The Afro-American

--- VOL. XIX NO. 32. NEGRO DEMOCRATS WANT PLUM TREE SHAKEN QUICK. NEGRO DEMOCRATS WANT PLUM TREE SHAKEN QUICK. FROM PRESENT APPEARANCES A NUMBER OF THEM WILL LAND SOME WHERE AND SOMEHOW They Are Making Their Wants Known In No Uncertain Tones They Have Helped The Party Of Jefferson To Win And Now They Want Their Reward. Will Divide Several Places In Order To Give The Colored Man And Brother A Chance at The" Pie Counter." (Special Correspondence.) Washington, April 14—This quiet old town of officeholders has been regaled with the appearance at the Capitol of more colored Democrats than the oldest inhabitant had any idea existed. These men come from all sections of the country, and they are now engaged in telling the Democratic members of the House of Representatives that they helped to elect them last November, and therefore should be considered in handing out those plums, which even Democrats of white skins have gone so long without. Chief among the sable followers of the party of Thomas Jefferson are: James A. Ross, of Buffalo, N. Y.; A. E. Manning, editor of the Indianapolis World, a democrat of long standing, and A. J. Russell, of the Pittsburgh Courier. Mr. Ross has been on the scene trying to land place, for the faithful of his State, while Manning is urging his claims for recognition on the ground of his long and consistent support of the Democrats. As the Democrats have decided to cut the salary of $2,500 a year in half, paid J. E. Johnson, assistant stenographer to "Ucleid Joe" Cannon, A. J. Russell is hopeful of landing a job, along with Johnson. In other words, Johnson's salary will be divided between two men. As colored men the country over helped to derestrict Republican candidates last fall, they are now hopeful of getting the 100 or more places now held by colored Republicans at the Capitol. According to gossip around the Capitol, Speaker Champ Clark will bring a colored man from his district; Oscar Underwood, of Alabama, will bring some colored men from Booaker T.'s State, and Representative Henry, of Texas, will bring up a man from his bailiwick. Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer, of Pennsylvania; H. M. Goldfogle, William Suller and Fitzgerald, all of New York, are said to be strongly in favor of colored men being recognized. Some of the politicians scent an effort among the Democrats to make colored converts in all sections of the country, especially as their votes may decide the next presidential election in several close States. While the jobs that are going to be parceled out this time are mostly menial, there are some who profess to believe that it is prophetic of the days of better things for colored Democrats. WEALTHY MAN DEAD Former Baltimore Leaves A Large Fortune (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Philadelphia, April 10.—The funeral of John S. Trower, the wealthiest Negro of the race in this city, who died here Tuesday, was held at the Cherry Memorial Baptist Church Saturday afternoon. The services were in charge of Rev. W. A. Creditt, assisted by a number of ministers. Mr. Trower was a native of Virginia. He lived in Baltimore many years ago, where he was an oyster shucker. Coming to this city, he started out in the restaurant business in Germantown, and for years had enjoyed the distinction of being the wealthiest caterer in the city. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY IN THE INTEREST OF THE RACE. He was connected with a number of public movements and was the treasurer of the industrial school at Downington. He is said to have left a fortune of $1,500,000. A. M. E. ZION CONFERENCE Will Be Held In Washington Next Mon th.—Bishop Walters To Preside. (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Washington, April 11. — The annual session of the Philadelphia and Baltimore Conference of the A. M. E. Zion Church will be held at the Metropolitan Wesley Church, D street southwest, opening May 18. Bishop Alexander Walters will preside. HOWARD SCORES IN LEAGUE DEBATE Wins Out Over Fisk And Atlanta Universities In Triangle League College Debate (Staff Correspondence.) Washington, April 10—The Triangular Debate League, composed of Atlanta, Fisk and Howard Universities, held its second annual contest on Friday evening of last week, when representative teams of the three universities met at Atlanta, Ga., Nashville, Tenn., and Washington, D.C. The subject for debate was: "Resolved, That the Initiative and Referendum should be made a part of the Legislative System of our States." Each university was represented by two teams, one of which argued the affirmative side of the question at home, and the negative away from home. The judges returned a decision in favor of the affirmative, when Howard-Atlanta teams men in Rankin Memorial Chapel, Washington, D. C. Messrs. S. T. Kelly, 1911, Frank A.Wimberly, 1913, Charles B. Washington, 1912, composed the Washington, and Silas S. Abrams, 1911, Robert B. Jefferson, 1911, and Thomas J. Henry made up the Atlanta team. In the main arguments both sides were evenly matched, but Howard excelled in the rebuttal. The Howard-Fisk debate took place in the Memorial Hall on the latter's campus, which in spite of bad weather was filled with enthusiastic students and alumni. Fisk and Howard are long-time rivals and the two teams were the best of their respective schools. Messrs. A. B. Lovette, 1911, J. E. Stamps, 1911 and C. H. Wesley, 1911, made up the Fisk team, and C. B. Aubrey, 1911, J. H. McMorris, 1911, J. M. Jackson, 1911, represented Howard. The latter team proved themselves the better forensic disputants and won the decision. Duplicating the performance of last year, the Washington school thus argued and won both sides of the question debated. The Atlanta-Fisk teams met in Ware Memorial Chapel on the former's campus. The Georgian school has not won a debate in five years, and this year the same hoodoo is with her. Atlanta was ably represented by Messrs. King, 1912, F. W. Turner, 1912, L. Jordan, 1911, and Fisk by J. Robertson, 1911, C. H. Payne, 1911, W. G. Upshur, 1911. Both sides showed conclusively that the Initiative and Referendum should or should not be made a part of the Legislative System of our States, yet the Nashville team carried away the victory. The results of this year's debating in the League are identical with those of last year and show Howard to have two wins and no losses; Fisk one won, and one lost; Atlanta, two lost and none won. For the two years, Howard leads the League — with four victories and no defeats. Fisk has an even break, with two victories and two defeats; Atlanta has four defeats. That the Triangular Debate League has successfully conducted the work for two years speaks well for the management and insures it a permanent place among intercollegiate organizations. It marks the just successful attempt at organization and co-operation among colored colleges and shows what can be done with proper enterprise and spirit. Victory or defeat are no great matters; the essential things are the manly striving to excel and the feeling of friendliness engendered by the intercourse between colleges of different sections. LEDGER DISMISSED PROFESSORS ARE TALKING OF TAKING THEIR CASE TO CONGRESS. Board Will Not Reopen The Case Of Professors Gregory And Washington.- The Case Has Been Gone Into Throughly And The Matter Ended As Far As The Board And President Thirkield Are Concerned.—Rumor Of President Thirkield Resigning All Bosh. Bureau of the Afro-American Ledger, 1004 S Street N. W. Washington, April 12.-Prof. T. Montgomery Gregory and Forrester B. Washington, the two young Howard University teachers who were forced to resign a few weeks ago, because of an alleged violation of rules of discipline of the school, are to appeal to Congress for a rehearing of their cases. A resolution is to be introduced, demanding that the Secretary of the Interior conduct an investigation and give the deposed young men a "square deal," which, they claim, has been denied them by the authorities of the university. At the special meeting of a committee appointed to act on the cases, at the suggestion of President Thirkield, and the Board concurring, it was decided that the best interests of the university would be subserved by declining to reopen the matter. PRESIDENT THIRKIELD NOT TO RESIGN. There is absolutely no truth in the rumor that President Thirkield is to resign the headship of the university. Dr. Thirkield says there has never been such a thought in his mind, and that no talk of a successor has ever been brought to his attention. He says he will continue to perform his duties as usual. No member of the Board has heard of any such rumor from any reliable source, and are paying no attention to the gabble of chronic enemies of the school. The story of the alleged resignation of President Thirkield is said to have had its foundation among some of the fool friends of Messrs. Gregory and Washington, who vainly imagine that it will do the young men good to thus attempt to embarrass President Thirkield by circulating this falsehood. The Council of Upper Classmen has elected the following officers for the school year of 1911-12: President Ulysses L. Houston, Med.; Vice-president, L. C. Downing, Med. Secretary, Lewis Russell, Col. Treasurer, William Brrell, Law. Sergant-at-Arms, Joseph D. Cabaniss, Phar. Chaplain, D. D. Walker, Theol. These officers will be installed at the next meeting of the Council, at which time the new president, Mr. Houston, will announce the names of the appointive officers and the committee assignments. Other Institutions Also Profit By Mrs. Leveck's Death (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Philadelphia, April 13—By he will of the late Amelia Leveck, an aged resident of this city, $500 is left to St. Thomas P. E. Church; her books to the Sunday School of the church; her residence to the Industrial School on Bainbridge street, and a dwelling and three lots in the suburbs to the crippled Orphans' Home for Colored Children. Church Celebrates Its Anniversary (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Pocomoke City, April 11. 1911—Sunday was Local Day at St. John's A. M. E. Church; collection good. On March 10 St. John's Church celebrated her thirty-ninth anniversary and gave a reception which was very largely attended by both members and friends. Mr. E. S. Jones was master of ceremonies. G. W. Marshall, one of the founders, was the historion for the occasion. The principal speaker was Prof. S. H. Long. Music was rendered by the choir. Mr. N. Gunby was chorister. Closing remarks by Rev. J. S. Collins, pastor. Miss Nella Wilson, of Crisfield, was the guest of Rev. and Mrs. J. S. Collins. Mr. C. P. Weeks, of Crisfield, was the guest of his sisters, Mrs. Mamie Gillet and Mrs. Georgia Jones. Mrs. C. Winslow is improving slowly. PATROL DUTY FOR THE NINTH CAVALRY (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) The furry over the disposition of the Ninth Cavalry is at an end. By order of Gen. Leonard Wood, chief of staff, the colored troops will take their turn at parroting the Mexican border and will replace the Third Cavalry, relieving the latter in order that it may have a chance to receive instructions in the maneuver camp at San-Antonio. General Carter, in command of the maneuver division, will have charge of the distribution of the Ninth Cavalry, and while Sam Fordyce, Laredo, Eagle Pass, Marathon, Presidio del Norte, Marfa, Hancock, Manora and other points on the Rio Grande will be covered, it is expressly stated that under no circumstances will they be sent to Brownsville, of 25th Infantry fame. The Ninth will be the divisional cavalry of the maneuver division. The War Department will pay no serious attention to the howl raised by a few of the border towns, which do not want a Negro regiment "in their midst." Even the Washington Post has had the generosity to say that "it goes against the grain of a Texas white man to see a Negro in military uniform, manipulating a gun," adding sagely, that "it has the same effect upon them as the waving of a red flag in the face of a bull." The matter of placing the colored troops is always a delicate problem, North or South, and in this particular instance it is evident that the President and the War Department are determined to do their level best to preserve the peace, maintain the dignity of the army establishment, and use the gallant Ninth according to the needs of the service, independent of the whims and absurd fears of the bourbons along the Texan frontier. No one here believes that in stirring up this racial brobrogio, Representative Garner has chosen "the better part." Mr. Benoni Price Hurst, who has been visiting his parents, Rev. Dr. and Mrs. John Hurst, has returned to Amherst College, where he is a student in the (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Washington, April 11.—Henry J.Pinckney, who served as steward at the White House throughout the entire Roosevelt administration, and a man who spent the greater part of his life in the service of public men, died last Wednesday night at his home at Fairmount Heights. Mr. Pinckney's latest appointment — that of messenger at the White House, came to him from President Taft, and he was numbered among the employees there at the time of his death. Born in Charleston, S. C., in 1857, he was a lad of six years when Lincoln's proclamation set the members of his race free. While still a youth he went to Albany, N. Y., and found employment at the State Capitol. He served successively as messenger for Governors Flower, Black and Roosevelt. When Colonel Roosevelt left Albany, Mr. Pinckney continued in his service at Oyster Bay, and afterward became his messenger when Colonel Roosevelt was here at Vice-President. At the close of the Roosevelt administration President Taft retained him at the White House as a PRICE THREE CENTS "THE PEERLESS ONE" TALKS TO NEGRO Y. M. C. A. "NO MAN CAN MEASURE THE BREADTH OF A MESSAGE FRIENDSHIP AND BROTHERLY LOVE" NO SEGREGATION IN THIS SCHOOL. Howard Theatre Packed To The Doors To Hear The Noted Orator, Editor And Statesman. Regards His Card Of Identification As Member Of The Y. M. C. A. , As One Of His Proudest Possessions. It Is Cheaper To Prevent Crime Than To Repair The Evil Consequences. Bureau of the Afro-American Ledger, 1004 S Street N. W. Washington, D. C., April 12.—William Jennings Bryan, orator, editor, statesman and sometime candidate for president of the United States, was the chief attraction Sunday afternoon at a monster meeting of the Colored Branch of the Y. M. C. A. at the Howard Theater, which was packed to the doors with one of the finest audiences of Afro-Americans gathered anywhere between the oceans. The Y. M. C. A. has never held a meeting that rivaled this one in point of numbers or endusiasm, save that addressed last year at the Belasco Theater by Dr. Booker T. Washington. The "peerless leader" of the militant Democracy was cheered to the militant at frequent intervals throughout the half hour covered by his address, and though nothing of a political or racial nature was brought out in the talk, Mr. Bryan was visibly pleased with the tumultuous and sincere ovation accorded him by an audience of colored citizens in this cosmopolitan capital. The address of Mr. Bryan to the colored Y. M. C. A. was the first of the four speeches delivered by him on Sunday in Washington. His theme was "Civilization," and the immeasurable influence of the Y. M. C. A. movement in advancing the highest type of civilization was dwelt upon in an entertaining and convincing fashion. He was a charter member of the organization in his home community, and regarded his card of identification as one of his proudest possessions. The eloquent Nebraskan exhorted the men to adhere strictly to the Y. M. C. A. idea, to support it with their voice, their influence, and their money. It is cheaper, he said, to prevent crime by remedial policies than to repair the evil consequences growing out of vice. He stated that the heart should not be neglected for the training of the mind; that a strong body is essential to a strong heart and a strong mind. He said that man had been able to measure the breadth of a message in telegraphy, but that no man had yet been able to measure the breadth of friendship and brotherly love which emanated from the heart. The Y. M. C. A., the speaker said, affords a general training which no other organization can give. It trains the heart, the soul and the physical body. Mr. Bryan was happily introduced by Mr. Lewis E. Johnson, the capable secretary of the colored branch. At the close of the address of the distinguished guest. Mr. Bryan was whirled away in the high-powered automobile of Dr. G. W. Cabaniss to Continental Hall, where another immense audience awaited him. At the Howard Theater, following Mr. Bryan, a magnificent address was delivered by Dr. C. F. Barbour, of New York, international commiteeeman of the Y. M. C. A. The Elks Glee Club, led by Mr. Louis Ambler, sang, and the Wilberforen Orchestra rendered a number of selections, under the direction of Prof. J. Sherman Hunnicutt. Easter Sunday will be "Ladies' Day," and the Howard will be a veritable bower of beauty on that occasion. Prof. Kelly Miller, of Howard University, will speak on "Righteousness." OPERATION SUCESSFUL. (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Washington, April 13—Dr. Milton D. Francis, who was operated on for ap- 1 on for ap- pendicits at the Freedmen's Hospital several weeks ago, is now said to be in a greatly improved condition. He was taken to the home of his father, Dr. John R. Francis, last Friday. Talks On The Fugitive Slave Law (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Dr.W.BruceEvans, principal of the Armstrong Manual Training School, spoke on "The Fugitive Slave Law" last Friday night before the National Historical Society of Philadelphia. President Schurman Makes it Plain that Cornell University Has No Color (Special to The AfroAmerican Ledger.) Ithaca, N.Y.