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VOL. XIX NO. 37. RECORD YEAR FOR HOWARD UNIVERSITY WILL GRADUATE THE LARGEST CLASS IN THE HISTORY OF THE INSTITUTION Exercises Have Already Commenced And Will Continue At Intervals Until The Last Of The Month.—Alumni Association To Raise Large Sum Of Money —Kelly Miller To Lecture In Louisville Next Month. Washington, D. C., May 19.—All is life at Howard University. The commencement season is on. Last Sunday, Miss Jane A. Delano, prominently identified with the Red Cross movement in this country, came to deliver the baccalaureate address to the graduating class of the Nurse Training School, and on Friday evening the class will receive its diplomas. May 30 will be the annual reunion of the Howard University Alumni; 25,000 is the amount wanted, and it is expected that a goodly portion of that sum will be paid in or subscribed. On May 31, commencement day proper, the principal address will be delivered by Justice Wendell Phillips Stafford, of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. The graduates this year will outstrip all previous years in point of numbers and quality. Fully two hundred will receive diplomas, and one hundred and fifty will have degrees conferred upon them. Prof. Kelly Miller will lecture at Calvary Baptist Church, Louisville, Ky., on June 2., and Former Recorder John C. Dancy will be in the same city at Jacob Street Tabernacle on the 6th. Washington is prodigal with her intellectual benefactions. Rumor has it that Dr. Henry W. Furniss will locate at Bahia, Brazil, at the close of his labors as Minister to Haiti. He has always expressed the highest admiration for the city in which he won his diplomatic spurs. The devotion of Congressman Frederick C. Stevens, of Minnesota, to his colored secretary, Frederick D. McCracken, was shown in an unmistakable fashion recently. Mr. McCracken was stricken with appendicitis, and an operation became necessary. He was taken to Freedmen's Hospital, where Dr. Ballard operated with marked success. Mr. and Mrs. Stevens insisted that Mr. McCracken have the best of everything, and that no expense should be considered when his needs were involved. Nevertheless, the young man was confined to his bed for three weeks, and every day of that period, and sometimes twice a day, either Congressman Stevens or his wife would call at the hospital to see Mr. McCracken and bring him a choice bouquet of flowers. Mr. McCracken has returned to his duties at the Capitol, and his closest relatives could not be happier over his recovery than are Mr. and Mrs. Stevens. Tuskegee Band (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Birmingham, Ala., May 11.—The Tuskegee Institute Band, which is making a tour of Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia, gave a concert at the Orpheum Theater, this city, last night to a crowded house, composed of the members of both races. The program drew forth frequent and hearty applause. During the morning the band honored Mr. Belton Gilreath, a life-long friend and trustee of Tuskegee, by giving a concert on the lawn of the Gilreath home. Mr. Gilreath presented the band with fifty dollars in gold. During the serenade, the small daughter of Mr. John A. Kaul, a wealthy citizen and near neighbor of Mr. Gilreath, smilingly presented Bandmaster Smith with fifty cents, stating that she wished the boys to buy postcards to send to their friends. The boys gave her a rousing cheer. The band left for Decatur this morning. Congressman Makes Donation (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Washington, D. C., May 17. Congressman Martin E. Maden has made a substantial donation to the fund that the Rev. A. J. Carey is raising for the extension of the work of the Institutional A. M. E. Church in Chicago. Mr. Madden is a reliable friend of the well-disposed colored men. Washington Odd (Ssepcial To The Afro-American Ledger.) (Septembr To The Arto-American Leager) Washington, D. C., May 18. — The Odd Fellows' Hall Association recently declared a dividend of five per cent, distributing among its stockholders the sum of $2,500, and had $1,600 left in the treasury. The hall has been handsomely re-decorated and many notable repairs and changes have been made, rendering it the best property owned by the Order in the country. The building is a well-constructed five-story brick, kept in admirable condition, and is worth easily $75,000. For twentyone years Mr. Thos. H. Wright has been president of the Association. FINE PRIZES WON BY COLLEGE STUDENTS Eighteenth Annual Commencement Exercises Of Snow Hill Institute (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Snow Hill, Ala., May 5.—The eighteenth annual commencement of the Snow Hill Normal and Industrial Institute, William J. Edwards, principal and founder, came to a close yesterday with the graduation of eleven young people from the normal department and four from the industrial divisions. The annual address was delivered by Dean William H. Clarke, of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, Normal, Ala. The commencement sermon was delivered Sunday morning by the Rev. M. M. Wood, pastor of the white Baptist church, Furman, Ala. Throughout all the exercises, the music furnished by the boys' glee club and the choir was one of the enjoyable features. The program of the literary and religious societies Monday was well rendered. The Peace Oratorical Contest for a prize of ten dollars, and the Trinity Church (Boston) prize took place on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, respectively, was won by Ransom Johnson, over three other contestants. The Trinity Church prizes of ten dollars and fifteen dollars, respectively, were won by Edmond O'Neal and Lela Duncan. Frank Jesse Carter, Tilden, Ala., delivered the salutatory, and Minnie Magnolia Long the valedictory address. Other members of the graduating class were Willie Lucille Savage; James William Stokes, Hattie May Lane, William James Cheeseboro, Brunetta B. Cunningham, Richard Dekata Steen. Prof. William H. Clarke, cean of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, delivered the annual address. Expert Marksmen To (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Washington, D. C., May 18. — Nine picked men, all expert marksmen, and members of the Army War College Detachment, will represent the Negroes of the United States Army at the coronation of King George V. They have been at Fort Myer, but will sail on the 18th from New York. They are detailed with the 15th Cavalry, under the command of Major F. S. Foltz. The men are Sergeant E. Scott, Corporal W. Frierson, Privates William Bailey, W. A. Chaney, S. Wright, Elder Green, J. Rutledge, H. Jeffries and B. D. Price. They will march in the great coronation pageant with the 15th Cavalry. LEDGER LOAFERS OF ANY RACE ARE DANGEROUS SERVANTS WHITE CAP AND APRON ARE AS HONORABLE AS COLLEGE CAP AND GOWN Colored Baptists Of Virginia Plead Earnestly For Better Conditions For Their People. — Twenty New Churches Received Into Fellowship. — Governor Mann Makes An Address—Gives Ministers Some Excellent Advice. (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Richmond, Va., May 14. — Yesterday was one of the busiest sessions ever held by the Virginia Baptist State Convention. Dr. R. H. Bolding presided, and the praise services were conducted by Revs. F. C. Patterson, of Hollis; L. A. Green, of Swansboro, and J. S. Minor, of Beulah. "Home Life of the Negro" was the theme of the address delivered, by President Bowling to the convention. "One of the things that we must teach our people in this world," he said, "is the importance of getting homes and paying for them, educating their children and bettering their own conditions as individuals, and this will mean racial progress. "Education must go a long way toward help our people. I want that we shall do all in our power to wipe out our illiteracy, ignorance and crime. Every State in the Union should do this. The men of both races who make the most trouble are the ignorant, vicious class. While here, let me speak against crime and criminals. They are produced by loafers: Loafers of any race are dangerous, and we are willing to join with the lawmakers to reduce loafing. "Teach them that all labor is honorable; that the white cap and apron of the servant are as honorable as the college cap and gown. Teach them that the pickaxe and shovel, the plow and the hoe are as honorable as the pen, and more honorable than the sword. Teach them to tell the truth, pay their debts, to give their words as hostage for their lives, and that crime, criminality, loafing, stealing, gambling, swearing, are hate things which bring disgrace to races or individuals. The Virginia Baptist State Convention stands for higher manhood and womanhood." Twenty new churches were received during the morning, and the delegates representing them were given a reception and extended welcome by the president. Professor W. T. B. Williams, field secretary of the Slater Fund, and secretary of the Negro organization Society, was presented to the Convention and delivered an address. He said that he was delighted to see the wonderful progress being made in the Convention, and felt that it meant much for the future of the Negro in this country. "We cannot sit down and wait, but must be ever up and doing something." When Governor W. H. Mann entered the Fifth Street Baptist Church last night at ten o'clock, accompanied by a committee consisting of Revs. W. F. Graham, Walter H. Brooks, B. Tyrell, W. B. Reed, M. B. Hocles, J. Madison Young and W. B. Hood, he was given an enthusiastic ovation by the fifteen hundred members of the Convention. The Rev. W. F. Grainam, D.D., pastor of the church, introduced his excelency, the Governor, who addressed the Convention. Governor Mann said in part: "Having text assigned me, I feel that I am here for two or three purposes. I want to show the people of Virginia and ch. people of Richmond where II stand. I stand to push forward the good of the people, and I was elected Governor for that purpose. I speak to you as a layman who believes that Jesus Christ came to save saints, of which I am one. to this body of representative preachers, who have assembled here from all parts of the State of Virginia and District of Columbia, I would use the words of the Apostle Paul, "that I know nothing about you save Jesus Christ and Him crucified." The people who come to church come to hear the gospel. They care nothing about your theories and science, but they want to know the way to Heaven. "I have seen men's whole course of life changed in a moment by the Spirit. Now, have you go this religion? I hope you have. The religion that will make a man better. You can come to the throne of grace asking for loved ones, as Moses did. "Why are you here, preachers? Preaching for money? No, I can make more money at anything else, but I am preaching because I am compelled to preach. Do you fall into error sometimes? Yes, but then what should you do? Do like the man who stumps his toes. Get up, and go on serving God. Look up. Cling to the higher things in life. Read the life of Christ, and that's all you need to do. You will never find a single instance where Christ did for man what He could do for Himself. When He went to raise Lazarus from the dead, someone had to remove the stone, because man could do that for himself, but Christ had to raise the dead. "I want to impress on you that God does not turn His back on human beings, but man turns his back on God. The prodigal son who left his home, left his father and went away from home. His father remained at home. Do not go away from God." Rev. R. C. Wood responded to the address of the Governor. Among others who spoke during the day were Revs. J. Francis Walker, of Cincinnati; Granville Hunt, of New York; R. W. Young, of Upper Zion, Va.; Prof. J. S. Lee, president of the State Sunday School Convention, and A. W. Holmes, president of the Order of True Reformers. (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Eason, Md., May 18. — "Mothers' Day" was duly observed here by both the A. M. E. and M. E. Churches, and many persons were seen wearing white carnations. Sermons in praise of mothers were preached in all the churches. Miss Hattie Marshall, principal of the public school, was tendered a reception on Tuesday evening by Mesdames Holland and Johnson, at which many friends were present. A welcome reception was tendered Rev. J. A. Young and wife on their return from Conference. The welcome address was made by Mr. Phillip Henson, in connection with a well arranged program by Mrs. Lula Henson. The local Lodge of Odd Fellows attended services at Bethel Church Sunday. It was the occasion of their annual thanksgiving sermon. A large number were present. The Chancellor Commander of the local lodge of K. of P. (A. G. Chambers) was in Baltimore this week, on business connected with the Order. Presiding Elder Is Tendered A Reception (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Easton, Md., May 17.—Rev. P. J. Jordan, presiding elder of the Easton District, was tendered a reception at Bethel A. M. E. Church last Friday night. He preached at the church Sunday night. Rev. and Mrs. S. H. Hooper were tendered a surprise reception by the members of Bethel Church Monday evening. A purse was presented Mrs. Cooper. Mr. Hugh Parson was taken suddenly ill at his home, on Hanson street, last Friday. Mr. James Wilson has been taken to the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, for treatment. Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Turner, Mrs. John Smith and Miss Daisy Jeukins have gone to the Caskill Mountains. The remains of Mrs.Christiana Thompson, who died at her home in Baltimore, were brought to Easton today. Mrs. E. J. Truxon and the Misson Hill, of Baltimore, were the guests of Mrs. Tighman Saturday and Sunday. Statue To John Brown (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Washington, D. C., May 18—A movement is on foot to place a statue of John Brown in the Hall of Fame at the Capitol. PRICE THREE CENTS A NEW BUILDING FOR WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY A NEW BUILDING FOR WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT SCARBOROUGH IS MAKING A GREAT RECORD IN RAISING BIG SUMS OF MONEY The Colonel Is Getting Around Considerably.—A Trip To Wilmington.—Some Of The People He Met There.—One To Richmond.—Makes An Address.—Is!Introduced By Dr.D. Webster Davis.—Listens To The Governor Deliver An Address Willberforce, Ohio.—I have been riding a little since I wrote to you last, and yet in the face of all this I am still in the world, ready to tell you all I have in my shop, and hope you will listen to it. I wrote to you the other day from Wilmington, N. C., and if I tell you all I have in mind this week I would use up all the paper, and there would not be room for te editor to tell you the news that is going on all over the country. (Continued on Page 6) NEGROES LEARNING HOW TO DO THINGS Belton Gilreath Of Birmingham Delivers Address To Gradutes Of Corona Now, in Wilmington I had a fine time. I shall never forget the many things I saw and heard while there. It was in this place where Editor Murphy made his advent into the Afro-American or brought the paper into prominence. He was the man who wrote with the pen of a ready writer, and then he made men know that he was there and he was there to say what he had to say. I left Wilmington and went right to Richmond, Va., and there met my friend and brother, D. Webster Davis, the poet and author, who in my mind is one of the greatest men of our race, and a man who is doing something for his race. Dr. Davis is an inspiration to our boys and girls. He is not only a teacher and author, but is one of the greatest preachers of the age, and a philosopher. He is to the world today what George W. Lee was during his lifetime. I was assigned to stop with Deacon Ben Jackson, of the First Baptist Ch. His wife was at the door looking for me and made me welcome, and I was glad to enter their palatial home. I have not mentioned him before. He entered the business world when Richmond was climbing, and he went right along up with it. He had the pleasure of serving in as a member of the council for some time, and he never allowed an opportunity to pass when he could do something for his race, or for the betterment of the community. Mr. Jackson is doing a good grocery business right in the town. I was indeed glad to have the pleasure of meeting him and looking into his face. Miss Cora Bright is one of the teachers in the public school, and she is doing good work. She has been in the family of Mr. Jackson for most all her life, and she is one of the young women doing something. But now my visit to Richmond. I went there to attend the Baptist State Convention, and as I was to be there a day ahead of the convention, Dr. D. Webster Davis arranged for me to deliver a lecture at the Sharon Baptist Church. It has been said that that young man looked like an old man like me, and the people were anxious to see us together, so they turned out in large numbers. Dr. Davis presided, and after a short address introduced me and I made my remarks. The next day I went into the convention, and it was a large convention, I am here to tell you. It was presided over by one o' the greatest men in our country, Dr. R. H. Bowling. It opened in good time, and the Rev. Dr. W. F. Grahana, the pastor of the church, turned over to the convention the keys of the church, so to speak, and they were accepted. I shall not take up time to tell you all about the convention, because you have an account of it. The Governor of the COL. J. O. MIDNIGHT. State delivered an address. Did I say an address? I am off; it was a sermon. He did not raise any issue, but talked all about a converted heart, until he made me think that he knew something about the sho' nuf 'ligion, and I guess he does. Rev. R. C. Woods responded to the address, and he made a good response. I had a nice time during the week, and then left for Washington, D. C., and then to Pittsburg, where I spent last Sunday. In the morning I spoke for Rev. R. French Hurley, pastor of Bethel, and in the afternoon I attended the meeting of the Y. M. C. A. at Euclid Avenue A. M. E. Church. It was addressed by a white man. I had the pleasure of meeting the Rev. Charles J. Powell, pastor. He is a fine man, and it is the first time I have had the pleasure of meeting him. I called on Mr. and Mrs. William H. Thompson, who are doing a big grocery business. I had the pleasure of talking with Mrs. Thompson, and on Sunday night I spoke for Rev.Messer, and at night got on the bed car headed for this place Getting out of the bed car, "Dad" Harrison was on hand to receive me in the name of the lecture committee of Wilberforce University. Prof. C. H. Johnson, the art teacher, is the chairman of the committee, and Prof. John A. Lankford is the secretary. They invited me to stop by and make a few remarks, and I accepted. I was there on time. Soon I was at the school, and was received with dignity, if there is such a thing. Mrs. Lankford assured me that, I was welcome, and I felt that I was welcome. Mrs. Lankford assured me that she was glad to see me, and then I met (Specian to The Afro-American Ledger.) Corona, Ala.