The Afro-American

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN LEDGER VOL. XX NO. 3. NEGRO RACE IS NOT DYING OUT Dr. W. E. DuBois Refutes Statement Made By Dr. Ernest DEATH RATE HAS DECREAS ED IN LAST DECADE Death Rate In Richmond Cannot Be Used For Population In The Whole Country New York, September 14.—Dr. W. E. Burghardt, DuBois, the well known authority on economic and sociological questions, takes issue with the recent claim made by Dr. Ernest C. Levy, the health officer for Richmond, Va., that the colored people of this country are dying out. He say that almost every time the white man gives only statistics derogatory to the Negro. And that while conditions under which the whites force the colored people to live in many cities are responsible for the high death rate among the urban population. He says that only statistics are given for the million colored people who reside in cities and that there are no vital statistics for the 9,000,000 who live in rural sections. "Statements of that nature", he says, "appear from time to time in Southern papers. Among the white people of the South there are those who look upon the reported dying out of the race as a comfortable and easy means of settling the race problem. If the race dies out the problem will die with it. Whenever any statistics are compiled that in any way favor the colored race the white people seem to lose sight of them, but whenever any evidence of any nature can be collected derogatory to the colored race it is seized upon, published and considered with great satisfaction. Dr. Levy's alleged conclusions and the statistics which he offers in support of them furnish an example of this attitude. "Even though Dr. Levy's figures may be correct as far as Richmond is concerned, they cannot be accepted as applying anywhere else than in Richmond. Even then they cannot be accepted as evidence that the race is dying out in Richmond. It must be remembered that whatever mortuary statistics have been compiled that deal with the colored race in this country apply to the colored population of cities only. It is estimated that there are 10,000,000 colored people in this country. Of this number 1,118,000 live in the cities. It is to this latter number, between one-eighth and one-ninth only of the colored population that all death rates apply, and for certain reasons which I will explain the rate of mortality is higher in the cities than in the country districts. "It must also be remembered that there is no accurate record of th birth rate. In this country there is no method for accurately taking the birth rate. Because of this fact no accurate rate of increase can be used to set over against the rate of decrease. We can easily tell how rapidly the race is dying out, but not how rapidly it is renewing itself. "However, considering death rates only, it is evident that these rates are decreasing, not increasing. In 1890 the death rate of colored people as applied to the entire country, was 29.6 per 1000; in 1900 it had diminished to 29.6. In 1890 the city's death rate was $1.5; in 1900 it was only 27.6 "The colored death rate is alarm- M. ingly great in Richmond because that city will take no steps to better the living condition of its colored population. in any city the colored man must take for his dwelling houses which have been discarded as unfit for white inhabitation. There is a handicap in the very beginning. Even the educational advantages accorded the younger generation are militated against by this condition. In the majority of colored dwellings, particularly among the poorer classes, sanitary plumbing and other things so necessary to the physical heath and welfare of the whites are things unknown. But in Richmond, where Dr. Levy has been making observations, environment of the colored man is such that I wonder how they manage to live at all. Richmond, with Charleston and New Orleans, because of the tremendous handiecap which they force upon the colored man in a disease breeding environment which has he no choice but to accept, have the highest rates of mortality, among colored people, of any centre in the country. In 1890 the colored death rate in Richmond was 38.1, in Charleston 46.7, and in New Orleans 24. Nevertheless—and here is a fact that Dr. Levy apparently has overlooked—where as in 1900 the death rate was 38.1 in 1890 it was 40.8 nearly 3 per cent greater, and unquestionably the last decade has shown a corresponding decrease."—New York World. District Conference In Session (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Cambridge, Md., September 14. — The annual session of the Cambridge District Conference was held a few days ago at the Thompson town M. E. Church. The arrangements for the session were in charge of Rev. J. H. Blake, who has charge of the congregation and District Superintendent C. W. Pullett. Numerous topics relating to the religious and financial work of the conference were discussed. Among those who took part in the discussions were Revs. J. Hammond, J. H. Harman, J. R. Brinkley, Thomas J. Whaley, C. W. Pullett and J. H. Blake. Plans for building a district parsonage were discussed. Prominent Couple Married Salisbury, Md., Sept. 13.—Miss Mayme V. Postles, of Wilimngton, Del., and Mr. Caleb W. Johnson, of this town were married at the Parsonage of John Wesley M. E. Church on Wednesday evening the 6th inst. Rev. R. G. Waters preformed the ceremony. The wedding was witnessed by Miss Maggie Morris, Ernest Johnson, and others. REPUBLICANS NOTIFY GOLDSBOROUGH Candidate For Governor Makes Ringing Speech In Accept- PROGRESSIVE ADMINISTRATION IF ELECTED A United Republican Party Argues Well For Success In Fall Election (Staff Correspondence.) Cambridge, Md., September 15. With the optimistic spirit that was characteristic in 1895 when Lloyd Lowndes as nominated here for the Governorship, Phillips Lee Goldsborough was formally notified here yesterday that he was to be the Republican candidate for Governor. The address of Mr. Goldsborough in accepting the nomination was a ringing appeal for progressive principles in the management of the affairs of this state, against the iniquitous Wilson Ballot laws and for the adoption of the proposed charter for Baltimore City. He said that the Wilson Ballot laws had disfranchised white, as well as colored men and that the paramount issue in the campaign was fair elections. "I take this occasion," said Mr. Goldsborough, "to express my heartfelt sympathy with any movement within or without the party whose primary object is to guarantee the integrity of the right to vote and the assurance that the vote will be counted as cast and if in the course of human events I am elected, and it so becomes possible for me to exert the influence of the high office to which I have been nominated to bring about an amelioration of our present conditions, and to have effected by the legislature, laws which will permanently guarantee the freedom of elections, it will be my pleasure to do so." W. Calvin Chestnut in notifying Morris A. Soper of his nomination as Attorney General and Dr.A.R.L. Dohme in telling John H. Cunnigham that he had been selected for comptroller, as well as the two gentlemen notified, told the audience of the menace that confronts the people should Gorman be elected Governor. Chairman John B. Hanna and Congressman Parran also delivered addresses. Nearly 500 Goldsborough enthusiasts came from Baltimore on the Steamer Cambridge. There were only about a dozen colored men in the party Notes of the Gathering. It was the general belief that the McNulty charges will help the Republicans materially. As the passengers were embarking from the boat at Cambridge, Collector William F. Stone took hold of the arms of Messrs. Super and Cunningham and said. "I am piloting my candidates." Former City Councilman H. M. St. Clair entertained a party of visitors at his home. While the guests were eating chicken and drinking something that looked like ginger ale, Mr. St. Clair sang the praises of Candidate Goldsborough. There was a quartet of past and present municipal lawmakers at the notification meeting. They were Harry S. Cummings, of Baltimore, J. Albert Adams, who was ousted by Annapolis' disfranchising law, Continued on Page, 4. [Picture of a woman with a headband and a necklace. She is wearing a dark dress with a high collar.] (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Atlantic City. N. J., September 14.—Asbury M. E. Church is in a flourishing condition under the pastorate of Rev. A. L. Martin. Only a few Sundays ago $700 was raised, making $1,000 gathered in less than two months. Of the money given was a check for $50. J. S. Mundy, a wealthy white resident of Newark, N. J. Mr. Mosby gave $500 to Waugh Church. Cambridge when Rev. Martin was in charge there The pastor and congregation have recently given 100 toward the Y. M. C. A. fund. PIONEER NEW YORK TEACHER HONORED (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) New York, Sept. 14—Roscoe Conkling Simmons, who has been connected with the Age in an editorial capacity for the past year, has resigned and will probably take up journalistic work in the south. He is one of the best known writers and speakers in the country and is regarded by New Yorkers as one of the best speakers in the city. He is an alumnus of the Fisk and Columbia Universities. Mrs. S. J. C. Garnett, who accompanied by her sister, Dr. S. Marie Steward, of Wilberfore, O., attended the recent sessions of the Universal Races Congress in London, was tendered a welcome reception by the Equal Suffarge Club last Saturday evening at her home, 748 Hancock street, Brooklyn. Quite a number of persons prominent in the social life of greater New York, were present. Dr. W. E. B. DuBois gave a resume of the work of the Races Congress and Mr. D. Macon Webster delivered a brief address. Mrs. Garnett was one of the first to graduate from the mixed schools and was also one of the first colored teachers in this city. She retired a few years ago as principal of school 81, after having filled the position a number of years. She is 79 years of age, but is vigorous in her mental and physical powers. She is the widow of Henry Highland Garnett, the noted orator. R. W. Thompson, the well known corresponder spent last week here in this city. While here he was entertained by Lester A. Walton, of the Age, James H. Anderson and George W. Harris, of the Amsterdam News. E. C. MORRIS PREACHES THE GOSPEL OF HOPE Encouraging Outlook For The Race Despite The Many Discouragements. WANTS A BAPTIST COMMISSION APPOINTED Thousands of Baptists Present From Every Section of The Country. Pittsburg, Pa, Sept 13—Six thousand delegates and visitors from every part of the United States assembled in the big auditorium at Luna Park this morning to attendthe opening of the forty-seventh annual session of the National Baptist Convention. The convention is presided over by Dr. E. C. Morris, of Arkanass, who filled that position for the past seventeen years. The convention has in its membership leading men of the race of almost every trade and profession. Among them are doctors lawyers, presidents of colleges, public school teachers, bankers, business men of all kinds, as well as nearly every leading Baptist minister in the country. The usual formal welcome addresses were delivered and a formal welcome given to the delegates and their friends. Dr. Morris presided over the opening which was expressed in the fervency of the assembled congregation. Rev. Dr. Charles T. Parker, was the principal speaker at the opening concert and preliminary meeting last night. Dr. E. C. Morris, who has served as president of the Convention for the past seventeen years, delivered his annual address taking up every phase of the work, and reviewed the work done by each board. His recommendations were far reaching. Dr. Morris said in part: Dr. Morris is said to pat. "I most heartily congratulate this convention upon the wonderful progress it has made in the sixteen years just past, a progress which cannot be fully realized, unless care is taken to consider the disorgnaized condition of the Negro Baptists prior to that time. You have not only brought the Baptists of the United States together, and caused them to look upon your convention as the one great central organization around which all smaller Baptist organizations delight to rally, but you have succeeded in bringing under your banner the Baptists of the world. "When we think of the vast army so cheerfully following your lead in matters of religion, an army which conservatively considered, includes three-fifths of the entire race in this country, the responsibilities of your calling become appalling. For you are to lead not only in matters of relijon, but you are to direct in all things which go to build up a race just forty-six years from cruel bondage. The distance which the race has come is very great, but the distance it has yet to go in order to fully receive all the habiliments of a well-rounded race life, is still greater. "As ministers of the gospel and representatives of a great church organization, you necessarily believe in the inspired word of God and, looking through the heavenbuilt lens, you cannot fail to see a bright future for this despised race. We believe that, Josephus reign where or the sun 'Jesus shall reign where'er the sun, Doth his successive journey run' and when the reign is complete, as it surely will be,' then you and I M. B. and all other creatures of earth will be free from the hand of the oppressor, and every man will enjoy equal and exact justice from the powers that be. "It may not seem an easy matter to wait on the Lord when your ambitious spirits are clamoring for rights that are inalienable, yet it is far better to wait upon him. When he would force the powerful hand of the Egyptian government to relax its hold upon an innocent and Will Accept Chicago Call (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Wilimington, Del., Sept. 14—Rev. C. Lee Jefferson, who has been pastor of Gilbert Presbyterian Church, has accepted a call to Hope Presbyterian Church, Chicago. He has been here for the past 18 years. Dr. Conwel Banton has entirely recovered from his recent illness. Assistant Attorney Geneval W. H. Lewis and Attorney James A. Cubb both of Washington, were in the city renewing acquaintances, Monday Conclude Successful Annual Session at Atlantic City.—Baltimore Gets Position (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Atlantic City, September 12.—The second annual session of the Daughters of Isis was held here last week in conjunction with the meeting of the Mystic Shriners Seventeen States were represented. Mrs. E. A. Golden, of Pittsburg, presided over the sessions, and Mrs. Laura Williams, of New Orleans served as grand recorder. The order was reported to be in a prosperous condition. The following officers were elected: Mrs. Laura Williams, New Orleans, grand commandress; Mrs. M. Miller, Washington, D. C.. first lieutenant commandress; Mrs. L. A. Melka, St. Paul Minn., second lieutenant commandress; Mrs. L. M. Thompson, Baltimore, high priestess; Mrs. U. Hines, St. Joseph, Mo., grand treasurer; Mrs. E. A. Goldstein, Pittsburg, Pa, grand recorderess; Mrs. L. A. Humphries, St. Louis, Mo., first ceremonial daughter; Mrs. Frances Butler, New York, Oriental guideess Mrs. A. White, Boston, inside spy, and Mrs. Semmons, Providence. R. I., outside spy. Prejudice Causes Dismissal Milwaukee, Wis., September 13. John A.Hall, who was dismissed from a position in one of the city departments has been ordered to be reinstated by the Commissioner of Public Works. His discharge was made by a prejudiced subordinate official, who objected to a colored man holding a position under him. NEW HOME FOR "MOTHER ZION" Oldest Congregation In Zion Convention Has Had a Long and Eventful Career—Pastor Bolden Desires to Erect Institutional Church In Heart of Colored Population. By CLEVELAND G. ALLEN. New York.-Owing to the trend of the colored population to the upper section of the city, "Mother" A. M. E. Zion church, located in West Eighty-ninth street, in an exclusive white neighborhood, is making preparation to move to a neighborhood more convenient to the colored population. These facts were made known recently by Rev. Dr. R. M. Bolden, the successful young pastor of the church, who appointed a committee of twenty-one to take the matter of removal under advisement. Rev. Dr. Bolden is desirous that the church shall exert the largest religious influence and with that end in view will endeavor to secure a site in a section where a large number of colored people live upon which to erect the new edifice. The idea of Dr. Bolden is to build an institutional church, with a splendid parsonage, that will equal any edifice in the country. Mother Zion A. M. E. church is full of historic interest and is the oldest church in the Zion connection. It has had an interesting growth, beginning in 1800, its first church site at the corner of Church and Leonard streets. The growth upon the church demanded a larger structure, and in 1840 a new church was erected. The church then moved to West Tenth and Blecker 4 REV. R. M. BOLDEN, D. D. streets, where it stood as a force in the spiritual life of the city and a credit to Zion for many years. The onward sweep of the colored population still demanded a larger and more commodius edifice, and consequently, in 1904, "Mother Zion" moved to the present site in West Eighty-ninth street. The invasion of the church in this exclusive neighborhood was commenced upon all over the country. The church has done much to bring about a more friendly relation between the races. The "mother church," as it is loudly called by Zionites, has had as its pastor some of the most noted men of the connection. Distinguished prelates like Bishop Alexander Walters, J. C. Caldwell, M. R. Franklin and others well known in the connection once mastered at Mother Zion. Since the pastorate of Rev. Mr. Bolden Mother Zion has had a steady growth, and through his energy the church has become a center of religious influence. The moving of Mother Zion to the upper section of the city a few years ago marked a new era in her long and eventful history, and special services commemorating the event were held. The services were graced by the presence of Bishop G. L. Blackwell, the scholarly prelate of the Zion connection. The present pastor of Mother Zion took charge of her affairs in 1900 and has met with signal success. During his pastorate 400 new members have been added to the church and the congregation has greatly increased. The church is well organized. School Facilities in Fort Worth. The new high school building in Fort Worth. Tex. was erected at a cost of $50,000. The school population numbers about 2,800. The high school furnishes accommodations for upwards of 1,000 pupils. Of the fifty-eight colored teachers in Fort Worth, twenty-one teach in the various departments of education in this building, under the supervision of Professor I. M. Terrell, who is one of the best known educators in the state. Evidences of Race Progress Noted. It is gratifying to note the increasing desire upon the part of the colored people throughout the