The Afro-American

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN LEDGER VOL. XIX NO. 51: MUST NOT BE CONTENT AS MENIALS BUT MUST PREPARE OUR SELVES FOR SERVICE IN THE FUNDAMENTAL SKILLED TRADES Dr. Booker T. Washington In In His Annual Address To National Negro Business League Tells Of Opportunites Open For Negroes In The Skilled Trades--Men Who Are Earning From Five To Ten Dollars a Day as Skilled Laborers (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Little Rock, Ark., August 18. Declaring that the Nergo must not be content to remain in menial pursuits, but must go into business on a large scale, Dr. Booker T. Washington electrified an audience Wednesday night at Kempner's Theatre where the National Negro Business League will end its twelfth annual session today. Following Dr. Washington's address, Dr. Joseph A. Booker, president of the Arkansas Baptist College urged that colored men and women of means should aid schools and colleges. At the morning session the League had been formally welcomed by addresses by Governor George W. Donaghey, Dr. E. C. Morris, of Helena; Dr. G. W. Hyman and J. G. Thornton, of Little Rock. Several addresses were delivered at the morning session including "Farming," John W. Thomas, Hutchinson, Kan.; "How I bought my first farm," Pickens Black, Auvergne, Ark.; "Truck Farming as an Investment," J. W. Whaley, Mansfield, La.; and Spencer Patterson, St. Denis, Md.; "Personal experiences as a contractor and builder" Dr. J. T. Walton, San Antonio, Texas; "My success as a real estate dealer," J. L. Jones, Houston, Texas; "Manufacturing sanitary oils and mops," George Hoagland, Bloomington, Ill.; and "General Merchandising," J. G. Cross, Brownsville, Texas; N. E. Barnes, Willis, Texas; and W. L. Williams, Marianna, Ark. At the outset of his address, Dr. Washington reviewed the progres of the racein Arkansas. Taking up the progress of the race in the whole South, he declared that leaders of the race should urge the patronizing of race enterprises. He said: "Taking the Southern States as a whole, I find that colored farmers last year produced four and a half million bales of cotton valued at about $319,000,000. Colored farmers in the South produced last year 150,000,000 bushels of corn valued at about $95,000,000. How many of these millions of dollars remain in our bands, and how much has parted from us? "The colored farmers of the South last year produced oats valued at over two million dollars. They produced last year 85,000 bushels of wheat valued at nearly four million dollars, and 98,000,000 pounds of tobacco valued at about nine million dollars. "It is estimated that the total value of the farm products of colored farmers of the South last year amounted to five hundred million dollars. In addition to what was produced by the farmers, I am safe in saying that those engaged in other gainful occupations such as professional service, domestic and personal service, and trade and PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY IN THE INTEREST OF THE RACE. manufacturing and mechanical pursuits earned last year at least two hundred million dollars, making the total earnings of our race in the South alone something over seven hundred million dollars. I repeat again and again that it is the duty of the Negro minister, the Nergo teacher, the Negro business man, of the leaders of our race everywhere to see that a larger proportion of the tremendous amount earned by our race is invested in lands, houses, banks, schools industrial institutions, colleges, churches, so invested that it will remain for all time in the possession of this generation and succeeding generations. If ten per cent only of our annual earnings were set aside for such investment as I have suggested, the race would have every year seventy million dollars which would go into its permanent enrichment and enlightenment. "There is another feature of race development to which I cannot fail to call your attention at this time. This refers to te matter of seeing to it that the youths of the race in a larger scale prepare themselves for service in the fundamental skilled trades. Too large a porportion of youths are content with the little odd jobs or hand to mouth callings. Too many of our men are content to be mere waiters, or Pullman car porters, or tip takers in some easy position that carries little with it that is permanent and dependable in the way of laying a foundation for the present or the future. The whole South is full of opportunities for skilled workmen at high wages. In Alabama, for example, there are colored men who are earning from $3 to $5 a day as bricklayers. In the Birmingham district of Alabama there are colored men who are earning from $5 to $10 per day as skilled laborers in the various iron and steel manufacturing enterprises of that State. What I say of Alabama is true of other States. "Without the least fear of exaggeration, I would state that employment can be found for 100 additional Negro architects, 300 Negro contractors, 100 more electrical engineers, 5000 more bricklayers, 5000 more carpenters, 500 more plumbers, 500 stationary engineers, 5000 more skilled workers in the iron furnaces. This is to say nothing of at least 50,000 places awaiting skilled farmers, dairymen, stock raisers and fruit growers. "Attention before it is too late to our economic and industrial growth will enable ten million members of our race in the United States to escape many of the pitfalls into which our race has fallen in Liberia, Haifi and elsewhere. "Just in proportion as our race gives he to the development of its economic an industrial opportunities will every school, college, university an church be strengthened. Just in proportion as we seize hold of and use the tremendous economic and material opportunities that are at our very door will every journalist, teacher minister, lawyer and doctor share in the benefit and be strengthened. "In all the repects to which I have referred and many others, a rich and bountiful harvest awaits us as a race, and in proportion as we enter it we shall find friends and supportres among white people and black people. Let us then as a race everywhere turn our faces away from the setting sun of gloom and despair toward the rising sun of hope and determination." Lineman Nearly Electrocuted Harold Brooks of Boston who was working as a lineman for the Montgomery (Ala.) Light and Power Company was nearly electrocuted a few days ago. He was working with Ralph Tyler son of Ralph Tyler auditor for the Navy. Both are students at Tuskegee Institute. DOCTORS TO HOLD BIG TALKFEST AT HAMPTON. DOCTORS TO HOLD BIG TALKFEST AT HAMPTON. DR. A.M. CURTIS HAS A PLAN TO UNITE THE N.M.A. IN- TO ONE BODY Doctors To Come From Every Section Of The Country.—Many Interesting Questions Will Be Discussed.—Daily Clinics To Be Held.—Friends Of Dr. Gamble Want Him To Be President.—Is The Author Of Its Present Constitution And Laws. Hampton, Va., August 17.—All is in readiness for the annual session of the National Medical Association, which opens next Tuesday morning. The scientific sessions will be held in the Academic Hall of Hampton Institute. The banquet will be held on the campus and the ball will be given in the Bay Shore Hotel at Buckroe Beach. The attendance bids fair to be large and representative and the papers and clinics will be of the highest scientific value. Dr. A. M. Curtis president of the association has secured rates over the Old Bay Line of Steamers and has arranged to carry a party of about thirty physicians, dentists and pharmacists of Washington to Baltimore on Monday evening at 6 o'clock, where the boat for Hampton will be boarded. Dr. Curtis' annual address will be of unusual interest. He will take occasion to review the work of the organization from its inception and to outline some reforms by which it may be made more effective in promoting public health and advancing the welfare of the profession embraced in its membership. He will suggest an enlargement of the scope of the organization, and the formation of permanent commissions for the investigation of the many phases of medical inquiry that are being developed from time to time. It is understood also that Dr. Curtis will advance a plan by which a working agreement can be entered into, for the mutual advantage between the N. M. A. and the American Medical Association. Reports will be made at Hampton by the commission on pellagra by the Dr. A. M. Towsend; by the commission on hookworm, of which Dr. J. A. Kenney of Tuskegee, Ala., is chairman; by the committee on tuberculosis of which Dr. Mareus F. Wheatland, of Providence, R. I. , is chairman; and by the commission on medical education, of which Dr. H. F. Gamble of Charleston, W. Va., is the official head. There will be exhibits by the dental and pharmaceutical sections that will be worthy of close examination, and the clinics by the surgical section will be in the hands of such eminent surgeons as Dr. A. M. Curtis, Dr. A. M. Brown, chairman of the section, Dr. D. H. Williams and Dr. W. A. Warfield. The friends of Dr. H. F. Gamble, of Charleston, W. Va., will present his name as a candidate, for the presidency for the ensuing year. For six years he has been at the head of the Commission on Medical Education, and as such has exerted a vital influence in having young men to enter the best schools for equipment as physicians. He has urged the older men to prepare themselves for the work that awaits the competent members of the profession. Dr. Gamble gave the Association its first consti- tion under which it is now working. HARRR W. PACE, HEAD ELK Southerner Elected to Succeed J. Frank Wheaton as Grand Exalted Ruler (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Boston, Mass., August 17.—The twelfth annual session of the Grand Lodge of Elks adjourned here last Friday with the installation of officers for the ensuing year. The next session will be held at Dayton, O. The officers are: J. Frank Wheaton, New York, past exalted ruler; Harry H. Pace, Memphis, Tenn, grand exalted ruler; George E. Bates, Jersey City, grand secretary; Dr. William E. Gales, Anacostia, D. C., grand treasurer; Stewart E. Hoyt, Boston, grand esteemed leading knight; William E. Leonard, Philadelphia, grand esteemed lecturing knight; David Tresvan, New York, grand inner guard; F. H. Warren, Detroit, grand orator; Dr. R. E. Jones, Richmond, Va., grand medical examiner; J. J. Jones, Chicago, grand esquire, and J. Clay Smith, Washington, grand esquire. Mrs. Emma Hodge, of Hampton, Va., was elected head of the women's auxiliary and Mrs. Emma V. Kelly, secretary. ST. LUKES MAKE GOOD SHOWING Over Eight Hundred Delegates From Twenty-one States Present (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Richmond, Va., August 18.—The fourty fourth annual session of the Independent Order of St. Luke ended here last night with the installation of officers for the ensuing year. The session opened Tuesday morning in the Fifth Baptist Church and was attended by 800 delegates, representing 21 states. The opening address was delivered by the right worthy grand chief, A. F, Angel. An address of welcome was delivered by Rev. J. A. Boler, of this city, and the response was made by Mrs. Julia Mason Layton, of Washington. The afternoon session was opened with prayer by Rev. P. J. Jordan, of Washington. The reports of the right worthy grand secretary, Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, and of chief A. F. Angel showed that the order had made great progress numerically and financially. Rev. Walter H. Brooks, of Washington, delivered a most interesting address last night on the race question. The address was delivered in the City Auditorium and a large audience greeted Dr. Brooks. Many, of the delegates occupy prominent positions in their communities. MRS. MAGGIEL. WALKER LITTLE ROCK CITIZENS ARE WIDE AWAKE MEN IN ALL WALKS OF LIFE WHO ARE DEMONSTRAT-ING THE ABILITY OF THE NEGRO. Mr. H. H. Williams Has Worked His Way From Letter Carrier To Superintendent Of The City Delivery-Mr. A. H. Miller's Rents Bring Him Nearly One Thousand Dollars Every Month-And There Are Many Others Doing Things. (Staff Correspondence.) Little Rock Ark., August 15—A record of the achievements of the Negroes of Arkansas and particularly Little Rock would make interesting reading, and the struggles some of them have had in order to gain a foot hold and a competency would be more startling than the veriest fiction. Perhaps Little Rock is the only town of consequence in the country where there is a Negro Superintendent of City Delivery a man who has worked his way steadily from carrier to the biggest position in that division. Under him work a large number of white and colored carriers and clerks, but he is business first last and all the time, and in the twenty one years he has been connected with the post office, he has made many friends among the white and colored patrons of the office. In gaining this position, Mr. H. H. Garner has simply done as others have done who have forced recognition, in spite of color prejudice. He has stuck to his work; working during hours and after hours, familiarizing himself with every detail and in the end making himself indispensable. It is a hard thing to get around the cold records of civil service procedure, and when confronted with the facts that there stood the logical man for the place, whose knowledge of things and conditions fitted him, besides whose record was behind him. There was little else to do but appoint him to the position he now holds. Frank A. Young Grand Keeper of Record and Seals is one of the foremost men in the state. He occupies a position of commanding influence among them although he has lived in the state a litte over ten years. He had more to do with the erection and maintenance of the Old Ladies Home than any other individual that institution being built up largely through his efforts. Mr. Young owns some valuable real estate lives in one of the most beautiful homes in the city and was elected for the fourth time to his present position. Mr. Young serves on the finance committee and committee on homes for the Business League and is chairman of the committee on Toasts. He stands high in other secret orders among them the Odd Fellows, Masons, Pythians and Mosaic Templars. Before entering into the real estate business he served for ten years as a railway mail clerk and only by economy and close application to business has he worked up to his present position of influence in the state. As a lawyer Scipio A. Jones has no equal in the State. By the members of the local state bar he is Continued on page 5. A Motion To Bury All Factional Differences is Defeated (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Richmond, Va. August 16—The forty seventh annual session of the Supreme Independent Order of St. Luke was held here last week. A resolution to bury all factional differences and reunite with the wing headed by Mrs. Maggie Waler was defeated. All claims were reported paid during the year. The next session will be held here. The following officers were elected: P. G. C., C. W. Simms; G. C., John W. Martin; V. G. C. Rev. H. M. Henderson; secretaries, E. D. Jones, Belle Christian and T. V. Williams; G. V. Thomas Harris; G. S. V., T. V. Williams Jr. C. Mary A. Spencer; N. F. E. D. Gilman; K. W. Frank Orange; J. S., J. T. Boling; O. S. J. R. Jones; R. H.S., Etta Lumm; L. S. H., O. Smith; R. V., Mary J. Henderson and L. V., R. B. Brooks. Independent Political (Boston, Mass., August 16.