The Afro-American

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN LEDGER VOL. XX NO.24. W. R. GRIFFIN KILLED IN WRECK Grand Master of True Reformers Receives Injuries Which Caused His Death FROM LABORER TO HEAD OF GREAT ORDER Thousands of People Attend His Funeral Services In (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Richmond, Va., Feb. 9—Members of the Grand United Order of True Reformers in various parts of the country were shocked to hear of the death in Petersburg, Va., Monday night of Walter R. Griffin, grand master of the order. Mr. Griffin was returning on the Norfolk and western Railroad from a trip to West Virginia when a wreck occured about 20 miles from Petersburg. His head was split from ear t ear. He was taken to a hospital at Petersburg, where he died. He was scheduled to speak that night in Wilmington, Del., and when he did not arrive in Richmond in time to make train connections for the North, officials of the order made the wires hot with inquiries only to learn that he was dead. The Rosebud members of the North were in annual session at Philadelphia Tuesday and went time arrived for Mr. Griffin to address them, a telegram announcing his sudden end reached them. They adjourned immediately out of respect to him. Thousands Attend Funeral. A. D. Price, well known funeral director of this city, prepared the remains of Mr. Griffin for burial. They laid in state Wednesday and were reviewed by hundreds of persons. Funeral services were held at the Third Street A. M. E. Church yesterday. A large numer of ministers and prominent officials of the order participated. It seemed as if nearly all Richmond were present at the funeral services so great was the crowd around the church. The remains were taken to Nameless, Va., near Lynchburg, where after additional services they were interred. Many prominent officials of the order including HezekiahBrown, head of the Baltimore division, attended the obsequies. A Born Hustler. The deceased grand master was born in Campbell county, near Lynchburg, Va.. September 6, 1870. He left school at 17 became a laborer on a railroad. He was soon advanced to cook on a dining car. He was given a position in the Order of True Reformers in 1899, and soon thereafter was made chief of the Cincinnati division. He was transferred to the Washington division in 1903, where he remained until he succeeded A. W. Holmes as grand master last August. While in Washington he made the District of Columbia one of the strongest adjuncts of the order, and the large hall at 12th and U streets was erected. He was active also in the work of the Washington Negro Business League, the Y. M. C. A. and other interests. After his election as grand master, he worked assiduously to try to bring the order back to its former strong condition, financially and numerically. He was most active in trying to have former officials of the order punished for alleged criminal proceedings while in office. A few weeks ago, he was much in the limelight because he practically forced the resignation of Thomas J. Newoms attorney general of the order because he had demanded that the attorney give all of his time to the legal work of the order. Was Well Known in Baltimore Mr. Griffin had visited Baltimore a number of times. His most memorable visit was when James H. Nutt was succeeded as chief of the Baltimore division by Hezekiah Brown. The outing of Mr. Nutt was bitterly resented by the latter's friends. His last visit was two weeks ago today, when he came over to have a conference with Mr. Brown concerning the attempt of several of those who are beneficiaries of decease³ True Reformers to have the local courts declare the order bankrupt. He bad also successfully resisted similar attempts in Richmond. Mr. Griffin was a bachelor. B. & O. STILL THE OBJECT OF CRITICISM Bishop L. J. Coppin Denounces Segregation in No Uncertain The separate waiting and retiring rooms that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has established for its cooled patrons at Camden station are still the topic for adverse comment. The fact has become known in the North and West and been published in various newspapers, and the discriminations will, no doubt, be resented in a most emphatic way. Bishop L. J. Coppin, who is a frequent user of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad lines, scored the discriminations in an address before the A. M. E. Ministerial Meeting Monday, and advised that the ministers could in no better way show their resentment than by giving up their clerical orders on the Baltimore and Ohio. "When I read that the railroad company," said the prelate, "had discriminated against the manhood and womanhood of our people, I was surprised. My surprise was heightened by the fact that negotiations were already in progress looking to the transportation of the many delegates and visitors that will attend the coming session of the A. M. E. General Conference at Kansas City over the lines of the company. As men who resent uncalled for humiliations, we must let our resentment be made known. Though it would be a sacrifice, I would advise that our ministers collect all of their clerical orders and turn them in to the company unless the wrong is righted." Dr. John Hurst, financial, secretary of the denomination, also voiced his disapproval. The ministers have appointed a committee, headed by Rev. A. L. Gaines, to take up the discrimination with officials of the company. Revs. Ernest Lyon, M. F. Sydes, I. L. Thomas, field agent of the Board of