-President Jacob A.Schurman, of Cornell University, has put a quietus upon the efforts of 269 white women students to keep two colored students - Miss Rose Vassar, of Lynchburg, Va., and Miss Pauline Ray, of Geneva, N.Y. - from Sage College, one of the dormitories for women. While 269 students objected to the girls on account of their color, 36 students signed a petition favoring their admission. pension favoring their admission. In declining to grant the petition of those opposed to the young women, President Schurman writes Mrs. Gertrude Martin, adviser to the female students, in part as follows: "I received your note, with the enclosed two petitions on the subject of the admission of colored women to Sage College. One of these petitions, signed by 269 women students, begged that we deny the application for admission which you have recently received from two colored women students; the other petition, signed by 36 women students, objected to the discrimination on the color line. "The truth of the matter is very simple. Colored students have resided in Sage College in the past, and I see no good reason why that policy should be changed. At Cornell all university doors must remain open to all students, irrespective of race or color, or creed, or social standing, or pecuniary condition. "The last colored woman student who resided in Sage College writes me that she was politely and considerably treated by the other women students, and that these years of residence in Sage College were the happiest of her life. "Though I am compelled to deny the petition of the 269 women students I have not a particle of doubt that they will make the lives of the two incoming colored students equally happy and memorable." SNOW HILL ITEMS Snow Hill, pril 13—Rev. E. J. Henry, pastor of the Mt. Zion Baptist Church, preached to the True Reformers at Berlin Sunday. His pulpit was filled by local ministers. The Misses Mamie and Helen Henry were in Baltimore and Washington last week. Mrs. Z. Purnell visited her mother at Pocomoke City Sunday. Mrs. Carrie Parker has gone to Wilmington, Del. Mr. Willie Hayward, who has been ill, is improving. Mr. Samuel Tingle is able to be out again after several weeks' illness. Mrs. Emma Gray, of Berlin, was visiting Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Purnell, last week. Mrs. Maymie Postle is visiting her mother in Wilmington, Del. trustees of Bethel A. M. E. Church have at last concluded its deal with the Jacob Tome Institute and have purchased a lot on Main street, where in the near future a new structure will be reared. The new church will be built of stone, and the congregation will worship in a tent during the coming summer while the old church is being torn down and the new one erected. The pastor is Rev. S. T. Crawford, and the trustees are William Cornish, Edwdr Vance, Howard Bell, Isaac Hopkins, Thomas Gordy,Daniel Taylor, John Allen, Alexander Griffin and Jerome Cornish. A new parsonage will also be built --- The Success of the Organization Is Due Largely to the Energy and Keen Business Foresight of the Officials In Meeting the Needs of the People. Has Passed Experimental Stage. By GEORGE FRANCIS KING BY GEORGE FRANCIS KING. Richmond, Va.-Being governed by conservative measures that are economic improvements in life insurance affairs the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, with home offices in this city, is solidifying the interest of colored people in the business world. This is the oldest Afro-American company in the state, and it gives evidence of the fact that a number of Afro-Americans are permanent factors in the great life insurance forces of the country. A building for its home office, where a little army of intelligent and energetic clerks are found at their desks, attests the Negro's ability to become a creator of essential movements. With well appointed office structures in the principal cities of Virginia, modern houses to help relieve the con- gested residential conditions of the race in Richmond especially, and a number of cities and towns, this company reveals the results caused by honesty and the qualifications of its officials to protect the members of the race during the period when illness and death manifest their powers. M. B. The wisdom of the management and the optimism of the race in Virginia when it comes to supporting such THOMAS M. CRUMP comes to support such creditable corporations are best shown from the fact that in 1010 the company did business to the amount of $109,564.57. Beginning business at a time when it was claimed that the Negro couldn't master mortality rates and meet the competition of white companies, Messrs. Crump and Jordan 大島 義夫 PRESIDENT A. D. PRICE proved to be masters of the situation. Claims were promptly paid and the confidence of the masses was gained until today this company is regarded by both races as being beyond the stage of a hazardous project. The field force is composed of intelligent and thrifty men who are enlightening thousands of people in the race and assisting the officials in the campaign in the conservation of the lives of thousands of Afro-Americans. The dividends exhibit the healthy condition of the company. Not a share of stock is on the market, and the holders of the same will not sell. [Name] The mortality basis is mastered by Colonel T. M. Crump, secretary-manager, and B. L. Jordan, who are considered to be authorities on sick, death and accident insur- stick, death and accident insurance lines. The officers are men who have made remarkable achievements in their respective vocations and are concrete examples of race thrift. The officials and directors are: A. D. Price, president; Thomas M. Crump, secretary- manager; B. L. Jordan, assistant secret- ary-manager; Edward Stewart, first vice president; James T. Carter, second vice president; B. A. Cephas, third vice president; W. E. Baker, treasurer; E. C. Brown, W. A. Jordan, A. W- ashington, Charles N. Jackson, W. E. Randolph and Samuel Morgan. Each Makers of Own Position, Says Earn Makers of Own Lawn Mrs. M. C. Lawton. "What Our Young Women Owe to Themselves" was the subject of a most interesting and instructive address delivered by Mrs. M. C. Lawton to the members and visitors at a meeting of the Lexington avenue branch of the Young Women's Christian association in Brooklyn recently. Mrs. Lawton spoke in part as follows: In a great city like this, with its seeming millions of inhabitants, composed as it is, of every nationality, every kind, tongue and tribe, there must necessarily arise various conditions for our immediate consideration. The constant infux from all parts of the world to this, the metropolis of the United States, the ever increasing demand for efficient service, together with the opposition which confronts the working girl of the colored give rise to a problem whose complexity is almost insoluble. Although institutions for the advancement and promotion of our girls have been established through which thousands of them have been saved to the race and to the glory of womanhood, there are still phases of this situation, discouraging though they may be, that must be reckoned with. As long as time lasts there will be working girls, but just what position they will occupy they alone must determine. It is evident, however, that their value will increase in proportion to the efficiency of their efforts, and their position or rank will be computed according to the dignity they inject into their character. Nobody is going to be the higher one. If you place a small estimate on yourselves others will do likewise, but if you feel yourselves the equal of those filling the same position you will be rated accordingly. Now, what is the cause of this lack of confidence? It is due to the fact that you have not made the necessary preparation for the work of people whose bone and shine of every kind of labor you perform, but the quality of service you give. Live in an atmosphere of self respect whether you are accorded those rights which others enjoy or not. Be honest, conscientious and upright in your dealings with your fellow man. The peace of conscience you will enjoy will repay you the effort you put forth in this course, this step toward union, this organization, both of which are absolutely indispensable to racial progress and advancement. We are living in the formative, constructive or-historic period of our race. We have just about cleared the forest and begun the foundation upon which future generations of our race must build the superstructure. Those of us who are thus engaged are the brides-mothers, stonecutters and hoarders, carpenters, and our rejection of this racial structure, and our work must be well done if it is to stand the storms of antagonism, the cyclonic winds of prejudice and the thunderbolts of injustice which will attack us. STOREY AND VILLARD ON RACE DISCRIMINATION. Wave of Color Hysteria Sweeping Country, Says Noted Publicist. In his address opening the recent meeting of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People, held in Park Street church, Boston, Hon. Moorfield Storey, who was re-elected president of the organization, said: Forty-five years ago the people of the United States were brought face to face with perhaps the most serious problem in our national history—the converting of 4,000,000 Negro slaves into citizens. At this problem the people have since been working, and it is still far from settled. The constitutional amendments were believed to have placed the rights of the Negro beyond question, but now, while the race has prospered beyond expectation, its progress has weakened felonious, in the north a race prejudice has gained strength until men look down upon their follows as if it were a virtue to embarrass and injure them. This condition must not endure, and it is the duty of every citizen to see that the colored people have justice and kindness. It is necessary that they should be given their full rights as citizens of the United States and that their right to vote should nowhere be denied. It is necessary also that they should be protected in the enjoyment of their property and the fruit of their labor, that they should be insured justice in the courts and that they should be defended against outrage and brutality of every kind. Speaking along the same line of thought, Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard said: There can be no doubt that a wave of color hysteria is sweeping over the country. The road of the aspiring colored man or woman becomes more and more difficult. He is abused for his low associations. Let him seek to rise above them, and what happens? Despite the fact that he has for years been told that if he acquires property and buys himself a house all will be well with him and his family, if he does so in a section of a city, whether it be New York, Seattle, Baltimore or Richmond, in which he may assure to his children good associations, pure air and clean streets, he is assailed as if his presence there meant the bringing in of a taint worse than leprosy, and the laws are invoked against him. Importance of Being Well Informed. Perhaps too few parents realize the importance of keeping themselves and their household well informed upon current happenings among the great masses of our people in the various sections of the country as well as in their immediate community. In order to do so they should keep on hand the very best books, magazines and newspapers published by the race. Our children should know about the past achievements of the race, the work that is now being done and of the opportunities and possibilities open to them for greater advancement in the future. New Officers For Lighthouse Lodge. Lighthouse lodge of Elks. Atlantic City. N. J., is one of the most active of the many lodges of the order on the Atlantic coast. It gave a number of splendid receptions of a social nature the past winter, and its meetings were well attended. At the March meeting of the lodge the election of officers resulted as follows: T. T. Brown, exalted ruler: W. H. Coleman, assistant L. K.; G. W. Owens, A. L. K.; Charles Moore, ex. lecture K.; H. Holland, tiler; C. Smith, manager of the social session. Captain Ned Collins had made preparations to quit a seafaring life, settle down on a little farm that had been the dream of his life and spend the rest of his days with his family. He had sold his cottage by the ocean and bought the farm. One more voyage remained to him, at the end of which he was to give up the one and enter upon the other. The voyage he had laid out would bring him home in the month of April, and his boys were to prepare the ground of his farm for planting against his return. Then when his last cruise had been completed the family would spend the summer on the farm—the first summer they had ever spent together. Mrs. Collins was one of those women who are always looking ahead for something to happen. When she hade goodly to her husband she remembered cases wherein persons had made a last venture which proved a last one in more ways than one. Several of her friends had sailed on a last voyage intending not to make another and had never returned. She did not take account of the many who had returned and lived to a good old age at home. Her husband had no sooner sailed than she showed by her demeanor that this feeling was troubling her. Her eldest daughter, Helen, a girl of strong religious faith, strove to comfort her. She reminded her mother that the same God was supreme upon the ocean as on the land; that if he intended that their dear one should return to them no storm was fierce enough to prevent. For a time such arguments as this would dispel the forebodings of the wife and mother, but not for long. Letters came from Captain Collins from various points at which the ship, the Helen Collins, named for its master's daughter, touched-Porto Rico and other tropical ports. Then came news of one of those West Indian hurricanes that are a terror both on land and on sea. Day upon day, week upon week, passed after the storm had subsided and no word came from the Helen Collins. From the first the captain's wife gave up all hope. Her children, who were not overconfident, did what they could to instill hope within their mother, but without much success. The winter passed, and the spring began to peep from beneath the soil. The boys told their mother that they were going to prepare the farm for a crop. In case their father should return and find that nothing had been done he would be disappointed. In March, when it became necessary to do the first planting, the children begged their mother to remove to the farm, and she only consented because she must give up the cottage to the new owner and if she remained in the same locality would need to rent or buy another. So they moved their belongings to their new home. "It will never be a home to me," said the mother, "without your father. I had a feeling when he left us that he would never return to enjoy this place, and that foreboding has been realized." "Mother," said Helen impressively, "I have a feeling. It is more than a feeling—it is a hope. Easter will be here within a fortnight. The day is typical of a renewed life. I believe that father will be with us on or before the anniversary of the rising of our Saviour." "Oh, my child, you have no foundation on which to rest such a belief." "Nor is there any foundation for the feeling you experienced when he sailed that he would not return. Of the two mine is by far the better, since it is the more comforting. And was not the great resurrection that occurred nearly twenty centuries ago intended to give hope to mankind?" But the days passed, the radishes, the peas, the beets and other early vegetables showed their tips above the soil, and Captain Collins did not return. Instead parts of the wreckage of his ship were picked up at sea and their finding reported by a returning ship. This news came the day before Easter, and if there had been a ray of hope in the breast of the mother of these children that their father would return it was abandoned. Only Helen clung to what she called her belief. Easter morning broke bright and beautiful. After breakfast all went out to have a look at the growing plants. The children kept calling their mother's attention to this and that row of springing vegetables, remarking how rapidly it was growing, in order to divert her mind from her bereavement. A balmy breeze was coming up from the south. "Mother," said Helen, "I have one of your feelings. Not the same kind of a one, for it is more like a hope. I'm thinking this sweet smelling breeze has come all the way from the tropics to tell us that father is living, even if he can't yet be with us." "Oh, Helen, you have such absurd idens." "Father!" The exclamation came from little Joe. All turned and saw the child running with open arms to a skeleton of a man who was coming toward them. The boy jumped into the man's arms, and all knew that the husband and father had returned. Captain Ned Collins, with a part of his crew, had been picked up in a lifeboat and carried far from home. Nile Sudd Converted Into Satisfactory Coal Substitute. As is well known, one of the great difficulties relative to navigation on the Nile is the obstruction offered by large masses of dense water weed or grass, generally known as sudd. For a distance of 300 miles the river runs through a very swampy country, estimated to cover 35,000 square miles and known as the sudd district. A great drawback to this territory is the complete absence of fuel of any description, there being no timber, while coal has to be imported, and the price of these two commodities averages about $13 per ton. The existence of this weed offered a severe obstruction to the development of the Sudan, since at this point the Nile could not be safely navigated owing to dense clumps of the grass, detached by floods, gales, and so forth, drifting into and blocking the main channel. A German diplomatist, however, conceived the idea that this grass must possess a certain calorific value and suggested that it might be harvested and converted into a fuel very cheaply, so as to meet the local deficiencies in this direction. Lord Cromer and Sir Reginald Wingate were approached, and, the assistance of the Sudanese government being secured, a small commission was dispatched to the sudd district to study the feasibility of the idea on the spot. Large quantities of the grass were secured and dispatched to Merseburg, in Germany, where experiments were at once undertaken to determine how its conversion into fuel might be effected, together with the determination of the calorific value. As a result a very simple and inexpensive process has been evolved. The sudd is first dried and then submitted to treatment in a disintegrator, which reduces it almost to the form of powder. The mass is then briquetted. The manufacture into briquettes occupies only a few minutes, and in the calorific tests that were carried out it was ascertained that the heating value of the disintegrated sudd is about 60 per cent that of coal, while the density of the briquette is 80 per cent of coal. The cost of manufacture was found to be so satisfactory as to enable the product to be manufactured on the spot in Egypt, to be sold for about 50 per cent of the local price of imported coal—Scientific American. NOVEL BOAT PROPELLER. Device Has Three Pairs of Blades Arranged to Form a Screw. A new speed propeller for which much is claimed has six blades so arranged as to form a perfect screw. It is so designed that each blade in every revolution gets solid water regardless of the speed, the blades being in sections of two, with a difference of four SIX BLADED PHOPELLER inches in diameter of each section, the rear pair of blades being the largest. Tested on a twenty-six foot motorboat equipped with a ten horsepower engine this propeller is claimed to have added three miles an hour to the speed, at the same time doing away with much of the jarring and shaking which are so usual in small motorboats.—Popular Mechanics. The Banana In Medicine. Recent experiments indicate that the juice of the banana may be efficacious in the treatment of diphtheria and other maladies of the throat. A substance resembling pepsin and called bromelin has been isolated from banana juice and has been shown to possess the property of dissolving aluminaceous matter such as forms the obstructing membrane characteristic of diphtheria. Dr. Flascher employs a sirup made from bananas in cases of bronchial affection. A crystalline substance called mannitol is obtained from the banana and is employed in the composition of various remedies for throat and lung troubles. Coal Mined by Machines. Almost exactly 50 per cent of Indiana's coal production in 1900 was won by the use of machines, the machine mined product amounting to 7,408,828 short tons. In 1908 the machine mined coal amounted to 5,204,002 short tons, or 43 per cent of the total. Machines of the chain breast pattern appear to be preferred in the mines of Indiana. 