country to buy land and establish more suitable dwelling houses in which to live. Farm owning is another sign of progress which is very necessary. The total number of farms owned by the race in South Carolina as reported in 1910 was 60,696. This number has since been increased by scores. ADVISES RESPECT FOR LAW. There is but One Path to Peace, Says President Scarborough. In his speech at the universal peace congress recently held in London President W. S. Scarborough of Wilberforce (O.) university said: The fact that the wide world is awakening to the dangers confronting society at large is a good sign. We are sure that the weapons of good will eventually be more potential than those of evil in adjusting the Negro question in the states. There must be an uprising of fearless men of all races—men who see the right and dare to do it in averting trouble and discountenancing anything that panders to race prejudice; men who will preach untrigly and unceasingly the gospel of the common brotherhood of man; who will work for legislation that will render equal justice to all; who will unite in stilling crime, helping the fallen and guarding the youth; who will plead for that general exercise of Christian fellowship that will lead to confidence in and respect for self and others. The Negro is needed in the development of America. He is native to its customs, its religion and its laws; has virtues as well as vices. He has given his blood in its defense, and it owes him a chance. It becomes a matter of right and duty that both north and south should unite actively in mutual co-operation with the race for law and order, for peace and fraternity, for right and justice. There is but one path to peace and the final adjustment of this question. And that is to use the law for the protection and punishment of white and black citizens alike, to practice the true Christianity that is preached and to leave the door of hope open to the Negro as to any other people. This work will devolve upon godly preachers, self sacrificing, intelligent teachers, devoted philanthropists and wide awake, earnest students of sociology, and it is the mission of the higher institutions of learning for the Negro in the United States to raise up, educate and inspire the coming generations of the race to assist in the consummation of this purpose. ONLY JUSTICE CAN BRING ABOUT UNIVERSAL PEACE. Why World Problems Cannot Be Solved by Money Alone. In discussing the many plans and theories which have been projected for averting war and establishing universal peace John E. Bruce ("Grit") of Yonkers, N. Y., presents the following view of the suspendons task: "The real panacea for war is universal justice. Establish justice and righteousness among the nations and there will be no need for standing armies and formidable navies. It is not in the province of any nation to establish universal peace while so many great economic, social, racial and industrial problems wait upon justice for solution. "Those who now are crying 'Peace, peace.' very well know that there is no peace and can be none until justice dominates the hearts and minds of the nations of the earth. Human nature will have to undergo a remarkable change in order for universal peace to become a living, tangible fact. God only can bring about universal peace, and there does not yet appear to be any evidence that he is about to do so. The preparations for war now going on both in this country and in Europe are not significant of universal peace. The nations are adding to the quotas of their standing armies and vying with each other in the building of Dreadnoughts. "This is not the way of peace. It is not an urgency of the approach of the millennium which a peace fund could be used in helping to hasten on. There shall be wars and rumors of war and that 'not one lot or title of his word shall fail.' The points are well taken. The world will not be ready for universal peace until every nation is prepared for it through the application of the principles of righteousness which exalterna nation. Then universal justice will prevail in all the earth and men to men shall brothers be for a that and a that. The American dollar is a potent force in the world today, but is not negotiable currency and will not avail in the solution of world problems which can only be solved by the Almighty and which he is going to solve in his own way." Young Men's League Donates Bibles. The Young Men's league of the Concord Baptist Church in Brooklyn, of which the Rev. Dr. William M. Moss is pastor, has donated to the church $22 Bibles to be used in the pews by the members and congregation at public worship. The league also gave the church $12 in cash. The presentations were made on the occasion of the league's first appearance in a body at the evening services of the church on Sunday, Sept. 3. Mr. Charles H. Vuenn, president of the organization, made the presentation address. Both Races to Live Together in Peace. Dr. William J. Thompson, in an address before the National Negro Educational congress recently held in Denver, is credited as having said: "We abhor the mere expression of social equality as the average white man sees it. We ask no special favors, but we do ask for a square deal to make opportunities for men," The Negro is here to stay. He and the white man are tied together by location, by education, by language, by custom and by blood. They cannot be separated if they would." THE AFRO=AMERICAN=LEDGER KNIGHTS THRONG ASBURY PARK SPECTACULAR STREET PARADE Biennial Session of Noted Secret Order Attended by Delgates From All Parts of the Country—Cheering Reports Made by Officials of the Various Departments. Asbury Park, N. J.—The biennial session of the supreme lodge of Knights of Pythias, Eastern and Western Hemispheres, which opened in this city on Sunday, Sept. 3, with members of the order in attendance from all sec- tions of the country, was marked by enthusiasm and the hearty fraternal greetings in a nifested among the delegates. The annual sermon was delivered by the Rev. W. S. Carpenter of Philadelphia. Rev. Mr. Carpenter was at his best, and his words of wisdom and good advice were inspiring and profitable to the great throng of earnest listeners. The great SUPREME CHANCELOR HAWKINS. Pythian hosts were formally made welcome to the city by his honor Mayor Appleby, and the Rev. William Wallace, grand chancellor of New Jersey, on Monday, at Morrow Hall, in which the business sessions were held. Responses were made by Supreme Chancellor W. Ashton, Hawkins of Baltimore and Mrs. Hattie Nix, supreme worthy chancellor, Kansas City, Mo., who represented the courts of Calanthe. Respendent in gay uniforms, commanded by Adjunct General J. B. Loving of California and Brigadier Mary E. MRS. HATTIE NIX, S. W. G. General D. M. Pappy of Florida, the uniform rank paraded the principal avenues Monday afternoon. Supreme Chancellor Hawkins made his biennial address Tuesday, in which he reviewed the work of the various departments of the order and predicted a great future. The reports of the supreme keeper of records and seal, William E. Grandison of Cambridge, Mass. and supreme master of exchequer, William A. Heathman, showed progress. The reports of D. M. Pappy, grand chancellor for Florida; Elmer J. Fuel- lo. grand chancellor for New England; Rev. W. H. Wallace, grand chancellor for New Jersey; Joseph F. Drake, grand chancellor for South Carolina; Rev. J. W. Hurse, grand chancellor for Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri; Rev. J. W. Jefferson, grand chancellor for Delaware and Maryland; I. Newton Richardson, grand 2 chancellor for Pennsylvania, and of the heads of the New York grand lodge showed progress numerically and financially. The supreme court of Calanthe also held its biennial session. Mrs. Hattie Nix, Mrs. Jannie Ross of Baltimore, the supreme register of deeds. J. H. Berrien and other leading spirits made commendable reports. The final session was held on Friday evening, Sept. 8. "In hot water again, Celeste?" inquired the fluffy-haired blonde, with a solemn parade of sympathy. Young Mrs. Allison nodded. She opened her mouth to explain, but closed it again with decision. The sewing circle waited politely while she took seven stitches on a drawn work bureau scarf. But finding that she maintained a resolute silence, the fluffy-haired blonde besought an explanation. "What's the trouble now, dear?" she asked. Young Mrs. Allison laid down the bureau scarf and sighed. "Oh, it's my fluent conversation, as usual," she said. The gushing young woman in helliotrope breathed a sympathetic "Ah!" but the fluffy-haired blonde giggled and young Mrs. Allison glared at her resentfully. "Do you know Mrs. Morrison Morse?" demanded Mrs. Allison, with a dark frown. "Why, yes, I do," said the fluffy-haired blonde, with interest. "I met her the other day at the bridge club. She dropped in just in time for refreshments and—" "I'm sure she did." interrupted young Mrs. Allison, freely. "She's always dropping in somewhere. She drops in to tea at dinner time and when she accepts a luncheon invitation she usually arrives after you have given her up and the soup is being served. She simply loves to be casual!" The gushing young woman in heliotrope emitted another soulful monosyllable. "Well," commented the fluffy-haired blonde, doubtfully, "I don't know her very well, myself, but she wears ravishing clothes. What have you got against her, Celeste?" "I?" exclaimed young Mrs. Allison, with surprise. "Oh, nothing, except her habits—but she has something against me." "Um," said the fluffy-haired blonde, comprehendingly. "Have you been telling her what a pity " is that her husband is so ugly, or did you warn her against wearing lavender next her face?" "Neither," responded young Mrs. Allison, cheerfully. "For, I will add, am I such a painfully tactless person as you all think. I have been known to mak. quite charming personal remarks to people on the spur of the moment, and very often," she added sadly, "I think of the loveliest and most plausible lies imaginable—afterward." "I don't believe it," said the fluffy-haired blonde, with a sigh on her own account. "There are many virtues, my love, that your warmest friends cannot claim for you, but your most radical enemy couldn't accuse you of untruthfulness. Now, what is this trouble with Mrs. Morrison Morse, anyway?" "She called me up on the telephone the other day," explained young Mrs. Allison, meekly, "and asked me if I had anything on hand for Saturday afternoon. I said I hadn't. I've been feeling like going to the matinee, she told me. 'Let's go tomorrow, then.' That suited me perfectly, so we decided on what to see and where to meet and all that. Of course I understood that it was to be a Dutch treat, as we all do that way, you know." The different members of the sewing circle nodded affirmatively. "Well," continued young Mrs. Allison, her voice becoming aggrieved. "Saturday afternoon came, as the novelists say, and I had met Mrs. Morrison Morse, who was so late that I was cross. Then we went to the matinee!" Young Mrs. Allison paused, as if reflecting on the unhappiness of that past occasion. "You all know how stupid the play was," she went on, finally, with considerable heat. "and I remarked to Mrs. Morse that it was too bad we had wasted our time and our money on it. She gave me the strangest look, but I was dense as a porpoise." "Porpoise?" murmured the fluffy-haired blonde, inquiringly. "Is a porpoise dense? "I'm sure I don't know," returned young Mrs. Allison, blundly. "I'm not connected with the zoo myself, but it sounds all right, doesn't it?" "Oh, very well," said the fluffy-haired blonde with resignation. "Let it pass." "And," young Mrs. Allison continued, taking up the thread of her narrative. "between the second and third acts I remarked that it was a pity we hadn't bought our seats earlier, so that we might have obtained, better ones." The fluffy-haired blonde burst out laughing. "What an appreciation! we guest you were, Celeste!" she cried. "That's just it," admitted young Mrs. Allison gloomily. "When I tried to pay her for my ticket I discovered that she had invited me to go—invited me, you understand. And when I tried to explain my mistake it was like sharing confidences with a stone wall." "No wonder you hate her," said the fluffy-haired blonde. "Of course not," agreed young Mrs. Allison. "It is dangerous for anybody to try to be polite to me." "Anything new in your wife's letter?" "Yes; there was no postscript." WE LOAN MONEY Who can furnish a funeral for $10.00 and up; caskets for $3.00 and up He can furnish you carriages for Funerals, Weddings, Parties, Receptions, etc., from his own stables at the most reasonable rates. You need not come to see him, just call South 422 or South,396-Y. 142 W. Hill Street np Mount Vernon,5138 526 Druid Hill. Wish to announce to the generous public that I am still doing business at my old stand, 578 W. BIDDLE ST. Thanking the public for all past favors and hoping for a continuance of the same. Carriage for hire for weddings, parties and funerals, and special attention given to all orders day or night. Yours, ALEX, HEMSLEY, Baltimore's Leading Undertaker 506 ROGERS AV. The KITCHEN GABINET HAT is the use of weeping if the sun does take a rest? It's bound to go on shining when the good Lord thinks it's best. —Florence M. Day. OVEN HINTS. It is always better in baking flour mixtures to have a moderate heat at first, until the cake or biscuit is fully risen, then increase the heat so that it will brown over quickly. It too extreme heat is used at first the dough is stiffened before it has an opportunity to rise; the result is a cracked and unsightly surface. Biscuits and pastries are baked in a very hot oven, as the cut surfaces allow the gases to escape readily. Pastry, unless baked quickly, will be soggy. Have a strong under heat for linking pastry. Small ovens cool quickly and should be heated hotter than large ones. Do not cool the oven by keeping the door open too much. The length of time for roasting or baking fish depends upon the extent of the surface exposed to the heat more than on the number of pounds. For example, a tihn large roast, because of its large surface exposed would take less time to roast than a roll roast of the same number of pounds. A steak an inch thick requires six to ten minutes for broiling; an inch and a half, eight to fifteen minutes. Lamb should never be served rare; mutton may. In baking angel food a very slow oven is maintained throughout the first half of the baking, then a little increase and finish with heat enough to brown the cake a rich brown. A layer cake needs a hot oven and should bake in twelve to twenty minutes. Molasses and fruit cakes should have slower ovens. An ordinary ginger bread will bake in a good oven in forty-five minutes. The small ovens used on the top of gas stoves are a great convenience and economy. Nellie Maxwell. A Motive Indorsed. "I don't blame that cook of ours for wanting more salary," remarked Mr. Growcher. "But you always are complaining of the food she prepares." "Certainly. She undoubtedly wants a larger income so that she can afford to eat at a restaurant." 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. CURIOUS BITS OF HISTORY NEGRO SLAVERY IN NEW ENGLAND. It seems strange to think of New England as slave territory, yet such it was at once period. A good authority places the number of negro slaves in the New England colonies at the outbreak of the Revolution as follows: In New Hampshire, about 700; in Massachusetts, about 5,000; in Connecticut, about 6,000; and in Rhode Island, probably 3,000. But slavery was never popular in that section, and the opposition to it was strong. In 1784 the Connecticut legislature passed an act that no negro or mulatto child born within that state after a certain date should be held in servitude longer than until the age of 25. A considerable number of New England citizens were vitally interested in the slave trade. In Colonial times slaves were frequently sent out from Boston and other New England seaports to the south. They would buy molasses from Jamaica, turn it into rum, trade the rum for negroes in Africa, and sell the negroes as slaves in Jamaica, taking their pay partly in molasses. Thus it was a sort of endless chain, with good profit in every link. A Colonial writer, Samuel Hopkins, says that in 1770 Rhode Island had about 150 vessels engaged in slave trade. (Copyright, 1911, by Joseph B. Bowles.) ABSINTHE AS A "TOOTH DOPE" Bartender Finds Out One Good Thing About the Popular But Wicked Stimulant. He had just had a tooth out—one of those extractions that seem to go to the root of all things—and dashed in to see his friend the bartender for solace. He called for whisky, and as he swallowed a toper's portion explained the reason for his haste. He had to drown the pain, he said, over the bar, and while he was about it guessed he would repeat the dose. "I know a better way than that," said the barkeeper, forcibly removing the whisky bottle from the bar. "Absinthe is what you need." And he poured out about a thimbleful. "All that?" inquired the toothless one. "Aren't you afraid it will lay me out?" "S'nough," said the bartender. "Just put that in your mouth; don't swallow it; and let it soak in where the tooth was. It will fix you all right, stop the hemorrhage and the pain at the same time." Credulously the customer obeyed, and found almost instant relief. "Dangerous stuff (hat)," said the bartender; "even those who use it admit its wickedness, its treachery to its friends, its general cussedness. But it's a good friend to the man who's had a tooth out or who has an ache in a tooth that isn't out. Don't know why—it isn't only the alcohol in it, but it's the best tooth cure I've found." E. C. MORRIS PREACHES THE GOSPEL OF HOPE Continued from Page 1 inoffensive race and give to it the right of self-government, a right which is due to every people of earth. He equipped an irresistible army of frogs which he sent in solid phalanx against the kingdom and compelled its surrender. And in due time, in His own way He will settle all differences and inequalities which exist in our country. Christianity — and I mean that Christianity which lifts its head above Jesus Christ, above the narrow selfish views of men, and teaches that 'of one blood God hath created all men' is the only means of bringing about the proper adjustment of all differences among men because of race, color or condition. That these things will come, no one need doubt, for the honor of Jesus and the glory of his cause are at stake, while the armies of heaven are at his command to see that he is fully acknowledged and universally proclaimed Lord of the whole earth. "I submit that we suffer many unjust and almost unbearable proscriptions. In many sections of our country we are forced to bear a part of the burden in support of the government by the payment of taxes, meantime are deprived of the ordinary rights of citizens; forced to pay first-class fare on common carriers of the country and in return receive second and third class accommodation. But these conditions will not always prevail, and to those who would be unnecessarily impatient