The Afro-American

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN LEDGER VOL. XX NO. 1. VICTORS HOLD SUCCESSFUL AN- NUAL SESSION F. GAMBLE OF CHARLES- ON, W. VA., SUCCEEDS A. M. CURTIS AS PRES- My Papers Of Interest To The Profession Discussed By Members of Nrtional Medical Association—Over One Thousand Abend Banquet—Dr. Kenny Discusses The Hookworm—To Set Next Year At Tuskegee Institute. Social to The Afro-American Ledger.) Hampton; Va., August 30—The thirteenth annual session of the National Medical Associatoin came an end here last Friday night with an excursion to Jamestown Isd and Claremont. The session was attended by prominent physicians, dentists and pharmacists from all parts of the country, and through the kindness of theulty of Hampton Institute the various discussions took place on the Institute property. The visitors were entertained lavishly by by the Tidewater Medical Association and there was one continuous sound of enjoyable social features. The big banquet in the gymnasium Thursday night was attended by more than 1,000 people. Dr.William E. Atkins, of Hampton, was the toastmaster. Toasts were responded to by Attorney J. Thomas Newsome, E. C. Brown, Rev. A. A. Graham, Major Moton, Drs. W. F. Penn, Atlanta, Ga., C. V. Roman, Nashville, Tenn., F. G. Elliott, Norman Lassiter and W. T. Foreman. The next session will be held at Tuskegee Institute. The scientific program was varied and interesting many timely papers being presented on topics of interest to the medical profession. Dr. J. A. Kenny of Tuskegee in an exhaustive report on the hookworm disease declared that the Negro was not susceptible to the malady. Dr. Marcus F. Wheatland head of the committee on tuberculosis; Dr. A. M. Townsend of the commission on pellagra and Dr. H. F. Gamble of the commission on medical education made commendable reports. At the surgical clinic at Dixie Hospital an important operation involving the opening of an abdominal cavity was performed by Drs. A. M. Curtis, W. A. Warfield, Z. M. Carson, J. A. Kennv, Arthur N. Brown and H. F. Gamble. The address of the retiring president Dr. Austin M. Curtis of Washington was full of practical advice of the physicians. A number of distinguished visitor were present and offered words of encouragement. Prominent among them were Dr. W. T. Vernon, former Register of the Treasury, now United States Supervisor of Indian schools here on official business; Dr. Charles F. Meserve, president of New University, Raleigh, N. C.; or R. R. Moton, Commandant Cadets at Hampton Institute; or James B. Dudley, president the A. and M. College, at Greensboro, N. C., and Dr. James E. Gard, president of the National Magnetic Training School, at Durham, N. C. Gamble succeeds Curtis the election of officers, around which centered a large measure of prest, resulted as follows: Presid. H. F. Gamble, Charleston, W. vice-president, William A. Cox, Cambridge, Mass.; general secretary, John A. Kenny, Tuskegee Institute, Ala.; assistant secretary, F. H. Elliott, Portsmouth, Va.; treasurer, J. R. Levy, Florence, S.C.; pharmaceutical vice-president, Harry S. Pope, Baltimore, Md. pharmaceutical secretary, Julius P. H. Colemna, Washington D.C. George Cannon, of Jersey City, N.J., was re-elected chairman of the executive board, and W. E. Steers of Decatur, Ala., was again elected secretary. A. M. Curtis, of Washington, D.C., and J. A. Robinson, of Darlington, S.C., were placed upon the executive board to fill vacancies. The revised executive board stands, with the three above included: F. N. Mossell, Philadelphia; Amanda V. Gray, Washington; C. H. Marshall, Washington; M. A. Vanhorn, Neport, R. I.; J. W. Jones, Winston-Salem, N. C. M. F. Wheatland, Newport, R. I. The newly elected officers of the sections are as follows: Surgical section—Dr. A. M. Brown, Birmingham, Ala., chairman; secretary, Dr. R. L. Jones, Charleston, W. Va. Medical section—Dr. J. J. France Portsmouth, Va. Dental section—chairman, Dr. Roscoe C. Brown Richmond, Va.; secretary, Dr. C. O. Lee, Winston-Salem Pharmaceutical section—Chairman Dr. W. L. Board, Washington. Among the Baltimoreans present were: Drs. H. L. McCard, R. G. Baker, D. C. Brown, J. C. Robinson, J. E. Fisher, B. M. Starks, D. Grant Scott, F. N. Cardoza R. G. and Mrs. Chissell. LARGE ENROLLMENT FOR HOWARD Nearly Two Hundred Students Make Application (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Washington D. C. August 28—Howard University is to have the largest enrollment this year that it has had at any time in its history. It has been announced at this early date that Prof. Kelly Miller, Dean of the College of Art and Sciences, has filed the one hundred and sixtieth application for entrance into the freshman class of his department. A meeting of the executive committee of the university is scheduled for the early part of September, a which session it will probably be found necessary, by reason of the growth of the institution, to appoint several new professors and instructors. The new engineering plant at the University has been completed this summer and a direct current electric power lighting and heating plant for the University, Freedman's Hospital and the residences of the professors has been installed. Work is advancing rapidly on the new $40,000 E me for the nurses connected with the Freedman's Hospital, and the handome building will add greatly to the beauty and symmetry of the Howard campus. New Editor For Banner Phialdelphia Pa. September 1—Rev. W.F. Graham for many years pastor of the Fifth Baptist Church Richmond Va. will be formally installed pastor of the Holy Trinity Baptist Church Richmond Va. this Sunday. An elaborate program has been arranged for the occasion. He will succeed Rev. G. L. P. Talifaferro editor of the Christian Banner, a weekly publication of this city. Dr. Taliaferro resinged at the request of the officials of the church, who thought that the pastortate required a more active man. THE LIBERIAN FLAG UNFURLED AT LAUREL DR. ERNEST LYON TELLS OF STRUGGLES AND HARD TIME OF LITTLE AF RICAN REPUBLICS Liberia Founded To Solve Problem For Which Whites Were Responsible—The History Of The Republic Since Its Founda- Has Been Pathetic In Highest Degree—Addresses Delivered By Prominent Marylanders. (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Laurel, Md., August 29.—The flag of Liberia was unfurled here with elaborate ceremonies at the country home of Dr. Ernest Lyon, former American minister to Liberia, and now Liberian consul general to the United States. A big pole had been erected for the purpose, and when the insignia of the little West African republic was flung to the breeze cheer after cheer went up. Addresses were delivered by Rev. Dr. M. J. Naylor, Rev. Ernest S. Williams, Dr. Stirling N. Brown, of Howard University; Rev. Virgi N. Hughes, Rev. William Jenkins, Mr. John H. Murphy, editor of the Afro-American Ledger, and Dr. Lyon. In his address, Dr. Lyon pictured the history of Liberia from its inception and of the struggle against the aggressions of foreign powers, which resulted in the United States sending a commission, composed of George Sale, Roland P. Faulkner and Emmet J. Scott, here to investigate conditions two years ago. He said: "Liberia is not the only independent Negro nationality in the world neither is it the only English-peaking community on the west coast of Africa, but it is the only independent Negro nationality of English-speaking people in the world, and as such it undoubtedly occupies a unique position in the family of nations and in the consideration of mankind. "Although Liberia is a Negro state, like Abysinnia, Hayti and the Dominican Republic, nevertheless its existence is quite distinct in its origin and history from these, "Apart from the idea of an asylum for exiled Africans who desired to return to their fatherland, its mission, in the minds of the founders, was to extend Christianity and western civilization into Africa. Liberia was to be the entrance through which the benefits of modern civilization and of the Christian religion were to pass, in the English language, to the millions of heathens in the interior. Its founding marked the awakening of the Anglo-Saxon conscience; it showed concretely the penitence of a repenting people for the commission of a great wrong upon a weak and helpless race. Liberia was a compromise and was intended to solve without the shedding of blood, one of the greatest problems of modern times. "However, in the conflict of ideas and the clash of arms, God partially overruled the designs of His creatures, and consequently the plan of American colonization of Liberia simmered down and the country suffered. So desperate had the condition of Liberia become that the American government, reviewing the history of its founding and being reminded of the, sentiment M. B. hopes and designs of the founders, felt compelled to stretch a helping hand across the Atlantic, which will prove to be the salvation of this unique republic." Dr. Lyon, while representing this government in Liberia, made an exhaustive study of conditions there Much of this study is a part of the records of the Department of State. He has been recently appointed agent for the Donovan Trust Fund. This unused income which now amounts to $62,500, was left in charge of the late Ferdinand C. Latrobe and another to aid prospective emigrants to Liberia to reach their goal and to help them get an education. The Amercian Colonization Society was the medium through which the $5,000 annual income from the fund was to be spent. While a number of emigrants were aided the society never turned over the remainder of the annual income to the Liberian Commissioner of Education, as had been stipulated, and the accumulation of $62,500 is the result. Dr. Lyon's appointment as agent will not change the agreed plans for the distribution of the annual income of $5,000, which the trustees of the fund will continue to distribute through the Colonization Society. The income from the Donovan Fund is drawn from a block of valuable Baltimore real estate. VERNON MAY GET THE PRESIDENCY Has Been Prominently Mentioned As President Of Morris Brown College (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Atlanta, Ga., August 31—Hon. W. T. Vernon, Supervisor of Indian Schools, was in this city Sunday and addressed an immense crowd at the Big Bethel A. M. E. church. Dr. Vernon expresses himself as being well peased with his new work, and is giving it much close study. He is being mentioned very favorably in connection with the Presidency of Morris Brown college at Atlanta, a school under the auspices of the A. M. E. church. On this subject Dr. Vernon is having nothing to say. The trustees met at Macon Ga. this week to choose a president of Morris Brown to succeed the the Dr. E. W. Lee. Pastorate to Teach (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Harrisburg, Pa., September 1— Rev. Francis Gregory has resigned the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church of this city. He is a graduate of Amhurst college and the Yale Divinity School, and is highly regarded here. He will become vice-principal of the Bordentown (N. J.) Industrial School, of which his father Prof. James M. Gregory is the head. NEWS FROM THE CAPITOL OF THE NATION THE ELECTION OF GRIFFIN AS GRAND MASTER OF THE TRUE REFORMERS CAUSES REJOICING Would Remove Headyuarters From Richmond To Washington Where Insurance Laws Are More Rigid-Personal Liberty Leagne Hold Annual Banquet Many Visitors Passing Thru The City.-Dr. Curtis Off For Chicago (Spec. to The Afro-American Ledger.) Washington, D. C., August 3—The election of Walter R. Griffin as Grand master of the United Order of True Reformers gives eminent satisfaction to the Order in the city all of whom are anxious for the fraternity to get on its feet once more and rise to the full measure of its great opportunities. Under the safe and sane guidance of Grand Master with the Lewis plan of rehabilitation in operation, there is no reason why the immense property holding may not be redeemed and all claims settled satisfactorily. The membership has been loyal and with new leadership, they will take courage for the march that is before them. Many regard the temporary explosion as a Godsend, as it enables the order to clear the decks, reform the old and dangerous system, and to stop the dishonest practices that sooner or later would be bound to wreck the concern. The sentiment for a change in the headquarters is strong, however with a decided leaning toward Washington as the new central office. A fraternity hailing from the capital of the nation has a big thing to its credit at the outset, for here is the seat of the government, where everybody in the course of the year must come on one business or another. It is easily accessible from every point, and the insurance laws are so rigid that nothing but the most solid can survive. The National Colored Personal Liberty League gave its annual banquet Wednesday evening at the residence of the National organizer Mr. C. Curtis. Speeches were delivered by Rev. L. Moore, formerly a member of the Mississippi legislature, Lieut, R. E. Toomey, R. W. Thompson, Mr. Riley Payne, and others. The National Colored Personal Liberty League is a nonpartian body, standing for liberal laws, in the interest of the masses, and for the protection of the welfare of the Negro: Dr. A. M. Curtis, who has just retied from the presidency of the National Medical Association, has gone to the Windy City on his vacation. He will mingle some business with pleasure by delivering a lecture and demonstrating at a surgical clinic at the great Mayo Hospital in Milwaukee. Mr. J. Finley Wilson, of Norfolk, Va., a leading Elk was in the city last week enroute to Hampton and home. He was one of the prime movers in the campaign which resulted in the election of Harry H. Pace as grand exalted ruler. Mr. Wilson is associate editor of the Journal and Guide at Norfolk, and is an active force in the Business League of his city. He is also general manager of "Little Bay B owned and operated by L. the noted Norfolk boniface Who Had Charge Of Knightel Of Pythias Camp BALTIMORE WILL GET NEXT SESSION Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias Will Meet Here In 1913. (Special to the Afro-American Ledger.) Indianapolis, Ind., August 30—Following the transaction of a large amount of routine business, the Supreme Lodge of the larger wing of Knights of Pythias ended its biennial session late Saturday night. The Maryland delegation succeeded in landing the next session for Baltimore. They were armed with inviations from Governor Crothers, of that State, and the Baltimore City Council, and as one delegate exclaimed, "Baltimore can have my vote," the whole convention unanimously voted for the Maryland metropolis S. A. Watkins, assistant corporation counsel of Chicago, and attorney general for the Order, made a report on the status of litigation against colored Pythians in the South. He also declared that the bonds of the supreme officers, amounting to $100,000, were all right. The address of the supreme chancellor, S. W. Green, was an exhaustive review of the condition of the Order. Rev. W. A. Scott, of Mississippi, introduced a resolution making it mandatory for the Supreme Court of Calanthe to meet in a different city than the supreme lodge on the ground that accommodations were very hard to find for so many. The resolution was withdrawn after some discussion. S. W. Green was unanimously re-elected supreme chancellor, over 50 delegates rising to put him in nomination. Joseph L. Jones, of Cincinnati, was elected deputy supreme chancellor, succeeding J.W. Strauther, deceased. Mr. Jones was armed with endorsements from the Cincinnati Commercial Association and the acting Mayor of that city. George A. Watty, grand chancelor for Maryland, was re-elected grand inner guard. The remaining officers are: J. H. Young, Pine Bluff, Ark., supreme master of exchequer; C. K. Robinson, St. Louis, supreme keeper of records and seal; S. A. T. Watkins, Chicago, supreme attorney; D. F. Niller, Kentucky, supreme master-at-arms; Rev. A. H. Newton, New Jersey, supreme prelate; L. M. Mitchell, Texas, supreme lecturer; Dr. Joseph H. Ward, Indianapolis, supreme medical regisitrar, and R. Johnson, Chicago, major general orn rank. THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER ae ae ORIGIN OF THE — COLORED RACE JW. Janis Ges the Facts Against Assumptions, BOLD GHLLENGE TO CRITICS, ‘fan Who Has Given Much Time and Study to Lineage of Races Covers + Wide Scope of Biblical, Historical and | Scientific Research In Defending His * Opinions. ! pontine, Mfich:—The Rev. J. W. Jar- wis, S. ‘f. B., who has given consider- able thought to the origin, progress and development of the various races of the world along many lines, writes the following article concerning legislation against intermarriage between white and colored persons. For the benetit of those who rejoice 3n the destruction of personal privi- Jege as to one marrying the person of bis choice he sass: “We pen the following historical re- search and will heartily welcome dis- ‘enssions from theologians and histor- dans on the subject. “phe Greek for man is anthropos, and the Scriptures declare that ‘God soade of one blood all nations.’ ‘Chat snoludes individuals and takes in Ethi- oplans, and we assert that they are susceptible to all the qualides and changes of auy other race and are en- owed with the same ego as the Cau- easiin or any other race of peaple wherever found. “Here are some original Biblical facts: “The sons of Fam were Cush, Miz- raim. Thut and Cansan. The word Ham means heat, brownness. We note that these settled in Aftica and Arabit and the principal nations springing from them were the Egyptians, Ethio- plans. Libyans sud Canaanites. “Nimrod, the sen of Cush, founded ‘Babsion B. C. 2245, and Asshur found: al Nineveh about the same year. Mizraim, the grandson of Ham, lends colonies into Feypt and founded an empire that Justed 1.663 years. ‘The ancient phurnohs boasted of their Une age. ‘Their first kings were Mizraim, ‘Athokes, Tusirls, Osymandyas. te bo ee oo ee a Ppa Seg ers Cee AOR ea Se as oe oe 8 Poe foo ee pe Po eee, Fae oe Pee Poe Ce ee Cee REY. J. W. JARVIS, & 'L. B sbepherd kings, Pharaoh, Sypboas, Memon, tbe inventor of letters; Amenophis J. and Potiphar, Seba is Jocated near Ethiopia (Isaiah xly, 14) and is now known as the Sudiu. This country knew the use of ritles before Columbus suiled for the west. “ther sons of Cush formed a line ‘of settlement along the shores of Ara- vin from the vicinity of Yemen to the head of the Persian gulf. At the head of the Persian gulf is Babylonia or the land of Shipar. “From Casiubim of Mizrain came the Philistines from the land ef Pat estine. Tho border of the Canaaniles was from Zidon to Gerar. Sidon was dhe first son of Canaan, wheuce the Yidonians. ‘Tbe Zidonians founded ‘fyre, five miles down the const. Brom Tyre a colony went forth and founded Carthage on the nerthern point ‘of Africa. They buile up un empire ahat extended from the strait of Gibraltar to the altars of Philani, near the great Syrtis. They possessed as provinees Sardinia, the Balearie is. Jan@s, Malta. settlements in Spain and Gaul und 2 part of Sicily. For 400 years Carthage rivaled liome. “Isbmael. the son of Abram by Hagar, marries an Exyptian, from wherce the Japanese und tie Chinese are other offshoots. Esau murties & Canaanite, Adah, and Bathsbemash. Ashmuel’s daughter, the lacter eecount- able fer “the Chinese xnd the former the Indians, who are Edomites. Judah smarrics Shuet. a Canaanite. of which tribe and lineage came Christ. Josepa gmarries Aseneth, an Egyptian. Moses ‘marries an Ethiopian. “David begat Solomon of Bathsheba, 2 Canaanite. Solomon begets King Menelik I, of Abyssinia by the Queen Bae Stobo (tradition). fe\now. say to our cfitica: that ze are not an.undesirable people nor that barbaric night is bebiad us, for the re- search made and given is 2 matter of history, to be traced by any who de- sire the information. And it ought to be an inspiration to our cowardly race leaders who dare not speak, who stifle the consciences. for so called popular- ity. Be men, and whatever. your per- sonal views on intermarriage may be do not let that allow you to sell your Styli privileges and rights for a mess af pottage. Remember that we glory in this. great race of kings and queens, like. those recently deposed in Mada- gasear and the Hawaiian Islands, of emperors like Soloque and De Saline, of statesmen and generals like Hannt- bal and Toussaint !'Ouverture and l'red- erick Donglass, of educators like Wash- ington, Kowen, Kelly, Miller, ete.; of legal lights like Lewis, Terrell, Stroker, ete.; of great bishops, not only Protes- tant, but nlso Catholic. “Last, but not least, the command to Isracl against intermarriugs was not t racial one, but rather from a religious viewpoint, lest he be contaminated and return to be the opposite of the Divine plan, for we think It is very clear that all along the line thes did intermarry. “Let us stund cogether; let us live and work together. ‘The Japs, Chinese and Indians belong to us, and the day that there is a gathering together, a greater sound than perhaps the valley of dry bones, we nay have to fight, if not with gun and sword, with tongue und pen, Up,ye mighty men, and let not the eurse of Meroz rest on you! ‘And, though we die in’ the straggle. yet from our grave the echo will come, “puice et decorum est por Frater Mori?” SPOKANE CITIZENS RESENT COLOR DISCRIMINATION. Mayor Hindley Takes Prompt Action. No Color Line, He Says. Spokiune, Wash.—Race diserimina- tion wilt not. be tolerated in Spokane ly the city commissioners, nnd restau- rauts und saloons where the “Colored "Trude Not Solicited” signs are display- ed will be obliged to remove them im- modiately, according to the-<etermina- tion of Mayor Findley and Commis- sioner of Public Safety 4. B. Hayden. ‘The commissioners have decided to yisit all such places in persou tv quiet- ly inform the proprietors that such signs must be taken down and that.so long as they choose to do business in this cily they must treat all men as free and equal. ‘The demund by the colored people thae their constitutional rights be re- spected in this regard was laid before Mayor Hindley by John Adauis, w local Afro-Ameciean attornes. Lawyer Ad- ains points.out that the situation is be- coming snch thaf_# ¢wored wan can sear ly huve an order filled in many of the locul restaurants, and even the sorvers of drinks behind local bars of- ten refuse to serve colored patrons. ‘Tnionism, according to the attorney, fs at the bottom of the move, and he contends that proprietors of such places rendils take up the sides of their anion waiters and publicly ex- pose cards as indiented. He cited an experience of his own where he enter- ed a restaurant for a lunci and was att first ignored entirely by the waiter. Finally he was informed that the wait- er was not allowed to serve him. Tle immediately took the case before the mayor and asked that steps be taken to stop the practlee. He was as- sured of the support of the mayor. Speaking of the conditions of affairs. Mayor Hindley said: “We are not going to tolerate any such discrimination. ‘The colored, peo ple buve their rights guaranteed to them by the constitution of the United States, and vo naion restaurint or s:- loon has auy legit! right to infringe upon them. “Rave: trouble must not be allowed to brew in Spokane, Such actions as have come to my notice are the fo- menters of race-war and threaten the whole legal fabric of the city and state. 1 do not anticipate any tronble, Yt the men who run public places in this,city will not be permitted to prac- tice such discrimination. So long” as he bebaves us well as auy other person Uw colored man bas just as much business ti such places as any’ other cltizen.” “the thing is absolutely contrary to the constitation.” said Commissioner Hayden, “and that is all the authority we uveed te wake them take down sneh sigus. It is not necessary to have a city ordinance to regulate the matter.” Harry H. Pace Heads Order of Elks. At he recent session of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Enks held im Boston these officers were elected: Harry Hf. Pace. Memphis, grand exalted ruler! George E. Bates. Jersey City, grand secretary; W. E. Gates, Washington, grand. treasurer; §. E. Tloyt. Boston, loyal knight; Wil linn E. Leonard, Philadelphia, teetur- jng knight: Frangis W. Warren, De- trolt, grand organizer: Dr. R, B, Jones, Kiehmond, Va.. grand medical exam- juer; J. J. Jones. Chicago, grand es quire. Dayton, O., was selected us the place for the next convention. New Officers of Masonic Grand Lodge. At the recent session of the Masonic grand lodge of Arkansas, held in: Pine Bluff, the following oilicers weve elect- ed: Master, Jobn H. Harrison, Wil- mac; deputy master. S. . Cannon, Marinuna: senior warden. J. S. Phelix, Marion: juvior warden, C. W.. Scott. ‘Lunn Landing: treasurer, $. P. Brocts, Antoine; secretary, S. M. Wesley, Lit. fle Rock; secretary-treasurer Mutual Benefit association, ST. Boyd, Pres- cott;: secretary. temple fund, ©. 8. Johnson:-Arkansas City. a SELECT SOGIETY FOR RESEARCH Gnigue Plan ‘ty Which fo Trace History of the Race, NEW LIGHT ow ou SUBJEGTS, Works of Afro-Americans Written and Published Centuries Ago. By N. BARNETT DODSON. Yonkers, N. ¥.—Several’ months’ ag0 Arthur Schomburg of New York city ‘nd J. E. Bruce of Yonkers discussed at the latter's residence, in Yonkers, the feasibility of establishing a society with a limited membership for the pur- pose of gutleriug information from books and through correspondence of historical value to the Negro race. Wheir ideas agreed, and a yummber of inen known to be interested in work of this character were invited to at- tend a meeting in Yonkers not long ago, at which Lime the plaus of Messrs. Schomburg and Bruce were out. Yined and cordially approved by those present, and the society was organized, ‘he uame Negro Society Vor Histor- jen) Tesearch was adopted aod a full complement of officers was elected as follows: John TB. Bruce, president; A. ‘A. Schomburg, _sceretary-treasurer; Professor W, W. Weekes, musical di- rector: David B. Fulton, librarian; W. H, Sraxton, art director, Membership in the society is limited to twenty ac- tive members, and the entrance fee is 810, with a monthly tx of 25 cents. ‘he society purposes to gather through its correspondents in the Unit- od States and foreign countries books, panphiets and valuable manuscripts written by Negroes and when opport- nity presents fo reprint such books or painphlets now out of print and coming into possession which have any his- torical value or which will be usefal for reference. These it will endeavor to dispose of {0 members of the raco who are interested in knowing what Negroes who wrote books fifty or a hundred yess ago had to sny and how they said it ‘The society is also making A collec- tion of pictures, old wood cuts, photo- graphs of Negroes here and abroad. But this feature of its worl will be at tended with some dilliculty, as there are few pictures of noted Nexrocs of the early period in this country. It recently came into possession of a splendid steel engraving of Nat ‘Cur. ner, the Virginian Negro who headed and Jed an insurrection in that state in 193%, which it contemplates cepro- ducing and disposing of for the pur- pose of ndding to {ts book fund, ‘the books thus far gathered by Messrs. Schomburg and Lrnce embrace over 450 tiles. A few of the more impor- tant ones are here given: “Poems of Phylis Wheatley.” 1773. first edition: “Poems of Phillis Wheatley," re- Sisted edition: "Letters of Philiix Wheat- lox." of which only 1 copies were pub- lished: “Anglo-Afriean Magazine,” vol. 1 189; "The Greatness of Christ,” “Africa and America," Alex. Crummell; “West ‘Africa Before Europe.” E. A. Blyden, L.L Diz “History of Black Phalanx.” Colonel J.T. Witson; “Clothilde,” a novel, William Wells Brown: “Behind the Scones,” Mrs BE. Kekley: "Light and Truth,” R. La Lew- fs, Boston, 1810. “the Cotor of Solomon,” Bishop T._‘. Tanner: “Blography,”” Major M. R. De- lany: “Poems of Islay Walden.” bilnd poet of North Carolina, 1815; “Poems of Franees Ellen Watkins," Harper: Dr. Robert J. Love; “The National Provi- dence," Hon. J. ©. Smith; “Money and Profit Sharing." Hon. J. C. Smith; “Che Nations From a New Point of View.” Rev. Harvey Johnson; “The Rock of Wisdom" (eermons). N. C. W. Cannon, 18%; “Race Adjustment.” Kelly Miller, Esq.: | “Bio- graphicat Sketches of Persons of Color,” Miss A. Mott; “Around the World With Uncle Sam," J. 11. Paynter; "Shadows and Light,” M, W. Gibbs: “Anthology of Ne- gro Poets." Messrs. Schomburg and Fruce. (Compliation). “Shammah, Glimpses of the Ages," ° vols.. Dr. T. BE. 9. Scholes, London, Eng.: “Prince Saunders’ Haytian Papers." “Frondectts." J. 3. Thomns' reply to J. ‘A. Froude; "Negro Patriots’ Revolution,” W. C. Nell; "Wistorical Notes of the 1m- ployment of Negroes In Now York.” 1803 George H. Moore; “The Exiles of Florida,” J. R. Giddings: “The Freedman.” book. 1. ‘M. Child: “Hanover,” story of the Wit- mington riots, D. B. Fulton: “Narrative ot Sojourner Truth?" “Essays.” Rafael Serra; “Poems.” Frederico Marin. “‘Lifo of Pierre Toussaint,” first and sec: ond editions of autoblography, Frederick Douglass; “Charles Sumner," A. Grimke; “The Lone Star of Liberia," F. A. Dur- ham; “An Historical Researeh.” George Livermore; “Negro Masonry,” Upton, “Echoes From Marper's Ferry,” Redpath; “Genesis In the Grebo Tongue,” Rev. J. Payne, formerly the property of Rosetta Douglass Sprague: “Life of Jullus Mel bourne,” 169; "The Cushite,” Rutur 1. Perry: "The Octoroon,” A, A. Whitman, poems; "Origin_and Objects of Ancient Freemasonry,” Dr. Martin R, De Laney: “Etoile Africaine,” Benito Sylvain, ald- de-camp King Menetik. “The Black Venus:" “Timbuctoo the Mysterious," Felix Du Bois; “The Souls of Black Folk.” W. E. B. Du Bols; “His- tory of Negro: Race.” George W. WI Yams; “Negro Soldiers In the Reveliton.” Seorge W. Williams: “Placido,” pocnis: “Negro In Revolution; “Celebrated Crimes," Alexander Dumas: “Inter Tem- porary Values,” “The Gold Trust.” “Abus- Lee ee gta a pe “Victory: ERrONgh Syne. Sescere The mau who calls the attevtion of the nation to its duty two all the people within Its borders swithont regard tc race, color or previous condition, the man who udvises his race to build homes, buy land. educate Sts children contend legally for what is tight. are the men sbo are leading the race. up the bill to victery. stability and nation ‘at eoerelee / Cook’s Romance Sue ebb haihcib “Must we discharge ber?” “Do you think she bas taken 10 érink on the sly?” “Gan she be losing her mind?” “Tam almost afraid to go into the kitchen.” The Gordon family consisted of bus- band, wife and two children, the latter being Frank, a young man of 20, and Nettie, a miss of 18. The mother and daughter were holding a family coun- cil over Hannah the cook, who had been with them for five long years and was stil] rustling in the kitehen. Hannah was 40 years old, weighed almost 200 pounds and was a jewel. ‘That is, she has been up to very late- ly. They couldn't say enough In praise of ber, and she badn’t demand- ed more wages because they praised her. ‘A month before this family council of two opened there had come a change. Hannah had become fidgety. It was known that she was writiog letters and secretly posting them, It was known that she had taken a. box at the postoffice. It was known that, instend of going to bed at 9 o'clock, as all jewels of cooks do, she was strolling in the back yard and repeat- Ing Unes of poetry and sighing long: drawn sighs. “What cun it be, mother—what can It be?" asked the daughter. | “Hannah had selected a particular Vadvertisement and answered it, She j bad bought pink stationery. She nad licked the two-cent stamp on In the most loving manner. ‘The advertisement was that of a young tive who wanted to be loved by a Steadfast girl, If he could Sad. such he would make her very happy. Was not Hannah a girl—an old girl? Was she not eteadinst? She wrote and received an answer, and the af- falr was un, If the family council only had thought of romance alll would have been clear; due it didn’t. And what mde mother and daugh- ter more anxious was the fact that Rodney bingham, a young gentleman of 22, whoin they had met at a resort during the summer, was coming to pay Frank a visit, “Mr, Bingham ar- rived. Hanuah was all sinfles. She was also seen to blush, The red on her cheeks was not from the kitchen range, but a rewl, genuine blush, She got a good view of bin from a corner of the house as he drove up. The night was u long one to her. At the first signs of dawn she dressed and left the house and gathered a few late flowers in the garden for a bouquet. With this in land she re-entered the house and softly made her way to the guest's room, and after bestowing a kiss on the flowers she left them at his door. When Mr. Bingham arose and found them he carried them to the breakfast table in his hand and gave Miss Nellie a smiling nod for her courtesy and thoughtfulness. After breakiust Frank and his friend walked out to the stables to in- spect the avlo. Munnah met them face to face and smiled at Mr. Bing- ham, Her whole loving heart was in that smile, but he conldn’t understand it, ‘That afternoon Hannah met him in the upper hall by design and smiled again and pressed n pink note into his hand. Mr. Biugham was too uston- ished (0 return the note or to ask for an explanation, When he came to read the note he found: “You have come to your own true love. Meet her In Wie garden at 9 O'clock tonight.” mesure of Miss Net- lie. Be true to me.” It was an embarrassing position for Mr. Hingham, The note and the smiles indicated. thit his host’s cook was in love with him, and he was stunned. He did not keep the appointment made, and there was another bouquet at his door next morning. ‘Tied to it with a piece of store twine was an- other perfumed note, which read: “{ waited for you fur uwo long hours, but you did not come, If Miss Nettio has got you away from me then both of you beware!" Young Mr. Bingham had never pass- ed through an enrthquake nor a ey- clone, bit he saw signg In the air and took the family into council, “What ails Hannah?” became the topic. {t was decided that they must go to the fountein-bead. to find out. ‘The cook was bearded in her den. She was dignified. She was reserved. She was quietly defiant. When pressed she discharged herself on (he spot and demanded to see Mr, Bingham. It was a full hour before the right trail was struck. Even then Hannah could not give up. 