391 out of a total of 631 in use in 1909 being chain machines. Of the others 227 were pick machines and 13 long wall. In 1908 out of a total of 507 machines in use 332 were chain machines, 140 were pick machines and 35 were long wall. War on the English Starling. War on the English Starling. The department of agriculture is just now waging a war on the importers of the English starling. The pestiferous English sparrow now unnumbered in every section of the country probably never would have been inflicted on the nation had it not been for some faddist's notion, and in the case of the starling the government is strenuously opposed to repeating and adding to the sparrow nuisance. Moreover, the starling is an eater of small grain and is capable of causing vast devastation in the fields. HOMESEEKERS, ATTENTION! Thousands of satisfied customers are buying houses from uson the EASY PAY=MENT 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. Call to see us today. Furniture and Chattels Easy Payments Lowest Rae Who can furnish a funeral for $10.00 and up; caskets for $3.00 and up. He can furnish you carriages for Funerals, Weddings, Parties, Receptions, etc., from his own stables at the most reasonable rates. You need not come to see him, just call Alex. Hemsley, Funeral Director and Embalmer Wish to announce to the generous public that I am still doing business at my old stand, 578 W. BIDDLE ST. Thanking the public for all past favors and hoping for a continuance of the same. Carriage for hire for weddings, parties and funerals, and special attention given to all orders day or night. Yours, ALEX, HEMSLEY, ROBERT A. ELLIOTT Baltimore's Leading Undertaker 506 ROGERS AVE. Expert Embalming, Courteous Attendants, Shipping Funerals Specialty. Rubber Tire Carriages for hire for all occasions. Both Phones. Day or Night. ...YOU CAN MAKE MONEY.. WE HAVE A PLAN WHEREBY Can Make Money. It is generally supposed that YOUR UNCLE SAMUEL is the ONLY PERSON in this country that has the right to MAKE MONEY, and possibly he has, but we 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, 628 N.Eutaw St. Saturday morning get a bundle of The Afro-American Ledgers and go out and sell them, and any SMART BOY OR GIRL can do that. We do not want you unless you can HUSTLE. Dull boys and girls need not come around. Many of our HUSTLERS ARE MAKING GOOD MONEY, and if you do not believe it just ask them. We have a lot of good live hustling fellows working for us, no, for themselves, and you can do the same. Girls can do as well as boys. Don't Cost You A Cent To Try It. 142 W. Hill Street np 826 Druid Hill. Av A Director and Embalmer in still doing business the public for all past marriage for hire for n given to all orders main Office. er. phone: 585 Y-Madison. IOTT dertaker shipping Funerals for all occasions. Night. MONEY.. ore LE SAMUEL is hat has the right has, but we as any number of ae ee TE APRO-AMERICANLEDORR a ive Aor eee ee. Er a x i ea ee eae ‘PROVIDENT HOSPITAL Daddv'sB dij ae FELIX °B PYE Sr “AND ITS WoRK,|aedy sbectime Paes . | ees y ee “ee Ee | 102 E. Mulberry St. Near: Calvei stuti : The Crane and eS : ne Ee eee ‘An Institution That Has Done Much More Good Than Is Story— cette Chicken | FUNER AL DIREGTOR oe ie w the | ; NES—C. & P. on eed, Generally Known—A Wide Field For Future ‘A ig Bical witha wae nesses Tait emnideand wit ay oth Bina. Ai : Usefulness If Properly. Patronized 3 _—— | 4 reward will be offered to anyone who detects any person doing business umdea . : pe BS ka HIIS tiappened fa one of the western states where the cranes’ live,” the name of Felix B. Pye ‘Br. 5 a By The Race in This City. began daddy one evening'after Jack and Bvelyn had teased lm for Sear ence eee l a atoty: : nt eg ge ee Be Bc ae ee i ee: ie what the colored physicians of this city are doing for suffering: buman- ity at the Provident Hospital, 413- 415 W. Biddle street. The hospital is the outgrowth of an effort made by’ Br. J. Mareus Cargill some years ago to interest his fellow practitioners to provide a place where they could give their “patients the same attention that other-races have in the various lo- cal hospitals, as well'as to. provide away for young men in the. pro- fession to get that experience in the treatment of various ills of the body, that many hospitals offer to the ambitious white doctor. Whith this idea in mind, Dr. Car- gill brought the matter {to the at tention of other physicians, with the result that the hospital was opened ina small building on Or- chard strect, October 13, 1894. Drs. W. T. Carr, R. M. Hall, J. Marcus Cargill, William E. Harris, Charles H, Fowler, W. H. Thompson, Levia D. Dyer, James 0. Creditt. and Mil- ton D, Brown, the latter three. of whom are now dead, formed. the first board of directors. The value of the hospital was readily seen by many, and with the help of people who gave liberal- ly of their'small means, the hospi- {al was. eventually moved to: its present quarters. Besides provid- ing every rieans for the care of the sick, quite a number of ladies have received instruction © therein in trained nursing, and next month four young ladies will be graduated from this department. ‘The trained nurses are in charge of Miss Annabel Wilson, a. gradu- ate of Freedmen’s Hospital, Wash- ington, Besides looking after the patients ia the hospital, the nurses also do work ia the community by visiting sick people in their homes. * Meces For Doctors The hospital is the gathering place daily for the. physicians of this city, who either come to con: duct clinics, see after patients that under their charge or to exekange ideas on subjects of interest to the medical world. This meeting of the doctors would he practically im- possible if the hospital did not exist for the other institutious politely draw the line against the colored physician. Dr. Richard H, Johnson, whe who has been resident at the hos pital fore. aumber of years is 2 graduate of the Howard University Medical School, and is thorough} familiar with hospital work. The men who manage to spare time each day from their large general prac tice are graduates from nearly allo medical schools in the country Such nivdical schools as Harvard Yale, the University of Michigan Rush Medical College, Jeflersor Medicai School; the University. be ansylvania of Pennsylvania anc Howard University being amon; those whose alumni are largely rep resented. . The hospital is now engaged in < quiet campaign to raise at least $2% 000 with which toerect a modert hospital building. While those be hind the project have not in_minc so elaborate plant as the nev Preedmen’s Hospital, fa. Washing ton, or the Frederick Douglass Hos pital, Philadelphia, yet they waa to provide every modera means fo the adequate care of the ‘afflicted such as the progress in medica Sees e em We Trea a colored physicians to get that ex: perience which the topnotchers among the white have almost’ in variably had. ‘The hospital receives the small appropriation of $1,500'a year trom the State. ‘This is supplemented ‘somewhat by the fees from patients gontribations and what the physi- ees give directly out of their own pockets. In fact, the success of the institution is due to the farsighted- ness and the generosity of the finely trained men that the colored physi cians of this.city are regarded to be Personell of Directorate Dr. Wm. T..Carr, who has beer president of the Board of directors for the past eight ‘years, isa grad. ‘uate of Lincoln University and. the ‘Long Island Nedical College. A man of quiet and dignified bearing heis regarded as one of the best equipped physicians in the city. His celleagues on the board are: Dr. D. Grant Scott, Dr. William E, Harris, Dr. C. H. Fowler, Dr. Ro M. Hall, James'W. Hughes, Rev. John A. Holmes, John W. Rich, C. C. Fitzgerald, John’ H., Murphy, H, Grafton Brown, and. Prot. M. A. Hawkins. ‘Phe following well-known citizeas act as an advisory board; Drs, I. J. Wheatley, Harry. F. Brown, J. C, Robinson and J. EB. Fisher, J. J’. Fessenton, James Ss. ®homas, James W. Nichols, C. W. Davage, J. Henry Hammond, Car- rington L, Davis, Harry T. Pratt, E, Bernard Taylor, Jujius C. John- son, Rev. L. Z. Johnson, Thomas FH, Smith, Clark L, Smith, Hugh M. Burkett, James A. Callis, John Quinn. C. H. Snowden, W. Ashbie Hawkins, H. Milton Grosss, Wm. Anderson, W. W. Scott, George B. Murphy, L. Yates, George H Carter, Joseph EH. Lockerman, Alexander, Jeremiah Staiford, Wm. ©. MeCard, Harry $, Cummings, |. Wesley. Parker, and A..T, Waller. The Polar Regions. It is estimated that there are 300,000 inhabitants. of the polar regions, one person to each ten miles. * EASTER HYMN. CBRISE the Lora has risen today, ‘Sons'of men and angels say. Sing your jos and (rlumphs hight Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply! LLONE'S redeeming work 1s dono, Fought the fight, the victory won. Jesus’ agony’ fs over. Darkness vells the earth no more. TVABN the stone, the watch, the seal; Christ hath burst:the gates of hell. Death jn vain forbids, him rise. Christ hath opencd paradise: OAR. we now where Christ hath ed, ‘ Following our exalted Head. ‘Mado like him, Ike him wo rise; ‘Ours tho cross, the grave, the skies. Charles Wesley. THE RISING TIDE. JE hope of truth grows stronger day by day. 2 hear tho soul of man ‘around mo waking: Like a great sea,i its. frozen fet- ters breaking: And flinging up to heaven {ts sunllt spray, ‘Tossing, hugo continents in scornful play And crushing them with din of grinding thunder: ‘That makes old emptinesses stare In won- ‘der. ‘The memory of a glory passed away Lingers in every heart, as, In the shell, Resounds tho bygone freedom of the sea, ‘and every hour new signs. of promise tell ‘hat the great soul shall once-again be treo, For high and yet more high the murmurs well Of inward strife for truth and liberty. James Russell Lowell. SUPPOSE. SQUPPOSL, my dear, that you were * ‘And. by your side your sweetheart sate; ‘Suppose you noticed by and'by ‘The distance "twixt: you Were'too great: Now tell me, dear, what would you do? Tknow, and so do you. ZAND when, s0 comfortably placed, ‘Suppose: you only-grew aware ‘That that-dear, dainty Uttle waist Of hers looked very lonely there, Pray tell me, sooth, what would you do? Tiknow, and’so do you. WEEN: having done what 1 dust ata, ‘With’ not a frown-to check-or chill, ‘Suppose her red lips'seem to bid ‘Defiance to’ your lordly will. ‘Oh, tell me, sweet, what would you do? Tknow, and so do. you.. "Eugene Field. Daddy’s Bedtime Story—™ gens fi HIS happened in one of the western states where the cranes live,” I began daddy one evening’after Jack and Evelyn had teased bim for a story. “But, daddy, what {s a crane?” asked Jack, who hiad not looked over his books of natural history recently. “Why, Jack, I'm asbamed of you!” said daddy, “A erane ts a big bird with Jong, thin. legs and long, thin neck. ‘The crane in this story was a tame pira which Gelonged to a man who was very fond of it. He fed the crane well, especially on meat, of which the bird was very fond, He called the crane Stilts om account of bis very long, thin legs. Stilts, you know, are the strips ‘of wood on which boys aro'fond of walking. : “If was a funny sight to see the Owner of-Stilts feed the bird. When a plece of meat-was thrown to the bird he would put up bis head, with bis beak in the alr, and begin to swallow the meat. ‘Then you could watch the meat going down, for a crane’s neck 1s very long and thin, One day a friend of the owner of Stilts came to visit him and amused himself by feeding Stilts. “stilts owner bad otber pets: One of them was a tame chicken: which would. come into the house if it was called and would eat corn and other things out of one's hands. When the friend of Stilts’ owner heard about this chicken after he had amused himself with tho crane he wanted to see the chicken, So bis friend called to the little bird, but there was no answer, and the ebieken did not appear. ‘I wonder what can be the trouble? said the owner of the pets. “That chicken always answered me before this time.” “go they went out Jato the yard to look for the chicken, but she was not to be found anywhere. In one corner of the yard stood Stilts, with one foot ‘on a small wooden bucket or pall. He looked very knowing, as though he wanted to say, ‘I could tell you where that silly lttle chicken fs, but I don’t think much of your taste in feeding her when you might be feeding me, 60 ‘don’t think 1"! tell” “Well, they searched all-over for the chicken. Stilts did not move until they came quite near him, and then be hopped away from the pail. As he id s0 he knocked over the pail and out stepped the missing chicken. “Now, how in the world did Stilts get that chicken under the pail and keep It there? asked Stilts’ owner. But no one knew. They guessed, how- ever, that the cblicken bad hopped upon the edge of the pail looking for corn, bad turned the pail over, and then Stilts had put his foot on it” | ATTORNEY LEWIS’ PbS FINE APARTMENTS Has Been Assigned To In- dian Depregation Claims. Bureat of ‘The Afro-American Leadger. 1004 S Street N..W., Washington, D.C. April 6—A visit to Hon, William H. Lewis, the new Assistant Attorney General of the United States, the other day disclosed the fact that he is cosily installed in an. elegans suite ef rcoms in the Bond Building, an imposing structure, located in the heart of the business section of the Capital, just one square each of the Treasury. Mr. Lewis occupies the suite in the angle of the building on the seventh floor, shove the noise of the street—an admira- ble place in the summer — overlooking three beautiful avenues, commanding: a vista not excelled anywhere. apart from the district known as “Che Mall. Mr. “Lewis has taken. hold quietly and is ‘familiarizing himself with the. intricacies ‘of the Jaw covering Indian -depredatian claims, the branch of the, work ofthe “Department of Justice, to which he has ‘heen assigned. ‘These claims, in . one way and another, have. necupied the at- “tention of the governinent for a century ‘or more, but not until twenty years: ago [have they been frandled by a special di- ‘vision of the Department, and charged ‘to a single assistant. There are now | aboot. 1,300. claims pending, involving in | thie neightiorhoad of $5,500,000. ° It is’ ex: pected tha: in course. of time the: peonaye verses thar come before the Nepartment twill be. assigned to Mr. Lewis, who is | exceptionally able as an advocate and would be especially effective in handling this class of litigation. ! Mr. Lewis has four assistants in bis bureau, and others in the field, and in “the office is a: goodly corps of law clerks, ‘“stenographers, messengers, ‘etc. Some | changes will be made in the arrangement | of the roms, inv the interest of canven- Lience. For the Gist ‘time since the 2 ‘ tablishment of the division,’ the ante-room lhears:-a- neatly-letcered sign, letting the j world know that” Room 710 leads the iway to “The Deparzment o Justice,” and hat “Indian Depredation . Claims”. are fadjusted’ therein. CITY-BY-THE-SEA. (Special to ‘The Afro-American Ledger.) Atlantic City, April’ 6—The Metro- politan Band will furnish the music for the ‘Third Regiment at the field day, ‘May: 39. Rev. J. Si Jackson, pastor of Price Memorial Church, has been called away fon acesuunt of the illness of his father. ‘The Gecan Spray Commandery of Knights Templar installed the following officers at their meeting: Eminent Com- manier, T. Titus Brown; generalissimo, B. F. Parker; captain. general, E. Hill Brown; treasurer, Samuel Cassidy. mas ter, George Emory. ‘Mrs. Mollie Lipscomb, 2. well-known resident of this city, died here Tuesday. ‘Madame Sisseretta Jones and the mem- Bers of the Bllack Patti Company were ‘entertained by the members of Lighthouse Lodge of Elks Wednesday evening. Rey. A. E, Martin: has. gone to Phila- delphia tw attend -the annual: seision of the Delaware Conference. Easter visitors are invited to: visit’ he local effice of the -Afro-American Ledg- er, 1908 Arctic avenue: . The Kratons, champion hoop rollers are-at the Savoy Theatre this week. ee Pewless Churches. There were no pews in the. churches of Scotland before the reign’ of Chatles L,, and people who wished to be seated while attending services took stools with them, For the evening service the *parishionérs® provided themselves with thelr.own ‘candles.: FELIX B. PYG, Sr, 402 E. Mulberry St. Near Calver UNE! & P. Mt. Veruon 3603, Md.°Courtland 1828,” i Wo branch offices. Not conaected with any. other firm. No Agents; 4 reward will be offered to anyone who detects any person doing bustices undas the name of Felix B. Pye, ‘Sr. s 5 Che Baltimore Life Insurance Co., © : F. $; STROBRIDGE, President, am Remo Offtes: 5.8: Con Liberty and Clay Sis Battimore, a = ua The leading Life Insurance Company fn Maryland. Issues the best contracts. ‘ Life Insurance ‘Policies issued on-ages from 2 te T° -ramiums collected weekly from the homes of the Insured CLOTHING. CLOTHING M. C. 