or dismayed, I would ask the question that Sojourner Truth asked Frederick Douglass, "Is God dead?" "Already there is an undercurrent sentiment beginning to assert itself, which emphasises that from the very foundation of this government the black man has been as loyal and patriotic, in peace and in war, as any class of citizens dwelling under the flag, and that history is yet to record a single act of violence committed by them in the days of slavery when the opportunity was most inviting for such depredations. "In the South where the proscriptive laws and intense race feeling are most keenly felt, and where a large majority of our people live, and will in all probability continue to live. I am glad to say the best Negro people in that section are beginning to see each other in a different light from that in which they have been presented by the political demagogues, so that while the races are separate in social matters they are becoming more and more as one in religious matters. "Too high a compliment cannot be paid the Negro ministry for the part it has played in keeping peace between the two conspicuous races in this country. It is due to their patience and spirit of humility that hostile elements and their following have been kept down. This they will continue to do as long as the spirit of the blessed Christ is allowed to govern in the affairs of men. It is a fact, that the leadership of the Negro race has been confined to the ministry, but this may not be the case always, as it is not altogether the case with the more advanced races. In my opinion it is time that the leaders in our great organizations should begin to broaden their policies so as to take into their confidence and counsel the best prepared men of the race from other callings and professions of life Relations In Civic Matters. The National Baptist Convention being the largest and most representative body of Negro Christians in the world, it must of necessity give some consideration to civic matters. The very large number of prominent laymen in our churches, some of them are the leaders of the people in various walks of life, have followed the guidance of their ministers without questioning the course pursued, are now beginning to ask, what are the great and powerful organizations we have helped to build up going to do toward bettering the condition of the masses of the people? It has been suggested and rightly so, I think, that the influence of the convention should be felt in securing for our race such legislation and such judicial and executive action, both state and national, as will guarantee to all life, liberty and fair opportunity as citizens, but not from a narrow political or partisan standpoint. The president of this convention is of the opinion that a standing committee of nine persons—appointed by this body three of which should be ministers and six laymen, whose duty it shall be to study the condition of our people J. in every part of the country and report their findings at each meeting of the National Baptist Convention; four members of this committee to hold over and five to be appointed at each subsequent meeting. I would suggest that such a committee be located at the capital of the nation, and be charged with the duty of presenting memorials from this body to the President of the United States. The Baptist World Alliance "So much has been spoken and written about the World Baptist Alliance, that anything said by me would be repetition, but so inspiring and far reaching in results have been the two meetings that the story never grows old, and will bear telling over and over again. In the providence of God the Alliance came into being for such a time as this—a time when designing men are trying to widen the breach between brethren of common faith on no other ground than that of race, color and condition, thereby bring reproach upon the christian religion and reducing Jesus Christ, the great head of the church to the level of sinful men. I think I can safely state that this evil purpose is fully met in the Alliance and will be overthrown "It is not easy to conceive what the bringing together of the Baptist forces of this world, more than seven million in number, means. It says, to me that the future evangelization of the world will be very largely in the hands of the Baptists, and to me it means the Baptist idea of absolute freedom of the soul and the independent individualism in the worship of God, without the dictation of civil powers, is to permeate the world." The president then entered into a discussion of the work of each board, and making timely recommendations touching future modus operandi. At the conclusion of the address a motion passed by which the rule was suspended and Dr. Morris was again elected president of the convention Report of Secretary Boyd The report of Rev. R. H. Boyd, secretary of the National Baptist Publishing Board, of Nashville, Tenn, showed gross receipts for the year ending August 31, of $187, s 753.77. Dr. Boyd declared that unless the Negro exercised more self dependence, which will make them a progressive and industrious people, and help teach their posterity that a well man needs no crutches, they were not going to make as rapid progress in the future as they had in the past. He spoke particularly from a denominational point of view, as he said he represented the future churches among two and one half million Negro Baptists. Tuskegee Gets Four Thousand By the will of the late Miss Georgiana Harper, a colored woman of Sandusky, Ohio, the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama receives a bequest of between three and four thousand dollars. Mrs. Annie Scott Entertains Mrs. Annie Scott, of 834 Plover street gave a reception on Friday of last week in honor of Miss Charlotte Pye, after which she left for Canada on Sunday. The evening was spent in dancing and games and afterward the guests were served with the delicacies of the season. Those present were: Misses Mary Bragg, Francis Valentne, Miss Pearl O. Flagg, of Washington; Minnie L. Johns, of Philadelphia. Nellie Bragg, Cecilia Gaines, Agnes right, Wilimina Robinson Charlotte Pye. Messrs. Harrison Pinder, Clifton Wescott, Eugene Payne, Frank Hall, Otho Church, Ernest Purviance, Alfred Brooks, Harry Bragg, Winslow Weekes, William Bishop, and Prof. Howard. Miss Mamie Woolford, of 436 Register street, who has been spending a two months vacation at Atlantic City, and is now the guest of Mrs. Mary E. Barvney, 1043 S. Dorrance street, Phiadelphia, Pa. THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER MEETS A MEAN MAN ON THE PENNSYLVANIA MEETS A MEAN MAN ON THE PENNSYLVANIA He Was A Conductor Who Did Not Know How To Treat Colored Ladies THE COLONEL CALLS HIM DOWN A FEW. Attends The Wedding Anniversary of Rev. R. R. Wright In Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pa.—I have a few things to say to you this week, and I am sure that you will listen to them When I took my pen in hand to write to you the last tiime I was in Baltimore, and I am sure that many of the Batimore people wanted to know what I was going to say about them. From Baltimore I came right to this town. I heard when I got here that they were installing Rev. W. F. Graham, from Richmond, pastor of one of the largest Baptist churches here, Holy Trinity. I went and shook hands with Dr. Graham and he told me that D. Webster Davis was in town, so I decided to go and hear him deliver a lecture on "Sambo's Search for the Promised Land." I tell you it will pay a man any time to hear Dr. Davis. He is one of the most speakingest men in the country and can just keep you laughing all the time, but every time he opens his mouth he is saying something. You cannot listen to Davis without learning something worth while. Bright and early next morning I was up and on my way to the stable to get on the carriage for Chestertown, Md. I reached the stable on time and was soon headed for that place. Now I rode and rode until down to a little place where we had to change and this time I was confronted with "James Crow" I had no objection to it because I am used to it, but I tell you it is strange how civilization changes. The meanest man I have ever seen on the Pennsylvania was the conductor. He spoke to the women of my race like he was talking to brutes, and I just spoke out to him right there and then, and told him that unless he was a little more civil I would take it up with his company. He never replied, but just looked at me, and I heard him say to a white man "That's one of them smart nigger preachers who thinks he owns the world." I do not want to own the world, but I would like to own that hot place and give him free accommodation down there. I would just like to be the devil -long enough to set fire to men like that and hear them beg for water, and then I could remind him how he treated my people in this world. No such good luck will happen to me, so I will dismiss the matter. Chestertown was reached, and Rev. J. A. Young was waiting at the stable to meet me, and he was there with Rev. Boston, who had a horse and buggy to take me round. I was soon at the home of Rev. Young. He is the pastor of the A. M. E. church in this place. Rev. Young is one of the young preachers who is making good and who will make the world know that he is in it. He married the daughter of Rev. Green, and she was one of the teachers in the public school system. She greeted me with one of those Baltimore smiles and told me to come in and be at home. After dinner I went out to see the town. Now I had a list of men whose names I have lost. I intended to tell you a few things about them. I went to the grocery owned by our people, and that man is doing a fine business. Then I went to the ice cream man's place. I think his name is Robinson. He is a fine man and made me at home in his place. He furnished me with some of his ice cream. I did not tell you that the only manufacturers of ice cream are the two men of my race. Then the people own some property, but not as much as they should own. They are not taking opportunities by purchasing the land. I am glad that I had the pleasure of going ot to the town. Bright and early Thursday morning I was up and on my way to Philadelphia again. I reached town, and went up to the home of Mrs. Mabel Bailey, to get some mail and found a good many letters there for me. I called on some friends, and later found me on my way to Jenkintown where I had been invited to speak for Rev. J. C. Jackson and his people. I went directly to his home and found them looking for me. The church was filled with REV. R. R. WRIGHT REV. R. R. WRIGHT people to hear what I had to say, and I said it in great shape. Rev. Jackson is one of the leading preachers of our race and he is doing a great work. He came to this place from Lynchburg, Va. I returned to the city that night, made a trip to Trenton, and other places and at night I went to the home of Rev. R. R. Wright, editor of the Christian Recorder, and manager of the A. M. E. Book Concern. This young man made his way to the front. He spent the early part of his life preparing for this world. He got good education in this country and then went to Germany where he took on more, and took on still more in the University of Chicago where he got his Ph. D. At the death of Dr. Collett he was placed in charge of the Book Concern and the Recorder and in this position he has been telling the world something. He has gotten out several special editions of the Recorder that were a credit to the institution, and to the whole race. He has the right idea of getting out a religious paper, and he is giving to the church a good paper. Right now you are asking why I went to Rev. Wright's home instead of the office? Well I think it is your business and I will therefore tell you. It was his wedding anniversary. He two years ago joined hands with the daughter of Prof. Crogman, of Clark University, Atlanta, Ga., and they invited me out to share their wedding anniversary, and I was glad to have the pleasure of doing so. I had the wedding anniversary with them. Mrs. Wright is a fine young woman, and they are happy. After eating the supper I went over to the White Rock Baptist church, where the people were waiting to hear me. The Rev. Goff gave me a great crowd and an ovation that would have honored President Taft. Then I had the pleasure of attending a banquet with Mrs. Highland and her sister, Mrs. Jones. we did eat, but what do you think of me sitting at the table with two ladies and both of them widows and going to sleep? I was just sleepy and I did not hesitate to go to sleep. Now then, you want to know what I did Saturday. I went around to see some friends, then I next found my way to Atlantic City. I was the guest of Rev. H. P. Anderson, pastor of St. James A. M. E. Church. I reached the city about 5.30 and while Rev. Anderson was there to meet me, he did not see me, so I went out in town, visited many places, met many people. I went to the Everett place, and had the pleasure of shaking hands with Mrs Everett and Mrs. Mason, and then on to other places. I then went to the parsonage and found Mrs. Anderson as happy as could be. Mrs. Anderson is a product of Wilberforce, and is the daughter of one of the pioneer preachers of Ohio the late Rev. Jeremiah Lewis. Some years ago she linked her future to the coming young minister Rev. H. P. Anderson, the man who knows what it is to work and work hard. Every place he has been appointed since he left Payne Theological Seminary he has held it down the time limit and the people have wanted the law changed so they could have him no longer His last charge was Trenton, N. J., but he did not get to stay there the limit. Rev. Murray, had lived out the law in Atlantic City, and they needed a strong man to follow him, thence Bishop Gaines, called upon young Anderson. He pulled up, went to town took hold at once, and he has had an up hill pull of it, but he has pulled the load just the same. He has gotten into the hearts of the people around Atlantic City. Now you can get an idea how well the people love him - when I tell you Sunday was just the ordinary day, and when they closed out the day's work they had on the table $150. I have written too much for this week already, but will tell you more about Atlantic City, and as I met Editor Murpy, c will tell you about the Y.M.C.A. He made a big speech Sunday afternoon. Send all mail for me, care A. M. E. Conference, St. Joseph, Mo. Groceries & Provisions, Butter, Eggs & ..and Poultry... M. TRECOR & SONS' (Original Red Box) Superior Hair Dressing ...PRINCESS COMB AND HEATER... To be used by modern Ladies and Children to dress the Hair to any stylish fashion. Druggist and Notion Stores should keep this Superior Hair Dressing in stock Please ask in the next store for it or write direct to us. Price for wholesale or rent on application. M. TREGOR & SONS PRINCESS Price of Princess Comb, $1.00. Heater 50c. extra Directions to be used will be mailed with every order. M. TREGOR & SONS Wholes Manufacturers of Perfameries and Toilet Articles 1131 E. Baltimore Street, 1229 Street, N. W., Baltimore. Washington, D. C. FELIX B. PYE, Sr. 02 E. 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All communications intended for publication should be addressed to THE AMERICAN LEDGER, 628 North Eutaw Street, Baltimore, Md. Advertising rates made known upon application. All Checks, Money Orders an Drafts should be made payable to THE AYRO-AMERICAN Co. BALTIMORE, SEPT. 16, 1911 The Republican party of Maryland has a splendid opportunity to win at the coming election. But it will take work, hard work and plenty of it. If the G. O. P. could muster up a little ginger it might do wonders. If ever a jury did its full duty the jury in the Beattie case did its duty. Seldom has a more horrible crime been committed by any one than the crime of young Beattie in ordering his young wife and leaving a very young baby motherless to the tender mercies of the world. In our judgment the jury is entitled to the thanks of every right thinking man and woman in the country. Would that we had more of the same kind. School days are here again, and it is the duty of every parent to see that his child goes to school and stays there until the end of the term, if possible. Give the teachers your support and do not be continually finding fault. You know that your child gives an awful amount of trouble at home, what it will do in school can well be imagined. Be sure you are right before you proceed to give the teacher "a piece of your mind." The great State of Pennsylvania owes it to itself and to the community at large that is shall purge itself from the awful blot cast upon it by the mob that committed the disturdly crime of lynching Zack Walker. If Walker was a murderer, so were they and as Walker, had he lived would, without doubt paid the penalty of his crime, the State owes it to itself to see that his murderers meet the same punishment that would have been meted out to him. IS IT TRUE? Our most esteemed contemporary, The Age, of New York, in an editorial on "The Minister's Part in Business Uplift" asserts the following, the accuracy of which we seriously question: Says the Age: "A well-to-do, a prosperous membership, is more helpful, more to be desired, than an impoverished one." That the above assertion ought to be true we readily agree, but it is not what it should be, is it a fact? Is it the experience of the Negro Ministers, as a class, that the "well-do" among the race, members of Negro Churches, are the "most helpful" and "more to be desired"? Such may be true but we have good ground to doubt. We do not believe that it is true, as it refers to Negro Churches. Most of the colored clergy with whom we come into contact complain that in proportion as many of the race become "well-to-do" and prosperous, they lose inter- ests in the things of the Kingdom; they are given more to pleasures, extravagances and looseness with respect to high moral and ethical ideals; they prefer the theatre, and the many worldly divergencies, to the life of the Gospel. Herein is evidenced the deep devotion of the Negro Ministers, as a class. They unhesitatingly do all they can to encourage the business life and aspirations of our people, well knowing that in such success the Church will be made to suffer. The man who was once fond of and enjoyed religio, in the successes he has had in business life has been greatly removed from its soothing effect; so much so, that he really has begotten an increasing appetite for any things which do not harmonize with the Gospel, and he lets go Gospel and holds on to his new possessions. While there are exceptions, as a rule, we do not find the successful colored business men, who are making money, teaching Bible classes in our churches, or giving the several churches the benefit of their ripe business experience in looking after the business end of the spiritual Kingdom. Some years ago one would be sure to find our brightest young women actively engaged in the Sunday Schoola and other work of the churches. But like the men, so are the women. Some of our successful, money loving, money making colored women could not tell you how many books there are in the