—Bostonians are making big preparations for the entertainment of the annual meeting of the National Independent Political League, which will be held here the latter part of this month. It is expected that the various speakers will severely criticise President's Taft's Negro policy, besides calling attention to various proscriptions inflicted upon the race. The speakers include Rev. G. R. Waller of this city, J. Milton Waldron, of Washington, Bishop Walters. Judge Miffin W. Gibbs and Rev. Byron Gunner of Hillburn, N. Y. THE CONGREGATION CANNOT AGREE (Special to the Afro-American Ledger.) Washington, August 17—As a result of a quarrel among the members at the church meeting last Friday night, there were no services at the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church last Sunday, and the edifice will remain closed by order of the court until the difficulties occasioned by the dispute over the pastorate have been settled. One element has elected Rev. James E. Willis as pastor. The young man is said to be of limited education and hence is not acceptable to the progressives. Mr. Willis being urged to resign for the sake of harmony, but the older people are anxious to have him serve. For assaulting Deacon Kosciusko of the Friday night meeting, Sister Susan Hill was fined $20 in the police court Monday. Mosiac Templars in Session Little Rock, Ark., August 16. The annual session of the Mosiac Templars was held here last week. The sessions were largely attended and the reports submitted showed progress along all lines. Among those who delivered addresses were J. E. Bush, nationa grand scribe, and Dr. J. G. Thornton, the national medical examiner of the order. Dr. Thornton urged the members to pay special attention to hygienic living. Want Separate Schools An effort is being made by Board of Education of Wyoming suburb of Cincinnati to have rate schools established. Graphic Account of the Upward Struggle of Ten Million Colored Americans, What They Have Achieved and the Unfavorable Conditions Under Which They Labor Along All Lines. Two-thirds of Dr. W. E. B. Du Bols' speech before the universal races congress, recently held in London, was devoted to a comprehensive summary of the history of the Negro race in America. He outlined the conditions under which slavery existed, gave the statistics of population and discussed the figures for health and crime. He quoted the fact of the 2,500 lynchings in the last twenty-five years and showed that only one-quarter of these colored men were even accused of rape. He gave a brief outline of the reconstruction period and dwelt on the fact that the colored legislators, whatever their faults, gave the south the beginning of a public school system, admitted thousands of poor whites to the suffrage who had previously been debarred and abolished many barbarous forms of punishment. He analyzed the occupations of the Negroes of today thus—2,000,000 laborers, divided into 1,250,000 farm laborers, 500,000 day laborers and 250,000 washerwomen. These he called "the semisubmerged class, some held in debt peonage and paid small wages. There are 1,235,000 workingmen, divided into 125,000 skilled artisans, 575,000 semiskilled workers and 500,000 servants. "This is the emerging group. They are handicapped by poor training and race prejudice, but they are push- [Image of a man in a suit with a bow tie]. ing forward, saving something and educating their children as far as possible." There are 250,000 independents, divided into 200,000 farmers, 40,000 professional men and 10,000 merchants. "This," he said, "is the leading group of Negro Americans. The mass of them have common school training, and there are some 5,000 college trained men. They are accumulating property and educating their children. Their advance is opposed by a bitter and growing race prejudice." After giving the figures for the accumulation of property Dr. Du Bois took up the present situation, which he analyzed as follows: The American Negro problem is the question of the future status of the 10,000-000 Americans of Negro descent. It must be remembered that these persons are Americans by birth and descent. They represent for the most part four or five American born generations, being in that respect one of the most original American groups in the land. Moreover, the Negroes are not barbarans. They are as a mass poor and ignorant, but they are growing rapidly in both wealth and intelligence, and larger and larger numbers of them demand the rights and privileges of American citizens as a matter of undoubted desirability. These rights are largely denied. In order to realize the disabilities under which Negroes suffer regardless of education, wealth or degree of white blood we may divide the United States into three districts—the southern south, containing 75 per cent of the race; the border states, containing 16 per cent, and the north and west, containing 10 per cent. They receive a distinct standard of justice in the courts and are especially liable to mob violence, are segregated so far as possible in every walk of life—in railway stations, railway trains, street cars, lifts, etc. and usually made to pay equal prices for inferior accommodations. They are often unable to protect their homes from invasion, the women from insult and abuse, the children from abduction, for public facilities, like parties and libraries, which they may not enter; we given meager educational facilities and sometimes none at all; are liable to sonal insult unless they appear as vants or menials or show deference to so folks by yielding the roads, etc. many of these disabilities there are legal and local exceptions. In cities, trance, the chance to defend the state is greater and mob violence leges is greater and mob violence *Student. Then there are always *normal exceptions—cases of help and courtesy, of justice in the courts and of good schools. These are, however, exceptions, and, as a rule, all Negroes, no matter what their training, possessions or desert, are subjected to the above disabilities. Within the limits of these caste restrictions there are much good will and kindness between the races and especially much personal charity and help. How the Race Is Distributed. The 15 per cent of the Negro population living on the border states suffer a little less restriction. They have some right of voting, are better able to defend their homes and are less discriminated against in the expenditure of public funds. In the cities their schools are much better, and public insult is less noticeable. In the north the remaining 10 per cent of the Negro population is legally undiscriminated against and may attend schools and churches and vote without restriction. As a matter of fact, however, they are made in most communities to feel that they are undesirable. They are either refused accommodation at hotels, restaurants and theaters or received reluctantly. Their treatment in churches and general cultural organizations is such that few join. Intermarriage with whites brings ostracism and public dislike, courts Negroes often suffer undeservedly, and the mental work is open to them, but avenues above this in skilled labor or the professions, save as they serve their own race, are extremely difficult to enter, and there is much discrimination in wages. Mob violence has become not infrequent in later years. There are here also many exceptional cases, instances of preferment in the industrial and political world, and there is always some little social intercourse. On the whole, however, the Negro in the north is an ostracised person who finds it difficult to make a good living or spend his earnings with pleasure. Under these circumstances there has grown up a Negro world in America which has its own economic and social life, its churches, schools and newspapers; its literature, public opinion and ideals. This life is largely unnoticed and unknown even in America, and travelers miss it almost entirely. The average American in the past made at least a pretense of excusing the discrimination against Negroes on the ground of their ignorance and poverty and their tendencies to crime and disease. While the mass is still poor and unlettered, it is admitted by all today that the Negro is rapidly developing a larger and larger class of intelligent property holders of Negro descent, understanding this difference in line lines are being drawn, which involve the treatment of civilized men in an unpleasant manner. This philosophy the thinking Negroes and a large number of white friends vigorously combat. They claim that the racial differences between white and black in the United States offer no essential barrier to the races living together on terms of mutual respect and helpfulness. They deny, on the one hand, that the large amalgamation of the races already accomplished has produced degenerates in spite of the unhappy character of these unions. On the other hand, they deny any desire to lose the identity of either race through intermarriage. They claim that it should be possible for a civilized black man to be treated as an American citizen without harm to the republic and that the modern world must learn to treat colored races as equals if it expects to advance. They claim that the Negro race in America has more than vindicated its ability to assimilate modern culture. Negro blood has furnished thousands of soldiers to defend the flag in every war in which the United States has been engaged. They are a most important part of the economic strength of the nation, and they have furnished a number of men of ability in politics, literature and art. BUSINESS ESSENTIALS. Right Choice, Knowledge and Efficiency Necessary to Success. By N. BARNETT DODSON. With public and high schools, academies, colleges and universities, agricultural schools, farmers institutes and local business leagues in all sections of the country there is no reasonable excuse for any one remaining ignorant. Efficiency is the watchword of the times. Competition is close, and therefore business methods are more exacting than they were a decade ago. In every ambitious movement in business, society, church, state or nation there is a striving for the mastery, and the person that is not willing to make the sacrifice necessary to make his line of work compete with or excel his competitor will have to be satisfied with second, third or the last place in the line of commercial endeavor or what not. There should be no middle ground in business, no motionless period, for unrest is written on the doorpost of every reputable business establishment. While some of our strongest and longest established business concerns have either failed or ceased to exist for other reasons, the great bulk of Afro-American industry remains solid. Some have gone under because of lack of funds, others doubtless on account of being in the hands of inexperienced persons. In either case there is a lesson for the coming business man, who, if wise, will use these drawbacks as stepping stones upon which he will rise to success in the business world. Again, many persons fall in life because of a wrong choice. One should consider well the kind of business he wishes to enter, the character and possibilities for its development and his knowledge of and ability to conduct the business which he chooses. These are essentials of the first importance. Many persons go into business simply because they see others succeeding along certain lines without reference to any or either of the foregoing necessary qualifications. This is a mistake which is bound to result fatally, leaving discouragement if not disaster in its wake. Give Honor to Whom Honor Is Due. Speaking of giving honor to whom it is due, we know of no more potent influence working for the good of the race in public affairs in New York than the Amsterdam News, of which the level headed James H. Anderson is the managing editor. For the appointment of J. S. Battle on the police force, for creating sentiment in favor of a colored regiment in the New York national guard, for a penny savings bank in Harlem and for breaking up dens of vice the glory belongs to the Amsterdam News more than to any other agency. PROGRESS OF THE RACE IN TEXAS Revival of Time Honored Custom Among Afro-Americans Causes Great Enthusiasm—Noted Educators and Statesmen of Both Races Co-operate With Business Men—Outline of Program. Bonham, Tex.—This is not the largest town in Texas, nor is it reckoned as one of the most progressive. Nevertheless there will be held here Aug. 23-27 one of the largest, if not the largest, enterprises ever undertaken by the colored people of the state. From time to time there have been held fairs, but other than the old Corsicaan fair none of them has assumed the proportions of a state fair. For nearly fifteen years the Corsicaan fair was successfully conducted, but after the death of the secretary and its most aggressive promoter the fair was discontinued, much to the regret of the colored people of the state. In 1910 an attempt was made to have a fair at Marlin, a famous health resort, but in point of attendance it was not a success. Now a number of progressive north Texans have decided to renew the state fair proposition and have offered excellent inducements. Formerly our people held what was known as the Fannin county fair. That association is actively co-operating with the State Fair association, and preparations are under way to entertain the largest crowd ever attending a fair in this state. The officers of the State Fair association are: Hon. D. S. Pittman, Longview, Tex., president; secretary-treasurer, C. S. Smith, Larne; vice presidents, J. H. McKnight, Sam Borders, S. C. Johnson, C. T. Scott. An experienced horseman of Waxahachie is manager of the races, and Rev. J. R. Swancey of Denton is general manager of the fair. S. C. Johnson of this city is assistant manager. On the first day of the fair an impressive parade will be held. In nine decorated carriages drawn by pure white horses the queens, elected by as many counties, will ride, and the display is expected to be the most magnificent of its kind ever attempted in this state. Including a girl's band from Cleveland, there will be six brass bands in the parade on the opening day. The feature of the afternoon program of the first day is the automobile race by the white automobilist of Bonham. Be it said in appreciation of their assistance that the white people here are enthusiastic concerning the fair and are doing everything possible to see that it will be a success. Numerous attractions, both free and paid, have been produced, and the indications are that the exhibit showing the industrial progress of our people will be the most elaborate ever collected and exhibited. In order to obtain an improvement in the corn-grown in this and other states the department of agriculture of the national government has had its field men organize boys' corn clubs. The colored boys of the state have not only local organizations, but a state club, and many of the well known farmers take an active interest in the boys. The State Corn club, with officers as follows, will actively participate in the fair this year, and in special day has been arranged for the youngsters: William Nash, president; Haywood Gentry and M. M. Morse, vice presidents: C. A. Iverson, F. M. G.; D. W. Debony, R. G.; J. Walls, R. G., and R. D. Davis, P. C. Among the prominent speakers who will be present and make addresses during the fair are: Hon. H. L. Blackshear, the noted educator and principal of the Texas State Normal and Industrial institute of Prairieview, and the Hon. R. L. Smith, president of the Farmers' Improvement society and the last colored representative in the Texas legislature. The third day of the fair has been designated as the F. I. S. day, and members of the society from all over Texas are expected to be present. Afro-Americans Honored In London. On the evening of the second day's session of the universal races congress, recently held in London, Mrs. Alma Black, member of the American Peace Arbitration league of New York, entertained a large number of distinguished guests, among whom were Lord and Lady Weardale, William Phillips, secretary to the United States embassy; Admiral Honbridge, Professor Scarborough of Wilberforce university and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brittain. There were over a dozen other colored American present besides Professor Scarborough. Rev. Dr. J. H. McMullen For Bishop. Among the prominent candidates for the bishopric of the A. M. E. Zion church is Rev. Dr. J. H. McMullen, the successful pastor of Little Zion A. M. E. church in New York. Dr. McMullen is considered good timber and is in the forefront of the candidates for the Zion episcopacy. He stands well in the New York conference, of which he is a member, and has had an interesting career as a churchman. "No." said the girl in the gray pongee, as she put aside her green silk parasol and proceeded to hunt down half a dozen hatpins lost in the maze of tiny green buds on the gray hat. "I'm through camping!" Her audience sat up and gasped in wonder. The girl in the gray pongee was the champion camper of the neighborhood. "I've camped for the last time!" she said, emphatically, after allowing a proper time to elapse, for the sake of impressiveness. "It's grown worse and worse every year, but this year it was positively unhearable. "When we first started camping," explained the girl in the gray pongee, "we made an ironclad rule that we would lead the simple life. We would live in our gym clothes, eat our meals in go-as-you-please fashion and pass the evenings in whatever garb pleased us most; in fact, be perfectly natural for the whole two blessed weeks. "It was such a relief to know that you could luxuriate for those two weeks in bloomers and blouses, or in wet hathing suits, without having to worry lest somebody accidentally see you. I used to count on it all winter, when I went around strapped into dresses that would have burst if I had had another eighth of an inch of circumference! "Then last year some of the girls informed us that a crowd of young men were going to camp near us, and we'd have to entertain them once in a while. Some of us balked, not so much at the entertaining once in a while as at the fact that there were going to be men in the neighborhood. It meant that we'd have to think about our locks and that spoiled the camping! "Well, we had to endure the infliction. The men were there and when they weren't invited they came anyway and sang silly songs under our windows. "The girls they knew thought it was so romantic. The rest of us, however, were simply disgusted and we told the girls so, too. But do you suppose it did any good? They just smiled sweetly and went and covered their faces with cold cream and powder before going sailing, for fear they'd get sunburned! "The rest of us made up our minds that we'd not be—shall I say bullied?