—Declaring his every interest in the efforts of the race to uplift themselves, Melton Gilreath, publicist and philanthropist, made a stirring address at the closing exercises of the Corona Normal and Industrial Instituite last Friday night. The school is largely supported by the colored miners of this section. Mr. Gilreath, who resides at Birmingham, Ala., and is a trustee of the Tuskegee Institute, was introduced by L. B. Musgrove, president and general manager of the Corona Corporation. At the outset of his address the speaker of the evening complimented the people of his community for their general moral status and praised the work of the late Prof. W. H. Council, founder, and for many years president, of the college at Normal, Ala. Mr. Gilreath spoke, in part, as follows: "The Negroes in this section of Alabama have a great opportunity. Two-thirds of the ore mining is done by them, whereas, when I first came to Alabama, it was done entirely by white miners. Negroes are learning how to do things. God put you here for a purpose. He had a motive for it, for He is behind all race movements. "You have he chance to read the Bible; the chance for development; the chance to build character, and after all, it is character that counts. Your race is doing far more than you, perhaps, think; and yet there is a great work for you to do. "The same God that laid down the principle that out of the sweat of the brow shall man be fed, also laid down the principle that all men were created out of one blood. It is not a question of color. It is a question of what man is doing. You have great race leaders. Take their advice, emulate their example, and you will have no need to be discouraged." In closing Mr. Gilreah paid a high tribute to the efficiency of the work of the principal, Prof. M. H. Griffin. Superintendent J. W. Harkins declared that in all his work, he heard no complaint from the miners of the tax they paid for the support of the school, and that in the work of the men he could see the good influence of the school. --- NEW AWAKENING IN CHURCH LIFE WISDOM OF BISHOP GAINES. Historical Review of Oldest Religious Corporate Body Among Afro-Americans in the World—Once Foremost of Them All—Rev. Dr. Montrose W. Thornton's Successful Leadership. By WHITTIER H. WRIGHT. Philadelphia.—The African M. E. church is the oldest religious denomination among colored people in the world. It had its humble rise in the City of Brotherly Love, the cradle of American independence, 125 years ago. Its first church, known as Mother Bethel, was erected on Sixth street, below Pine. It was a blacksmith shop converted into a house of worship by the founder, first pastor and bishop, Richard Allen. Here it has remained for all these years the most honored and sacred spot in Negro history. Three church P. REV. DR. M. W. THORNTON. buildings have in turn succeeded the "blacksmith shop." The present edifice, erected in 1889, is one of the finest structures owned by the race. Conditions have changed within the last twenty-five years. These have largely affected the church life of Mother Bethel and made a problem that has baffled the wisdom of its directors. Twenty-five years ago Bethel stood alone, the foremost, largest and leading church body in the city. It was the center of the colored population. Since that time new conditions have set in. A foreign class has surrounded the cradle spot of African Methodism. The colored people have been pushed miles away and other churches have arisen to afford a greater convenience. Four years ago Bishop Wesley J. Gaines came to the district and made this matter one of his chief concerns. All eyes rested upon his choice of appointment for the old Mother church. To the surprise of many and against the advice of others, the good bishop chose a young minister of the conference not exceeding his thirties, expressing the confidence that this young MOTHER BETHEL CHURCH. man possessed the capabilities of preserving the glorious heritage bequeathed by the fathers. This young man at that time, acclaimed the leader of the conference by his brethren, was Montrose William Thornton, the fearless little fellow that dared champion the cause of his people in Delaware and defied the mobs that were pursuing them to death. His utterances and courageous attitude at that time attracted the press of the nation and classed him with the heroes of other days. Brilliant, forceful and resolute, this young man entered the portals of the Illustrious Allen; in less than a year Philadelphia and the connection were aware that something had happened with "Allen's naval." The sparks were indeed flying, and the people were docking to see and hear Dr. Thornton. Oppositions heightened with jealousies arose from within and without, but the rode serenely over them. Precedents were smashed to pieces, new methods and customs were weekly instituted; the church entirely reorganized and the services modernized. The surplaced choir, processionalis, recessionals, altar attire, individual communion cups, personal pulpit attire, regaled officers, Allen corps of drilled and costumed young men, etc. were parts and ways of this young Samson. Tongues were wagging, but Thornton was working, the empty pews of old Mother Bethel were being filled and the heavy church debt was being reduced by the thousands. Today Mother Bethel has again taken her place with the most active church bodies in the city or connection. Four years ago her bonded debt was $24,000. Thornton has reduced it to $10,000, thus paying and burning the first mortgage in forty years. Through his efforts Allen's tomb has been completed, electricity installed, innumerable repairs made, an increase of 000 souls to the church and one of the largest and most popular attendance to be found anywhere. Dr. Thornton is beloved by his entire membership. The corporation has bestowed upon him honors never before accorded any predecessor. They have by resolution memorialized the bishop for his fourth year's return and again have repeated the same for the fifth year. If he is returned he will enjoy the greatest honor of any of the illustrious pastors that have preceded and will be the first to serve Bethel five years successively. Several financial records have been broken by this little man and other things too numerous to mention that are secrets of his success and popularity. As a writer, speaker, organizer and leader he has few superiors, and his name is largely mentioned throughout the connection as a fit candidate for the bishopric. Mother Bethel has given seven of her most renowned pastors to this holy office. None has given her a more faithful and brilliant service than Dr. Thornton, and it would be no surprise if this little man of strength and character should be the eighth to wear the mantle of the sacred Allen. BANK DISCRIMINATION. Colored Man First on Eligible List, Office Abolished. The heart of an editorial in the May number of the Crisis under the caption "Civil Service" reads like this: "A civil service examination was held in Cleveland to fill a vacancy in the position of law clerk, stenographer and typewriter at $1,600 an annum in the office of William L. Day, United States district attorney. About ten candidates took the examination. Two colored men stood first and third and a Jew second on the list. "James G. Bachman, white, who was appointed and who was at the time of the examination temporarily employed in the office of District Attorney Day, was among those who took the examination. Bachman failed to qualify in the competitive examination for the place, and as soon as this was known the department of justice in Washington, acting on Mr. Day's recommendation, abolished the position of law clerk, stenographer and typewriter. "In lieu thereof Bachman was appointed an assistant United States district attorney for Mr. Day's office, thereby ignoring the three persons, Messrs. Henry L. Thomas, Nathan Rappaport and Edward Dunjill, who stood highest on the eligible list and who were certified for appointment. Now, then, is this a case of rare race pride and triumphant Americanism, or is it just a plain low trick of which every fair minded man should be ashamed?" IMPORTANT CONVENTION. Association For Prevention of War to Meet In Paris. Dr. A. M. Curtis, president of the National Medical association, has appointed the following well known physicians to represent the National Medical association at the meeting of the International Medical Association For the Prevention of War, to be held in Paris in June: Drs. George Cleveland Hall, Chicago; John E. Hunter, Lexington, Ky.; A. M. Brown, Birmingham, Ala.; George E. Cannon, Jersey City, N.J.; M. O. Durnas, Washington, D. C., and M. F. Wheatland, Newport, R. I. As the several governments are entitled to a personal representative, it is thought that Dr. A. M. Curtis will be designated by President Taft as the special envoy of the United States. Bishop Scott Gives Timely Advice. If the advice of Bishop Isaiah Scott, who has charge of the work of the African Methodist Episcopal church in the Republic of Liberia is followed, Afro-Americans in this country will not concern themselves about emigrating to that country. There is no better place for colored Americans than the United States. Chances for improvement in Liberia are very slim, he said. Strict Party Line Policy Not Essential. The time has passed when Afro-Americans should look to any one political preferment. There may be good men and bad men in all parties, but the man who is willing to concede the rights of other men and who uses his office in the interest of all the people alike, regardless of race or color, is the kind of man to support in whatever party he may be found. Anniversary of Malta Commandery. The first anniversary of Malta commandery No. 19. Knights Templars. East End, Pittsburg, will be held on Tuesday evening, May 30, in Old Calvary church, on Pennsylvania avenue. Features of the celebration will be a May festival and musical. How the Mills Were Saved Mine was a case of stepmother and one of the worst cases of the kind on record. Stepmothers are not all bad by any means, but when they are it's mighty hard on their stepchildren. Boys, when they become old enough, can go away and fight the world for themselves, but that's not so easy for girls. Nevertheless, I did that very thing. After mother's death father took into the house to take care of me—he said—a woman about his own age. He saw the folly of this plan when it was too late. There was something about the woman, or perhaps some weak spot in father, that enabled her to dominate him. And as for me, she made my life one of misery. When I was seventeen, having stood well in my classes at school, I was offered a position as governess in the Opdyke family. I accepted it to get away from my stepmother. I taught the younger children of the family. There was a son, Harry, a year or two older than I, who was a clerk for his father, a manufacturer of paper. The Opdyke family considered themselves very well off when I went to live with them. They were dreadfully afraid that Harry would fall in love with me. They had no objection to me except that they wished him to make a good match, which, being interpreted, means one with money. I didn't know it at the time, but my father had considerable property. It was in securities in which he had invested what money he had after a panic. When I left home he still had these securities, but they were not available. He was keeping them for a time when the commercial depression had passed and the property they represented would resume the payment of dividends. Therefore either he was not in a position to give me any income, or if he was his wife prevented him from doing so. I remained in the Opdyke family five years. Meanwhile Harry had become his father's right hand man at the mills. He had permitted himself to fall in love with me, but I knew that although the family thought a great deal of me they were looking higher for him; consequently I would not yield to his wishes for a betrothal. Several matters of importance to us all came about at very near the same time. In the first place, Mr. Opdyke, who had been carrying a debt on his mills, found himself unable to provide for it any longer. In the second place, my father died and my stepmother produced a will leaving all his property to her. Harry told me confidentially of the condition of the family affairs and said that, now we were on the same financial basis, we had better join our fortunes. "What a pity." I said to him, "that my father didn't leave me some of his property; I might have helped your father and you through your difficulties." I gave way to Harry's persuasive efforts and we became engaged, although we kept the engagement a secret. Under these conditions Harry took an interest in my personal affairs. I told him a great deal about my stepmother, and he suggested taking legal steps to break the will. But after talking the matter over we both agreed that there were no grounds for breaking it—at least none that we could prove. My father was probably of sound mind at the time he made it, and I could not prove that his wife had used undue influence to induce him to make it in her favor. The only objection I could bring up was that my father had told me shortly before his death that my stepmother had tried to force him into making a will in her favor, but he was firmly resolved to make no will. I made up my mind to have a look at the document. I took Harry with me to the court where it had been filed, and it was shown to me. It was not in my father's handwriting, but I was familiar with his signature, and it seemed to me to be genuine. I noticed that the witnesses and and the notary were all of my stepmother's choosing. At least, there were none of father's friends among them. The document had not been executed on a regular form, but on a sheet of ordinary paper. After examining it thoroughly I handed it to Harry. Persons in the paper business are apt to acquire a habit on taking up a sheet of paper of holding it up to the light and looking at the watermark on it. Harry did this, at the same time rubbing the surface with his thumb and finger. I saw by the expression on his face that he had made a discovery. Hurriedly looking at the date on which the will was made he turned to me and said: "That will is a forgery." "How do you know?" I exclaimed, catching my breath. "The paper was made in our mills not a year ago, and the will was made three years ago. In other words, the will was made two years before the paper." "Are you sure?" "Yes, and we have the date in the mills to prove what I say." Though I was delighted, I was mad and resolved to send my stepmother to state prison. But I afterward compromised by her signing off her widow's dower and my not prosecuting her for forgery. I saved the Opdyke paper mills, which my husband now owns. ON LES. A Canadian Railway Official Who Did Not Appreciate, Kilts. Many years ago a well known Scotch nobleman went out to one of our smaller dependencies to take up an official position under the governor. He was a colonel of volunteers at home, and consequently he took out his gorgeous kilt uniform with him to wear on those occasions on which etiquette demanded such an attire. The necessity for donning his kilt arose soon after he arrived in the colony, and attired in all his glory he took the train from the country station near to which he chanced to be residing at the time to the town where his distinguished presence was required. At one of the stopping places along the route the guard, to whom kilts were an absolutely unknown article of attire and who apparently, when he looked in at the carriage window and saw the gallant colonel seated therein, imagined that that gentleman had dispensed with his nether garments on account of the heat, said, "We are getting near town, sir." At the next station he came again, and, seeing the colonel in exactly the same costume, he exclaimed excitedly: "Excuse me, sir, but I must insist on your dressing yourself at once. We shall arrive at the town station in five minutes!"-London Tit-Bits. LUCK AT MONTE CARLO. A Fly Which Cost the Gambling Room a Small Fortune. About Jan. 25, 1904, a curious thing happened at Monte Carlo. The superstition of gamblers is well recognized, but it is seldom that their reliance upon omens brings them such luck as was the case on the above date. At what is known as the "suicide" table in the Monte Carlo gambling rooms the following remarkable incident occurred: A fly alighted on No. 13 on the roulette table at the time when the players had suffered a persistent run of hard luck. The superstitious gamblers exchanged covert glances and searched their pockets for money with which to stake. In a few moments the "middle dozen"—that is to say, the Nos. 13 to 24—were literally covered with stakes. Then an elderly gambler arose and piled napoleons round the square on which the fly had alighted, thus backing the numbers from 10 to 17. Less confident players staked smaller amounts on the "transversales." The ivory marble was sent spinning round the roulette wheel. There was a moment of suspense and then the coupler announced the winning number-13. But what is far more extraordinary the same number came up three times in succession. That lly cost the casino over $25,000. What an Account Book Does. A bank book with check book and stubs is the easiest way of keeping a cash account, and then you have the bank to prove your account for you. The cash register is a means of keeping accounts of receipts and payments combined with a "bell punch" upon honesty. System is an indispensable requisite of successful business; honesty and ability will not succeed without it. The first step in this direction on the part of youth is keeping a personal cash account. The orderly setting down of receipts and expenditures confronting oneself with what has been expended and for what purpose carries a continual moral, a warning if need be, and a lesson in responsibility. The balance, the proof and the test bring home the power and responsibility of receiving and spending.—A. Barton Hephburn in Leslie's. The Sympathetic Watch. The sympathetic watch is all very well, writes a correspondent, but there are many who find that their watches can never be relied upon to behave regularly. Generally the wearer is found to be of a very nervous disposition, and it certainly looks as if this communicated itself to the watch. One inherited by the writer, which had kept good time for years, immediately developed erratic tendencies when worn by him and has never got out of them. Only once for a brief space did a watch go regularly with him. It was a Swiss one, which had varied when worn in England, but kept accurate time on a Swiss holiday. And the question was whether it was the wearer's temporarily braced nerves or the effect of its native air on the watch that did the trick. — London Chronicle. Spoiled His Speech. "When I rose to speak it was so still in the hall you could have heard a pin drop." "Yes?" "Well, I stood there for a moment looking out over the audience and framing my first sentence, and I am sure that I should have been able to get along all right, but just before I had got ready to utter my first word some fool in the back end of the hall velled."—Judge. "Do you think that your speeches will echo down the corridors of time?" "I don't know about that," replied the energetic statesman. "but I'm sure some of my comic anecdotes will continue to do so."—Washington Star. Vinegar. The ancients accredited great anti-septic power to vinegar and used it to a large extent for this purpose notwithstanding its high cost. This quality was greatly overrated. In these times we fight for ideas and newspapers are our fortress Heine. WE LOAN MONEY Furniture and Chattels Easy Payments Lowest Rate 635 ENSOR ST., Near Monument St. 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 South 422 or South 396-Y. 142 W. Hill Street np Mount Vernon 5138 826 Druid Hill. Wish to announce to the generous public that I am still doing business at my old stand, 578 W. BIDDLE ST. Thanking the public for all past favors and hoping for a continuance of the same. Carriage for hire for weddings, parties and funerals, and special attention given to all orders day or night. Yours, ALEX. HEMSLEY, Mt. Vernon 2578 Main Office. GEORGE H. HOLLAND, Manager. C. & P. Phone: 585 Y-Madison. 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. 