Bible, or whether Ebenezer was one of the old prophets, or a stone; and yet they can give you a most interesting account of all the plays of last season, and those expected for the forth coming season. Their financial success, their culture and refinement, and all that they have gained through the persistent effort of the Negro ministry, all these years, to keep open to the race the "door of hope" do not avail the masses of the powers of their being, and with lives agreeing with what they preach, do their utmost to get people to follow and imitate that perfect life, and in so doing they will not fall far short of proving faithful to Him whose they are. A GREAT MORAL VICTORY. The battle against resubmission of the question of Constitutional Prohibition was fought out last Monday in Maine, and the first returns seemed to indicate a victory for the "Wets", but when the country lanes and small towns were heard from the apparent majority of the "Wets' dwindled until the "Drys" showed up a majority of nearly five hundred. Consternation has fallen upon the liquor forces and the temperance people are overwhelmed with joy and surprise, as they had given up the battle as lost. This is but another instance of the truthfulness of the old proverb, "He laughs best, who laughs last." While the majority in favor of Constitutional Prohibition is severely cut, it does not indicate a lapsing in the temperance sentiment of the state, but rather a division of sentiment as to the best method of controlling the liquor business. There are many good people who believe in local option and high license as much safer means of controlling the liquor business, than state wide prohibition. The campaign exhibited many pathetic features, the most notable among them being hundreds of children marching through the streets of the cities with banners on which are printed mottoes, among which was this—"Vote now, and vote for us." It must have taken reckless courage to walk past the appeal of the children and vote for whiskey. The education is a great triumph for the moral and religious forces of the state, and the good people everywhere rejoice in the victory. The record of the vote seems to indicate that neary twenty thousand and voters who voted at the last gubernatorial election, did not go to the polls to give expression to their convictions on this great moral question. Its safe to say: the vast majority of that twenty thousand stay-at-home, were half hearted Christians without that rugged spirit of righteousness which is always required in a real fight for good things. They are men who have not found the iron in their blood, the "peace at any price" kind. It's at this dough-faced fellow where reform is throttled and great epoch making battles are lost. This sort of a man is found every where, and is a loadstone on the neck of patriots who are willing to dare and die in the arena for country, home and God. This class of men who allow evil to run on because they are too weak to attack it, are found both in the church and the state. Every great cause calls for heroes and great causes often fail because men are heartless. The men and women who got in the fight and stayed until the battle was over, deserve the praise and thanks of the order loving people, the country over. The battle was ha rd fought and vectory means the defeat of the liquor interests of the nation for here all those interested made their grand stand. REPUBLICANS NOTIFY GOLDSBOROUG FOOD FOR REFLECTION A few days ago the democrats of Maryland held their convention and after saying a number of things by means of which they expect to guile the people and fool the electors, they finally came back to the same old hue and cry and put up the following: "White Supremacy" "Realizing that not only the progress and improvement of the state, but its tranquility, order and safety, its dignity, fame and government, indispensibility and supremely demand the certain and absolute supremacy of its white population the clear and undoubted dominion and rule of the white race, who represent its civilization—and pointing to the fact that the democratic party of Maryland is composed approximately of three quarters of the white population of the state, whilst two thirds of the republican party conist of Negroes without whose unthinking and undivided support the Republican party would be an insignificant minority, we solemnly admonish the people of Maryland against dangers of Republi canseuxess in the state; dangers illustrated not only throughout our sister states of the South until a comparative recent period, but in our own cherished commonwealth during the unhappy term of Republican misgovernment and misrule from 1896 to 1900. "We recall to the minds of the people that in less than one-half of the counties of this state the Negro vote is so excessively large and numerous that in those quarters Republican government is Negro government, pure and simple, and we appeal to the intelligence, justice, and patriotism of the white people of Maryland to save their white brethren and sisters in these counties from the unutterable perils and evils of Negro domination and rule. "Speaking for the Democracy of our commonwealth, we declare that the political destinies of Maryland should be shaped and controlled and its internal tranquility guarded and preserved by the white people of the state; and whilst we disavow all intention to do injustice, to our colored population, we declare without reserve our resolute determination to preserve in every conservative and constitutional way the supremacy of our race." Now when the democrat gets back to his pet theme, 'Negro domination' he grows eloquent and strikes the line hard. He forgets, when he talks about good government, that the white man is almost a failure at government, and that riots mobs and whatnot have left a blood marked trail everywhere in his civilization. With all the courts of law in his hand, and all the officers whose duty it is to promote peace and preserve order, he still cannot govern the country, maintaining order, peace and quiet. The evidences of misgovernment are everywhere to be found. It is hard to conceive how any race could make a more lamentable failure at government than the white men representing the Democratic party, are making. The Democrats declare that Republican rule in the count is where the Negro vote is large, is Negro rule, is pure and simple. This is a fine speech for the gentlemen to make who have any slight regard for truth. Will these gentlemen tell us how many Negro Mayors have been elected in Maryland, or how many Negro Justices of the Peace or school and board commissioners and how many constables are Negroes, charged with the important task of preserving good government. Do the Democrats mean to say that white men in Maryland are taking orders as to government from the Negroes? Now look at the effrontery and folly of the declaration of these Democrats. After doing and saying every unfair thing in reference to the colored man, after declaring him a menace to the common order and quiet of the state and calling upon the white people of the state to save their white brethren and sisters from Negro domination and rule, they then go on to say: "we disavow any intention to do injustice to our colored population." Do the writers of the platform know the meaning of words as they have written them? If they do, they did not need to condemn themselves by a bold stroke at deception. Either the Democrats are fools, or thought the Negroes were. Let the Democrats know that we Negroes of Maryland resent the effrontery and we will put our best red hearts blood into the battle to defeat the maligners of our people. Let the Negroes read this section of the Democratic platform and reflect. REPUBLICANS NOTIFY GOLDSBOROUGH and Nehemiiah Henry who succeeded H. M. St. Clair. Milk and ginger ale were sold on the boat—other drinkables were passed gratis Dr. William M. Alexander was on hand telling of the work that the Suffrage League intends to do against the Digges Bills Perry P. Dodson, William E. Fletcher and William H. Howard represented Ann 'Ranel. John P. Forrester was every where on the boat and at Cambridge and he was decidedly optimistic for Goldsborough. Captain Edward H. Wilson came from Upper Fairmount to tell the boys what he and "Link" Dryden were going to do in Somerset. "Uncle Bill" Jackson was there only in spirit. Freeborn Sudler came all the way from Washington to tell the folks what he thought about it, while George A. Watty took the opportunity to tell the Cambridge folks that he expected their aid in making the Supreme meeting of the Lodge of Knights of Pythias, which is to meet in Baltimore in 1913, a big success. As the boat left Cambridge, Warner T. McGuinn told the Dorchester folks to look for him before November. Truly Hatchett was on hand, likewise "Uncle Sam" Young, the seventy year-young pride of Baltimore. John C. Downs and W. R. Hughes, composed the colored delegation from "Bill" Steward's ward, the Fifth Candidates for various offices were on the boat making friends Whenever a good spender was found Augustus C. Binswanger did not hesitate to lead him to the lunch counter, were a hungry crowd would order sandwiches and milk in abundance while they smiled at their benefactor. "Binsey" was voted a hero by the hungry ones. Former Mayor E. Clay Timanus was along with the crowd. The parade to the hall at Cambridge had three colored men and Farson's Band in the rear. The colored men took carriages and went up town ahead of the parade. There were no colored persons on the stage, and not fifty in the hall. H. E. McBeth and James T. Bradford, were kept busy all day shaking hands, A.E. Mulliken notified Mr. Goldsborough in a rattling good speech. WATTY HUSTLING. Grand Chancelor George A. Watty of the Maryland Knights of Pythias, is already working ardously to make the session of the Supreme Lodge of the order, which meets here in 1913, a big success. Local lodges are already responding with appropriations to help finance the project, and already a fund of $1.500 to be given in prizes to the Uniform Rank, has been started. Mr. Watty already has received assurances from prominent citizens that they will aid the local committee in every way. He was down to Cambridge Thursday and received the hearty assurance of H. M. St. Clair, Spencer Nash, and others, that every thing would be done to help make the session a success. Prof. Layton Entertained Prof. John T. Layton, of Washington, who is the guest of Mr. John Willis Brown, of 933 Argyle avenue was given a reception by the choir of Bethel A. M. E. Church Monday evening last in the lecture room of the Church. The Professor favored them with many selections also with an interesting address. He was accompanied by Prof. Charles E. Dungie and assisted by Madam Gray, soprano, Dr. Jones Barton and Mr. J. E. Smith, basso. The choruses were led by Madam Lottie Ringgold under the direction of Prof. Layton after which a collation was tendered in his honor by the men friends at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Brown. where a pleasant time was spent. There was much regret that Mr. Layton's stay could not be longer but we shall look forward to see and hear him again soon. PYTHIANS INSTALL SUPRENE OFFICERS Mrs. J. H. Ross, of Baltimore Gets Big Job In Calanthe (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Asbury Park, N. J., September 12 The twelfth biennial session of the Supreme Lodge and Supreme Court of Calanthe of the Knights of Pythias, Eastern and Western Hemispheres, came to an end Friday with a public installation of the newly elected officials. The next session will be held in Philadelphia in 1913 The newly elected officers of the Supreme Lodge are: Joseph Drake, Charleston, S. C., past supreme chancellor; W. Ashbie Hawkins, Baltimore, supreme chancellor; William A. Heathman, Providence, R. L., supreme master of exchequer; William E. Grandison, Cambridge, Mass., supreme keeper of records and seal; George E. Gordon, Chelsea, Mass., assistant keeper of records and seal; J. R. Farrar, Bridgeport, Conn., supreme master at arms; Rev. J. U. King, St. Michaels, Md., supreme organizer; W. W. Burton, New Bern, N. C., supreme inner guard; B. P. Martin, Missouri, supreme outer guard; G. Fred Freeman, Cambridge, Mass., and Richard E. Clarke, N. Y., supreme trustees The women's auxiliary elected the following officers: Mrs. Hettie Nix, Kansas City, past supreme councilor; Mrs. Ella Trice, New York, supreme councilor; Mrs. Jennie Ross, Baltimore, associate supreme councilor; Mrs. W. Larence, New Bern, N. C., registrar of accounts; Mrs. Julia Hatch, Philadelphia, supreme receiver of deposits; Mrs. Cornelia Snyder Smith, Baltimore, supreme register of deeds; Mrs. Adaline Johnson, Philadelphia, supreme orator; Mrs. Maggie Huksey, Kansas City, supreme herald; Mrs. L. J. Griffin, Savannah, Ga., supreme guide; Mrs. Lucy Robinson, Philadelphia, supreme protector; Miss Ida R. Cummings, Baltimore, supreme juvenile protector; A. W. White, Tampa, Fla., supreme representative; Mrs. Jennie Ross, Baltimore and Mrs. A. Kiner, Cambridge, Mass. representatives on the beneficiary board. MORGAN COLLEGE COMPLETES FUND Morgan College has about completed the raising of $50,000 which had to be secured in order to get a similar sum from Andrew Carnegie. The Delaware and Washington Conferences aided materially in the campaign, and President J. Oakley Spencer and others were indefatigable in their efforts in raising the remainder. The College may locate in the suburbs, where the real college life could be lived. Morgan College was founded in 1807 and its alumni includes many prominent Methodist preachers, lawyers, physicians and business men. A Surprise Reception One of the most charming social events of the season took place last Tuesday evening, when the Adelphi Pleasure Circle gave a surprise reception to Mrs. Hattie Nichols, one of the most popular young ladies of East Baltimore at her residence, 1011 N. Durham street. The evening was spent in playing games, singing and dancing, and at a late hour a delightful repast, consisting of the delicacies of the season, was served. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Anderson, Sr. and Mrs. Raymond Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Collins, Mr. Leroy Collins, Mr. Walter Amby, Mrs. Lovey Husbath, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Earnes, Misses Maud Amby, Myrtle Stewart, Mary Newman, Edith Anderson, Della Askins, Mrs Nellie Smith, Messrs. Isaac Pree, Robert Anderson, jr., George Hall, John Gilmore, Howard Gilmore, Walter Nicholas, Wm. Ballard, Chas. Collins, jr., John Johnson, Nelson Borns, Edward Robinson Ace Cooper Calvin Anderson and Charles James. Mrs. Sarah A Barrett was called away suddenly to the death bed of her sister. Governor Tenor Says He Will Do Everythin to Get Guilty Parties. West Chester, Pa., September 14 That Governor Temer and his aides in the cause of bringing the lynchers of Zack Walker to justice mean business to a finish is set forth in a letter received here today. The chief executive declares that in convening the Grand Jury it is his purpose, if possible to bring the offenders to justice, and that no matter what the cost he proposes to punish to the utmost those who have brought such a blot upon the great State of Pennsylvania. In the letter he says he has full confidence in the District Attorney and believes he will do his full part, backed up by the assistance of aid he should receive from the State. A number of witnesses have been called in the case, but so little has been accomplished, that many think it useless for the grand jury to continue the probe. They think the offer of a reward of from $3,000 to $10,000 will loosen some of the tongues now silent, and bring about desired results. Morgan College Student Robbed In Philadelphia Rev. C. E. Smallwood, a student at Morgan College, was robbed of $70 by two colored highwaymen in Philadelphia, Monday night. He was returning from Rhode Island, where he had been on a preaching tour. The police of that city were notified and are on the lookout for the thieves. Prominent Railroad Man Visits This City. Mr. Andrew J. Sellers, of Philadelphia, connected with the restaurant department of the Pennsylvania Railroad, has been in the city for the past week attending to the settling up of the restaurant department of the Union Station. Mr. Sellers is in charge of this department of the "Pennsy" and looks after the installation of all the eating departments on the road He is well known in Masonic circles, and is assistant chief Rabban of the Imperial Council, recently held in Atlantic City, N. J., A Delightful Reception A delightful reception was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Waters, near Brighton, Md... a few evenings ago, the occasion being the eighteenth birthday of their daughter, Evelyn. Music was furnished by the Brighton Band, under the leadership of Prof. Clarence Waters. These present included: Misses Esther Russell, Baltimore: Flossie and Eva Dykes, Washington; Mary Smith, West Chester, Pa.; Olivia and Mary Smith, Lansdowne, Pa. Boysand Girls Happy? With hearts a-flutter, 12,000 pupils either began or resumed their studies in the colored public schools Wednesday morning. The teachers all had enjoyed a summer of rest and they resumed their work with enthusiasm. A number of the teachers took summer courses. Messrs. Joseph H. Lockerman, Harry T. Pratt and George B. Murphy, who have charge of the work in the elementay schools, were kept busy in looking after the work in their respective groups. The enrollment at the High School was about 500, while about a dozen entered the Teachers Training School The public night schools will resume sessions early in October. Mr. John D. Jones has been appointed a teacher of German in the High School, taking the place of James S. Thomas, who goes to Howard University. Mt. Friendship Notes Mt. Friendship, Del. Sept. 12— Mrs. Wm. Barrett has been spending a few days at Atlantic City and Merchantville, N. J., the guest of her daughter and sister. Mrs. James Archy, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hance Thomas is spending a few days here. Mrs. Maggie Guy and Mrs Lucy Skinner, who have been on the sick list are much impovered. Mrs. John Harkin has presented to er daughter Mable a beautiful organ. Every Man Has Weak Spot in His Humorous Nature and Fails to See Joke. A man who lacks a sense of humor is despised by all. But every man has a weakness somewhere in his humorous nerve. Every man knows of some joke which is amusing to all but himself. For my part I never could see anything funny about any one having the toothache. What on earth is funny about the toothache? I have had plenty of opportunity to observe this phenomenon in all its phases, and while I admit that toothache is thrilling and exciting, I cannot see where the fun comes in. I have six children and they each have toothache by turns. Bulstrode has it Monday, Ajax Tuesday, Abelard Wednesday, Sinbad Thursday, Fritz Friday, Peter Saturday, and I have it myself on Sunday. Everybody in the house has it but my wife and the cook. One of them hasn't time, and the other cannot afford to have it. But as it is we are busy with it all week. When I stagger into the office Tuesday morning clutching my hot, throbbing head the boss inquires: "What's the matter?" I say: "Little Bulsey had the toothache all night last night." "Too bad!" says the boss. 100 but, says the boss. Wednesday morning finds the same symptoms in me, and the same question comes from the boss. "Alix had it this time." I say. The next day the boss questions me, and I say it was little Sinby's turn, and the next day Fritz and the next Peter. The boss is always sympathetic. But on Monday when I tell him I had the toothache myself he lets out a horrible roar of laughter. I despise such misplaced humor—H. P. Galt in Chicago News. THEY WILL BE BUSINESS MEN Two Young Lads Who Are Displaying the Wisdom of Presidents of Railways. To modernize an old phophecy, "Out of the months of babies shall come much worldly wisdom." Mr. K. has two boys whom he dearly loves. One day he gave each a dollar to spend. After much bargaining, they brought home a wonderful four-wheeled steamboat and a beautiful train of cars. For awhile the transportation business flourished, and all was well, but one day Craig explained to his father that while business had been good, he could do so much better if he only had the capital to buy a train of cars like Joe's. His argument must have been good, for the money was forthcoming. Soon after, little Joe, with probably less logic but more loving, became possessed of a dollar to buy a steamboat like Craig's. But Mr. K., who had furnished the additional capital, looked in vain for the improved service. The new rolling stock was not in evidence, and explanations were vague and unsatisfactory, as is often the case in the railroad game at which men play. It took a stern court of inquiry to develop the fact that the railroad and steamship had simply changed hands—and at a mutual profit of 100 per cent. And Mr. K., as he sold his neighbor, said it was worth that much to know that his boys would not need much of a legacy from him.