—into dressing up every evening, even if those who had callers did devote their mornings to ironing and washing to make themselves lovely. We determined to go on dressing as we had dressed before and merely to shun the men. "But do you suppose we could? Mercy! We'd go for a stroll down by the bay and there we'd meet one of our girls all in white with a man! We'd dart behind trees until they'd passed and then we'd go back along the path thinking that we'd get into a dark corner of the porch and have a good time talking. But the darkest corners were always filled with couples and of course we couldn't sit in the light in our bloomers! It was simply a case of dress up or go to bed, so we finally chose the former, for it was to hot to swatter in bed, and the men came awfully early! "This year, when we went out, the girls all promised faithfully that they wouldn't invite a single man. We were going to have a real old fashioned camp, and, oh! how I was looking forward to it! "Well, the very first evening who should happen to pass by in an automobile but Jack Strone! One of the girls called out to him—and I just know she had been expecting him. We all had to run in and dress in skirts, while he sat in his car and waited for us. "He took some of us for a ride, and before he left he asked if he couldn't bring out the whole party of fellows who were doing summer engineering near by! We had to say yes, after he'd given us a ride. "That ended all the fun. There were enough young men to go around, and then some, and they came morning, noon and night! We had to wash and iron long after we ought to have been asleep, so that we might be neat and fresh all day long, for fear some of them would come out to call. It was simply awful! "I vowed that I was never going again. But the others seem to like it, and they're going to make a regular house party of their camping next year!" "It's too bad that Fred has to be away all summer, isn't it?" murmured a listener, cautiously, "Now, if he'd—" "Yes," admitted the girl in the gray pongee, dreamily, "if Fred had been there—" A ripple of laughter aroused her and she blushed rosily. What's the Use? "Folks do a lot of useless things, don't they?" asks the man with the iridescent whiskers. "Guess they do," answers the man with the undecided eyebrows. "Yep. F'instance, there's my Aunt Jane. She persists in going through her whole list of symptoms over and over again to everybody that calls after she has recovered from her illness." If He But Knew. 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The strength and forces of his worthiness. A busy ironing day, or a day when using the kitchen range for other things is a good time to have a whole dinner, except perhaps the dessert and a salad, cooked in one dish. Buy a piece of beef for stewing, a bit of veal, and if you have a broiled chop or two of lamb left from yesterday's dinner, so much the better. Cut the meat in pieces large enough for a serving, and brown well in a frying pan, using a little suet. Add a cupful of water to the frying pan, after removing the meat. Place the meat in a stone-covered dish, pour over the liquid from the frying pan, and put into a hot oven. After half an hour's cooking add a few carrots, onions and potatoes. Baste them with the broth occasionally, and serve them from the casserole. A simple salad to be served with this dinner is lettuce and French dressing. Prepare the lettuce early, and place on the ice, wrapped in a cloth. All water should be drained from the leaves, as the dressing will not stay on wet leaves. Prepare the dressing by beating together a tablespoonful of vinegar to three of oil, a half teaspoonful of salt and a few dashes of paprika or red pepper; a teaspoonful of oystercheshire sauce or one of catsup, or both, may be used. When the dressing is thick and well blended pour over the lettuce. Serve at once, as the dressing will wilt the lettuce in a few moments. A very dainty dessert easy to prepare and most delicious is musk melons. Cut the edible portion into cubes, add a little lemon juice and sugar and serve with small cakes or crackers. When making pastry, bake several shells, and when a fruit pie is wanted in hurry, crush the fruit, cover with a meringue and brown in a hot oven. This same pie may be served with the fruit covered with whipped cream instead of the meringue. Nellie Maxwell. 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The building also'contains an assembly room with a.seating capacity of. 2500,.a teachers’ dining room -with “acédmodations for 200, kitchens, and’a. large'bakery which supplies the, neéds'of the school and. of the: Institute. -community;. /The' tables -in, the dning jhall-are neatly. arranged and decorated with flowers,.and it is a most interesting sight to see ' the whole: student body at a meal: a The next’ session of the Tusékgee Normal and’ Industrial. Institute’opens Tuedsay, Septemebr 12. pa eet Le : SUPREME LODGE OFTHEK, OF P ~Indanapolis, Ind., August 17.— This city is beginning to take on a gala appearance for the session of the Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Pythias, which will. begin here Monday: and continue until next Saturday. Besides the session of the Supreme Lodge the Supreme Court of Calanthe:will meet and the Uniform Rank will go into camp. Dr. Booker T. Washington will deliver an address at Wonderland Park next Tuesday afternoon’ and ‘the following afternoon a reception will be tendered the 200 or more physicians among the delegates. ‘The reception to the doctors prom- ises to be an elaborate affair and will take place at the Lincoln Hos- pital. 7 ‘The biennial election of officers promises to be an interesting con- test. Supreme Chancellor, S. W. Green,,, of New Orleans, will be a candidate to succeed himself. John Mitchell, editor of the Rich- mond Planet’ may oppose Mr. Green as he did at Kansas City two years ago. J. Rupert Jefferson, of West Virginia is in the race to defeat Joseph G. Jones, vf Ohio as su- preme chancellor, a place held by the late John W. Strauther, | of Mississippi. John B. Snowden, of Kentucky would like to supplant C. K. Robinson, of St. Louis as su- preme keeper of records and seal. George A. Watty; grand chancel- jor of Maryland, will be in the race to-sueceed himself as supreme: in- ner guard Other Marylanders ex- pected to attend are: Gen. George Hy, Carter, Lewis 8. Williams, Mrs. Eva Skinner, all of Baltimore; Mannadier St Clair, John H. Jones, both of Cambridge and 4. G, Wash- jngton, of Cumberland ‘The delegates from this state will make a big effort to_land the next biennial session for Baltimore. Church at Annapolis Doing Well (Special to The Airo-American Ledger.) Annapolis, August. 7,—Rev. C. ‘H. Stepteau, P. E., held second quarterly conference in Mt. Moriah A. M, EB. Church, Friday night of Isat week. The reports showed in- crease along almost all lines; and they also showed that there had been more than-$500 collected dur- ing the quarter. Rev. Stepteau preached: an able sermon on Sunday night to an ap- preciative auidence. Dr. Stepteau is very popular among the peopie of Annapolis, The membership is small but there is hardly a more loyal working'and paying member- ship in the Baltimore Conference than these people. ———— Imposing Dedication Services. 4Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Mt. Airy, Md., August 15,—The new: Warren Methodist Episcopal Church was. dedicated here Sunday afternoon with imposing services. The exercises were in charge of Rev. Ernest S. Williams, district Superintendent, of the Washington District. Rev. J. H. Watson is pastor of the church. TOMPKINS HALL, TUSKEGEE, ALA. ODD FELLOWS AND GRAND HOUSEHOLD Annapolis, Md., August 17.— Annapolitans are making big prep- arations for the fourth biennial ses- sion of the Maryland District Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, which begins here next Wednesday. The Dis- trict Grand Household, the Wom- en’s Auxiliary, will also meet at the same time. ‘At the opening session in Asbury M. E. Church, addresses of wel- come will be delivered by the Mayor and several other prominent resid- ents, Brief respnoses will be made by W. W. Coleman, Mrs. Annie R. Johnson, Dstrict Grand. Seercetary; Jesse L, Nichols, District Grand Treasurer, Alfred A. Mitchell, all of Baltimore. Prof. Stephen H. Long, Henry P. Slaughter, editor of the Odd Fellows Journal, Hon. Henry Lincoln Johnson, Recorder of Deeds at. Washington; Grand Secretary, James F. Needham, of Philadelphia, and Grand Treasurer, Juilus C, Johnson. Perry Dobson, of Annapolis, John W. Williams, of-Hagerstown, and John F.. Cromwell, of Baltimore, aye said to be the aspirants for the position of District grand master, now held by Ware W. : Conway, of Jesterville. Brisa aegis ‘The delegates from Salisbury. and Chestertown will each make efforts to land the convention for their re- spective cities. ‘ The present officers are, W. W. Conway, ‘district grand master; J. W. Williams, deputy disttict grand master; A. A. Mitchell, grand treas- urer, Jesse L. Nichols, district grand secretary and W. W. Cole- man, district grand deputy. Women Render a Fine Program. (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) ‘Terre Haute, Ind., August 7,— Sunday was Woman’s Day at the Second Missionary Baptist Church and each service was largely attend- ed. ‘The services were}led by {Mrs. Annie Ashworth, Mrs. Tillie Crow and Mrs. Alice Bragg. A fine pro- gram was rendered. Rev. Frank Estelle, pastor - of Highland Baptist Church is able to jbe out afterja severe illness of sev- eral. weeks. Mrs. W. Henry Snowden will leave here Thursday to visit friends in Indianapolis, Martinsville, Louis- ville and Springfield, Ky. At Allen Chapel A. M. E. Church ‘Thursday, August 17, there will be adebate. Subject: Resolved that Immigration should be restricted. Affirmative, Colored Y. M. C. A., of Indianapolis. Negative, The Peoples Forum of Terre Haute. The Free Will Baptist Church: is still without a pastor. This is a fine field for some good preacher. Prof. F. D. Blake leaves, Monday the 14th to attend the Grand Lodge of Masons at Richmond, Ind. After being closed ‘for three weeks for repairs, Dr. W. Henry Snowden will open the doors of the Second Missionary Baptist Church, Sunday, August 15, The auditor- |ium is beautifully finished, the fin- est in the city. THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER. APTS CONDENN. | a - ONTSLELINGERS) fe Notion Wige Protest | [Wai gst Declaring that the race must make anation wide protest against mob law, Rev. Dr. Garnett R, Waller delivered an ‘address before the Baptist Ministers Meeting, in which he denounced’ the lynchings in Ok- lahoma and: Coatesville, Pa., Sun- day: His remarks follwoed the intro- duetion of a resolution condemning the lynchings, by Rey. Dr. Wm. Alexander, president of the meet- ing. ‘‘There are too many lynch- ings,’’ said. Dr. Waller, ‘‘ in this country and we must let the world know that the thing is going too far. Some of us say that ‘‘fam ‘glad that he did not assault a white woman,'’ but you only make the ‘action of the lynchers more nausea- ‘ting. ~The old Jews used to tell the young Hebrews of *Russia to. be peaceful and.all would be. well, but [the massacres at KishneffZand other ‘places came. | The young Jews have become more assertive and some of the hor- rors are not now perpetrated. “We cannot sit idly by and see our race killed off without due process of law and we must tell the country of the injustice to us and the: danger to all that the mob spir- it engenders.’ ‘Dr. Alexander's resolution passed with but one disenting vote, the ob- jecting minister claiming ‘that the affairs in another State should | no! be interfered with. Mr, Nelson Entertains (Specia! to The Afro-American Ledger.) Jonestown, Md., August 10th,— Mr. Nelson, of St. Stephens enter- tained on last Friday, Mr. and Mrs. Lioyd and children. The first. part of.the day was spent in hunting and fishing, after which a very elaborate dinner was served. The farm_of Mr. Nelson is very: picturesque. 4 - Mr. Thomas Dorsey, has just fin- ished building a very fine cottage for Mr. Watkins. Mr.. John Dorsey, who has been ill for some time, is convalescing. Mrs. Lloyd has.organized a Busy Bee Club among the children of Jonestown, who propose to give an entertainment on August 23, to buy anew organ for the Sunday School. Camp Meetings, In Full Swing (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Harman’s, August 8,—St. Marks Camp closed on the 30-inst. It was very largely attended and conse- quently-a financial success. ct John Wesley Camp, Furnace Branch, opened on Sunday. Rev. Turpeau, of Ames Memorial Church preached at the 11 0’clock’ service. Rev. W. Brigges, is the pastor in charge. Mr. and Mrs. Z. C. Queen, enter- tained Sunday at their home in Marley, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Smith and Mr. Walter D. Queen, of Bal- timore. 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Cupid is Very Busy - In Hagerstown ae (Special to the Afro-American Ledger) Hagerstown, Md., August 16.— Miss Lelia Beck and Mr. Clifford Balis were married at the parson- age of Bethel A. M. E. Church Sun- day. Rev. David Johnson officia- ted. . A pretty wedding was solemnized at the home of Mr. and Mrs, Burn- side Clark,on North street, Monday evening, the contracting parties be- | ing Miss Mary Carter and Mr. J. Green. Rev. David Johnson per- formed the ceremony, ~The funeral of Mr. Philip Nick- ens, who died Thursday, was held Saturday, Rev. J. H. Thurman officiating.$ Ramer * Miss Alice Johnson, of 1002 Druid Hill avenue, Baltimore, was the guest of her brother, Rev. Day- id Johnson, Sunday. Miss Maud Miller, of Washing- ton, is visiting her uncle, Mr. R. , Miller, of North Street. Mrs, Martha Franklin has return- ed from a two weeks stay at Asbury Park, N. J. The work on the new $10,000 house of worship of Bethel A. M. £. Church is rapidly progressing. Charles Alexander in Cuba. 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BALTIMORE, AUGUST 19, 1911 Mob law will soon put all the legislatures and other law manufacturing concerns out of business. 0 It seems to us that President Taft might use his peace efforts a little in this country. A country of mob law seems to us to need some attention. Our thanks are due Col. J. R. Marshall, of the Eighth Infantry, Illinois National Guard for a copy of the official program of the National Military Tournament which took place at Capitol Park, Chicago, Ill., July 23 to 30th. It has several very flattering notices of the officers and members of the famous command. We would like to see just such a regiment in this state. The great State of Pennsylvania has shame written all over its face, and unless Governor Tenner takes active steps to bring to justice every man who took part in the lynching which put a blot on the fair name of that State, it will be classed with Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama and other Southern states. There ought to be no trouble in bringing every one of them to justice and the colored men of Pennsylvania should give the Governor no peace night or day until he does his duty. WHAT IS THE LAW FOR? We have actually no sympathy in the world for murderers and rapists be they black or white, and we believe that each and every one of them should be tried by the shortest legal method and punishment administered with equal promptness. This is supposed to be a civilized country, whatever the word civilization means. It is said in the quarters that America is the highest civilized country in the world. If this is so, all the rest of the countries have our profoundest sympathy. In two widely separated sections of this "highly civilized" country, Sunday, two human beings were burned to death by howling mobs, in one case at least, consisting of many women and children. Up to the present we have to see one word of condemnation on the part of the press, and not a word for any white minister. Ministers can condemn a man for being divorced from his wife and contemplating marrying another, but when it comes to burning human beings to death they are as silent as the Subyx in the desert of Africa. Have the American people no conscience? Is the black man so hateful to them that they allow such murders as those to go without a word of condemnation? They are indeed heartless. If there were no courts in the land; if the judges and all the officers of these courts were not white men; if there was the least shadow of expectation that the black criminal would escape by means of powerful friends, or the legal technicalities found in every law, we would be constrained to hold our peace. But to say the least these outrages are an hundred fold worse than the crime committed by the victim of this outrageous mob law. What are the white people made of anyhow? What is underneath this veneer of so-called civilization any way? Will some one please answer this question . THE SUN IS IN WRONG The Batimore Sun beggars the question in reference to the popular election of senators to the United States Senate. The south wanted senators elected by popular vote but did not want any restrictions placed around the elections. The Bristow amendment gave Congress the same right to safeguard the election of Senators that it does in the case of Representatives to the more popular branch of Congress. This would in all probability rub the South the wrong way and consequently rather than have Federal supervision, they would let the election continue as at present. The Sun thinks there is no similarity, and that while the Senate has at present nothing to do with the election of Senators save the naming of the time and manner of holding such elections, that it should keep hands off in a popular election. While it is true that the people constitute the State, and have a right to speak directly upon this or any other question, it is a well know fact that in most of the Southern States there is at present no such thing as a popular election, and that the PEOPLE do not have much to say when it comes to elections. A few men do and that is all, and one knows it better than the Sun. So when placed up against solid facts the long winded editorial of the Sun goes for naught. A BUNCH OF TRUE REFORMERS. The disgraceful failure of the order of True Reformers carries with it a most serious lesson for the people of the Negro race, who in the fear of God, seek the honest advancement of our people. The only great True Reformer the world has ever known was Jesus of Nazareth. It is a fearful thing to use the outward organism which enshrined the leadership of Jesus to accomplish results which completely nullify the Reformation of Society sought by the Christian Church. Among the men indicted in connection with the looting of the order of True Reformers, is a former executive of that order, who claims to have been called to preach the Gospel of peace and goodwill to mankind. Although his Master was so poor that