one day, "which do you prefer, burgundy or bordeaux?" "Madame," replied the judicial authority, "that is a lawsuit in which I have so much pleasure in taking the evidence that I always postpone judgment." A LIBERTY WITH TIME. Castelar's interrupted Lecture in the University of Madrid. In "Home Life In Spain" is a fine story of the University of Madrid, which once had among its professors that Senor Castelar who was for a time president of the short lived Spanish republic. But when Alfonso XII, was brought to Madrid after the fall of the republic Castelar, with his companions, was exiled. Some years afterward an amnesty was proclaimed, and Castelar returned in triumph to Madrid to resume his office in the university. A vast gathering attended to hear his first lecture, and the greatest orator in all Spain mounted the rostrum, looked imperturbably at the sea of eager faces surrounding him and began, "As I was saying yesterday" (Como deci ayer). Between that yesterday and this day he had fought the battle of the fallen republic and had known the bitterness of years in exile. All memory of this, however poignant in the heart of Castelan, had passed from the professor of Madrid's university, and he continued his lecture at the very point at which it had been broken off. The Sedan Chair. The sedan chair is named after Seadan, the town where it was first used. The earliest mention of it in England occurs in 1581. Early in the following century the Duke of Buckingham caused much indignation by its use in London. People were exasperated at that nobleman employing his fellow men to take the place of horses to carry him. Prince Charles brought from Spain in 1632 three curiously wrought sedans, two of which he gave to the Duke of Buckingham. A few weeks after their introduction Massinger produced his play, "The Bondman," and in the thus adverts to the ladies: For their pump and care being born To trumpb on men's shoulders. In triumph on men's shoulders. The reference is doubtless to Buckingham's sedan, which was borne like a palanquin. "—Byone England." The Magnetic Poles. The magnetic poles are not stationary. The northern one is slowly moving westward along the seventieth parallel and in the course of three or four hundred years will probably have encircled the geographic north pole and returned to about its present location. Of course the southern magnetic pole follows a corresponding course about the geographic south pole. In such cities in the United States as Omaha, Sioux City, Topolina, Galveston, etc., the compass needle would point about in the direction of the north star and the north pole that Commander Peary reached. This geographic pole is about 1,500 miles north of the magnetic pole, toward which the needles of all compasses point—St Nicholas. Earliest Use or Medieval ink. In ancient times India ink, made from lampblack and glue, was used for writing on papyril, but inspection of the earliest vellum or parchment MSS, shows that iron gall inks were introduced not later than the ninth century. The reason for the change was that, although a carbon ink is more permanent, it has no penetrating power and can be sponged from the vellum, whereas the iron ink bites to the fibers and resists the destructive action of both air and light. Age and Youth. W. D. Howells said of old age at one of his Sunday afternoons: "Age is modester than youth. I've often noticed that when I tell a mother that her daughter is the image of what she was herself at nineteen the mother is delighted, but the daughter looks started." Turn to the Light If there is anywhere on your horizon a spot of light. fix your eyes upon it and turn your thoughts away from the clouds which may cover the rest of the sky. Just Like Shopping: First Suffragette—If you were running for office, would you buy votes? Second—Suffragette—Not unless they could be changed or credited—Life. Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power—Hillard. RUSSELL_TO_UNITARIANS. In Able Address He Scouts Theory of Race Departure. Dr. York Russell, the well known New York physician, in the course of an able address, before a cultured audience in the Unity Unitarian church in Brooklyn recently, said, among other things: "Those who are seeking to solve the race problem by deportation will find that Negroes would not be so portable as 10,000,000 boxes of oranges from California; that their interests are so intertwined with those of the Anglo-Saxon that deportation will be found to be out of the question." As to the question of race extermination, which some others advocate, he said. "The colorless race could not hand over to their children a republic dipped in the blood of a black defenseless humanity like a modern Salome." Retracing history, he told his cultured hearers that blue eyed Saxon boys in 597 A. D. were sold in the market places of Rome and that they were the desecendants or came from the same stock; that the race problem could not be accelerated without due regard to time; that he could not agree with the petition recently sent out to Europe, because England's problems in the West Indian archipelago are legion. America is solving the problems of the English and Danes and those of the French West Indies. America is a sort of city of refuge, and that question must be solved here. America is the melting pot of nations. He urged that the Negro be taught the arts of war in preference to a strange oriental race, which might, in time turn upon America in a bloody war. Pleading for justice for the Negro, he said, "The Declaration of Independence is a legacy from the illustrious departed and should. If anything be done to it, have written on it, 'Not me tangere' ('Let nothing touch me')." At the conclusion of the doctor's address he was given a rousing reception by the great audience, which filled the church. PREJUDICE THE REAL CAUSE. Mrs. Terrell Defends Race Against Charge of Unreliability. Speaking at a largely attended meeting of the Charity Organization society in New York recently, Mrs. Mary Church Terrell of Washington took emphatic exception to the charge made by some, that colored people were often found to be unreliable in many instances when intruded with large responsibilities where skill is required in domestic service. Mrs. Terrell