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NOR ee H@ Churches and others having news notices will please have the sume in the ofice by T hussday to insure publica- tion in the week's issue. BEF Corvespondents will please have Slreommunication, in the office by noon on Wednesdays. oF All communications intended for publication should be addressed to THE aeunscan Lupeer, 628 North Hutuw Street, Baltimore, Md. GE Advertising rates made known upon application. BEY Checks, Money Orders and rafts should be made payable to Tus ‘Arno-AMERICAN Co. eae reinurennearerenteemnemnnarenen er BALTIMORE, APRIL 15, 1911 | The police investigation, like Tenuyson’s Brook, seems to be pooked to go on forever. What with Negro Seggregation, police investigation, cobble stones, City Hall defalcations, etc., Mr. Richardson the city boomer, will ‘have hard work to make an impres- ‘sion on outsiders. It will be an exceedingly great pleasure for us when we shall be able to read: the farewell address of Mayor Mahool. His present per- formances do not agree with his tallc before the National Negro Bus- iness League a year or so ago. He talks one way and acts another. — When Mr. Mahool says he will take a matter under consideration, he does not mean serious considera- tion. He just means to use the word without regard to its meaning atall. When he told a committee he would consider its protest and thea inside of a couple of hours sigued the ordinance they protested against, and in the meantime at- tended to the routine business of the office, he did not mean to be taken seriously. He was just jok- ing, that’s all. Those colored gentlemen who as. ‘sisted the Democratic Congress. amen to seats in the big building in Washington are unw claiming thei reward. Itis ali well that they can be Democrats or anything else thes wish in the cities aud towns where they live. Itisa hard thing for one to he a Democrat in this neck- o-the-woods and retain his self re- spect. But the brand of Democra- cy around these parts is somewha! different from that in Illinois, Indi, ana, Ohio aud other Western cities Four gentlemen, all of them tax payers and well known in this com. munity, called on Mayor Mahool Friday morning of last weck to pro- test against the obnoxious segrega- ‘tion ordinance which was before him for his signature. These gentlemec in. the aggregate represented more than $40,000 in property values besides representing corporation: aud individuals worth that muct more In requesting the Mayor to refus his signature, these gentlemen ex plained the hardship that would.re “sult. from the passage of the act. “Hach of them in a short but forceful “talk explained the conditions to His “Honor, who promised to take the “matter into careful consideration. Pi otuithetandiog the fact that oth Nec duties were pressing him aud sev. feral persons were waiting for an opportunity to talk with him, in less ‘than-two hours after he had signed the ordinance and as far ashe was concerned it became a law. Now these gentlemen are asking them- selves the question, how much time did he take for consideration? tegen BUUND TO HAVE THEM SOME- HOW. + The Negro is. bound to get there somehow or some way. ‘That he likes high sounding titles goes with- out saying, and in that, perhaps, like his more fortunate white breth- ren, he must have them, if not by one means, then by another. And so we have generals, major gener- als, colonels, majors, captains and others all the way through the whole gamut from bottom to top. | Of course the opportunity of sit- ting ina real court, such as are found in every city aud couuty- ‘town, or on. the courts of appeals, etc, state or national, are entirely out of the question, so that in order B have tiese dignities conferred upon him or to carry the titles must he secured by other meaus, wheth- er they mean anything or not. And so weare now to have a chief judge, associate judges, attorney-generals, assistant attorney-generals, and all the necessary parapherralia which is calied for in a regular court of law. ‘This does not mean we are going to have a regular court or to ‘be elected to any of these positions ‘or appointed by His Excellency ‘President ‘faft to any Federal posi- tion of this kind, but instead the Tate BM. C. has made a provislon for a thing of this kind and now we have them in name if not in reality, and they are not altogether empty honors, either, for we under- stand that they carry with them ‘quite a respectable salary. Now it only remains for us to organize a body of some kind and have a real legislature and a real congress and wwe will then have the opportunity to attach to our names all. the pre- fixes and affixes that go with hon- ors of this kind. We are coming. SHOULD OUR PREACHERS BE -SHOT? It would certainly be cruel to sum- marily dispose of our preachers with such a deadly weapon. Our preach- ers,as long asthe laity furnishes the material. for their making, will not all be perfect or good. Kut, upon the whole, we have a.creditable set of Negro ministers in the city of Baltimore, aud the many gratifying evidences of steady advance among the colored people of this city, wit- ness how nobly and self-sacrificing- ly they have wrought during past years in leading in the production of such favorable conditions, ‘There is one specially serious disadvantage which militates against the good work of racial amelioration aud bet- terment. It is most unfortunate that this obstacle arises from the ranks of those who should be most conspicuous in helping in the oppo- site direction. In nearly ever city in the land can be found afew colored men and ‘women who either have been so ele- gantly educated, or have received the wrong kind of illumination, and, who, on account thereof are incapacitated from deriving any beuefit from, or serving in Negro churches. This class of individuals draw attention to themselves by de- erying Negro preachers, and hold- ing themselves aloof from colored Sunday Schools, and the various moral agencies for the betterment of the race. In the city of Balti- more, in view of the, results ob- tained through the pioneer leader- ship of the preachers, in bringing it to pass that we have an army of colored teachers, against a total ex- clusion from the service a few years ago; aud, some of them. drawing as high as $2400, and $1800 a year, it would seem, of all persos who ought to be eager to go into the chtrches, and help on the work of moral betterment, by their examples and otherwise, colored teachers should be foremost. While some of them were doing. scullion work, trying to earn sufficient money to get through college, the preachers were hard at work making the ar- gament before our white friends, that the elimination of white teach- ers from our colored schools, and substitution of colored ones, would give usa great moral lever for the uplift of our people. And this rea- son more than any other operated mightily in bring about the desired change. Now when any man or woman, of the colored race, be- comes so splendidly educated, as to use his talent for destruction rather than for construction, of all crea- tures, he or she is to be pittied. We regret to say that we have some of them in Baltimore. We are indeed glad they are very few, and it isto be hoped that enlightened public opinion, will, in time, weed them out altogether. Blt is to be expected, with the large masses of people connected with our churches, that the: transi- tion to the most acceptable methods of work, would be slow and tedious; “THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER ‘but, a slow and tedious as has been the advance, we have every reason for encouragement. Our people should not be atall disturbed by the fault finding and the funeral dirge as sting by stich men and wo- men of the race who have vet to ac- quire the true spirit of service. There never was such splendid ‘opportunities for genuine philan- thropic service as those presented ‘the truly educated and godly among ‘us. In Baltimore we have a kind aa generously disposed set of min- ister who do not think too highly ‘of themselves, and who are dis- ‘posed to giadly welcome the young ‘men and svomen of the race as help- jers in the great work of moral bet- ‘terment. But the man who has not ‘the right spiritwill be of littleservice [wherever he may be, If things are jall wrong within the churches and Sunday schools, and need righting, the difficult task can more readily be ‘accomplished by loving hearts and Hands ‘who are willing to go with- in, and in the spirit of the aster, ‘while forgetting themselves, place ‘their faculties and gifts at the dis- [posal of those who are the rightly appointed leaders of the people, Maybe, such leaders are ‘not up to date,” aud defective. Even as- suming this to be true, common sense would suggest that by a cul- sation of the good will of these defective leaders, those who are ‘sure of the sanity of their own ideas wa in the end, be crowned with victory in leading and guiding them inte the more perfect way. At any rate, Jet our people pay but little attention, if any, to those highly educated people of the race who throw bricks in the dark, and who are too proud, or vain, or worldly, to actively connect them- selves with the moral aud religions work of colored churches and col- lored aocleties; A GOUD WOMAN GONE. ‘The death of Miss Maude Moore, for the past ten or twelve years su- periutendent of the Home for Col- ored Girls, at Melvale, is notonly a positive loss to that institution, but a loss to the community in general. Miss Moore was one of those rare characters one meets only at rare intervals and is only found here and there and never in large numbers. ‘A splendid woman, and one who had her work at heart and gave of her very best efforts to improve the condition of those who came uuder her care, : It was the privilege of the writer to meet her only once or twice, but those two occasions served to show the splendid qualities of the wo- man, and the great interest she took in her work. The girls in the Home will miss her as no one else will, for not only was she a super- intendent of the Home, but it can be said that she was a mother to every girl in the institution. Miss Moore was color blind, and if the girls under her care had been all white instead of colored and coming ag many of them do from the poor- est and most uninviting conditions, they could not have had better care. Her place will be hard to fill. THE FORUM. He Wants Light on a Dark Sub ‘ject. ’ | What manner of man is this? I am asking our good, loving, wise ‘and far-seeiug Bishop L. J. Coppin and the Presiding Blders of the Baltimore Conference this import- ant question, and my reason for so doing is: We heard from the mouth ‘of one of the ministers of the Con- ference Monday morning, inthe A. M. E. Ministerial meeting at New Bethel: ‘My people will call a meeting next week to consider what kind of a man they want sent to them next year, as my time is up.” Now if the good Bishop can. not see his way clear to comply with the wishes of this church or a part of the membership according to the kind of man the preseut pas- tor has, selected then there will be trouble avd dissatisfaction, ‘This kind of action has caused splits in churches. Now I claim that the Bishop has the right’ to fill the pulpits in his Episcopal district, and any minister advising a congregation as to any particular mau to serve’ them has overreached his bounds and should be considered as a blind leader aud an intruder upon the rights of the Conference. Let me say to the churches in the Baltimore Confer- ence Who expect a change. You do your duty as a faithful servant of God in your day and generation, and we who know Bishop Coppin, who, like Obadiah, that feared the Lord from youth, will look after your interest and as best he can supply your needs~ - How can any man decide who is best to take his place?’ No’ man succeeds all. the time. In the ministry it is downs and ups, I know this because 1 PRETTY HEAVY BURDEN TO CARRY _S\w . Re hy ey MiSXa Mog SN A see NEY ex \ an f Ha am. “Cos . Ye’ x SN earners %. \ Dose S| gS 2 9 Ae. re SS inks SS. | NF we Btime, ue - LG Ona gay AO *&" Boomer Richardson.—Say old fellow I think I could help you much’ faster if you would get rid of thatawful load you are earry- ing. . Lord Baltimore.—It is a pretty heavy load I admit, but how amI going to rid of it with such a Mayor and City Council? have followed some of them andy 4 ine atlowedoms of Pe a8|EDWOPTH IFARUIE NOTE Spirit of the Great Head of his oe ‘Church direct all of our movements sist and “Lo! Iam with you tothe end} By Miss Mf: Edyth Cooper, Editor. ia time’ Jags A. Briscor. Mrs. E, J. Truxon Asso. Ed. Address all contributions to {Editor aa | 1216 Druid Hill ave. orto this office JAILED FOR KIDNAPING) = ‘ins ‘The John F, Goucher Chapter of Jrene Smith Said to Have Stolen | Ames Memorial is so well attended that its services are held in the Little Evelyn Beale. pee aR Ce CE ek ade ee | Irene Smith, who lives beyond Reisterstown, is languishing in the City Jail, charged with the alleged attenpted kidnapping of little Eve. lyn Beale, the four-year old daugh- ter of Mrs. Minnie Beale, 346 W, Biddle street. ‘The little girl, who is a remark. ably attractive tot, was sitting ou the front stoop of her home Thurs- day of last week, when a womau came along and enticed her to a store to buy candy. ‘The woman took the child aud was seen at the corer of Liden av- enue and Doiphin street by one of Mrs. Beale’s friends, who, after greeting the little girl, passed on without suspecting anything wrong. Wefore night the police were noti- fied that the child was missing and a hunt of the entire city was made for the little girl. On Monday af. ternoon the little brother of the girl was startled to find his sister at the ‘corner of Eutaw and Biddle streets, a half block from the Beale home. When taken home the little gitl said that she had been up in the country and that she had been treated meanly. As soon as the news became kuown that the little one had been returned home, about fifty people went in a body around Linden ave- nue to make a search for the al- leged kidnapper, as she had brought the girl in from the country, and left her at the corner of Biddle street and Liuden avenue. The Woman managed to elude the mob, however, and thereby saved herself from violent hands. An anonymous letter was receiv- ed from Owings Mills stating that a woman in that city had been seeu with a strange child, and Detectives Atkinson and Armstrong, accom. panied by the little girl and her parents, went on 2 hunt for the wo: man and succeeded in locating her. The child ideutified her as the one who took her away, without the slightest hesitation. The womau was taken to the Northwestern Police Station, where she was given a preliminary bearing Tuesday before Justice Johansen. When asked to why she took the child she said that she loved child- ren. She was committed to jail for the action of the Criminal Court, STILL IN HIDING According to reports received in the city this week, no tidings have been learned of the whereabouts of R. T. Hill, who disappeared from his home in Richmond, Va., several weeks ago. Circulars, with a pic- ture of the missing man thereon, have been sent broadcast over the country, Five warrants have been issued in Richmond charging Hill with the alleged embezzlement of over $25,000 of the funds of the. True Reformers. The missing man was fora number of years cashier of the now defunct True Reformers’ Bank, Hill was treasurer for the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention, and had $1,600 of its funds in his possession. ‘The strain incident to the failure of the order is thought to have un. balanced Hill's mind somewhat. He lived in one of the prettiest homes occupied by any of. the col- ored residents of Virginia’s-capital. By Miss M. Edyth Cooper, Editor. Mrs. E. J. Truxon Asso. Ed. Address all contributions to {Editor 1216 Druid Hill ave. orto this oflice ‘The John F, Goucher-Chapter of Ames Memorial is so well attended that its services are held in the main auditorium of the church. On Sunday Jast Dr, It, E. fones, Editor of the South Westera Christian Advocate, delivered an address to this: League; ‘he local program committee lor the Methodist ‘Convention to be held here in July met on’ Tuesday night at the home of Rey, Joseph Wheeler, District Superintendent of Annapolis District. ‘Those present were: Mrs, Ella Davis White, Pro- fessor C. A, Johnson. Messrs. Thom- ‘as II. Smith and Julius C Johnson. This committee selected Dr. Ernest Lyon, Hon. Harry 8. Cummings, and Mr. Julias C. Johnson to wait upon Governor Crothers, and the Mayor of Baltimore requesting them to deliver addresses of welcome at the opening of the Convention. | aes Dr. W. W. Lucas of Meridian de- livered a splendid address to the students of Morgan College on Mon- day. ‘The W.C. ‘Lhompson Chapter of Whatcoat Church has a vested | Choir, which is doing excellent work The members of this choir are: Misses Inez Whittington, Daisy : Hosey, Florence Henry,Eliza Brown Emma Tongue, and Mabel Pierce; JMessrs. James Howard, William Brown, Daniel Oram, Joha Blake, land James, Hawkins, ‘The Chesapsake Steamship Com- | pany. "This company has just put on its line between this city and Norfolk, ‘two new and handsome steamers, of which it can be said none finer are afloat on the bosom of the Ches- apeake Bay. ‘These two new steam- ships are ‘‘The City of Baltimore” and ‘The City of Norfolk,’' respec- ively, aud are Gtted up with every modern convenience, including tei- ephones and wireless telegraph sys- tems, Notwithstanding the great improvement in all departments of service there is no additional charge for transportation, the rates remain- ing the same. Tt is a pleasure for us to com- mend this line to the traveling pub- lic, for from the very start of the company to the present uniform courtesy las been extended to all its patrons, white and black alike, ‘The officers are always on the look- out for the comfort of the patrons of the line and no one-is neglected. If you have in mind.a trip to Norfolk, the Chesapeake Steamship line is at your disposal. . ‘Endorsed the Republican Ticket. At aregular meeting of the Good Government Republican Club of the 17th ward, Wm. T, Greenwood president, the board of governors endorsed’ the entire Republican ticket. Hon. E. Clay Timanus for May- or, Pres. of Second Branch Addi- son. E, Mullikin, for Comptroller Geo. R. Heffner, for 2nd Branch Charles H. Heintzeman, Richard N. Skeckles, for 1st Branch Hon. Harry S$. Cummings. Resolved, That each member use every effort to elect the entire tick- et on May 2, 1911. D. T. Harrop, Chairman Board Directors. j. W. Waresss, Jr., Secy. _. SHER. EASTER BONNET. “a H, it was a wondrous bonnet, “With a wreath of roses on it, And a buckle set with jewels, and a yard or so of strings. Brald’ of gold and silver bound it, And’a frit of Jaco was round tt, And a bow of ribbon crowned it, and pair of Mercury wings. Chiffon ruches, soft and flutty, ~ Filed the satin lining putty, And a garland served the bandeau most hecomingly and trim, It was full of starry spangles ‘And coquetlish curves and angles, But the sweetest thing about 1¢ was the face beneath the brim. —Minna. Irving. EASTER OMENS. have seen a sign. Divino In the mola— Little-blooms of Easter gold! have gimpsed a sign + Divine, ust a'clow— ‘Yastnesses of Easter blue! Z havo heard a sign Divine Ta the breeze Fluting Easter harmontest havo harked a sign Divine— Brooks and vird Chorusing the Easter word! have known a sign Divine In tho heart— aster and life's holler partt Clinton Seollard. MESSAGE OF The ee NE grand, sweet anthem o'er the earth 1s ripging— “Beyond the grave the soul shall tive for aye:" Immortal hosts with earth's glad, voles “singing, “ipuero are no dead,’ so Easter lilies say,” YPHED sour hearts and ary the sad tears falling. Your tombs are empty on thls Waster day. And list! A voice ofer shining way {s'call- ing, “here aro no dead, so Easter Illes aoe TPHE vwo worlds touch, though veil of ‘sense tncolding Hides from our sight the loved ones passed away— Not “ost” and "gone," but life immortal holding. “There are no dead,” the Easter lilies say. AND some time, somewhere,, shall our souls in meeting Provo true tho promise of this aster ay, Our happy hearts the olden song repeat Ing “ephero aro no dead,” the Easter lies a _ Califo Bonney Marble. ‘THE SUNRISE OF THE POOR. DARKENED hut outlined against ‘against the sky, A forward looking slope, some cedar trees, Gaunt grasses. stirred by the awaking breeze, And nearer, where the grayer shadows lle, ‘Within a small paled squaro one may desery ‘The beds wherein the poor first taste of ease, ‘Whore dewy rose vines drop thelr spley jees Above the dreamless ashes silently. ‘A lonely woman Jeans there, bent and gray, Outtined “in part against the shadowed , In part against the sky, in which tho day Begins to blaze. O earth, so sweet, 50 still ‘The woman sighs and draws a long, deep breath. It 4s the call to Labor; not to death. Robert Burns Wilson. ASPIRATION, Lenvy not the sun His lavish Hight. But, oh, to be the one Pale orb of night, In silenco and alone, Communing with mine ownt + Tenvy not the rain ‘That fresuens all ‘The parching hill and plain. But, oh, the small Night dewdrop now to be, ‘My noonday flower, for thee! —John B. Tabb. MISTS. ER the hills the winter sun ‘Leaves a trail of mist, Faintly orange where day's done, ‘Lying sunset kissed. NOW below the valley's hues ‘Melt and change away From a dream of vaporish blues ‘To a tender gray. DEEP. intenser burns the west, Flame the quiet skies. For an instant earth's wide breast Many colored Hes. LASTLY, alt tho cloud fires do, Spreads the yapor's power. ‘Westward fades the vacant sky, ‘Comes earth's mystic hour. —Pall Mall Gazette “BEAUTY'S A FLOWER” 'OUTH'S for an hour, Y Beauty's a flower, But lovo fs tho jewel that wins the world. ‘Youth's for an hour, an’ the taste of lite fs sweet, * ‘Alles was 0. gitl that stepped on two'bare feet. ‘ Ia all my days I never seen the one.as fair ag she. Ya have lost my We for Alles, an’ she never cared for me. Beauty's a flower, an’ tho days of lite are long. ‘There's ttle knowin” who may lve to slag another song. For Alles was the fairest, but another 18 my wife, An’ Mary—Cod be good’ to her—ia all ‘I Jove tn life. Youth's for an hour, - Beauty's a Sower, ‘But love {9 the Jewel that wins the world. HELPING WHERE HELP IS NEEDED munities. (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Kowaliga, Ala., April 12.