-Lincolnic's Magazine. Short Weight How to persuade the blonde delicatessen store clerk to remove her hand from the scales when weighing cheese and bologna, so he would get sixteen ounces to the pound instead of twelve or thirteen, was the problem confronting the man who lunches late at night, in his own room. "Try a few affectionate little pecks at her hand with accompanying complimentary remarks and she will let go all right," said an experienced friend. The night after receiving that advice the man asked for a pound of smoked pork tenderloin. As usual, the blonde young woman rested her hand on the scales to steady them, and, hesitatingly, the man laid his palm on her stubby fingers. When he got home half an hour later and weighed the pork tenderloin on his own scales he found that he had eleven ounces instead of the customary thirteen. But strange to say, he was not angry. Reware of the Post. "This is a fine place to study the superstitions of the crowd," said a Subway ticket chopper. "Two-thirds of the couples who pass through the gate are brimming over with superstition. It shows itself in their fear of separating and walking on different sides of the post. Good-looking, educated people are afraid of that. "We'll quarrel," says one—usually it is the woman who says it, or if two women are together they both say it at the same time. 'We let that post get between us.' "Then, if they are badly bitten by the bug of superstition, one goes back and passes through on the other side so as to obviate the danger of a flare-up."—New York Times. Sorrow's Crown of Sorrow. Cook—Please, mum, Olive had a great misfortune. Mistress—What is it, Bridget? Cook—I've burnt up the fruit cake, an' it cost five dollars, and the worst of it is me labor wasted. Chameleon-Like Insects Take Color of Leaves and Flowers to Every traveler that returns from tropical regions has extraordinary stories to tell of the strange mimicry of leaves and flowers by insects. Sometimes the purpose of the imitation seems to be concealment and sometimes the laying of a snare to catch other insects. A curious instance of this was noticed on the Cold coast of Africa by a member of a British scientific expedition when he stopped to examine a singular looking white flower with a blue center. He found, to his astonishment, that it was not a flower at all, but a spider's web, and that the supposed light blue heart of the flower was the spider itself lying in wait for its prey. The legs of the cunning spider, yellow mottled with brown, were extended in such a way as to resemble the divisions between the petals of the flower. The web itself, very delicately woven into a rosette pattern, with white, and three threads that suspended it from the bushes were so fine as to be almost invisible. The whole thing had the appearance of being suspended in the air upon a stem concealed beneath. When the scientist knocked the spider from its perch into a white gauze net his surprise was increased upon seeing his captive instantly turn from blue to white. Its former mimicry had been practiced as a snare; now it was playing a similar game for the sake of concealment. But the end of the performance was not yet reached. When the investigator shook his captive its body again changed color, becoming this time of a dull greenish-brown. Later he captured another larger specimen of the same species of spider, whose tower web resembled an orchid. This spider exhibited the same remarkable power of changing its color.—Harper's Weekly. TRAPS ALWAYS MEAN MICE How Window Display of Neighboring Hardware Dealer Eightfolded, Away "It's the mice," said the woman who had returned from an inspection of the renting agent's choicest flats. "The place must be fairly alive with them. I never could stand mice." In vain did the agent protest that mice could not be hired to live in such immaculate apartments as his. The woman cut short his protestations with a sweetly inerredulous smile. "Don't tell me that," she said. "If the neighborhood isn't alive with them, why does the hardware dealer on the corner keep all those mouse-traps in the window? That is an unfailing sign. I have lived in flats for twenty years, and have learned that if the stores in a neighborhood make a big display of mouse-traps the flats provide the mice for them to catch. So often have I had that lesson hammered home that I study the mouse-trap situation before signing a lease." "Maybe that is the way those twenty-old other women who scorned my flats on account of mice found out they were there," mused the agent. Then, before showing the flats again he persuaded the dealer to remove his mouse-traps to a less conspicuous place. Hatched Out Thrushes' Eggs. An interesting experiment with thrushes' eggs in an incubator has been carried out lately at Norfolk, England. The little grandson of a farmer who owns an incubator, gledded with the farmer to put the three little eggs in the incubator. To please the child he did so, though he did not think the experiment would be successful, as he was running the incubator at a heat of 192 degrees. But the eggs hatched, and they were then placed in a blackbird's nest which contained four eggs. The foster parents cared for the little strangers, and now both the young thrushes and the blackbirds have flown. A Black Moment. This is a true story. Its victim is alive and very much astounded of the following disgraceful incident in his past: He had just arrived at college, very young—very callow. It was his wish to do the right thing by Literature Education, said he—nothing like it. So finding himself once in a gathering of upper classmen, who were ably bandying about the names of great poets, the youth suddenly blurred this: "Say, tell me—where can I get a good English translation of Rossetti?" Years of frantic atonement have not washed it away. Semi-Indirect Lighting. A well known company that specializes in lighting fixtures is at present experimenting on what may be called a self-indirect lighting system. In this, instead of throwing all of the light to the ceiling, from which it may be diffused and reflected, a portion only of the light will be so directed, while the rest of it will be allowed to pass downward or outward through the inside reflector and the outer glass, casing. Various physiological and psychological tests are being made to determine the proper ratio between the indirect and the direct lighting.—Shop Notes Quarterly. THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER KINSTON, N.C. KINSTON COLLEGE is a co-educational institution of high grade. It is in a healthy location, sufficiently remote from the busy part of the city not to be disturbed by the various attractions of city life. It has an abel faculty, and dormitory for girls under an able matron. Its environments are Christian and salutary. The following courses are offered the young men and women who desire to prepare for better service in life: Primary, Normal, Collegiate, Theological, Industrial and music. Each student furnishes his own quilts, or blankets, linens and pillow Tuition for day students: 50c., $1.00 to $15.0 per month of four weeks. School opens first Monday in October, 1911 (Oct. 2). BASIL POWELL 1336 Druid Hill Avenue. Piano tuning and Repairing. Cleaning and Polishing. All orders promptly attended to. MUSIC SCHOOL 436 W. BIDDLE ST. Instructor of. Vocal Music, also Piano, Organ, Pedal Organ, Violin, Cornet Here Fancy sewing a specialty. Guaranteed a good fit. Has been in business in Atlantic City, for quite a while, now at. 1530 Druid Hill Avenue FISH FOR IRON THROUGH ICE How the Swedes Get Ore From the Bottom of Some of Their Lakes. The bottoms of many Swedish lakes are covered to a thickness of six or eight inches with fragments of iron ore of the size of peas. This lake ore consists chiefly of ochre, or hydrated oxide of iron, mixed with silicate and phosphate of iron, clay, sand and other impurities, and yields pig iron of very good quality. The ore is obtained by very primitive methods. In winter a hole is cut in the ice, a scraper attached on a long pole is inserted and all of the ore within reach is collected into a heap beneath the hole. Some of the mud which has been scraped together with the ore is removed by stirring the mass with poles, and the ore is then scraped into bags which have been sunk and is hauled up. In summer this curious mining operation is conducted in a similar manner from rafts anchored in the lake. Two miners can bring up about four tons of ore in a day. Steam dredges have recently been installed in a few places. About thirty years after the removal of the ore a new layer of the same thickness is found to have been produced by natural chemical processes. Builders of Carnarvon Castle. Carnarvon castle is full of interest not only for the archaeologist and student of medieval military architecture, but also for all engaged in the economic interpretation of history. Fairly complete accounts are extent of the money expended on wages and material during the building of the fortress. The highest wage paid to the workmen was three pence a day to skilled artificers, two pence being more common. These artisans were all Englishmen, hauling from such places as Canterbury or Oxford. Ordinary laborers, who were, to judge from their names, all native Welshmen, received only a penny. Allowing for the purchasing power of the penny, these comic wages are of course for higher than the rates of the present day. Centuries later the translators of the Bible saw not ludicrous about the "two pence" profiled for the hotel bill of the man befriended by the Good Samaritan—Westminster Gazette. POSTPONED POSTPONED The Excursion of the Choral Symphony Oratorical Society, which was to take place on August 31, and was postponed on account of the weather will be given on Thursday, Sept. 21, 1911, at which time all are cordially invited to attend. Tickets issued by the C. S. O. S. bearing date of August, 31, 1911, will be good on Sept. 21. Music by the Commonwealth Band. Mandolin, Guitar, Banjo and Other Instruments Builders of Carnarvon Castle. St. Paul M. E. Church W. Saratoga St., Rev. S. H Norwood, Pastor. Special service and Presentation to two worthy Ministers. Sunday afternoon, Sept, 24th, 3:30, under the auspices of the Methodist Brotherhood. Delegations will be present from our sister churches of, Allen, Ames, John Wesley, Ebenezer, Mt. Zion, Morning Star Baptist, Gillis Memorial, and others. Program will be rendered by the choir, sermon by Rev. 'Aquilla Brooks, after which the presentation will take place. A cordial welcome to all. Come early and secure good seats.# Thos. H. Franklin, President; Stephen S. Dorsey, Secretary; Rich M. White, Treas. GENERAL NOTICE Presidents and members of all clubs please attend a Great Federation Mass Meeting of Women at the Colored Young Women's Christian Association Monday, September 18 at 8 P.M. Mrs.'E.J. Truxon, Pres. Mrs. S. E. Ross, chairman of executive committee. ANOTHER GREAT DAY AT Green Spring M. E.; Church, Rev. R. A. Green Pastor. Sunday, October 8. Known as the Rally Day of the Sunday School and League, in order to make this a great day. A banner will be flung across the front of the Church with the question, compelling attention in letters three feet high: "Are you a Hobab?" Rev. R. A. Green, the pastor will preach a series of sermons leading up to Hobab. The Minister's Alliance will meet in Grace Presbyterian Church on Monday, September 4, 1911 at 11 a.m. Rev, W. M. Alexander, pastor of Sharon Baptist Church will preside "Vacation Echoes" will be the topic for discussion. W. Edward Williams, sec. SPECAIL NOTICE Great Federation Meeting for presidents and members at the Young Women's Christian Association, 1200 Druid Hill Avenue, Monday evening Sept. 18, at 8 p. m. Mass Meeting for women at the Christian Association, Monday Sept. 18, at 8 p. m. SOCIAL FREE BAPT. CHURCH Parish St. near Riggs Ave. Gives an excursion over the B. & O Railroad to Charlestown, W. Va. Sunday, Sept. 17. 1011. Train leave about 6.30 A. M. Roundtrip $1.25 No half fare. Also a moonlight to Brown's Grove on the 19th Tickets 25c. Rev. C, A, Belt. D, D., Pastor Fishermen's Auditorium. 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 R.H.BUTLER ```markdown ``` 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.Vernon. Address 941 DruidHill Avenue. WANTED-A first class laundress for a family of two. must understand doing gentlemen's shirts. Address (M). Afro-American office, 628 N. Eutaw Street. FOR SALE OR RENT FOR RENT--Large second story front room. 825 George Street. BALTIMORE 12-9-11 ST. PAUL M. E. CHURCH Saratoga St. near Carrollton Ave. Rev. S.H. Norwood, Pastor. 11 a. m., Sermon by Pastor. 2.30 p. m., Sunda School. 3.00 p. m., B. H. Knight and congregation. 8 p. m., Preaching by Rev. L. A. Carter, of Reisterstown. GREEN SPRING M. S. CHURCH Chattolanee, Md. Rev. R. A. Green, Pastor. 11 a. m., Rev. C. Chaney 3.00 P. M., Sunday School. 8 P. M., Rev. C. Chaney Mr. S. S. Oliver, Supt. Mrs. J. R. Milligan, Pres. E.L. Mrs. Nellie James, Pres. Ladies Aid EASTERN M. E. CHURCH McElderry St. & Patterson Park AA Rev. James H. Jenkins, Pastor. Beginning of the County Rally 11 A.M., Sermon by Pastor. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School 3.p0 P. M., The Ladies' Aid Society will turn out for a special sermon by Rev. Mrs. Annie Johnson. 6.30 P. M., Epworth League. A special program has been arranged S P. M., Preaching by Pastor. The District Conference of the Annapolis District will con vene in said church September 20th. at 2.30 p. m. S p. m., annual sermon by Rev. N. M. Carroll. Thursday night, Ministerial Concert, Rev. Daniel W. Shaw, Manager Admission, 10 Cents. All are cordially invited. J. W. Jones, Supt. WHATCOAT M. E. CHURCH, Franklin and Pine Sts. "King's Hill" Rev. Alfred Young, Pastor. 11 A. M., Sermon by Rev. Spur geon Davis, of the Valley 3.00 P. M., Sunday School 8 P.M., Sermon by Pastor to the Golden Light Lodge of Odd Fellows and the Household of Ruth. Preaching and Prayer meeting Preaching and Prayer meeting every night during the week. W. C. Tongue Supt. ASBURY M. E. CHURCH, Lexington St. and Rogers Avenue, Rev. C. G. Cummings, B. D., Pastor 9:30 A. M. Bible Class. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 8 p. m., Sermon by pastor, subject: "Freely Give." Strangers cordially welcomed. Chas. T. Stewart, Supt. Julian W. Ross, Pres. of E. L. AMES MEM. M. E. CHURCE Carey and Baker Sts. Key. D. D. Turpeau, Pastor. 11.00 A. M., Sermon by Dr. A. L. Martin, of Atlantic City. 3.00 P. M., Sunday School. 3.00 P. M., Platform Service, Address by Dr. Joseph Wheeler, District Superintendent. 8.00 P. M., Pastor. GILLIS MEM. M. P. CHURCH Stockton Street near W. Baltimore Rev. D. H. Knight, Pastor. Stewards' Day 10.00 A. M., Class meeting 11 A.M., Rev. Dickson. 2.00 P. M., Sunday School. 6.30 p.m., Christian Endeavor. 8 P. M., Sermon by the Pastor, or Stranger. J. W. Fowler, Pres. C. E. T. H. McGowan, Supt. Sunday September 17, 1911. Endowment Day Service of Trinity A. M. E. S. S. Part first by the Primary Department, 3. P. M., Part, second by the main school assisted by Mr. John W. Woodhouse and Mr. Charles A. Carey, of Waters A. M. E. S. S. Miss Edna Waters, recitation; Miss C. F. Wayman, solo and Miss W. W. Waters of Trinity, solo; So- lo, Mr. James Allen. WOMAN'S DAY at Hullsville M. E. Church, Baltimore Co., Md. Sunday, September 17th, 1911. Sunday, September 17th, 1911. 11 a. Love Feast. 3 P. M. Preaching by Rev. L. A. Carter of Reisterstown. 7.30 p. m. to 8 p. m., Devotional exercises conducted by Mrs. Wicks of St. Paul M. ! E. Church followed by prominent women such as Mrs. Sarah Holmes and Enma Truxon, of Metropolitan M. E. Church. Mrs. Janie Thomas and Miss Edith Cooper, of Kings Hill M. E. Church. Miss Lillie Fletcher and Mrs. Rebecca Cooper, of Mt. Winans.* Mrs. Estella Young and d Mrs P. Brent, of Sharp St. M. E. Church. Mrs. Helen Cooper of Centennial M. E. Church. Pastor, Rev. M. J. Naylor, District Superintendent. BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH Druid Hill Ave and Lanvale St. Rev. D. G. Bill, Pastor 11 a. m., Sermon by Pastor. 3.00 p. m., Sunday school. Thaddeus Copeland, 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. S F. M., Preaching. J. F. Waters, Supt. PAYNE .MEM A. M. E. CHURCH Laurens and Calhoun St. Rev. P. W. Wortham, D.D., Pastor 11 A. M., Preaching, subject: Reaping Whirlwind 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 HANDY A. M. E. CHURCH Baker and Bruce Sts. nr. Fulton av Take, Preston car Take Preston st. cars. Rev. John Offer Custis, Pastor. 1514 Druid Hill Avenue 1 A. M. , Subject: "Decision" 2 30 P. M. Sunday School 6.00 to 7.00 p. m., Closing of 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. S.p. m., Preaching by Rev. L. A. Malloy. H. Hiner, Superintendent EBENEZER A. M. E. CHURCH Rev. J. W. Norris, Pastor Endowment Day 11 A. M., Sermon by the Pastor 2.30 p. m., Special effort in the Sunday School. 8.00 p. m., Educational addresses and Choruses by Ebenezer Choir. Herbert Frisby, Supt. TRINITY A. M. E. CHURCH, Linden Ave. and Biddle St. Rev. A. L. Gaines, D. D., Pastor. Educationai Day. 11 a.m. Sermon by the Rev. Dr John Hurst 2:30 P.M., Sunday School, in the main auditorium. 