1100 block Etting street 600 block Pitcher street 700 block George street 1100 block Carey street 1000 block Carey street 1100 block Calhoun street 1000 block Carrolton ave. 1500 block Mount street 500 block Laurens street 600 block Dolphin street 700 block Mulberry street and a number of others on Division street, Druid Hill avenue, Argyle avenue, Etting street and cross streets. These houses can be bought on easy payments. as easy as rent. Its wasting money to rent- rent-rent, with nothing to show for your money. Come to see us today. Homeseekers Realty Company. Bank Building Druid Hill Ave. and Hoffman St. CRAYON PICTURE OF YOURSELF OR FRENDS? Do You Want One? The Afro-American Ledger has just completed a contract with a reputable artist by which every subscriber may become the owner of a picture suitable for framing and at a cost within the reach of all. The size of the pictures is sixteen by twenty inches, and of good work. How To Get One. The yearly subscription price of The Afro-American Ledger is $1.00. Just add forty cents, or send us $1.40 and we will send you the Afro-American Ledger for one year and a life size bust crayon picture of yourself or friend. If out of town enclose picture and fifteen cents extra for postage, or a dollar and fifty-five cents for the Afro-American Ledger for one year and your picture. If you are in the city then bring your photograph and and one dollar and forty cents to the office and we will do the rest. Send all subscriptions to The Afro-American Office, 628 N. Eutaw St. Baltimore, Md. A NEW BUILDING FOR WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY A NEW BUILDING FOR WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY Charles S. Smith, who is at the head of the commercial department, and who used to write to me years ago, but has been too busy to do so of late, but his friendship has not changed. I shook his hand, and then went to see Mrs. Castella Johnson, the wife of Prof. Johnson, and a brainy little woman. She is from Normal, Ala., and this accounts for it. Now, next found in the buggy of President Scarborough, going around looking at things, and what do you think of it? I was just riding with a real college president. He is one of the educated men of the country, and at the head of such a large school, and yet he did not refuse to take up time and show me around. Now about the institution. I am here to tell you that it is in good shape, and is doing a great work under the new president. I said new president, yet Prof. Scarborough has been connected with the school for years. He has almost grown up right here, and knows all about it, and then, too, he is a member of the race, and his life and work in the world of education is an inspiration to many lives. He is one of the men of the race that we can point to without making reference to his racial connection, because you can see at a glance that he slightly connected with the race, but you can place him by the side of any man and he will represent thought, brain and ability. All preparation is being made for a new building for the schools. President Scarborough already has in hand $40,000 for the new building, and the plans are being drawn and worked out by Architect and Mechanical Engineer Prof. J. A. Lankford. He tells me that it is going to be modern in every respect and will be one of the best buildings in the country for girls. It will contain kitchen and dining room, lecture room, reception room, art room, guest chambers, and then rooms for the girls to sleep in at night. Say what you may, but Prof. Scarborough has raised more money than perhaps any other man who has been president of Wilberforce since it has been a school, and all because he has not been too stiff to make friends, but has touched hands with all men. God gives us more men like him for our schools! I want to here express my thanks to the trustees for elevating him. While at the school I had the pleasure of meeting Madame A. Hackley, and it was a pleasure to see her. I told you last week that she is doing something for God and the race, and is without a doubt a representative woman. Prof. C. H. Johnson is giving his life for the Laymen Missionary Movement. I shall have more to say about it in another letter. I think I shall bring these remarks to a close. I hope that many of our people are preparing to go to Meridian, Miss., next month. I shall be there myself, and hope to meet many of my friends here. Summer Sessions And Training School Durham, N. C., May 12.—The second Summer School session of the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua, of which Dr. James E. Shepard is president, will begin Wednesday, July 5, and continue six weeks. A faculty of thirty-nine persons, most of them specialists, and all men and women of experience in their particular work, has been engaged for the occasion. The trend of the general lectures and the daily conference divides the summer school work into sections of importance to particular groups of two weeks each, although the entire six weeks will be interesting. Ministers and lecturers of note the country over have been secured for the season, and the schedule has been admirably arranged for work, lectures, study and recreation, so that the vacation for teachers, ministers and other professional people can be pleasantly as well as profitably spent. Womens' Day At Deleware City Delaware City, Del., May 16. — Woman's Day services were held at St. Paul's M. E. Church Sunday. Among the ladies who took part in the exercises during the day were Mesdames Hattie Coffman, Philip Williams and Emma Tole. The Odd Fellows and members of the Household of Ruth had their annual thanksgiving services preached at the Union American M. E. Church, Sunday afternoon. Following a sermon by Rev. S. Gunhy, addresses were delivered by Rev Hallett, of Philadelphia; Rev. J. O. Stanley, W. H. O. Ennis, Mrs. Ida Harmon and others. Woman's Day services will be held at St. Peter's M. E. Church this Sunday. Delegates Elected Special to the Afro-American Ledger. Philadelphia, Pa., May 16. — The Philadelphia Conference of the African Methodis Episcopal Church adjourned here last night with the announcement of the appointments by Bishop Games. The following delegates were elected to the General Conference last Thursday, after a spirited fight: Revs. W. T. T. Watkins, H. H. Cooper; F. T. M. Webster, H. Y. Arnett, C. C. Dunlap and W. H. Davis. At The Dedication Of The New Y. M. C. A. On Thanksgiving (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Washington, D. C., May 18.—President Taft, who has evinced no small degree of interest in the welfare of the colored branch of the Y. M. C. A., has consented to address the Association at the Howard Theater at an early date. It is understood that the new home of the Y. M. C. A. will be dedicated on Thanksgiving Day and that President Taft will deliver the dedicatory address on that occasion. It will be remembered that the cornerstone of this building was laid by President Roosevelt on Thanksgiving Day, 1908. General Happenings In Winchester. (Special to the Afro-American Ledger) (Special to the Airo-American Leader) Winchester, Va, May 17—Mrs. Mary Wilkinson is visiting relatives and some friends in Balitmore. Mr. James A. Valentine has returned home, after a visit to friends in Washington. Mrs. J. M. Benson, daughter and son have gone for a visit to Richmond, Va., and Washington, before leaving for their future home in St. Louis, Mo. Miss Channa Davis, who has been ill for some weeks, is able to be out again. Mr. George Doris has returned after visiting friends in Riverton. Creek School Commencement. (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Boley, Oklahoma, May 19.—The annual commencement exercises of the CreekSeminole Agricultural University began here Wednesday and will end tonight. Rev. E. M. Cohorn, of St. Joseph, Mo., preached the baccalaureate sermon at the First Baptist Church, Sunday. The students presented an interesting literary program Wednesday night and Prof. William Fulbright, of Elreno, delivered an address. Public examinations of the pupils began yesterday, and Hon. William Harrison, of Oklahoma City, will deliver the address to the graduates tonight. Odd Eellows (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Snow Hill, Md., May 16.—A large number of Odd Fellows of Snow Hill and vicinity turned out at the Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday to listen to the annual thanksgiving sermon by Rev. J. W. Jewett. Mrs. Guelah Cottingham is visiting relatives in Philadelphia. Mr. Major Selby had three of his fingers cut off in a saw mill at Godfrey's Mill. The Busy Bee Social gave a silver social at the Odd Fellows' Hall last Wednesday night. The ladies of Ebenezer M. E. Church observed Mothers' Day Sunday. Class was led by Mrs. Lizzie Myers. Mesdames Harriet Duffield and Minnie Osmond are on the sick list. Miss Mildred Palmer is visiting friends in Baltimore. Mr. Leven Davis and Mrs. Priscilla Barnes are visiting in Philadelphia. Mr. Otto Castelle is visiting friends in Lewes, Del. Bishop Walters (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) St. Michaels, Md., May 13.—Bishop Alexander Walters, of New York, was tendered a reception at the A. M. Zion Church. The prelate lectured at the church one evening, and preached the next, large congregations greeting him each time. The pastor, Rev. Dr. H. W. Smith, is now in Washington, attending the annual session of the Philadelphia and Baltimore A. M. E. Zion Conference. At the reception to the bishop and the pastor addresses were made by Mrs. David Dennis, Miss Helen G. Turner, Mrs. C. W. Smith and others. The uptown school has organized a baseball club. Among the good players on the team are W. Reed, A. E. Beverley, E. Frazier and Harry Gardner. The line-up is as follows: Robert Washington, r. f.; Marion Cann, c. f.; Hydia Smith, l. f.; J. W. Reed, fifth base; Roy Johnson, second base; Harry Gardner, short stop; Flifton Floyd, third base; A. E. Beverly, pitcher; Earl Frazier, catcher. Will be pleased to hear from all high schools. Pastors Well Received (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Bennings, D. C., May 17.—Rev. Geo. O. Wing, the new pastor of Ward Memorial A. M. E. Church, was enthusiastically received by the people last Sunday. His father, Rev. J. W. Wing, preached on the evening. Rev. Mr. Tyler, who has been recently assigned to the M. E. Church, was given a reception by his congregation last night. Teasher Returns Home. (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Berkley, Md., May 16—The return of Rev. James R. Nelson to the pastorate of the A. M. E. Church is popular w. the people here. Miss. Edmonia L. Norton, teacher of the public school at Ridgely, Md., has returned home for the summer mouths. Mr. G. Thomas Freeman, of Ridgely, Md., spent a few days with Mr. and Mrs. T. N. Norton. OLD FAVORITES. WHEN the humid shadows hover Over all the starry spheres And the melancholy darkness Gently weeps in rainy tears What a bliss to press the pillow Of a cottage chambered bed And to listen to the patter Of the soft rain overhead! Every tinkle on the shingles Has an echo in the heart, And a thousand dreamy fancies Into busy being start, And a thousand recollections Weave their air threads into woof As I listen to the patter Of the rain upon the roof. Now in memory comes my mother, As she used in years agone, To regard the darling dreamers Ere she left them till the dawn. So I see her leaning over me As I list to this refrain Which is played upon the shingles By the patter of the rain. Then my little seraph sister With the wings and waving hair And her star eyed cherub brother— A serene angelic pair— Glide around my wakeful pillow, With their praise or mild reproof. As I listen to the murmur Of the soft rain on the roof. And another comes to thrill me With her eyes' delicous blue, And I mind not, musing on her, That her heart was all untrue. I remember but to love her With a passion kin to pain, And my heart's quick pulses vibrate To the patter of the rain. Art hath naught of tone or cadence That can work with such a spell In the soul's mysterious fountains, Whence the tears of rapture well, As that melody of nature, That subdued, subduing strain Which is played upon the shingles By the patter of the rain. —Coates Klnney. CARVING A NAME. I WROTE my name upon the sand And trusted it would stand for aye, But soon, alas, the refluent sea. Had washed my feeble lines away! I CARVED my name upon the wood And after years returned again. I missed the shadow of the tree That stretched of old upon the plain. TO solid marble next my name I gave as a perpetual trust. An earthquake rent it to its base. And now it lays o'eriald with dust. ALL these have failed. In wiser mood, I turn and ask myself, "What then?" If I would have my name endure I'll write it on the hearts of men IN characters of living light, Of kindly deeds and actions wrought, And these, beyond the touch of time, Shall live immortal as my thought. HYMN TO FORCE. HYMN TO FORCE. Down through the ether I hurl constellations. Up through their earth bed I wake the carnations. I laugh in the flame as I kindle and fan it. I crawl in the worm, I leap in the planet. Forth from its cradle I pilot the river. In lightning and earthquake I flash and I quiver. I am the monarch uniting all matter. The atoms I gather; the atoms I scatter. I always am present, yet nothing can bind me. Like thought evanescent, they lose me who find me. -Pushkin. CONSCIOUSNESS. THOU whose face bath felt the winter's wind. OTHOU whose face hath felt the winter's wind. Whose eye has seen the snow clouds hung in mist And the black elm tops 'mong the freezing stars. To thee the spring will be in harvest time! O thou whose only book has been the light Of supreme darkness which thou feddest on Night after night when Phoebus was away. To thee the spring shall be a triple morn! Oh, fret not after knowledge! I have none, And yet my song comes native with the warmth. Oh, fret not after knowledge! I have none, And yet the evening listens. He who said dens At thought of idleness cannot be idle. And he's awake who thinks himself asleep. —John Keats. TELEPATHY. "AND how could you dream of meeting?" Nay, how can you ask me, sweet? All day my pulse has been beating. The time of your coming feet. AND as nearer and ever nearer I felt the throb of your tread To be in the world grew dearer, And my blood ran rosier red. LOVE called, and I could not linger, But sought the forbidden tryst. As music follows the finger Of the dreaming lutanist. AND, though you had said it and said it- "We must not be happy today"— Was I not wiser to credit The fire in my feet than your nay? —James Russell Lowell. THE OBLATION. Ask nothing more of me, sweet. All I can give you I give. Heart of my heart, were it more More should be laid at your feet. Love that should help you to live, Song that should spur you to soar. All things were nothing to give Once to have sense of you more, Touch you and taste of you, sweet. Think you and breathe you and live, Swept of your wings as they soar, Trod by the chance of your feet. I that have love and no more Give you but love of you, sweet. He that hath more, let him give. He that hath wings, let him soar. Mine is the heart at your feet. Here, that must love you to live. —Algernon Charles Swinburne. THE BRIGHT SIDE. If you have faith preach it. If you have doubts bury them. If you have joy share it. If you have sorrow bear it. Find the bright side of things and help others to get sight of it also. This is the only and surest way to be cheerful and happy. Social Trickery A number of North Atchison girls recently invited their friends to a party, saying that a feature of the entertainment would be a swimming match between two girls. Every one went and found that this part of the programme was carried out by two girls sitting at a table with a bowl of water between them in which a match floated. The men felt that they had been cheated.-Atchison Globe. 4. Tribute to Garrick's Acting A Tribute to Garrick's Acting, David Garrick had a brother in the country who was an indiatorous admirer of his genius. A rich neighbor, a grocer, being about to visit London, this brother insisted on his taking a letter of introduction to the actor. Not being able to make up his mind to visit the great man the first day, the grocer went to the play in the evening and saw Garrick in "Abel Drugger." On his return to the country the brother eagerly inquired respecting the visit he had been so anxious to bring about. "Why, Mr. Garrick," said the good man, "I am sorry to hurt your feelings, but there's your letter. I did not choose to deliver it. I happened to see him when he did not know me, and I saw that he was such a dirty, low lived fellow that I did not like to have anything to do with him." The Planet Mars. The planet Mars resembles the earth more closely than any other unit of the solar system that we know anything about. Mars is smaller than the earth, and its specific gravity is less. Its atmosphere is rarer than that on the highest mountains. It has probably no oceans and very little free water, except in spring, when the snow melts. Poor Cuid. "Pa, what's in that little thing the artists always put on Cupid's back? Is that where he carries his arrows?" "It used to be supposed that he had arrows there, but in these days he usually carries a divorce decree in his quiver."—Chicago Record-Herald. Where Sincerely Group. On the banks of the Tigris and the Euphrates the licorice plant is chiefly grown. These great rivers flow through flat, treeless prairies of uncultivated and nearly uninhabited land. For three months of the year hot winds blow, and the temperature reaches 104 degrees. For six months of the year the climate is moderate and salubrious, and for three months bleak and wintry, the thermometer going down to 30 degrees at night. Something In the Filling. "Do you know you can tell a man's disposition by his teeth?" asked the girl who believes in signs, bumps and palm reading. "How interesting!" said her companion, who did not believe in anything. "Then Jack must have a golden disposition." A lie is a poor substitute for the truth, but what other is there? Grave Mounds in China. The Chinese do not use monuments for marking graves. The coffin is interred about one foot below the surface, and over it a mound is raised, its size depending upon the rank of the family and its feeling toward the departed member. In Later Life. "I see you are doing a good many things now that once you would have been shocked at." "Well, I make up for it by being shocked at a good many things that I once did."—Pittsburg Post. Fitting Sequel. "Flattery is dangerous to sensitive ladies," said Chauncey Depew. "I am always very careful in the matter, because one evening I told a lady that she was as sweet as honey, and the next day she had hives."—New York Tribune. FREE FREE This Handsome Gainsborough BARRETTE With every one of our latest style Cluster, Puffs 24 small puffs to a set, made from long natural hair, for $1.00 Many other fashionable styles. Booklet upon request. Send draft, money or express order. Cash and stamps at sender's risk. 9 NATT & CO., Dept. 32 Union Square East, New York FELIX B. PYE, Sr., 02 E. Mulberry St. Near Calvert No branch offices. Not connected with any other firm. No Agents. reward will be offered to anyone who deserts any person doing business under the name of Felix B. Pye, Sr. Some Officer S.C. 