he had not where to lay his head, yet this man who cannot lay claim to even a good high school education had become of such great importance as to demand five thousand dollars a year, and to be driven about from place to place in a lordly manner, while his poor Master, Saviour of the world was content to use His feet as through mountains and valleys he moved, seeking not money, but to bless and help the oppressed men of His time. The "True Reformation" preached by Jesus was not a so called Gospel of money getting but one of character. He sought to improve the conditions of his time not by greed and selfishness but rather by self denial, self control, and righteousness. He declared, and it has never been repealed, that if men would seek first such things of self denial, self control, and righteousness, that all the other necessary tings of life should be added. But the indicted "True Reformer's" of our day seem to have reversed this order, and in so doing have brought about a vindication of the Master's command. More deadly, vulnerable, and damning to the race are such educated and unprincipled rascals among us, than all the disfranchisement schemes, and jim crowisms that can possibly be conceived. If such men are guilty of the charges laid against them, the severest possible penalty should be imposed. Particularly, are the educated men among us who seem to use their gifts primarily and almost exclusively in making money regardless of righteousness, should take notice and beware. The liberation of the slave came from God. He desires still further their emancipation from ignorance, poverty, and oppression. The Negro who meditates way down in his heart, to use his gifts to exploit the misfortunes of his poor and suffering race and to grow wealthy thereby, it were better for him that a millstone was tied around his neck and he cast in the depths of the sea. The Lord gave and the Lord can take away. All around us we see men who have been endowed with rich and intellectual gifts and splendid abilities, veritable outcasts and forever disgraced before the eyes of their fellow citizens. They chose (secretly in their hearts, unknown to men,) to deny the sovereignty of the Almighty God and He gave them over to reprobate minds, fit only for the moral dung hill. MR. COLOMBUS GORDON HITS BACK Declares That His Actions In Galilean Fishermen Race pride is not to be displayed in giving support to grand rascals simply because they have black faces. Rather do we evince pride in our race, when we preserve the good name of the race for integrity, fidelity and honesty. We do not hesitate in advising our people to be slow in investing their funds in any enterprise simply and solely because it is run by colored men. Avoid grand rascals whether they be of the colored or white race. Let us do less booming of an enterprise, but let that enterprise boom itself by showing forth its own worthiness. Let us stop parading our big men and saying how much they are worth in dollars and cents; until such show greater worth in that kind of moral excellence which shows itself in large and regular contributions to our elemenary and charitable institutions. For after all this is the true measure of "big men"; not what they have but what they give. Not their selfishness, but their Christian liberality on behalf of others. It is a positive duty of every Christian man, whether in the lodge, church, or society at large, to do all that he can to save his people from the grafter and money lover, who makes his way into all such institutions to knock down and to steal. Let us not soon forget the needed lessons which the bunch of indicted "True Reformers" and the bad odor still in the air, emitted from the remains of the Baltimore end of the Metropolitan and Realty brokerage of New York, would point out. THE FORUM Thanks, Doctor To the AfroAmerican Ledger Forum. Will editor Murphy allow me space to express my appreciation of the sketch of myself that he was kind enough to write up in the AfroAmerican Ledger, of the 5th inst. and at the same time make this simple statement. To appear not to appreciate the same would be hypocritical pretence and show a lack of gratitude for the thoughtfulness thus shown for my interests, in this article. But I want to disclaim any previous knowledge of the kind intentions of the Editor. I do not know where he got the facts, though facts they are, nor do I know where he obtained my cut. But I do know that I did not furnish it, nr did I suggest a line or word tat the article contained. I met Mr. Franklin Johnson, the all around, thoroughly business like solicitor and reporter, and tried to obtain from him the inforation as to who supplied to you the picture, and of course you know how much he told me. I make this statement because the impression seems to have gotten into the minds of some, that this article was my own work largely, and that the prompting of the publication was also mine. But Mr. Editor, I know that you know the facts to be to the contrary, so let me again thank you, and wish the Afro-American Ledger the most abundant success in its future career, even greater than it has had, and may it ever live in our community to shed light and truth, and stand for the betterment of mankind, and our race in particular. I am, sir, yours truly, Harvey Johnson. A mass meeting in the interest of the Atlanta Normal and Industrial Institute was held in Atlanta Sunday and quite a sum realized. R. D. Stinson is head of the school. Negroes Leaving Mississippi. It is said that colored people have been emigrating from Mississippi in droves since James K. Vardaman was elected to the United States Senate. Hill Seen in New York? A special to the Boston Guardian states that Reuben T. Hill the missing cashier of the True Reformer's Bank at Richmond, was seen on the streets of New York a few days ago. Colored Operator in White Office Charles S. Ruff is employed as a linotype operator by the Daily Transcript Herald of Peoria Ill: He was editor of the Desmoines (Ia.) State Bystander. Declares That His Actions In Galilean Fishermen Order Have Been Above Board Mr. Columbus Gordon, whose reelection as national grand ruler for the Galilean Fishermen, was the cause for a published criticism by Mr. Joseph P. Evans, former grand treasurer of the order, has issued a mild statement, in which he denies the charges made by Mr. Evans. The statement follows: "feel that it is but right and proper for me to deny all the statements made in the article published last week. For over 39 years have I been connected with the order of Galilean Fishermen, and for more than 30 years served as grand secretary. During all of that time, the national grand ruler wrote and sent out the various proclamations, and that without my knowledge and consent as grand secretary. As to my refusing or neglecting to notify all of the tabernacles, I will say that I secured a list of the lodges from the endowment department and to all of these lodges I sent my proclamation. If any did not get them, I am sorry, as it was not my fault. "My actions have always been dictated by what I could square with my conscience and my God. And I must say that neither at Harrisburg nor in Baltimore did I seek the aid of any man or set of men, and will as national grand ruler continue to administer the affairs of the order impartially." Mr. Gordon and Mr. Evans were, prior to last year, both members of the Board of Directors of the Galilean Fishermen's Bank, an independent corporation which failed some months ago. --- Tendered a Reception Crewe, Va., August 16.—Mrs. J. H. Olivet, widow of the late J. H. Olivet, of Baltimore who is visiting her mother in law here was tendered a birthday party on Friday which was a delightful affair. Many members and friends of the family were present. Mrs. Olivet has made many friends since she came to Virginia, and is spending a pleasant summer with her relatives. Bishop Gaines Criticised Rev. R. W. Fickland a minister of the Philadelphia A. M. E. conference is sending broadcast to the newspapers an open letter which severely arraigns Bishop Gaines for his management of affairs in the First Episcopal District. The letter charges that Bishop Gaines has grossly discriminated against ministers in a number of instances by leaving good men without appointment. REFORMERS WANT Wrler Griffin, Chief of Washington Division, A Strong Candidate. (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Richmond, Va., August 17.—At the special session of the Grand Fountain of the True Reformers, which will be held here next week strong efforts will be made to elect a set of officers who have not had anything to do with the managing of the affairs of the order in the past. This program will eliminate A. W. Holmes, W. L. Taylor, W. P. Burrell and the others who are now under indictment for alleged complicity in the wrecking of the True Reformer's Bank. Among those who have been suggested to succeed A. W. Holmes is Walter R. Griffin, chief of the Washington division. Mr. Griffin played a prominent part in the investigation which resulted in indictments being brought last week, and is said to favor a clean sweep in all of the offices, regarding it as the only way to restore public confidence. Death of Mrs. Maria Woodhous Death of Mrs. Maria Woodhous Mr. John W. Woodhouse, of 537 Presstman street, was called to Philopolis, Md., this week to attend the funeral of his mother, Mrs. Maria Woodhouse, widow of the late Rev. Amerieus Woodhouse, of the A. M. E. Church. Mrs. Woodhuse was born in Virginia, but moved to Maryland more than thirty years ago. She leaves three daughters and two sons, one of whom is a teacher in the public schools of Baltimore. Boston, Mass., August 16.—In a lively meeting at the Twelfth Baptist Church a few evenings ago, a number of speakers declared that there was every indication that the whites of this country wanted to keep the race in a subdued condition. A most interesting address was the one delivered by Dr. Owen M. Waller, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who declared that Northern investors and Southern business men had combined to keep the Negro down, and that Booker T. Washington was simply the mouthpiece of the organization. "The colored people of this country" he declared, "have been living for the last 50 years under most rigid and yet the cleverest organized conspiracy that any weak race has been compelled to live under. The forces engaged in this conspiracy are the capitalists of the North, who have over $2,000,000, invested in the South and the Bourbons of the South who want it to stay invested there. "The head of this organized conspiracy is a Colored man—a man of splendid genius, in my opinion, a diplomat, an orator and a splendid organizer. It is Booker T. Washington, of Alabama who is at the apex of this organized combination of Northern capitalism and Southern Bourbonism. "You notice that the people who are engaged in keeping the Colored race in a subdued state occasionally let the cat out of the bag. You find both the Northern capitalist and the Southern Bourbon urging the Colored man to follow more closely the teachings of Mr. Washington. You will find that the people of the North are perfectly willing to give their money to help educate the Negro along industrial lines. "There is another point in this organized conspiracy. You have under this system some 1,500,000 of Colored men who are skilled laborers and mechanics that can be carried by trians to take the places of white men who go out on strike. I am glad to say that the white laborers in the last three years have become aware of the situation and are just about getting their heavy hand upon it. "Remember that we will never rise to our rights under the constitution so long as we refrain from speaking out and demanding our rights." News From St. Michaels Special to the Afro-American Ledger St. Michaels, Md., August 16. A series of meetings are in progress at Trinity A. M. E. Zion Church. They are in charge of the pastor, Rev. H. W. Smith. Mrs. H. W. Smith has left on a vacation trip, which will include New York, Brooklyn and New Haven. Rev. R. M. Bolden, pastor of Mother Zion Church, New York, was a recent visitor here. Rev. T. H. Kiah, principal of the Princess Anne Academy, was in the city this week. Mrs. Mary Barnett, is confined to her home by illness. Messrs. Jewett and Coleman are doing a prosperous crab shipping business. Mrs. Louvinia Mitchell Johnson, who has been visiting relatives here has returned to her home in New York. Dr. E. H. Curry held his first quartrely conference at the A. M. E. Zion Chutch tiths week. Snow Hill Items (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Snow Hill Md. August 15.—Mrs. Sarah Jones an old respected resident died at the home of her daughter Mrs. Alice Robins Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Ellen Tingle of Baltimore is visiting her mother Mrs. Fannie Roxborough. Mr. Solomon T. Houston and daughter of Salisbury were here this week the guests of Mr. William Jones of Federal street. Mrs. I. V. Paine was called to the bedside of her sick k mother. Messrs. Joseph.Smith and Wesley are on the sick list. Dr. Hall Elected President Dr. George C. Hall of Chicago has been elected president of the est WMichigan Resort Company. Bar While the Republicans are going to make a big effort to elect their State and local ticket, particular efforts will be made to elect the Republican candidates for the judiciary. For the three vacancies on the Supreme Bench, the Republicans have nominated three of the best known of the younger lawyers of the city. They are: Robert F. Stanton, A. R. Sappington and J. Henry Baker. Mr. Baker is native of Kent County, the Republican Candidate for State Comptroller four years ago. He was educated at Dixon College, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts from his alma mater. He is a member of the board of trustees of the college and has also served as president of the Maryland branch of the Alumni Association of his alma mater. While a student at Dickerson College, he began the study of law there. He also studied in the office of Senator Raynor and in the law school of the University of Maryland. He has been successful practising law in this city for the past seventeen years. He is a member of the State and City Bar Associations, the Maryland Historical Association and various other organizations for civic betterment. He is a member of Associate Congregational Church. 500 Teachers Attend Convention in Denver Denver, Col., August 17. The Negro Educational Congress concluded a most interesting four day session last night at Shorter A. M. E. Church. The convention was called to order Saturday by George T. Wasson, an attorney of Kansas City. During his address he made a plea for the higher education of the race. A big mass meeting was held at the Auditorium, the speakers included Hon. William H. Lewis, assistant Attorney General of the United States, and Prof. Inman E. Page, president of Langston University. Formal welcoming services were held Monday, addresses of welcome being delivered by Governor Sharaf and acting Mayor Robertson. The responses were made by J. Silas Harris, of Kansas City, and others. The discussions at the various sessions were varied and interesting. The conference was attended by 500 delegates, appointed by the Governors of the several states. The Work of Brigadier General George Carter Sunday, August 20th will mark the departure from our city of a man whose name should be revered by every man and woman identified with Pythianism, namely Brig. Gen. Geo. H. Carter. His departure for Indianapolis, Ind., as Supreme Representative means much to the order, as an evidence of his ability, he after having been the unanimous choice of the members of the Grand Lodge session held in Frederick, Md. At once with old time energy to secure something for the order that if secured will reflect honor and bring glory to all concerned, namely bringing the Supreme encampment of the Pythian Army to our State in 1913. Well knowing that to secure results you must start aright, he wrote to the Governor of our State asking his sanction of the effort he intended making along this line and at once received a reply endorsing the act and promising over his own signature with the Great Seal of Maryland attached, intimated support. The writer of this article feeling that every brave man loves or should love to follow the leadership of a General who never knows defeat, felt it his duty to make known to the Sir Knights in this manner some of the acts of this man, of which his modesty makes him keep silent, and let all of us join in the hope that at the conclusion of this session he will bring with him the assurance of having the session come here and achieve the same victory as when fighting for the conciliation of our two great bodies Contributed by Sir Knight Charles W. Fraziere, of Enterprise Lodge, No. 2, K. of P. If Justice Were Done. Man—"Who is the responsible person in this firm?" Office Boy—"I'm the one who gets all the blame." not regarded as a Negro lawyer but as a member of the fraternity whose opinions are to be respected and sought. He has practiced and does practice in all the Courts of the State and the United States and does the work of practically every fraternal oragnization in the State of Arkansas. He is attorney for the Pythians, the International Order of Twelve The Knights of Tabor the Knights of Honor, The Mosaic Templars and the Odd Fellows. Much of this practice is divided with his young partner Thomas J. Price who has been associated with him in the past three years coming to Arkansas from Washington D. C. where for some time he had been associated with Judge Terrell. Mr. Price is grand attorney for the Pythians and is fast making a name for