said, "While there may be occasional truth in the charge of unreliability and lack of skill, in the majority of cases colored people are unable to secure employment because of the cruel prejudice against them in the United States. To stem this tide of popular disfavor is the desire of every colored woman who has the interest of her race at heart. "Against lynching, the convict lease system, jimcrow cars and all other barbarities which degrade and dishearten my race we intend to agitate with such force of logic and intensity of soul that those who handlecap and oppress us will either be converted to righteousness and justice or be ashamed to violate openly and flagrantly both the fundamental principles upon which this government was founded and the Golden Rule." CONSTITUTION SUPERIOR TO STATE ELECTION LAWS. Colored Voters of Oklahoma Continue Their Fight For Civil Rights. According to reports from Guthrie, Okla., federal indictments have recently been returned against Duke W. Jeffries, a Democrat, and Willard Smith, a Republican, charging them with offenses against the franchise and against the civil rights of colored men. This action is the result of instructions to the grand jury in which attention was called to the fact that the power of the national constitution is greater than that of any state election law. The Oklahoma law provides that election officials may compel colored voters to read and write a section of the constitution. Officials are the judges of educational qualifications. Colored men in many instances were not permitted to try to qualify, it is said, and many of those, who did were not allowed to vote at recent elections. Program of Sunday School Congress. Secretary Henry A. Boyd has announced eighteen subjects from which selections may be made for essays, speeches and for general discussion at the great Sunday school congress which will probably be held in Meridian, Miss., from July 7 to 12, inclusive, Information concerning the work of the congress and a list of the subjects for the program may be had by writing to Mr. Boyd at 523 Second avenue, North Nashville, Tenn., at an early date. Physicians Taking Time by Forelock. The next annual meeting of the National Medical association will be held in Hampton, Va., in August. Already plans are being perfected for the various sessions to be held, the outline of the program and the method of providing for the delegates and visitors. H. B. Parks Promoted to Bishopric. The circuit to be covered by Bishop H. B. Parks, who was recently elected to fill the unexpired term caused by the death of Bishop Abram Grant, includes Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, California and the Puget sound dis- LINCOLN SAVED SHIP OF STATE DR. LAWTON ORATOR OF DAY. Memory of Man Who Preserved Union of States Praised In Song and Story by Citizens of Kingston, N. Y., at Big Celebration—Denison Johnson Master of Ceremonies. Kingston, N. Y.—No event in recent years ever caused so much enthusiasm among the citizens of this town as did the great Lincoln celebration held in Cook's hall, on Railroad avenue, on Tuesday evening, Feb. 14. The program, which consisted of vocal and instrumental music, besides addresses and the principal oration, was the best ever heard on a similar occasion. The orator of the occasion was the Rev. Dr. William R. Lawton of Brooklyn, who spoke in part as follows: One hundred and two years ago a life poor, humble and unknown made its advent into a log cabin in the backwoods of Kentucky. It was the result of this immediate result of an assassin's bullet it was among the greatest and most prominent in human history, and, though it has been extinct for nearly a century, it is still today in any period of its existence. There was no inspiration or luxury in its early environments, but a struggle amid hardships. But those conditions in his childhood allowed him to play for the manhood period of his life, which was to be tried and tested as a never a man before. He was born lowly and trained hard for the master place in the agitation of a question that had commanded worldwide attention and was dividing the nation into hostile The national crisis, which was inevitable, required a sturdy and rugged character at the helm of the ship of state, and the slave, which was the kernel of the A JUST OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. vexed question, needed a man there who had strong and just convictions as to manhood. Abraham Lincoln was God's man for the premier place in our national crisis. And things conspired to lead him out into the force agitation and steadily bore him on until he became the leader of the nation. Firm, convincing and aggressive against a bitter and formidable opposition and amid an ominous, dreadful gathering storm, he bore the standard of which he was the personal representative to the place of authority. The salvation of the Union was more difficult than the creation of the nation. The Union is one close, strong and continuous intertwine interest. No great occasion has ever occasioned sections of the country, and the enemy of the government was strong with sympathizers throughout the nation. Lincoln stood where three adverse currents met. How to manipulate to reconcile oneself to the enemy, to designee situation he alone had to determine. His heart being right and fixed as to man's relation to man as forth in divine revelation and his duty to the nation as set forth in his oath of office, he was stewarded with slavery and immovable as to his duty to exhaust first every peaceable means to maintain the Union. He moved in keeping with the gravity of the situation and proved to be the nation's statesman of the time. The solomon of the situation. One party produced him; but today all parties honor him. America owns him, but the world claims him as one of its greatest characters. He wrought to the glory of the American people, but also in the glory of the nations of the earth have blessed. The nation hasn't lived up to its duty and obligation, which some call difficulties and problems. It is again tolerating the violation of things fundamental. The nation cannot tolerate the violation of any of its basic principles, though the toleration of such may apparently only affect the humble class of