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BALTIMORE, MAY 20, 1911 Have you read the column on advertising we have been running recently? If not you ought to do so. There are many good points you might pick up to advantage. Now let the Suffrage League get busy. The warm weather will soon be here but unless we get to going pretty soon the Democrats will make it warm enough for us even in the winter time. Mr. Preston has been inaugurated into the office of mayor of Baltimore. He may not be any more a friend to us than was Mayor Mahool, but we are inclined to like him better for the matter in which he goes about things. See what can be done when we get busy and get the right men at the head of things. We have reference to the Athletic Meet to be pulled off today. What is being done in this line can be done in any other line, only we must have the right men at the head of things to make them go. The commencement season is up on us, and the "sweet girl graduate" and the young man who is to make his entrance into the world of endeavor will attempt to show all the older ones just how things ought to be run. The world will turn out and applaud and then go on its same old ruts. After much time, labor and money spent, a cotton picking machine has been invented that actually picks cotton, and is said to do the work of fifty persons, as well if not better. What will the Afro-Americans do who have been depending on this class of labor to support them? Here is another economic question the Negro will have to solve. Guess he'll solve it all right. OUR CHANGED CONDITION CARRIES A HEAVY RESPON- In a sense, it is almost remarkable, and we believe it true of most every place, that the women of the race lead in all constructive moral and spiritual endeavor, looking to the general improvement of racial conditions. It is one of the most helpful and encouraging signs of progress among us, that the thoughtful women of the race are unweared in their endeavors. And just now we are not speaking of the material aspect of their work, as of that which which is truly in the line of moral betterment. The poor suffering infants which need such care as afforded in day nurseries, the ignorant colored girl coming from the rural districts, to work; the unfortunate women of the race who need encouragement W STREET. and opportunity; the aged and infirm, and many other phases of of moral endeavor which we could mention, are drawing our women together, and drawing out their powers and faculties in efforts for improvement for the most dependent of the race. Are our people in Baltimore, the more favored class, and especially the men, aspiring to be equal to the responsibility resting upon them by reason of their changed circumstances of life? In the past few years there have come into being some twenty on more colored physicians, and that all of them are succeeding admirably, one would certainly judge by their excellent homes, and general equipment. Race confidence and race support have made these things possible. From only a handful of colored teachers we now have, possibly, three hundred. And there are other callings pursued by many of our people which have yielded them good results. All of this is because they are colored. We do not relish having lit put in such a way, but it is a fact nevertheless. These very handicaps: oppression and jincrow treatment meted out to the race, are responsible for the opportunities which the enterprising young colored man has by which we may hope to mount up to fame and prosperity. If, then, our poor and suffering race are minded to respond as they have done, in this particular, a most serious responsibility is thereby created, and this favored class among us have not the true conception of life if they fail to interpret the responsibility. It is their bounden duty to bring to bear upon the problems of the race the fullness of their knowledge and experience, give of their time, thought and means to devise and construct on behalf of the moral and material betterment of the race. It is a common thing in all our cities, for the women to meet regularly for the prime purpose of grappling with these various problems of the race. But when do our men meet for such purposes? What are the evidences that the materially prosperous among us are systematically at work, studying the needs of our poor people, and leading on in some constructive remedy? The other night the Provident Hospital had its graduation of nurses. But few of the members of the faculty were present, and only two or three of the many doctors in the city; whereas all of them are supposed to be at least morally interested in such work. The men among us belonging to the favored classes, by reason of our material success, must lead in systematic and applied consideration of such things, and put much more of the money they have been able to save into such projects, than is usually the case. When we give more of our attention to such matters, and are more generous in our financial contributions towards such enterprises that we believe to be worthy then the masses of the people will surprise themselves in their interest and generosity. But they are not going to be enthusiastic about such things, while the men who have the most, and who will more largely profit by such successes, are indifferent, apathetic, and niggardly stingy both with their time and means. If not impelled by the proper motive, love, then certainly ought they be influenced by the one not so noble, but which, perhaps appeals very strongly to some, self-interest. It is directly to the personal interest of each and every one of this class to do all within his power, by thought, active cooperation, and liberally giving of his means to systematically advance the moral, spiritual and material well-being of that section of the population with whom he is so closely identified. More business money, honor, and influence await each and every one in proportion as the great body of the people are uplifted to higher and better ideals and become more efficient in the affairs of life. And, better than all this, the destiny of man is the solution of difficult problems, and in the application and, effort which theybestow in improving conditions their own moral and spiritual life will glow on expand with brilliancy, beauty and strength. In the progress of affairs they will become fresh miracles to themselves, rejoicing in the strength and richness of the flow of real life and animation in their veins. By inertness and indifference they are missing the genuine manly and powerful life which is their rightful heritage. There has been some talk among the republican hosts; of joining in with the democrats and supporting the Diggs' disfrancise amendment at the polls this coming fall. While no one will give the republicans of this state for being astute politicians, no one will be willing to believe that they have lost their heads and willing to commit hara kiri, especially at this time. The reason for this kind of talk was the disappointment of the party leaders in not carrying the last election for the mayorality, claiming that the Afro-Americans did not vote for their candidate. Perhaps there was a reason for this. It will be remembered that the candidate who led the ticket was protested against by a number of prominent Afro-Americans, but the protest did not amount to anything with the leaders, and the result we all know. The same thing happened on two other occasions: one was when the party nominated Mr. McIntyre for Congress over the protest of the colored people and again when it nominated Mr. Schirm for the second term in Congress. In both of these cases the party was defeated. What is the remedy? No one or two colored men or white ones either for that matter, can control all the Negroes in this city, and yet in its dealings with the colored voter, the leaders of the Republican party have invariably dealt with a handful of colored leaders, and entirely ignored all the rest. According to the recent census there are nearly ninety thousand colored people in this city, one-fifth of which is supposed to be voters. It is preposterous to think that the whole of these people can be led by two or three men, but that is just what the leaders of the party seem to think. When they shall take into their confidence the better class of leaders among us there will be some hope of their being able to control the balance. Man is the only animal that laughs, so the naturalists declare. To which may be added, that he is about the only animal that is an omnivorous feeder; all-devouring, swallowing the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms indiscriminately. That he pays the price of his catholic appetite, the fact that eight-five per cent, of all the diseases that afflict him arise from the digestive organs, go to prove. There are edibles whose use probably began with necessity, and the taste for them so acquired, continued when the necessity for them had disappeared. Or, to put it in another hunger set the fashion and the vogue survived the hunger. Raw opsters, insects and sea-weeds are representatives of this class. The use of other foods may be traced to palates that have been vitiated by indulgence in epicurean pleasures, and whose sense of taste in consequence only responds to food of a strong, unusual or even abhorrent flavor, that is, abhorrent to the normal mouth. Some Russian dishes and certain cheeses are examples of this type of eatables. From Physical Culture for May. TO BE OR NOT TO BE. Courte Will Decide To What Denomination Mt Calvary Church Belongs. The members of the Mt. Calvany Church, Towson, are wondering whether their church is going to stay with its new allegiance, the African Methodists, or is it to revert to its protecting arm, the Colored Methodist Protestant church. The church was received into the Baltimore A. M. E. Conference a few weeks ago and Rev. J.A. Briscoe sent there as pastor. The Methodist Protestants secured an injunction in the Circuit Court, at Towson, restraining Rev. Briscoe from taking charge, but he forestalled their action by getting a temporary stay. The case was to have come up in the Circuit Court last Saturday, but was postponed until next Wednesday. Though some of the M. P.'s oppose the change, Rev. Briscoe has made many friends during the three weeks he has had change of the congregation. Should the decision be against the Methodist Protestants that denomination may build another church there. To Hold Institute. An institute for the secretaries of the various Colored Young Men's Christian Associations will be held at Arundel-on-the-Bay during July. The instructors will include Rev. J. E. Moorland, of Washington; W. A. Hunton, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Dr. Schiefele n, of New York; Professor Hicks, of Augusta, Ga. and Dr. Silas X. Floyd, the well-known writer. Wednesday was the last day for practice for the greatest athletic meet ever planned by colored people. From two or three hundred boys have been out to Clifton Park preparing to show Baltimore what it means to be a colored school boy. Ten or a dozen elementary schools will each have representatives from seven to sixty-five in number, and the Games Committee has between 500 and 600 entries in already. Baltimore has been asleep on athletic lines, but now that she is opening her eyes she finds herself as ravenously hungry as a boa-constrictor after a dormant fast of 6 months. The committee is working over time day and night to get events and heats in order. The League feels especially proud of its first effort as it is without doubt the most collossal athletic achievement that colored men ever draemed of. The wildest excitement prevails among the school boys, and they in turn have inoculated their parents and the street with the infection. Some of the teachers and parents have raised mony to pay the athletics' car fare to and from the park for practice. Even some of the ministers have said, "Call on me for anything the boys from our school needs." In nearly every school the sentiment of the teachers and parents is that their boy will "bring home the bacon." Eighteen men have entered for the cross country. Some of men have been over the course a half-dozen or more times. If familiarity with the course means anything, they are going to make it mean cup. Prizes will be awarded on Friday night, May 26, at Metropolitan Hall. Don't fail to be on hand to see your boy or your school receive the reward of merit. All boys taking part in the events at Clifton Park must be there at 12 o'clock sharp Saturday. It is hardly necessary to say that all the officials are expected to be at 'the Park by 12 o'clock. Odd Fellows Hold Thanksgiving Service The annual thanksgiving services of the various local departments of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows were held at Bethel A. M. E. Church last Sunday afternoon. The main auditorium of the church was filled with members of the various local lodges, the Households of Ruths and the Patriarchies. District Grand Secretary Jesse L. Nicholas presided. The thanksgiving sermon was preached by Rev. Dr. Daniel G. Hill, pastor of the church. Dr. Hill, in the course of his well-received sermon, dwelt upon the history of the order and urged his heaters to follow closely its principles. Councilman Harry S. Cummings, the attorney general of the order delivered an eloquent address, in which he spoke of the life of Peter Ogden, the founder of the order, and its general work for humanity. Mrs. Mary R. Burkett, of Reisterstown, one of the most prominent women members of the order in this state, spoke also, as did Rev. Dr. A. L. Gaines, a member of Baltimore, City Lodge. A special musical program was rendered also. The collection amounted to $130.59. Nurses Receive Diplomas. The annual commencement exercises of the School for Trained Nurses of the Provident Hospital was held at Sharp Street Memorial Church last Friday night, when Misses Emma Corinne Brown, Baltimore; Clara Anna Mae Dorsey, York, Pa.; Cornelia Priscilla Moore, Baltimore, and Lilian Rosser Patterson, of Columbus, O., received diplomas. The address to the graduates was delivered by City Councilman Harry S. Cummings; George N. Numsen conferred the diplomas upon the graduates and Mr. Dr. W. T. Garr presented the prizes. Miss Patterson, who led the class, received the first prize and Miss Moore the second. The invocation was by Rev. Dr. D. G. Hill and the benediction by Rev. Dr. W. Edward Williams, Cargill's Orchestra furnished the music. The school is under the direction of Miss Annabel Wilson, Superintendent of nurses at the hospital. Pastor Resigns. Rev. Uriah Johnson has resigned as pastor of the Mt. Olive Baptist Church, Towson, where he has been in charge for the past five years. He will take charge of the Pilgrim Baptist Church, New York, the first Sunday in June. Fresh Air and Empty Stocking Meeting. A large and enthusiastic meeting was held May 5, 1911. The members are working hard to make this summer's work the best in the history of the circle. A garden has been planted and improvements are being made so that all may be in readiness for the little one 1st of July. After the transaction of routine business, the President gave her impressions of a recent visit to Boston, speaking in the highest terms of the excellent club work done by the women, especially that of the "Seeds of Kindness Club," of which Mrs. Agnes Adams is Persistent. Mrs. Adams is a recognized leader in Club work, and her services are in demand. April 25th, at Charles St. A. M. E. Church the Seeds of Kindness Club gave a most elaborate reception to Miss Cummings. On the platform were Miss Eliza Gardiner, who will soon celebrate her 80th birthday, and whose life has been spent for her race; Mrs. St. Percy Bullen, Pres. of the Era Club, also the originator of what is now known as The National Association of Colored Women's Clubs; Miss Eaton, Supt. of the Robert Gould Shaw Settlement House; Mrs. O. W. Bush, Mrs. Wright, and a number of the presidents of local clubs, each of whom extended to Miss Cummings glowing words of welcome. Miss Cummings was then introduced and spoke of the work of the E. S. and F. A. Circle and the loyal self sacrificing members. The speech was received with great applause and at its conclusion the Treasurer of the Seeds of Kindness Club, presented Miss Cummings with $50 in gold to be used in putting a room to the house at Delight and which the club will later furnish. Mrs. Adams who was the promoter of the affair and who presided with so much grace, was ably assisted by Mrs. Mollie Pollard Mrs. Woods, Mrs. Milby, Miss Ida Gross, formerly Baltimore, also the club members. This gift simply amazed the F. A. and E. S. members but in a few seconds, a wave of applause swept over the meeting, followed by the singing, (at the suggestion of Mrs. Calloway). "Praise God from whom all blessings flow," after which Mrs. M. R. Bruce arose and said "We are so surprised at this grand gift, that we know not what to say, but I am sure we sincerely thank Mrs. Adams and her club members." Mrs. Martha Thompson, V. Pressa said "I am deeply moved and proud of the gift, but I do not want you to forget our faithful President through whom this gift comes." Mrs. Bishop Hamy commended the gift, and moved that a testimonial letter or set of resolutions be engraved and sent to the club, for which she would pay. Others who spoke were Mrs. Gwathney, Mrs. F. R. Owens, Mrs. Ida Hilton. Among the plans adopted to raise money for the summer work are: The Children's Carnival and Play Festival, Galilean Hall, May 29. Misses Lansey and Dorsey, Directors. Special music by the Huntsman Band. Wednesday June 18, 1911, Grand Excursion to Brown's Grove. Inspection Day: July, 1911. Grocery shower, July, 1911. The public is asked to liberally help this worthy charity. Miss Ida R. Cummings, President, Mrs. F. R. Owens, Cor. Sec'y. A Noon Day Wedding. Miss Edmonia Braxton, and Mr. A. J. Walker, of Lewisburg, W. Va., were married at the residence of the bride, 2825 Simpson street, at noon Wednesday. The ceremony was performed by Rev. S. S. Wormley. The bride wore a handsome traveling suit of dark blue serge with hat to match, with white lace veil. At the conclusion of the ceremony, the bride and groom left for their future home in West Virginia. The bride was formerly from Louisa county, Va. Quietly Married. Miss Blanche Chandler, daughter of Mrs Mary Chandler, of 432 Orchard street, and Mr. Garfield Hawkins, of Annapolis, Md., were quietly married on Wednesday evening. The ceremony was performed by Kev, J. C. Curtiss. Owing to the bride being in mourning, the wedding was a quiet affair, only a few of the relatives of the happy couple being present. The happy pair left immediately for their future home, Annapolis, Md. Messrs. Smith Saunders and A. T. Washington, of Washington, were tendered a reception by Mrs. A. Eugenia McCread, of 322 Forrest street. During the evening Mr. Smith gave a number of recitations from Dunbar and other writers. TRUE REFORMERS HAPPY. Ban Has Been Raised And Their Bank Can Open Its Doors. Members of the local lodges of the True Reformers are jubilant over the removal of the suspension of the license of the Order, by the State Insurance Department of Virginia. The $34,000 which Insurance Commissioner Button required to be raised before the license would be renewed, Las been raised, and now the order starts out with renewed energy. One hundred and forty-eight thousand dollars will have to be raised in all to liquidate the indebtedness. The Order has been in a tottering condition for some time and last September, A.W. Holmes was elected grand master to succeed Rev. W. L. Taylor. Following that came the failure of the bank at Richmond and the suspension of the license of the Order. Richard T. Hill, former cashier of the bank, is now under indictment charged with the alleged embezzlement of over $30,000 of the funds of the bank. His female confidential clerk is also under indictment on a similar charge. Hill left home mysteriously and his whereabouts have not been ascertained. Meets Many Friends And Makes Makes Many Acqnaintances Will Tour the World Mrs. Edward H. Morris, of Chicago, wife of the grand master of the Odd Fellows, was in the city from Friday to Monday last as the guest of Mesdames Albert. O Reid and Helen Irvin, of 1995 Druid Hill avenue. She met a large number of the ladies of the city at an informal reception last Friday evening, her charm of manner winning her many friends, Mrs. Morris was also greeted by a large number of the leading residents of the city, Saturday and Sunday and her departure for Washington Monday, was regretted by many, who had made her acquaintance during her brief stay. Mr. and Mrs. Morris expect to start on a trip around the world in the fall. They will visit the leading places in Europe, Japan, Persia and Africa. Annual Sermon to K. of P. Rev. S. S. Jolley Makes Eloquent Address Before Large Num- Member of the Uniform Bank of the Knights of Pythias, turned out in large numbers at the Pennsylvania Avenue A. M. E. Zion Church last Sunday night, when the annual sermon was preached by Rev. S. S. Jolly, pastor of Waugh M. E. Church, Cambridge, Md. The sermon was an eloquent effort and was intently listened to by the large number of Pythians present. Brigadier General' Geo. H. Carter was in charge of the Uniformed Rank Those who assisted him included Majors John R. Rice, William N. Haynes, Hamilton Lee, R. Newton Moore and Georgia Carter. Colonels Geo. A. Watty, James T. Pullett, Truly Hatchett, Charles Simms, Lewis, Charles H. Fowler, William A. Grayson, C. H. Hayes, John Henderson, George W. F. McMechen, and Charles Tolson. Rev. Gaines Takes Charge. I want to see this ministers' meeting again come into the important position that it once occupied in this community," declared Rev. A. L. Gaines in assuming the presidency of the A. M. E. Ministers' Meeting last Monday. "At one time, "he continued," Bishop Handy, John Hurst, Rev. John T. Jenifer, Bishop Wayman, Bishop J. Albert Johnson and the late J. H. A. Johnson were among its honored members, and in those days we wielded a power in this community. We must again take our place in the civic life of this community and get the people at large as much interested in our work as in the years past." The remaining officers are: Rev. C. H. Murray, first vice president, Rev. W. A. Harris, second vice president; Rev. J. O. Custis, Secretary; and Rev. C. E. Herbert, treasurer, Revs. C. H. Stepteau, J. G. Martin and M. F. Sydes will compose the program committee. --- Dr. Charles H. Weems, the oldest chiropodist in the city, died at his home, S46 N. Howard street, early last Friday morning. He had been in ill health for the past four years, the illness taking a turn for the worse five weeks ago. He was born in Calvert county 63 years ago but had resided in this city for over 50 years. After working for several prominent families, he went to Canada to learn chiropody and manicuring. During the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia in 1876, he was custodian of the Maryland Building. After the close of the Exposition, Dr. Weems returned to this city and practiced his profession, his patrons being largely among the wealthy classes. He also ran a large employment bureau. He was deeply interested in religious work and for over 50 years had been a member of Sharp St, Memorial Church. For 35 years he was a class leader in the church. The deceased is survived by his wife, Mrs. Sarah Weems, a daughter, Miss Maggie Weems, of Philadelphia, four grandchildren and one great grandson. Funeral services were held at Sharp Street Memorial Church, Sunday afternoon, the pastor, Rev. W. A. C. Hughes, and Rev. Frank Tasker conducting the services. Funeral of Mrs. Harris The funeral of Mrs. Margaret Harris, who died May 13, took place Tuesday, May 17 at her late residence, 516 N. Caroline street. A son, Mr. Theodore Harris, and a daughter, Mrs. Carrie Thomas survive her. The Late Rev. Bell. Funeral services for Rev. Nicholas Bell, who died last Saturday night, were held at his late home, 1338 N. Stricker street, Wednesday afternoon. Interment was in Mt. Auburn Cemetery. Rev. Bell was a well known character downtown. He had been in ill health for the past four years, and was stricken with paralysis, while attending the African Union Methodist Protestant Conference at Towson last Thursday. He soon lapsed into unconsciousness and passed away early Sunday morning. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Marsalena Bell. Mrs. Hawkins Buried. Mrs. Eliza Catherine Hawkins beloved wife of John Henry Hawkins departed this life in full triumph of faith, Friday morning May 12th, 1911. She leaves a husband, two daughters, a son, a sister, two nieces, one grandchild and a host of friends to mourn their loss. In loving remembrance of my dear husband, George W. Fitzhugh who departed this life May 16, 1901 Lovingly and tenderly we laid him at rest Away from earth's sorrows and care. And now he is waiting to welcome me home And the blessings of heaven to share By his dear wife. Pauline Fitzhugh. In sad but loving remembrance of my sister, Eliza Russell, who died ten years ago, May 15th, 1901 I loved her, yes, no tongue can tell God loved her, too, and he thought best To take my sister home to rest. By her sister, Bettie Cornish JACOBS—In sad but loving remembrance of our dear daughter and sister, Mrs. Eliza J. Jacobs, who departed this life one year ago. May 21, 1910. There is such a sad, sad longing Deep down in our hearts today, To see once more our loved one Whom death took from us away. We are lonely, sad and dreary, Our troubled hearts do mourn That the world should seem so As death has robbed us of our prize And tears now often fill our eyes. Our lives have changed, since she has fled has fled As we without her life's path must tread. Often we seem to be cheerful We smile and they think we are gay But alas! We are gloomy and tearful Because of the one far away. By her mother and sister Hester and Deborah Kennedy WELSCH—In memory of Mrs. Mary-Welsch, who departed this life three years ago today, May 13, 1907. Gone but not forgotten, Loved in life in death still remembered. By her daughter Mrs. Millie Raymond 619 Ensor street. In loving remembrance of my dear husband, W. G. Strange, who departed this life May 21st, 1910, Gone but not forgotten. Husband thou art gone before me God would not permit thee stay When the film of life comes o'er me Meet me dear one on the way In the home of sadless beauty He is now a shining star Dwelling in the Holy City. With the Golden Gates ajar. By his dear wife and children. Card of Thanks. I extend my thanks to my many friends for their kindness during the illness and sad hour of u.y daughter, Lelia Badgett, who departed this life Sunday, May 14, 1911. By her mother, Card of Thanks Mr. John H. Hawkins wishes to thank his many friends for their kindness to his wife during her illness and for their beautiful floral designs following her death. Also the Baltimore Patriarchie No.9 Master Veney Blessed Large Attendance At Impressive Services Held In Honor of Master Jas. A. W. Veney Mr. and Mrs. James Veney, of 811 N. Dallas street, had their infant son, James Arthur Walker Veney blessed on Sunday, May 14th. 1921 at the First Baptist Church, corner Caroline and McBhllerry Sts. Mrs. Emmi Walker was godmother and Mr. Richard Cook, of Middlesex, Va., godfather. The parents and godparents were arrayed in handsome costumes for the occasion. A reception was held at their residence, following the cere mony, and the luxuries of the season, were served in abundance. The infant son, the subject of the occasion, was richly robed in a white silk robe trimmed with insertion and lace, with coat and cap to match. Mr. James Veney was attired in a handsome black suit. Mrs. Ringolia Veney was gowned in a black silk princess. Mrs. Emma Walker, lavender silk. Mr. Cook, black suit of the latest style. Mr. and Mrs. Charles and Martha Sayles acted as host. Mrs. Sayles was gowned in a black silk gown. Those who were invited were; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Julius, Mr. and Mrs. Simon Bell, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Thomas. Mesdames Mary Fitchett Hannah Matthews, Amy T. Showell, Charity Dorsey. Misses Nebora Bell, Florence Bell, Lida Sayles, Virgie Madison, Elizabeth Sayles, Alene Fitchett. Bertha Julius, Jeanette Julius, Ruth Johnson, Pensacola Johnson, Masters Milton Julius Alonzo Johnson, Charles Thomas, Wilson Thomas, Joseph Thomas. Kidnapper Given Six Months. Following a sharp rebuke from Judge Harlan, sitting in Criminal Court No. 2., Wednesday, Irene Smith, of Reisterstown, was given six months in the Maryland Penitentiary for the alleged kidnapping of little Evelyn Beale, the four-year old daughter of Mrs. Minnie Beale, of 346 W. Biddle street. The child was taken from the vicinity of her home about a month ago and carried out to Reistertown by the woman. Several days later, with the police scouring the city for the child and the mother nearly frantic with grief, the child was brought to the corner of Linden avenue and Biddle street and started back home. She told her mother enough for her to furnish a clue to the woman, whose arrest immediately followed. The woman is said to be unsound mentally. War Veterans Hear Sermon. Veterans of the Civil War turned out in large numbers at Centennial M, E Church last Sunday night, to listen to the annual sermon to Guy Post and the Women's Relief Corps. As Rev D. W. Shaw, who preached the sermon, spoke of the memorial battles of the War and of the conspicuous part played therein many of the soldiers grew enthusiastic as they fought in their minds the battles over again. He urged that the younger men and women of the race should grasp the opportunities that were made possible by the courage of the soldiers of the race. THE MAY 59th Annual Commemoration of the G. U. O. Nnzarites Under the Auspices of the GRAND PASTURE of the State of Maryland The Paschal L. mb will be slain in commemoration of the Coming Forth out of the Land of Egypt G. U. O. of NAZARITES At their Tabernacle Calvert Street near Centre THE ANNUAL SERMON will be preached to the Order in their Tabernacle WHIT-SUNDAY, JUNE 3rd, 1911 at 3 o'clock P. M., by Rev. L. S. Flagg of St John A. M. E. Church. Music by Choir of above named church. Special Program and Three Handsome Prizes will be awarded for the sale of tickets. Monumental Orchestra under the leadership of Prof. Johnson. Closing May Festival & Art Exhibit At the C. Y. W. C. A. Monday evening May 22nd Persons holding tickets will please report, as the prizes will be awarded those selling the highest number of tickets. ADMISSION, 5 CENTS Y.M.C.A. AUTOMOBILE RIDE — Tuesday and Wednesday Ev'gs 6th and 7th Beginning rt 7 o'clock, cars will leave Y.M.C.A. Building hourly hourly until 11 P. M. Five mile ride, including points in Druid Hill Park for 25c. Two mile ride for 10 cents. Strawberries and Ice Cream on Sale. W. F. DeBordeleben, Gen. Sec'y. Historical Romance Of The American Negro. By Charles H. Fowler, Md. The greatest Book of its kind publishedNothing Like It On The Book Market This book presents the Trials Efforts and achievements of the Negro Race from the first agitation of the Slave Question to the administration of president Theeodor Roosevelt, all woven in the form of a pleasing romance. The book is instructive, contains much valuable data and is beautifully illustrated with fine half tone cuts. Price by Mall. SI.00 Send all orders to Dr. C. H. Fowler, 1065 W. Lexington St. Baltimore, Md. Agents wanted. Send application to Charles H Fowler, 1065 W. Lexington treet, Baltimore, Md. 5-13-4-7 A Great Treat By Dr. Ernest Lyon, D. D., LL D., former American Minister to Liberia, and now pastor John Wesley M. E. Church, given under the auspices of the GIDEONITES of Asbury M. E. Church, Subject Liberia and its People. Wednesday evening, May 24, at Asbury Church Lexington St., and Rogers avenue Tickets 10 Cents. Relreshments at moderate prices. Jas. Morton, Pres. Frank D. Warren Secretary Rev. C. G. Cummings, Pastor Pastoral Star Concert Perkins Square Baptist Church George and Orton Streets George and Ogarton Friday evening, May 26th 1911 Madam Annie Hazelton Lee, the star of the evening supported by some of the best talent of the city Madam Annie Hazelton Lee is well known and has a soprano of remarkable sweetness and a register of high C without effort, replete with runs and trills and full of melody which gives genuine satisfaction to all who have heard her. She promises to be at her best on the above evening. Supported by the following artists: Mesdames Lula Scott, Maud Gross, Mabel Lemby, Miss Rosa Dyson, Messrs. George Cornish, tenor; Chas. Diggs, tenor; Robt. Jackson, Basso., William Hollin, Prof. Garrison, accompanist. The Annual Military Hop and Carnival, given by the Uniform Ranks of K. of P. at the Galilean Fishermen's Hall on West Biddle street, near McCulloh street. Thursday evening, May 18, 1911. Street Parade and Music by the K. of P. Band. 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 Hope 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. Gildman, Associates 1137 N. Carey Street FOR SALE A fine three-story house, pressed brick front. 1010 N. Carrollton avenue, just beyond Lafayette Square, (new colored section) 8 rooms with all modern improvements and in first class condition. Cost $2,000, will sell to a quick buyer for $1,400 cash. No triflers Apply on the premises between S A. M. to S F. M. 1854 B. E. 59th Annual Commemoration Under the Auspices of the GRAND I The Paschal L. mb will be the Coming Forth out 57th Annual Anniversary and Leve G. U. O. of At their Tabernacle Cal A May Carnival and Prize Entertainment will be given under the auspices of the Rectory Renovation Committee of St. James Church, Friday evening, May 26th, 1011 at the Galilean Fishermen's Auditorium Auditorium, Biddle street near McCalloh. Henderson Kerr's Orchestra Admission 25 Cents Mrs. Alexander Williams, Warden Mrs. Milfred Holland, Secretary Miss Evelyn Mackall, Treas. The Juvenile Troubadours Under the direction of L. E. Toomey Will present an excellent Sacred Even Song Service Under the supervision of ST. JOHN A. M, E. CHURCH Lexington street near Pine. Rev. L. S. Flagg, pastor Sunday Evening, May 21st, S p. m. Committee; Mrs. Annie Sorrell, Pres.; Miss Sadie Chew, Secretary John Wesley M. E. Church Sunday, May 15 at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, May 28 at 8 P.M. This will be a great service, under the direction of Mrs. John Toadvin. A special sermon will be delivered to all the non-members of churches by the Pastor, Dr. E.Lyon All are invited. "Great Times." GIRL'S DAY Asbury M. E. Church, Sunday, May 21, 1911. 11 A. M., Sermon by Mrs. Ida Nelson. 3 and 8 P. M., addresses by prominent speakers. Mrs. Marie Martin, President Miss Ethel Jackson, Secretary Rev. C. G. Cummings, Pastor A Memorial Sermon of the late Bishop Paret. At the 11 a.m. service Sunday, at St. James Church, the Rev. Dr. Bragg, rector, will preach a memorial sermon in honor of the late Bishop Paret he laid hands on more colored people, in Confirmation, throughout the diocese, than all of his predecessors put together. Seventy-fifth Annual Conference Of the Will be held in the old Tessier St. Church, Orchard streets, Thursday, June 1st to June 5th, Rt. Rev. S. G. Kreamer, presiding. This is the only Industrial Conference in the world where both white and colored worship together as one. The Bishops will be present in their beautiful and castly purple robes. Rev. Kreamer will be ably assisted by Rt. Rev. G. D. Meads, Rt. Rev. Phillip A. Hubert, of New York. Don't fail to attend the first public meeting of the A. M. E. Supt. Council to be held at Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, Montgomery street near Sharp St. Friday, May 20th, at S o'clock P. M. Only a Sunday School Teacher will be the subject of the principal address. Excellent music Helpful Program Be sure to come. G. Sumner Whyte, president Harry F. Hiner, Secretary Herbert M. Frisby, Supt. & M. 1911 on of the G. U. O. Nnzarites PASTURE of the State of Maryland plain in commemoration of of the Land of Egypt , Convocation, Passover ee of the NAZARITES vert Street near Centre ALLEN A. M. E. CHURCH Lexington and Carlton Streets Reg L.G. Martin Pastor Big Five Thousand, Two Hundred Dollar Mortgage Burning Jubilee Closing Service tonight. Two hundred ladies and one hundred men will circle and burn the mortgage. 11 A. M., Sermon by the Pastor, subject; "God Working for His People." 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 4.30 P. M., The League will burn up $1,000 in paid notes. Special Program. 8.00 P. M., The church will assemble to praise God and set fire to $3200 in mortgage and paid notes. Souvenir given to all who attend. Howard D. Brent, Supt. Wm. H. Butler, Pres. League. TRINITY A. M. E. CHURCH. Linden Ave. and Biddle St. Rev. A. L. Gaines, D. D., Pastor. 11 A. M., Sermon by Pastor 2.30 P. M., Sunday School session. 6.30 P. M., Allen C. E. Special Mother's Service. 7.30 P. M., Sermon by Pastor T. J. Holliday, Supt. Miss Annie L. Martin, Pres. A. C. E. EBENEZER A. M. E. CHURCH Rev. J. W. Norris, Pastor Wayman Circle's Day 11 A. M., Sermon by the Pastor. Subject: "Woman's Place and her Relation to Man. 6.00 P. M., Allen C. B. League. 8 P. M., Sermon by Pev. J. B. Perrell, subject, Woman's Tongue. Herbert Frisby, Supt John Murray, President. HANDY A. M. E. CHURCH Baker and Bruce Sts. nr. Fulton av Take Preston st. cars. Rev. John Offer Custis, Pastor. 11.00 A. M., Sermon by Pastor 2.30 P. M. Sunday School and Young Convert Meeting. 6.30 P. M. A. C. E. League. 8.00 P. M. Grand Sacred Concert. Program will be rendered by Ebenezer A. C. E. League, under the direction of Messrs John Murray and Charles Tolson. Grand Piano Rally and Superintendent's Contest, Monday and Tuesday, May 22d and 23d 8.15P.M Good programs by Sunday Schools of the city. Morris Chair to the Supt. receiving the largest number of votes; also suit case to Supt.next largest vote. Admission and vote 5 cents. Vote for your Supt. H. Hiner, Superintendent Miss Bond, pres. of Sr. League Mrs. Matilda Pratt, Pres. of Jr. League. ST. JOHN'S A. M. E. CHURCH, Lexington St. near Pine, Rev. L. S. Flagg, Pastor. 11 A. M., Sermon by a noted lady evangelist. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. H. W. Ebb, Supt. 6.00 P. M., A. C. E. League, Miss Sadie Chew, Supt. 8.00 P. M., Sacred Song Service by the Juvenile Troutabours, Mr. L. Ellsworth Toomey, Director. Speeial offering at the Door WATERS A. M. E. CHURCH Aisquith St., near jenterson. Rev. Dr. M. F. Sydes. Pastor. 11 A. M., Sermon by Pastor. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 3.00 P. M., Annual Sermon to the Good Hope Society. 5.45 P. M., The Allen C. B. League 7.30 P. M., Sermon by Pastor. I. P. Waters, Supt. WAYMAN MEM. A. M. E. CHURCH Carroll Street near Carey Take Columbia Ave. car, get off at Carey, walk one block down to Carroll. Rev. Wm. A. Harris, Pastor. 11 A. M., Sermon by the Pastor, 2.20 P. M., Sunday School 8 P. M., Sermon by Pastor. CHRIST'S INSTITUTION, Epsor St. near Monument, Rev. G. W. Kennard, Pastor Rev. J. G. Hawkes, Co-pastor 11 A. M., Special sermon by the co-pastor 3.00 P. M., Sunday School. 8 P. M., Preaching by co-Pastor. WOMEN'S DAY Centennial M. E. Church, Cor. Caroline and Bank Sis. Sunday, May 21st, 1911 Three Great Services 11.00 A. M., Sermon by Rev. Annie E. Johnson 3.00 P. M., Sermon by Rev. Jda Nelson, her choir and congregation will be present. S. P. M. Great Platform meeting and report of squads. Addresses by Mrs E J. Truxon, and Miss Ida R. Cummings, interspersed with music by a female choir under the direction of Madam Laura Gibson Marshall. Madame Belle Jones-Briscoe organist. 3 minute talks by presidents of organizations. Come One, Come All. Welcome Mine, Helen A. Cooper, Pres. Miss Maggie Cooper, Secretary Rev. D. W. Shaw, Pastor 8.00 P.M. Sermon by Pastor subject: Heraing and Seeing. Amazon Court, O.O. C., K. of P., will turn out, and all Courts and Lodges are invited to be present. Monday night, May 22, Concert by Miss Mayne Woolford & Oo. Chattolanee, Md. Rev. R. A. Green, Pastor. 11 A. M., Sermon by Stranger. 3.00 P. M., Sunday School. 4.00 P. M., Epworth,League. S P. M., Sermon by Pastor. Mr. S. S. Oliver, Supt. Mrs. Jane Milligan, Pres. E. L. JOHN WESLEY M. E. CHURCH, Sharp and Montgomery Sts. Dr. Ernest Lyon, Pastor. Baby Rally! Baby Rally! 11 A. M., Sermon by the Pastor, 3 P. M. Rev. S. H. Brown, of Washington, a former Pastor, 8 P. M., Services as Usual. The Rally is under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society, Mrs. Francis Smith, President. Men's Day at ST. PAUL M. E. CHURCH Saratoga Street near Carey Rev. S. H. Norwood, Pastor Come, See Men led by a Woman 11 A. M., Special Sermon to men 3 P. M., Rev. B. H. Knight and congregation. 8 P. M., Prof. Reed, of Boston, assisted by Prof. U. G. Chambres & Co., will render a special program Poritively a silver offering at door. ST. LUKES M. E. CHURCH Reisterstown. Rev. L. A. Carter, pastor 11 A. M., Preaching by Pastor 3 P. M., Special Sermon to the Mt. Lebanon Lodge of Masons, of Baltimore City. All members are invited to attend. S P. M., Union Prayer Meeting led by Mr. John Jones WHATCOAT M. E.CHURCH, Franklin and Pine Sts. "King's Hill" Rev. Alfred Young, Pastor. Local Preacher's Day. 11 A. M., Sermon by the Pastor, subject: "The Great Wonder in Heaven. 3.00 P. M., Sunday School. 3.30 P. M., Sermon to Rev. D. G. Mack, of Macedonia Baptist church to the Rose of Sharon Society. 4.30 P. M., Epworth League 8.00 P. M., Sermon by Rev. G. R. Williams, the war horse. Village Camp in Progress W. C. Tongue Supt. Miss Edyth Cooper, Pres. E. L. GILLIS MEM. M. P. CHURCH Stockton Street near W. Baltimore. Rev. B. H. Knight, Pastor. 10.00 A. M. Class Meeting. 11 A. M., Sermon by Pastor or a Stranger. 2.00 P. M., Sunday School. 6.30 P. M., Christian Endeavor 8 P. M., Sermon to the Grand En- campment, Knights and Daughters of King David, by the pastor. T. H. McGowan, Supt. J. W. Fowler, Pres. C. E. PENNA. AVE. A. M. E. ZION CHURCH. Penna. Av near Dolphin Street Rev. J. Harvey Anderson, D.D., Ph.D. Pastor. 11 A. M., Rev. William Sawyer 2 20 P. M., Sunday School W. W. Brown, Sint 3 P. M., The pastor will preach the annual sermon to the G.U.O. of Seven Wise Men. 4.00 P. M., Class Meeting. 6.00 P. M., Varick C. E. Meeting. 