himself in Arkansas. Mr. Jones is distinctly one of the Negro leaders of Arkansas. He is president of the local and State Negro Business Leagues and easily divides honors with John E. Bush receiver of public monies and register of the land office. One of the reasons that can be ascribed to the remarkable success that attended local arrangements for the National Negro Business League is the fact that Mr. Jones and Mr. P. Bush have worked together side by side in all essential matters. As member of the National Executive Committee of the National Negro Business League Mr. J. E. Bush has had excellent opportunity with the help of Mr. Jones to manage matters in a manner capable of bringing about the least friction. This has been done. He holds the highest political office for Negroes in the state and is likewise at the head of the Mosaic emplars of America an organization covering twenty six states. He is the chief grand scribe and William Alexander a young man of remarkable qualities is the grand master. Dr. G. W. Hyamn is perhaps the leading physician of the city. He has built up a lucrative practice and owns valuable real estate owning practically an entire block in a choice residence neighborhood opposite Arkansas Baptist College and has plans under contemplation for the erection of an office building on Ninth street in the heart of the Negro Business District. Dr. Hayman's rent roll will average $100 per month and his practice yet flourishes after seventeen years. Scott Bond whom all the Business League visitors know is in his own bailawick this year but there appears to be other farmers in Arkansas who have attained unto the same standing as export and successful farmers. Mr. S. K. Betton the Endowment treasurerof the Knights and Daughters of Tabor who lives at Beaulah50 miles from Little Rock owns a five hundred acre farm in Priarie County and farms on a very large scale. He has some very valuable stock good tenant houses on his farm and is a justice of the peace in his local district. He stands high as a layman in the Baptist Church and is corresponding secretary of one of the district conventions. Mr. A. H. Miller of Helna Ark. rents more houses than any other two Negroes in Arkansas. He has a monthly rental income of $950 and has loaned out on interest upwards of $20,000. An island which he purchased in the middle of the Mississippi River some years ago has turned out to be a most profitable investment yielding an immense crop of cotton each year. He is a minister of the gospel and a trustee of Arkansas Baptist College. Arkansas Baptist College is perhaps the leading institution of learning in the state with Philander Smith College both located at Little Rock a close second. Dr. Joseph A. Booker president of Arkansas Baptist College is one of the most prominent men of the state and has been president since the beginning of the institution. Dr. J. M. Cox, president of Philander Smith College has been the only Negro president of the Institution. A pretty fair public school system is maintained in Little Rock, E. H. Carry, being principal of the High School, Wiley Wells, of the Twenty First Street School and W, O. T. Watkins of the Capital Hill School and R. C. Childress of the Highland Park School. The attendance in these schools will average 1,500 with more than forty teachers. In the maintenance of Arkansas Baptist College. President Booker has had the able assistance of Prof. J. A. Hibbler a conscientious young man who serves as secretary of the Institution. Prof. Hibbler is a graduate of Arkansas Baptist College and has served in his present capacity six years. He has a beautiful home a charming wife and three little children and owns some valuable real estate. Altogether in the homes of the people visitors to the League received a royal welcome. There are more pretty and comfortable homes to be found owned by Negroes than any town its size in the South and the social hospitality of the people is typical of their generous natures and genial climate. SUMMER RESORTS THE DENNIS HOUSE ON THE BAY Will Open July 1st Good Table Board Boating Fishing Crabbing Terms Reasonable For full information address: Mrs. Joshua M. Dennis Shady Side, P. O., A. A. Co., Md. Shady Side View Boarding House. Much improvement made for accommodation. Bathing water near. All ladies and gentlemen are invited to come and share the many pleasures afforded. Boys and girls are safe here. A house of credit. Address Mrs. Carrie Prann Shady Side P. O. A.A. Co., Md. Rooms With or Without Board. High class services, moderate rates, references exchanged, address Mrs. Solomon Williams, 134 Beekman St., Saratoga, N. Y. SUMMER BOARD Mrs. William L. Passey, Board ing for summer. by day or week. Five minutes walk from St. George Station on the W. Md. Railrall. Short walk from Emory Grove Car line. Locust Cottage, St. George P. O. Baltimore Co., Md. Boarding In the Country Braddock Spring Right in the mountains overlooking beautiful Braddock Heights Address; Mrs. Robert Adkins Braddock Spring, Md. BOARDERS WANTED Good accommodations for man and wife or two lady friends. Plenty of rest in uiet country home. Apply to Mrs. Dora Murray's at Randallstown. Address—Rosslyn P. O., Md. Odd Fellows' Summer ...Garden... 549 W. BIDDLE ST, The popular and best place in the city for Lawn Parties for rent at a low figure. Swings, refreshment booth, and ample dancing facilities. For information apply to MR. JOHN C. SIMPSON, 1725 Druid Hill Ave. 8-12 Your Last Chance Notice! Wanted! GOOD MEN To Join King Jeremiah Pasture, G. U. O. of Nazarites Accepting applicants for membership for the sum of $2.00 This Lodge is worth $2500 in cash. It has $1500 in stock and paraphernalia. It also pays its members when sick and in good standing. $5.00 per week for eight weeks, $4.00 per week for eight weeks and $1.00 as long as there is $100 in the treasury. This Lodge meets the 1st and 3d Wednesday in each month, This offer expires in 60 DAYS time For further information see the following members: George T. Brent, W. S., 1024 N. Carey street William T. Hall, C. of R. 240 N. Amity street Addison Manns, P.G.W.S. 1227 Wilmer street John E. Jones, P.W.S. 1301 Division street Thomas H. Franklin, P.W.S. tf. 708 W. Saratoga street THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER Boat leaves Pier 6 Light Street wharf at 7.30 a.m. Wednesday, August 23rd, Steamer Annapolis ADULT TICKETS 50 CTS Wm. H. Wilson, Chr. A. J. Reed, Sec. Dr. Ernest Lyon, Pastor 3t BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH Greater Brown's Grove—Electric Steamer Starlight ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 25th, 1911 In interest of Trustee Department Secure tickets from Church Officers Boat leaves Miller's Wharf at 8.30 a.m. and 2.30 p.m. Music by Knights of Pythias Band; Prof. John Maxfield, Leader Thaddeus Copeland, Uhairman Theo. C. White, Manager Edward F. Barnett, Secresary Rev. D. G. Hill, Pastor ALL TICKETS 25 CENTS Don't fail to attend the Excnrsion of John Wesley M. E. Church. Tickets 50 Cents. Come! Go!-With St. John Court No. 2, Heroines of Jericho Moonlight Excursion to Brown's Grove On the Electric Steamer Starlight Monday Night, August 28, at 8 o'clock Tickets 25 Cents Mrs. Frances Bevans, Chair.; M.A.M. Medota Buckingham, Mrs. Katie Pitts Fin. Sec.; W. J. Alex. Gibbs, Mrs. H. Strange, treas.; U. J. Thos. A. Dodd, Mrs. C. Jackson, Rec. Sec. Miller's wharf (see programs). 19-26 Don't fail to attend the Excursion of John Wesley M. E. Church. Tickets 50 Cents. JOHN RUSSELL HOUSE PAINTING KALSOMINING AND GLAZING Orbers by Mail Promptly Attended to. 1929 ETTING STREET BALTIMORE Near Presstman Street 12-9-11 A pack of Consol's Little Cigars given away every Saturday at Ernest R. Wilson, Cigars, Cigarettes and Tobacco store, at 409 Dolphin street, near Druid Hill avenue. Come and make a ten cent purchase and receive a free pack of "Consol's Cigars". Stationery and magazines on sale. 9-2 I LEAD—OTHERS FOLLOW I carry a full Line of Colored Human Hais Goods Combings made in puffs and braids Madame J. CREDITT'S Hair Dressing, Face Massage and Manicuring Parlors 1129 Druid Hill Avenue C. A. JOHNSON'S MUSIC SCHOOL 436 W. BIDDLE ST. Instructor of Vocal Music, also Piano, Organ, Pedal Organ, Violin, Cornet Here Mandolin, Guitar, Banjo and Other Instruments Learn Music=Join A Band Do you wish to learn to play the piano, cornet, alto, barytone, valve and slide trumbone in both clefs, drums, timpagnis, bells, xylophone or accordine? if so/you can get lessons by purchasing your Dry Goods, Notions and shoes from Nathan Naviasky. 940 Druid Hill Ave. With each purchase TREVENGER no matter how small, you will get a certificate, 50 of which will enable you to get free lessons on any of the above instruments. Come in and let us explain it to you. NATHAN NAVIASKY, 940 Druid Hill Avenue, Music for Band or Orchestra, Strings and Instruments, can be purchased from us with Coupons. R.H.BUTLER Says let him send you a machine on trial The honest Sewing Machine Man. R.H.BUTLER 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.Ver non. Address 941 DruidHill Avenue. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE ..WITH US.. 8th Annual Family Excursion of Ames Mem. M.E. Chureh to PORT DEPOSIT on PalatialSteamer Annapolis, Monday, August 28, 1911. Music by Huntsmen's Band, Prot. Patterson, leader. Tickets 50 cts. Boat leaves Pier 6. Light St. wharf at 7.30 a. m. J. R. Valentine, Sec. Rev. D. D. Turpeau, pastor. S-19 BIG UNION ..EXCURSION.. St. John's and Allen A. M. E. Churches to Chestertown on the Steamer Annapolis Tuesday, August 22, '11 Don't worry about your lunch baskets Plenty of provision will be made for you and 'your children. Boat leaves Pier 6 Light St. wharf at 7.30 a. m. Rev. L. S. Flagg, Pastor of St. John Rev. L. C. Martin, Bostor of Allen The Lilac Circle will give a Picnic at Old Chestnut Grove on the North Point Road on Thursday August 24. Wagons and bus will leave Mrs. Curtis, 221 N. Ann street at 8 o'clock in the morning. Wagons 50 cents, Bus 75 cents: To our many friends: We, the Douglas Fraternal Benefit Association take pleasure in notifying you of a great day at Brown's grove, Thursday, August 24, 1911. At which time $9 will be given away to the most successful contestant of the Foot and Bag race at 4.30 p. m. I. P. Brown, Mngr. A Card of Thanks The Uplifting Social of Maryland wishes to thank the many patrons of their first Moonlight Excursion on Monday, August 7th, 1911, and announce their kind appreciatio for the most excellent order which was maintained. Owing to the hundreds of urgent calls for another Moonlight, this season, the Soocial has decided to give their second one on Monday September 18, 1911, at 8 p. m. For full information consult the programs. William A. Roberts, President, Richard Smith, Secretary. Bishop Handy Only King Hezekiah Pasture, of the Nazarites is taking on new life nearly 50 members having been initiated within the past six weeks The lodge is the oldest one of the order and the only one of the original members now living is Bishop James A. Handy. Mr. Simon Ridgey is worthy shephard of the lodge. Rev. Reed Tendered Reception A reception was tendedeed Rev. Lloyd Reed pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Calhon street, Tuesday evening. Addresses were delivered by a number of ministers, after which Rev. Reed was presented a purse and a suit of clothes. He is now spending his vacation at Asbury Park. M.E. Church ON to CAMBRIDGE Street wharf at 7.30 a.m. d, Steamer Annapolis ETS 50 CTS Sec. Dr. Ernest Lyon, Pastor 3t E. CHURCH OPEN AIR SERYICES At Cherry Hill Grove Under the auspices of the Baltimore Evangelistic Association Sunday, August20 , 1911 3 P. M., Preaching by Rev. C.H. Stepteau, presiding elder. 8 P. M., Sermon by minister announced at 3 p. m. service. Services on Thursday night only. Take any cars and transfer to the Roland Park car, Boulevard car, or Mt. Washington or Electric Park car. Those taking the Roland Park or Boulevard car will get off at the Water Tower and walk one block west. Those taking the Mt. Washington and Electric Park car will get off at City Line. Rev. A. L. Gaines, President Rev. C. G. Cummings, Vice Pres. Rev. P. W. Wortham, Treasurer Rev. W. E. Williams, Secretary. UNION CAMP MEETING Hullsville, Md. Snundy, August 20 3 p. m. Rev. Mattbias Williams. 8 p. m. Sermon Rev. C. Jones. 'Take Westport car and get off at Farmers' Rest.' Revs. Jones and Williams, Pastors. PARADISE GROVE Richly endowed with cool and sparkling springs. Everybody welcome. Take Edmonson Ave. cars running West and get off at Calverton road two squares from grounds 3.30 p. m., Sermon by Rev. W. L. Clayton, the eloquent word painter and Gospel preacher, attended by the famous Metropolitan spiritual songsters. Also at night. The New Asbury Grove Camp. Under the auspices of Reisterstown Circuit of M. E. church of Washington conference. This Sunday will be a great day in the grove. 2nd Sunday, 9.30 a.m. Union Prayer Meeting by various bands. 11 a.m. Rev. Chas. R. Bishop of Monkton circuit and congregation, will be present. 3 p.m., Rev. E.D. W. Jones, D.D., pastor of A.M. E. Zion church and congregation are invited. 8 p.m., Rev. S. H. Norwood, of St. Paul M. E. church, Baltimore, and congregation are invited. The John Wesley praying band will have a great day in the grove. Ministers and friends of surrounding charges are going to help us. Rev. L. A. Carter, Pastor. Union Meeting A pleasant trip to service on Sunday, August the 19th, at 3.30 and S p. m., to the Union Meeting of Grace A. M. E. Church, Catonsville, Rev. C. H. Murray, pastor, and St. John's A. M. E. Church, Baltimore, Rev. L. S. Flagg, pastor in Greenwood Electric Park. Pleasant car ride and beautiful park. Take Ellicott City cars and get off at Winters avenue, Catonsville. All are invited to worship with us. FOR SALE OR RENT Neatly Furnished Rooms To Let... High Class Services Moderate Rents References Exchanged Address: Mrs. Marie Sighe, 21 W. 134th Street, New York City. FOR SALE Lot for sale 50x247 ft. in the Green Spring Valley near the Chattolanee station. Lot number 3, two minutes walk from the Chattolanee station on the Northern Central Railroad. Beautiful oculation, good water. Apply Stanley E. Johnson, Lexington Hotel, Holliday and Lexington streets, or 711 Baker street. FOR RENT—Rooms at 719 Mulberry street. Possession after September 1st. FOR SALE—Fine two story house on Winchester street. Six rooms and bath. Furnace in cellar. Small cash payment, balance as rent, apply 1138 N. Carrollton Avenue. 2t. FOR RENT—Modern flat of five large, light, airy rooms and bath. Heat light, hot water. This flat is in perfect condition. Floors are equal to hard wood. Must be seen to be appreciated. Until September 1 apply to J. Howard Payne, 1014 Linden avenue. Rent reasonable to responsible parties. ADVERTISE, IT PAYS WATERS A. M. E. CHURCE Aisquith St., near Jefferson. Rev. Dr. M. F. Sydes; Pastor. 427 Aisquith Street 11 A. M. Sermon by Pastor. 2.30 P. M. Sunday School. S P. M. Preaching. Laurens and Calhoun St. Rev. P. W. Wortham, Pastor, D.D. 11 A. M., Preaching 2.30 P. M., Sunday School 7.00 Allen C. E. League. 8.00 P. M., Preaching Strangers always welcome. Andrew Gassaway, Supt. T. Andrew Moore, Pres. A.C.E. TRINITY A. M. E, CHURCH. Linden Ave. and Biddle St. Rev. A. L. Gaines, D. D., Pastor. 11 A.M., Preaching 2-30 P. M., Sunday School. 8 P. M., Preaching T. J. Holliday, Supt. Lexington St. near Pine, Rev. L. S. Flagg, Pastor. 11 A. M., Sermon by Pastor 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. H. W. Ebb, Supt. 8 P. M., Sermon by Pastor. BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH Druid Hill Ave and Lanvale St. Rev. D. G. Bill, Pastor 9.30 a. m., Sunday school. 11 a. m., Sermon by Pastor. Thaddeus Opeland, Supt. EBENEZER A. M. E. CHURCH Rev. J. W. Norris, Pastor Will hold meeting all day Sunday at Brown's Grove. Steamer Starlight will leave Miller's wharf at 8 and 11 a. m., and 2.30 p. m. 11 A. M., Sermon by the Pastor 3 p. m. Sermon by Rev. Charles Plater, after which three bands will conduct service until the boat leaves Bro. Wm. Spicer and Bro. B. Nixon captains. Tickets 25 Cents: HANDY A, M. E. CHURCH Baker and Bruce Sts. nr. Fulton av Take Preston st. cars. Rev. John Offer Custis, Pastor. 1514 Druid Hill Avenue 11 A. M., "Decision" 2.30 P.M. Sunday School 6.30 to 7.30 p. m., Mammouth Open Air meeting under auspices of Allen C. E. League Union of Baltimore city. Excellent music and singing. All Leagues are expected to be present. Wm. Butler, Pres. Mrs. Hannah E. Frey, Sec./ Addresses and special music, best of talent. S p. m., Pastor or Stranger. H. Hiner, Superintendent AMES MEM. M. E. CHURCH. Carey and Baker Sts. Rev. D. D. Turpean, Pastor. 11.00 A. M., Sermon by Pastor 3.00 P. M., Sunday School. 8.00 P. M., Preaching. GREEN SPRING M. E. CHURCH Chattolanee, Md. Rev. R. A. Green, Pastor. 11 a. m., Sermon Rev. L. D. Davis 3.00 P. M., Sunday School. 8 P. M., Sermon by Pastor. Mr. S. S. Oliver, Supt. Mrs. Jane Milligan, Pres. E. L. Mrs. Nellie Jones, Pres. Ladies Aid If you want a good lunch of spring chicken, ham and bread, come to Green Spring church Sunday, August 27 and help us to raise a quarter peck of money. Come on horse back, hag back, duck back, and frog back, but the best back of all is the green back. Bring it with you. CHRIST'S INSTITUTION, Ensor St. near Monument, Rev. R. W. Kernog, Pastor Rev. G. W. Kennhardt, Pastor Rev. J. G. Hawkes, Co-pastor 11 A. M., Rev. Aquilla W. Brooks. 