its citizens. There is no principe more fundamental in the government than the protection of the rights God has called this nation to a peculiar work, for which he is bringing the different races of mankind here in certain proportions and is assimilating them, so that they can be part of the world in the condemnation of human slavery and made the nation the custodian of human liberty and the good Samaritan of suffering humanity. The oppression and discrimination, the injustice and the rights and privileges, is a fermentation which indicates the development of a national temperament which is fast ripening another part of divine purpose in the life of the nation when unfolded, will make this government a greater blessing on all mankind. The government has no need to be ashamed because of the immediate freezing of the Negro. In his growth and development he has abundantly attested the wisdom of the government in the nation, and the nation he payed to him a fair chance. These Dexterous Animals Easily Taught to Perform Tricks. "The cardinal principle in training animals," says an animal trainer, "is not to attempt to make an animal do anything contrary to the nature of its particular species. To be successful a trainer must know enough about the habits of the animals he has under training to fit the tricks he would teach them to their natural bent. "The seal is very easily taught. You begin with one seal, some small pieces of fish and a string. You let the seal sit on his pedestal, something he likes to do by nature; then you throw him one of the pieces of fish, and he naturally and easily catches it. Next you tie a piece of fish on the end of your string and swing it toward the seal. He catches this, too, and you keep moving away from him and swinging the fish to him from an increasing distance. Now you are ready to begin with the hat or corncupin. You put a piece of fish in the bottom of it and toss it to the seal. The seal is dexterous by nature, and his nose, quickly detecting the fish in the tip of the cone, seeks it out. The cone catches on his snout, and he blits out the fish and totes the cone aside. Before long he comes to associate the cone with fish, and he will catch any number of similar ones and toss them aside when he fails to find what he wants. "Balancing the big rubber ball is based on the same principle. The ball is soaked in fishy brine and thrown to the seal. He gets the odor and tries his best to get into the ball and find what he is after. This results in his balancing the ball on his nose, a feat to which his supple neck and his natural feeding habits are all adapted, and then he gets his piece of fish as a prize." - New York World. BIBLES IN THE WORLD. The Scandinavian Eddas the Most Recent of the Seven. The world has seven Bibles. They are the Koran of the Mohammedans, the Eddas of the Scandinavians, the Triptaka of the Buddhists, the Five Kings of the Chinese, the Three Vedas of the Hindus, the Zendavesta and the Scriptures of the Christians. The Koran is not older than the seventh century of our era. It is a compound of quotations from the Old and New Testaments, the Talmud and the gospel of St. Barnabas. The Eddas of the Scandinavians were published in the eleventh century and are the most recent of these seven Bibles. The Buddhists' Triptaka contain sublime morals and pure inspirations. Their author lived and died in the seventh century before Christ. The sacred writings of the Chinese are called the Five Kings, "king" meaning web of cloth or the warp that keeps the threads in their places. They contain the choiceest sayings of the best ages on the ethnical duties of life. These sayings cannot be truced to a period higher than the eleventh century B. C. The Three Vedas are the most ancient books of the Hindus, and it is the opinion of great scholars that they are older than the eleventh century B. C. The Zendavesta of the Persians is the grandest of all the sacred books next to the Bible. Zoroaster, whose sayings it contains, was born in the twelfth century B. C.—New York Herald. History In Toys. The history of the world is crystallized in the children's toys. Each great war leaves soldiers in the nursery cupboard dressed correctly to a strap and button. This has always been so. As each successive age in the world's history has gone by the weapons of that age have passed to the hands of the boys as toys. There are in our great museums miniature crossbows, spears and shields. Toy armor is finely inlaid and engraved as any real accounteries is occasionally to be seen, and old prints show the boys playing with such figures. Even the children of the French revolution had their toy grillotines.-Collier's. The Dollar. There was a time when dollars were minted in England. In March, 1757, the mint issued stamped Spanish dollars worth 9d. 9d., but they were called in seven months later. It was from the Spanish coin that America got the idea of her almighty dollar, but the name was made in Germany. At least "thaler," of which "dollar" is a corruption, wns. The original thaler was the silver guldengroschen, coined in 1518 by order of Count Schick from the silver of Jonchinsthal, in Bohehn, and known at first as the "Jonchinsthal." Thus the name means etymologically "of the valley."—London Chronicle. An Obliging Doctor. "Doctor, I've tried everything and I can't get to sleep," complained the voice at the other end of the telephone. "Can't you manage to do something for me?" "Yes," said the doctor kindly. "Just hold the wire and I'll sing you a lullaby."—Success Magazine. Just Rebuke. Billy-What would you do if I should kiss you? Milly-Idip snap your face. Billy-Then I won't. Milly- you coward-Philadelphia Record. Cutting. "Miss Keenly has an awfully sharp tongue, hasn't she?" "I should say so! She's cut most of her friends off her list with it." Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good—Landor. THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER THE RACE QUESTION SOUTH. Colored Citizens Have Just Cause For Complaint, Says Dillard. In the course of his lecture on "The Growing South" at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York recently, President James H. Dillard of Tulane university, Louisiana, said: "It is doubtful whether the discussion of the race question in the south is helpful at this time. Quiet work for improved conditions is more needed than loud talk. So much has been said and done which might cause irritation that the wonder is how peaceably the millions are going on about their business. It is only the dozens and hundreds about whom we hear trouble. SUNDAY SCHOOL Lesson IX.