8 P.M., Sermon to the Kittrell College Association by the Pastor. All organizations requested to turn out. Music by vested choir. Rally for Kittrell College. T. J. Holliday, Supt. ST. JOHN'S A. M. E. CHURCH, Lexington St. near Pine, Rev. L. S. Flagg, Pastor. 11 A. M., Sermon by Pastor 2:30 P.M., Sunday School. D. W. Ebb, Supt. 3 00 p. m. Sermon by Rev. I. N. Ross, of Metropolitan A. M. E. church, Washington, D.C. 8 P. M., Sermon by Pastor. GRACE PRESBYTE'IAN CHURCH Dolphin and Etting Sts. Rev. W. Edw. Williams, Minister, Residence: 623 W. Lanvale Street, SERVICES 11 a.m. Sermon by Minister, subject: "The Great Need." 3 P. M., Rally Day in the Sunday School. Speakers: Mrs. Lillian Lottier, W. F. DeBardeleben, L. B. West, Rev. J. S. Conning, D. D. S. p. M., Sermon by the Minister Prayer meeting every Wednesday S. P. M. Seats Free. All Welcome. Mr. William Anderson, Supt. Mr. W. G. Thomas, Clerk Eusor St. near Monument, Rev. G. W. Kennard, Pastor Rev. J. G. Hawkes, Co-pastor 11 A. M., Special Services. 2.30 P, M., Sunday School 7.30 P, M., Special Services. All are welcome. C. Y. W. C. A. 1200 Druid Hill Avenue. You are welcome. A Special Rally Will Be Held SUNDAY AT 5 O'CLOCK This effort is for the purpose of subscribing a memorial window to St. James Church. Rev. George F. Bragg, Jr. and Mr. J.A. B. Callis will make addresses* Miss Margaret Howe will give a reading. Mrs. M. E. Murphy, Pres Miss E. E. Bright, Sec'y. WOMENS' DAY RALLY At the Fishermen's Auditorium, 411 Biddle Street. Sunday, Sept. 24, 1911 at 3 p: m. Services will be conducted by Evangelist Mrs. Annie Sorrel. Mr. Stanley and Miss Valentine, graduates of the Blind Institution will take part. Addresses by Mrs. D. G. Mack, Miss Ida Cummings and others Under the auspices of the Willing- Workers. All are invited. NEGRO DAY AT ATLANTIC CITY. Thousands of Negroes From Surrounding Country Inva de Resort On That Day Y.M.C.A. RAISING FUND FOR NEW BUILDING Colored Business Men Who Are Making Good at Nation's Chief Summer Resort. Atlantic City, N. J., September —Have you ever been to Atlantic City? Of course you have. You have been on the board-walk, morning moon and night. You have been on the beach and have witnessed the anties of the bathers, and no doubt you have taken a plunge in the Atlantic Ocean. You have had the advantage of the high prices, board and rooms cost in this wonderful City-by-the-sea. As a matter of fact you have enjoyed all the pleasures this city affords and have gone away only to come back the next season to go over it all again: to take a ride in a rolling chair and to visit the many places of amusement and then go home and take a week to get rested. Of course you have enjoyed all of these and more; but have you ever been here on the first Thursday in September? If not then you have missed one of the biggest and in some respects the most interesting sights to be seen in this famous watering place. The first Thursday in each September is generally known as "Negro Day." Excursions are run here on all the railroads and from almost every conceivable point. Crowds come from Philadelphia, Wilmington, Chester, points in Maryland and many other places to the number of thousands upon thousands of them. They come dressed in every conceivable manner, men, women and children. They swarm the boardwalk, which for the time being is given up to them. They invade the shops, the restaurants, the amusement places, ride on the carousals, drink at the soda fountains, and do a thousand things that you never see them doing at any other time in the year. It is their day and it is given up to them and the white folks take a back seat for the time being, and seem to simply look on and see what anties the colored people are capable of performing. And they had the time of their lives. We are not going to tell you all the things they do but will in the main say that all things considered they behaved themselves about as well as could be expected at such a large gathering. Late at night or rather, eary next morning, they seemed to have gotten through and the return trains had carried them all away to go back to their homes and come again another year. The Churches Atlantic City is not without quite a number of excellent churches and pastors. The St. James A. M. E. Church is the leading African Methodist, the Asbury the leading Methodist Episcopal congregation. St. Augustine P. E. Church, several Baptist Churches and a Presbyterian church all contributing their portion towards the uplift of the race and humanity. The Y. M. C. A. The Young Men's Christian Association is at this moment engaged in raising $10,000 for the erection of a building in which to carry on its work. The colored branch is to raise $10,000 of this amount by Friday, September 15, and at the present writing it looks very much as if it was going to do it. International Secretary J. E. Mooreland is leading the fight, and expects to carry it to a successful conclusion in the time specified. When this amount shall have been raised, there will be appropriated from the whole amount raised the sum of $25,000 for the Colored branch. The Colored Branch is now in possession of a very valuable piece of property on Arctic avenue, and it is proposed to build the new addition on the rear of the present building. At a meeting of the Association on last Friday night, the plans of the committee were laid before the men and teams formed with their several captains. At the Saturday night dinner, reports from the several teams were called for and a total of $2,120 was reported. A number of subscriptions were reported at the Sunday afternoon meeting, and it looked at that time as if the colored branch would get [Portrait of a man in a suit with a bow tie]. its amount before the whites had finished theirs The meetings were most enthusiastic and the headquarters at Arctic avenue and Kentucky avenue was the rallying point for the workers. It was a most busy and enthusiastic crowd which was gathered there all hours in the day asking for directions and information. Negro Buisness Men. The Negro is fast catching the spirit of the hustling business man of this place, and is to be found hard at work in the several branches and trades as well as the professions. There are several Negro doctors and they are prosperous. Cottages and restaurants almost without number, so that one has little trouble, except at certain stated periods in finding good homes and good eating places. A number of them are in business along some of the most prominent thoroughfares and in the most exclusive neighborhoods, catering to the whites as well as to their own color. On Atlantic avenue is to be found a colored man doing business as a pawn broker, and he looks as prosperous as most members of his profession. On inquiry we found that he is assisted by his wife, and is quite a prosperous business man, owning several good pieces of property. Another is engaged in the newspaper and stationery business on the South side of Atlantic Avenue, which to a certain extent, is tabooed ground for the Negro, for we found a certain class of segregation even in this city. Wall's bath house and restaurant is largely patronized by the Afro-Americans. This is the only Afro-American establishment on the Board walk, and is now conducted by Mr. B. G. Fitzgerald, who also conducts Fitzgerald's Auditorium, the largest and most imposing building of its kind, owned in this city by a colored man. Mr. John Pratt, Jr., a well known citizen is his right hand man. Mr. Pratt, and his charming wife, are both former Baltimoreans. There are many other Baltimoreans here and as a rule they are doing well. If you wish to see who is in Atlantic City, go to Walls, and you will in all probability find who you are looking for, that is if they are in the city. Taking it all together, Atlantic City is a pretty fair place to spend a week when you need a change. "J. O. Midnight" Lectures (Special to the Afro-American Ledger) Chestertown, Md. Sept. 12—Col. J. O. Midnight, the general press correspondent lectured here on Wednesday night to an appreciative audience. The colonel was at his best using for his subject, "Sambo waxed fat and kicked." The lecture besides being instructive was filled with the choicest humor. The funeral of Mrs. Augusta Royal who has been sick for five years took place at James M. E. Chruch last week. Mrs. Royal was one of the oldest members of the church. Rev. J. A. Young officiated. Rev. and Mrs. Holland have returned home after spending a few days visiting friends in Southern Maryland. Well Known Printer Passes Away Funeral services were held at the John Wesley Church, Tuesday afternoon. Interment was in Mt. Auburn Cemetery. $ ^{2} $ Mr. and Mrs. Ezekiel P. Brown, of 784 Waesche street, has returned from a three week's stay at Chestertown, Md. THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR NEGRO CRIMINALS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR NEGRO CRIMINALS Prof. W. S. Scarborough Places Blame For Negro Criminality Upon The Whites COLORED MAN NEEDED IN AMERICA. One of the addresses at the recent Universal Races Congress in London was delivered by W. S. Scarborough, president of Wilberforce University, at Wilberforce, O., who discussed "The Negro Question in the United States." He reviewed the situation after the close of the civil war and laid emphasis on the growing tendency of the North to remain silent while the South curtailed the rights given to the Negro under the Constitution, and, while lines were drawn against his admission to many places because of his race. The speaker went on to say: I say that those who are denying the Negro admission to the best that the public affords, who are excluding him from the highest forms of individual and commercial endeavor, who are segregating him in cities and relegating him to disgraceful separate cars, denying him justice in the courts, showing contempt for his higher aspirations, and hostility to his advancement educationally and professionally, taking away his right to vote, giving him brutal treatment by mob violence at every opportunity, and who refuse to treat any of the race with consideration or respect—all those who have determined to make the Negro keep a place of inferiority—are to be held responsible when, grown restive, discouraged, defiant, under the great injustice, a weak, ignorant class determines to be a law unto itself and is forced into the criminal paths. On the other hand, there has been a most remarkable growth of a large, cultured, refined, educated, even wealthy, class of Negroes. It is this class that protests against the sentiment that makes no discrimination—that humiliates and degrades all alike, and that refuses ordinary courtesies, rights, and privileges to the meritorious. Here is where we are placed as a people, and a long train of pertinent suggestions follows. That the wide world is awakening to the dangers confronting society at large is a good sign. We are sure that the weapons of good will eventually be more potential than those of evil in adjusting the Negro questoin in the States. There must be an uprising of fearless men of all races—men who see the right, and dare to do it in averting trouble and discountening anything that panders to race prejudice. men who will preach untiringly and unceasingly the gospel of the common brotherhood of man, who will work for legislation that will render equal justice to all, who will unite in stifling crime, helping the fallen, and guarding the youth, who will plead for that general exercise of Christian fellowship that will lead to confidence in and respect for self and others. The Negro is needed in the development of America. He is a native to its customs, its religions, and its laws; has virtues as well as vices. He has given his blood in its defense, and it owes him a chance. It becomes a matter of right and duty that both North and South should unite actively in mutual cooperation with the race for law and order, for peace and fraternity, or right and justice. There is but one path to peace and the final judgment of this question—to use the law for the protection and punishment of white and black citizens alike, to practise the true Christianity that is preached, and to leave the door open, to the Negro as to any other people. This work will devolve upon godly preachers, self-sacrificing, intelligent teachers, devoted philanthropists, and wide awake, earnest students of sociology, and it is the mission of the higher institutions of learning for the Negro in the United States to raise up, educate, and inspire the coming generations of the race to assist in the consummation of this purpose. A LETTER FROM CHICAGO. Chicago, Ill, September 13th Chicago is not only the Windy City, and one of variable weathers, but a place whose routine life is exhilar- ated by many and diverse events that interest and instruct. Twenty one trunk lines of Rairoad converge to this western metropoils, from every secton of the continent, bringing thousands daily for business, for sight seeing and for study, in one of the many great institutions located here. No observing mind can be torpid in Chicago. The press vigilantly active, chronically current news, but its great dailies, such as the Chicago Tribune, Record, Herald, and the Evening News, engage in enterprises both educating and commercially beneficial to the business interests of the city; such as the exhibits of the varied products of reclaimed arid lands; fruit and flower shows; exhibits of models and styles of automobile development; display of powers and appliances of electricity by Edison; the various appliances of cement in building construction; the children's welfare. exhibit of methods and appliances to save child life and to better the conditions of children; a display of every invention of an instrument of music; but of conventions of some kind; visits of distinguished men and women, with rare speeches there is no end. The latest excitement was caused by the aviation meet at Grant Park on the lakefront, where from 75,000 to 250,000 people gathered daily for ten days to gaze skyward at four or five or thirteen flying machines in air, from 300 to 13,500 feet high This display so excited some of the women of Chicago that some of them paid $25 and went up also, and a lady that sets the styles for women's headgear, with an eye to business has decreed that the styles this fall shall be the "sky star" the voloplain, and the spiral cone hats for ladies. We are to have in October by special train carrying the executives of Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, North and South Dakota, Colorado, Nebraska and Minnesota, will assemble at Omaha and journey to the land shows at Chicago, Pittsburg and New York city, with side trips to every eastern capital and wind up at St. Paul in December. The usual midsummer excursion from the South, arrived in three sections of cars a few weeks since, bringing over two thousand people composed of both race varieties; some for business and recreation, some for study at the summer schools at Chicago University. Among the colored contingent were some to reman, buy property and engage in business; some, the gripsack or suit case squad; shiftless, ill adapted for the vigorous competitive life of this section they will survive largely to emphasize the sentiment created by the "Southern Circle" adverse to the Negro, which is rapidly inoculating Chicago with race prejudice. But few cities there are where colored people live in finer furnished homes or own more property on prominent avenues, than in Chicago. Many carry on high grade and profitable businesses, and a great deal of money passes among Chicago colored people, but among a class, the saloon and dime show patronage, drink and gambling practices, with other extravagancies, are tendencies that predict formidable social evils if not soon checked. But with all, many Chicago people attend churches, love their churches, and support them. The Negro ministers are sober, clean, pious, progressive and cultured. The benevolent orders are various, and are a powerful organized agency in caring for the sick, suffering and the dead. The law of reciprocity is at work here. Our fathers unrequited toil of centuries helped the white brothers' prosperity. Race prejudice and fear of social contact are forcing our white brothers to abandon properties, and Negroes are coming into possession of them at one third their original cost, so that the law of reciprocity is working toward compensation for past unpaid Negro toil. It is the working of this law that is compensating the children for the unpaid toil of their fathers that is so painfully evident to the segregationist in Baltimore City Council; but since is working the economic betterment to the whole people, and since the hand of Divine Providence is guiding Negro uplife, why don't these city fathers exercise good political and moral sense with hands off. It is to be hoped that the Negro of Maryland will, with a united and tenacious purpose and Spartan courage, contend to retain their citizen franchise and manhood rights. Not only this, but for proportionate representations in the City council, on the police force, school board, as well as a trial justice. Representation has the sanction of God in that he took man to heaven when Jesus went to the throne. J. T. JENIFER. Dr. Payn's Painless Dentistry POINDEXTER "Hairdresser to Society" FIRST, LAST and ALL THE TIME EXPERT MASSAGING AND MANICURING 831 DRUID HILL AVE. 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Ark.