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She who has an un)imited yock- etbook need have little worry, but to the majority of women the problem of making ends meet and serving at- tractive, appetizing and nourishing food is a daily question. Everything 1s high this year, even the plebian potato is too exclusive for everyday use, We must learn to use rice and hominy instead. The old proverb which tells us that “there is no loss withont some gain” is proven to us, as we learn (o substitute many foods for those which we have always considered indispensable. ‘the great criticism made of Ameri cans, and justly, is that we ent too much. Our meals shonld be simpler, Vetter cooked and served. The idea that it is necesszry to have from five to six vegetables at a meal is extray- agant; uvo is plenty and three a lux- ury. Emergency Biscuit—Sift together four Umes Uwo cups of flour and four teaspoonfuls of baking powder and @ half a teaspoon of salt, ftub in four tablespoonfuis of butter or less, add three-fourths of a cup of cold milk and drop by teaspoonfuls on a buttered pan, Bake in a hot oven twelve to fifteen minutes, Rice Pudding—Rail a cup of rice in a pint of water until dry, then add a quart of milk and cook wn? thick. To the yolks. of three eggs add six tablespoonfuls of sugar and the grated rind of a lemon: cook ten minutes with the rice, then cover with the beaten whites of the eggs, to which six tablespoonfuls of sugar has been added, with the juice of a lemon. Brown and serve when cold. Didn’t Want Much. Youngster—Will you let muvver have a quartern of butter and a pen- nrorth of cheese? And she'll send a sbilling in when father comes home. Shopman—All right, missie! Youngster—An’ she wants to know if you'll send the change now, ‘cos she wants to pnt a penny in the gas meter!—Comie Cuts. To the... Advertising Public = ea eg Put your advertisement in this space for one month, and if you fail to get results we will donate the space to you free of all charge.—The Afro-American Co. KEPT HIS OLD TIME |TABLES) Bad Habit of Businedo ‘Man Caused! Him. to Miss Train and‘Lose.";” Contract, “4 “About. seven years ago,” seid: Mrs, Wrigglesome, “I lost a contract; thatl would have netted me $11,000 simply}: by missing a train; it. was. the old! ators of the other man's getting:there! first. hg cits “T missed my train by relying OF M4 time table handed out, to-me at homey, where the telegram came. tome. \i “‘Have we got a time table ‘en thk XX. & G7 sald to my daneitgr “ ‘Certainly,’ she sald, and ab< bailey ed one over. ek “The.train I would have to tale, found, left at 10 o'clock at nigh. got down to the station handily to #0! that the train bad gone at.9:30)-and then I Jearned there that the'time: dle I had consulted was \ one si mosths old. Perhaps you néver' s31 @ household collection of time tab¥ “Ours is kept, or it was then, in: drawer in a writing table, not: th arranged In order, but just putin wey, and the result’ wes that In drawer there was a mound of itf tables jumbled all togother Y taining In all a great oom when they put in a new time they never took out the correspol one. “I had happened not to get a old one, but one about middleag| old enough to be wrong, but young enough to make me trust which, plainly, Is where I slippe| cog; hut Inter 1 managed to In: rate a great domestic reform. “Abeut a week after that unp| ant oceurrenee I carried home a plete set of current time tables| then [ emptied that drawer of al old ones, some of them datingy| 1 do belleve, a year or. more, ani 1 put in those new time: tabl ranged in order, and then I j General Household Order No. ‘the subject of time tables, whic to the effect that the tables my kept, each road in a. pile by and further, that whenever a ney table on any road was brongbt corresponding old one must by lutely and teetotally and uohes} ly thrown away. “This scheme has worked Ww; Jt has never been necensury General Order No. 2.” The Last Resort: Mrs, Hobson was an ideal tem any landlord. She knew all the und kept to them in every: place lived. When she discovered that agent for the Upbill apartments ‘slow in ordering necessary. reps she possessed her soul in patience. But when she had spoken and’ wi ten unavailingly several’ times: in” gard to the leak from one of ‘he steam radlators, she decided to sen a personal note to the owner of the property, whom she had met anc Hked. “Dear sir,” she wrote, “will you kind enough to instruct your agent purchase for my use a large tin p and a rubber mat, four feet by tel ‘The pall will do to cateh the wal from. the leaking radiator pipe whe Tam In the house and can frequent empty it, but the rubber mat 13-2 ne cessity at other times. Yours respect tully, Mary Hobson.” wit fey She never needed either the pall ¢ mat.—Youtb’s Companion. | OTHERNER SCORES COATESVILLE BURNING Clasoes The Police Of Vhis Country As Tqe Worst In The Whole World And Those Whs Participated In The Burning As Worse Than Hyenas-A Stain That Even Justice Cannot Wipe Out Louis J. Livingston, a white newspaper man of Southern birth has written a letter to the Mayor of Coatesville, in which he scores the Coatesville lynching in unmeasured terms. He also asserts that the police of the large and small cities of this country have become protectors of crime, instead of men who are deeply interested in the prevention of crime. He also said that the story of the confession of Ezekiel Waker, who was burned by the Coatesville mob, was published in a manner unfavorable to Walker. His letter follows: I am a white man of pure Caucasian blood, with not a drop of Negro blood in all my ancestry. I am a Southerner by birth—a native of Louisiana. In politics I am an Independent Republican, and in every line of thought I am an Independent and Progressive. I am not in love with the Negro, but I am in love with Justice and with Huamnity; and if the awful deed, the more than savage burning of the Nergo, Walker, that has forever blackened the name of your city, and left the stain, which not even justice can wipe out, is not followed by brinigng to swift justice and merciless punishment the worse than hyenas, who somehow or other, have acquired the semblance of human beings, then I ask God to call down upon them the punishment commensurate with such an awful deed., and to wipe from the face of the earth the community that would condone such superlative fiendishness incarnate! Knowing to what a degraded level the police of our country—North, South, East, and West in rural communities as well as cities and towns—have fallen; that they form one of the principal sources and main abetors instead of preventers and curers of vice and crime; that almost unviersally their sole work is the accumulation of human misery and want that they may feed and fatten upon it; that they have become a scourge and not a protection to most communities large or small that they secretly encourage and connive at the breaking of the very laws that they are specially selected to uphold; and that instead of bending every effort to the capture of criminals they expend IT. BETHEL BAPTIS IN ANNUAL SESSION elegates Present From Virginia, Distridt of Columbia and Maryland. The thirty-fifth annual session of the Mount Bethel Baptist society which was held at Eon Baptist church from Tuesday morning to Thursday night of last week attracted delegates from Virginia the District of Columbia and Maryland. While there are a number of churches in Baltimore and Washington in the association its membership is mostly confined to rural congregations. The convention supports a school and an Old Folks' Home in King Geroge count a. The convention was called Her by Rev. Dr. Jones We Following the formal welcoming the day was taken up with reading of reports from chie and the election of officers. David Washington preached i afternoon. Rev. Dr. W. B Johnson pastor of the Second st church Washington preach orght. The session Wednesday was taken with reports from churches and ninth annual meeting of the day School convention an auxilii of the Association. Sunday school work in a number of phases are discussed by Rev. Jones Watts Mr. Emmett Scott president of auxiliary and a number of ers. Rev J. Anderson Taylor Washington preached at night. The reports from committees and churches and the ordination of se- that energy in the effort to make criminal of innocent men and women who without friends money or influence win their displeasure and fall into their power; until today the police of America are almost universally known as the most brutal depraved and corrupt on earth! Knowing also that the Nergo, whatever his faults is nearer to our Americanism by birth, inheritance, contact, environment, education, and tradition than the scum of almost every nation and race on the earth, that are allowed to swarm through the gates of our Castle Gardens; that the Negro, since the shackles of slavery have been stricken from his limbs, has paid for that emancipation in full, not only by fighting the battles of his white persecutor, with distinction and even glory, in the Civil, Indian, Spanish, and Phillipine wars (one of his greatest deeds being the storming of San Juan Hill, and winning of the crucial land battle of the Spanish war,) but by emancipating himself from ignorance, helplessness and poverty, and making himself a useful industrious and helpful citizen; and knowing that there is a certain element of many American communities, associated with those secret powers—hierarchical as well as political—that are secretly bending every energy to the destruction of American institutions and American spirit! Knowing these things I repeat, and feeling that the statement given out as to the acts and the confessions of Walker are one sided and cannot now be confuted by the miserable victim of their awful savagery, and the meagre fact in his favor, that has been allowed to creep through the press censorship, that he killed the policeman in self-defense, I, as an old newspaper man and man of the world, expert in the analysis and study of human actions, base my protest upon the well-known facts given by me above. Next to the awful inhumanity of such fiendish deeds, my greatest objection is to their thorough un-Americanism! Back of them is suggestion of clericalism, more even, than racialism, and I ask my countrymen to beware of the growth of the secret power that lies back of it all.—Louis J. Livingstone. eral candidates for the ministry took up all of the time on the concluding day. The Broad Rock church Washington and the Mt. Vernon church this city were among the new bodies admitted to membership. The collections exceeded 8500. The moderator of the convention Rev. W. H. Dickerson was sick during all of the session and Rev. Jones. Watkins presided most of the time. Dr. Hickerson is about 75 years of age and has been a worker in the association since its orgnaization. Among the many who delivered addresses were: Revs. Richard Johnson A. Barton . B. Page W. M. Alexander, S. P. W. Drew A. Willbanks, J. D. Pair and J. W. Perry. The following officers were elected; W. H. Hickerson moderator; Rev. Jones Watkins vice moderator; B. Page Oak Grove Va. recording secretary; J. W.Johnson corresponding secretary and B. Bumbray treasurer. J. C. Asbury, former editor of the Odd Fellows' Journal, is down in Alabama setting up lodges of the branch of the order that he has just founded. General Leconte, who assumed the presidency of Hayti a few days ago, has been recognized by this government as actual head of affairs in the little republic. THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER DR. WASHINGTON TOURS ARKANSAS Both Negroes and Whites Turn Out In Large Numbers To Greet Nation's Greatest Citizen Forrest City, Ark., August 27—Booker T. Washington's triumphal tour of Arkansas came to a close last week in this city, and at Madison The Washington party, which was made up of Booker T. Washington, E. J. Scott, and N. Hunt, of Tuskegee, Ala.; J.C.Napier, register of the treasury, Washington D. C.; S. Laing Williams, United States District Attorney, Chicago; F. H. Gilbert, Brooklyn, N. Y.; William Alexander, grand master Mosaic Templars, Little Rock; Dr. W. R. Pettiford, Birmingham, Ala.; S. A. McKissand grand master colored Odd Fellows Lodge, Holly Springs, Miss.; Spencer Patterson, St.Dennis, Md.; Prof. Mando; New York, Drs. Money and Barravan, of Marianna, were met by a brass band upon its arrival here at 12:30 o'clock and the procession, taken up from this city to Madison, covered more than a mile. At the latter place Washington's party was entertained at the home of Scott Bond for dinner, after which Washington spoke to about 7,000 or 8,000 people, there being about 500 white people in attendance at a barbecue given in his honor. Washington was given an ovation upon his arrival at the speaker's stand at 3.30 o'clock at which time he made a back-to-the-farm-speech, that lasted about an hour and thirty minutes. Rev. Johnson Doing (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Hagerstown, Md., August 23. Quarterly meeting services were held at Bethel A. M. E. Church last Sunday. The presiding elder, Rev. Dr. S. M. Johnson, preached two able sermons. At the meeting of the second quarter, Monday night very flattering reports were made of the work of the present pastor, Rev. David Johnson. The following is the report of the collections during the quarter: Collected by trustees, $414.25; stewards, $184.21; Sunday School, $49.64; choir, $1.68; Mite Missionary Society, $3.55; Wayman Circle, $.39; Golden Rod Circle, $62.34; Helping Hand Club, $131.89; Sons and Daughters, a club of 100 volunteers for raising funds for the new building, $205.62, Sinking Fund, $1104.81. The total collections during the quarter amounted to $115.48. There were 3 conversions and five accessions. The total indebtedness is $7,053.53, due to the erection of a new church, which will be completed sometime this fall. A union picnic of the M. E., A. M. E. and the Second Christian Churches was given at Cold Spring Grove, Pa., Thursday. Mrs. Eliza Brown, of Washington, is visiting her niece, Mrs. Mary Cooper, of West Bethel street Baltimoreans in Philadelphia (Special to The Airo-American Ledger.) Philadelphia, Pa., August 27.—Philadelphia friends regret very much to hear of the serious illness of Messrs. James T. Pullett, Wm. E. Labb. and E. E. Watkins. Mrs. Janie E. Frisby, of Philadelphia, has returned after a very pleasant stay among her many friends and relatives in Baltimore. Mrs. Janie Riley, of Carlisle street and Mrs. Marion Smith, of N. Dallas street are spending the week visiting friends in Cape May, and Atlantic City. Mrs. Maria F. Brown, of Baltimore, and R. James Julius, of this city, were quietly married last Sunday and are now residing at 1820 Dikinson street. Snow Hill Items Snow Hill, Md., August 28.—August 28th ended the Sunday excursion to Ocean City, Md., to the delight of the churches, as so many of the church people went on those excursions that it as hard to get a congregation. Mrs. Effie Smith, of Baltimore, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Sadie Castle on Rose street. Mrs. Ella Pounds, and Mrs. Alice Robins are onthe sick list. Mrs. Mary E. Nelson left here this morning to visit friends in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Mrs. Matilda Webster who has been visiting Mrs. E. J. Henry left this week for her home in Baltimore. Mrs. Mary Brown of Baltimore is visiting her daughter on Main street. Miss Bertha V. Hubble is at Ocean City for a few days. CURIOUS BITS OF HISTORY By A. W. MACY. THE FATHER OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. There was one man connected with the American Revolution whose memory does not receive the attention it deserves. His name is Samuel Adams. He did more to bring on the war than any other man. The thirteen colonies were widely separated. There was no concerted action, and they often worked at cross-purposes. Adams developed a system of correspondence among them, which resulted in uniting them in opposition to the tyrannies of the mother country. For twelve years, from 1764 to 1776, he kept up an unceasing agitation. He literally threw himself, body and soul, into the work of arousing the colonies. He was not a great man perhaps, but he did a great work nevertheless. He was not eloquent, but he was persistent. His mission was to put others to work, and in this he was wonderfully successful. He had a discerning eye for young men of ability, and many who became leaders in the Revolution were "discovered" and set to work by him. He has been called the father of the Revolution, and why not? As one of his biographers says, Massachusetts led the colonies, Boston led Massachusetts, and Sam Adams led Boston." Bernard, the English governor of Massachusetts colony, used to say: "Damn that Adams. Every dip of his pen stings like a horned snake." (Copyright, 1911, by Joseph B. Howles.) Paper Towela. There is now on the market a paper towel, and; for it many advantages are claimed. The paper towel is made of a tough, soft, absorbent crepe tissue paper made up in long strips which are rolled. For use paper towels are carried on a roller fixture. The long, rolled strip is cross perforated at regular intervals, giving to each roll sections about a foot in width by a foot and a half long. Anyone wanting a towel has simply to tear one off. A paper towel can, of course, be used but once, but it is not expensive. It is designed to provide a sanitary towel for hotels and clubs, for schools and various institutions, for railroad stations, public buildings, stores and factories, and for domestic use—a clean towel for every one at every wash. Women's Heels. Few of the women of this generation can boast of the noiseless footfall attributed to their mothers or grandmothers. No longer is a step as light as thistledown an accomplishment, or even a natural gift, but instead the tramp of the Hessian prevails, even when the person is slight. This martial tread is not necessarily the expression of female insurgency, but is rather due to the construction of the Cuban or other high heels attached to fashionable footwear. On examination Cuban heels will be found to be quite heavily weighted with brass nails, and often an extra screw of good size at the middle. These must of necessity give out the click-click that all but the deaf can hear and also make the tread much heavier. "Golug to sue me for breach of promise? That girl? Well, I'll give up!" "How much?" queried her attorney rubbing his hands. Policeman—You've been begging. Now you just accompany me. Organ Crinder—With pleasure, sir; what song would you like.