—First Quarter, Feb. 26, 1911. THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES Text of the Lesson, I Kings xxl, 11-2 Memory Verses, 17-19—Golden Text Luke xii, 15—Commentary Prepare by Rev. D. M. Stearns. In our last lesson Elijah was commi- In my opinion, the races are setting down to a basis of gradual adjustment, which requires time and patience. If we wish to hurry let us hurry in the way of better schools, better religion, better homes and more landowners. I shall venture to mention four grounds on which I think the colored people have a right to make just complaint, the trouble may be in the north as well as in the south. "They have a right to complain of their treatment in the lower courts, which are the main courts for most of their people. It is a shame that less care is taken, less money paid, less thought given to insure in these lower courts than in the higher courts. "Another just ground of complaint is the treatment which they too often receive from the employees of public service corporations, especially from the employees of common carriers, such as ticket sellers and car conductors. I mean the humiliating treatment in the way of gruff words and manner. "Still another cause of complaint is that in many parts in the south, especially in the rural districts, the colored people are not provided with public schools which are open long enough or have sufficiently competent teachers. The education of the masses must depend on the public schools, and our southern white people must learn that from every consideration of justice, as well as from every consideration of self interest, the masses of the race in the country must be brought out of the condition of ignorance and inefficiency. "The fourth complaint is that we are too apt to generalize the Negroes as a mass and judge the whole by the worst types. On the contrary, the colored people of the south should be encouraged to have self respect and race respect. PARDON FOR WILLIAM E. HILL Governor Foss Uses Executive Power In Interest of Humanity. Through the continuous efforts of many loyal friends who have petitioned several former governors of Massachusetts for his release from prison, William E. Hill has been pardoned by his excellency Governor Eugene N. Foss. Hill is an Afro-American. He was convicted of murder forty-one years ago and sentenced to life imprisonment. Governor Foss is a Democrat, but he has done what two or more Republican governors of the state refused to do. After hearing the facts in the case and being convinced that his actions would meet the approval of all fair minded persons the governor used his official power in the interest of justice and humanity. Among those who have taken an active part in bringing about Mr. Hill's release within the past two years are Mrs. W. M. Trotter, wife of the editor of the Boston Guardian; Mrs. John A. Shaw, Mrs. Adams and Mrs. West. RELIGIOUS WORKERS MEET. Sessions of Woman's Mite Missionary Society, Largely Attended. Society Executive Committee The executive committee of the Women's Mite Missionary society of the African Methodist Episcopal church held interesting meetings in New Bethel A. M. E. church in Baltimore, Feb. 28 and 24. A public meeting at which addresses were delivered by prominent speakers was held the evening of the first day. The executive committee consists of the following ladies: Mrs. Mary P. Handy, Baltimore, president: Mrs. R. Johnson, Cleveland, O.; Mrs. Grace O. Offer, Pittsburg; Mrs. M. S. C. Beckett, Holmesburg, Pa.; Mrs. Martha D. Hunt, Portsmouth, Va.; Mrs. B. T. Tanner, Philadelphia, treasurer; Mrs. Dovle Clark, Willierforce, O., recording secretary; Miss Clarn V. Davis, Bryn Mawr, Pn., assistant secretary; Mrs. R. C. Ransom, New York; Mrs. M. P. Hill, Baltimore, and Mrs. Elia Braxton, Colorado Springs, Colo. Mount Olive Baptist Association The executive committee of the Mount Olive Baptist association has announced Charleston, W. Va., as the place for the next annual meeting of the association. The sessions will be held in the First Baptist church, beginning on Wednesday, July 19, and concluding on Friday evening, July 2L. Important Meeting of Educators. The next annual meeting of the National Association of Teachers In Colored Schools will be held in St. Louis for four days, beginning on Wednesday, July 26. Professor J. R. E. Lee is busy with plans for the meeting and with arranging subjects and speakers for the program. Information For Governor Colquitt. There are approximately 800,000 colored people in Texas, says the Dallas (Text.) Express. Governor Colquitt expects them to recognize him as their chief state officer. In passing around the blessings of office let some droppings fall on us. SUNDAY SCHOOL. Lesson IX.—First Quarter, For Feb. 26, 1911. THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES. Text of the Lesson, I Kings xxI, 11-20. Memory Verses, 17-19—Golden Text, Luke xii, 15—Commentary Prepared by Rev. D. M. Stearns. In our last lesson Elijah was commissioned to anoint Elisha as prophet in his stead. He found him plowing with the twelfth of twelve yoke of oxen and cast his mantle upon him. Elisha bade farewell to his father and mother, prepared a feast for the people, cooking the flesh of a yoke of oxen with the instruments of the oxen, thus burning the bridge behind him, and went after Elijah and ministered unto him (chapter xx, 19-21), and we shall see a sequel to such whole heartedness in our next lesson. The story of chapter xx we shall have for a lesson on March 19; therefore we pass it by for the present, and Elijah does not appear in it. In the lesson of today we come to a story of the greatest possible cruel heartlessness on the part of Ahab and Jozebel, with a prediction of the doom of each from the Lord through Elijah, which was, like all the Lord's predictions, literally fulfilled. A man called Naboth had a vineyard hard by the palace of Ahab, which the