—There are perhaps few cities in the great southwestern section of the United States where more amicable relations exist between the white and colored people than is true of Little Rock. This was plainly shown at the recent meeting of the [Picture of a man in a suit with a bow tie]. DR. GEORGE W. HATMAN, M. D. National Negro Business league, which held its sessions in Kempner's beautiful theater in this city for three days. As a result of this wholesome relation our people are making rapid advancement in business, buying homes and educating their children. School facilities are good, and opportunities for the well equipped young men and women to get employment as teachers and principals in the various institutions of learning are solledid. The business arena also stands with doors ajar, and there are many who have entered its portals and are doing well. In the professional line, aside from teaching in the public schools, we mention Dr. George W. Hayman, who is doubtless the leading physician of the city. Dr. Hayman has by thrift and strict attention to the duties of his profession built up a lucrative practice. His real estate holdings constitute practically an entire block in a choice residential section of the town. As a lawyer Scipio A. Jones has no equal in the state. By the members of the local and state bar he is not regarded as a Negro lawyer, but as a member of the fraternity whose opinions are respected and sought. He has practiced and does practice in all the courts of the state and the United [Picture of a man in a suit with a bow tie]. BON. S. K. BETTON. States and does the work of practically every fraternal organization in the state of Arkansas. Much of this practice is divided with his young partner, Thomas J. Price, who has been associated with him in the past three years, coming to Arkansas from Washington, where for some time he had been associated with Judge Terrell. Mr. Price is grand attorney for the Pythians and is fast making a name for himself in Arkansas. Mr. Jones is distinctly one of the Negro leaders of Arkansas. He is president of the local and state Negro business leagues and easily divides honors with John N. Bush, receiver of public monies and register of the land office in Little Rock. S. K. Betton, the endowment treasurer of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor, who lives at Beulah, fifty miles from Little Rock, owns a 500 acre farm in Prairie county and farms on a very large scale. He has some very valuable stock, good tenant houses on his farm and is a justice of the peace in his local district. He stands high as a layman in the Baptist church and is corresponding secretary of one of the district associations. INFLUENCE OF THE RACE. Signs of More Wholesome Relations Between the Races Evident. After making some very bold assertions as to the racial indifference of colored people to high mental and moral stamina Walter W. Kenilworth in an article in the Forum says: It would be unjust to say that there are not representatives of the race who are on a high plane, but we are considering the race collectively, for it is the race as a whole which has suggestive force and influence on our life. It is unthinkable that the increase of Negro population, the increased and unharmed circumstances of Negro expression, should not have an important reaction on the white population, particularly as the latter is daily allowing the Negro greater and more important social recognition and privilege. By social recognition is not meant interchange of social courtesy, but the living down of that aloofness which previously strictly differentiated the relationship of white and black. That this differentiation is now almost nominal may be seen in that growing freedom of daily converse and interchange of life which our industrial conditions have allowed and furthered. Of course this cannot fail to bring the types closer together and increase the influence of Negro over the white. This furtherance of social relationship is particularly visible in contrast throughout the south, where the Negro was once regarded as less than human. The south is making less demand for respect and recognition of inferiority on the part of the Negro. All along the line the walls of social demarcaion are weakening. FIRST BATTALION OFFICERS. List of Capable Men Associated With Major Arthur Brooks. The officers of the First Separate battalion of the District of Columbia national guard are as follows: Staff—Major Arthur Brooks, acting adjutant; second lieutenant, John E. Smith; quartermaster and commissary, Second Lieutenant Benjamin D. Byle, surgeon, First Lieutenant Albert Ridgeley; sergeant major, Joseph A. Thomas; instructor sergeant, Clarence A. Bradford (Twenty-fourth U. S. infantry); sergeant hospital corps, M. M. Lucas. Company A — Edward L. Webster, captain; Joseph H. Johnson, first lieutenant; Sylvester H. Epps, second lieutenant. Company B — James E. Walker, captain; Louis H. Patterson, first lieutenant; Raymond Jackson, second lieutenant. Company C- Harry D. Richardson, captain; Thomas E. Jones, first lieutenant; Elysses S. Browne, second lieutenant. Company D—Samuel A. Ward, captain; Chrence C. H. N. Davis, first lieutenant; Arthur C. Newman, second lieutenant. AN INSTANCE OF MORAL AND POLITICAL DEPRAVITY. Northern Paper Deplores Coatesville Lynching In Strong Editorial. Under the caption "The Nation's Shame" the Brooklyn Daily Standard Union speaks editorially of the Coatesville (Pa.) Lynching thus: "There must be some searching of hearts among the American people, as the practice of burning a human being to death has approached the centers of such civilization—God save us!—as we have. Every one of the crowd of Pennsylvania people who helped or raised no hand to prevent the sickening barbarism of the Lord's day has put himself a little lower than the Apache who, because of race prejudice, did the same thing, with the excuse of ignorance. "It is not merely on the ground of morality that the sickening deed brings untenable shame. Self government means government of the strictest and most undeviating kind, not release from government. The only peoples that ever have lost the right of self government are those who have failed to govern themselves. "The burners of Coutessville are not merely friends; they are slaves, fit only to be ruled by a despot who will regard them with the contempt the ruling breeds always feel for the impulsive and emotionally fanatical. It is an instance not merely of moral degradation, but of political incapacity. "Every American who does not despair of the republic must pray that the civic disintegration evidenced by these burnings may be checked and cured forever by a great uprising of those parts of the American citizenship still fit for the exercise of orderly freedom." Baptist Educational Convention. The next great meeting of importance to the Baptist denomination in North Carolina will be the Baptist educational and missionary convention, which is to be held in the city of Fayetteville, beginning on Tuesday, Oct. 31. The convention covers considerable territory and does a much needed work in educating the masses in respect to mission work, home life and loyalty to the principles and doctrine of the denomination. The Downingtown Industrial School. The Downingtown Industrial school at Downingtown, Pa., has received scores of applications from prospective students who desire to enter the school this fall. Work on the new quarters for students is nearing completion, and the outlook for a large enrollment of students is expected. THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER LEAGUE HOLDS BIG MEETING. National Independent Organization to Continue Work. THE CITIZEN'S RIGHT TO VOTE. Great Equal Suffrage Convention at Annual Session in Boston Declares War on Race Discrimination by State and National Governments. Remedy For Lynching Suggested. Boston.—No meeting held in the interest of the civil and political well being of the colored race in the United States has equaled in attendance, enthusiasm and earnestness that of the National Independent Political league recently held for three successive days in Boston. Men of influence in business, church, state and in the professions took part in the program of exercises throughout the session and expressed their determination to continue the battle for the civil and political enfranchisement of the race. President John B. Clifford, editor of the Martinsburg (W. Va.) Pioneer Press, in his annual address covered almost every phase of the situation which confronts the colored people in regard to their rights as citizens and of the lack of interest in right, justice and the enforcement of the war amendments to the federal constitution as manifested by the state and national governments. He spoke in part as follows: There is no Negro problem in this country. The only problem is the white man's problem, and the problem is, Has the white man enough of the religion of Jesus Christ in him so that he will treat the black man as a fellow man and as a brother? The Republican party and the country own the colored man a greater debt of gratitude than he owes either the party or the country. It is the duty of the colored man at this crisis in his development to study conditions carefully and to vote according to his best conscience and judgment, to be independent in his political activities. We denounce the attempts to limit the ruffrage so that those who have a specified amount of property or a white face may vote. We denounce all laws, ordinances, regulations and decisions of courts which separate between man and man on the basis of race or color. We pardoned the peonage murders of our people's lives and liberty but President Taft? Who put every Negro officeholder in the south out of office to please the Negro hating south? Who was it that told the president of Fisk University that the colored people are, a distinct class and must be so treated? Your Republican president, dubbed by that section "Billy Possum." Who was it that ordered discharges of our soldiers at Brownsville? Mr. Taft. When sixty old innocent Negroes were butchered like hogs in Texas in July, 1910, show me a word of condemnation from your Republican president. I can frank to say I am too "distinct" to own him. Mr. Taft's advice to us to how to be friendly with the south recalls to me Theodore Roosevelt's advice to the English people how to treat their colored subjects in Egypt. Did he not dine and wine southern lynchers at the White House? It was he who discharged and disgraced the very soldiers who saved his life in Cuba, including Sergent Mingo Sanders, who divided his hardship with him. All that the Negro is in musculity, lassitude and everything mean and low Mr. Roosevelt's color taught him. Many white men will be begging Negroes to plead their cause before a just God, and Theodore Roosevelt will be one of them and Mingo Sanders his mediator. The votes of colored men have kept the Republican party in power and made it possible for it to protect the "interest" and produce multinationalists, while it reduced the Negro to the position of a political slave. Race solidarity in politics has not proved a blessing to the colored citizen. It garnered for us the contempt and opposition of the Democratic party in most places, while it failed to hold the Republican party true to its black allies. SOUTHERN LIFE MAGAZINE. Harriot Tubman and F. W. Williams Featured in September Number. The September issue of the Southern Life Magazine has, among other interesting and well written articles, an "Hour With Harriet Tubman." by James R. Clarke; a brief sketch of Franklin W. Williams, the brilliant young attorney who graduated with honors from the New York Law school last June, being the only Afro-American in a class of 140 students, by Rev. R. A. Grant, and "What the Negro Has a Right to Expect of Christianity." The editorial section covers in a commendable way such subjects as "Where Negroes Are Not Dying Out," "A Need Our Colleges Are Failing to Meet" and "Blasting at the Foundation of Government." Under the heading "Following the Lines of Racial Interest" a number of subjects concerning many phases of current happenings are briefly considered. The number concludes with the full program of subjects discussed at the recent fourth annual roundup of the farmers' institute held at Clark university. Illustrated with a full page group picture of persons composing the institute. Work of New. Forward Movement. The work of the international committee of the Young Men's Christian association and the several religious organizations with which it is associated for the bettering of conditions among the men and boys throughout the United States and Canada is succeeding well. The campaign will soon begin in all the large cities, and the series of meetings will be addressed by eminent men who have won world fame in work of this kind. Daniel's Companions in the Fiery Furnace Sunday School Lesson for Sept. 17, 1911 Specially Arranged for This Paper LESSON TEXT - Daniel 3. MEMORY VERSES, 17, 18. GOLDEN TEXT - "The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me." Heb. 13, 6. TIME - The Septuagint account states that the occasion was "the organizing cities and countries, and all the inhabitants of the earth from India to Ethiopia," and places the date in the 16th year of Nebuchadnezor. This would put the event in the last part of B. C. 56. immediately after the destruction of Jerusalem, on the king's return to Babylon. PLACE - Babylon, the plain of Dura, surrounded in the vicinity of the city. somewhere PLACE IN THE HISTORY—Jerusalem described. The Jews in captivity throughout the Babylonian empire. Daniel in the service of the empire in some part. Jeremiah in Jerusalem. King Zeekiah and Jehoiakim captives at Babylon. Ezekiel at Chebar in Babylonia. So far as we can learn, Nebuchadnezzar's great assemblage of people from all over his empire had for its object the consolidation of his whole kingdom. He had just returned from a triumphant campaign against his enemies in the west and south—against Egypt, Syria and Arabia—and he celebrated his return by the erection of a colossal image and a grand religious festival. The golden image might mark the close of a period of conquest and inaugurate a period of peace. The victories of peace were to absorb the remaining half of his reign. The empire was composed of various countries and races, diverse from one another in disposition, character and interests. They were united by no natural affinity, but by conquest. The whole empire might easily fall to pieces. Nebuchadnezzar would bind these diverse elements by the power of religious worship, at a common center, of one chief god over all the multitude idols. As the Jews were bound together by a magnificent temple at their capital, Jerusalem, whither all went up to worship, so Nebuchadnezzar would place at his capital a huge and costly image, the glory and attraction of the empire. His making Babylon a magnificent city would aid this work. Great fortifications, towers, walls, temples, gates of bronze, hanging gardens, palaces, public buildings of blue, red, yellow and white, the Tower of the Seven Spheres, the Wonder of Mankind palace—all these would attract people to the capital, as Mohammedans are drawn to Mecca. The multitudes were gathered on the plain around the golden image glittering and radiant in the sun. Besides the officers in their richly colored attive, there was a motley gathering of tribes from every direction. All diversities of speech and dress and manners were there. Heralds cried aloud their proclamation in all languages, that when the bands struck their martial music all the people must fall down and worship the golden image: "And whose falleth not down and worshipeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace." The bands played, and the whole multitude bowed their faces to the ground. Then a strange thing took place; three men stood up alone, and were conspicuous all over the plain, like a city set upon a hill, by their unbowed forms and their splendid robes of office. These three were, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, the three young men who joined with Daniel in refusing to defile themselves with the king's meat. Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury said: "Now if ye be ready, to obey, the past will be forgiven. But if ye worship not, a burning fiery furnace! Let the music sound. And who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands? The three, with truly magnificent and unfinishing courage, appear to have answered promptly and without hesitation, showing that they had carefully considered the subject and that with them it was a matter of settled and intelligent principle: "We have no need to answer thee," to explain how God could deliver them, or why they must obey him. There was no time, nor would the king understand. "If it be so, we are cast into the fiery furnace, in spite of all you say, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us." They were put into the furnace. A writer thinks they were bound hand and foot with their own clothes. The king sat watching the issue of the matter, looked through the door into the furnace, and saw a sight at which he was astonished and terrified. He was astonished that the three men were not consumed; that they were loose; that a fourth was with them. The thought flashed upon him that he has come into conflict with a new and unknown power. He rose up in haste, expressing the strength of his astonishment and terror. The princes saw these men. The deliverance was public, numistakable, and proved by many witnesses. The king recognized the power of the Jews' God. The miracle would make such an impression on the princes and people that the king could more easily treat the Jews kindly. Men who were so faithful to their God that they would die rather than do wrong would be faithful to their king, and could be trusted in all matters. Hence they were reinstated in their places with more influence and permanence than ever. There are still fiery furnaces for those who refuse to worship the golden image—social ostracism, unpopularity, losses of place and honor, failure in business. Use The Eureka Comb Price $1.50 With Lamp Cap For Heating. A combination of metal electrifying influences Straightening crimpy hair. Most convenient and Satisfactory. LAMP CAP MAKES HAIR GROW Mrs. Mitchell's Improved Hair Cream Price 35 Cents Large Jars. Makes the Hair Soft and Glossy. Stops falling Hair. Try it for those places on your temples. Not greasy—will not gum. Scalp Treatment. Hair Straightening. Mail Orders Promptly Attended. 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In how hard we tried to save mother But our cares were all in vain, angels came and took her from us. She is with the Saviour, free from pain. He was a loving and tender mother. A mother so kind and true, mother, a friend who would never shirk Whenever a kind act she could do. By her Daughters. BELL-In sad but loving remembrance of our dear wife and mother Mary T. who departed this life three years ago, September 14, 1908. The month of September once more is here. To me the saddest of all the year Because it took from me away My loving wife three years that day. Yet again I hope to meet her When in Heaven with joy to greet her. greet her, Where no farewell tear is shed. By her Devoted Husband, Thomas Bell Often we seem to be cheerful, We smile and they think we aregay But alas, we are gloomy and tearful Because of the one far away. When you ask us do we miss her. Yes, it fills our heart with pain, but her spirit softly whispers Courage, deni, we shall meet gain. By her children, Willie, Eugene, Anna and Mildred. HARDEN—In sad but loving remembrance of our dear mother Julia Jackson Harden, who departed this life one year ago. September 11, 1910. Once our home was bright and happy. —Oh how sad it is today For our dear and loving mother Has forever passed away. Friends may think we'll sooo for not hes get her And our wounded hearts be healed; But they little know the sorrow, That's within our hearts concealed. By her loving Children. Jones—In sad but loving remembrance of my dear husband John W. Jones, who departed this life 6 months ago, March 16, 1911 One less at home. But cleansed, saved,perfected by grace One more in heaven, one less on earth; His pains, his toils, is sorrows to share, One less the pilgrim's daily cross to bear, One more the crown of the blest to wear, Mary C. Woodhouse, infant of Mr. and Mrs. John C. Woodhouse, of 537 Presstman street, died Wednesday, following a two weeks' illness. Funeral services were held Thursday, interment being held in Mt. Laurel Cemetery. CURIOUS BITS OF HISTORY By A. W. Macy. A NOSE TAX. In the ninth century, when the Danes were managing things in Ireland, much to the disgust of the native, they imposed a yearly tax of one ounce of gold on each Irish householder, the non-payment of which was to be punished by having the nose slit. Irishmen have never been noted for wealth, and gold is almost as scarce as snakes in the Emerald Isle. Consequently the tax was a great burden, and the majority of householders were unable to pay it. The delinquent tax list soon became something formidable, and it seemed as though Ireland would soon become a nation of slit-noses. The people stood it for thirteen years, and then rose in their wrath and massacred many of their oppressors. The others took the hint and the odious law was repealed. (Copyright, 1911, by Joseph B. Bowles.) Has returned home, from Atlantic City ready for business: Mrs Faulkner gaurantees to make HAIR GROW. Hundreds of references can be given from Baloimore and Atlantic City N. J. Work carefully done, can see great results from one treatment. Call to above address. Money talKs to day Land speaks to=morrow BUY LAND AT LINCOLN PARK, MD. $ 1.00 per week No Interest No Taxes Endorsed by Prominent man of the Race The Lincoln Land and Improvement Co. Inc. Washington, D. C. J. WESLEY PARKER, Local Representative. Office 1328 Druid Hill Avenue and 310 Saint Paul Street Write or call for booklet. N.B.