8.00 P. M., Rev William Sawyer Y. M. C. A. Sunday, May 21st at 4.30 P. M. Rev. J. A. Frye; Govans, Md. Speaker Subject—"Man's Opportunity" All Men Invited. New Hymns. KITTRELL HOLDS BIG CELEBRATION School Which Had Humble Beginning Has Become One of the Most Important Educational Institutions In the South-Part Taken by Professor John R. Hawkins. By FRANKLIN F. JOHNSON. Kittrell, N. C.-The twenty-fifth anniversary celebration of the founding of Kittrell college, which began on Friday, May 10, to run for six days, marks one of the most important educational events thus far held in the south this year. The celebration will be attended by prominent educators from all sections of the country, as well as leading churchmen of the A. M. E. connection. The speakers will include Professor John R. Hawkins, commissioner of education for the A. M. E. church; A. E. PRESIDENT D. J. JORDAN. professor D. J. Jordan, president of littrell college; Rev. Dr. G. D. Carnes I. Wilmington, N. C., who will deliver the buccalaucinate sermon; Rev. W. Sanders of Smithfield, Va., who ill address the literary societies, and ev. A. L. Gaines of Baltimore, who ill deliver the address to the grading class. Kittrell college is one of the most important educational institutions in the southland. It was founded by ev. R. H. W. Leak of Rateigh, N. C., and several others, representing the north Carolina conference of the A. J. E. church. The upbuilding of the school has been largely due to the heat and self sacrificing labors of professor John R. Hawkins, who served as its president and is now measurer of the college. The institution is supported by the North Carolina, the western North Carolina, the Virginia and the Baltimore conferences. Professor Hawkins has traveled all over the bounds of these conferences in the interest of the work. The college opened in a small way February, 1886, and the following year it was chartered by the North Carolina legislature. The school now is a group of six buildings, one of which, Dutie hall, will be formally dedicated on the last day of the celebration, May 24. This building will place the one destroyed by the two years ago. The college authorities are to complete the raising of a fund $25,000 during the celebration for sending the work of the school. The following men have served as residents of the college: Professor B. Golnes, 1886-9; Professor John R. Hawkins, 1886-90; Professor C. G. Kelly, 1896-8; Professor J. S. Wilms, 1898-1000; Professor P. W. Dawes, 1901-8; Rev. W. E. Giles and the agent Inventor. B. J. Jordan. during the several years President Dan has been in charge of the affairs of the institution he has assiduously labored to place it in the front of educational institutions in the north. He is a native of southwest Georgia and received his collegiate training at Allen university, Columbia, C. He has been teaching for the twenty-five years, sixteen of which he spent in Atlanta, Ga., where taught in the public schools of that city and Morris Brown college. He is professor of mathematics in the school and for eight years served as vice president. ittrell college offers excellent nor- classical and collegiate training, urses in theology, domestic science the trades are also given. The city includes the following tench- P. C. McGill. C. W. A. David, Miss Moria E. Dickson, Miss Lula Norris, M. Minnie Thomas, Miss A. W. Wrehead, Miss M. Etta Stewart, H. C. McBain, Miss Elinor B. Baking and Mrs Alice Watkins. the executive board is composed of following persons: Bishop Lev J. pin, president; Professor D. J. lan, Professor John R. Hawkins, A. R. H. W. Leak, J. E. Jackson, J. Morris, W. H. Capehart, A. And, R. R. Nichols, K. C. Holt, O. King, J. W. Walker, G. D. Jimmers, S. M. Johnson, N. W. Brown, P.ordan, J. W. Norris and C. H. Step- SWITCHED ON SUFFRAGE. Bill Changed His Opinion After a Talk With His Wife. Old Bill Shiftless wandered in the other day to talk a little politics, says the Osborne (Kan.) Farmer. Bill is somewhat interested in the woman suffrage movement. He is for it good and strong. Bill says: "My wife has as much right to vote as I have. She does half the work and owns half of everything and should have as much say as I have. Of course the old woman would also vote as I told her to, but that makes no difference. It would give me double power, and the Lord knows us poor people have little enough to say now about the way things are run. Then, besides, I want the old lady to have all the pleasure she can get out of this world." That night old Bill was talking the question over with his wife. She said she would like to get a chance to vote the distilleries off the face of the earth. Bill dared up in a minute. "That's just the way with the women" yelled Bill. "Give them half a chance and they would ruin everything. Look at the poor people around here who can't afford a doctor or to buy medicine. If they can keep a little liquor in the house it saves many a sick spell. Women have all they can do to look after things around the house without chasing off and voting." Then old Bill chased himself to bed and left Mrs. Shiftless to bring in a bucket of coal and get kindling for the morning. BRUMMEL'S GHOSTS. Pathetic Picture of the Great Beau In His Dacedence. We are more familiar with the picture of Beau Brummel in the days of his prosperity than in his decadence. Here is a pathetic glimpse of the last phase at Caen, when the old man's mind had begun to give way under the accumulated stress of penury and ingrutitude. "Sometimes he thought he ought to give a party, so he would arrange the apartment, set out the candles and get the house attendant to be with him. At 8 o'clock this man would open the door of the room and announce 'the Duchess of Devonshire.' At the sound of this name Brunnel would rise from his chair and greet the cold air from the staircase as though it were the beautiful duchess herself, making his most courtly how and saying: 'Ah, my dear duchess, how rejoiced I am to see you—so very amenable of you at this short notice! Pray, bury yourself in this armchair! Do you know, it was a gift to me from the Duchess of York, who was a very kind friend of mine; but, poor thing, she is now no more.' Then, his eyes filling with tears, he would sink into his chair, looking vacantly into the fire until Lord Alvanley, Lord Alleu, the Duke of Beaufort or some other old friend was ushered in. At 10 the attendant announced the carriage of each invisible visitor, and this ghostly party would conclude."—London Graphic. Auction Selling In Japan. Auction Selling in Japan. Sealed bids are used in auctioning property in Japan. There is no shouting. The auctioneer announces to the audience that he has such and such a piece of property for sale and invites bids. Those who wish to bid write their bids and names on slips of paper. The paper is folded and placed in a box. When the auctioneer sees no more bids coming he opens the box and sorts out the bids. The highest bid takes the property. It is like a bond sale—no one knows what his neighbor bids. If a bldder is anxious to get the property he will not put in a small offer. On the contrary, he will very likely bid all the property is worth. For this reason an owner never puts up his property for auction unless he wants to sell it.—New York Sun. A Famous Dresser. Joachim Murat was in his day the best dressed man in the world. Born in 1767 in a village near Cahors, the son of a day laborer, he was sent to a Jesuit school to be educated for the priesthood. He ran away, joined the army, and sixteen years after he had become a lieutenant he was a field marshal, Duke of Cleve and Berg, with Napoleon's sister, Caroline, as his wife, and, finally, by the grace of his brother-in-law, was created king of Naples. In all stations he paid the closest attention to his attire and wore in battle gold embroidered and jeweled uniforms which would have made him conspicuous at a court function and dressed himself as for a review when he was led forth to be shot—New York Tribune. Strenuous. "Life is far from being monotonous at the Twiller home." "How is that?" "The family pets include a bulldog, a cat and a globe of goldfish, the problem being to keep the bulldog from killing the cat and the cat from catching the goldfish."—Birmingham Age-Herald Careful About Himself. Husband—I say, how many I's in bibious? Wife—One, of course. You told me how to spell it yesterday when I was writing. Husband—Ah, but I'm writing now, and that makes all the difference.—London Punch. Encouraging Tragedian—My parents tried hard to keep me from becoming an actor. Comedian—I congratulate them on their success. The hate which we all bear with the most patience is the hate of those who envy us.-Cotton. FIELD DAY FOR ODD FELLOWS GRAND OFFICERS TO ATTEND Annual Meeting of Time Honored Order Will Be Marked by Many Brilliant Features—Colonel J. Clinton Edwards of Major General Ford's Staff Heads Official Committee. Atlantic City, N. J.-The famous Third regiment of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows will hold its annual field day and competitive drill in Atlantic City on Tuesday, May 30, at which time the high officers of the order, such as Grand Secretary James Needam and Major General Ford, who are members of the regiment, will be present. The most important feature of this annual meeting will be the competitive drill of the Ladies' auxiliary drill corps, of which there are three- Prudent Penn of Philadelphia, Ladles' auxiliary No. 2 of New York and the Military auxiliary and drill corps of Patriarchie No. 78 of Atlantic City. This being the first contest in the history of the regiment, Atlantic City will have the honor of presenting the flag to the winner. The official committee, of which Colonel J. Clinton Edwards of Major General Ford's staff is the chairman, has secured the famous Young's ocean pier for the drill and military reception. Dr. Jackson, ex-treasurer of the lodges of the state of Alabama, but now pastor of the Price Memorial church, will be the orator of the memorial service of the regiment, which will be held Monday evening, May 29, at the above named church, after which a public reception will be given in honor of Commanding Colonel P. H. Edwards and his [Picture of a soldier in uniform]. COLGNEI J. CLINTON EDWARDS. staff, of which Major George Emory of Patriarchie No. 7S is a member, in the lecture room of the church. The same evening the local lodge of Elks will entertain Major General Ford and members of the grand staff at their fine home. 1207½ Arctic avenue. The business session of the regiment will be held on the morning of the 31st at 10 o'clock at Odd Fellows' hall. The parade will start from the corner of Ohio avenue and proceed to the pier for the competitive drill, after which the visitors will be given the freedom of the city. The exhibition drill of the successful patrilarchie and auxiliary will be given at 10 p.m. Lieutenant Lewis Tyler, inspector of the local patrilarchie, and brother officers will act as personal escort to the grand master, who has been especially invited to attend. Professor Charles Smith, the famous master of social session of the Elks and manager of the Cosmopolitan dancing class at Fitzgerald's auditorium, and his corp of assistants will have charge of the floor. Professor William K. Thomas, one of the leaders of the resort's musical organizations, will furnish music for the occasion, while the regimental band for the parade will be under the direction of George H. Craig. Colonel J. Clinton Edwards, who is now on a tour of the southern states, before returning for the field day festivities will visit Charleston, Columbia and Orangeburg, S. C., Baltimore and Washington. He is traveling in the interest of Atlantic City and its growing popularity as a place to hold conventions and other noted assemblies of the race. The Atlantic City Weekly Topic's office. 1908 Arctic avenue, the official headquarters of the field day committee, will send the names of all visitors who attend to their home papers free of charge during this great and grand affair. New York's Foremost Race Journal. The Amsterdam News, less than a year and a half old, has gone steadily forward until it is now recognized as New York's foremost race journal, says the Pensacola (Fla.) Sentinel. It stands for the people and believes in fair play for all interests. Its phenomenal success is due to its broad and liberal policy and its stanch adherence to the right. The Negro will deserve the respect of the world in proportion as he supports such progressive organs as the Amsterdam News. HAVING labored with the legislatures, the uplifters are now trying to reform the voters. Perhaps they will get around to the men who dodge taxes. There is nothing a generous minded woman won't do for a friend except give her her formula for face cream. A man with a pet ailment is never lonesome. By the time a mother has quit telling the smart sayings of her babies the grandchildren come along and give her a fresh supply of anecdotes. When a professional man starts out to demonstrate that he is handy with tools the remainder of the family brace themselves to keep their sense of humor from giving offense. The man with the health fad mania may usually be known by his lean and hungry look. You can interest a woman in a new dessert that can be made while the guests are laying off their wraps out of a bread crust and a cry of distress. Falling into pools of water while playing ball is healthful for small boys, but running errands on a wet day always gives them sore throat. Supporting Him. It jars your faith in humankind When you investigate and find The man to whom a dime you gave From starving on the street to save Or something worse, you were afraid, In working at it as a trade And making more than some who soll Their dutility hands at useful toil. Who could resist his strong appeal For just enough to get a meal For or a dime to buy a bed On which to rest his aching head? For when he coughs he looks so blue You cough likewise, as from his cue. And wouldn't you be sore enough Were you informed he were a bluff? Yet very often 'tis a fact The man who does the beggar act Has money hidden in his sock And maybe owns a business block, And he is better able far To give than what perhaps you are. His children do not cry for bread. And he has coin to paint things red. But should that harden up your heart And make you slow with chink to part? No; give a little here and there— A few of them are on the square— And peace your footsteps will attend, Worth more than those few cents you spend. When you have paid your little toll It rests on his and not your soul. Scientific. "Black strikes me as a very repellent man." "Naturally. What he knows is negative, and what he thinks he knows is positive, and they set up action in different directions." "Then he ought to electrify his friends." Mean Thing! "John proposed last night, dear," said Ethel to Maud. "And is your wrist strained?" "Why should it be?" "An accident might have happened when you fell over yourself accepting him." The Old Reliable. "Radium is the new elixir of life." "What does it cost?" "Only $40,000,000 an ounce." "I'll stick to pie." The ever changing ocean Is full of charms and fish; But, oh, the former doesn't make An appetizing dish! Poor Crop. John Bull calls across to Uncle Sam by wireless: "How's your crops, uncle, this season?" "Ain't started to raise nothing yet but the Maine." Mr. Tightwad. "She earns every cent she spends." "Does she really?" "Yes." "The clever thing! How?" "By getting it out of her husband." Curious. "He forgot he was married." "What!" "I said he forgot he was married." "How did he accomplish it?" Poor Crop. "What is your idea of a good cook?" "One who can get up a dollar dinner out of a quarter's worth of material." Missed His Opportunity. "He was born great." "Maybe, but he hasn't lived up to t." Not Necessarily. The person with a purpose high Is not, let me explain. The one who ventures toward the sky, All in an aeroplane. He meets his majesty the devil And fights him on a lower level. THE KITCHEN CABINET HE world is mine oyster, which I with a sword will open. Causes evil how an oyster makes his shell? Not! I neither. Preparing Oysters. Preparing Oysters. Divine Points.—The custom which forbade the use of oysters in the months without an r, no doubt originated in the fact that during the months of May, June, July and August they are poorer in quality and lack flavor, nature's way of protecting her own. May is the month when the spawning season opens. After-Theater Oysters.—To a pint of oysters with their liquor, a dash of paprika, celery salt, salt, a squeeze of lemon juice and half a cup of rich bouillon. Cook until the edges curl, then serve on buttered toast. Lincoln Stew. -Place a quart of milk in a double broiler, season with paprika, colery salt and salt. Grate a small onion, allowing the juice to drip into the milk, add a dozen oyster crackers well crushed and two table-spoonsful of butter. When boiling hot add a quart of oysters with the liquor. When they commence to curl, remove them to the tureen and add a beaten egg. Serve at once. Oyster Loaf.—Cut a box-shaped piece from a loaf of rather stale bread. Brush with melted butter and brown in the oven. Fill with fried oysters or creamed oysters. To cream oysters, allow a dozen oysters to a cup of cream. Heat the cream to the boiling point, add the oysters, and when curled, remove and serve immediately. The seasoning may be added by each guest to suit his taste. Oysters a la Creole—Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter, add a slice of onion and cook until a pale brown. Remove the onion and add a tablespoonful of flour and when brown a cupful of tomatoes. When hot add a pint of drained oysters, cook until the edges curl, add a drap of tabasco, a tablespoonful of minced parsley and salt to taste. Serve on toast. Oyster Cocktails.—Clean and chill 60 small oysters; mix with three tablespoonfuls of horseredish, one teaspoonful of tabasco sauce, two tablespoonfuls of vinegar, three tablespoonfuls of Worcestershire sauce, five tablespoonfuls of lemon juice, three tablespoonfuls of tomato catsup and one and a fourth teaspoonfuls of salt. Serve in lemon, grapefruit or tomato cups. Nellie Maxwell Too Much. Rubbish. It is a blessed thing indeed that none of us can take our rubbish to another world, for if we could some of the many manslons would be little better than lumber rooms.—Jean Ingelow. No Chance About It "I'm awfully sorry it happened!" apologized the object young man, after the stolen kiss. "Happened!" she exclaimed. "Happened! That is worse that the kiss! If you mean to say to me that you didn't have it in mind when you asked me to stroll away back here in this quiet corner of the conservatory. I shall be offended, after all."—Judge. T. G. 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MRSHALL, ER IN— sions, Butter, Eggs Foultry... Balitmore, Md se you to go at once to the our ommunity and in- ed American dollars numerous public in- confidence CITY OF BALTIMORE MERCAN LEDGER NAPIER BANQUET ECHOES HEARD New Register of the Treasury Deplores Present Conditions. BANE OF COLOR PREJUDICE. In First Public Address After Entering Upon Duties of Office Noted Tennesseean Says That Things Sometimes Look Dark For the Race. What Former Leaders Did. Washington.