—The cornerstones of four new buildings for the Kowaliga Normal and Industrial School will be formally laid here this coming Sunday afternoon. The buildings are already in course of erection, and are to replace those destroyed by fire two years ago. Kowaliga School has been of inestimable service to the thousand or more colored people who reside in the immediate vicinity. It has aimed to be of service to every man, woman and child in the community. The school offers a grammar course and the industrial branches, especial stress being laid upon meto-date methods in farming. As an example of the principles of self-help, which the school is trying to inculcate, the lumber used in the buildings being erected was felled and saved by colored men of the community, the shingles and plastering done by the same men, the only recourse for outside aid being for nails and tools. and being. The school was founded by William E. Benson, who was graduated from Howard University, Washington, in 1895. Benson was a native of this community and returned from school imbued with the idea to be of service to the people of his old home. He knew that the people of the neighborhood were poor farmers with antiquated methods and that they lacked the advantages of an early education. He called the farmers together in the little schoolhouse where he had learned his first lessons and sold them of his plans. The farmers all readily agreed and furnished the timber and other things needed for the construction of buildings. The father of Young Benson, a farmer, gave ten acres of his land upon which to erect the buildings. Thus was the beginning of the little school, the aim of which is not to educate men for leadership, but to be economic forces in the community. HOME FOR AGED AND INFIRM Washington, April 12.—Senator Lodge of Massachusetts has introduced a bill for the establishment of a national memorial home for aged and infirm colored people and working girls, and of an industrial farm for boys. The measure provides that the "two hundred d thousand dollars due the estates of deceased colored soldiers of the Civil War which was in the hands of the commissioners and Freedmen's Bureau, and has been repaid into the Treasury of the United States," shall be appropriated for the establishment of the "home" and the industrial farm. The home is to be in the District; and the farm will be located in Virginia. Rev. James L. White is vigorously pushing the bill. BISHOP WALTERS LECTURE (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) York, Pa., April 13.—Bishop Alexander Walters, D.D., delivered an interesting lecture in Eat King Street A. M. E. Zion Church Friday evening last. He spoke chiefly upon his recent visit to Africa, and the duty the Afro-American owes to his African brother. The Bishop egan his lecture by calling attention to the farewell reception tendered him in Mother Zion Church, New York City. He also spoke briefly upon the historical visit he made while in England. The church and citizens of York were benefited by their distinguished visitor. Mrs. Cora Fliprorgs and son, from Atlantic City, and Miss Cobbs, from Indiana, were the guests of their sister, Mrs. Anna Woods, 124 West Baptist avenue TO A FRIEND. WHEN we were idlers with the loitering rills The need of human love we little noted. Our love was nature, and the peace that floated On the white mist and dwelt upon the hills To sweet accord subdued our wayward wills. One soul was ours, one mind, one heart devoted. That, wisely doting, asked why not it dotted. And ours the unknown joy, which knowing kills. But now I find how dear thou wert to me. That man is more than half of nature's treasure. Of that fair beauty which no eye can see. Of that sweet music which no ear can measure. And now the streams may sing for others' pleasure. The hills sleep on in their eternity. —Hartley Coloridge. ANTICIPATION. Half the night I waste in slighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies. In a wakeful doze I sorrow For the hand, the lips, the eyes. For the meeting of the morrow, The delight of happy laughter, The delight of low replies. —Tennyson. Never Hits It. Gadsby—That fellow Noscads is a regular fortune hunter. Raynor—Well, he's a mighty poor shot.—Judge. ORCHESTRA 60 VOICES. SUITABLE COSTUMES Mrs N. Wright, Chairman. Mr. C. C. Nelson, Superintendent Rev. W. A. C. Hughes, Pastor. RENNERT WAITERS ON TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 18th, 1911, AT GALILEAN FISHERMEN HALL H. J. Anderson's Orchestra. Admission 25 Cents. Prof. Dabney's School in Dancing open at Moses Hall, 608 N. Eutaw street every Tuesday and Saturday night, 8.30 to 11.30. Thursday afternoons 4.30 to 7.30 15 c. Tuesdays and Saturdays, 25c. first lesson; each succeeding lesson 15c BURLEY—In loving remembrance of my kear mother, Alverta A. Burley, who departed this life one year ago, April 10, 1910 That never can be missed. By her loving daughter Miss Addie Howard, son-in-law and children. WILMER—In the remembrance of our dear leader. Prof. Emanuel Wilmer, who departed this life one year ago today, Easter Sunday, 1910. We, the Choir, mourn our loss. We, the Choir, mourn our loss. Enon Baptist Church Choir. O JAMES—In sad but loving remembrance of my dear father, Charles Henry James, departed this life two years ago; April 16, 1909. I miss thee father from my home I miss thee from thy place We never will forget you I know you and Jesus will meet us When we are called away Sleep on in Jesus with the peaceful dead. By his loving daughter, Margaret James Wright BALLARD—In loving remembrance of our dear niece, Lydia Ballard, who died April 13, 1910, one year ago Eternally at rest. By her aunt, Dellah Webb Cousin, Julia Conway Memorial to Eugene Ellis, who died Sunday, April 17th, 1910 at 6:30 P.M. But we must remember our Creator Who doeth all things that are well But at the table, how we miss him That place we can never fill. But I know he is where the angels dwell In that sweet heaven of rest But to-day my tears still fall with sadness For my loved one who passed away But I know we love him But God loved him best and took him home to rest. By mother, father and brother NICHOLSON Mrs. Isabella L. Nicholson, the beloved wife of Jacob C. Nicholson, departed this life on the 12th inst. at 3 a.m. at the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Wilson, of 1355 N. Carey street. The funeral took place from her late home, this Saturday morning, April 15th at 10 a.m. Interment was in Laurel Cemetery. A Card of Thanks The family of Miss Miss Mary O. Matthews wish to extend to their many friends their deep appreciation of the kindness and sympathy extended during her long illness and since her decease. One of the Thousand. "My wife is one in a thousand." "What now?" "I just left her at the bargain counter."—Boston Transcript. THE DAWN OF HOPE By Sharp Street Memo Sunday, April 1 ORCHESTRA 60 VOICES. Mrs. N. Wright, Chairman. Rev. W. A. C. Douglass VIOLIN —Son of the renowned Under the auspices of the Music GRAND VIOI Friday Evening, April 21 Auditorium of Metro Orchard street near The Violin Artist, Mrs. Fannie D. by Miss Louise Belle Anderson, Admission 15 Cts. Proceeds for benefit More Secure your tickets from Stud Notice! Important! Don't RENNERT ON TUESDAY EVENING GALILEAN FIS H. J. Anderson's Orchestra Easter Monday Prof. Dabney's School of D MATINEL EASTER MONDAY From 2 to GOOD HOPE HALL Celebrated Gold ADMISSION Prof. Dabney's School in Dancing every Tuesday and Saturday night, 8. 7. 30 15 c. Tuesdays and Saturdays, 258 A Trip Around the World by Bethel A, M. E. Sunday School, Cor. Druid Hill avenue and Dolphin Str., also beautiful Japanese Wedding; Easter Monday. April 17th, also 18th and 19th, 9 P. M. Beautiful boots and ladies. Attraction each night. Admission 10 Cents. Thad Copeland, Supt. Daniel G. Hill, Pastor An Extraordinary Dance Given by ..The Friday Assembly.. At the Galilean Fishermen's New Auditorium, W. Biddle St. Friday evening, April 28, 1911 Hear that Assembly Rag By Cargill's Full Orchestra Admission 25 Cents M. E. Toney, Pres. C. N. Piggott Vice President, W. H. Cargill, Sec. McClain Whittington, Treas. F.L.T. Given by F.L.T. Don't fail to see the Grand Military Drill and Dance to be given by Baltimore Patriarchic No. 9. G. U. O. of O. F., at the Monumental Assembly Rooms on Thursday evening April 20th, 1911. T. Henderson Kerr's Orchestra has been engaged to furnish music. The floor will be under the direction of Prof. Edw. Slater. Admission 25 Cents. Remember April 21 GALILEAN AUDITORIUM West Biddle Streer Ernest Purviance will present his best extravaganza A Clarionette Musical Revue The first ever presented in the city for the benefit of the Federation of Christian Women. Welcome to the re-opening of the Saturday Dancing Class... Under the personal direction of At Galilean Fishermen's Auditorium Saturday, April 22nd, 1911 Saturday, April 22nd, 1911 GRAND OPENING Moving Picture Parlor. 1531 E. Monument Street Which has been built especially for motion pictures will open its And continue daily performances from 3 to 11 P. M., consisting of high grade Dramatic and Comic pictures, Illustrated and spotlight songs. Orchestra Music. Admission 5 Cents Children will be admitted to Matinee Easter Monday Afternoon FREE from 3 to 5 P. M. Harriet A. Hilliard, Secretary Jeanette Green, Treasurer There will be a grand dance and supper at Moses' Hall, given by the Western Star Tabernacle of Moses No. 53, on Easter Monday night, April 17th, 1911. Music by the famous Metropolitan orchestra. Cards of admission 25 Cts. Refreshments on sale. E, an Easter Cantata Morial M. E. Sunday School 16th, at 8 P. M. SUITABLE COSTUMES Mr. C. C. Nelson, Superintendent C. Hughes, Pastor. GREAT MINIST Is Coming And Frederick Douglass — Local Department of Morgan College Writing Workers Day. Mrs. Melissa Miner, Presiding. Dr. F. N. Cardoza, will address the 5 o'clock service of the C. Y. W. C. A. Sunday, April the 16th, good Music, all invited Mrs. M. E. Murphy, Pres. Miss E. E. Bright,'See'y. NOTICE. Allen Lodge No. 4, K. of P. U. R. Drill Corps, Court of Calanthe and other bodies will turn out at Penna. Avenue A. M. E. Zion church, Sunday, April 23 at 7.30 P. M. Sir, Walter W. Brown, of Rally, NOTICE Special sermon preached to the Brotherhood and M. E. Parnation Social of St. Paul's M. E. Church by the pastor, Rev. S. H Norwood, Sunday, April 23, 1911, at 7:30 p.m. All members are requested to wear white dresses and a pink carnation. By order of president, Mrs. Lizzie Johnson. Miss Bernita Hall, secretary. Rev. S. H. Norwood, Pastor. 4t-22 Ames Memorial Sunday School Will render a Fine Cantata on Easter Sunday Evening at 8 o'clock, entitled, "Hope, Joy and Grief, by the Intermediate Department. Special exercise by Primary Department at 2:30. Special Program by Junior League at 5 P. M. Special Concert and Drama, April 20th. Grand Easter Encampment given by the Sunday School and Leagues beginning April 17 to 21, 1911. An Easter Cantata entitled: "THE GATE OF LIFE" To be given under the auspices of the Trinity A.M. E. Sunday School Sunday, April 16th, 8 P. M. The participants are as follows: Misses Edna Clark, Lulu Butler, Winnie Waters, Edna Waters, Edna Gibson; Madel DeCoursey, Cora Way- man, Hattie Jackson, Elsie Matthews. Messrs. Joseph Gans, Braxton Pow- ell, Frank Burns. Positively Silver Offering at the Door. Samuel Ewell, Chairman Genl.Com. Nellie Mae Holiday, Chairman Cantata. Mr. T. H. Holliday, Supt. GRAND SACRED CONCERT Given by the Dansbury Junior League of Asbury M. E. Church, cor. Lexington street and Rogers avenue, Sunday, April 16th 1911 at 5 p. m. Some noted talent will render selections. You are invited to attend ALECTURE On Friday evening; April 21st at S P. M. at Bøthel A. M. E. Church Lanvale street and Druid Hill ave. by Prof. Dubois, of New York City Admission Free R. H. BUTLER Says let him send you a machine on trial. The lowest Sewing Machine R.H.BUTLER Says let him send you a machine on trial. The lowest Sewing Machine Man. This year the prices and payments will suit you. Guarantees every article if not so. See us first. We correct all mistakes free of charge. Also repairing Graphophones. Call 2431M Mt.Veron. Address 941 Druid Hill Avenue. MILLINERY PARLOR Newest shapes of trimmed and untrimmed Hats, Ribbons, Flowers, Feathers on hand. Call and examine our stock. Prompt service. MRS. ROBERTA CREDITT MRS.ROBERTA CREDITT 1137 N. Carey Street I LEAD-OTHERS FOLLOW I carry a full Line of Colored Human Hair Goods Combings made in puffs and braids Madame J. CREDITT'S Hair Dressing, Face Massage and Manicuring Parlors 1129 Druid Hill Avenue C. A. JOHNSON'S MUSIC SCHOOL 436 W. BIDDLE ST. Instructor of Vocal Music, also Piano, Organ, Pedal Organ, Violin, Cornet Here Mandolin, Guitar, Banjo and Other Instruments EBENEZER A. M. E. CHURCH Rev. J. W. Norris, Pastor 11 A. M., Easter Sermon by the Pastor. 2.30 P. M., Special Program in the Sunday School. (Orchestra) S P. M., The Junior Choir will give a Sacred Concert. An excellence program has been arranged. Silver offering at the door. Herbert Frisby, Supt. John Murray, President. The Baltimore Annual Conference will convene in this church on April 26th, 1911. WATERS A. M. E. CHURCH Aisquith St., near Jefferson. Rev. Dr. D. P. Seaton, Pastor. 11 A. M., The Pastor will preach Subject: "The Resurrection of Jesus Declared." 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 5.45 P. M., The Allen C. E. League 7.30 P. M., The Pastor will preach a special sermon to the "Star of Bethlehem Lodge No. 1 United Order of Seven Wise Men. BELHED A. M. E. CHURCH, Rev. D. G. Hill, D, D., Pastor 11 A. M.— Day by S. Coleredige Taylor. Sermon on the Resurrection by the Pastor. 2nd. "The Lord is my Strength" by S. Coleredige Taylor. Opening the church to receive members. 3rd. "Inflamatus (Stabat Mater) Rossini Offering Benediction 3 P.M., Special Easter SundaySchool Services. S P. M., Grand Sunday School Cantata, accompanied by a wonderful sun flashlight, the most magnificent display of beauty in light ever produced in sacred service. Come and see. A Silver Offering at the Door. ALLEN A. M. E. CHURCH Lexington and Carlton Streets Rev L. G. Martin, Pastor. Easter Sabbath and Missionary Day. Easter Souvenir Buttons given to help the cause of Missions. 11 A. M., Mission Sermon by the Pastor. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 4.30 P. M., League Service. Special for Easter. Easter buttons to help the cause of Missions. 8.00 P. M., Easter Service. Easter Monday Night, Professor Tooney's Troubadours. Howard D. Brent, Supt. Wm. H. Butler, Pres. League. PAYNE .MEM A. M. E. CHURCH Laureens and Calhoun St. Rev. P. W. Wortham, Pastor 6.00 A. M., General Class Meeting and Praise Service. 11 A. M., Special Sermon by the Pastor. subject "The Resurrection" 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. Exercises by Junior Department 5.00 Allen C. E. League. Topic: "The Spirit of the Resurrection," Special selections by the Aeolion Musical Society. 7.30 P. M., "Echoes from Calvary or The Empty Tomb" Sacred Easter Cantata, by the Senior Department of the Sunday School. Silver Offering. Strangers always welcome. Andrew Gassaway, Supt. T. Andrew Moore, Pres. A.C.E. L SPECIAL EASTER PROGRAM zer A. M. E. Church. Sunday Evening, April 16, 1911 at S P. M. The Program will consist of solos, duets and choruses Miss Viola Prisby, Soprano Mrs. Cora Roberts Alto Mr. John Murray ) Tenor Mr. Wm. W Hackett) Mr. Nimrod Downs, Basso The public is cordially invited to attend. Silver offering at the door Mr. Chas, Henry, Director Mr. Thos. Mitchell, Organist Rev. John W. Norris, pastor. EASTERN M. E. CHURCH McElderry St. & Patterson Park Av Rev. James H. Jenkins, Pastor. 9.30 A. M., Prayer meeting. 11 A. M., Special Easter Sermon by Pastor. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. Eas- ter exercises. 8.00 P. M., Easter services repeated. Monday night Easter exercises, admission 5 cents. All are cordially invited. J. W. Jones, Supt. S. S. J. M. Barnes, Pres. E. L. NOTICE All the members of the H. S Cummings Social No. 1, of Baltimore City, are requested to meet at 907 Linden avenue, Friday evening, April 21st. Business of importance By order of Mrs. Mary V. Warren, President Mrs. Annie A. Scott, Vice President Douglass Warren, Sec'y JOHN WESLEY M. E. CHURCH, Sharp and Montgomery Sts. Dr. Ernest Lyon, Pastor. Early morning service at 5 A. M. 11 A. M., Sermon by the Pastor, subject; "Immortality." 3 P. M., Local Preachers' Hour. A unique service will be conducked by them. 8 P. M., A Service of Song by the Juvenile Choir. WHATCOAT M. E.CHURCH, Franklin and Pine Sts. "King's Hill" Rev. Alfred Young, Pastor. 5 P. M., Early Meeting. 11 A. M., Easter Sermon by the Pastor. 3.00 P. M., Sunday School. SpeCIAL Service 4.30 P. M., Epworth League 8.00 P. M., Sermon by Rev. Geo. Williams. W. C. Tongue Supt. Miss Edyth Cooper, Pres. E. L. GREEN SPRING M. E. CHURCH Chattolance, Md. Rev. R. A. Green, Pastor. 10.00 A. M., Class Meeting. 11 A. M., Easter Sermon by the Pastor. 3.00 P. M., Sunday School. 4.30 P. M., Epworth League. 8 P. M., Easter Services by the Sunday School. Mr. S. S. Oliver, Supt. Mrs. Jane Milligan, Pres. E. L. AMES MEM. M. E. CHURCH, Carey and Baker Sts. Rev. D. D. Turpeau, Pastor. 5 A. M., Resurrection Sermon by the Pastor. 11.00 A. M., After-Resurrection Sermon by the Pastor. 3.00 P. M., Sunday School. Special Programme. 7.00 P. M., Brotherhood Meeting 8 P.M., The Sunday School will render a cantata of special attractive features. ST. PAUL M. E. CHURCH Saratoga Street near Carey Rev. S. H. Norwood, Pastor 11 A. M., Special Easter Sermon by the Pastor. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 8 P. M., The Pastor will preach to all the lady organizations of the church. Easter Music by Choir, T. H. Franklin, Leader. PERKINS SQ. BAPT. CHURCH, George and Ogstor Sts. F. R. Williams, D. D., Pastor- 11 A. M., Special sermon by Pastor, subject, "The Empty Tomb." Special Easter Music by the Choir. 7.30 P. M., Sermon by Pastor, subject; Happy Greetings in Galilee' Solos, duetts, recitations, essays. Sunday School 9.30 A. M., and 2.30 P.M. Special Easter program. GRACE PRESBYTE'IAN CHURCH Dolphin and Etting Sts. Rev. W. Edw. Williams, Minister, Residence: 623 W. Lanvale Street, 5.30 A. M. Sunrise Service "As it Began to Dawn" 11 A.M., Sermon: "Dead—Risen" Anthems by Choir: The Trumpet Shall Sound, (Hall) Nailed to the Cross, (Bartlett) The Lord is Risen Indeed (Judson) Mrs. Roberta Creditt, Directress 3.00 P. M., Easter in the Sunday School. 