—Pete Mela. Ends the Discusalon. And then shrieks one, "Who wants a husband who marries to escape paying a bachelor tax?" Peace, woman, peace. They have decided to pay.—Mary North Telesium 25c. As an example, this beautiful pompadour, usually retailing for 75c. sold by mail, direct from importer for 25c. 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We are not responsible for the return or preservation of unsolicited contributions on any subject. All articles sent to this office for publication, must have the writer's signature or otherwise such article will be ignored. Churches and others having news ices will please have the same in the ce by Thursday to insure publica- n in the week's issue. Correspondents will please have communication, in the office by noon Wednesdays. Advertising rates made known upon application. All Checks, Money Orders and Drafts should be made payable to THE AFRO-AMERICAN Co. BALTIMORE, SEPT. 2, 1911. THE COATESVILLE BURNING. It is now about three weeks since the Coatesville lynching but because of the barbarity of the affair and the slow progress being made in the way of bringing the criminals to justice we feel that a further word upon the affair is timely. We speak in these columns because we want the world to know that we do not view the mob lynching business with indifference. We therefore put forth our protest against the mob and all the inhuman barbarities under which our race is suffering in this our native land enriched by our toil and preserved a nation by our blood and valor. We have felled the forests tunnelled the mountains tilled her broad acres and fought her battles through all the years of her life and we are entitled to all the rights and every consideration granted any other citizen, no matter who he may be. Now look at the facts about the Coatesville lynching. A Negro, a little top heavy with whiskey, resists arrest and shoots an officer of the law, a thing by no means new in the calendar of crimes. Then finding himself overtaken by his pursuers, and escape impossible, draws his gun and with the last load tries to blow his own brains out, by shooting himself in the mouth. Wounded and bleeding he is taken to a hospital roped down to the cot, the cot chained to the floor and a guardest to watch him. It is admitted that the Negro was safely held by the talons of the law and that an early trial and speedy justice woud have sent him to the hangman's rope. But for this ordrely progress in the events, the blood thirsty mob, could not wait. This blood thirsty mob forced the doors of the hospital, tied a great rope about he Negro and his cot, broke the chain loose from the floor, and the crowd on the other end of the rope started for the place of burning, dragging their victim and the cot after them, bumping and thumping over the rough road; sometimes the poor wretch was on top and sometimes under the cot, groaning and crying for mercy, but his cries felt on heedless ears. Reaching an open field, straw and fence rails piled together, the Negro and the cot placed on it and a match applied. On this fiery altar, the victim wrethed and groaned as the devouring flames smote his flesh, licking up the cot and the ropes, while-white men representing a great Christian nation, and the highest civilization of the twentieth century, danced and shouted in ing, blistered and burning, he crawled out of the fire. Again the civilized (?) white men of the Christian state of Pennsylvania caught up the burning carcass of the poor Negro, threw him back into the fire, and hit him over the head with fence rails and piling them on his blistered corpse as he lay dead in the flames. We have read of lynching in many states before, but it remained for the Republican, Christian state of Pennsylvania to outrival all other states in its inhuman barbarities. The Republican party has been looked upon as the friend of the Negro and public sentiment has usually been favorable to giving the Negro a square deal, where the Republican party was dominant, but things have changed. It is another proof of the fact that the old spirit of Knighthood has died out of the Republican party and the present Republican party is but the spawn of the patriotic party of the past. Again this Coatesville lynching brings us face to face with the spirit of savagery which still dominates the Christian white -men of the country. Doubtless many of these men in the mob had sat in the church pews and heard the Gospel preached on the morning of the mob, and from the saintliness of the church services rose up to the accomplishment of a deed, the record of whih shames Dante's Inferno or Milton's Hell. We advise that in order to stop lynchings by our people we combine and raise a fund sufficiently large, so that in cases of this kind we can put our own private hired detectives on the trail of the murderers and bring them to justice. As we view this and other similar affairs, it looks to us, as if the white man's government is coming dangerously near to failure. We are also confronted with another thing which we almost hesitate to say, but coming events cast their shadows before them. We very much fear that the present treatment of the Negro will turn him into an anarchist and a dynamiter, for let the white men remember, that with the Negro, as with himself, self-preservation is the first law of nature. If this white man's civilization, compels the Negro to fight the mob with the torch, he will do it. Of course, the great body of colored voters will cast their votes for the candidates of the Republican ticket. This is not because the white men on the Republican ticket are more kindly disposed towards the colored race; neither is it because we believe them more competent and better qualified for the offices to which they aspire than the gentlemen on the opposite side. We are simply the victims of circumstances. The Democratic party has raised an issue, "the Disfranchisement of the race," and the Republican party opposes the "disfranchisement scheme." Of course, the opposition of the Republican party is not borne for any special love for the Negro, but of political necessity. Every Negro ought, in fact, he cannot do otherwise, to vote the entire Republican ticket. But while we do as much, we should clearly understand the situation. It is to our interest to vote in such a way because the disranchisement of the race has been made the issue, and to vote to undo ourselves would be the very best proof in the world that we are not worthy of the suffrage. it will be a long while yet before we have any other share in politics, save to vote for the white men named on the Republican ticket. We may not expect anything in the shape of office, not even crumbs. As long as the present situation obtains, we ought not to expect anything else. Why should the Republican party give us anything? We must vote that ticket anyway, because as matters are, we have no choice. There is but one way for us to vote. The Republican managers know this. We are victims of circumstances. We have some few things to learn, and the managers of the Democratic party may yet be able to add to their stock of political information. There is hardly a Democrat of ordinary respectability who really desires the "disfranchisement" of the Negro. The cry is simply used as an issue; it is used to get votes; it is used to stir up the baser feelings and passions of the great army of illiterate and irresponsible white men, of Democratic persuasion, to keep them in line for the Democratic machine. It will surely come, how soon we cannot say but come it must when the right thinking and reputable white THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER honorable and intelligent Negroes will welcome such a day and hour. If it were possible for colored men to have an inward feeling of security and confidence with regard to their polite rights under democratic sway there would no longer exist the conditions which render us "victims of circumstances" and prisoners of hope. The Democratic party with its insincere attitude on the suffrage question is responsible for the Negroes voting stolidly with the Republican party. It is not a good thing for any race of people to be wholly allied with any one party but in the present case it is one of self defense and self preservation. A party which likes to boast of its use of the word "democrat," shows to the whole civilized world that it is anything else than "democrat." It convicts itself of deliberately hearing fasle witness when it knows that so far from being democratic its past means of continuing life has been a constant and unmerciful appeal to the instincts of the rabble in sloughing off a whole people who cannot rightly be excluded from any party which would honestly seek to be a party of the people and not of a time honored oligarchy. The time must soon come when the present Democratic part will be forced to change its name or else change its character. It must be a party of the people irrespective of race or else it will have to substitute another name more in keeping with the tradition of the House of Bourbons REV. J. GARLAND PENN TREATED UNFAIRLY ON BAY LINE BOAT Prof. Penn Says Prejudice Is Shown In Disposition Prof. I. Garland Penn, assistant general secretary of the Epworth League of the Methodist Church, was in the city the latter part of this week. He said that the uplift conferences recently held by the denomination were a success. He had some words of criticism for the management of the Old Bay Line steamers, because he and a number of physicians who attended the annual meeting of the National Medical Association, at Hampton, Va, last week, were forced to swelter from Norfolk to Baltimore in inside staterooms "I think," said Professor Penn, "that this matter of only allowing colored people to have inside state-rooms in summer time should be the matter of earnest protest You ought to take this matter up with your Public Service Commission, or better still, with the officials of the company" Mr. Penn preached at the camp at Reisterstown Sunday While in the city he was the guest of Rev. Dr. I. L. Thomas. His daughter, Miss Willie Penn, accompanied him. Appointed Representatives Attorney W. C. McCard has been selected to represent the Fourteenth Ward and Harry S. Cummings, the Seventeenth Ward in the Republican State Convention which will meet at Albaugh's Theatre next Thursday to formally nominate Phillips Lee Goldsborough for Governor, John J. Cunningham for State Comptroller and Morris A. Soper for Attorney General. James N. Young was re-elected committeeman from the Seventeenth Ward in the primaries last Tuesday. Quarterly Conference Linkwood, Md., August 31—The second quarterly conference of St. James M. E. Church was held last Saturday afternoon. The reports submitted to the district superintendent, Rev. C. W. Pullett showed $125 more had been raised on NO INTEREST SHOWN IN ATHLETIC FIELD Failure of Baltimoreans To Take Advantage Of New Athletic Field May Result In Its Being Taken Away From Them-A Disgrace That Such A Thing Should Happen The colored people are asleep on the great ocean of opportunity that is open to them in this new Athletic field. We need more interest among us in order that we may hold these grounds. Even now some of the park board are contending that 1st the grounds are too extensive and 2nd that they are too well adapted to athletic and other purposes being as they are a natural amphitheatre to be given entirely over to colored or any other small number of people. These members want the grounds to be used by white and colored alike on permit as the other athletic parks were. This would mean the loss of the grounds by the colored people in a very short time just as Carroll Clifton and Patterson parks were supposed to be for all to use yet have been taken away from Negroes so it will be with this new field if it is let by permit. Again another set of whites (and every one of us knows they are in the majority) do not want us to have anything. With them a black face destroys the vale of property where ever it shows up. Three of the daily papers contained articles last Saturday creating similar sentiment against our having these grounds. Some writer has referred to the colored people as a sleeping giant. Baltimore is verily asleep on this matter. For the sake of the unborn generations of black faces and in the name of God and humanity wake up colored people! Better be a thoroughly alive pigmy in this matter than be a giant asleep. Can you not see the wall of segregation confining you and your little ones to your own four walls and dirty streets away from parks away from God's free pure air as free as it was intended to be—can you not see these walls going up higher and higher each day! Do you not see the cords of restraint drawing tighter and tighter yet about the throat of your sleeping ambition? Do you not see the door to inspiration vigorous manhood to opportunity to aggressiveness and even the door to competition (even competition among ourselves) the life blood of progress in everything is being barred in our faces? The day is coming and it is not far away when a black face will be as much at home in most of the Baltimore parks as a jack-rabbit among a pack of hounds. Indeed that time is at hand now in the athletic parks for our purposes athletic or even recreative. $40,000 RAISED FOR MISSIONS Lott Carey Baptist Convention Hold Annual Session In Wilmington, N. C. (Special to the Afro-American Ledger) Wimlington, N. C., The fifteenth annual session of the Lott Carey Baptist Convention opened here at the Central Baptist Church Wednesday with a large attendance The annual address of the president, Dr. C. S. Brown, of Winston Salem, N. C., was an exhaustive review of the work of the convention, as well as a recapitulation of the condition of the race in general. The report of the corresponding secretary, Rev. W. M. Alexander, of Baltimore, stated that over $40,000 had been raised for mission work in Africa and that the work of the several missionaries in the Dark Continent had been productive of much good. Dr. C. C. Boone, a medical missionary, delivered an address describing his work in the Congo. The work of the woman's auxiliary took up all of the session of the afternoon. The president Mrs. L. A Hope, of Richmond, Va., and the secretary, Mrs. A. L. McGuinn, of Baltimore, were among the speakers. Dr. Calyin S. Brown was reelected president, as was the correspondent secretary. Dr. Alkwand. Arouse you and seize this coveted prize, this new find, before it is drawn from you, like the receding daylight at sunset—before it vanishes away like the prismatic tints of the rainbow Act Now! The Public Athletic League wants us to have these grounds; part of the Park Board wants us to have them; some of the best citizens want us to have them; the majority of the citizens do not want us to have them, nor anything else but a casket and a cemetery. But we must show the Park Board 1st, that we need these grounds, 2nd, that we want them by the use that we make of them. It is a waste of money for the Park Board to gives us or anybody anything if we do not use it. Any child knows what they will do if we do not use them. Remember it rests with the colored people whether they shall have these grounds or not. Flood the place by your use of it. Talk about it, get together and express your appreciation and endorsement of the Park Board, in the matter. During the past week many boys have enjoyed the exhilaration of a day or more in the various sports and swimming on the field. Masters Jas. Harris, Walter Brown, Carroll Sinton O'Conway, Edward Williams, Wm. Williams, Gilbert McBeth, John Smith, Robert Gutman, Joseph Davis, Ernest Bond, M. Jones, Kenneth Macbeth, Augustus Thomas, Arnett