—Not connected with Solid Rock Co OPENING CLASS OF Prof. Dabney's Palace Thursday evening, S AT NEW G00 Lexington S All persons attending the night 25 cents, which entitles you to m of the dance that evening. Musi brated Goldfield Orchestra. Morning Star Z K. of P., N. A., S.A., E., Will Give Their 1st Grand SUNDAY, SE FARE FOR ALL, Boat Leaves Miller's Wharf COMMITTEE OF ABRANGEMENT Geo.T. Brent, William Jenkins, Will T. Brent, 2nd Lieutenant, John T. Hughes, Captain. Lunch Department in charm Knights C Band & John T. Ma 9 S. Stockton St Promptly 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 outside either black, gray or white, to matte riages, new and up-to-date; fine bury 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 Day's Palace Academy No evening, September 27 NEW GOOD HOPE HALL Lexington St. near Pine Extending the night of the open titles you to membership and evening. Music will be funn- er orchestra. Prof. Fred Dabn Miss Alice Thom Star Drill Rent N. A., S.A., E., A.A., Jurisdiction For 1st Grand Excursion SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, LL. Ms Miller's Wharf $30, 11 a.m. A BRANGEMENT—Theo. Pine Sam Jenkins, Wilbert J. Henry, Tenant, John T. Nichols, 1st Department in charge of an Expense F. C. B. Knights Of Pythias Band & Orchestra John T. Maxfield, Leader, S. Stockton St., All mail ord Promptly Attended to. President Charles Tolson E Street 500 Ba N H. OWENS & CO. Artists & Embroiderers $65.00 FUNERALS $75.00 Birth $65.00, in black cloth, steel door walnut outside case; beautiful white, to match casket, as de- co-date; fine burial robe, emball pairs of gloves, door crepe, can- ugs, chairs etc., all of the latest stest elsewhere..... $75.00 Saving you... low as $25, $35, $40, $50. Higher G arge for removal of remains from H Funerals, $25.00 and $50.00 Set. Dolphin and Lanvale. C. & GET IT AT LES & DEN Liquid Hill Avenue Corr the DRUG LINE All persons attending the night of the opening will be taxed 25 cents, which entitles you to membership and all the privileges of the dance that evening. Music will be furnished by the celebrated Goldfield Orchestra. Prof. Fred Dabney, Chief Instructor Miss Alice Thomas, Choperon. Morning Star Drill Rank, No.8 K. of P., N. A., S.A., E., A. & A., Jurisdiction of Md. Will Give Their 1st Grand Excursion Brown's Grove SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER. 17 FARE FOR ALL, Boat Leaves Miller's Wharf 8 30, 11 a. m. and 2 30 p. m. COMMITTEE OF ABRANGEMENT-Theo. Pinder, Thomas Jenkins, Geo.T. Brent, William Jenkins, Wilbert J. Henry, Chairman., George T. Brent, 2nd Lieutenant, John T. Nichols, 1st Lieutenant, Edward Hughes Captain. Lunch Department in charge of an Experienced Caterer 9-10 Howard Brent, President Charles Tolson, Vice President 806 George Street 506 Baker Street JOHN H. 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For full particulars, apply to Geo. W. Brown, Miller's Wharf, foot of Caroline Street, 8:30 A. M. and 2.20 P. M. or Walter Langley,1418 Jefferson Street. SEPTEMBER 21-Choral Symphony Oratoria Society. 1- Willing Workers of E. Balto. 18-Uplifting Social of Maryland 19-Free Will Baptist Church 20-Brotherhood of Asbury M. E. Church 21-South Baltimore Singing Circle 22-The Ladies of Gt. Paul and the Baltimore B.C. Church R. R. B. C. 25-Bethel Drill Co., No. 5. 26-The Free-will Enterprise Social 28-Mt. Zion M. E. Church. WE OFFER This space FREE for one week to any person who advertises here for one month. The Afro-American Co. MOONLIGHTS THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER The Academy of Dancing September 21st, 1911 OLD HOPE HALL St. near Pine Point of the opening will be taxed membership and all the privileges will be furnished by the cele- fied Fred Dabney, Chief Instructor less Alice Thomas, Choperon. Drill Rank, No. 8 A. & A., Jurisdiction of Md. Excursion Brown's Grove SEPTEMBER, 17 25 CENTS 8:30, 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. STT—Theo. Pinder, Thomas Jenkins, Robert J. Henry, Chairman, George J. Nichols, 1st Lieutenant, Edward edge of an Experienced Caterer 9:10 C. B. Of Pythias Orchestra Xfield, Leader, All mail orders Attended to. Charles Tolson, Vice President 500 Baker Street ENS @ SON & Embalmers ORALS $75.00. Black cloth, steel gray or white plush; le case; beautiful rubber-tired hearse, th casket, as desired; five heated car- mal robe, embalming, opening grave, door crepe, candles, candelabra, cru- ll of the latest designs. $136.00 Saving you.....$61.00 $50.00. Higher Grade $100, $150. $175. remains from Hospitals. $00 and $50.00 Complete. Lanvale. C. & P. Phone Mad. 4067 DERRY venue Corner Oxford OLIVER J· CAULK Notice! will remove to 2134 Druid Hill Avenue. After September 1. 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. C. & P. Phone, 3941-Y FITZHUGH HALL DESIGNER AND DRAPER 402 Druid Hill Avenue Suits Made to Order $12.50 up. Trousers $3.50 up. Ladies suits and skirts cut and made in latest styles Dyeing, cleaning, repairing, pressing. Ladies Garments altered and repaired. Now is the time to have your suits made or your garments altered, dyed or cleaned before the Fall rush begins. We can dye, alter, or clean your last Spring's suit, and put it in the best possible condition for Fall and Winter wear. Ladies suits sponged and pressed .75 Skirts cleaned, steamed, and dyed 1.00 Goods called for and delivered I LEAD-OTHRES FLLOOW I carry a full Line of Colored Human Hais Goods Combings made in puffs and braids Madame J. CREDITT'S Hair Dressing, Face Massage and Manicuring Parlors SURE SIGNS OF EYE STRAIN Headache, Vertigo and Other Symptoms of That Ailment That Afflicts Many Persons. Chief among the symptoms of eye strain are watering of the eye, a gluing together of the eyelids on awakening in the morning, headache, the position and character of which vary with each individual. It may be neuralgic or it may be deeply seated, as was the case with Wagner, the musician, who was complaining constantly of "the nerves of his eyes." The headache is often replaced by an inflammation of the eyelids, especially in young and healthy persons who also have a little conjunctivitis with a feeling of tension or fullness in the eyes which may become real pain of a dull aching character, the eyeballs being very tender on pressure. Sometimes there are vertigo and sickness, with dyspepsia, palpitation, and even difficulty in breathing. Sleeplessness is a very frequent symptom due in part to the excessive flow of blood to the brain and in part to the low tone of the whole nervous system. The symptoms of eye strain appear sooner in those who lead a confined and sedentary life, who follow occupations which need a constant use of the eyes in bad or unsuitable light, and in those who are debilitated from any cause. The symptoms appear later in those of coarser fiber, who pass much of their time in the open air or who follow occupations which do not need a prolonged use of the eyes for close work.—Lancet. HAIR FOR SKIN GRAFTING Applied in Chopped Form, it Is Found to Be Good Substitute for Ordinary Cuticle. Chopped hair has been successfully substituted for skin in skin grafting by the French surgeon, P. Carnot, who has applied his method in many cases. It is based on the fact that the cells of the hair and its roots are epidermic outgrowths and can easily be transformed into skin cells. The use of hair not only does away with the necessity of taking skin from other persons, which is a painful operation, but it is said to be an improvement as well, as it is strong and hardy, and being inured to a minimum of nutrition is able to thrive under unfavorable, conditions, such as prevail where grafting is necessary. The manner of performing the operation is simple, a few hairs being pulled from the head of the patient or of a relative, and with the bulbous root removed the freshest or newest parts are cut into small pieces so as to form a coarse powder. This powder is then smeared over the surface of the wound and a proper bandage applied. Within a week white spots appear on the surface, rapidly increasing in size. The spots extend and thicken and finally form a perfect new skin. —Popular Mechanics. Salt. Salt production is about the oldest industry in the world. In Italy, the cradle of the salt industry, it has been manufactured commercially for 2,500 years. Salt is so necessary to existence that in some parts of the world tribes will sell the members of their families in exchange for salt. Salt has been the cause of wars, and so important has it always been considered that in some places the passing of salt is established as a token of friendship, and women throw salt on a visitor as a friendly greeting. In some countries salt is so scarce that it is obtained through the ashes of grasses and a species of palm and other plants. While salt is produced in almost every country in the world, it is stated that nowhere can salt of such purity be obtained at anything like the cost of mining as in Louisiana. Manufacturer's Record. Standard of Colors. The call for international standards of all kinds is becoming every day more insistent with the progressive unification of the industries of the world. The latest demand of this kind is for an international standard of colors. Chemists, manufacturers of dyestuffs and pigments, and many others would benefit by such a standard. It is suggested that when once the desired color scheme has been decided upon, the best method of perpetuating the standards, and rendering them available for comparison everywhere, would be by means of colored glasses with which a tintometer could be constructed. A tentative instrument of this kind, based on an arbitrary color scheme, has been made.-Youth's Companion. Adroit. There was a man who used to tell a fine story about a cannon. But, like all story-tellers who play fair, he believed in waiting for something to turn up in the conversation which should give him a chance to spring his yarn. Unfortunately, most of the conversations in which he became involved were perversely cruel to him. Nothing was said in them for several successive weeks. And this is what he used to do, in his desperation, to get around the difficulty: "Boom—Boom!—Boom!!! roared the cannon at Gettysburg. And, by the way, speaking of cannon—" PERSONAL NOTES Miss Florence Fax, of Druid Hill avenue, has returned from Asbury Park, N. J., where she spent the summer. Mrs. L. W. Pattis, of Williston, Md., was the guest of Miss. B. W. Smith, of Pierce street last week. Mr. William Smith has returned from Cape May, where he spent the summer. Miss Alma Stewart, of Argyle avenue, has returned home from a six weeks' stay in Greenville, N. C. Mrs. Charles Gaines, of 1541 Woodyear street has returned home after spending two weeks in Asbury Park and Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs. Margery Jackson, of 207 Calvert street, has returned from a trip to Philadelphia, Atlantic City and Mt. Holly, N. J. She was accompanied by her husband and Mr. and Mrs. James Harriday of Catonsville, Md. Mr. C. D. Baskerville, formerly general manager of the National Benefit Association, is now residing at 206 W. Biddle street. Miss Violet M. Smith has returned to Washington after a vacation of four weeks with her aunt, Mrs. Lucy Johnson, of 1713 Division street. Miss Mailinda Edwards, is the guest of her brother, Rev. C. A. Edwards, pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, Penn Lynn, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wise have returned home from a visit to Atlantic City. Mrs. Mollie Wilmer has returned home from a delightful visit to friends in her home at Denton, Md. Mr. Charles M. Dorsey, the printer, is a member of the September Grand Jury. Mrs. Emma Braxton, of 723 Piecre street, has returned home after a short visit to friends in Virginia. Mrs. Charles Queen, of 530 Lee street, has returned home after visiting friends in New York. Mrs. Hattie Williams, of 756 Mulberry street has returned home after a visit to relatives in New York. Mrs Richard H. Baker of 1527 McElderry Street left the city this week for a trip to Woodstock Harrisonburg and Winchester Va. Miss Ada Hubbard of 1000 N. Carrollton avenue has returned home from a visit to Richmond Va. the guest of her aunt Mrs. Josephine Brown. Mrs. Ida Warner has returned home after visiting relatives and friends of Pocomoke Md. Miss Mabel Williams of Etting street has returned from her trip to Fredericksburg. Va. Mrs. Oilver Brown of 2130 Druid Hill avenue and Mrs. H. Hayes of 1351 Etting street have returned from a trip through Virginia. Mrs. Annie Scott of 663 Pierce street has returned home from a visit to relatives in Trappe. Md. Mrs. Lucy Weston of 107 Biddle street has returned from a delightful visit to relatives and friends in Chalk Point, West River, Shady Side and Annapolis Md. Mrs. B. H. Harris of Park avenue has returned from Woodville Md. where she spent five days as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gray. While there she attended the District Conference Revel H. Fooks, of Philadelphia was n the city a few days ago, renewing old acquaintances. Mrs. Hazcell Wicks and her children, Adolph and Naomi, have returned from a several weeks' stay in Lancaster County, Va. PROF. VERONA GREATEST BORN MEDIUM MAKES NO CHARGE if the object of your visit is not explained without asking a question. Can be seen on all matters of business love, courtship, marraige, investments, etc. By my advice I remove evil influence witchcraft, spells, cure diseases and unite the separated. I never fail. I also teach hypnotism and how to become a medium. No matter what your troubles are or what you wish to know, this Gifted person can positively help you.....if you are hundreds of miles away. A word to the wise is sufficient. Gives good luck, Hours 9 to 9 daily and Sunday. Fees very moderate 217 S. CLINTON ST., near Pratt, Highlandtown, Md. Name Prof. Verona in window. Take Roland Park car to Clinton street. Fennel's Pharmacy Mr. J. Howard Broadway and Miss Augusta V. Gent were quietly married at Wrightville, Pa., on last Saturday, Speember 9. Mrs. I. M. Wheeling of Germantown, Pa., has returned home from this city. She was the guest of Mrs. Hall, of 1529 Montrose street. She also visited Atlantic City enroute to her home. Mrs. Richard Carr was called away suddenly owing to the illness of her sister in Aquasco, Md. Mr. Thomas E. Kelson has returned home after spending the summer at Buena Vista, Pa. Mrs. Sarah Peaco has returned from a two months stay in Pittsburg, Pa., accompanied by her daughter, Miss Hattie Peaco. She was the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Keys. Mrs. Shirlie Washington and daughter, Pauline have returned home after a very pleasant stay of one month visiting Gordonsville, and Culpepper, Va. Miss Ethel Valentine, of Lynchburg, Va., has returned home after spending one week the guest of her sister, Miss Susie Calumn, of 507 Lanvale street. Messrs Robert I. Hoage and W. Morse, of Chicago were in the city this week. In connection with Noble Sellers, they were the guests of Jerusalem Temple of local Shriners, Tuesday night. Mrs. Mary C. Carter, of 1730 Druid Hill Avenue,, has returned home after spending a month visiting Atlantic City and Philadelphia Pa. Mrs. Susie Reason left on Friday September 15 to spend two weeks visiting friends and relatives in Calvert Co. Md. and Philadelphia. Mrs. Emma Shaffer of Atlantic City N. J. is spending a few months in the city the guest of Mrs. Minnie Garnett of 2417 Division street. Mrs. Wm. S. Sharper of Atlantic City formerly Miss Eva Ward of this city is spending a few months in the city at 626 Lanvale street. Mrs. Katie Waters of 1518 Druid Hill avenue has returned home from Petersburg Va. where she attended the Odd Fellows Convention. Miss Flossie E. White and Miss Ethel C. Smith have returned to the city from Harrisonburg, Va. Miss Ethel White, of 110 S. Caroline line has returned home from McDanielstown, Md. Mr. Solomon H. Proctor a student of Howard University andMr. William H. Proctor a teacher in the Public Schools have returned from Atlantic City N. J. where they spent a delightful vacation. Mrs. David Johnson, of Hagerstown has returned home after a delightful stay of two weeks in Baltimore as the guest of Mrs. Edith Davis of Archer street for several days. Atfer spending a few weeks visiting relatives in Washington D. C. Miss Ethel Travers of 32 S. Caroline street was accompanied back to her home by her father, Mr. James Traverse and Miss Viola Jones The Baptist Union Ministerial Meeting resumed its weekly sessions at Macedonia Baptist Church last Monday. A number of ministers told of their vacation experiences. The Ministerial Alliance will resume its monthly meetings. at Grace Prestyerian Church this Monday. "Vacation Echoes" will be the topic for discussion. Presbyterian Church For East Baltimore A Presbyterian mission which has been located at Mullikin and Spring streets for the past five months will be formally organized by the Baltimore Presbytery next Sunday. There are about 15 families now connected with the mission, and it is the intention of the Presbyterian Association to erect a suitable building for the new congregation within the next few months. A pastor will be called and the work pushed forward with vigor. The mission has been aided considerably by Rev. W. Edward Williams, pastor of Grace Presbytrian Church. Ministers' Meetings To Resume The A. M. E. Ministers meeting resumed its weekly session with an interesting meeting at the A. M. E. Church at Roslyn, Md., last Monday. Following a sermon by Rev. P. W. Worthham, a varied and interesting program was rendered. Dinner was served under the supervision of Rev. A. A. Murray, pastor of the church. The president Rev. A. L. Gaines, presided. Beginning with Monday, September 25, the sessions will be held at Bethel A. M. E. Church as formerly