king coveted, as he said, for a garden of herbs because it was near his house. The king offered him the worth of it in money or a better vineyard in its stead, but Naboth refused to let the king have it, saying, "The Lord forbid if me that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee" (verse 3). It is refreshing to meet a man who seeks no favors from and has no fear of even a king. What a contrast to Naboth is this despicable king, who, because he cannot have what he wants, goes home and to bed, turns away his face and will not eat! How contemptibly small some great men are, and how noble are some in lowly circumstances! A vineyard makes me think of the vine of John xv, and Naboth's clinging to the vineyard which was the inheritance of his fathers is in striking contrast to the readiness with which many preachers and teachers of today give up all that their fathers hold dear concerning the true vine. May we prove ourselves abiding branches in the vine and jealously guard the vineyard from all evil ones, even though it cost our life or our position to do this. The garden of herbs for which the king said that he wanted the vineyard brings to mind the saying concerning evildoers and workers of infiquity in Psalm xxxvii, 1-2, "They shall soon be cut down like the grass and withers as the green herb." In Jezebel we see those who, like Herodias, do not scruple to take off the earth any one who happens to be in their way, true children of the devil, who has the power of death and was a murderer from the beginning (Heb. ii. 14; John vill. 41). "I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezebelite" (verse 7) were her words to Ahab, as if she owned it and Naboth, too, and could do as she pleased. Her true lord and master, the devil, once said to the Lord Jesus as he showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them. "All these things will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me" (Matt. iv. 8, 9). Because He would not worship him he proceeded to kill Him, which he finally did. So Jozebel proceeded forthwith to kill Naboth, which she did by means of two sons of Bellah, who loved, like their father, and others who did her bidding, afraid not to. I suppose, lest they, too, might lose their lives at the hands of this murderer. Note their false accusations of Naboth. "He blasphemed God and the king." What an awful association of the living and true God with one who represented the devil, and yet when Jesus Christ was on earth, God manifest in the flesh, his enemies told Him that He had a devil (John vii, 20; vii, 52; x, 20). They also raised up false witnesses against Him who had to His charge things that He knew not (Ps. xxv, 1). We are still in an enemy's country and cannot expect better treatment than our Master received and must remember that all who live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution (II Tim, ii, 12). With what seeming triumph Jeeebel says to Ahab: "Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth. * * * for Naboth is not alive, but dead" (verse 15). But the word of the Lord came again to Elijah with a message for Ahab and Jeeebel: "Thus saith the Lord: In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine. * * * The dogs shall eat Jeeebel by the wall of Jeezel" (verses 19-23). And so it literally came to pass (22-38; II Kings 1x, 36). Whatsoever a man soweth that shall be also repai. He has reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her inquities. How much she hath glorified herself and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her (Gal. vl. 7; Rev. vill. 5-7). What an epitaph upon these two, "Ahab, who did sell himself to work wickness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up" (verse 25). How far from peaceful the manner of their death, but what about their condition ever since? The words of Luke xvi. 22-28; Rev. xiv. 10, 11, are fearfully suggestive. Use The Eureka Comb Price $1.50 With Lamp Cap For Heating. A combination of metal electrifying influences Straightening crimpy hair. Most convenient and Satisfactory. MAKES HAIR GROW Mrs. Mitchell's Improved Hair Cream Price 35 Cents Large Jars. Makes the Hair Soft and Glossy. Stops falling Hair. Try it for the places on your temples. Not greasy-will not gum. Scalp Treatment. Hair Straightening. Mail Orders Promptly Attended. Mrs. [Mitchell—Office for The Eureka Comb [2121 Druid Hill Avenue Ice Coal and wood 1346 WHATCOAT STREET Give us a trial as we want your par- tromenge. The best Burning Coal at the Cheapest Prices. All orders promptly attended to. 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Daily 10:55 P.M. 11:10 P.M. PITTSBURG, Daily 9:48 A.M. 10:00 A.M. PITTSBURG, Daily 11:32 P.M. 11:41 P.M. COLS, & WHLG, Daily 4:34 P.M. 4:30 P.M. Trains "Every Hour on the Hour" From Camden Station to Washington with Pullman Service, Earlier Departures from Mt. Royal Station. Will Celebrate 75th Anniversary The congregation of First Baptist Church, Caroline and MeElderry streets, is planning to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the incorporation of the church during May. The congregation was organized in 1818. Rev. P. C. Neal pastor of the church, is planning to make the celebration a notable one. Sermon to Stringer Lodge A large number of local Knights of Pythias were present at Trinity A.M. E. church last Sunday night when a sermon was preached to Thomas W. Stringer Lodge by Rev. A.L. Gaines. Supreme Grand Chancellor W. Ashbie Hawkins was among the many in attendance. Former Councilman Jones Here. Former City Councilman A. S. Jones, of Philadelphia, was in the city a few days ago. While here he was shown much attention by Councilman Cummings and others, He was accompanied by Mrs. Jones. Rev. Stepteau Improving The condition of Rev. Dr. C. H Stepean, who was taken suddenly ill while preaching at John Wesley Church several weeks ago, continues to improve. "Ham" Tidings Getting Better Mr. William F. Tidings, well known to every baseball fan in the city as the real and only 'official' sandwich man at Oriole Park, is recovering from a three week illness. Mrs. Ida Purviance died at her home, 1116 Argyle avenue, last Friday, following several weeks from a complication of diseases. She is survived by her