8 P. M., Sermon "Easter Joy" Special Easter Music by Choir of Young Folk, directed by Miss Rosalie Fisher. W. G. Thomas, Supt. Seats free. All welcome. Rev. J. G. Hawkes, Co-pastor 11 A. M., Special Easter Sermon by the co-pastor, theme: "Mary as an emulation." Special Music. 3.00 P. M., Sunday School. Spee- G. J, Hawkes, D. D., Co-pastor ial exercises. 6.30 P. M., C. E. Society led by Mrs. Mattie Burley. 8 P. M., Preaching by the Pastor and his assistant. GILLIS MEM. M. P. CHURCH Stockton Street near W. Baltimore Rev. B. H. Knight, Pastor. 10.00 A. M. Class Meeting. 11 A. M., Special Easter Sermon 2.00 P. M., Sunday School. 6.30 P. M., Christian Endeavor 8 P. M., Sermon The Annual Sermon of Baltimore Bethel Council, I. O. St. Luke that was to take place on Sunday, April 2nd at 8 p.m., has been changed to April 23d, 8 p.m., due to the fact that the church has arranged for another service which would conflict with our sermon at this time. We now extend a cordial invitation to all the various councils of St. Lukes to turn out with us on the above date. The sermon will be delivered by the pastor, Rev. D. G. Hill Mrs. S. J. C. Ralph, W.C. Mrs. A. C. Soott, V. C. Miss Sarah Jackson, Asst. See'y. L. S. Henry, Secretary Mrs. Rebecca James, Treasurer. c HUMAN HISTORY Fist Universal Rates Congress : ‘a Mark Its. Beginning, ERSUINEL OF THE ASSEMBLY. iPartial Program, Object and Aim of # Great’ International Conference I: Which Is to Be Held In University bof London In July—List of Speakers paeiuaes Many Notables. | Lendop.—For the first time in human story there is a clear prospect of one mimon ideal animating all peoples, nd thus the beautiful old bope of the rotherhood of nations and races is ut moving appreciably toward real- tion. Whint better means of cele- Irating the birth of the new era, of brushing aside prejudices and suspi- ons or correcting —misunderstand- 3 than by men'and women from st and west, white and nonwhite, eeting as friends and equals in a ent cougress? We therefore earnestly appeal to all most’ especially to sympathizers in ithe far aud near cast und in Africa ‘and Ametica—to make the utmost ef- Hort to attend personally the first unl- wersal races congress in London July f gee oe me pe. es — eo oe ee Bs s oe , gm oe ae ‘ a oe oF a ts ieee : pe an } oe) : geeair sr B, i ee, <a iO & a ccm a ae Lea : eB Ee og : rae ; a 2 : ue ae yo Q) ISRAED ZANGW1DT, (2) AIMED SATD BEY, 13) WU TING FANG. 26 to 20 inclusive and convert it into an Imposing und world moviug demon- stration in favor of interracial good vail. ‘The congress is truly whut it’ pur- ports to be—wu assembly of members ‘of all the races of the world. Accord- Gngly there are papers on China, Ja- pan, Turkey, Persix, the Jewish race, Tndia, Egypt, Haiti, the American Ne- ‘gro and lndiia and the Negro of West and South Africa, ; Hindu Scholar Will Open Program. In every oue of these cases, wo wish At to be noted, the paper is written by ‘a member of the particular people or mace concerned, while the very first ipaper of the congress is by a Hindu scholar, tho congress executive recog- ‘nizing that it might thos show its ap- preciation of the enst. Ex‘oriente lux. It will rejoice the hearts of those qwho believe in interracial harmony to ‘know that it is not the few, the de- spised or the eccentric who are co- operating in this congress, but the imany, the honored and the experi- ‘enced. Among the supporters, rery amany of whom have welcomed with ithe greatest cuthusinsm the tdea of ‘holding such a congress and who be- Jong to no less than fitty countries, ‘are.thirty presidents of parliament, the majority of the members of the permanent court of arbitration and of ithe delegates to the second Hague conference, twelve British governors ‘and ‘eight British prime ministers, many statesinen and ambassadors, over forty colonial bishops, some 130 professors. of international law, the Jeading authropologists and sociolo- ‘gists, the officers of the majority of the council of tho interparliamentary ‘gnion, not to particularize a multitude ‘of other distinguished. personages. ~ Henceforth it’ will be impossible to ‘dony that there exists a solid body of opinion among the most highly placed ‘and the most highly cultured in favor ‘of just, respectful and friendly rela- tes ‘petween the peoples of the east ‘lend those of the west, between the.s0 Jealled whites and the so called colored, Jand-the very reronrkable unanimity in ‘regard. to fundamentals among thedis- tinguished ‘writers of papers will em- Sphasize this.” | “Object and Alri of the Congress. ‘I stho object of. the congress, which be held to the University of: Lon- 4s to discuss in the light of mod- ern knowledge and the modern con- seience the general relations ‘subsist- ing between these various peoples with a view to encouraging between them a fuller understunding, the most friendly feelings dud a heartier co- operation. Political issues of the hour will be subordinated to this compreinsive end, in the Orm belief that when once mutual respect {s establisbed difeu!- ties of every type will be sympathet- ically approached and readily solved. ‘We call on every one who chances to see this appeal to forward the high and holy cause of this congress by be coming a center of propaganda, by at: tending the conference and by. indue- ing associations and public bodies: to be represented. ‘The American ausiliary committee ineludes the names of many distin- guished Americans like Jane Addams, John Grabam Brooks, Presideut Faunce, Hamilton Holt, Georgo Foster Peabody, Hon. Joseph Choate, Hon. Horace Porter, Lyman Abbott and An- drew Carnegie. ‘The full program may be obtained free of charge and post free by writ- fog to the secretary of the congress, Mr, G. Spiller, 63 South Hill Part, Jaampstend. London, England. ‘The following are the writers of pa- pers: Wu Ting Fang (on China), Tongo Takebe and Ternali Kobayasht: (on Japan), Ahmed Said Bey (on Turkey), Hadji. Mirza Yahya (on Persia), 1. Zangwill (on the Jewish race), G. K. Gokhale (on India), Mohammed Sou- rour Bey (on Egypt), General Legltime (on Haith), W. B. B. Du Bois (on the American Negro), Charles A. Eastman (on the American Indians), Tengo Ja- Davu (on the South African natives), J. Mensah Sarban (on the West African natives). BALTIMORE EDITOR’S PLEA FOR DAILY NEWSPAPER Weekly Paper Too. Slow For Modern ‘Strenuous Times, Says Macbeth. Hugh B. Macbeth, editor of the Bal- timore (Md.) Times, is a drm believer jn the: necessity of a national Negro daily paper. He says thatthe weekly pager is too slow for tiese strenuous times in America, and that the present circumscribed position of the America Negro demands (hat he have some or- gan for defense as: well as to chronicle his daily happenings of an upward trend. Mr. Macbeth has. given the subject of u race daily much attention and ex- presses himself as follows: “The absolute necessity. for some great daily organ to be published by thé race grows more apparent as the days pass. 1 aun well aware of the ex- istence of the 300 odd weekly journals among us, and Lam happy to say that they Mave rendergd the race signal service, but must insist that 1 believe that the weekly paper fails for the most part to meet the demands of the day when events thousands of miles away are knowa as soon as they o¢- cur.” After stating how (he modera duily hus trained the people (o demand fresh news, he went on to say? “fhe Amerieaw Negro has uncon- selously beer trained Ju this envicon- ment of quick news service. Te ea- gerly scans: his daily paper for world happenings, and-his only regret is that the white press either ignores bim. or publishes race happenings in a biased form. In other words the modern Guily dovs not want to present the best side of the ree. "“E am quite sure that we can or- ganize as admirable a news serviee for our papers as that for the whites, and the race will support a national daily organ of merit, Numerous letters and offers of support that 1 bave received from various sections of the country attest that fact, and I am ready to veuture in the project if enough of- fers. of financial and other assistance are forthcoming.” DR San re ce eT a sa aren Ae In this address at the dedicatory ex- ercises of the Lane Tabernacle Colored Methodist Episcopal church iu St. Lou- is recently Bishop Isaac Lane is re- ported as having sald’ that race strife was the greatest work of the devil because it poisoned men's hearts and minds and instigated conflict. He said, however, that light was breaking through the darkuess of ignorance and sin and that the dawn of a new Amer- jean clyilization was at band when men would acknowledge the common brotherhood of man and the father- hood of God. Influential Musical Organization. ‘We doubt if there is an organization of vocalists in the northern or New Engiand section of the country which commands wider attention than the North Side Choral club of Pittsburg. The public functions of the club are always liberally patronized. To maln- tain its already popular place in the public eye the’members are at present busily engaged in rehearsing for thelr annual concert, which is to be held some time‘in May. Gade’s “Spring Messenger” is the subject selected for the cantata this year. Helpful Features of Y. M. C. A. Work. One of the new features of the edu- cational department of the Carlton avenue branch of the Young: Men's Ohristian association in Brooklyn is the lecture bureau, Practical talks or fiyetrated lectures .ure given: weekly ‘on Wodnesday evening. ‘This’ depart- ment {3 supervised by Dr. Walter A: Jackson. ‘The employment bureau ts in-charge of Mr. Arthur L.’Comither, yho has secured positions for over thirty men and boys within the past three months, _ THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER: ANNUAL REPORT ON FINANCE 'AHDDEMT THDING Where Their Money Goes, Washlngton.—The aunual inceting of the fluanclul bourd of the African Metliudist Episcopal church will be ‘held ar the beedquarters of the de- ‘partment, 1541 “Fourteenth street Weduesday, April 19, at which me ‘Rey. Dr. Johu Hurst, nancial: secre- tary of the denomination, will make ‘his thitd anual report, ‘be depact- ‘ment has been in eststence since 1872, ‘ond its bends have been amoug the most successful men In the chureb. “Those who have occupled the position ‘of tinaneinl secretary besides the prey- -ent incumbent were’ Rishop James A, “Handy, the lite J. W. Burley, Ben- jamin W. Arnett, L. H. Ariunstrong, ‘M. M. Moore, P. A. Hubbard and Ed- ward W. Lampton. When Dr, Hurst took charge in 1908, $2,825,007.60 had passed through the ‘department. During the Orst year of ‘bis administration $167,807.14 was ‘raised, and in 1910 the total amount ‘raised was nearly $200,000. ‘The de- ‘partment is now in first class shape Gnancially despite the fact that its Ia- pilities were increased by $14,000 by ‘the general conference which met ia ‘Norfolk, Va., in 1908. The money that ‘passes through the departments is ‘raised in dollar subseriptions by the ‘members and friends of the denomina- ‘tlon, Of this amount 36 per cent Is ‘retained by the various annual con- ‘ferences for their special needs, and ‘the remainder goes for the educational ‘york, salaries of general officers und ‘the multitude of other geucral necds ‘of the African Methodists. ; Bishop H. Blanton Parks, who ‘has ‘charge of the work of the late Bishop /Grant, will preside over the session ‘of the board. having been elected ‘ebairman pro tem, at the recent ses- ston of the board of bishops: VALUABLE ADDITION TO RELIGIOUS LITERATURE. New Volume: Deals With Work of Methodist Denomination. Among the many notable books re- lating to colored people is “Methodism and the Negro.” recently issued. ‘Lhe author of the volume is the Rey, Dr. I. L, Zhomas. field secretary of the board of home missions and cburch extension of the Methodist Episcopal chureh,” It Js. a compendium of infor- mation concerning the great work the Methodists have dove for the race spiritually, educationally and Gnaneial- ly. ‘The foreword is by Bishop Luther B. Wilson of Philadelphia. After a lengthy and iluminating picture by the author of the varions activities of the denomination for the race there are a number of essays written by prominent ministers and laymen on “Why the Methodist Episcopal Church Is Needed Among Our People." “His Present Need” and “The Outlook.” Pictures of leading schools, prominent ee Oe ea Doe Reese Bere RUS get aa, ee ee oe Cm es i a eee ae Ce ian ee ee Ty ie ae es Eh ee POS ae ALE aaa) foe hooe kan eter eee ence age eae Bee COE RCI AZUL ae pees tes aanaena men and women and of churches the country over lend interest to the vol- ume. Dr. Thomas was bor in Anne Acun- del county, Md.. in, 1863, He was graduated from Morgan college, Balti- more, in 1881 and bas developed into one of the best tnown and most elo- quent pulpit orators in the country. He has been a field seeretary for the past six yenrs and during bis travels the country over bas noted racial cun- Gitions at first hand. He bas been a member of several general conferences of his denomination and is widely and favorably known. ‘The Onward March of Woman Suffrage ‘Woman's suffrage is sweeping state after state into the line of rietory, says the Los Angeles (Cal.) New Age. Some clalm to see dire disaster in th success of this movement. but we have every confidence that the women who vote will always safeguard the interests of ber husband. father, son or brother, as the case may be. We can and do trust our wives and motb- ers with (he keeping of our bonor and our bomes. Surely we may trust them with the ballot. ‘Tntarmarriane Bistwaeen the Rasen Discriminating ‘laws against inter- marriage between the various races in the United. States pale. into insignia. eance alongside of the law of personal choice, White,.colored, brown:and-red folks continue to unlte in marriage just the same. Out in Minnesota quite tecently Louis Wong..a Chinese im- porter, was married to Florencé Stro}- berg. on American. woman, who was an employee of the Chinaman. CURRENT TOPICS IN WASHINGTON Old Line Putans Are Keeping Their Powder Extra Dry. KEW FACES wrauoKoBNE Bgia Teak nanure of Ofer Une Wasbington.—“All is quiet along the Potomac”—that is the word beard on all vides ut the nation’s capital these days, Politicians of. all shades are keeping puinfully mum, and the “fol- lowers on,” who generally keep up much noise and din, have, for the nonce, lost their occupations. Hon. James C. Napier, the brilliant Tennessee banker and lawyer, is now safely ensconced in.bis berth as regis- ry eS oo os Po eee [aes gee co a yas lee (excae oe i ee ae TORNET GENENAL, ter of the trensury, Recently Mr. Napier, in company with Bon. Cyrus Pied Adams, assistant register, aad Hon. \Whiteticld MeKintey, collector of customs at Georgetown, called at the White Mouse and paid bis respects to President Late. Hon. William Henry Lewis of Bos- ton is pow a full edged assistant at- torney general vf ihe United States. He wok tie oath of oflice recently and then calied on President ‘Luft at the White House to teuder his respects. He has a magnificence suit of offices in the Boud building, one of the largest abd most pretentious office buildings in the city, Here William U. Lewis, a cultured colored ian, presides with modesty and dignity over an impor- tant braneh of the departient of jus- Ue. 2 ‘The new assistant attorney general has charge of the fudian depredation cases, According to the gossip of the department, these cases are vot now regarded us of great Importance, 28 about $5 per cent of them «ready have been disposed uf. ‘There now -re- main stbout 1.300 eases, involving a total amount of about $5,500,000. These claims were handied for years by As- sistant Attorney General Joun G. ‘Whompson, who recently resigned to #0 into private practice, Sine his resig- nation they have been iu the hands of Attorney George 'K. Stormont, assigned fo this work, who is regarded as un authority on the subject. Miss Bessie Moore, who held the po- sition of stenographer in the office to be ullotted tu Levis. bas been trans: ferred by ber own request, and with the approval of the department, to a place with the court of commerce. Harry Joncs, a soung man who was drawing $900 a yenr, accepted the place loft vacant and teceived an increase of $300. James M. Marks, the messenger attached to the office which Lewis will occupy, 1s a white mus. President Taft seems to be a bellever in passing the offices around. The “outs.” who, of course, do not believe in long tenure for the “ins,” look with pleasure at this disposition. as they term it, on the part of the presfdent to give the “other fellow a chance.” Many new faces now adorn the “black cab- ivet"” Henry Lincoin Jotinson, White field McKinley, W. D. Jobnsoa, Jobn ©. Napiér and William B. Lewis ave the new members who now sit around that imaginary council board. ‘Verrell, the municipal judge; ‘Lyler, the auditor for the navy; Adams, the assistant register of treasury. and Cobb. the assistant district attorney, are the only members of the “black cabinet” who were members during the Roosevelt administration. ‘Terrell was recommissioned early in this administration. Tyler's four year term expires in June. A recent news item sent out from this city says that ‘Tyler is an old and intimate friend of Charles Dewey Hilles, the new private secretary to the president. whlch fact, no doubt, augurs well for Mr. Tyler. Cobb's tenure of office is Indefinite. He holds’ at the pleasure of the at- torney general, It {s known in inner circles that when Clarence Wilson, the present district attorney, succeeded D. WW. Balter, Cobb was assured that the change would not affect’ him in the Yeast, Spring is here and if you are going to do any business at all, now is your time to get busy and let people know all about your business. The best thing to do is to make a noise---attract attention---and the result is-increased business As.a Noise Maker the ‘‘Ad”’ ...columns of... The Afro-American Ledger CANNOT BE EXCELLED WRITE, PHONE.OR CALL __T.G. MARSHALL, . —DEALER IN— i Groceries & Provisions, Butter, Eggs and Pouliry... ! 535 Dolphin St. Balitmore, Md. TOOK. HIS. FATHER’S. PLACE. The Night Edwin Booth First Ap- pearsd a¢- Richard: til: Between the ages of fifteen and eighteen Edwin Buoth was almost con- stantly the Intimate companion of his father, Jualus Brutus: Booth the elder. ‘That father’s eccentricities were such as to tax even the devotion of such a son, but Edwin's affectionate care never failed, He used to beguile the tragedian's time following bis arduous performances by playing the violin or singing negro ballads, accompanying himself on the banjo. Many times be attended bis father on long walks be tween midnight und morning. In 1851, on a certain night, the father was booked to appear as Richard UL. at the National theater, New York. An hour before the time for the curtain to rise he chose to lock bimself in a closet nt his hotel and refused every persuasion lils son could offer to keep his engagement. In despair Edwin rushed to the. the- ater to explain his father’s absence. The house was already Oiled. The manager was distracted and in his excited questioning of the boy accl- dentally lenrned that the tragedian had flippantly told Edwin to go and act Richard himself. “We'll take bim at his word,” said the manager. And the frightened boy was hastened to the stage and helped {nto his father’s Gloster costume, several sizes too big for him, Members of the company gave helpful encouragoment. ‘The play opened without anexplana- tion to the audience. When Edwin made his entrance for the opening solll- oquy the substitution was immediate- I recognized, but'so also was the boy, for Edwin had soveral times appeared in lesser parts, notably that of Tressel in thie same play, in which role he made his very first appenrance. The audience was kindly tolerant for a time, then Interested and finally enthu- siasi{e. for Edwin Booth, although only cightecn years of age, played Rlebard worthily, revealing mans flashes of that brilliane genius thar afterward mado him a star of nich grenter eral- nonce than his father had ever achier- ed, On the strength of this success Edwin Booth was soon eszaged by the manager of « Raltimore stock com- pany fo play any part assigned to him at the enticing salmy of $6 per weeks, Small as that pay was, Edwin Cooth incor on in the far west experienced deprivation that would have been tm- measurably relieved by an even small: er ineome.