Church Extension and Home Missions of the M. E. Church, D. W. Hays, of Washington and John O. Custis were among those to protest against the discrimination this week. The Baptist Ministerial Meeting adopted resolutions condemning the attitude of the company, and many who attended the joint session of the local M. E. Ministerial Meeting and the Washington M. E. Ministerial Meeting Wednesday were emphatic in their protests against the "J'jm Crow" arrangements. FREDERICK DOUGLAS "He was the Noblest Roman of the without'a rogance, of success with mark in the progress of human of African descent POLITICS ARE HOT IN WASHINGTON Citizens Haled Before Civil Service Commission for Undue Political Activity [Picture of a man with a long white beard and a dark suit, facing slightly to the right.] "He was the Noblest Roman of them all." A remarkable of ability without a rogance, of success without vanity. His life a landmark in the progress of human rights. The grandest man of African descent the century knew. (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Washington D.C. Feb. 8-Though the only opportunity that the male residents of the District of Columbia has to vote is once every four years for delegates to the several national conventions, the undue activity of candidates for delegates to the Republican National Convention was responsible yesterday for Ocea Taylor and Oliver Randolph, both of whom are interested in the publication of the Washington American and who are likewise holders of positions under the civil advice being haled before the Civil Service Commission on charges of undue political activity. Messrs. Randolph and Taylor are said to have leaned strongly toward Sidney Bieber and Dr. J. R Wilder, who have combined against the opposition ticket, on which W. Calvin Chase, editor of the Bee, and Aaron Bradshaw are running: Bieber is said to desire to go as uninstructed delegate and Dr. Wilder is of the same mind, though he was, quoted when he left the White House a few weeks ago as being strongly for Taft's renomination. Bradshaw and Chase are openly avowing their intention to support Taft in the convention. Meetings in the interest of both tickets are being held nightly. Randolph Denies Charges. Mr. Randolph has issued a statement denying the charges. "The publishing company with which I am connected," he said, "prides itself on publishing one of am all." A remarkable of ability without vanity. His life a landman rights. The grandest man the century knew. the first colored newspapers to come out strongly for the renomination of President Taft. It has had some commendatory remarks about Dr. Wilder in its columns, but those remarks were predicated upon the fact that Dr. Wilder gave out a statement at the White House that he was for the renomination of President Taft. "Also complimentary reference was made to him because of his standing in this city; Of course, ther is the editor of a competing colored newspaper running on the other ticket, and, naturally, there is to be some spirit of rivalry in the matter. The paper with which I am connected is not a political paper. The men who accuse us of editing a political paper are generally those with whom we have had editorial controversies. One of them, who is also a government official, was a part of the time that I was an employee of his office, a partner in the publishing company with myself and the other employee referred to." Lively Fight For Commissioner. Chicago, Ill. Feb. 9—There will be a lively fight for the Republican nomination for commissioner of Cook county, in which this city is situated. The colored men in the race include B. F. Mosely, a lawyer; Jordan Chavis, chaplain of the Eighth Illinois Regiment; and Oscar DePriest, a former county commissioner. A League Organized Talladega, Ala., Feb. 9-The colored men of this city have organized a league that will seek to have colored men qualify in larger numbers to vote. The officers are: E. H. Green, president; Prof. William Pickens, of Talladega College, secretary; O. C. Singeton, assistant secretary; and A. J. Alexander, treasurer. FARMERS CONFER AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE Agriculturalists From All Over Virginia Take Much Interest In Annual Meeting GIRLS BEING FORMED INTO CANNING CLUB Principal Frissell and Major R. R. Moton Deliver Help- Hampton, Va., Feb. 8—The Hampton Institute annual meeting of the Negro Farmers' Conference brought together several hundred enterprising and prosperous farmers of Virginia, who are eager to improve their farm work and secure increased yields per acre. The welfare of the Negro race is so closely associated with the life in the home that Hampton Institute gave a prominent place to the discussion of home problems in the Farmers' Conference. The heads of the Domestic Art and Domestic Science Departments, as well as others who are interested in home economics, met the women and discussed the practical problems relating to health and hygiene and gave some interesting demonstrations in caring for the sick. The advantages and purposes of various farm implements, as well as the conditions under which they can be used to advantage, were informally discussed by men who had practical experience in farming. Plows, harrows and farming machinery received attention. Under the direction of Jackson Davis, Richmond, Va., State supervisor of elementary schools in Virginia, and with the cooperation of the seventeen colored supervising teachers, who are working in eighteen counties of Virginia, a splendid