2.30 P, M., Sunday School 7.30 P. M., Sermon by Rev. J. W. Hawkes. C. Y. W. C. A. Willing Worker's Day Mrs. E. P. Calloway, presiding Solo Miss Josephine L. Wilson Recitation Miss Julia Thompson Good Music. All are invited. Mrs. M. E. Murphy, Pres Miss E. E. Bright, See'y. WANTED GOOD PRINTER AT ONCE Apply at Afro-AmericanOffice 628 N. Eutaw St BUT HE WILL FIND OTHER PEBBLES ON THE BEACH WHEN HE GETS THERE White Men Did All The Voting And The Black Man Had Nothing To Do With It-All He Could Do Was To Stand Up And Look On-Some Lecture Cureau Will Take Him Up and He Will Go Around The Country Abusing The Negro. Little Rock, Ark., August 10-- Permit me to congratulate the United States Senate on its new recruit. It will be almost a year before he will be there but he will sure be there, and I congratulate this dignified body in advance. Now you want to know why I say this? Well it is because the people of Mississippi say that James K. Varderman must go to the Senate. I was in the state on election day. I rode through the state ending up at Jackson, and it was a sight to see nothing but white folks around the polls. They did all the voting leaving out the Negro, hence its choice is the choice of the white people, who do not ask whether the black man wanted it or not, nor did they ask if he was ready for the question, but just put the motion and voted and said to the Negro, if you don't like it get out." I am sure when he strikes the United States Senate he will find that he is not the only pabble on the beach and this will be worth a little something to us. He is a big man down in Mississippi and has gone to the front by crying down the Negro, and I am of the opinion that his "Nigger" speeches will not bring him much. Now am I right in saying this? No, because you will find that some lecture bureau will take him up and book him all over this country, or in places where he will go and where he will be accepted to cry down the Negro and do all in his power to make sentiment against us. You see he is now United States Senator and that will give him some standing, and will get him into places where he could not otherwise look, and put it down that I told you that he will not permit a single opportunity to go by when he can say something against our people. As we are not voters in the section from which such men come, yet we will have to get our eyes open and as far as possible get a move on us, or it will be an awful thing. Say what you may, but every time some of this class of men get before an audience of white people, and have their say, they make some converts, and we have no way of changing it. We do not have enough men to get before the white people of the North to tell our side of the story, and often some of those who are friendly to us harm us by parading to the North that we are ignorant that we are immoral, and appeal for money to educate us and to send missionaries among us to work. This is often done by some of the college presidents who go North in search of money. The Nergo race has but one man who is constantly before the American white people of the North, and that is Booker T. Washington. He is in position to do good or evil for his people, and it is strictly up to him to decide which he will do. When he speaks he is the recognized mouth piece of our race in this country and his words go a long way. He speaks to the educated white man, the refined white man, the white man who has the money, the white man who makes sentiment, the white man who is the whole show. I have never permitted an opportunity to go through my hands when I could say a good word about Dr. Washington. I have had some of my friends to want to clean me out for the position I have taken at times, but then I have no apology make. I will criticise Dr. Washington as qickly as I will praise him if I find that he is wrong. I criticise him at any time it will be with a view of getting him right if he is wrong. Now I find that I have drifted away this week, but you will not blame me. I have been doing some little getting around since I saw you last, and will continue to do so. I [Image of a man with a mustache and a suit, framed in an oval border with decorative elements]. MR. GEORGE W. BROWN Few people recognize the work and tireless energy of Mr. Brown in bringing the Steamer Starlight and Brown's Grove up to its present state of efficiency. Both winter and summer he has worked hard with on object in view—to give to the pleasure lovers of Baltimore a day's outing on the bay. That he has succeeded has been evinced by the thousands who have taken the trip to Brown's Grove on the Steamer Steamer Starlight this summer. have spent several weeks in Mississippi as you know, with many of my friends, and I have some good strong friends there I am proud to ask. I have seen several important meetings, I told you about attending the Eastern Star meeting, and from there I went back to Natchez and to my surprise and regret found that the daughter of our druggist was sick, and when I left there last Saturday she was improving, so I hope ere this that she is well, but it will take a little time for her to be a well girl. Mrs. Dumas was devoted to the child and was right by her side all the time. I have been to the District Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, spending a day there. Rev. E. P. Jones, was reelected District Grand Master, and I think he will hold that position for years to come, but it will be hard for him to be elected to any other position in the gift of the people. He is a fine man and a good speaker but is not always true to his friends. He will stand to them as long as he can use them, and when things are stormy for him, but when calm, he will let them down and do it hard. This has been his drawback for years. You will recall two years ago when he had a white lawyer to address the district grand lodge to tell the Negroes whom to elect. I thought how unkind that was, because there was a white man, who like other white men, no doubt thought the Nergo should not vote in the election of state officers and then came into dictate to them how they should use the franchise which they themselves had created. I shall not say more at this time on this subject. I am not in position to say that it is true, but I have just heard that Albert S. White, of Louisville, Ky., that noted lawyer was shot to death. I hope this is a big mistake and I shall watch for it in the future. I am here attending the National Grand Lodge of Mosiac Templars which opens today, and next week I will be here attending the National Negro Business League. Continue to send all my mail to Arkansas Baptist College, until next week, and then I will go to Indianapolis to another big meeting. I failed to say to you that while in Jackson, Miss., I called to see Miss Bessie F. Law and she is improving. Mrs. Jennie G. Carter is visiting home and looking after her sister Bessie during her illness. Grand Chancellor John W. Harris has invited me to become a member of his staff during the Supreme Lodge and I think I shall do this, looking after the wants of the Mississippi folks. I am going to visit Mound Bayou this fall and make a special write up of the city and peopel. Look out for me until then I will be in Baltimore and New York soon. Generous Sum For Palmer Institute, G. Cleveland Buchanan, who is spending the summer in New York in the interest of the Palmer Memorial institute at Sedalla, N. C., of which he is the financial agent and agricul- tural director, is meeting with gratifying success. Through the influence of Dr. Booker T. Washington an in- fluential and wealthy friend of the school recently contributed through Mr. Buchanan $1,000 for the work of Palmer institute. --- and tireless energy of Mr. Brown in Brown's Grove up to its present summer he has worked hard with pause lovers of Baltimore a day's acceeded has been evinced by the to Brown's Grove on the Steamer Rally Day a Success (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Bennings. D. C., August 10.—Rally services were held at Ward A. M. E. Church last Sunday. Rev. L. M. Beckett preached in the morning, Rev. F. J. Wing in the afternoon and Rev. John Bell at night. The following monies were reported by the various clubs during the day: The Root of David Club, Rev. John Bell, captain, $17.80; The Helpout Club, Rev. G. O. Wing, $20; The Little Reapers, Miss Bertha Ray, $6.03; Rising Star Club, J. J. Hawkins, $27.66; Willing Worker's Club, Anna B. Slade, $ 28.66 and Busy Bees, Maybelle C. Bourne, $30.26. The total was $130.41. Miss Mildred Chase recently fractured her arm. An enjoyable union picnic was held last Thursday. Miss Ivon Johnson, of Baltimore, is visiting her uncle and aunt, Rev. and Mrs. G. O. Wing. Rev. Logan Johnson preached a sermon to the Willing Workers Club of Ward Church last Thursday evening. Mrs. Mamie Gray and Miss Pearl Kane are on the sick list. Mrs. F. D. Tyler is visiting friends in Rockville, Md. Love Williams died here Sunday. A big meeting will be held at the M. E. Church Sunday of next week. Rev. W. N. Holt of Rockville, and Rev. Booze, of Baltimore, will preach. Special to the Afro-American Ledger. Mt. Friendship, Del., August 9—Mr. William Barrett was a delegate from Mt. Friendship Lodge of Odd Fellows to the recent annual session at Wilmington, Del. Miss Thener Dean, of Cheney, Pa, was a recent visitor to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Barrett. Mrs. Hattie Brown and sons, of Mrechantville, N. J., were recent visitors here. Miss M. Lenor and Mrs. Alfred Briscoe, both of Philadelphia, are spending a few days with friends. Miss Sarah Young, of Wayne, Pa., is visiting relatives here. A. B. MR. WILLIAM BECKETT Who is director of manual training of the colored schools at St. Louis. He was formerly a teacher at the Baltimore High School Friendship Notes People Like the Inhabitants of Pitcairn Island Really Deserve the Sympathy of Others. While most people are sorry for those who have too much to do, for my part I reserve my sympathy for those who have too little to do. They seem to me to have scarcely a fair chance in the world. Their natures are not properly taxed and tested, trained and developed. They are sure not to grow up to be among those who are great, wise, good and famous in the world. Now they are glad that they are free from the ordinary cares and activities of life. In the future they will be sorry. Indeed, it may help to kill them. A traveler, who visited the Pitcairn islanders in their lonely Pacific home, where they led a life of absolute idleness, found some of them dying of old age when only 50 or 60 years of age—a time of life when those who lead a busy existence are in their prime. They had too little to do. The rough fibre of life, for its due adjustment, needs a certain amount of work and worry. Two strangers met one day at a country village, where both had come in search of rest. One was a newspaper man, the other a physician. In the morning, the newspaper man lay lezily on the grass, picking buttercups and dales and looking at the blue sky. He did this for an hour, while the physician watched him. Medical men have a trick of watching their fellow-creatures. We are open books for them to read. "You seem, sir," said the physician, "to be rather fond of lying on the grass and picking daisies." "I have a passion for it," was the answer. "I should like to spend my life lying here, picking daisies." "And yet," was the rejoinder, "I have an idea that you are a man who leads a pretty active life—that you take a good deal of interest in other matters besides the picking of daisies." "Yes, I work a great deal more than I like, and I should be glad to quit and would choose to rest here on my back forever, with nothing in the world to do." "Do you know, sir, what would be the result of that?" "Well, what would it be?" "It would probably be an attack of paralysis. To stop work would probably end your existence." Often people have too little to do in early life. They have seasons of much holiday and glorious leisure. Then comes the long stretch of life, with hard work; and they too late regret, now when they have too much to do, that they did not take advantage of the time when they had too little to do. Decline of the Boatswain. The rumored disestablishment of boastwains, as an anachronism dating from the days of sail, is no more likely to come to pass than the extermination of the carpenters as a survival of the wooden age. But the former class have little enough share in the general improvement of service conditions. What was said in Truth the other day as to the gunners getting all the plums out of the pudding is particularly borne out by one grievance under which the bo'suns labor. In 1881 there were nearly 400 boatswains and a like number of gunners. The respective proportion of chiefs and warrants were about equal. Today there are 262, including 12 lieutenants and 27 warrants; while there are 890 gunners, including 36 lieutenants and 78 warrants. The expansion of the latter branch is a natural and necessary corollary of the growth of the fleet, but it is equally true that the shrinkage of the former class is unnatural and unnecessary—London Truth. Botanists In Alarm. No, little alarm is being felt among botanists at present at the rapid disappearance of the wild flowers of the Hawaiian islands. The flowers are beautiful beyond description, but many of them have become extinct already. Some of them have very strange properties or habits. For instance, the flower of the Hau tree lasts but a single day, opening at sunrise and closing at sunset. The Koaall-Awahu is another beautiful flower and it changes from purple to pink during the day. Some of these flowers, such as the Poolanne, bloom only in April and May, but the greater number seem to bloom nearly the entire year. Some of the vines are very prolific, one of them spreads over an entire acre of ground. One curious plant is a fly catcher, and still another lures unsuspecting insects to destruction by a peculiar odor and light. No Fear. Robert W. Chambers has, as a novelist, a fertility that is only exceeded by his brilliance. At the Century club, in New York the other day one of those elderly bores who are the bane of all clubs drew his chair up to Mr. Chambers' and said genially: "Chambers, you are writing at the rate of two and sometimes three novels every year, to say nothing of your annual sheaf of short stories. Aren't you afraid that a time will come when you will have written yourself out?" "My dear sir," Mr. Chambers replied, "I have no such fear. Just look at your own case. You have been talking for more than sixty years, and yet you haven't talked yourself out, have you?" POINDEXTER "Hairdresser to Society" FIRST, LAST and ALL THE TIME EXPERT MASSAGING AND MANICURING 831 DRUID HILL AVE. Tuskegee Institute SUMMER SCHOOL FOR TEACHERS June 19th to July 14th, 1911 Coursse: Methods: Primary and Advanced Literary Subjects: Elementary and Advances. Industries, including Manual Training, Cooking, Sewing Basket- ry, etc. Agriculture: Preparator for teaching in Public Schools. Community Work for Teachers. 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Manufacturers in the United States exported 104,883,838 pounds of printing paper last year. It Comes From Paris. Quite the newest dining fad in Paris is to have everything of the very simplest. Four simple but, of course, exquisitely served dishes take the place of the usual long dinner, and the table decoration consists of a crystal or cut glass bowl of violets. The effect is charming. PRICE 25 CENTS DOUBLE SIZE 40 CENTS For sale at all Drug Stores CONVENTION FOR FOREIGN WORK Lott Carey Baptist Association to Meet In Wilmington. SUCCEESS ON MISSION FIELD. Organization Named For Former Slave, Who Devoted Many Years to Uplift Among the Heathen In Africa, Was Founded by the Rev. William M. Alexander—Work of Woman's Auxiliary. Wilmington, N. G.