husband, Mr. Edward Purviance; her father, a brother and a sister. Funeral services were held at St. Barnabas Catholic Church. Monday morning, Rev. Charles A. Evers conducting a bigh mass. Interment was in Asbury Cemetery. Robt. A. Elliott had charge of the funeral arrangements. Invited To Taft Dinner. Mr. Edward E. Reed, of this city was received an invitation to attend a dinner that President Taft will give at the White House in March, to his classmates at Yale University. The President was graduated in 1878, and Mr. Reed enjoys the distinction of being the only colored member of the class. Grand Chancellor Banquetted Grand Chancellor George A. Watty was the guest of honor of King Solomon Lodge No. 41, Knights of Pythias, of Hagerstown, Md., at a reception on last Sunday evening. This is one of the strongest lodges in Western Maryland having a total membership of 106. Grand Chancellor Watty congratulated the members on the fine work they were doing. A number of other addresses were made by the members of the Lodge. The members voted Mr. Watty a prince of good fellows and amid great applause hewas invited to come again at an early date. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Parker Have Been Married Ten Years. Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. Parker, of 1125 N. Carey street, celebrated the tenth anniversary of their marriage an Monday evening, followed by a reception for their many friends. It was one of the most brilliant affairs of the season. The house gave a beautiful appearance, being decorated with palms and sweet peas. Among those present were: Ikv. Dr. W. M. Alexander, Dr. and Mrs. F. N. Cardoza, Dr. William B. Wrigut, Mr. and Mrs. Royal Jones, Mr. Richard Jones, Mrs. An- Adams, Miss Miner Bailey, Mr. errend, of Washington; Mrs. Caro- ne Bailey, of Northampton, Va. lisses Aldena Gwathiney, Paula Washington, Lilly Bailey, Bornue Parker, Blanch Bailey, Mary E. Brown, Maggie L. Carter, Aunie Jenson, Messrs J. H. Washington; alter J. Thornton, Henry Turner, ma Bailey, William Bell, Ernest inner, James A. jolly. William L. Gwathney, Walter Green, John Grant, Robert Washington, Lawson Lemley, William Arthur, Thomas Gross, Richard Robb, Walter H. Mosby, William Smith, William A Kiley, David Bailey, Herbert Bailey. Mrs. Maggie Quillan M.s Wal- Bailey, of Northampio, Va. and Master James E. Parker. The first annual banquet of the employees in the classified services of local federal departments was held at Gans' Goldfield Hotel last Monday night. The affair was a delightful one and was well attended. The banquet is the result of the formation of an organization some weeks ago among local federal employees Besides aiming to bring the members closer together, it is probable that the organization will embark in a business venture. Councilman Harry S. Cummings, the guest of the evening, delivered the principal address. After complimenting the banquetters for successfully meeting the test that the United States Government prescribes, Mr. Cummings said that they ought to stand by the white men who were their friends. He further said that no race could expect to succeed without having business enterprises. He paid a tribute to the late Joe Gans, and said that the Goldfield Hotel was a mounument to the late fighter, and should be so appreciated by the people. Among those present were Messrs. Truly Hatchett, Edward G. Fleisr, John P. Forrester, James Briscoe, Evan Brighton, William H. Stanley, Charles J. Lane, James Bright, Alexander Williams, John Hampton, G. Sumner White, Ernest Roye, W. B. Hamer and Jerome Dollman. THOMPSON—In sad but loving remembrance of my dear son and brother Oscar S. who departed this life seven years ago Feb. 22, 1904 Not now but in coming years It may be in better land I will read the meaning of my sadness And then up there I will under- [staud Oh! when that morning came dim [and sad, And chilled from evening show- [ers His quiet eyelids had closed He had another morn than ours, By his Mother Should death itself our paths de- [vide What difference in the end shall [be Since life is but for one short day And love is for eternity By Sister Carrie FOR RENT—A suite of rooms for rent. Apply 1124 Druid Hill Ave. FOR RENT—Two rooms, furnished or unfurnished. 427 Mosher Street Snake Inside Kills Horse. A horse owned by John Haley, of near Mount Cuba, Del., died the other day despite the treatment of a Kennett Squarre veterinarian, who was called in. The animal was cut open to determine the cause of death, and three lizards and a snake were found near the lungs and heart. It is supposed that the lizards were swallowed in a gulp of water, but how the snake entered the animal is mystery. It pressed against the horse heart, causing death. "Coffee Trust" Plans 4 Cent Advance. "Coffee Trust" Plans 4 Cent Advance. An alleged coffee trust has been called to the attention of the department of justice. It is charged that the marketing of Brazilian coffee is entirely in the hands of a committee which controls the market and is now planning an advance of 4 cents a pound. The statement made to the department declares that the committee is preparing to market 78,000,000 pounds of beans at an additional profit of $3,000,000. To Mine Coal at Night. 10 Mine Coal at Night. For the first time in the anthracite region an effort will be made this week to mine coal at night and run it through a breaker. This is to be attempted at the Auchincloss breaker of the D., L. & W. Coal company; at Wilkes-Barre, Pa. The entire Auchincloss breaker is operated by electricity, the coal being picked and cleaned by a patent cleanser and picker, that dispenses with breaker boys. Robert Bachman, the "Holy Roller," who, in a religious frenzy at Nazarene, Pa., strangled little Irene Smith, his six-year-old niece, on April 27, 1908, and who was sent to the Norristown asylum, is now a free man. He was recently pronounced sane, and the court decided he could not be convicted under the indictment, and Bachman was discharged. Two Skaters Drown. John Geshuire, aged nineteen, of Paterson, and Huber Cleveland, aged twenty-two years, of Faildawn, were drowned while skating on the Bergen county side of the Passaic river at Dundee lake, near Hackensack, N. J. Fully 100 other young men and women skaters witnessed the tragedy. $100.00 Reward I will give $100.00 to any charitable organization if any one can prove that I was directly or indirectly concerned in any manner or form to do or say any thing against the colored people. Wm. Goldsmith, Candidate First Branch City Coun- Tremendous Success The Mid-Winter Picnic At Sharp St. Church has been crowded each night. Everydody has the picnic spirit and in summer clothing, they make a beautiful scene strolling thru the woods or cornered in "lovers retreat." The Picnic was to have closed on Friday night but the public has demanded its continuance until Monday night, February 27th. Positively your last chance. Come—See the Chrystal Gazer—Lovers retreat, enjoy the swings the swings and see-saws. Its great Admission. 