movement for teaching Negro girls the art and value of canning vegetables and fruits has been in successful operation ever since the spring of 1911. This organization is known as Negro Home Garden Association. Dr. Hollis B. Frissell, principal of Hampton Institute, expressed his satisfaction with the excellent progress which the colored people are making in agriculture and in kindred lines of work throughout the South. He emphasized the importance of the Negro preacher in the forward movement among the colored people. He showed the relation of Dr. Wallace Buttrick, secretary of the General Education Board, to the securing by the people of better schools, better homes, and better agricultural results. Cooperation, in his opinion, is the great word of our modern times. Major Robert R. Moton, commandant of cadets at Hampton Institute, spoke on the value of teaching children to love the things by which they and their parents have lived and must continue to live. He said that men were slowly getting over the idea anybody could be "just a farmer." George A. Cosgrove, of Willington, Conn., a white farmer of ability and respect, told the story of his emigration from the city to the farm. At the age of fifty-seven, broken down in health and with a small amount of capital, Mr. Cosgrove, who was city born and city bred, moved with his wife and two grandchildren on a farm. "City people think," said Mr. Cosgrove, "they can go into the country and stay for weeks without incurring one cent of expense." The growth of demonstration farm work among the Negroes of Virginia has grown very rapidly during the past five years and its success has been largely due to John B. Pierce, a graduate of Tuskegee and Hampton. Five years ago, one Negro dmonstration agent was sent to Goucester County and helped thirtyNegro farmers to improve their land. Indirectly he influenced for good seventy-five per cent. of the Negro agents, working in eleven counties of Virginia, who come in touch with a thousand Negro population in these counties. Whereas the average acre belonging to the Negro farmer in Virginia will produce fifteen bushels of corn, with the instruction given by the farm demonstration agents the yields may be increased from fifty to three hundred per cent. Instead of raising one crop, farmers are now Judge Miller Scores Dallas, Tex., Feb. 8—The declaration of Judge Barry Miller the other day that no more colored gamblers would suffer conviction in his court until some white gamblers shared the same fate has caused consternation in local gambling circles. Following close upon this was the conviction of "Chick" Price (white) for gambling. He was sent to prison for two years. His case marked the first conviction of a white man in this city for gambling. Preparing to Entertain Delaware Conference (Special to Afro-American Ledger.) Salisbury, Md., Feb. 9—The people of this city are making great preparations for the entertainment of the Delaware M. E. Conference, the annual session of which begins here on April 3. Mr. Solomon G. Houston has been selected chairman of the committee on entertainment. Cambridge, Md. Feb. 8—Rev. J. R. Barnum has been transferred by Bishop Coppin to a charge in North Carolina. Rev. W. H. Manokey has been transferred from the North Carolina Conference to succeed him at Bethel A. M. E. Church, this city. Special to the Afro-American Leader. Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 9—Govemor Ben Hooper, the only Republican that has served as chief executive within a generation, has announced tat he will be a candidate for reelection. Dr. Daniel H. Williams, the noted Chicago surgeon, arrives in the city next week to perform operations in surgery before the students of Meharry Medical College. Mrs. Ennis Entertains (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Havre de Grace, Md., Feb. 8—A parlor social was given at the home of Mrs. Annie E. Ennis a few evenings ago. The evening was pleasantly spent in various diversions. Rev. Smith Transferred, (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) St. Michaels, Md., Feb. 8—Rev. H. W. Smith, pastor of the A. M. E. Zion Church, has been transferred by Bishop Alexander Walters to a charge in North Carolina. He preached his farewell sermon, to a large congregation last Sunday. Rev. T. E. Reach will succeed him. Miss Josephine Moore, he, covered from a serious illness. Misses W. Demy and Lertha Chester are ill at their homes. Heavy Blow Against Discrimination on Account of Color. CIVIL RIGHTS LAW ENFORCED. Vigilance Committee of National Association Secures the Conviction of a New York Theater Official For Violation of the Law-Victory For the Whole Race. New York.-The New York vigilance committee, an organization composed of representative white and colored citizens of New York city and of which Mr. Glicchrist Stewart is chairman and Professor J. E. Spingarn is secretary and treasurer, recently secured the first conviction ever had in New York state for violation of the civil rights bill. The New York vigilance committee was organized for active prosecution of all infringements of the legal rights of the colored man and has permanent headquarters at 268% West One Hundrew and Thirty-fifth street. It was necessary to have an organized protest against racial discrimination in order to combat the increasing number of outrages against colored men and women and to make effective the laws of the state which guarantee them equal rights. This organization has tackled the problem of police discrimination