—The fifteenth annual session of the Lott Carey Baptist foreign mission convention will begin in the Central Baptist church, Wilmington, on Wednesday, Aug. 30, and continue until Sunday, Sept. 3. Rev. Dr. G. W. Moore, pastor of the church, has about completed arrangements for the entertainment of the delegates, who will come from a number of states. Besides taking up the primary work for which it was organized, the convention will also discuss civic questions affecting the interests of REV. DR. W. M. ALEXANDER. both races, especial emphasis being paid upon the difference in conditions the old and new south. The convention and its real beginning in a suggestion made by Rev. Dr. W. M. Alexander, pastor of Sharon Baptist church, Baltimore, that some special work should be done for education and missions in African. A number of ministers met at Shiloh Baptist church, Washington, in 1807, and the Lott Carey association was organized. Rev. Dr. Calvin S. Brown of Winston Salem, N. C., was elected president, a position which he has held ever since. The convention is named for Lott Carey, who was born a slave in Charles City, Va. He went to Richmond at an early age and joined the First Baptist church, which was then composed of white and colored persons. He attended school for awhile and was later licensed to preach and soon thereafter evinced a desire to do mission work in Africa. With the proceeds from extra work in a tobacco factory he purchased the freedom of his wife and two children in 1822 and then went to Africa. The convention has raised $40,000 for mission and educational work in Africa. Five missionaries have been stationed in the dark continent and over 2,100 converts baptized by them. Two missionaries died on the field. Rev. C. C. Boone has served in the Kongo five years. He graduated from Leonard Medical college, Raleigh. N. C., this year and will soon return to Africa as a medical missionary. A woman's auxiliary, headed by Mrs. L. A. Hope, has also rendered great service. There are more than 100 MRS. A. L. MCGUINN auxilaries in the various churches in the convention, and their day at the annual meetings is always a great occasion. The remaining officers of the auxiliary are Mrs. A. L. McGuinn. Baltimore, corresponding secretary; Miss M. E. Wilson, secretary; Mrs. M. L. Penn, treasurer, and Miss S. F. Eaton. W. M. Moss, Mrs. M. R. Johnson, Mrs. C. S. Brown, Mrs. A. L. Somerville, Mrs. A. Truall, Mrs. B. G. Collins and Mrs. R. B. Yancey, vice presidents. The convention's success is largely due to the work of its corresponding secretary, Dr. Alexander, upon whose shoulders the greater part of the planning and responsibility for the work has rested. He has been pastor of Charon church, Baltimore, for the past twenty-six years. He has been prominent in a number of movements for racial uplift and is president of the Maryland Suffrage league, which has been fighting disfranchisement Time Ripe For Such Concerns In Europe, Business, Locality Albon L. Holsey, the Crisis ad. manager, says: In all communities where a large number of our people are in business there should be an association of advertisers or some concerted effort to secure the co-operation of the advertising mediums in that locality. As matters now stand, some of the most liberal advertisers squander too much money in advertising just to help the race along. All of our business men should spend more money for advertising than they do at present and should exercise more care in the preparation of copy and selection of media. At the end of each fiscal year a certain per cent of the net profits should be set aside for advertising. Then the wants, desires and necessities of the prospective trade should be carefully studied in order to give the copy the personal touch. The selection of the best advertising medium is one of the most important factors in advertising, and the slightest disregard to this important feature invites a wanton waste of money. The time is now ripe for a national association of Negro advertisers, with branches everywhere. An organization of this character can awaken many a merchant to the possibilities of advertising and to the means of making the reader more responsive to good, dependable advertising. WRESTLING WITH THE BEAR. But Baptist Convention Fears to Come Into Wicked Nineveh. Referring doubtless to the most radical sentences in the report of the committee on state and country, at the thirty-seventh annual meeting of the New England Baptist missionary convention, which was held in Providence, R. I. in June, the Huntsville (Al.) Negro Fortune Teller in its issue of July 29 takes the matter seriously. It said the Baptist convention in the north has adopted strong resolutions against lynching, but you know they are way up north, out of the way of harm and danger, and, like Jonah, they fear to come into Nineveh, that great and wicked city. We thank our dear brethren for the interest they take in us, but it seems to be rather deceitful when they see us wrestling with the hear from a far distance and only send us a bundle of resolutions. SOUTHERN LIFE MAGAZINE. August Number Has Many New Features—Date of Issue Changed. The Southern Life Magazine has changed its date of issue from the 15th to the 1st of the month. The August number is brilliant of wholesome reading matter and is adorned in a neat new top dress. Among the leading subjects are "Impressions of London and the Coronation." by Rev. Dr. H. H. Proctor; "The Mysterious Card," a short story by Wilson Carr Lowery, and "The Teacher's Problems," by Traveler. The leading editorial thought is devoted to a discussion of educational advantages in Atlanta. In which statistics are given by comparison between white and colored schools. The magazine is picking up in advertising matter and bids fair to live long, reflecting as it does the higher aspirations of the race. Plea For Greater Race Solidarity. We should endeavor under all circumstances to patronize race enterprises and institutions. The great number of colored people throughout the country are "asleep" along this line, says the New Rochelle (N. Y.) Standard Journal. To patronize each other in business brings about race solidarity and makes our influence more keenly felt. This is the main thing that we need to instill into the mind of the average young man and woman of the race. The August Number of the Crisis. Among the many interesting articles in the Crisis Magazine for August are "Men of the Month," in which is given an account of the activities of Messrs. Joel Elms Spingann, Gilchrist Stewart and Robert N. Woods; "Views of a Southern Woman," "Dr. Du Bols in London," "The Kongo Express" and other timely information which it brings to view under its editorial flashlight. Johnson Calls on Race to Unite. Editor Sol C. Johnson of the Savannah (Gn.) Tribune is preaching the gospel of race unity in no uncertain sound in his town. Now let the business men of Savannah respond to the call of the wise. The interest of the race demands unity in thought and action along all lines of righteous endeavor. Statistics Show Progress of the Race. The large number of useful inventions by colored men as shown in the patent office and the census bureau for the last census is an indication of the growing intelligence of the race. As our homes grow in intelligence and thrift, in like manner will the race continue to march up the bill of progress. SHE DOESN'T KNOW MEANING OF ROMANTIC LOVE. So Asserts Alexander Harvey, Who Says He Almost Thinks the Women of Today Have All Gone How will the modern woman movement affect romantic love? Alexander Harvey, editor and author, answers the question by declaring the woman who walks forward treads upon divine law and the heart of man in her progress. He said: "The modern woman movement is really the new immorality. "True love does not come between a man and a woman until after marriage and the birth of a child. "Women never have understood and never will understand the laws of either love or morality. "The theory of conscious eugenics, which is one of the by-laws of the modern woman movement, is the supreme obscurity of today." "Just what do you mean in your characterization of the modern woman movement?" I asked. "Just what does the modern woman mean by the movement?" queried Mr. Harvey in turn. "Sometimes I think the woman of today have all gone crazy. When you ask them what they want when they cry for personal equality and the vote, they do not know themselves. "But I will tell you what they want. I will tell you at what the modern woman movement is aimed. It is aimed at the sacredness of the marriage relation. It upholds divorce, and that supreme obscurity of the present day which women call conscious eugenics. Women have never understood true morality, and they never will. The divine laws were made by God, the father and the man, for men. And when you say a woman cannot understand morality, it follows logically that she cannot understand love. "The old-fashioned woman, the womanly woman, whose heart and brain were molded by the man she loved, was at least a source of comfort to her husband. He did grow to love her. But let me assure you that the modern woman, with her talk of mental and economic equality, will never learn the real meaning of romantic love."—Ethel Floyd Patterson in the New York World. Into HIs Own at Last. A romantic life story is that of Franz Lehar, the composer of "The Count of Luxenburg," which was witnessed by the king and queen the other night, says the London Mall. Lehar is the son of a poor Hungarian farmer and a man who has known what it is to faint in the streets from hunger. When his father deserted husbandry for soldiering the baby Lehar became what is called a "knapsack child"—one of those children who follow their parents from garrison to garrison. He composed his first song at the age of six and had the preoccuous grace to dedicate it to his mother. At twelve he was trying to maintain himself and then it was that he fell fainting in the street. Even when he began to write opera he made poor financial progress. "At last," he says, "I turned my hand to operettas. With these I had more luck." This last sentence modestly sums up the furore his lighter music created in Europe and America. English Girl's Tragic Fate. The starling case of a North London (Eng.) girl who has contracted leprosy contains elements of tragic interest. The dreadful disease was contracted by the victim wearing, as part of a fancy dress costume, a wig of eastern origin. Some time ago she went to a fancy dress ball. The costume, that of a Chinese lady—was pronounced perfect in every detail. Unfortunately the wig she wore was only too real. It came from the east. About a week after a strange mark appeared on her forehead and she consulted a specialist, who found that she was suffering from leprosy. She has now been removed to a leper colony. Diligent inquiries were made to discover the antecedents of the wig, and it now has been found that it had at one time been worn by a leper. Heat as a Family Doctor. A dry, steady warmth applied in the right place is often the greatest help in relieving pain and treating diseases. Not until the electric blanket was successfully operated did the disadvantages of the hot water bottle, such as its weight, uneven heat and so on become prominent. The electric blanket has passed from the experimental stage to that of a practical necessity. Not only this, but it is made in many different shapes so as to be most convenient for special uses, as for a chest and back pad, cap, collar, sweating jacket, etc. In its soft elderdown cover the warming pad or blanket is the ideal comforter and the foe of pain. Control is arranged so as to give a low, medium or high temperature by the turn of a switch. Found a Job. "What's your husband so ugly about?" "He's been out of work six weeks." "I should think that would suit him first rate!" "That's it! He's just got a job today." -- "Meggendorfer Blaetter." JEREMIAH CAST INTO PRISON Sunday School Lesson for Aug. 20, 1911 Specially Arranged for This Paper LESSON TEXT.—Jeremiah 27. MEMORY VERSE, 15. GOLDEN TEXT.—"Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you and persecute you falsely, for all evil against you falsely, for my sake."—Matt. 8:31 TIME of this lesson was B. C. 588-586, 18 years after our last lesson during the last siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezar, from the 8th to the 11th year of Zedekiah's reign. CEE.—Jeremiah, surrounded by the besieging armies of the Chaldeans, and suffering from famine and pestilence (Jer. 38:2). Jeremiah had prophesied nearly 40 years (since 626) and was a prematurely old man. Zedekiah was the last king of Judah, reigning 11 years. -Nebuchadnezar, 18th and 19th year of his reign. Jeholakim reigned six years after he had burned the roll of Jeremiah's prophecies, which, like the fabled phoenix rose anew and fresh from the ashes. He was slain in 597. The first blow of the threatened doom of Judah had fallen during the fourth year of his reign, the first tolling of the bell of judgment which should have summoned the very dead in sin to awake. But they gave no heed. Jebolachin, his son, ascended the throne, a bad, weak boy, utterly unfit to cope with the situation. His reign lasted only three months. Upon Jebolachin descended the full force of the divine vengeance incurred by previous generations. He was scarcely on the throne when the Chaldean forces, which had been revaging Judae, were joined by Nebuchadnezzar himself, and closed around Jerusalem, and Jebolachin surrendered at discretion. The arm of Babylon raised to strike his father fell on him, and fulfilled the prophecy against Jebolakim. "He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David." Jebolachin was kept a prisoner in Babylon for 28 years and was then released. This was the second blow of divine judgment, the beginning of the second captivity, when 10,000 people were carried captive to Babylon. Among them were the king's wives and officers, and 7,000 that were strong and apt for war, and 1,000 craftsmen; and a large part of the 5,400 vessels of gold and silver from the Temple and palaces. The policy of Nebuchadnezzar was to remove out of the way all those who might be able to organize a revolt when he and his army had departed. Such men it would have been dangerous to leave behind. It would seem as if all this would have been sufficient to prevail on the people to repent and be saved. Zedekiah, the brother of Jehoiakim, was placed upon the throne by Nebuchadnezzar, "a shadow king over a desperate band of men. During the first nine years of his reign the motion, instead of embracing the opportunity of repentance, plunged more deeply into folly. The dregs of the people, left behind in Jerusalem, laid this flattering unction to their souls: "We have been spared by Jehovah, therefore we are righteous in his sight." During a brief respite while Nebuchadnozzar left Jerusalem free while he fought the Egyptians Jeremiah went forth out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin. His home was at Anathoth in Benjamin, three or four miles north of the city. It was apparently to secure his share of the tithes and produce of the Levitical glove of the village, due to him as one of its priests. Knowing that the Chaldeans would return, it was imperative that he should obtain the means of subsistence to take back into the city, so soon to be beleganded afresh. Others think it was to secure himself in the possession of an inheritance. There was a natural rush to get out of the city after so long a confinement. Jeremiah went with the others. When Jeremiah was in the gate of Benjamin, the north gate of the city, that by which any one would go to the country of Benjamin which adjoined Jerusalem, a guard said: "Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans; you are trying to desert to the enemy." Then said Jeremiah: "False! A lie! I fall not a way to the Chaldeans." He was arrested by the guard, and brought to the princes, the officials of the government, who were wrought with Jeremiah. He had compared them to rotten figs. He was the strongest and most resolute opponent of their war policy. But for him they would have had it all their own way. Jeremiah was placed in a dungeon under the prison building. Jerusalem was honey-combed with subterranean cisterns, vaulted or arched overhead, and cabins, vaults, the subterranean, arched spaces of a cistern, containing water. At last Zedekiah, the king, secretly took him to inquire: "Is there any word from the Lord?" Jeremiah replied: "There is." The word was: "Thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon." Missionary illustrations are abundant in modern times. Witness the four fold growth of the church in Madagascar as the result of the cruel persecutions in 1849 and the two decades following, when Christians were fung over the "Rock of Hurling," a precipe of 150 feet, were burned to death, stoned, killed by boiling water or by poison. Witness the growth of the church in China after the fearful Boxer massacres of 1900. 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NEW YORK A NEW ATHLETIC FIELD WITH SWIMMING POOL Class Director We want the colored people of Baltimore to watch these columns each week fir the activities at the new athletic field, and fir the names of their boys and what they are doing. Six nice baseball diamonds are laid out. The only thing necessary to make them perfect is use. On all the diamonds' almast as many people as want to can come out and play as often as they like. No trouble at any time about permits. All you have to do is to go out on the grounds and "get busy." A playground is in operation out there from now until September 10th under the direction of Mr. Giles. All the activities that may be carried on in any play ground in the city will be done, and because of the excellent sacilities and almost unbounded space they may be multiplied many times over. An excellent running track of a quater mile has been laid out on a level flat surface with greater possibilities for development than any athletic field in the city. Sen it and get yourself in condition for the big athletic meet the last of September. There are excellent facilities for all kinds of jumping. All you have to do is to come out and show that you want to jump and everything will be made ready. A swimming pool and dressing room are in readiness now for boys to use and we ore desirous of seeing them out by the score. A nice sand beach makes the pool al the more tempting. An experienced swimmer wdo belonged to a life saving station for two yetrs, will be in attendance and every precaution will be taken to make the place safe. Last Tuesday, fourteen boys came out and played volley ball, baseball playground ball and after a jolly good time at that, all went down and had a good swim. If you want to hear about it, ask any one of the following boys: Sam Jones, Jos. Ford, Ernest Bond, Ulysis Jones, Eugene Wilson, William Jones, Chas. Chisley, William W.ight, Elijah Middleton or any of the nine visitors who were there. Bom out on Harford Road car, get off at Lake Montebello and go to the right side of the track. Cherry Hill Services The evangelistic services at Cherry Hill Grove were largely attended last Sunday. An able sermon was preached by Dr. L. S. Flagg, pastor of St. John's A. M. E. Church. The service in the evening consisted of song and praise service. Those who attend next Sunday afternoon will be given an opportunity to hear one of the most able ministers of the race whose name appears in the advertising column of this paper. Roland Park car or the Boulevard car, getting off at Water Tower will enable persons to reach the grove by walking one square west. The churches conducting these open air services are Trinity and Payne Memorial A. M. E. Churches, Asbury M. E. Church and Grace Presbyterian Church. The Electric Park car or Mt. Washington car will enable persons to reach the rgove by getting off at