Bevans, Irvin Bivins, George Ringgold, Arenzo Larkins, Charles Kelson, Robert Hackett, Willie Rideout and Alfred Wilson are all wearing the smile that won't come off because of the good time they had last week. We are very sorry to announce to the boys that hereafter the fun will be a little dulled by not being able to teach swimming. No more swimming is the order of Bath commission. The people of Highland-town get their drinking water from the stream. Other fun and sports go on just the same as ever. So come on out in greater crowds. Only ten people went out to see the new field Monday evening. These, however are unstinted in their enthusiasm for the place, and we are proud of the character of praise expressed by Dr. and Mrs. E. J. Wheatley, Messrs, James E. Bantum, Walter Webb, Bernard Webb, Gregory Hubert, W. H. Whyte, and Thomas F. Jones. T. Hill the alleged absconding treasurer of the decant True Reformers' Bank The Baltimoreans present include: Rev. W. M. Alexander, Rev. A. B. Callis, Mrs. Patience Harris, Mrs. Annie L. McGuinn, Mrs. Beatrice Springs, and Deacon Reed. Zion Church Ready After having been remodeled throughout and refrescoed, the main auditorium of the Pennsylvania Ave. A. M. E. Zion church will be thrown open for public worship this Sunday. An elaborate program has been arranged for the day. Bishop Alexander Walters will preach to the veterans of the Civil war in the morning. In the afternoon a platform service will be held, the invited speakers including, Judge Robert H. Terrell, Hon. John C. Dancy. Rev. C. Alleyne, S. L. Corrothers, all of Washington; Rev. W. H. Marshall, Prof. J. R. Scott and J. Francis Lee. Rev. W. L. Clayton will preside. Bishop Clinton, Dr. W. H. Coffey and Rev. J. S. Jackson, financial secretary of the denomination, have also been invited to speak. The pastor, Rev. E. D W. Jones, will preach at night. Visitors at Reisterstown Camp. Rev. E. Williams district super- inendent of the WashingtonDistrict visited the Reisterstown camp and Rev. C E. Harper Rev. I. G. Penn secretary of the Epworth League. He gave the people a grand sermon at St. Lukes M. E. Church on last Sun- Prominent Officers of The Order Address Maryland Grand Lodge Annapolis, Md., August 31—The fourth biennial session of the Maryland District Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows and the Household of Ruth the female auxiliary were held here last week. At the joint session of the two bodies addresses were delivered by W. W. Conway, the retiring grand master; William L. Houston, of Washington, associate justice of Supreme Court of the Order; Councilman Harry S. Cummings, attorney general for the Order; Rev. N. M. Carroll, and Grand: Treasurer Julius C. Johnson, of Baltimore. The district grand secretary, Jesse L. Nicholas reported that there were 110 branches of the Order in Maryland with 3,500 members and $47,562.71 in bank. A committee was appointed to draft an endowment plan. The next session will be held at Chestertown, Md. The following officers were elected: Perry Dobson, Annapolis, grand master; Stephen Long, Pocomoke, deputy grand master; Jesse Nichola, Govans, grand secretary; Joseph Garrett, Denis, grand treasurer, and William Booker, Baltimore, grand director. Mrs. Rosa Richardson Entertains Supreme Representatives A very pleaant home-coming was given by the G. W. C. Rosa J. Richardson and her cabinet at 1219 Etting street in honor of the Supreme Representative. Mrs. Carrie Jackson on her return from the Supreme session of the courts of Calanthe of N. A., S. A., E., A., and A., held at Indianapolis Ind., August 21 to 27. Mrs. Jackson in her usual jolly mood though quite tired from travel related many interesting facts chief among them that the next session in 1913 will be held in Baltimore and advised us as Calanthians and citizens to sit up and take notice in order to be able to properly takecare of such an honorable body. Sir. John H. Henderson also gave a very interesting and enlightening talk of the session, he being favorably impressed with the uniform department at camp and had seen nothing to equal the same. He spoke of the parade which was excellent, a special feature being the Mayor purchasing all flowers available and riding ahead of the parade distributing them all along the route. After partaking of a very fine supper, William J. G. Jackson as toastmaster, the guests were motored to their respective homes. Menu: Fried chicken, Boston style; Spiced tongue, Smithfield ham, on de lettuce; olives, spiced beets, braised sweet potatoes, chicken salad, potato salad. French rolls, punch a-la-Jackson, harriquin cream, assorted cakes, demitasse, fruit, Roquefort cheese, crackers, coffee. Those present were: Mrs Carrie Jackson, Rosa J. Richardson, Charlotte Giles, Catherine Burton, Mary Cephas, Hattie Kane. Eliza K. Medley, Marietta Steward, Mattie Mitchell, Ella Woolford, Eliza beth White, Helen Lee, Dr. Edward J. Wheatley, George A. Watty, John H. Hendreson, William J. G. Jackson. Was Well Known in This City Wilmington N. C. August 31. Mrs. Lillian Jackson daughter of Mrs. Martha Brown died at the home of her mother here on Thursday of last week. Up to a few years ago Mrs. Jackson had made her home in Baltimore. Her husband Mr. Robert Jackson being a resident of that city. She is a niece of Rev. Robert Bennett of Jacksonville, Fla. and Miss Mary A. Bennett of Baltimore. Besides her husband she is survived by two sons. Arranging For Winter Walker The Mendelssohn Choral Society met at Bethel Church Monday night and arranged for the fall and winter work of the society. The society is composed of singers belonging to various churches and will gladly welcome new members. There are at present 80 members. The officers of the society are: J. F. Fessnton, president; J. M. Butler, vice president; Miss Lillie Lyn, secretary; Miss J. L. Wilson, treasurer; J. Brown, director; H. Y. Johnson, assistant director; L. Wilson, organist, and Uly "To me it is the greatest of mysteries," said the girl who likes to talk, "why one has to make calls at a summer resort. In the first place, nobody in any possible situation in any civilized spot on earth likes to make calls. They are one of the white man's burdens and women endure them just as gleefully as the early Christian martyrs took to the stake and the lions—because they have to. "Every woman when she gets ready to go away for the summer heaves a sigh and says: 'Thank goodness! Now I can lead a simple, care free life and not have to think of social affairs again until winter! Such a relief!' "This is all right and alluring in theory, but somehow it never works out. Never! Every day after I arrive I get news of other arrivals. 'The Simpsons,' says—the milkman as he measures out a quart, 'came yesterday.' The Simpsons are attractive people from Indiana. 'Dear me!' I say, I must go down and see the Simpsons soon!" "'Larchuere is open,' announces the iceman. 'The Larches got here today and Mrs. Larch's sister's come with her.'" "'Really!' I comment. 'I always liked Mrs. Larch. I must go an see her.'" "Presently I find that the Desslers, the Morses, the Ryans and the Plunketts have all come. That means a whole row of cottages scattered over a mile of shore that must be visited. "Luckily, I am too busy cleaning house to go for a few days, but presently there isn't any excuse. The day of making summer calls is always roasting hot, and the perspiration trickles down my face as I attire myself in a 'dressup' dress with one long eye on the hammock and a pile of new magazines. 'I just hate this!' I groan from time to time. "Then I start out holding my skirts away from the brambles and grasses and wish I owned a launch, so that I might arrive properly instead of appearing red faced and straggling of hair and dusty as befts the children of poverty who have to walk along a country road. I negotiated the entire mile, taking the Larches first, because they are the farthest away. Usually when I clamber over the stile I snag the lace on my best petticoat and catch my hair on the thorns of grasses over it. His puts me in an amiable frame of mind as I seek the front entrance. There is nobody in sight when I knock. I knock again and step inside the porch screens and there is a smothered shriek from the farther hammock, and a strange figure springs into sight. It turns out to be Mrs. Larch in a kimono with her hair in curlers around her face and blinking eyes. "Oh!' she gets out with a hand on her heart. 'How you frightened me! I washed my hair and was taking a nap—I didn't expect any one—that is, I'm glad to see you! Do sit down!" "I sit down and try to converse in a sprightly manner while Mrs. Larch hates me violently for catching her looking so disreputable. She even hasn't her eyebrows on, and it does make a difference. I escape breathing hard amid exclamations of 'Do come again! So good of you to drop in!' "The Desslers have gone to town, and no one is at home but a maiden aunt, who insists on telling me about the case of measles she had 20 years ago. "I find Mrs. Plunkett and her mother putting up strawberries, very hot and stained and plainly afraid that something in the kitchen is going to boil over. 'I haven't had time to dress or anything since I same,' says Mrs. Plunkett aggrievedly eyeing my fresh frock. 'I've been so dreadfully busy! I didn't realize people had begun to call! Oh! the jam's burning!' "Mrs. Ryan came down after a 20 minute wait and insisted violently that I didn't waken her—she was just thinking of getting up. She smothers six yawns before she finally gets her eyes open. "At the Plunketts Mr. Plunkett, in a muddy paid of overalls, is digging in the back yard. Elsie Plunkett is washing her hair and Mrs. Plunkett in a faded year-before-last work dress is weeding her nasturtium bed very frazzled and warm looking. "My goodness! she cries at sight of me. If I'd expected callers—I look terrible." "When I get back home, a wreck from the long, hot walk and the crushing sense of having burst upon a half-dozen families who didn't want company in the least, I say: 'Thank goodness, that's done!' and hastily get into a kimono and the hammock. "Then for the next month I have Mrs. Plunkett, Mrs. Dessler, Mrs. Larch and all the others dropping in on me in their filmiest gowns and they always come when I am asleep, washing my hair or clad in something that is a sight. I smile and tell them how glad I am to see them and how perfectly lovely is was of them to come, and after they are gone I say: Did you ever! Why on earth did she come today of all days!" "But we should all be mad as haters if the rest didn't call on us! It's equal to came!" Neatly Furnished Rooms High Class Services Moderate Rents References Exchanged Address: Mrs. Marie Sighe, 21 W. 134th Street, New York City. Goldfield Orchestra.. Up-to-Date and Appropriate Music for all Occasions For terms and particulars, address Samuel W. Proctor, Director 408 N. Central Avenue Phone Wolf 590-F ARTHUR REID, 115 Pearl Street .Goldfield Orchestra. 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 Opened June 1st, 1814 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. Rooms With or Without Board. High class services, moderate rates, references exchanged, address Mrs. Solomon Williams, 134 Beckman 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. Railrord. Short walk from Emory Grove Carline. Locust Cottage, St. George P. O. Baltimore Co., Md. Boarding In the Country Braddock Spring Right in the mountains over- looking beautiful Brad- dock Heights Address; Mrs. Robert Adkins Braddock Spring, Md. BOARDERS WANTED Good accommodations for man and wife or two lady friends. Plenty of rest in quiet country home. Apply to Mrs. Dora Murray's at Randallstown. Address--Rosslyn P. O., Mt. Your Last Chance Noticel Wanted! GOOD MEN To Join King Jeremiah Pasture, G. U. O. of Nazarites Accepting applicants for membership for the sum of $2.00 $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 K. 240 N. Amity street Addison Manus, P.G W.S. 1227 Wilmer street John E. Jones, P.W.S. 1301 Division street Thomas H. Franklin, P.W.S. C. 708 W. Saratoga street THE AFRO=AMERICAN=LEDGER Annual Excursion to Cambridge, Md., ON THE WELL KNOWN STEAMER LOUISE The steamer will carry two thousand persons and is beautifully illuminated with electric lights. Boat leaves Pier 16 Light Street wharf at 9.50 a. m. Leave Cambridge at 3.80 p. m. Due in Baltimore at 9.00 p. m. The Combinations The Board of Trustees The Board of Stewards The Board of Stewardesses Music by Knights of Pythias Band, Prof. John Maxfield, Leader ADULT TICKETS 50 CTS Children under ten years 25 Cents The last big Sunday School and Church Picnic of the season with Grace A. M. E. church, Catonsville, Payne Memorial and Allen A. M. E. Churches, of Baltimore at Gree,wood Electric Park, Catonsville. We have arranged to give the children, aged members and friends a splendid day's outing. Some spend all day with us. Provision made for 3,000 people. Take Elliott City cars and get off at Winters avenue. Tickets..Adults 25c. Children 10c. Children Round Trip 12 Cents. C. H. Murray, P. W. Wortham, J. G. Martin, postors. 20:9-2 THIRD ANNUAL EXCURSION BY THE WOMEN JOHN RUSSELL Industrial Institute at Bowie The new Maryland Normal and Industrial Institute at Bowie, Md., offers the opportunity for which you have been waiting. All expenses $9.50 per month, with the privilege of working out one-third of that amount. Do not delay but write at once to the principal D. S. S. Goodloe, Bowie, Md. I LEAD-OTHRES FLLOOW I carry a full Line of Colored Human Hais Goods fair Dressing, Face Massage and Manicuring Parlors 1129 Druid Hili 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 WE OFFER This space FREE for one week to any person who advertises here for one month. The Afro-American Co. CHARLES WESLEY Pianos and Organs bought and sold Repairing and Tuning a Specialty 1197 Pennsylvania Avenue 9-2-9 R.H.BUTLER 图 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. WEDNESDAY, SEPT EBENEZER A. The above Church together with its tions and friend Annual Excursion ON THE WELL KNOW PICNICS AND OUTINGS A Grand Annual BUSS PARTY, will leave Smith's residence, 1211 Mulliken street for Magothy Camp Meeting, Sunday morning, September 3. 1911 at 6 o'clock sharp. Round trip ticket, $1.00. AUTOMOBILE RIDE AUTOMOBILE RIDE at residence of Mrs. Cora Watts, 606 N. Eden street. Monday night, September 3rd. Come! Tickets 10 Cents. In great splendor by the Jolly Female Progressive Club Monday evening Sept. 18, 1911. Introduction of the latest music of the season by Henderson Kerr's full orchestra. Come and enjoy the first spiel of the season! Handsome souvenirs to the first 100 ladies. Admission 25 cents. 9-16 POSTPONED A Grand Lawn Fete Champetre held under the auspices of the John A. Bridges Lodge No. 1415, G. U. O. O.F. postponed until Wednesday, September 6th, at the New Odd Fellow's Hall, 519 W. Biddle street. Good music in attendance. Admission 10 cents. Big Union Excursion King Cyrus Lodge, No. 23 U. O. of B. and S. of Good Hope and St. Mary's Household, No. 17 U. O. of S.W. Men to Brown's Grove on the Steamer Starlight. Wednesday, September 6th, 1911. A special invitation is extended to all Households Lodges and Juvenile Councils. Tickets 25 cents, can be had from J. H. Norris, sexton at John Wesley, M. E. Church, G. W. West, 1132 Penna. ave.; Sarah V. Davis, 828 Pierce street; Mary Haney, 242 Forrest street. and at the wharf foot of Caroline street. Plenty to eat and good music. Round trip 25 cents. Boat leaves 8.30 a. m. and 2.30 p. m. The Evergreen Circle will give a Grand Cake Walk and Dance at New Good Hope Hall, Lexington street near Pine, Thursday evening, September 7, 1911. Music by the Knights of Pythias Band. Cake Walk starts promptly at 10 o'clock. Music from 7.30 to 2 a. m. Refreshments on sale. Cards of. Admission 25 cents. Tickets on sale at the Out look Lunch and Ice cream Parlors, 508 W. Hoffman street and 1220 Orleans street. Committee on order, the entire Circle. Wm. Demby, pres. Chas. Bouldin, secretary. Norman Uncles, sergt. at arms, Jack Plater, vice president, Jas. Snowden treasurer. CHURCH NOTICES GILLIS MEM. M. P. CHURCH Stockton Street near W. Baltimore Rev. B. H. Knight, Pastor. 10.00 A. M. Class meeting 11. A.M., Pastor's return from vacation. S P. M., Sermon by the Pastor, Lord's Supper. J. W. Fowler, Pres. C. E. T. H. McGowan, Supt. GRACE PRESBYTE'IAN CHURCH Dolphin and Etting Sts. Rev. W. Edw. Williams, Minister, Residence: 623 W. Lanvale Street, 11 a.m. Sermon by the Minister subject "Jeremiah." 3 P. M., Sunday School 8 p. m., Sermon by the Minister subject "Know Christ." Prayer Meeting every Wednesday 8 P. M. Scats Free. All Welcome Mr. William Anderson, Supt. Mr. W. G. Thomas, Clerk PERKINS SQ. BAP. CHURCH George and Ogston Streets Rev. F. R. Williams, D.D., Pastor 11 a. m. Sermon by Rev. Charles Stewart, of Chicago, Ill. On Monday night, September 4, at 8 p. m., a special lecture by Rev. Stewart, better known as Col. J. O. Midnight. Silver offering at the door. Don't fail to see and hear the noted speaker. 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 Special Service at 3 30 P. M. by an able divine. All singing add praying bands are invited to be present. 