—Kansas City Star. Saying the Right Thing. | don’t seem to be able to say the right thing to women.” a basbful young man confided (o us the other @ay, “and that’s why t don't shine in society. 1'll (ell you am instance of ft. 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LEXINGTON St. : * Tuskegee Institute SUMMER SCHOOL FOR TEACHERS Four Weeks: June 19th to July 14th, 1911 Coursse: Methods: Primary and Advanced Literary Subjects: Elementary and Advances. Industries, including * Manual ‘Praining, Cooking, Sewing Basket- ry, ete. ‘Agriculture: Preparator tor teach ing in Public Schools. Community Work for Teachers, Other features by special arrange- ment Booker T. Washington, Prin. Tuskegee Institute, Ala. ‘The Ladies are for “Hlairdresser to Society” FIRST, LAST and ALL THE TIME EXPERT PASSAGING AND MANICURING 831 DRUID HILL AVE. Household Hint. “Your meringues,” says the mistress, “re so delightfully frothy and light. How in the world do you get them that way?” “ies the wew butler, mum,” explains the cook. “He used to be a barber, mum.""—Life. : A Spanish: Custom. It is customary throughout Spain for the waiters of cafes to fill a glass of wine or liquor so that it orertlows upon the suucer. ‘This custom, in whieh it is desired to. show an appear- ance of liberality, is called “the fout bath.” FARM ORCHARD AND GARDEN BY F.ETRIGG CENTRAL POINT ROGUE RIVER VALLEY OREGON CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED THE PEAR BLIGHT. Considering the fact that there is probably no menace to apple and pear orchards that is so serious as pear blight, it will be well to be on the look-out for it as soon as the sap begins to flow, as the blight in question is a bacterial disease of the sap. It is especially important to see that all hold-over cases—that is, cases in which the germs have kept alive during the winter season—are cut out before the sap begins to run so as to prevent their becoming sources of a spread of the disease by bees and other insects to the blossoms and tender twigs of other trees of the same family. The presence of dangerous cases of blight is indicated by a dark colored and sweetish tasting ooze or sap which exudes from the cambium layer through the bark. The bees visit these places, very naturally, get their feet smeared with myriads of the bacteria and as a result are likely to infect a majority of the blossoms which they visit in the course of a day. In view of the fact that bees often cover a territory included in a radius of two miles, the possibility of a spread of the blight will thus be seen to be very great and emphasizes the necessity of destroying completely and thoroughly every hold-over case. The wild hawthorn and crab, belonging as they do to the pome family, may be sources of early infection, and if such trees are in the neighborhood they should be inspected. Later on if trees in the orchard are found to be infected through the blossom in the manner indicated the only preventive measure known is cutting out with a knife well below the point of infection all diseased branches and limbs. After each cutting both the wound and knife should be sterilized with a one one-thousandth solution of corrosive sublimate (mercuric chloride), which is a deadly poison, and at the close of the day the parts cut away should be burned. By careful cutting a tree can often be saved even though the blight has got into the trunk or has reached down into the roots. The fighting of the blight will be greatly simplified and the damage from it lessened if all water sprouts are kept cut away up into the head of the tree, as it is through these that infection is most often as well as most quickly carried to the main limbs and trunk. BUYING ALFALFA LAND. There are many sections in the south where alfalfa will do well, and it goes without saying that land which will grow the legume is worth a good price. Notwithstanding this there are some facts in connection with the growing of alfalfa which it is well to take into account. One of these is that it will not do well on land that is not well drained, which means that a lot of land which is being sold to northern buyers as prime alfalfa land will not be worth a continental for this purpose until it is drained. Neither will alfalfa do well over a hardpan of any kind which comes too near the surface nor on a stiff clay subsol. Weather conditions which are likely to prevail during the making of the hay should also be taken into account, rain and heavy dews being very detrimental to a good quality of hay. For this reason the drier or irrigated sections of the west and southwest are preferable for alfalfa growing. We are led to make the above remarks as the result of a conversation with a friend who recently was shown a lot of alfalfa land in a southern state where the holes dug by lands crabs were visible in every direction. This simple fact showed that the water was too near the surface to make successful alfalfa growing possible. RICE GROWING. Northern readers of these notes will be interested in how rice is raised in the southern states. A loam soil with a good mixture of clay is considered best suited to this cereal, while the other conditions which make good rice land are possibility of irrigation, complete drainage and a solidity at harvest time to permit the operation of heavy machinery. Rice land is prepared for the seed as in the case of other cereals, and the best results are had with the drill, from one and a half to two bushels of seed being used per acre. When the rice plants are five or six inches high the field is flooded with water to a depth of from one to six inches. The water is kept on the field until the rice gets in the dough, which is from ten to twenty days before it is ripe. The field is then drained by open ditches and allowed to dry, after which the rice is eut, shocked and thrashed, as in the case of wheat or oats. In the last named step the speed of the cylinders is reduced to prevent cracking or breaking the grain. The rice is known as "paddy" as it comes from the machine and is then taken to the mill, where it is hulled and polished. Mites in the henhouse are a hard proposition, but persistent warfare against them will win out. A child should be taught not only how to do a thing thoroughly, but how to do it in the quickest and easiest manner possible as well. The hen that does not have grit of some kind in her gizzard is in about the same pickle as the fellow who has lost his own molars and has not had them replaced by a set from the dentist. While the incubator has many points in its favor as a substitute for old Biddy, the days and nights of the one who is having a first round: with one of the machines are likely to be long and somewhat full of trouble, especially if the incubator is one of the "cheap on the market" kind. Owing to the heat, insanitary conditions and impure milk supply, 52 per cent of the babies born in the city of Manila do not live to the age of one year. It is a tangible evidence of the worth of American civilization that where it gets a foothold conditions such as these are soon corrected. It has been ascertained by careful scientific investigation that one out of every twenty-five typhoid fever patients continues, even after recovery, to be a typhoid carrier. This germ reproduction sometimes goes on for years, and the fact noted is doubtless responsible for many a seemingly inexplicable typhoid fever epidemic. If plans afoot are carried out the school children of Kansas City, Mo., will assist in the planting of 100,000 catalpa trees on Arbor day, which was instituted by J. Sterling Morton, a former secretary of agriculture. This planting will have value not only because the trees need planting, but because the little people will thus have a greater interest aroused in a very practical and helpful form of conservation. The Price-Campbell cotton picking machine, which was operated successfully on a number of southern plantations last season, is said to possess an almost human ingenuity, its steel fingers selecting the ripe from the unripe bolls and reaching beneath the branches and getting bolls that are hidden. A comparison of the hand and machine picked cotton at the mill shows that the latter contains less waste than the former, while in the field the machine picks as clean as the average negro help. In amount the new picker does the work in a day of from twenty to thirty hands. Until a few years ago the bulk of the world's supply of sulphur was got from the vicinity of the Italian volcanoes, but today the greater part comes from beneath the prairies of Louisiana, and only hot water and compressed air are used in the mining process. The Italian sulphur in its natural state contains 50 per cent of impurities, but the Louisiana product tests 99 per cent. Boiling water is forced down the space between the ten and six inch pipes which extend to the bed. This turns the sulphur to a liquid, and it is then pumped up through the smaller pipes by means of compressed air and flows into vats 350 feet long, 250 feet wide and 40 feet deep. Here it cools and hardens and when desired for shipment is broken up with hand picks and shoveled into cars like coal. Some of the wells in the section mentioned produce 500 tons daily. There is probably no product or byproduct of the farm that furnishes protein in a more palatable or valuable form than skimilk. Especially is this the case when considering rations for calves, pigs and poultry. It is because of this fact that dairying has so much to commend it as a type of farming and why hog raising dovetails in with it so nicely as a profitable side line. Under such system of management there is carried out very simply and effectively a type of conservation which means more to the permanent welfare of the country than any of the somewhat spectacular and faraway but no less worthy forms of conservation which are just now engaging public attention. Dairying means conservation of soil fertility for the simple reason that with a ton of butter worth $000 there is removed from the farm but 50 cents' worth of fertilizing elements, while in the case of raw products like corn, oats and wheat it runs from $12 to $16 worth. There have been frequent references in borticultural literature during the past two or three years about ever bearing strawberries, but nothing that seemed to give much promise that they would amount to anything. However, the recent experience of a Pulaski (N. Y.) grower with the new variety seems to indicate that it is something more than a curiosity. He got three pickings of berries after Aug. 15 last, which averaged more than 600 quarts to the acre and brought him 25 cents per quart. The fall or ever bearing strawberry, as it is known, differs from the common varieties in the one respect that it blossoms continuously from June until November. One crop is matured at the usual time in June, and the second crop may be secured by pinching off all blossoms about three weeks before it is desired to have the fruit ripen, when all of the strength of the vines is diverted to the half grown fruit. Those who have tested the fall matured fruit state that it has fully as fine a flavor as the June product. A few drops of lemon juice in the water in which rice is boiled will help to keep the kernels whole. Plenty of water is another requisite. The season is at hand when the neighbors' hens constitute a peplexing problem with the one who takes pride in a well kept flower or vegetable garden. A few days ago a shipload of dressed sheep were sold on the San Francisco market in prime condition. They were brought under refrigeration from Australia, a distance of 7,000 miles, and paid a duty of 5 cents a pound. While fish make their homes in water they must have oxygen, which is always found in fresh water. It is a lack of this element that causes the death of fish in many a shallow pond and lake during the winter season when the water freezes to a considerable depth and prevents its purification by contact with the air. The Eagle dam, located 100 miles north of El Paso, on the Rio Grande, the building of which has already been started, will create, it is claimed, the largest storage reservoir in the world. The dam is to be 265 feet high and 1,400 feet long on top. It will flood an area of 48,000 acres to an average depth of sixty-two feet and will furnish water for the irrigation of 180,000 acres of land. Patent stump pullers operated by steam have been invented, and many of them are now being used to clear the cut over pine lands of northern Michigan and Wisconsin. The derick hoist principle is employed in them, and it is said they will pull and pile from two to three acres of stumps in a day. Many thousands of acres of this land are rich and fertile, well suited to general farming, fruit growing, etc., and the new puller is bound to be an improvement over the tedious and expensive methods of clearing land which have prevailed in the past. There is a very strict social regulation among seals that a mother shall furnish sustenance only to her own young, and because of this every year thousands of baby seals, left motherless by the scalskin traders, perish by starvation. This condition, which threatened extermination of the seals, has been remedied by the discovery of Boatswain J. Thurber of the United States revenue cutter Bear, who has found that by snapping a ligament in the mouths of the young seals and working their gums to aid in the growth of their teeth they can eat solid food and that under this treatment the little follows thrive very well. The man who is wise will not only take the precaution of driving a team which he thinks of purchasing for work on the farm, but will insist on the privilege of working them a little before closing the deal. If the owner of the team objects to this arrangement pass them up, for the team may be sound as a dollar, but possess some peculiarity or meanness of disposition which would render them practically worthless as a work team. Neither ability to travel nor good looks, cut much figure when a fellow is dead anxious to rush his spring plowing and has to spend half his time trying to coax a balky horse to work. And it is certainly exhaustive of a man's store of plenty and patience. In spite of the vigilance and warnings of the postoffice inspectors, it is estimated that about $50,000 a day is sent to New York city to sharper who have been selling blue sky to a lot of gullible folks—in other words, selling them stock in mining, oil or other wildcat investment schemes on the strength of outhandish returns on the money invested. The majority of the victims are clerks, schoolteachers and preachers. Anybody laying claim to a fair amount of gray matter will not bite on any investment scheme which promises a larger interest return than 8 or 10 per cent. Another thing that investors would do well to remember is that bona fide investment concerns are not hawking their stock in advertisements at from 10 to 30 cents on the dollar. As a result of experiments which have been carried on for the past seven years by the federal department of agriculture along the line of acclimatizing and breeding Egyptian cotton from imported seed of the variety known as Mt Afifi two or three types have been developed which give much promise, possessing as much individuality of plant, boll and fiber as newer varieties which have been developed in the Egyptian plant breeding experiments. The experimental work which has been carried on has been the result of a desire to produce in this country this high grade type of Egyptian cotton, 72,617,803 pounds of which were imported during 1900 at a cost of $12,-101,000 and which is used solely in the manufacture of the finest goods, especially mercerized and part silk stuffs in which finish and huster are desired. Samples of the acclimatized Egyptian fiber grown last year in the southwest have been pronounced by American spinners to be in every respect equal to the Egyptian grown article of corresponding grades. The details of these experiments are given in bulletin 200, issued recently by the bureau of plant industry. J. C. Trigg SUNDAY SCHOOL. Lesson III.