10 Cars Lincoln University Glee At Sharp St, Memorial Church Lovers of music will get a rare treat at Sharp St. Church Sunday night, February 26th. The great Glee Club of Lincoln University will sing at the sing at the evening service 8 p.m. You are invited. ..Silver Offering... Rev. W. A. C. Hughes, Pastor Odd Fellows' Hall, Rev. Alfred Young, of King's Hill will preach the annual sermon of Queen Esther Household No. 55, G. U. O. of O. P., Sunday, February 19th, at 3 P. M., at the above named Hall. All members of house holds, Lodges and Friends are cordially invited to be present. All are welcome 4 11.18c HOUSES FOR SALE The Home Investment Association of fers the following Properties for sale Three story house, 1300 block Division street, price $1500. Three story house, 200 block Dolphin street, price $2000. Three story house Argyle avenue near Pitcher street, price $2500. Three story house 1400 N. Carey St price $860. Two story house, 1100 block N. Carrollton Ave., price $035. Three store house 1100 block Argyle avenue, price $2000. avenue, price $2000. Three story house 1100 block North Carey street, price $1360. Also houses in 1300, 1300, 1700, 1800 and 2100 and 2200 blocks Druid Hill avenue from $1550 to $2500 Collection of Rents a Specialty. Apply at the offices of The Home Investment Association 414 W. Hoffman St. C. & P. Phone Mt. Vernon 3523-Y. SIGNED IN A HURRY. Curious Incident That Brought the Savages to Terms. The ambassador who would protect his country's rights must exercise tact and call into use the deepest learning. And, after all, his plans may be frustrated or unexpectedly furthered by some happening entirely beyond his control. In a biography of Sir Robert Hart, Jullet Bredon instances a treaty without parallel as a case of good luck. During one of those terrible storms which periodically sweep the shores of Formosa an American vessel was wrecked and the crew eaten by the aborigines. The nearest American consul thereupon journeyed inland to the savage territory in order to make terms with the cannibals for future emergencies. Unfortunately the chiefs refused to listen and would have nothing to do with the agreement prepared for their signature. The consul was irritated by their obstinacy. He had a bad temper and a glass eye, and when he lost the first the second annoyed him. Under great stress of excitement he occasionally slipped the eye out for a moment, rubbed it violently on his coat sleeve, then as rapidly replaced it. This he did there in the council hut, utterly forgetful of his audience and before a soul could say the Formosan equivalent of "Jack Robinson." The chiefs paled, stiffened, shuddered with fright. One with more presence of mind than his fellows called for a pen. "Yes, quick, a pen!" the word passed from mouth to mouth. No more obstinacy, no more hesitation: all of them clamored to sign, willing, even eager, to yield to any demand that a man gifted with the supernatural power of taking out his eye and replacing it at pleasure might make. The Recipe. Mrs. John-I do wish I had a good recipe for falling hair. John—Most women nowadays just pick it up again and hang it on the back of a chair—Youngstown Telegram. If you would hit the mark you must alin a little above it. Every arrow that files feels the attraction of the earth. THE ASSOCIATED BACHELORS PRESENT AT THEIR THIRD ANNUAL MUSICA ...AND BANQUET... Wednesday Evening, March 8th, 1911, at 8.15 o'clock. Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church Subscription Coupon to include Banquet, 25 Cents. Gsorge A. Owens, Supt. Chas. E. Gibson, Pres. ..BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH.. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26th. Special Sermon by Dr. C. W. Mossell. Psalmist Baptist Church, Rev. Junius G. Sermon to the First Separate Company. Opening, services by the Sons and Daughters Class Leaders. Song and Praise Services will begin their meeting on Monday. Call To Attend the FORMAL REGISTRY A. M. E. Supday School, on March 5th. B. Miller, dean of Arts and Sciences of Lexington, will address the Sunday School of denominations. Schools with their respective Superintendent must cordially invited and urgently receive this occasion. Copeland, Supt. Laura Campbell REV. D. G. HILL, Pastor. LOOK! Ful Glad To Meet Your Argyle Pleasure of Which gives their Annual SINCE, GERMAN and PRIZE WEEP HALL, Lexington St. MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 9th BY COAL AND WOOD PHONE OR WRITE Finishing at the lowest market rates. Many institutions with Clean High-grade coal, 224 guaranteed. Why not let us supply you. SMITH BROTHERS BASE AND YARD 542-46 UNION ST. Retailed Orders Delivered. Acting as I do one of the business establishments on city, I herewith desire to public my deepest gratitude consideration of my many lands. Sharing all A Happy New Year T. G. MARSHALL, A. C. W. Mossell. Arch, Rev. Junius Gray, Pastor. Separate Company of Maryland, the Sons and Daughters of Allen. and Praise Service. Setting on Monday night and be FORMAL REOPENING School, on March 5th at 7:30 P.M. and Sciences of Howard Uni. the Sunday Schools of this city, respective Superintendents and and urgently requested to be Laura Campbell, Sec'y. LL. Pastor. LISTEN! "Meet You" at Treasure Social their Annual and PRIZE WALTZ Lexington Street near Pine G, MARCH 9th. B WOOD Residence: Mt. Ver. 1837 WRITE market rates, many of our private high-grade coal, 2240 lbs to the ton let us supply you? BOTHERS 22-46 UNION STREET is Delivered. one of the largest fishments of its kind a desire to announce best gratitude for the of my many patrons Happy New Year, MARSHALL, 11 A. M., Special Sermon by Dr. C. W. Mossell. 