City Line. Moonlight a Big Success The Moonlight given by the Uplifting Social of Maryland, on the palatial Steamer Starlight, Monday night, August 7th, 1911, was a grand success in every particular. There were just enough people on board (75) to make the trip across the Bay to Brown's Grove, under the soft light of the silvery moon, a pleasure. The order was perfect and coming from the port side, the starboard side, the aft and stern of the ship, were many kind words of appreciation for the manly and noble way the members of the Social conducted the whole affair. If the social abides by the decision renred by the patrons of this, their first moonlight, another will be given this season. Mrs. Dallas Frazier, of 10 Etting street, has gone to Atlantic City for a two weeks stay. MissesG race and Ida Brown, of 2130 Druid Hill avenue, are spending a few weeks at Cape Charles, Norfolk and Hampton, Va. IN MEMORIAM BUTLER—In sad but loving remembrance of my dear husband, Columbus Butler, who died in full triumph of faith one year ago, August 17, 1910. Loved in life, Loved in death, A precious one from us has gone, A voice we loved is stillled, A place is vacant in our home Which never can be filled. Gone but not forgotten, and never will he be. By his devoted wife, Emma Butler. Loved in life in death remembered. God of Love, send us a token From the spirit world above, That our hearts all crushed and broken. When the film of death creeps over us, Meet us, dear one, on that day. Meet us, dear one, on that day. By his children. In remembrance of my father, Samuel Mason, who died one year ago, August 15, 1910. Gone but not forgotten, By his daughter, Ada. In loving memory of my dear mother, who died nineteen years ago, July 4th. I think of her often and we will meet again some day. By her daughter, Ada Curtis. In loving remembrance of my husband, Charles Doughty, who departed this life, one year ago, August 11, 1910. There is grief that cannot find comfort, And wounds that cannot be healed. And sorrow too deep in the heart, I smile and they think I am gay. But alas I am gloomy and tearful. Because of the one far away. When you ask me do I miss him, Yes it filled my heart with pain. But his spirit softly whispers. Courage dear, we shall meet again. Dearest husband, how I miss you. Miss you more than heart can tell; Every hour and day that passes, Bring me nearer with you to dwell. Yes we miss him, oh, we miss him. When we see his vacant chair, But how sad the home without him; For there is no papa there. By his wife and children. A Card of Thanks Sister George R. Colilns wishes to extend her thanks to the many friends for their expressions of sympathy during his illness and for the floral designs sent him. Special thanks to Rev. P. W. Wortham and wife. Better Done In Private. A well-known doctor, we read, advises people to roll the eyes in order to strengthen the eye-muscles. A little risky, perhaps; for if this exercise were carelessly practiced in crowded restaurants and other public places, the eye would stand a good chance of being suddenly blackened. Youth and Happiness. Make youth the most attractive period possible—crowd every pleasure and bit of sunshine imaginable into that day for the sorrows will enter all too soon—but in doing so watch the recipient of your favors and sacrifices that he or she does not develop into a selfish boy or girl Knights Of Pythias Band & Orchestra John T. Maxfield, Leader, 9 S. Stockton St., All mail orders Promptly Attended to. Charles Tolson, President 506 Baker Street JOHN H. OW Understakes $65.00 FUNERALS $75.00. A fine casket worth $65.00, in b highly polished oak or walnut outside either black, gray or white, to mate riages, new and up-to-date; fine burs 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 of Shipping Funerals, $25. 1222 Division St., bet. Dolphin and GET IT AT A fine casket worth $65.00, in black cloth, steel gray or white plush; highly polished oak or walnut outside case; beautiful rubber-tired hearse, either black, gray or white, to match casket, as desired; five heated carriages, new and up-to-date; fine burial robe, embalming, opening grave, advertise funeral, six pairs of gloves, door crepe, candles, candelabra, crucifix when desired, rugs, chairs etc., all of the latest designs. This funeral cost elsewhere.....$136.00 Our price.....$75.00 Saving you.....$61.00 Other Funerals as low as $25, $35, $40, $50. Higher Grade $100, $150, $175. No charge for removal of remains from Hospitals. Shipping Funerals, $25.00 and $50.00 Complete. 1222 Division St. bet. Dolphin and Lanvale. C. & P. Phone Mad. 4067 STOKES & DERRY' 1016 Druid Hill Avenue Corner Oxford ANYTHING in the DRUG LINE By his daughter, Ada. THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER CURIOUS BITS OF HISTORY By A. W. Macy. AN ALBINO KING OF ENGLAND. It is quite probable that England once had an albino for a king. Edward the Confessor, who reigned from 1042 to 1066, is said to have had long hair and beard, both as white as snow. His skin was of a milky color, and his face inclined to rosiness. His hands were long and very white. An albino always has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. These peculiarities are said to be caused by a deficiency of certain coloring matter in the blood. The name albinos was first given by the Portuguese to negroes they found on the African coast who were mottled with white spots. Albinos are found, however, among all races of men, and also among some of the lower animals, as mice, elephants, etc. From the descriptions of King Edward's personal appearance that have come down to us, and which are evidently reliable, it is reasonably certain that he was an albino. (Copyright, 1911, by Joseph B. Bowles.) Come Go To Brown's Grove on the Following Dates Where you can enjoy a pleasant outing and rest from the turmoils of 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. 19—Metropolitan M. E. Church 20—Ames M. E. Church. 20—Waymans Circle of Ebenezer A.M. E. Chirech 21—Princess Tabernacle. No. 42 & No. 3 Lodge K, B & D, of Samara. 22—Queen Elizabeth Court O. O. C. K. of P. 25—Trustees Bethel A. M. E. Church 26—Friendship Lodge, No. 29, K. of P., from Chestertown to Baltimore 27-St. James No. 7 and Bethel Court 5 28—Magothy Camp. 29—Silver Spring Social. 30—Juvenile Council No. 4. K. of P 30-G. U. of O Moses to St. Michael's 31-Choral Symphony Oratorio Society. 2—Fair Lee and Rock Hall M. E. Ch. to Grove 3—Magothy Camp Meeting 4—Doctors Coachmen 5—Stewards and Trustees of Easton M. E. Church G- King G. Guse G. U. O. Good Hope St. Marks House Hold MOONLIGHTS. 21—Ebenezer chour 22—Wilson Pleasure Social 23—Pink Caronation Association of St. Paul M. E. Church 24—Afro American O. O. Owls 25—Willing Workers of Ebenezer A. M. E. Church 26—St. Johns Court 27—Brotherhood of Asbury M. E. Ch. 28—Parsonage Com. of Centennial Ch. 29—Trustees Auxiliary of St. Paul M. E. Church SEPTEMBER 1—Debust Court 29. K. of P. 2—Hochschild Kohn Waitresses 3—Balto. 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Berry, of Athens, O., stopped in the city a few days ago. Mr. Berry is proprietor of one of the best hotels in Athens. Mrs. S. Haynes, of 504 Baker street, has gone to Royal Oak, Talbott county, to spend a fortnight visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Green have returned from an extensive trip to Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Philadelphia. While in Philadelphia they visited Mr. Green's brother. Mrs. Lydia J. Hughes is visiting her sister in law, Mrs. Emma J. Gansby, at Cambridge, Md. Don't fail to attend the Excursion of John Wesley M. E. Church, Tickets 50 cents Miss Mary M. Jones, of 1910 Division street left the city Friday to spend the remainder of the month at Atlantic City. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. A. Owens, of 1237 Druid Hill avenue have returned home after a pleasant stay with their mother, Mrs, Lehr Richardson, of 518 Elmira street, Cape May, N. J. Mr. and Mrs. James Addison, of 1600 Division street have returned home after a very pleasant stay of two weeks in Atlantic City, N. J. Mr. Earnest Weeks left Thursday for Atlantic City, Cape May and other watering places. Misses Nellie Griffin, Annie Russell and Nellie Hall, have returned from a very pleasant visit to Warton, Md. Mrs. Estelle Young, of 1821 Druid Hill avenue who has been very sick is convalescent. Don't fail to attend the Excursion of John Wesley M. E. Church, Tickets 50 cents Mrs. Alice Gould has gone to visit her parents, Mrs. Chas. Tinsley, of Louisa, Virignia. Mrs. Marie Carter, of 2141 Division street, left on Tuesday to spend a month visiting relatives and friends in Boston and New York. Mrs. Glen Thompson and children, of 1816 Argyle avenue have gone to visit her aunt, Mrs. Maggie Hall, of Waterbury, Arundel Co., Md. Mrs. Laurence Robinson, of 2008 Division street left on Monday to spend two weeks at Atlantic City.N. J. Mrs. Marshall, of Barcroft, Va., is visiting her sister in law, Mrs. Thomas Marshall, of 709 Sharp Street. Mr. Mary E. Penn, of 2043 Division street, is visiting her father, Mr. James Green, of Westmoreland county, Va. She is accompanied by her two daughters.; Misses Martha and Ada, and her niece. Mr. James H. Johnson, of 1732 Druid Hill avenue, and his daughters, Ethel, Viola and Fannie are spending their vacation in Westmoreland county, Va. Don't fail to attend the Excursion of John Wesley M. E. Church, Tickets 50 cents Mrs. R. L. Howard; of 1123 N. Carey street has returned home from a visit to Gloucester, Hampton and other parts of Virginia, accompanied by her daughter Ethel. Mrs. Mary C. Carter and children, of 1730 Druid Hill avenue are spending a few days at Cape May, N. J. Rev. L. Z. Johnson, pastor of Madison Street Presbyterian Church, and his family are spending the month of August at Fair Haven, N. J. Mrs. C. Marcellus Dorsey, of 1307 N. Fremont avenue has returned from a twoweek stay at Atlantic City. Mrs. Ruth M. Collett, of 1361 N. Calhoun street has returned from a brief stay at Atlantic City and Philadelphia. Mrs. Belle Johnson, of 1502 Presstman street is visiting friends in Federalburg, Md. Mrs. E. W. S. Peck, of 1905 Druid Hill avenue, was in Boston last week, the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Frank B. Anderson. She was accompanied by Miss Ella Smith Miss Kitty Mapp, of Druid Hill avenue, and Miss Esther Mapp, of New York, are visiting relatives in Bird's Nest. Va. Mrs. Jos. H. Harris, of 437 W. Biddle street, has gone to Philadelphia and Atlantic City. Lawyer J. W. Flemmings, City Councilman of Cleveland, O., was in the city last week the guest of Mr. Alfred Pitts, of 1631 E. Madison street. Don't fail to attend the Excursion of John Wesley M. E. Church, Tickets 50 cents Mrs. Rebecca Gibson, of Etting street, is spending a few weeks at Atlantic City, the guest of her son, James T. Gibson. Mrs. Jennie E. Frisby, of 1418 S. 18 street, Philadelphia, is spending a few weeks in the city at her old home in N. Durham street. Mrs. D. A. Perrin, of Tampa Fla., is spending a few days in the city, the guest of Mrs. Mary F. Handy, of N. Carey street. Mrs. Perrin has been on an extended trip North and East and will make several stops in the South before returning home. Mr. George L. Nelson, who has been sick at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, is able to be out again. Don't fail to attend the Excursion of John Wesley M. E. Church, Tickets 50 cents Mrs. Georgia Carter, of 502 W. Biddle street, has gone to Gloscester county, Va., where she is visiting Lawyer T. C. Walker and other friends. Mrs. Carrie Jackson, of 1421 Mulliken street, has gone to Indianapolis, Ind., as a representative of Maryland in the Superme Court of Calanthe. Mrs. Josephine Dixon and daughter Lula, of 517 George street are spending a couple of weeks in Delaware visiting friends and relatives. Mrs. P. J. Johnson and Miss Lillian Ash will spend fifteen days in Philadelphia and Atlantic City. Don't fail to attend the excursion of John Wesley M. E. Church, Tickets 50 cents Mrs. Alpha Peck and children are spending their vacation at the home of Mrs. Hester Hughes, Cambridge, Md. Miss Mattie White, a teacher in the public schools is visiting friends in Boston. Mrs. Mary Haney left the city Saturday in company with Miss Beulah Barber to spend her vacation in Red Bank and Atlantic City, N. J. Mrs. A. Myrtle Tyler, of 554 Wilson street, who was recently operated on at Johns Hopkins Hospital is much improved and has left for York, Pa., for a fortnight to visit her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor. Mrs. Emma J. Nutter, of Princess Anne Md., who has been with her sister, Mrs. Somerville Young, of 1203 Druid Hill avenue since the death of her husband in May, is spending a short time with her brother, Mr. Eben E. King, of Philadelphia. From there she will go to Atlantic City to spend a few days. Miss Edyth Clark, of 1327 Argyle Avenue, has gone to Atlantic City to join Miss Elsie Richardson, of 697 Pierce street. Mrs. George Morris, of 1623 Druid Hill avenue with her grand daughter, Viola and her son Percy is visiting friends at Cape Charles, Hampton, Newport News, and Norfolk, Va. PROF. VERONA GREATEST BORN MEDIUM MAKES NO CHARGE if the object of your visit is not explained without asking a question. Can be seen on all matters of business love, courtship, marraige, investments, etc. By my advice I remove evil influence witchcraft, spells, cure diseases and unite the separated. I never fail. I also teach hypnotism and how to become a medium. No matter what your troubles are or what you wish to know, this Gifted person can positively help you.....if you are hundreds of miles away. A word to the wise is sufficient. Gives good luck, Hours 9 to 9 daily and Sunday. Fees very moderate 217 S. CLINTON ST., near Pratt, Highlandtown. Md. Name Prof. Verona in window. Take Roland Park car to Climton street. IF IT'S PURE DRUGS FENNEL'S PHARMACY Druid Hill Ave. and Biddle St. Miss Henrietta M. Jackson, and Mrs. Evia Delahay, have gone to Boston, Worcester, Mass, and will visit Brooklyn, N. Y., and Philadelphia on their return. Mrs. M. E. Garey, of 2210 Druid Hil avenue, in company with Mrs. W. F. Ellis, of Petersburg, Va., left the city this week for a tour of Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Newport and New Haven. Mr. William Carr and little daughter Edith, spent Sunday with his parents at Easton, Md. Miss Blanche E. Wall, of Washington, D. C., was the guest of Miss Matilda Glascoe, of 2037 Division street Sunday. Mr. L. H. Davenport has returned home from Atlantic City and Philadelphia, where he spent a few days recreating. Messrs. E. L. W. Scott and Harry Wesley, have gone to Philadelphia and Atlantic City to spend their vacation. Mrs. Phoebe Clash, of Richmond, Va., who has been visiting Mrs. Brooks, of Argyle avenue, has returned home. Mrs. Minnie Brooks and Mrs. Bessie Jefferson, of Argyle avenue have gone to Richmond to spend a week or ten days. Mr. Henry A. White, organist in a large Presbyterian church in Brooklyn, N. Y., was the guest of Messrs C. Henry Jenkins and Henry Hollis, Saturday and Sunday. Mr. C. Henry Jenkins has gone to Atlantic City for a short stay. Mr. William Toodles, of 1125 Druid Hill avenue, is quite sick. Mrs. John H. Wilson and grand daughter of 1625 Druid Hill avenue have gone to Cape May to spend a couple of weeks. Mrs. Lizzie Johnson, of 110 N. Calhoun street has gone to Philadelphia and Atlantic City for a few days Miss Elsie Harden is spending the balance of the summer with her aunt at Vineland, N. J. Miss Blanche Harris has gone to Easton, Md., for the balance of the summer. Mrs. Mary Wood Mason, of 33 S. Vermont avenue, Atlantic City is spending the week end in New York. Misses Larrie Greene, Ada Lewis and Sadie Howard, left the city Monday afternoon, on a pleasure trip to Atlantic City, and will be gone about fifteen days. Dr, and Mrs. R. Garland Chissell, have left the city for a ten days' vacation. Mr. George B. Murphy, one of the group principals of the public schools, has returned from the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been taking a summer course. He left Monday for Locust Villa, Montgomery county where he will spend the balance of the summer with his family. Mrs. Emma Butler, of 617 N. Bethel street, left Wednesday on a trip which will include Atlantic City, Asbury Park, New York and Philadelphia. Rev. Frank R. Williams, pastor of Perkins Square Baptist Church, left Wednesday for a two week's stay at Atlantic City. Mr. Robert Turner, a well known man about town, was in Canada a few days, ago. Mrs. Mamie Brown, Norman Uncles and J. Wesley Parker have returned from Boston, where they attended the Elks' Convention. Mrs. Joseph Gonzales, of 720 Mulberry street, will return in a few days from a two weeks visit to New York. Mr and Mrs. John W. Henderson and daughter Evelyn, of 31 N. Caroline street, are visiting relatives in Virginia. Miss Susie Wyatt, of Essex county, Va., is visiting her sister, Mrs. William Jefferson, of 1106 Argyle avenue. Mrs. Mollie R. Pollard and daughter, Miss Nellie T. Pollard, who has been visiting Mrs. Pollard's mother for the past two months has gone to Atlantic City and will then visit Philadelphia and New York before returning to their home in Boston. Hold First Quarterly Conference The first quarterly conference of the Pennsylvania Avenue A. A. M. E. Zion hurch was held last Friday. Reports submitted by the pastor, Rev. Dr. E. D. W. Jones, stated that over $700 had been raised during the two months Dr. Jones has been pastor. Notice was also given that the new church will have a big reopening on the first Sunday in September, and that the speakers will include Bishop Walters, Judge Terrell and John C. Dancy. Presiding Elder J. A. S. Cole presided.