—Second Quarter, For April 16, 1911. THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES. Text of the Lesson, John xx, 1-18. Memory Verses, 15, 16—Golden Text, Luke xxiv, 34—Commentary Prepared by Rev. D. M. Stearns. We have the choice this week of a lesson on Joash, the boy king, or a resurrection lesson, and as next week we shall have another lesson on Joash we choose the Easter lesson for this week. The resurrection of Jesus from the dead is in many respects the greatest topic in the Scriptures, for if Christ be not risen preaching is vain, faith is vain, there is no forgiveness of sins, and no one is saved (I Cor. xv, 14, 17, 18). His great atonement includes His perfect life in a mortal body, His death in our stead bearing our sins, His resurrection from the dead, all of which may be included in the saying, "The precious blood of Christ" (I Pet. 1, 19). At present, as our great high priest, He is at the right hand of God, for us, and He will come again to receive His body, the church, and to set up His kingdom of peace and righteousness on this earth. That the Messiah of Israel, the great King, should be a man was plainly foretold in Gen. iii, 15; xxil, 18; Deut. xvii, 18; Isa. ix, 6, 7, and many other places. That He should be a man risen from the dead, an immortal man, was also foretold in Gen. iii, 15; II Sam. vii, 13; Isa. ix, 7; iii, 10; 11; Ps. xvI, 10; xxil, 22, 27, 28, and elsewhere, and forshadowed in Isaac, and Joseph and Jonah as well as in the two birds of Lev. xiv and the two goats of Lev. xvI. When He was on earth in His humiliation He repeatedly foretold His death and resurrection in such passages as John II, 10-21; Matt. xl, 40; xvi. 4, 21; xvll. 22; xx. 10; xxvi. 64, and yet even His own disciples did not receive it, for in verse 9 of our lesson we read that even Peter and John "knew not the Scripture that He must rise again from the dead." He said to the two with whom He walked to Emmaus, who were so cast down because of His death, and so disappointed because He had not redeemed Israel, "Oools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken." He also said to the disciples in the upper room that same evening, "All things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses and in the prophets and in the psalms concerning me" (Luke xxll, 25, 44). He appeared at least ten times to one or more of His disciples during those forty days between His resurrection and ascension from Olivet, five times on the first day, and our lesson tells of His first appearance, and that was to Mary Magdalene (Mark xvi, 9). We do not find that Mary of Bethany was with the other women at the tomb on the resurrection morning, for she seems to have believed what He had said about His death and resurrection, and she appointed Him before and for His burial (Matt. xxvi, 12; Mark xv, 8). The purchase of spices by the other women was an act of love, but not of faith, for had they believed that He would rise again they would not have purchased spices with which to anoint His dead body. As soon as Mary Magdalene saw that the stone was rolled away from the sepulchre she ran back to tell Peter and John, and they both ran to the tomb, and both went in, Peter going first, and saw the linen clothes evidently as when His body had been in them, and the napkin that was about His head wrapped together in a place by itself, and they believed that He was risen and went away again unto their own home. Mary, having returned to the tomb, remained and was so intent upon finding the body of her Lord that she had no eyes even for angels, and when Jesus Himself spoke to her she supposed Him to be the gardener, so blinding is unbelieving grief. Not until He called her by name did she recognize Him. One of the precious words of the Spirit to my soul is found in Isa. xiii. 1, "Fear not, for I have redeemed thee. I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine." How wondrously gracious of our Lord to appear to Mary and speak to her while on His way to His Father (verse 17), and how wondrous His words to her, and through her to us, "My Father and your Father, my God and your God." If we would only believe fully that He has made us one with Himself, a part of Himself, children of God and joint heirs with Himself, it does seem as if our lives would declare that Jesus lives. Note the words with which He greeted the disciples that evening and also a week later, "Peace be unto you" (verses 19, 21, 26), and remember John xiv, 27; Jer. xxix, 11. See Him asking them to handle Him and to thrust the hand into His side and see Him eating broiled fish and honeycomb before them that they might see the reality of His resurrection body (Luke xxiv, 39-43; John xx, 27). 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He will be supported by Fannie Douglass, accom- mended Miss Louise Belle Anderson the members of the musical de- ment of Morgan College. The final will be given under the au- guices of the musical department of Morgan College. The Funeral of Mrs. Nicholson The funeral of Mrs. Belle Nicholson, who died early Wednesday after fourteen weeks illness from Tuberculosis, will take place at her late home, 1835 N. Carey Street, this morning. Father Kane of St. Peter Claver's Church will conduct the services. Interment will be in Laural Cemetery. The deceased was 30 years of age. She is survived by her husband, Mr. Jacob C. Nicholson; her parents Mr. and Mrs. James A. G. Wilson; two daughters and five brothers. Quarterly Conference The first quarterly conference of John Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church was held Wednesday evening. Reports showed that during the four months Rev. Dr. Ernest Lyon had been pastor of the church over $700 had been raised for benevolences. District Superintendent Joseph Wheeler presided. Ministerial Meeting. Bishop Levi J. Coppin, in an address before the African Methodist Episcopal Ministers' Meeting, at Bethel Church Monday urged the ministers to make every effort to contribute to the successful termination of the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of Kittrell College, which will take place the latter part of next month. He also advised the ministers to hold the concluding day's session of the Baltimore Conference at Bethel Church. The Conference will be held week after next at Ebenezer A. M. E. Church. Revs. I. N. Ross and W. H. Coston, both of Washington, were introduced and delivered brief addresses. Presented A Handsome Purse Mr. James T. Pullett, of 407 Mott street who has been confined to his home by illness for several weeks, was made to feel very cheerful on last Monday evening by a visit from the following friends Mr. and Mrs. Geo. T. Brent, Mrs. Mary E. Pullett, Miss Estelle V. Mason, Mrs. Hattie Pullett, Messrs. Edward Hughes, W. H. Langley, Matthew Moore, Joseph M. Johnson, Wilbert Henry, Lloyd H. Garrett. The evening was pleasantly spent and Mr. Pullett, was presented with a purse containing a neat little sum. The gentlemen are members of St. James Lodge, No. 9 Knights of Pythians. Tendered a Surprise Mrs. Rosa May, of 107 South Caroline street, tendered a surprise birthday party in honor of her husband, Mr. Emmett May, on last Thursday evening. A number of friends were present and the evening was pleasantly spent. Miss Amelia Locks and Mr. Ethan Johnson were married at the residence of their aunt Mrs. John Squirrel, 522 Lanvale street, Wednesday, April 12, 1911 at 8.30 o'clock. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. A. Holmes. A reception was held from 8.30 to 10 P.M. Presents were many and useful. The happy couple will make their home with their aunt. Miss Laura Coston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Coston, of Vine street, and Mr. Albert Addison, of 805 Pierce street, will be married Easter Monday night. Bishop Coppin preached at Trinity A. M. E. Church Sunday morning. He preached to the Merciful Help Circle, of the same church at night. He will preside over the Virginia Annual Conference, which opens at the North Street A. M. E. Church, Portsmouth, Va., next Wednesday. "Believe Me" You will be dancing "Constantly" AT THE MATINEE DANCE by KERR'S ORCHESTRA Easter Monday Afternoon, April 17, 2 to 6,30 AT GALILEAN FISHERMEN'S AUDITORIUM Admission 20 Cents. "It's Worth While" Gvien by the Great Southern Temple No. 30, Daughters of the J. B. P. O. Elks of the World, Easter Monday night, April 17th, 1911, at the Galilean Fishermen Hall. Prof. T. Henderson Kerr's Orchestra. Dancing directress Sister Mamie Wilkerson. Supper and Refreshments served by Lady Elks. General Admission 25 Cents. Retired Army Sergeant Becomes Despondant After Being Because Mary Satchell, a young widow who would not marry him, Henry Burton, a retired sergeant of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, shot himself in the head Wednesday morning, and from his injuries several hours later at the Maryland General Hoepital. Burton, it is said, had been paying court to Mrs. Satchell for several months, and furnished the house at 730 Mulberry street, where the tragedy occurred, in anticipation of his marriage. He and the widow were talking over their proposed marriage Tuesday, when she jokingly told him that they would not be married. He brooded over the remarks of the widow, and Wednesday morning dressed himself in the full uniform of the regular army, seated himself before a mirror and blew the side of his head off with an automatic pistol. Sergeant Burton was 51 years of age. He served in the regular army for 25 years and drew a pension of $49,50 a month. It is said that he received a blow on the head while in the army, and that this caused him to be somewhat flighty at times. For the past year he had been conducting a barber-shop on Pennsylvania avenue, near Green-wilow street. Hard to Keep The Methodist Episcopal Ministers' Meeting, at their regular session Wednesday, discussed the work of churches in neighborhoods that had changed in the character of residents. The discussion was opened by Rev. D. W. Shaw, Who spoke of the hard lot of the pastor in a church like Centennial M.E. Church Caroline and Bank streets. This church, which boasts that Frederick Douglass was among its early members, has fallen off greatly in its membership since its old and sturdy membership has either moved up town or passed away. In such neighborhoods, Dr. Shaw contended, the pastor must do missionary work among the element that not only does not go to church but is out of sympathy with its teachings. Rev. J. A. Holmes said that the general tendency was for churches to follow the drift of the population, while Dr. Lyon said that the people of each denomination must make an effort to save their weakening churches. He also said that since Baltimore and Ohio Railroad had bought so much property in South Baltimore that John Wesley Church had suffered somewhat by its members moving into other sections. The following officers were elected: Rev. D. D. Turpeau, President; Revs. R. R. Turgus and J..H. Goodrich, vice-Presidents; Rev. George D. Young, Secretary; Rev. M. J. Naylor, Treasurer; Rev. Nathan Johnson, Sergeant-at-arms; and Rev. Joseph Wheeler, Chorister and Organist. Tendered a Reception Rev. Alfred Young, Pastor of Whatcoat M. E. Church, was tendered a reception by his congregation last Monday night. Addresses were delivered by Revs. D. D. Turpeau, J. R. Williams, and Samuel Murray. Pastor Young was presented a purse of $20. Dr. DuBois to Lecture The Dubois Circle of the Niagara Movement have completed arrangements for the lecture of Dr. W.E.B. Dubois, the sociologist, which will be delivered at Bethel A. M. E. Church next Friday night. In a well received address at Sharp Street Memorial Church on Thursday, Miss Elizabeth C. Carter, president of the National Association of Colored Women's Club told of the value of Club work among the gentle sex. She told of the work women had done in her home seat, Massachusetts, for the schools; of the importance of the suffrage to women and urged that her sex take more interest in civil Entertained Mr. Ed. W. Pye, of Catousville tendered his wife, Mrs. Kate Pye, a charming surprise birthday party. Her many friends spent a most delightful evening until a late hour when they were ushered into the dining room which was beautifully arrauged with a variety of lovely plants and terns. The elaborate repast which was served would have suited an epicure Mrs. Kate Pye was the recipient of very handsome and useful presents. Among those present were: Mr. Joe. A. Plummer, Mesdames Wesley Banks, Horace Rivelin, Winfield Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. J. Pye Mr. and Mrs. David Fox, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ridout, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. D. Brown, Miss Grace Jackson. Mrs. J. Creditt, of 1129 Druid Hill avenue wishes to thank her many friends for kindness to her during her sickness and her parlors are now open again to the public for business. Mr. and Mrs. James E. Butler, of 1102 Argyle avenue, have issued invitations for the marriage of their daughter, Annie Elizabeth, to Mr. Shirley Bens. The wedding will take place at the home of the bride, Wednesday, April 26. Miss Grace Amby and Mr. Percy Lonesome were quietly married on last Wednesday evening by Rev. D. G. Mack. The Maryland Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Association has elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Edward Short, president; B. M. Rhetta, vice-president; Dr. E. J. Fisher, recording secretary; Dr. E. O. Fitzgerald, treasurer; Drs. H. F. Brown, Thomas S. Hawkins and J. C. Robinson, executive committee. The chairs of the dark ages, modeled partly on those of the Romans, were in keeping with the comfortless dwellings in which the people of the north of Europe then passed their lives. The Saxon kings of England are represented as sented on thrones in the form of a box, the ends slightly raised, the bottom advanced to form a sort of footstool. There is always a cushion to add a degree of comfort and sometimes a back in the form of a crosspiece or remotely resembling the backs of modern chairs. Employment Bureau First-class situations can be secured from the Employment Bureau of the Colored Young Women's Christian Association, 1200 Druid Hill avenue. Office open daily from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturdays; 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. 25 cents to secure a situation. Miss Sadie Chew, a15-4t Secretary Flat for rent with all modern improvements, four rooms and a bath at 22 E. 20th street bet. St. Paul and Charles street. 1t WANTED WANTED- Several good lady canvassers. $2.00 Cash security required. Can make a good salary. Apply to Robinson's Drug Store. Cor. Penna avenue and Gold St. 1t THE BON TON DRY CLEANING & DYEING S. C. BURGESS, Prop. 833 DRUID HILL AVENUE Cleaning and repairing a Specialty. Blankets cleaned equal to new. Straw Hats. Gloves and Feathers Cleaned equal to new. Ladies, and Gents' Tailoring THE ASCENSION A Beautiful Cantata. Words from the Scripture. Music by A.G. Robyn Will be presented at Bethel A. M. E. Church Under the auspices of the Sunday School. SOLOISTS: Miss C. Signora Van Nockay, Soprano. Mr. Frank Young, Tenor Miss Alice Sampson, Soprano Mr. John Woodward, Basso Edward F. Barnett, Director Orchestral Accompaniment Mrs.Annie Nichols, Pianist Mr.Thad Copeland, Supt Rev.D.G. Hill,Pastor Miss Rosa Tidings, Chairman POSITIVELY SILVER OFFERING. ...Sacred Easter Cantata... "Echoes from Calvary or The Empty Tomb" By Andrew W. Gassaway, in seven tableaux, with calcium light effect, at Payne Memorial A. M.E. Church, Patterson Ave. and Calhoun St. Sunday, April 16th, at 8 P. M. This beautiful cantata will be presented by the Senior Department of the Sunday School, accompanied by a chorus of fifty voices. Mr. Andrew W. Gassaway, Supt. Rev. P. W. Wortham, Pastor. P. S. As this cantata is attended, with much expense, passively a SILVER OFFERING will be requested at the door. 58-15 Men's rally of Board of Directors of the Joint Stock Association Sunday, April 30th, 1911, at 5.30 P. M. Rev. Robert T. Winn and congregation will be present to assist. Address by Rev. R. T. Winn. Mr. L. Ellsworth Toomey will be present with his troubadours. Their reputation needs no comment. All are invited. Silver offering taken at the door 411 W. Biddle St. Columbus Gordon, president; C. H. Eunis, secretary. Look Out For the Opening Day, Thursday, MAY 4th Special inducements for Moonlights. For dates and full information apply to George W. Brown, 1451 N. Carey Street, or Walter Langley, 1418 Jefferson Street Look, $50.00 Cash, $3.25 per week Rash buys one of those eloquent new homes Alt. Washington on the New Boulevard Rooms and bath, hot and cold water. Size of lot 36x175 Sunday, April 16th from 2 to 5 P.M. Agent on hand. gets carfare. Get off at Dixon Park. ARTHUR N. ROGERS OFFICE: 310 ST. PAUL STREET Y-St. Paul. $50.00 Cash buys one of those eloquent new homes at Mt. Washington on the New Boulevard With 6 rooms and bath, hot and cold water. Size of lot 36x175 Come out Sunday, April 16th from 2 to 5 P.M. Agent on hand. Only 5 cents carfare. Get off at Dixon Park. Knigts Of Pythias Band & Orchestra John T. Maxfield, Leader, 9 S. Stockton St., All mail orders Promptly Attended to. Howard Brent, Pres.,S06 GeorgeSt. Residence: Mt. Ver. 1837 COAL AND WOOD PHONE OR WRITE furnishing at the lowest market rates many of our private institutions with Clean High-grade coal, 2240 lbs to the to guaranteed. Why not let us supply you? 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 ICE AND YARD 542-46 UNION STREET Retailed Orders Delivered. Wolfe PHONE 1577-Y : : : : TERMS REASONABLE BEFORE BUYING SEE CLARENCE E. MARSHALL Agent for James Wilson Co. 622 North Spring Street. Phone or send Postal. Will call and Show you Samples. JOHN H. OWENS @ SON Undertakers & Embelmers $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 (222 Division St., bet. Dolphin and Lanvale. C. & P. Phone Mad. 4067 Messrs. W. T. D. Gray and R. G. McCleary, of New York are visiting in the city, the guests of Mr. and Jones of Pierce street. That Kerr's Orchestra—EasterMonday afternoon. Mrs. D. G. Hill, wife of Rev. Hill of Bethel A. M. E. Church is very ill at her home with the pneumonia. Mr. Frank Perry, of 505 Bloom street, who has been in Hopkins Hospital for the past four weeks is now at his home much improved. Matinee Dance, Fiehermen's Hall Easter Monday. Miss B. Fitzgerald of, 115 W. Biddle street entertained a few friends on last Wednesday evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Caswell Hatchett and Mr. Chas. Bamfield of Philadelphia, Pa. Beal 'heavy' danceby Kerr'sOrchestra Mrs. L. Belle Carroll and Mrs. Maud Jones, left yesterday for Wash ingson, to spend Easter and before returning home they will attend the closing exercises of Pleasant Hill School, Calvert Co., Md. Mr. Ernest Purviance will be glad to see his many friends at the Galilean Auditorium, April 21, 1911. Kerr's Orchestra, Fishermen's Hall big time. We'll dance to the tune of Auld Lange Syne, Elks sweethearts, wives and all Each moment lent, will be time well spent. At the Elks Grand Easter Ball. Just crazy 'bout my Kerr's Orchestra. Mr. Alfred H. Pitts, grand clerk of records of the Order of Nazarites, left yesterday for Richmond, Va. Before returning he expects to visit Richmond and Atlantic City. Mr. William C. McOard has gone to Atlantic City, where he will spend a few days with his wife, Mrs. Grace Mc. Card. Hear Kerr's orchestra 'set right down' Elks Benefit, Easter Monday April 17th, 1911 at Galilean Fishermens Hall. Music superb, Kerr's Orchestra-function of pleasure for the most fastidious. See the Elks Grand March. Suedes, foulards, switches: every thing Easter Monday. Mrs. Sarah Cobey, 808 China St., and Mrs. Mollie Smith have returned from Calvert County, where they went to attend the funeral of a relative. Dance myself crazy child, Easter Monday. Mr. William E. Tabb, of the composing force of the Afro-American Ledger, who has been ill at his home 506 N. Central Avenue, is in an improved condition. Believe Me. I'll dance "some more" Rev, A. L. Gaines has been invited to deliver the commencement address at Kittrell College, May 24. The college is the African Methodist educational institution for the sec-Episoal district. Attorney William C. McCard has purchased for investment houses at 792 W. Mulberry Street, 1208 and 1210 Druid Hill Avenue. 2 to 630. Fishermen's. Kerr's orchestra Mr. George Laurence, a superintendent for the New York Water Supply Co., will spend the Easter holidays home with his family, 747 George street. Hear Mr. Robinson slide that trombone VERONA GREATEST BORN MEDIUM MAKES NO CHARGE if the object of your visit is not explained without asking a question. Can be seen on all matters of business love, courtship, marriage, investments, etc. By my advice I remove the cause of mysterious troubles and unite the separated. Never fall. No matter what your trembles are or what you wish to know, this Gifted person can positively help you—no matter if you are hundreds of miles away. A word to the wise is sufficient. Hours 9 to 9 daily and Sunday. Fees 60c. and $1.00 217 CLINTON ST. near Pratt, Highlandtown. number on window. Take Roland Park car to Clinton street. Cut this out and call at once. For Pure and Fresh Drugs and No Substitutes $7,000 to loan on real estate, per sons having mortgages can borrow accordingly, small amounts prefer- red. Apply j. Winfield Thomas, 2127 Druid Hill Avenue. m18-a8 WANTED—Several good lady can- vassers. $2.00 cash security required. Can make a good salary. Apply to Robinson's Drug Store, cor. Penna, Ave., & Gold St. It. Kerr's dear, darling, sweet, cute or- chestra.