3 P. M., Psalmist Baptist Church, Rev. Junius Gray, Pastor: 7:30 P. M., Sermon to the First Separate Company of Maryland, by the Pastor. Monday evening, services by the Sons and Daughters of Allen. Tuesday, Class Leaders. Song and Praise Service. Don't Fail To Attend the FORMAL REOPENING of New Bethel A. M. E. Sunday School, on March 5th at 7:30 P. M. Prof. Kelly Miller, dean of Arts and Sciences of Howard University; Washington, will address the Sunday Schools of this city, irrespective of denominations. All Sunday Schools with their respective Superintendents and the public are most cordially invited and urgently requested to be present on this occasion. Thaddeus Copeland, Supt. Laura Campbell, Sec'y. REV. D. G. HILL, Pastor. LAFRANCE, GERMAN and PRIZE WALTZ AT GOOD HOPE HALL, :: Lexington Street near Pine MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 9th. PHONE OR WRITE We are now furnishing at the lowest market rates, many of our private families and institutions with Clean High-grade coal, 2240 lbs to the ton guaranteed. Why not let us supply you? SMITH BROTHERS OFFICE AND YARD 542-46 UNION STREET Retailed Orders Delivered. Conducting as I do one of the largest Negro business establishments of its kind in the City, I herewith desire to announce to the public my deepest gratitude for the kindest consideration of my many patrons and friends. 535 DOLPHIN STREET JOHN H. OWENS @ SON adertakers & Embalmers $65.00 FUNERALS $75.00. et worth $65.00, in black cloth, steel gray or white plush; oak or walnut outside case; beautiful rubber-tired hearse; ray or white, to match casket, as desired; five heated car- up-to-date; fine burial robe, embalming, opening graves; al six pairs of gloves, door crepe, candles, candelabra, cruz INS @ SON Embalmer CALS $75.00. cloth, steel gray or white plush; case; beautiful rubber-tired hearse; casket, as desired; five heated car- robe, embalming, opening grave- or crepe, candles, candelabra, cruz 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. This funeral cost elsewhere.....$136.00 Our price.....$75.00 Saving you.....$61.00 Other Funerals as low as $25, $35, $40, $50. Higher Grade $100, $150, $175. No charge for removal of remains from Hospitals. Shipping Funerals, $25.00 and $50.00 Complete 1222 Division St. bet. Dolphin and Lanvale: C. & P. Phone Mad: 4067 Wolfe PHONE 1577-Y TERMS REASONABLE BEFORE BUYING Ladies' Gents' Children's Spring Clothing, Rings, Watches, Diamonds, Furniture and Stoves. SEE CLARENCE E. MARSHALL Agent for James Wilson Co. Mrs. Marv A. Boston, who has been ill at her home, 702 Saratoga street for the past seven weeks, is convalescing. The Harmony Pleasnire Circle gave a reception at 1220 Barclay street Monday evening, Mr. Howard M. Gross delivered a well received address to the members. Mrs. William C. McCard, of 1940 Druid Hill avenue, is spending two weeks at Atlantic City. Mr. Roger L. Evans has returned to Atlantic City after attending the funeral of his grandfather, Rev. James L. Evans. Mr. and Mrs. William J. Cornish 324 W. Hoffman St, have, as their guest, Miss Maggie Ringgold of New York. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Langley of 2227 Druid Hill avenue, will spend a few days of this week in Norfolk, visiting relatives. Mrs. E. Keys, formerly of this city, but now of Patterson, N. J., has been confined to her home for several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. George Fredericks, of 542 Mosher street, gave a birthday party on last Sunday, in honor of their daughter, Miss Mary E. Fredericks. Miss Mamie Harris of 1024 Druid Hill avenue is visiting friends in Philadelphia. Miss M. G. Holmes, of Boston, is visiting her father, Mr. W. Holmes of 1216 Division street. Mrs. Monroe White of 1024 N. Calthoun street who has been sick as the result of a fall on December 23d, will be able to be out in a few days. Mrs. D. D. Turpeau, wife of the pastor of Ames Memorial Church is recovering from a severe illness. Mr. Andrew Gassaway, of 1915 Division street, who has been very ill, is improving. Mrs. Charles Stewart, who has been ill at her home, 1411 Ward street, is in a greatly improved condition. Rav. E. F. Eggleston, of Newark, N. J., former pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church, preached at Union Baptist Church Sunday night. Mr. Joseph L. H. Smith, one of the best known members of the Masonic fraternity in the State, has resumed his duties in the registry division of the Postoffice. History Committee To Meet. The committee appointed by the Baptist Ministerial Meeting to look up the history of the denomination in this city will meet Monday at Union Baptist Church. Surprise Party. A very pleasant surprise party was tendered, Mrs. D. G. Mack, of Druid Hill avenue, last Wednesday evening by the young ladies of the Macedonia Baptist Church. A purse was presented by Miss Lizzie Reid, after which a collation was served. Among those present were: Misses Lizzie Reid, Otelia Forest, Patsy Canon, Mary P. Dorsey, Olive Bagwell, Fannie Anderson, Rebecca Lee, Marie Branson, Gulia Tolson, Rev. D. G. Mack, Messrs. Wm. L. Ellis, Samuel Carter, Spencer Mack. $7,000 to loan on real estate, persons having mortgages can borrow accordingly, small amounts preferred. Apply j. Winfield Thomas, 2127 Drudid Hill Avenue. fe4 1m My Prescription Department In charge of a registered pharmacist. With the purest of drugs Fennell's Pharmacy Biddle St. and Druid Hill'Ave. FOR RENT Handsome New Auditorium of Galilean Fishermen's Hall 409 W. Biddle Street. Seats 700, is suitable for all classes of entertainments, and is convenient to all cars. Lodgerooms for rent also. Apply to Janitress for terms. Columbus Gordon, President of Joint Stock Association. Courage. Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes the man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.—Addison. Made Up by Herself. Sillicus—We hear of many self made men, but seldom of a self made woman. Cynicus—How about the woman whose face is her fortune?—Philadelphia Record. The man who owes everything to his wife seldom pays it back.—Life.