against prisoners and their unjust arrest on trivial offenses, their maltreatment often on their way to the station, and has, through the co-operation of Police Commissioner Rhinelandander Waldo, secured equal protection and justice to colored prisoners as is given to all others. No longer is a colored prisoner on citizen misused by a policeman in the city of New York. Next it took up the question of certain localities where gangs were in the habit of insulting colored people when in their locality. These gangs were dispersed. Now it is vigorously attacking the custom of discrimination in public places—restaurants, theaters, hotels and cafes. It has brought a number of successful suits against these places to enforce the civil rights law. A custom had been growing in New York city to refuse colored people seats in the orchestra of the theaters. In a test case which was brought by the committee Harry A. Levy, assistant treasurer of the Lyric theater, was convicted of a misdemeanor for excluding a colored man and young lady from the orchestra seats of his theater. He offered to exchange the seats for two in the balcony, but this was refused. After a hard drawn out legal fight, conducted by Hon. Charles S. Whitman, the district attorney, through Mr. James A. Smith, as assistant, who had immediate charge of the case, and Attorney Charles H. Studin, one of the advisory legal counsel of the committee, this first conviction criminally under the statute of New York city had a startling effect upon prejudiced conditions. All of the daily papers of New York gave it wide prominence. The committee is fulfilling its purposes of coping with the constant increase of discrimination and violence against colored men and women in this city. The discrimination has manifested itself in numerous ways in all places of public accommodation and even in the administration of justice, and it is of the highest importance that an organized effort be made to maintain the civil rights of all citizens regardless of race or color. It is also essential that public opinion should be influenced and educated in the direction of equal rights or it will not be long before conditions in New York will be exactly the same as those in the cities of the south. This can only be accomplished by such vigorous prosecution in every case of discrimination that the certainty of punishment will deter even prejudiced persons from offending against the law. The officers of the committee are: Chairman, Glihrist Stewart; vice chairman, Dr. John L. Elliott; secretary and treasurer, Professor J. E. Spingarn. Those of the advisory counsel are: William S. Bennet, Edward Lauterbach, Charles H. Studin, Melville II. Cane, D. Macon Webster, John W. Smith and Walter N. Flauagan. Historical and Literary Society. What bids fair to become a strong and influential organization for intellectual culture in New York is the Historical and Literary society of the St. James' Presbyterian church, of which the Rev. Dr. William R. Lawton is pastor. At the last meeting in January Rev. George F. Miller delivered a very timely address on the "Church's Mission In the Present Day State of Society." On Feb. 22 Dr. E. P. Roberts will speak on "Personal and Public Hydiene" and on March 27 Dr. W. E. B. Du Bols will deliver a lecture. The general officers of the society are: Dr. Albert S. Reed, president; Miss W. E. G. Rowe, secretary, and Mr. James Gwathney, treasurer. Big Loss to Members of the Race. Through the complete failure of the Metropolitan Mercantile and Reality company in New York upward of 5,000 Afro-Americans will lose $500,000, according to a recent report. TRIBUTE TO BISHOP GAINES. Paured Out His Life Without Measure, Says Dr. Thirkield. Washington. — Upon hearing the news of the death of Bishop Wesley J. Gaines, which occurred at his late home in Atlanta, Ga., recently, Dr. Wilbur Patterson Thirkield, president of Howard university, made the following comment concerning the life and work of the noted churchman, whom he had known for many years: The ridings of the death of Bishop Gaines give me a sense of distinct loss as I recall the character of this true man of God, his worth to the church and his remarkable record for righteousness, for truth and for progress in God's kingdom. I had cherished the hope that he might live many years and achieve a place as counselor and guide in the church which the revered Bishop Praire held for many years. Knowing him both as pastor and as bishop, I want to bear witness to the stainless record of this man of God and to his character, that through the years of close association as neighbor and friend in Atlanta I can testify was above reproach. The example of such a man for probity, purity and righteousness has been of unmeasured value. In his devotion to every interest of the church he poured out his life without measuring the cost. He has left behind him an enduring monument, not only in institutions of learning and in churches he has built, but also in his character and noble example that must live through all the years as a guide to all who knew him. OPPOSITION TO W. C. HOOK. Influential Boston Paper Indores Position of Colored Citizens. The attitude of the New England Suffrage league and the Massachusetts branch of the National Independent Political league toward the appointment of Judge William G. Hook to the federal supreme court is indorsed by the Boston Globe. In its issue of Jan. 24 the Globe says: "The protest of certain colored citizens of New England against the nomination of Judge