—At the recent banquet tendered him by the Tennessee colony of the nation's capital Mr. James C. Napier, the newly appointed register of the treasury, made a notable speech, describing somewhat in detail the growing opportunities for the industrial and economic development of the Negro in the south. The deliverance, coming from such a high source, has attracted nation wide attention. After expressing his heartfelt thanks to his fellow Tennesseeans and his friends from other states who had joined with them in tendering this splendid testimonial and reviewing briefly the civil and political status of the race since the war Mr. Napier said in part: The prejudices engendered by the peculiar conditions following the close of the civil war and familed into a burning flame by what you must do during the reconstruc-tion of the people we must confess, took deep root in the minds of both white and colored people. It is but reasonable to conclude that these conditions could not be filtered in a day. But these conditions are changing, and a bitter feeling is being manifested almost in all the relations between the white and colored people of the south. There is a large and growing class of people on both sides who have set their heads together in the effort to create a better spirit and a better feeling between neighbor and neighbor, whether that A result of all this is that the colored people are building homes and character and are throwing around these the strong arm of protection. They are establishing themselves in the business of trades and commerce and are fixing lines of credit and confidence in almost every community. They are pushing into every phase of the civilization that surrounds them and are buying land and becoming agriculturists. They are-collaved man sees the need of a drug store, and he opens one. He finds a neighborhood where a grocery store is needed, and immediately he begins the work of establishing that branch of business. In short, he constitutes an important factor in every industry that engages the attention of the people in the different communities in which he lives. Where formerly in stores, in factories, in mills, in manufactories and in railway [Picture of a man in a suit with a bow tie]. HON. JAMES C. NAPIER. services he could secure only the lowest of work, his education, his good character and trustworthiness and his industrious habits are placing him where he is doing a much higher grade of work and receiving for it much better pay. Race Achieving Marvelous Results. Our own preachers are ministering to our spiritual meet; our lawyers are looking after our troubles and interests before the courts; our doctors are looking after our health, curing complaints and preventing disease. We have $2,000 teachers in our common schoolhouses. Howard university, Fisk university, Wilberforce and like schools are furnishing higher education to our youth. Hampton, Tuskegee and the normal and industrial institutes of Alabama, together with other like institutions, are furnishing industrial training. Each of these is moving along in the even tenor of its way and is doing a wonderful work in the upift of the people. In their combined efforts they are achieving marvelous results in the progress of the entire race. With such opportunities laid in almost every southwest there any wonder that the race is advancing? With such facilities it would be a great wonder if it did not advance. Many of us, and especially our friends of the north, are often wont to forget all these things and bemoan the withdrawal or the withholding from us of many rights and privileges which under the law ought not to be withheld. We deplore these conditions as much as many of our friends, and we want all concern with them and that we are not satisfied with them and that we will all times to enter our protest against them. It cannot be denied that things sometimes look dark and gloomy for us, and we often hear the expression that "if some of our great leaders—namely, Douglas, Langston, Bruce, Downing and others who struggled so hard to have the people of this District clothed with all the rights of citizens—could now see our condition they would turn over us in their graves." They hoped over us the doors of the restaurant the hotel and the theater. These are all now closed, and the jimcrow car rolls into the District of Columbia, the very capital, with impunity. CONCORD LITERARY CIRCLE. Holds Debate on Question of Better Kind of Education. The subject for discussion at the recent meeting of the Concord Literary circle in Brooklyn was: "Resolved. That industrial education is more beneficial to the colored race than intellectual." For the affirmative Frederick Lopez gave a historical review of the progress made from ancient times up to the present along industrial lines. He showed that the city of Rome, with its magnificent architecture, and Carthage and Athens, with their splendid buildings, were the product of industrialism. Mr. Lopez said that the men who run the mills, factories and machinery are the men who are running the government. This entire universe, so to speak, is being run by three men—Carnegie, Rockefeller and J. Pierpont Morgan. They have more real power than all of the other men put together. Mr. Thomas E. Scott, who assumed the negative side of the debate, said that, while industry had built up these ideal cities, the great intellectual leaders had given to them their prestige and influence: that, while Rome was mistress of the world, to Caesar belonged the credit for her worldwide fame; that, while Germany, with its industries, was regarded as one of the foremost countries, its real value was computed because of Bismarck, its leader. England has two kinds of education, one for the higher class and another for the lower, but its rulers are always selected from those receiving the higher education. Spain, because of its ignorance, was throttled and rated as a third class nation. Japan refused to accept industrial education as her standard and sent her children to the best colleges, universities and seminaries and today challenges the world. College education brings with it a dignity and culture which the colored race needs. This age calls for men who can measure arms with the men of any other race—statesmen, lawyers, physicians, ministers, schoolteachers, etc. This can only be accomplished by getting the very best training available Messrs. N. B. Dodson, W. H. Major and Mrs. M. O. Layton, the judges, after summing up the evidence induced by both contestants, unanimously awarded the decision to Mr. Scott, who had the negative side of the question. HEROIC ACHIEVEMENTS BY COLORED AMERICANS NOTED Physical Prowess Which Narrow Racial Bigots Cannot Gainsay. While the mission of the Tuskegee (Ala.) student is primarily to record the progress and work of the students, graduates and friends of the Tuskegee institute, it nevertheless keeps a watchful eye on the achievements of the race on the outside. It chronicles from the files of the Carnegie hero commission nine instances of daring and self forgetful devotion to others in peril which have won for colored men and women rewards given by the commission. In most of these cases the persons for whom death was braved were white. In six instances of heroism by colored persons at least one child was in danger of death when the effort to save life was made, nearly always with success. Two of the colored heroes perished in trying to rescue others. It is well to keep such facts before the people of this country of mixed races and many nationalities. It tends to broaden the American outlook upon great national problems and to raise the average standard of justice and fair play. There is no denying the evidence of manhood and womanhood of the highest type which is furnished by self sacrificing heroism. A man who dies or braves death to save a child not in his care or related to him in any way is none the less a hero of the finest type because his skin is dark. Physical prowess is so truly at the bottom of the greater part of man's progress that it cannot be disregarded or lightly valued by the narrowest racial bigots. The evidence which the Carnegie hero fund records furnish that the noblest kind of courage and the most stalwart manhood are found among all races and classes is a wholesome influence in American life. No Man Knows What the End Will Be. What will be the termination of color prejudice in the United States God only knows. From the way some persons act in many sections of the country, if it were possible for them to do so, they would monopolize the sun, moon, stars, air, water, light, rain and all the other physical forces which are given for man's benefit to keep the colored people from enjoying the use of them. Isn't it mean? Zulu Prince Delivers Fine Oration. The address of Madikane Q. Cele of the graduating class at Hampton institute recently was an excellent literary production and shows the possibilities of his tribe for intellectual development. Mr. Cele is a Zulu prince from Natal, South Africa, who has worked his way through Hampton and become a wheelwright. Manhood Rights a Common Privilege. The right to vote or speak on questions which concern the body politic, to support the right and condemn the wrong, should not be confined to any one class of persons in business or the professions. It should and is by right a common privilege. Let colored Americans stand to their guns. Right will eventually win the day. HAVE FAITH IN ADVERTISING Leading Cause of Big Profits Made by Mall-Order Houses—Example for Country Merchants. One of Chicago's big mall-order supply houses cleared, in profits, in 1910 $7,000,000, so it will be seen that they are not in business merely for the accommodation of the public, but listen: How do these houses reach the people? SONG OF THE VINEYARD Sunday School Lesson for May Specially Arranged for This LESSON TEXT—Isaiah 5:14 MEMORY VERSE—11 GOLDEN TEXT—Wee That Might to Drink Men of Strength to Mingle Str Isn't it by advertising? Yes, you will have to admit or expose your ignorance. Country merchants will frankly admit that this is the way it is done and yet, withhold their advertisements from the local paper, which stands between them and the mail-order house, and allow the big concern to talk to their customers in print day in and day out through the magazines and farm and family journals, and never say a word in their own defense, or in support of their goods or prices through their medium, the home paper, which is as eagerly read by their customers as are the magazines carrying the advertisements of the mail-order houses—continually. When country merchants wake up to the fact that every dollar's worth of goods sold by mail-order concerns is the direct result of continuous advertising, then take up the same methods, systematically and persistently, they will soon be selling the goods used by the people in their territory and the M. O. concerns will be forced to quit business for lack of support. Country merchants have a system of dropping in and out, usually with a little "two-for-five" ad., absent of prices, often descriptive of goods out of season at "cut prices," while the mail-order concern will carry a liberal-sized advertisement, prices and goods reasonable; the journal carrying the advertisement finds its way to the homes of the local man's customers and is there compared with the advertisement in the home paper, if any, and right there the decision is made of whom to buy. The M. O. house has a new and tempting offer every time the journal is received; but the home merchant allows the home paper to enter the same homes and his store not represented only occasionally. When business becomes dull the M. O. house jumps into the journals with larger and more attractive ads, than at other times; when business gets dull the home merchant drops out all his ads, in the local paper; leaving it all to the mail-order fellows and his customers. Not one man in ten in business in small towns knows the value of advertising, or how or when to do it, and why—simply because they do not give this most important matter any attention, and just as long as they do not, just so long will the mail-order houses prosper and pile up their millions in profits and sell their goods right under the nose of the retailer, and 95 per cent. of the latter go broke annually—H. F. Broadbent, in the McLouth (Kan.) Times. Your advertising can be original, clever, different, without being freakish. Freak advertising attracts attention to its peculiarity and not to the goods it advertises.—Brains. --- Queer Japanese Ads. Some Japanese advertisements quoted in the new review, Japan et Belgique, possess a wealth of imagery unknown to the western advertiser. A Tokyo draper announces that "our goods are sent to customers' houses, with the speed of a shot from a rifle." A grocer proclaims his vinegar to be "more bitter than the gall of the most diabolical of mothers-in-law." And a large multiple store displays a poster inscribed: "Why not visit our shops? We can satisfy every possible want of yours. Everyone of our assistants is as compliant and obliging as a father who seeks to dispose of a doowerless daughter. You will be as welcome as a ray of sunshine coming after a day of coaseless rain."—London Chronicle. Printers' Ink Pays. Sedan, way out in Chataququa county, Kansas, has a population of only 1,200, but that didn't prevent J. H. Edwards, the leading merchant, from spending $2,200 in advertising last year. Mr. Edwards went to Sedan a few years ago with practically nothing, and now owns a big store, a new home, a farm, automobile and a fine team, and claims the success of his business was made possible by liberal advertising, mostly in the newspaper. Silence Often Valuable. Some of our modern advertising writers hardly appreciate the value of an occasional silence. Shakespeare understood this, and you will note in "Macbeth" after the king is killed how effectively these silences are used. But some actors forget these silences just as some ad. writers forget to leave enough white paper. Plainness and Simplicity. Plainness is appreciated everywhere not abrupt plainness, but clean out, well put together, simplicity, which is welcomed by the intellectual because they are always simple, and by the ignorant because their understanding can grasp it. Remember This. Greet every customer as soon as he comes in. If you cannot wait on him at once, at least find out if possible what he wants so as not to keep him waiting needlessly. SONG OF THE VINEYARD Sunday School Lesson for May 21, 1911 Specially Arranged for This Paper LESSON TEXT—Isalah 5:1-12. MEMORY VERSE—11. GOLDEN TEXT—"Woe Unto Them That Are Mighty to Drink Wine, and Men of Strength to Mingle Strong Drink." -Isa, 5:22. TIME—Probably near the beginning of Isalah's long life as a prophet, which was inaugurated in the year when King Uzziah died. B. C. 755 (Beecher), or B. C. 749 (Hastings). PLACE—Isaiah prophesied in Jerusalem. KINGS—In Israel, Menahem; in Assyria, Asshur-dan III. Isaiah, like all great teachers, was obliged to speak many stern warnings. Individuals and nations are best pleased with leaders that praise and flatter them; but such men are enemies rather than friends, demagogues rather than statesmen. In our own nation we have many braggarts, and many easy-going, over-sanguine citizens; but the wise men are like Isaiah, clear-eyed to perceive national and personal sins. Vigilance against there is the only price of liberty in a nation and peace in an individual. The old Greek maxim, "Know thyself," is still the foundation of true knowledge and wisdom. In our lesson the great prophet warns his nation against three national evils: National ingratitude to God; the menace of ungodly and unphilanthropic wealth; intemperance the great peril of the nation. We can look back over a history full of deliverances. America was settled by men escaping from civil and religious oppression. The colonists had many marvelous deliverances from the Indians and other foes. The Union has been saved by the greatest civil war in all history. We have had among our leaders some of the world's chief men—Washington, Lincoln, Grant, Jefferson, Franklin. The world's greatest oceans preserve our country from attack. We have a vast territory, wonderfully rich in minerals and producing harvests abundant enough for us and for other nations. The natural fruit of a vineyard, carefully prepared—fine, cultivated grapes, and a full crop; that is, he expected obedience to his commands, and love and gratitude and worship. Instead, he got nothing but wild grapes, small, sour and hard—such results as a nation might show that had received no special benefits from Jehovah. Isaiah next comes to particulars—the two great fundamental sins of his people, and of all nations. It is with remarkable persistence that in every civilization the two main passions of the human heart, love of wealth and love of pleasure, the instinct to gather and the instinct to squander, have sought precisely these two forms denounced by Isaiah in which to work their social havoc—appropriation of the soil and indulgence in strong drink. Every civilized community develops sooner or later its land question and its liquor question. Is the land question an American question also? In its essentials, yes. But what, back of the land question, is the fundamental difficulty? The menace of ungodly and unphilanthropic wealth, in any form—land, or railroads, or mines, or mills, or houses to rent, or stocks and bonds, or money to lend. There is more than one American whose income is more than a million dollars a month. What is Isaiah's second "Woe?" Agalust drunkenness and its accompanying evils, and the irrelligion that goes with them. Would Isaiah pronounce this woe upon our nation, if he were living today? He certainly would. To be sure, there is the most drinking late at night, especially after the theater performances are over; and for that reason the temperance reformers try everywhere to pass laws closing the saloons by 11 o'clock at night. Still, it is very common, in our cities, to see drunken men staggering around the streets in the morning, in the midst of a "spree" that may last for days. Modern men drink many flery, distilled liquors unknown to the ancients. They have added the common use of many drugs, such as opium and cocaine, whose physical and mental effects are more terrible and swift even than those of alcohol. And still the saloon is the center of all other sins against society—lacentiousness, murder, gambling, graft, political misrule, all are closely connected with the saloon. If our public schools are to give the scholars a practical preparation for life, certainly no subject is of greater importance than temperance. Laws requiring scientific temperance instruction have therefore been passed in all the states and by the national government, and more than forty temperance physiologies, for all grades, have been written. Nearly a million essays on temperance themes are written every year by school children. The universities, colleges and normal schools are taking up the study. It is never enough to pass a temperance measure. The open saloon at once becomes a secret saloon, a "blind tiger." "Near-beers" and other drinks are concocted, containing just enough alcohol to escape the law, and sold openly. Saloons spring up on the edge of the prohibition territory. 