8 P. M. Preaching by Rev.Brickhouse. OPEN AIR SERVICES Under the auspices of the Baltimore Evangelistic Association Sunday, Sept. 3, 1911 3 P. M., Preaching by Rev. Alfred Young, famous "Railroad" sermon. 8 p. m. Rev. Aquilla Brooks. 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. Grand Union Missionary Picnic given by the Missionary societies of Payne and Wayman Memorial A. M. E. Churches at the Cherry Hill Grove, Tuesday September 12, 1911. Plenty of good music. Admission 10 cents. Mrs. Annie Wortham Mrs. Clara E. Harris, presidents; Revs. P. W. Wortham and Wm. A. Harris, pastors. The Last Sunday of the Reisterstown Camp under the auspices of The New Ashbury Grove will close Sunday. The following Ministers will preach. 10 a. m., Experience Meeting. 11 a. m., Dr. M. J. Naylor, Dist. Supt. 3 p. m., Sister Ida Nelson and her choir. 7 p. m., service by the Band. 8 p. m., By the Rev. S. Davis. Rev. Dr. M. J. Naylor, Dist. Supt. NOTICE. Norris Chapter Epworth League of John Wesley M. E. Church will have its opening exercise at 7:30 p.m., Sunday night, September 3rd. Music by the junior choir of the church. - Solos and addresses by some of Baltimore's best talent. T. H. Lee, Pres. Esther Davis, Sec. Benj. Burke, Cor. S.c Rev. Ernest Lyon, D. D, LL. D., Pastor. Women's Day Rally at the Fishermen's Auditorium, 411 Biddle St. Sunday Sept. 24, 1911, at 3 p.m. Full particulars given later. 9-23 C. Y. W. C. A. 1200 Druid Hill Avenue. You are welcome. SUNDAY AT 5 O'CLOCK Good Music. All are invited. Miss Charlotte Davage, presiding Mr. Geo. B. Murphy has been invited to speak. Solo by Mrs. Wilson Reading Miss Lillian Williams Mrs. M. E. Murphy, Pres Miss E. E. Bright;Sec'y. CHURCH NOTICES ANES MEM. M. E. CHURCH. AMES MEM. M. E. CHURCH, Career and Baker Sts. Cairy and Baker Ss. Rev. D. D. Turpean, Pastor. 11.00 A. M., Sermon by Pastor 3.00 P. M., Sunday School. 8.00 P. M., Preaching MT, ZION M. E. CHURCH Vincent Street near Riggs Avenue Rev. Matthias Williams, Pastor 11 a. m., Sermon by Rev. J. Jones 2.00 p. m., Sunday School S p. m., Sermon by the Pastor and Holy Communion. All are cordially invited. Sunday, September 10th, we go to Brown's Grove. Come go with us. Rev. S.H. Norwood, Pastor. 11 a. m., Sacramental sermon by Pastor. 8 p. m., Sacramental services. Bring Sacramental envelope. Bring a friend with you. ASBURY M. E. CHURCH, Lexington St. and Rogers Avenue, Rev. C. G. Cummings, B. D., Pastor. 9.30 A. M., Bible Class. 11 A. M., Sermon followed with the Lord's Supper. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 3 p. m., sermon to Juveniles of G. U. O. of Nazarites. 8 p. m., Preaching. Strangers cordially welcomed, Chas. T. Stewart, Supt. Julian W. Ross, Pres. of E. L. GREEN SPRING M. E. CHURCH Chattolanee, Md. Rev. R. A. Green, Pastor. 11 a. ut., Preaching. 3.00 P. M., Sunday School. 8 P. M., Sermon by Pastor. Mr. S. S. Oliver, Supt. WHATCOAT M. E. CHURCH, Franklin and Pine Sts. "King's Hill" Rev. Alfred Young, Pastor. 11 A. M. Sermon by Pastor. 3.00 P. M., Sunday School 8 P. M., Pastor, Holy Communion Tuesday, Sept. 5th. S P. M., Rev. W. Allen, of Shiloah Baptist church, choir and congregation will be present. Prayer Meeting every Wednesday night. W. C. Tongue Supt. WATERS A. M. E. CHURCH 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. 8 P. M., Preaching. PAYNE . MEM A. M. E. CHURCH Laurens and Calboun 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. L 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. TRINITY A. M. E. CHURCH. Linden Ave. and Biddle St. Rev. A. L. Gaines, D. D., Pastor. 11 a. m., Sermon by the Pastor. 2:30 P. M., Sunday School. 8 P. M., Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. T. J. Holliday, Supt. EBENEZER A. M. E. CHURCH Rev. J. W. Norris, Pastor 11 A. M., Sermon by the Pastor 2:30 p. m., Sunday School. 8 00 p. m., P., Sermon by Pastor Communion. Herbert Frisby, Supt. Annual Excursion to Cambridge Md., Wednesday, September 6. MT. CALVARY A.M.E. CHURCH. Towson Rev. J. A. Briscoe, Pastor. 11 a. m., Sermon by Pastor. 3 p. m., Rev. M. F. Sydes, of Waters Chapel, his choir and congregation. 7.30 p. m., Communion 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., Subject: "Decision". Holy Communion. 2.30 P.M. Sunday School 6.00 to 7.00 p.m., Mammoth 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. A MYSTERY ABOUT BOOKER WASHING ON DAY BIG PYTHIANS DIGNITARIES DO NOT ATTEND MEET ING AT WHICH TUS-KEGEEAN SPEAKS The Colonel Does Not Seem To To Known What It Was About—Meets Up With "Big Guns" Of the Supreme Lodge, Knights Of Pythians—Is On Kis Way To Baltiomore—And Will Attend Meeting Of National Baptists COL. J. O. MIDNIGHT. Pittsburg, Penn.—Now you see I am here already for the National Baptist convention, but I am not going to remain here until it meets, and it is hard to tell where I will go. I am sure you want to know where I have been and what I have been doing since my last letter to for and since you want to know, of course I will have to tell you, hence you will have to listen until I get through. Leaving the Business League, I found my way to St. Louis, and I am of the opinion that I sent my letter from there last week. I was the guest of Miss Rodessa Stephens and her other and had the pleasure of hearing the Rev. Dr. J. L. Cohron speak. He preached a great sermon and I enjoyed it, and a night started for the city of Indianapolis, to attend the Supreme Lodge of Knights of Pythias, and it was a great thing. I shall never forget it as long as I am in the world. I reached Indianapolis Monday morning and went directly to the house of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis on 1117 N. Senate avenue. I was soon in my room and eating a little something, and then next I went to see what I could see and how I could see it. Before I had even had breakfast I called on Miss Sadie Mays, one of the teachers in the public school system of Indianapolis. She is just a good teacher and in her work stands high. Then next door I called on Mrs. Suise Harper, who is the wife of that great veterinarian, one of the greatest in the State. I was delighted to see him. Then out in the town to see what the Pythians are doing. I went down to the headquarters and was busy greeting friends from everywhere. The first man to shake my hands was Prof. S. H. Highland, of Vicksburg, the successor, of John Strauther, of the Pythians. He was there to contribute his part to the success of the meeting. He is without a doubt one of the great men of the race, and one of the greatest men of the age. The next to speak to me and shake my hands was Frank A. Young, who is the grand keeper of records and seal for the Pythians in Little Rock He was one of the greatest of all men, and was able to show to the world what he was capable of doing He is a young man full of push and has had the benefit of a good training. Recently Mr. Young took unto himself a bride, and he has a fine wife. They live in Little Rock. He married her from Alexandria, La., He lives in the hearts of the people, and I tell you he is deeply interested in the success of his grand lodge. Then he is what would call a race man. Prof. Henry Avant is Grand Chancellor, and he was on hand to look after the interest of his jurisdiction and the whole grand lodge affairs. I was indeed delighted to have the pleasure of meeting this wonderful man. He is leading his grand lodge on to success. For many years Prof. Avant was at the head of the Helena (Ark) public schools, and resigned to practice law. He is a good lawyer and a man of affairs. It is entiety out of the question for you to expect me to tell you about the Supreme Lodge because they had so many things there that it would take me a whole month to tell you about them and since this is true pardon me if I do not. At the head of the Supreme Lodge is Sir S.W. Green of New Orleans and he was re-elected for another two years. The vice chancelor is general Joseph L. Hines of Cincinnati Ohio. Gen. Jones is by reason of his office head of the Calanthe and he has made such a good record that the women all asked that he be elected. He was appointed successor to the late John W. Strauther of Greenville Miss. and in his posi- tion he has made many friends. He is just a good man and well trained. was glad to have the pleasure of being with him and of seeing his good work. There were many strong able women here women who have had the training and who knew some few things about the order. I would mention Mrs. Hazelewood Mrs. Robinson of St. Louis Mo. who was the supreme Worthy Inspectrix and is now filling that position because she was re-elected. It is the highest position in Calanthe filled by a woman. She knows her business. There were many important cases up for the settlement in the Calanthe notable among them was the Mississippi cases. They have been fighting down there for some time. I have told you about this fight before but this time it was up to the Supreme Court. It really did not come before the Supreme court, because General Jones is one of the greatest pacifiers in the race. He got them together and before you could realize what was going on the case was settled and now there will be no more dispute in Mississippi. They will all be as one. The court of Calanthe and the Grand Lodge will work in peace and harmony and there will be no more court cases. Wonderful indeed was this. Mr. Scott received congratulations from his friends and all was well with them there. He is now in charge of affairs. He is a great man and I wish you could meet him. John W. Harris I am sure you remember him because he is the Grand Cancellor there in the state. He was on hand and I tell you Mississippi is the largest of all grand lodges and grand courts. Dr. R. F. Boyd is a worker but he does not belong to Mississippi. He is at the head of the Tennessee Calanthes. The supreme lodge was well conducted. The people were there. The greatest feature was the encampment. There was one day known as Booker T. Washington Day, and while the day was a success yet there was some mystery surrounding it. I am not going to have much to say about it. Dr. Washington was there and there on time. He was entertained during his stay by Dr. Furniss. He was booked to speak at the coliseum at 8 o'clock. The people were there on time, but it was 9.30 when Dr. Washington commenced his address, and there were not the dignitaries of the Supreme Lodge on the rostrum with him. The National Enemapment officers were not present. There were seven or eight bands on hand, yet there was not music at the speaking. The audience was impatient long before Dr. Washington reached there, hence while he was speaking they left in large numbers. He was introduced by the Grand Chancelor of Indiana. I do not know why the Supreme Lodge Officers were not present. The Superme Keeper of Records and Seal occupied a prominent seat on the rostrum and he was the only one to my knowledge. Since I do not know the reason for these things, I will not say why they happened, but will drop it right now. Well from Indianapoils, I went to Chicago, where I spent just two hours and started for Pittsburg. In Pittsburg last Sunday morning I spoke at the Euclid Avenue A. M. E. Church of which the Rev. Dr. Powell is pastor, and from there I went to the Liberty Baptist Church, where I met Rev. Ernest Hall, the new pastor, and who was engaged in work in Illinois for years. Dr. Hall was glad to see me, and assured me that I was welcome to remain with him. I was booked to preach with him last Sunday night so I went right on and preached. But after the meeting of the Sunday School Union he carried me to the home of Rev, J. W. Webb, D. D. one of the greatest Baptist preachers in Pittsburg. He is a man with a good clean record, a man who has given his life in the cause. He is just one of those characters who is doing something, and who yields a great influence among the people. I had the pleasure of meeting his pleasant wife, and one of his daughters. Rev. Webb has been pastoring one church for years and can remain as long as he desires to do so. He knows how to preach. In the meeting of the ministers he stands high. I wish I could just tell you all about him, but time will not permit me to do so. I started this letter in Pittsburg, but I am closing it in Chestertown, Md. You may expect to hear from me in the next few hours. God bless you. Send all mail for me to 3612 Denny street, Pittsburg, Pa. I will be there to the National Baptist Convention. Re-elected Grand Master W. David Brown has been re-elected grand master of Odd Fellows in New York State. THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER A QUICK ROUTE TO ETERNAL WOE Special to the Afro-American Ledger. Indianapolis, Ind., August 27. The 54th Annual session of the General Association of Indiana Baptists convened in South Calvary Baptist Church, corner Morris and Maple streets, Tuesday, August 15 for a four days session. The moderator, Rev. J. D. Johnson, D. D., of North Vernon, Ind., in delivering his annual address said. "Damnation's railroad is a quick route to eternal woe, leading through dismal swamps, sample rooms, theatre streets, dime novels, five cent shows, Sunday baseball, ballroom, cardtables and summer gardens. But the Baptists are marching on to victory, and as we go our paramount issue is "Soul winning for Christ and the Baptist Churches." Rev. L. R. Mitchell, of Muncie offered the resolution that launched the Laymen's Union in the State. Rev. M. M. Porter, D. D., of Bloomington, preached the doctrinal sermon. Rev. W. Henry Snowden, D. D., of Terre Haute, the statitician reported 18,534 churches, 17,117 ministers, 2,261, 607 members, 17,910 Sunday Schools, 1,04,665 pupils, $24,37, 272 worth of property. Indiana Baptists, said he, number 90 churches with 14,000 members. The Missionary sermon was delivered by Rev. C. W. McCall, D. D., of Anderson. The Association raised $22,000 for education and missions. The following officers were elected: Rev. J. D. Johnson, D. D., North Vernon, moderator; Rev. Charles Williams of Indianapolis, Vice moderator; Rev. M. M. Porter, D. D., of Bloomington, Recording Secretary, Rev. C. M. Hammond, of Brazil, Assistant Secretary, Rev. L. Mitchell, of Muncie, Corresponding Secretary, Rev. W. Henry Snowden, of Terre Haute, Statistician, Rev. Leonard of Indianapolis, Treasurer, Rev. C.W. McCall, D. D.,of Anderson, Supt. of Temperance. Rev. W. W. Wines of Indianapolis, Rev. C. C. Goines of Richmond, Rev. John C. Roberts of Indianapolis, Rev. George W. Ward, D. D., of Indianapolis, Rev. E. W. Reed, of Columbus, Rev. W. C. Thomas of Marion, Rev. E. L. Torrents of vansville. Trustee Board Rev. B. J. Prince, D. D., of Indianapolis. The Sunday School convention elected the following officers: Emmett Scott, president; Mrs. Lula Scott, this city.; Charles Williams, Washington, and A. P. Taylor, vice presidents; Miss Florence Gordon, Washington, Rev. J. E. Pair, Washington, and Samuel Ward, secretaries, and Miss Jennie E. Harris, treasurer. Harrisonburg Items (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Harrisonburg, Va., August 23,— The Knights of Pythian excursion to Luray last Thursday proved quite a success, some six or seven hundred taking advantage of the occasion. Much credit is due to Messrs. Howard Dallard A. G. Newman, the promoters. Mr. Joseph Carter has returned to his homein this city from Orkney Springs. Mr. B. H. Newman left for New Port News, Tuesday for a week's vacation. Mr. Walter Terrell is here visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Terrell. Mrs. Dennis Jackson, of Zeda neighborhood was called here last week on account of the illness of her son. Mr. P. H. Jefferson, of Texas, who has been visiting in our city for the past three weeks has returned home. Hold Mass Meeting. A mass meeting to enter protest against the Coatesville lynching was held at the Cosmopolitan Baptist Temple, Washington, Tuesday night. The speakers included Rev. S. P. W. Drew, Rev. A. A. Lott, and E. M. Hewlett. B. S. Ingram was elected grand master of Georgia Odd Fellows at the recent meeting of the Grand Lodge of that State. PERSONAL AND SOCIAL DOINGS Mrs. William H. Lee who has been ill at the Provident Hospital, is in a greatly improved condition. Rev. and Mrs. Reuben Parker are spending a fortnight in Charles County. Rev. P. C. Neal, pastor of First Baptist Church, is spending sometime at Asbury Park. He is accompanied by Mrs. Neal. Mr. Philip Neal, a retired member of the Chicago police forec, has returned home after a visit to relatives here. He is an old Baltimore. Mrs. Albert Johnson, and her daughter, Mrs. Alfred Nickens, and Mrs. Lotties Spriggs, are visiting friends in Providence, R. I. Miss Ida Rone, of Baker street, is spending a fwe wekes in Campabella, Mass. Mr. Alfred Washington has returned from a visit to Philadelphia and other points in Pennsylvania. Mrs. John R Young made a flying trip from Niagara Falls to join her husband, and both are now recuperating at Atlantic City Miss Helen Taylor, of Washington, was the guest of Mrs. Lucinda Bellamy, of 919 N. Howard street. Mr. and Mrs. David Waters, of 1051 Argyle avenue, are visiting friends in Virignia. Mr. Clifton Henson, is visiting his brother in Phiadehlpia. Upon his return home he will occupy apartments at 1205 Druid Hill avenue. Rev. Dr I. L. Thomas has gone to West Virginia to deliver a number of addresses. 250 Pine street have returned from a visit to friends in Gettysburg, Pa. Mrs. Charles Smith, of 250 Pine street, is visiting friends in Gettysburg, Pa. Mrs. Agnes Aquila, of 1006 Argyle avenue is visiting friends in Leonardtown, Md. Mr. Henry Gibbs, of 863 Pierce street, has returned from a visit to friends n Wilmington, Del. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bond, of New York, were in the city this week, the guests of Mrs. James Rice, of 915 Argyle avenue Mr. Horace Miller, of 917 Pierce street has returned from a brief visit to Atlantic City. Mrs. R. Smith and Misses Geneva Simmon and Etta Smith are spending a few weeks at Atlantic City. Mrs. Spencer Patterson, her four daughters and Miss Eliabeth Smith, of St. Dennis, are at Asbury Park, N. J. Mr. Spencer Patterson has returned home from Little Rock, Ark., where he attended the sessions of the Business League. Mr. H. Gillis, went to Washington. Monday to attend the funeral of Mr. Gillis' brother-in-law, Mr. W. George Hall. Miss Gertrude F. Braxton is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Louis W. Easely, of Washington. Mr. Elijah Randall, of 33 Woodyear street, has returned from a two week's visit to Atantic City. Mrs. Estelle K. Bailey, is spending two weeks with friends in Salisbury, Md. Mrs. Elizabeth Keys, of 336 Broadway, Patterson, N. 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Bush, who is a ree- ognized leader among our people in Little Rock. ‘At the close of the receat session, with all expenses paid and all death claims puid up to date, the order bad Pee Won acct anireNie ess be Sr oor. eae ed 2 ah aS ba St ek ee ee . GP go eee ey fe) Pao le ae Baoan as 3a a REN pee ee Boose Ue gg pd SO ke ae fee Ee Lo Sg soe annGia waeee on hand orer $25,000 to meet all claims that might come aginst it While the founder is not a native of Arkansas, le hus devoted most of his life in the state, Lecomlug one of the foremost cilizeus. , His parents moved -to-Little-Rock, shen, Bush. was. but a child, coming into the city from Mos- cow, Tenn. He was placed in the pub- lle schools of Little Rock, graduating therefrom. From (the time of his graduation until now he has had a Dusy and useful career. He setved as principal of yublie schogls iu Little Rock and Tot Springs. For sears he has been active in poli: ties, eutered as sven as he reached manhood and bas heen regarded us an honest politieiin. ‘Where were two events which hep- peveil in the lite of Mr. Bush in 1884 which have blended together and placed him in the front ranks. ‘The first one was Lis nomination by the Greenback jarty for the position of county clerk ef Vulaski county, and the second wns the organization of the national Order of Mosaic ‘Templars. While he dectined the nomination ana threw. Lis slrength to the Republican party; making him « stronger man, he continued the work of the Mosaics, making it (he stronger until now it ranks with the great fraternal orders of the country, thus showing in a tun- gible way what the race bas contrib: ‘uted to its own development, “We will never have to go into court to fight for the name of the order with ‘a white man,” declared Mr, Bush in a recent interview. “Every man enp feel proud that. it is his own. Our men nnd women work side by side, sharing equally the privileges of the organization.” Mr: Bush gives the following gen- eral objects of the Order of Mosaics: ‘Lo unite fruternally all persons of Negro descent of good moral charac- ter, of overy profession, business and occupation. Yo give all possible moral and ma- terial aid to its members by holding instructive and scientific lectures, by encouraging each other in business and assisting each other to obtain em- ployment, but not to interfere with the political. or religions opinions of any of its members. To establish and inaintain a benefit fund, from which any sum, not to ex- ‘ceed $300 and not less than $30, shall be pald to the estate of a Guancial member. Mr. Rush’ holds the position of national grand scribe in the order and has held it ever since its organi- zation. By industry, honesty and thrift Johu B. Bush bas uccumulated a fortune. ‘Fre is said'to he worth easily $100,000. ‘his speaks well for a man who was practically horn a slave and bas had to. dig out bis own success. In ddi- tion to his position in the fraternal “order ‘he is n recognized leader of the “Republican party in Arkansas and fs ee the United States land te oity, . Rages. co sae STEMOHS O8 LYNCHING. Coztesville Herrer Puts White Civili- gation en Trial, Ho Says. SER SR a ee In a letter to the Philadelphia Ree: ord, Aug. 2% James $. Stemons has the following to say in con¢emnation of the recent Iynching of Zack Walker in Coatesville, Pa.: The one redeeminy feature.about the Coatesville horror. the one thing whieh proclaims in hander tones that, what- ever niay be said: of the citizens of that city, the state of Pennsslvania is not on a par in depravity with certaln sections of the south and with Ohio and Illingis. is the outspoken stand of the leading newspapers of Philadel- phia and the stzte agnipst it. Tt Js noteworthy that the Record has given the most practical turn to this protest of any publievtion in asking that a inasy meeting % held to voico the borror and rd isles opposition of all human beings to sach evidences of barberisin int is state. It should be vorne in mind also that this Is a matter tt concerns Negro citizens ouly indiresty—a matter in which Negro le: ders should not be ex- pected to take ° in initiative, It Is the white sagu’s ~ vilization that fs on ‘irinl. It is for ve white man to prove to the Negra @-to the world, with out plendin:s ¢ prompting from any source, that the + creatures: of Coxtes- ville who ett) participated in or sanctioned by eit silence tbe cow- ardly orgies of a Week azo do not tep- resent (he kind of staf of which white peopte in general and those of Penn- sylvania in partientar are made, The press: should ayprecinte its aw- ful responsibility to society. Td it not been for the readiness of the press in general to say those things which are caleulated to arouse passion ayalnst tle Negro gnd to suppress or Delittle those things which would in- spire « feeling of respect and consid- eration for that race the demons: att Coatesvilie wonld never have interpret- ed public sentivent against Negroes as being in favor of snch an outraze as they committed, Bvew in the exrlier reports of this crise there were noted the same stereoiyped inethods of the press to justify the lynching and in- flame public feeling against the Negro in the studied efforts to deify the mur- dered white mau and to demonize the murdered Negro. ‘Yhis was done by repeated ref erences to the latter as “a big, hlack somthern brute” (to the average newspaper every .rgro eriminal is a “pente.’ while go = tite criminal ever descends to that eh and to “the ratal muréerer er ig. kind hearted. gentle Fa itive." . is now in evi dence, however, 1: iy thus, sowing to the wind af rare ha ~t and scorn the newspapers hav re “da whirl wind of av umbridtes pas: on and de generacy that threaten 10 disintegrate our entire social fabric and have brought ineffable wme and disgrace upon so called. wh. ivfization. If this “last si * shail serve to awaken (he publi ss to the inglo- rious pare that it played in mak- ing poseiile sne mes as this, arouse the world + sense of Ameri- ex's true position in the scale of civ- ilization and start « determined move: ment for pniting down mob violence in this conntry. who sball say that Zack Walker fd those cruel. flames in vain? . BAILEY KEADS 1 FELLOWS. Ohio Grand Lods ~ ds Succeseful Meeting «.° 3 ston, the Grand Cui rier of Odd Fellows of (hic + a splendid showing both in abership and Rnauce at the res — -eting of the grand lodge, whirl held in Day- ton. Feamres of Hie exercises were © monster st wade, Jed by the uniformed Pan and a grand wilitary carnival =a bers of. tbe Household of Ruy s+ present tu large numbers. Gr icers elected for the ensuing yes. 3 follows: George Hl. Meiley 4 nuati, grand master; J. Lee. + bus, deputy grand master: Josey ones, Cinein- pati, deputy grand escary; Forest Speaks, Springfield. deputy. grand treasurer: &. & Cheeks, Oxford, depu- ty grand dire-tor. 5 Judge Butler's Interpretation of Law. ‘That judge Tntier is ving wp to the letter of the law tn the Coatesville (Pa.) lynching way be seen from the wise rolings which he bas made in the cases of Clyde Woodward and George Stal. Judge Luler says ia the ease of Woodward that any one who was in the mob and knew for what purpose the mob wag gathered is guilty of murder. In ase of Stabl. who fs said to bE O iste Sears of age. tbe conrt hol atone is re- sponsible for is avt- if b> assock ates himself with a - even if he gives no physical asti-—e, pat mere: ly sanctions violence. People Realize Neec - Yewspaper. ‘The colored citizens —Loy:gomery City, Mo., and. vieinit: . sing the re- cent celebration of 0: fens" reun- jon passed resolutic: rdg-sing & plan to establish an gay jn one or more towns in ce Ane south: west Missow. Att coat time they have no adequaie wewix of let- ting the world know of the conditions onder which the race is laboring ip ‘that.sectiongof tbe state: ket THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER THE COATESVILLE MURDER, ) gxmmsemmesemeseanmmmes fBeuthern Whee. Mans Wpmion . oF Lynching In the North. At a meeting held recently in the Charles Street A. M. E. ebureh in Bos- ton the Hon. Joseph C. Manning of Birmingham, Ala., referring to the Coatesville (Pa.) lynching. said: “What happened n week azo in a “yhat bappened quite recently In a burned ( death a Negro manacled to f hospital cot after storming the bos- | pital, may happen any day right here In Boston. ‘The niinds of the northern people bave been inflamed by southern politiciaus until now they tools on the Negro with the same feelings as the people of rhe south. “While I am not trying to arraign the president of the United states, 1 am sure if you had the organization the other races liave he would pay at- tention to your demands that the wrongs of the colored people of the south be righted. “Some time ag, when a delegatfon of colored men. went to see the presi- dent to try to have him incorporate Into his message to congress something concerning the conditions of the Negro, they were dismissed. But when a dele- gation of Jews went to see him in or- der to have an inquiry made into the alleged discrimination against a He- brew in the United States army then he paid willing heed to their request. If you bad the saine organization and ‘the same one mindedness the other ‘races lave you could get something ‘done. “The poor Negro at his cabin door, with bis wife amd baby by his side, Tins as much right lo be protected us his white fellow citizen. And bow can hat protection be secured? Only {hrough the ballor which has been taken awny from him, only by the use of the vote which bas been denied to him, There is nothing more crue! than the fact (he southern Negro once had the vote and now bas no voice in pro- ‘tecting bis race. | “Tam sure that just as soon as the | Amerienn people are made aware of the Inne state of affairs in the south ther will demand (hit the negro be return ed his rizht to vote. At present It is in direct violttion of the constitution of the United States snd of the Dec- laration of Independence. It is taxa- tion withont representation and in di- rect contradiction of the principle that all men are created free and equal.” LITTLE ROCK MEETING OF EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS. Third Annual Cenvention Fraught With Many Timely Suggestions, ‘he third annual meeting of the Na- tions! Negro Press association recently held in Little Rock, Ark., was very in- teresting, and there were many time: Hy suggestions made, which if carried out will result, in the building up of a strong, aggressive and profitable organ- ization of newspaper men. Among those who foal part in the proceedings were, F. M. Wood, editor of “Our Review;” L. N. Porter, presi- dent. Gavner Publisbing company: President Joseph A. Booker, Baptist Vanguard: 'T. Frederick Small, editor Small's Negro ‘rade Journal; Horace D. Shatter, general correspondent; Edi- DRE EBD se Be I UES ee ey RRR a as 2) ee ee ae ed (ee es Be BN Pte Ae ee ae re ek Ck DD fh uate es oe ys Nah aan aay ee aia peor oe Se ee os Lae OY seaoneetnaacied | oe Ciro Kane eye: Hine ateaseerinaeioen book. Bae EN Bene, Buaps niga | hey eey an IOR ‘Seana Ai, tor Fred Rt. Moore, New York Age: Faitor W. Hl. Melton, Memphis Col ored Citizen; Editor W. B. King, Dal: las Express: Dr. It. E. Jones, South: western Christian Advocate; Charles Stewart, Associated Press cotrespoud- ent; Hon. J. C. Napier. register U. S. ‘Treasury: Dr. EC. Morris of the Ne tional Baptist convention: J. B. La Fargue, the Messenger; L. D. Jones, the Appreciator-Uuion, and others. ‘The election cf oticers resulted as follows: M. M. Lewes, editor Florida Sentinel, president; first vice president, J. B. La Fargue. editor the Messen: ger, Lonisinna; second vice president. HL. I. MeMillin, editor Headlight, Ar- kansas; H. Allen Boyd. the Nashville Globe, Tennessee; ‘T. Frederick Small, editor Sinalt’s ‘Trade Journal, New York, recording and assistant record- ing secretaries. respectively; WV. 5. King, editor Dallas Express. Texas. corresponding secretary, and f. G. Jordan, editor Mission: Heald, Ken- a ee ee Review of the | Kingdom of Judah Sunday School Lesson for Sept. 3, 1912 -——-Spectalty Arranged tor This Paper ee See See ee ee See ee —Pse. 34:14, The principal. characters and the Jeading events of these Bible lessons should be impressed on the memory of all. This should be done in such a ‘way as: To show what were the marked characteristics of each per. sou, the relation of each person to the course of the history, the relation of each event to the movement of the Mstory, the bearing of each person and event on the progress of the world toward the diving Goal, the com- ing of the kingdom of God, the prin- ciples which each one sets forth clearly to shed light upon the path of life and progress today. Rehoboam. First king, B. C. 982— first year of the kingdom. Bad Ad- vice. Folly. Threw away fivesixths of his kingdom. Event. Division of the kingdom. Asa. Third king, B, C. 962—twenty- first year of kingdom. Reformer. Prosperous kingdom. Event. Great revival of religion, Jehoshaphat. Fourth king, B. C. s2i—sixty-second year of kingdom Strong character. General, euccesstul, religious. Events, Intellectual, mor- al and religious progress. Suffered from bad alliance with Jezebel. Moab- ite stone. Several bad rulers, Jeboram, Aha- ziah, Athaliab. Introdvetion of Baal worship. Temple desecrated, Decline in morals and prosperity. Joash. Eighth king, B. ©, 8s6— ninety-seventh year of kingdom. The bad kiug. Good so:long as under good advisers. Events, ‘Temple Te stored, and its worship. Black obe- isk, Abaz, Twelfth king, B. C. 738 two hundred and forty-Ofth year of the kingdom. Events. Assyrians come in contact with Palestine, Dial of Ahuz, Isaiah prophesying. Hezekinh. Thirteenth king, B. C. 723—two bundred und sixtieth year of tbe kingdom. Good, religious, active reformer. Taylor cylinder. Events. Fall of Samaria—end of Israel. De- struction of Sennacherib—wide ex- tended revival, Life prolonged 15 | years in answer to prayer. Manasseh, Fourteenth king, B. C. 684—two hundred and elghty-uinth yeur ef the kingdom. The bad king— suffered —caplivity—ehanged —_ life, Events. Assyrian domination—par- tial reformation. , Josiah, Sixteenth king, B. C. 688— three hundred and forty-fifth year of Kingdom. Youthful consecration, cleansing of temple, widespread revi- val. Events. Finding the book of the law. Bible study, Jeremiah. Jeholakim. Elghteenth king, B. C. 607—cbree hundred and seventy-sixth year of the kingdom. Weak, wicked, defiant of God. Events. Burns the bock of Jeremith. Beginning of the captivity. Nebuchadnezzar besteges Jerusalem. Danie) carried to Babylon. The second captivity began at the close of hls reign when many captives were carried to Babylon, with his son, King Jeholacbin. Zedekiah. Twentleth and last king, B.C, 686-387. Weak und false to his agreements. Events, Jeremiah inm- prisoned. At the close of bis relgn Jerusalem and the temple were de- stroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, and the end of the kingdom of Judah came in B.C. &86, after 397 years of existence. There were three deportations by Nebuchadnezzar: 1. ‘The fourth year of Jeholakim, Daniel, ete 2, 10,000 at the close of his reign, 3. 4,600 in the three deportations of the final cam- paign. Georgrapbs. Study the map for the three kingdoms Involved. Egypt, Pal- esting, Assyria, the great routes of liaVel, and the situation of Palestine between the two world powers; Jeru- salem being off one side from the routes between the other two. This ig the Key to the situation. Note, in this history, what were the things that urged or attracted tho na- tlon to the downward course. 