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Open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. A full line of Ladies', Misses, Childr dren, Men, Boys and Youth Fine Shoes at Reasonable Prices. Present the "ad" in this paper and ten (10) extra stamps will be given with your purchase. A full line of Rubber Boots and Lad es' and Children's Rubbers. We Give Yellow Trading Stamps 704 & 706 Druid Hill Ave. Despondent Lover After Creating Scane on Etting Street Sent To Bayview Asylum. Crazed by being desperately in love with a pretty, young woman, Joseph Hill set fire to the second and third stories of his home 1134 Etting street, on last Monday, and when the flames got too hot for him he took a flying leap from the third story window, landing on the pavement. With the blood gushing from his mouth, he was taken to the Maryland General Hospital, where it was said he was suffering from shock. He was arrested afterward, but was committed to Bayview Asylum, by Justice Tyson, of the Northwestern District. The fire completely gutted the third floor and damaged the second floor somewhat. The loss is estimated at $300 When seen by a representative of the Afro-American Ledger, Mrs. Thomas Hill, the man's mother, said her boy had been infatuated with a girl and that made him somewhat irrational. "Why," she said. "that girl even came around to get his money, and if he only got $2 a week she got hers. He must have been 'fixed.' This girl was here twice Monday, and all I can say is that she exercised an undue influence over my son. I do not think he will ever get well," said the mother, as she burst into tears. Mrs. Agnes E. Johns, of the Green Spring Valley, was been granted an absolute divorce from her husband, Horace G. Johns, on May 6, thru her attorney, Oscar Wolff, of this city. Will Call Meeting A number of gentlemen met informally at the Y. M. C. A., Tuesday afternoon and decided to call a meeting of the Suffrage League of Maryland for the second Monday in June. At this meeting a general reorganization of the League will take place and a campaign against the Digges disfranchising bills planned. The gentlemen present at the meeting included Messrs. William C. McCard, John Henry Smitn, Hugh E. Macbeth, Dr.J.N. Johnson,Harry T. Pratt, W. L. Fitzgerald, Dr.J. N. Johnson and Rev. William M. Alexander. Dr. Kennard Buys Auto. Dr. George W. Kennard, of 704 Ensor street, has purchased a four- cylinder Ford automobile. The price paid for it is said be around $2,000. The annual closing exercises of the Universal Progressive School and Orphan Asylum were held at the Pennsylvania Avenue A. M. E. Zion Church Monday night. The speakers included Revs. Harvey Johnson, W. J. Winston, J. H. Taylor, A. M. Molock and Mrs. Molock, and each praised the president of the school, Rev. G. W. West, for his many sacrifices in behalf of the work. Mrs. Carrie West, is the matron of the school, which is located at 1132 Pennsylvania avenue. Made Master Masons. Zion Lodge, No. 4, issued a very pretty invitation last week to a number of prominent Masons to attend the raising of a number to the Master's degree. Many responded to the invitation and the Lodge room was well filled notwithstanding the very warm night. Messrs, E. Very Stokes, James H. Williams, Avon W. Davis, and William E. Nelon were the victims of the occasion. A fine collation was served after the exercises were over. The ceremony was in charge of a special drill team. A tea party was given at the residence of Miss Agues Mack, on Wednesday evening. Among the guests were Misses Gumby Thompson and Williams. Messrs. Clarence Howard Lancaster and Osborn Jackson. Music by local talent. Mrs. Helen M. George has returned to her home in Staten Island, N.Y., after visiting her sister. Miss Hattie Green, of 313 Schroeder St. Mr. James Harris, of Atlantic City, is spending a few days in the Seniors of High School At Odds With Principal The members of the fourth-year class of the Colored High School are up in arms about whether or not they will be allowed to give their usual "roasts" on the faculty as a part of the annual class-day exercises. Prof. Mason A. Hawkins, the principal of the school, is said to be opposed to the students making gibes at the expense of the faculty and some of the members of the class declare, under bated breaths, that they will have their way. The jokes, which are many times very humorous, purport to portray the various idiosyncracies of the members of the faculty, and some of the teachers are said to thoroughly enjoy it. The class-day exercises will be held on June 16. Some years ago, the publishers of the Green Bag, the year book of the City College, inserted a poem in the book, which termed Principal Soper of that school, as "The Gzar of the B. C. C." Two years later, in 1900, the class was again rebellious and no commencement exercises were held, with the added fact that some of the members have not as yet received their diplomas. Will Investigate School Needs. The lack of accommodations for the pupils of the Colored High Schools, and the miserable quarters of some of the 20 or more elementary schools maintained for the race in this city were the objects of the attack by a number of ministers at the monthly meeting of the Ministerial Alliance at Grace Presbyterian Church Monday. The discussion was precipitated by a committee which brought in a report urging that the needs of the schools be studied and a report made thereof to the School Board. Several of the speakers pointed out that the High School lacked the proper accommodations for its 500 pupils, that schools 118 and 111 were miserable traps and that the city did not give the race any new schools out of the $1,000,000 loan. The committee, which is to make the investigation of the needs is composed of the following ministers: Revs. George F. Bragg, A. L. Gaines, James G. Martin, L. Z. Johnson and A. B. Callis. NOTICE. Rev. Alfred Young, Pastor of Whatcoat (King's Hill) M. E. Church, will preach at Bethel A. M. E. Church this Sunday, May 21st, at 7:45 p. m. Special Sermon, Subject; "The Red Horse." Class No. 3, Edward Carty, Leader. Annual Baby Rally. Annual Baby Rally at Sharp St. M. E. Church, Sunpay, May 21st. 11 a. m., special sermon by the pastor. At 3 p. m., program by the Junior department. Address by Mrs. M. L. Gaines, of Trinity A. M. E. Church, and other prominent ladies. All organizations are invited to be present. Two medals will be awarded to the babies reporting the largest amount. At 8 p. m., services by the senior department. This rally is held under the auspices of the Baby Rally Association. Mrs. Jennie Ross, President, Mrs. Fannie Johnson, Sec'y., Rev. W. A. C. Hughes, Pastor. Grand Welcome Reception Given by the members of Allen A. M. E. B. Church, in honor of their pastor, Rev. James G. Martin, Thursday evening, May 25th, at 8 p.m. in the above named church. Tickets, 20 cents. Refreshments free. Mrs. Charlotte Brent, Dyes, Mrs. George Thomas, See, Mrs. Minnie Grason, Trees. Come to the Inaugural Rally of Babies At Ames, Mem. Church, Sunday of goncon, May 28-h, 1911 at 3:30 P.M. under the auspices of the Cradle Roil. Sermon by Rev. Fran- tus Lyon of John Wesley M.E. Church his choir and congregation will be present. Come and see our babies and give them a help. Mrs. D. D. Turpean, Mrs. Marv Heigh, Mrs. Louisa Jones, Supr. Blanche Jessus, asst supt., Rev. D. D. Turpean, D. D. Pastor. THE CHOIR OF MADISON ST. PRESBYTEIAN CHURCH SACRED SONG RECITAL AtMadison St. Presbyterian Church Sunday Afternoon, May 23rd. At 4:00 P.M. CHE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER Where you can enjoy a pleasant outing and rest from the turmoilsof the city. Make your selection now,also secure your day or moonlight trip: only a few more open. For full particulars,apply to Geo. W. Brown, Miller's Wharf, foot of Caroline Street, 8:30 A. M. and 2,20 P. M. or Walter Langley,1418 jefferson Street. 4—Md. Union Co. & Fount. Lodge of Good Hone Good Hope 8—Shiloh Baptist Church & S. S. 11—Mt. Zion M. E. Church. 12—Syracuse Lodge K. of P. No. 24. 13—Ebenezer A. M. E. Church. 14—Juvenile Coouncil, K. of P., No. 4. 15—Choral Symphony Oratorio Society. 16—Behlehem Bapt. Ch. & S. S. 18—Rev. C. A. Belt, Baptising Sunday. 20—The Ladies' Progressive Circle. 21—I. O. Good Samaritan. 22—Allen A. M. E. S. S. 25—I O. B. of Elks. 26—Easern M. E. S. S. 27—Enon Baptist Ch. and S. S. 28—Fresh Air & Empty Stocking Cir- 29—Willing Workers of Ames Church. JULY. 4—Furniture Men's Asso. 6—Macedonia Bapt. Ch. & S. S. 7—Mt. Zion Church & S. S. 11—Asbury M. E. S. S. 12—St. Paul M. E. S. S. 13—Union Bapt. S. S 16—Shiloh Baptist Church. 17—G. U. O. of Nazarites. 18—Galilean Fishermen, to Cambridge, Md. 20—Sharon Bapt. Ch. and S. S. 25—Providem Beneficial Society. 27—Church Aid of Ebenezer A. M. E. Church. 28—Trinity A. M. E. S. S. MOONLIGHTS. MAY. 18—First Moonlight of the Season. JUNE. 1—Brotherhood of Asbury M. E. Ch. 2—Violet Pleasure Club and Huntsmen. 5—Set Two Pleasure Club. 6—The Hirless Circle. 7—Bismarck Pleasure Circle. 8—Auxiliary of Donzetta Pleasure Circle 13—Stewardesses of Asbury M. E. Ch. 13—The Republicans of the 17th Ward. 15—Six Brothers. 16—Ladies' Aid of Centennial M. E. Ch. 19—Ushers of John Wesley Ch. Ep. Lea. Junce 20—Red Moon Pleasure Club. 22—The Counts of Balto. 26—Doctors' Coachmen. 29—Temple Circle of Centennial Ch. IULY. 3—Howard Pleasure Club. 6—Pilgrimage Asso. 10—Phoenix Club. 12—Parsonage Com. of Centennial Ch. 20—The Shelter Association. 30—East Lexington Street Pleasure Club. 27—Brown's Circle. 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 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 White Rose Assembly Will give their First Prize Cotillion, Thursday, May 25, 1911 at the Galilean Fishermen's Auditorium, West Biddle street. T. Henderson Kerr's Full Orchestra Tickets 25 Cents. 2t Fsr Sale—House with 8 rooms and bath. Large stable in the rear. Apply within at 1431 Argyle Ave. R. H. BUTLER Says let him send you a machine on trial. The honest Sewing Machine Says let him send you a machine on trial The honest 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 DruidHill Avenue. C. Y. W. C. A. 1200 Druid Hill Avenue. Miss Colt, general secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association will address the Colored Young Women's Christian Association, Sunday, May 21, 1911, at the 5 o'clock service. Miss Ida R. Cummings will give a talk on her trip to Boston. The service will be held in the main auditorium of Bethel A. M. E. Church. All other organizations are especially invited to be present with us at this service. Miss Margaret Lewis, Chairman. Mrs. Mary F. Handy will preside. Sunday, May 21st, 11 A. M., Sermon by the pastor 3.30 P. M. Rev. Jas. Burley of Mt. Ararat Baptist Church, 9.00 P. M. Proceeding Monday evening, May 22nd Rev. D. G. Hill, D. D., and Bethel A. M. E. Church Tuesday evening, May 23d Rev. W. A. C. Hughes, D. D., and Sharp St. Memorial Church 1881 Thirtieth Anniversary Grace Presbyterian Rev. W. Edward SEE Sunday, May 21—11 a.m., Historian, sermon by Cev. L. Gaines, D. City A. M. E. Church. 8 p.m., see ahoir and congregation of Madison Monday, May 21—8 p.m., 3rd Edward Williams, Ministers, by m. Cards of Admission 25 cents, refr. Speakers—Revs.Drs. J. S. Connson, Geo. F. Bragg, L. Z. Johnson e. Solos—Mr. S. A. Bolden, direct Miss Lula Scott, Jubilee Selections, Nelson Tunstall, baritone. Mrs. Alice Taylor, chairman. Mrs. Lillian Lo GREATER BRIDGE On the New Electric Leaves Millers Wharf, foot of C. Leaves Brown's Grove for a 4 TRIBE OF SIMEON of GRAFT TUESDAY, M See the Bay and Harbor by Seachlight and a 4 hour sa Music by Carp Tickets for All M.s. E. B. Williams, Pres. Miss Inez C. Mr. Thomas B. Pendleton, Manager D. D., and Bethel C. Church Singing, May 23d Hughes, D. D., and Memorial Church Bieth Anniversary K race Presbyterian Chur Rev. W. Edward Williams, Past SERVICES 21-11 a. m., Historical Sermon by the Rev. L. Gaines, D. D., choir and cong church. 8 p. m., sermon by Rev. L. Z. migration of Madison Street Presbyterian 21-8 p. m., 3rd Anniversary Recei s, Ministers, by members and friend sion 25 cents, refreshments served. vs. Drs. J. S. Conning, Jones Watkin agg, L. Z. Johnson and other minister. A. A. Bolden, director of Sharon Bapt Jubilee Selections; Prof. Charles We baritone. or, chairman, Mrs. Elizabeth Si Mrs. Lilian Lottier, secretary. ER BROWN'S New Electric Steamer Mrs Wharf, foot of Caroline street 10 A. M. Brown's Grove for a 4 hour trip down the B MEON of GRACE PRESBYTER TUESDAY, MAY 30th, Marbor by Seachlight. Enjoy all the plea and a 4 hour sail down the Bay. Music by Cargill's Orche s for All 25 Ins, Pres. Miss Inez Crampton, See. Mrs. Endleton, Manager Rev. W. Edward Sunday, May 21-11 a. m., Historical Sermon by the Minister. 3 p. m., sermon by Cev. L. Gaines, D. D., choir and congregation of Trinity A. M. E. Church. 8 p. m., sermon by Rev. L. Z. Johnson, D. D., ahoir and congregation of Madison Street Presbyterian Church. Mouday, May 21-8 p. m., 3rd Anniversary Reception to Rev. W. Edward Williams, Ministers, by members and friends of Grace Church Cards of Admission 25 cents, refreshments served. Speakers—Revs.Drs. J. S. Conning, Jones Watkins, Harvey Johnson, Geo. F. Bragg, L. Z. Johnson and other minister Solos—Mr. S. A. Bolden, director of Sharon Baptist Church choir; Miss Lula Scott, Jubilee Selections; Prof. Charles Wesley, cornet; Mr. Nelson Tunall, baritone. Mrs. Alice Taylor, chairman. Mrs. Elizabeth Simpson, treasurer. Mrs. Lilian Lottier, secretary. GREATER BROWN'S GROVE GREATER BROWN'S GROVE On the New Electric Steamer Starlight Leaves Millers Wharf, foot of Caroline street 10 A. M. and 2 P. M. Leaves Brown's Grove for a 4 hour trip down the Bay 5 P. M. Tickets for All 25 Cents. M.s. E. B. Williams, Pres. Miss Inez Crampton, See. Mrs. Rachal Ross, Treas. Mr. Thomas B. Pendleton, Manager Rev. W. Edward Williams, Minister GET IT AT STOKES 1016 Druid Hill Ave ANYTHING in the DRUG LINE HEAR! Mr. T. Henderson Rendering Musin's Mazul phrase of his own At the LYR Friday evening, July WED The Juvenile Mr. L. Ellsworth Cards 35Cents ..ALBAUGH'S DECORATION DAY, TU MURRAY, PURVIN PRE The Talk of WITH MR. TH ADMISSION, 25c. 3 Tickets can be ha Row Boats, Launches and Special Rates Steamed Crab Launch can be chartered even For Fishi 4t18 Apply A. White, Ass KES & DER Druid Hill Avenue Corner in the DRUG LINE A. T. Henderson Kerr, Vie Musin's Mazuka DeConcert phrase of his own composition the LYRIC Mt. Roya Evening, June 2nd, a WITH Juvenile Troubadour A. L. Ellsworth Toomey, In Ch ents Reserved Seat BAUGH'S THEATRE MARRATION DAY, TUESDAY, MAY 30 Y, PURVIANCE & K PRESENT The Talk of The To WITH MR. TRAVIS TUCKER MISSION, 25c. 35c. 50c. 75c. Tickets can be had at all Drug Store Launches and Fishing Tack Special Rates to Fishing Parties Steamed Crabs in abundance be chartered every Saturday for For Fishing Parties. A. White, Asst. Manager B F. C. B 1016 Druid Hill Avenue Corner Oxford ANYTHING in the DRUG LINE Friday evening, June 2nd, at 8 P. M. WITH ADMISSION, 25c. 35c. 50c. 75c. $1.00 Tickets can be had at all Drug Stores Row Boats, Launches and Fishing Tackle For Hire. Special Rates to Fishing Parties Steamed Crabs in abundance Launch can be chartered every Saturday from Baltimore For Fishing Parties. 4113 Apply A. White, Asst. Manager Brown's Grove Knigts Of Pythias Band & Orchestra John T. Maxfield, Leader, 9 S. Stockton St., All mail orders Promptly Attended to. Howard Brent, Pres., 806 GeorgeSt. JOHN H. OW Undertakers $65.00 FUNK A fine casket worth $65.00, in hightly polished oak or walnut outs either black, gray or white, to mat riages, new and up-to-date; fine bus advertise funeral, six pairs of gloves cifix when desired, rugs, chairs etc. This funeral cost elsewhere..... Our price.....$75.00 Other Funerals as low as $25, $35, $45 No charge for removal Shipping Funerals, $25 JOHN H. OWENS @ S Ubertakers & Embal- mer $65.00 FUNERALS $75.00. worth $65.00, in black cloth, steel gra- k or walnut outside case; beautiful rhy- or or white, to match casket, as desire up-to-date; fine burial robe, embalin- s, six pairs of gloves, door crepe, candle, rugs, chairs etc., all of the latest desi- nial cost elsewhere.....$75.00 Saving you:..... as low as $25, $35, $40, $50. Higher Grad- charge for removal of remains from Hospi- ting Funerals, $25.00 and $50.00 Con A fine casket worth $65.00, in black cloth, steel gray or white plush; highly polished oak or walnut outside case; beautiful rubber-tired hears; either black, gray or white, to match casket, as desired; five heated carriages, new and up-to-date; fise 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.....$186.00 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. Wednesday evening, May 24th Rev. J. H. Taylor, B. B., and Mt. Mt. Sinai Baptist Church Thursday evening, May 25th Rev. G. R. Waller, D. D., and Trinity Baptist Church Friday evening, May 26th Junior Worker's Entertainment Rev. P. C. Neal, M. A., Pastor 1911 Anniversary Rally Berkian Church L. Williams, Pastor VICES Annual Sermon by the Minister. 3 p. D., choir and congregation of Trini- mion by Rev. L. Z. Johnson, D. D., Street Presbyterian Church. Anniversary Reception to Rev. W. Numbers and friends of Grace Church ashments served. Sing, Jones Watkins, Harvey John- and other minister. Oor of Sharon Baptist Church choir. Prof. Charles Wesley, cornet; Mr. Mrs. Elizabeth Simpson, treasurer, tier, secretary. DOWN'S GROVE Cic Steamer Starlight Caroline street 10 A. M. and 2 P. M. Your trip down the Bay 5 P. M. CEE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH MAY 30th, 1911 Enjoy all the pleasures of the Grove down the Bay. Grill's Orchestra 1 25 Cents. Brampton, See. Mrs. Rachal Ross, Treas. Rev. W. Edward Williams, Minister DERRY'S venue Corner Oxford Jason Kerr, Violin Soloist Ara DeConcert and a Para- town compositions IC Mt: Royal Ave. June 2nd, at 8 P. M. TH Troubadours Toomey, In Charge. Reserved Seats, 50 Cents THEATRE.. TUESDAY, MAY 30th, 1911 ANCE & KELLUM RESENT Of The Town DAVIS TUCKER 55c. 50c. 75c. $1.00 at all Drug Stores Fishing Tackle For Hire. On Fishing Parties in abundance Saturday from Baltimore ing Parties. St. Manager Brown's Grove EENS Q. SON Black Embalmer CRALS $75.00. Black cloth, steel gray or white plush he case; beautiful rubber-tired hearse th casket, as desired; five heated cari- cal robe; embalming, opening grave door crepe, candles, candelabra, cru- all of the latest designs. ..... $186.00 Saving you..... $61.00 $50. Higher Grade $100, $150. $175. remains from Hospitals. $0 and $50.00 Complete Rev. L. S. Flagg, pastor of St. John's A. M. E. Church is visiting his brother in Mississippi. Mrs. Ella Eckles, of 1214 Etting street, left the city this week for Plum Beach, R. I. Mr. A. T. Luca, who has been ill at his residence, 1122 N. Carrolton avenue, for the past few weeks, is able to be out again. Mrs. Louisa Gray, of Newport, R. I., is visiting in the city the guest of her sister, Mrs. Dorman of 1003 Druid Hill avenue. Baltimore Normal School's Annual Outing, Greenwood Elect. Park Monday, May 29.6 to 11.30 p. m. Kerr's Orchestra. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Allen and Mrs. Tillery, of 537 Laurens street, left the city last week for Narragan-sett Pier, for the summer. Miss Julia M. Jones and Mrs. Lillian M. Webster, will spend Sunday in Washington,as the guests of Mrs. Garner Mahoney, a sister of Mrs. Webster. Go with Grace Presbyterian Church to Brown's Grove, May 30, Mr. Robert M. Wilson and grand daughter, have returned to their home at Keysville; Va., after visiting his daughters, Mrs. Lessie Johnson and Mrs. Annie Hurt, of Sparrows Point, Md. Rev. Dr. Titus Newton Brown, of Annatto Bay, Jamaica, W. I., is on a visit to the United States, is the guest of Dr. D. N. E. Campbell, 1369 N. Carey street. Both men were classmates and room-mates at Calabor College, Kingston, Jamaica, B. W. I. Your last chance this season at Fishermen's Hall. Decoration Day 2 to 6.30, with KERR'S ORCHBSTRA. Mrs. Julia Rogers, of 1108 North Carey street, left the city week for Plum Beach, R. I., for the summer. Mrs. Emma R. Hearn, of Crisfield, Md., is visiting Mrs. Laura Wise, of 734 Pennsylvania avenue. Mr. George Gail, of 1227 Bayard street, is able to be out after a brief illness. Rev. David Johnson will move his family today to Hagerstown, where he has charge of the Bethel A. M. E. Church. Mr. Kerr's Orchestra has promised to "set right down" Decoration Day, 2-6.30 "Fish Hall" Dr. Thomas C. Coates has returned to his home in Philadelphia after a brief visit to his brother; Mr. Edward S. Coates. Mr. William Cornish, of 827 Stockholm street, has returned from a brief visit to Washington. Rev. Marion F. Sydes, the new pastor of the Waters A. M. E. Church, has moved his family to the parsonage, 427 Aisquith street. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Williams have moved from 582 Oxford street to 756 Mulberry street. Dr. J. Marcus Cargill is visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Parnell, of 131 Tennessee avenue, Atlantic City. Pretty Decorations, Prettier Music, Prettiest Girls—"Fish Hall" Decoration Matinee Dance May 30 2.6.30 John Ridgely and Arnett Murphy, Mrs. Emma Lee, of 1217 Upton street, is able to be out after six weeks' illness. Mrs. Mary Hughes, wife of Rev. Dr. W. A. C. Hughes, has returned from a ten day's visit to her sister, Mrs. D. Tilden, of Plainfield, N. J. Hear Mr. Kerr's latest composition, "The Johnnie-Arnie Rag" Mr. William H. Reed, of Boston, Mass., a distinguished harpone singer, is the guest of Mr. Glasses G. Chambras. Mrs Jennie Fleming and her little grand daughter 10 othy Brooks, of Washington, have returned home after a pleasant stay of several days in the city, as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. Macauley Dorey. Mr. Caleb Robinson, of 543 Lafayette avenue, is confined to his home by illness. Miss Mattie B. Callis, of 616 Baker street, who has been suffering from an attack of typhoid fever, is considerably improved. Mrs. Sarah F. Morris, of 1829 F. Eager street, is confined to her bed with a severe attack of pneumonia. Mrs. Richard Blake of 636 Pitcher street, was in New York last week, visiting her daughter, Miss Eudora Blake. Pitting Procedure. If you want money, go to strangers; if you want advice, go to friends; if you want nothing, go to relations— Lippincott's.