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A amount of miscellaneous will also have to be tranbefore the close of the sesxt Friday night when officers ensuing to years will be very installed. Supreme court of Calanthe, Women's Auxiliary will hold its trial session at the same time. Is Hettie A. Nix, of Kansas is the supreme worthy chan- Mrs. Cornelia S. Simth and Annie Ross both of this city leading figures in the work women. A number of Mary- will attend the session. Grand court of Calanthe for Jurisdiction was organized a few days ago. The grand court was conferred on fourteen DERED A PLEASANT DINNER C. Jackson, Mrs. B. Wilson John Chew gave a 6 o'clock honor of their brother. Crew and family of Westd. pleasant evening was spent in grapes and peaches and laty were ushered into the dinom where the table was ladh choice delicacies of the sea Those present were: Mrs. Wilson and family, Mrs. Anna Mrs. S. Holmes, Mrs. How Mrs. Rich Harris, Mrs. Enocher and family. At a late the guests departed for their ING PICTURES IT DALY'S THEATRE excellent vaudeville bill is beffered at Daly's this week. On the program include T. Pier Findley and Wiggens and Wiggs. The Wiggens are from south and are very clever danand comedians. "Jack Ginger"gens, the male member of the mas won medals all over the was a bug dancer. Manager will offer three good vaude-facts including the Wiggens, some good motion pictures all one admission next week. me Go To Brown's Grove in the Following Dates Where you can enjoy a pleasant ing and rest from the turmoilis the city. Make your selection also secure your day or moon- trip; only a few more open. full particulars, apply to Geo. Brown, Miller's Wharf, foot of proline Street, 8;30 A. M. and O.P. M. or Walter Langley,1418 person Street. SEPTEMBER Fair Lee and Rock Hall M. E. Ch. to Grove Magothy Camp Meeting Doctors Coachmen Stewards and Trustees of Easton M. E. Church King-Syrous G. U. O. Good Hope and St. Marks House Hold 7—Underwriter's Agents, N. B. A. 0—Mt. Zion M. E. Church 1—St. Barnabas R. C. Church 2—Stevenson A. M. E. Church 4—Helping Hand Co.Govanstown - Star House No. 7, Jobs N. Central Band MOONLIGHTS. SEPTEMBER bschchild Kohn Waitresses alto. Colored Business Association vanhoe Pleasure vald Pleasure Federal Lodge F. Q. A. MASONS ON THE COMMODIOUS STEAMER LOUISE A GRAND OUTING HOWARD F. BUCKNER WALTER M. BUCKNER AT HIGHLAND ELECTRIC PARK Wednesday, September 6th, 1911, 6 to 11.45 p. m. Kerr's Orchestra A Surprise to All Mr. Purviance will play during intermission Tickets of Admission Twenty-Five Cents Sept. 7th Grand Opening Sept. 7th NEW GOOD HOPE HALL Lexington Street near Pine EVERGREEN Cake Walk and Dance. Music from of Pythias Band. Prize CAKE W. September 7th. Jack Plater, vice p Uncles, sergeant-at-arms; Chas. W. On sale at 1220 Orleans street and t Knights O Band & John T. Max 9 S. Stockton St., Promptly A Howard Brent, President S06 George Street JOHN H. OW Undertakers & $65.00 FUNE A fine casket worth $65.00, in bl highly polished oak or walnut outsid either black, gray or white, to mate riages, new and up-to-date; fine bur advertise funeral, six pairs of gloves, cifix when desired, rugs, chairs etc., a This funeral cost elsewhere.... Our price.....$75.00 Other Funerals as low as $25, $35, $40 No charge for removal of Shipping Funerals, $25. 1222 Division St., bet. Dolphin and GET IT AT STOKES & 1016 Druid Hill Ave. ANYTHING in the DRUG LINE OLIVER J· CAULK Notice! will remove to BERGREEN SOUTH E. Music from 7.30 p. m. to Rize CAKE WALK 10 o'clock Plater, vice pres.; James Sn arms; Chas. W. Bouldin, sec. nns street and the "Outlook." F. C. B. Knights Of Pythias and Orchestra John T. Maxfield, Leader, S. Stockton St., All mail orc Promptly Attended to. President Charles Tolson Street 506 Bath N H. OWENS @ Stickers & Embro $65.00 FUNERALS $75.00 Each $65.00, in black cloth, steel or walnut outside case; beautiful white, to match casket, as de- pdate; fine burial robe, emba- rages of gloves, door crepe, ca- ses, chairs etc., all of the latest at elsewhere..... $75.00 Saving you. as $25, $35, $40, $50. Higher C age for removal of remains from Funerals, $25.00 and $50.00 St. Dolphin and Lanvale. C. & SET IT AT ES & DER Liquid Hill Avenue Corr ne DRUG LINE EVERGREEN SOCIAL Cake Walk and Dance. Music from 7.30 p.m. to 2.30 a.m. Knights of Pythias Band. Prize CAKE WALK 10 o'clock sharp. Thursday, September 7th. Jack Plater, vice pres.; James Snowden, treas; Norman Uncles, sergeant-at-arms; Chas. W. Bouldin, sec. Tickets, 25 Cents On sale at 1220 Orleans street and the "Outlook," 508 W. Hoffman St. Howard Brent, President Charles Tolson, Vice President 806 George Street 506 Baker Street 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 2134 Druid Hill Avenue. For convenience order may be left at Wm. L. Fitzgerald's Real Estate office 1206 Durid Hill Avenue. House Painting Glazing, Graining, Enameling, Floors Stained-Varnished or Waxed. Leaky Roofs Cemented and Painted. Estimates and Propositions submitted Having had experience in the Painting Trade, I especially solicit your patronage. QUITE MARRIAGES Miss Ionia Frazier of 734 Bradley street and Mr. Joseph Ready of Druid Hill avenue, were quietly married at the parsonage of St. Barnabas Catholic Church, Wednesday of last week. Rev. Charles A. Evers performed the ceremony. The wedding was witnessed by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel C. Butler Mr. Joseph Johnson and Mrs. Jenie Chase. Mr. and Mrs. Ready will reside at 729 Bradley street. THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER EN SOCIAL at 7.30 p. m. to 2.30 a. m. Knights ALK 10 o'clock sharp. Thursday, sues; James Snowden, treas; Norman Bouldin, sec. Tickets, 25 Cents the "Outlook," 508 W. Hoffman St. B. of Pythias Orchestra field, Leader, All mail orders attended to. Charles Tolson, Vice President 506 Baker Street EENS @ SON & Embalmer RALS $75.00. back cloth, steel gray or white plush; e case; beautiful rubber-tired hearse, casket, as desired; five heated car- mal robe, embalming, opening grave, door crepe, candles, candelabra, cru- ll of the latest designs. .....$135.00 Saving you.....$61.00 , $50. Higher Grade $100, $150. $175. remains from Hospitals. 100 and $50.00 Complete. Lanvale. C. & P. Phone Mad. 4067 DERRY' venue Corner Oxford CE IN MEMORIAM In sad but loving remembrance of our loving mother Julia H. Dashield, Rev. James Albert Handy, Lucy, Julius, Clifton, Hermon and Luther Deshield her children, who departed this life August 30th, at her late home Tyaskin, Md. Gone but not forgotten. We shall hold in memory dear Her worth and tender motherly care And evrey year on pages bold Her surviving children will her worth be told. Her children MATTHEWS) IN sad but loving remembrance of my dear husband Charles Matthews who died September, 3rd 1910. one year ago. I often sit and think of you When I am all alone For memory is the only friend That grief can call its own I miss the from thy home dear husband I miss the from thy place A shadow over my life is cast My home is dark without the By his Wife Mary E. Matthews Card of Thanks I want to thank my many friends for their acts of kindness and death PERSONAL NOTES Mr. John Seymour, of 1326 Argyle avenue, has returned from a visit to Ounmook, Va. Miss Cordelin Henry, of 1418 Brunt street, is visiting friends in Atlantic City. Mrs. Belle Baker, of N. Schroeder street, in visiting friends and relatives in Port Deposit, Md. Mrs. Julia Heard, of Richmond, Va., in visiting Mrs. Laura Hooper, of 246 Anity street. Mr. Romeo Chesley, of 514 Oxford street has returned from a visit to relatives in Richmond, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Powell spent a few days in Ilmington, Del., last week. European Circle, Pitts September 4. European Circle, Pitts September 4. Go with Ebenezer Church, Wednesday September 6th to Cambridge, Md. Everybody is waiting for a trip to Cambridge, September 6 with Ebenezer Church. Mrs. Serena Edmonds, of Washington, who is visiting friends here, spent last Sunday in Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. Coleman and their daughter, Eva have returned from a ten day trip to Atlantic City, N. J. Mr. Wm. Brown, of Park Heights avenue Walbrook left the city last week for a visit to Saratoga Lake George, N.Y. and other points. Mrs. H. W. Simmons of 318 Preston street who has been confined to her home by illness is able to be out again. Mr. J. N. Francis of New Haven who has been spending a month in the city with his brother Mr. Wm. Francis of 524 St. Mary Street has returned home. Miss Lucy Weston, of 107 W. Biddle street, left the city, August 27th to visit her aunt at West River also friends at Annapolis, Md. Mrs. Maggie Austin of Richmond Va., and her two children are visiting in the city the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Nutt, of 1225 N. Stricker street. Mr. and Mrs. John T. Lokeman, of 31 Carroll avenue arrived home, from Rochester, N. Y., where they attended the encampment of the G. A. R. Mrs. Marion Smith, and Mrs. Jane Riley and children, of N. Dallas street spent 10 days visiting friends in Philadelphia and other summer resorts. Miss Kitty Mapp, of 1514 Druid Hill avenue, who has been visiting in the South, has returned with a glowing account of the progress of the race along economic lines. Mr. and Mrs. James Spears and daughter of 1138 Etting street have returned home after spending the month of August visiting her mother Mrs. Eliza Berry of Gloucester county Va. Kerrs music Pitts Labor Day Mrs. Grace Cooper of 331 W. Hoffman street accompanied by a friend Mr. John S. Barbour Thompson, left the city this week for a trip to NiagaraFalls Buffalo N. Y. and Canada. Mr. H. E. Bryant, a prominent business man of Jacksonville, Fla., was in this city this week accompanied by his wife. While here they were the guests of Mrs. M. E. Gordon, of 1130 N. Carey street. Mrs. Griffin T. Fauntleroy has returned from a brief visit to Atlantic City Mrs Sadie Williams and Miss Carrie Henry have returned from a stay of four months in Philadelphia. Mrs Ernest Wright, of 521 Robert street, is visiting her sister in Philadelphia. Mr. Hiram Sorrell, a well known singer and impersonator of this city is making a hit in the West as a member of the Seal Brown Entertainers Mrs. Lily M. Fisher, of 1340 Druid Hill avenue who has been spending the summer at Saranac Lake, New York is convalescent and will spend a few days in Montreal, Canada, before returning home. Mr. J. N. Smith of 758 George street has returned home after spending a few weeks in Atlantic City and Philadelphia Pa. Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Debardeleben secretary of the Y. M. C. A. has returned home after spending ten days in Berwynn-Md. No use doing without your favorite paper. Just order your Afro-Afro-American Ledger to be sent to you at your summer home. No charges for changing as often as you want. The main thing is to have your paper wherever you are. You want all the news from home, and the only way to get it is to get the Afro-American Ledger, and it only costs $1.00 the year.—Anywhere in the United States. Messrs. Clarence Peck and W. L. Lindsay are visiting in the North. Mrs. L. L. Williams is spending her vacation in Woodburry and Berryville, Va. Mr. John W. Francis has returned to his home in New Haven, Conn., after a visit to relatives here. Col. George H. Carter has joined his wife for a few weeks stay in Virignia. Labor Day, Pitts Park, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Haynes, of 504 Baker street have returned from a visit to the Eastern Shore. Mrs. Arthur Holland and family have returned home after a month visiting friends in Philadelphia Pa. Mrs. Eugenia Myers has returned from Atlantic City, after a very pleasant trip. Mrs. Gertrude E. Wright and family of 1010 Park avenue have returned home from Hilton N. J. Miss Leona Carter has been confined to her home by illness but is now much improved. Mrs. Janie E. Frisby, of Philadelphia returned home after a stay of 12 days in Baltimore. Rev. J. H. Blake, who fractured his arm a few weeks ago, is in an improved condition. Mrs. Mary Queen, of Boston, ass, is visiting her daughter, Mrs Lillian Dyer, of 508 Parrish street. Mr. and Mrs. George Gowens spent a few hours in Baltimore, enroute from Washington to Philadelphia. Mrs. Harrison, of Pennsylvania, and Mrs Georgia Dockins, of Sparrows point, Md., are the guests of Rev. and Mrs. J.H. Blake. Miss Mattie Thomas, and Mrs. Owen Murray have returned home after a brief visit to Atlantic City, and Towsend, Del. Mrs. Adelaide V. Johnson, of 242 Forest street has returned home rom a 15 days vacation in Philadelphia and Atlantic City. Mrs. L. S.F lagg, of 634 George street is now spending a few weeks in Durham N. C., after a pleasant stay in Charlotte, N. C. Awful soft, Pitts' Labor Day. Mr. Dallas Frazier, of 1808 Etting street has returned home after spending some time at Atlantic City and Washington, D. C. Mr. and rs. Wm. H. Langley of 2217 Druid Hill ave., leave the city Sunday to spend a few days at Philadelphia and Atlantic City. Mrs. Sarah Holly, of 10 McIntosh street, has gone to Center Hill, N. C., to psend three weeks with her sister and brother. Miss Laura Gray of 2218 Druid Hill avenue was in Richmond, Va. last week attending the session of True Reformers. Messrs. E. L. W. Scott and Harry Wesley have returned from a fifteen day trip to New York. Philadelphia and the city-by-the-sea. Mrs. Edith Brooks, of Dolphin street, is spending a few weeks at West River, Md., the guest of Mrs, Belle Wilson. Contractor Frank K. Augins has completed the grading and laying of walks on the Courthouse grounds at Towson. 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, marriage, 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 Clim- Don't miss the last trip of the season with us to Cambridge, Wednesday, September 6. Mr. Alfred Washington has returned from a visit to relatives in Montgomery county, Pa. Mrs. G. B. Maddox and children, of 911 Druid Hill avenue, have returned from a visit to Pen Mar. Rev. Mr. Williams, of Fernandina, Fla. preaches at Waters A. M. E. Church Sunday. Mr. Thomas Smith of S16 Wolfe street who has been quite ill at the Marine Hospital is able to be out again. Mr. Lloyd Wynans and Mr. James Chapman of Philadelphia, Pa. were the guests of the Misses Briscoe, of 2023 Druid Hill avenue last week. Mrs. Annie C. Taylor of Norfolk Va. is the guest of Mrs. R. L. Howard of 1123 N. Carey street. Miss Marie Coleman has returned from Reisterstown Md., where she has been spending sometime. Mr. Benjaimn Ross and son, George W. Ross are visiting their uncle in Calvert county. Rev. and Mrs. D. G. Mack and children left Thursday for a short stay at Atlantic City. Mr. James E. Bias, of 11, N. Stricker street, is visiting relatives in North and South Carolina. Mrs. Chas T. Mason and daughters, of 1419 Riggs avenue, have gone to visit friends and relatives at Atlantic City. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Dockin, of 645 Durham street are spending a few weeks in New Market. Miss Reta Parker of Washington who has been visiting friends in Harrisburg Pa. stopped over in Baltimore for a few days last week as the guest of Mrs. Daniel Murphy. Mr. Solomon Bond grand master of the Order of Moses has returned from a visit to lodges in New York Philadelphia and Atlantic City. Attorney J. Wesley Parker has been appointed local salesman of the Lincoln Land and Improvement Company of the District of Columbia. Mrs. William R.Carr, Mrs. B. T. Amy, and Mrs. L. Bundy spent Sunday in Baltimore county, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Gross. Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Waller, have gone to Atlantic City to attend the Shriner's Convention and Daughters of Isis. Miss Daisy Thomas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John H. Thomas, of Sarah Ann street has gone to Pittsburg for an extended stay. Miss Bertha Poindexter, Mrs. Mabel King and Miss Mary Jackson have returned from Atlantic City. Mrs. S. E. Henderson of 1150 N. Carey street accompanied by her sister Mrs. M.H. Smith is visiting friends in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Miss Lillie M. Brown, 1740 Ashland avenue is spending her vacation as the guest of her uncle at McDanielstown, Md. Mr. Chas. P. Brownley of Wheaton, Va. is spending his vacation with his family at the home of their relatives, 805 McDonough street. Mr. and Mrs. James H. Rice Douglass, of Bayone, N. J., are visiting the latter's father, M. William Rice, of 407 E. Twenty-fouth street. Mrs. Mary Anderson of 1023 N. Durham street accompanied by her daughter Edith and niece Gladys are spending their vacation in Philadelphia Pa. Mr. John A. Bishop, the well-known funeral director, is spending his vacation at Perkins" Spring, Baltimore, where he hopes to be joined in a few days by Mr. William L. Fitzgerald, the Druid Hill avenue real estate man. The Thirtieth anniversary of the Green Spring M. E. Church, Baltimore county, was celebrated last Sunday. Stirring sermons were preached by Rev. Alrfed Young, of Baltimore, and Rev. William Brown of Lutherville. The collection during the day amounted to $200. Murikirk Camp closed August 27 with great success. The following able divines were present and delivered able sermons to about 1500 people. Rev. S. G. Hughes Revs. N. M. Carroll and S. A. Lewis The pastor Rev. Virgil Hughes will preach a special sermon to the Abram Lodge Sunday FOR RENT—Modern flat large light heat