Hook to be a justice of the supreme court illustrates the wide unpopularity of this gentleman. Heretofore the middle west has furnished most of the objections, but the opposition there is based on decisions alleged to be friendly to corporations, while the New England protest is founded on a decision said to be unfriendly to the privilege of Negroes in dining or sleeping cars. "It may well be questioned whether the president will feel himself justified in nominating a man who is so generally in disfavor. To select a man who must enter office lacking public confidence would be unfair to the supreme court. A Hook for a Harlan is hardly a fair exchange." MOVEMENT WILL BENEFIT THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION High Appreciation Shown For Work of Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois. At the suggestion of Mrs. Carrie W. Clifford of Washington a movement has been started to raise a large fund to be presented to the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People on the occasion of Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois' birthday, which occurs some time in February. The effort is being made in recognition of Dr. Du Bois' great services on the one hand and in appreciation of the work of the association for the promotion of human brotherhood on the other. The movement has thus far met with hearty responses from many sections. Since the national association stands for justice and equality of privilege and opportunity to all American citizens, the promoters of the movement desire the co-operation of every church and organization, as well as individuals, in order that a sum commensurate in a large degree with the character and worth of the organization to the race may be raised within a short time. In New York, where the headquarters of the association are, and in Brooklyn the women are active with plans by which to secure contributions from the various churches and organizations. The Equal Suffrage league of Brooklyn has already held several meetings, including one evening luncheon, the proceeds from which will go toward the sum it desires to contribute to the general fund. The league has arranged for a systematic canvass, which will be followed by a general public mass meeting. Dr. V. Morton-Jones is chairman of the committee, and Mrs. Lydia G. Smith, reporter for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, is the recording secretary. The management of the whole affair is being conducted by the women of the race. It is not only a wise movement, but one worthy of the liberal support of our people everywhere. Public Schools Assist Red Cross. The local Red Cross organization, through Mrs. W. J. Boardman, recently officially acknowledged the work of the pupils of the colored schools of Washington in the sale of Red Cross Christmas seals. The Armstrong强 Manual Training school, through Miss S. W. Brown, contributed $26.10. Two contributions from Normal School No. 2, through Miss Williamson and Miss Hunter, were $40 and $14 respectively. Pupils of the M street high school turned in, through Miss Berry, $25 and through Mrs. A. M. Johnson $8, the total contributions from the children and young people of the local colored schools being $137.10. THE AFRO=AMERICAN-LEDGER POPULAR GAUGE OF RACIAL TYPES How Modern Conditions Bring About New Relative Positions. PHASES OF INFINITE ORDER. Advancement Lies In Reasonable Selection, Which Is as True of Admirable Human Makeup as It Is of Efficient Mechanics — Counterpart of Race Prejudice. Troy, O.—Continuing the discussion of nature's answer to man's race question, Mr. Horace J. Rollin, author of "Yetta Segal," which some critics call radical, yet adequate as a pioneer sketch of the great question of racial phenomena, says: Such phenomena must be interpreted in a way consistent with man's nature. If he is capable of development, if he shall attain higher status through struggle or through means that are seemingly or, for the time, degrading; if he is moving from the simple to the complex as to organization, if universal movement tends to unifie existence, then racial interchange, with elimination of peculiar characteristics, has made its appearance as a phase of infinite order and for the benefit of future man. As to the state of integrity, we have mentioned primitive "offish" instinct as having had profound normal value. Temporary segregation has insured the process of developing peculiar specific qualities, at certain periods, in this or that environment, necessary to the cosmopolitan of the future. But the products of nature inevitably undergo change, and if not used to establish advanced forms and expressions they are disintegrated as so much common material. Racial characteristics—as "the types" present them to popular gaze—attained full growth so long ago that modifications more or less marked have necessarily appeared. Modern conditions bring new relative positions. Extensive geographical interdistribution of types has resulted from the overcoming of such natural barriers as great rivers, seas, mountain chains and deserts. For multitudes, this means different air, food, scene, thought and feeling—new elements that vary aspiration itself. The physiognomy is remodeled, irrespective of new lineage. Even if there were no fusion, the types could not remain the same nor so much unlike. Advancement lies in reasonable selection—this is as true of admirable human makeup as it is of efficient mechanics. It is not in order to say that any one is "in favor" of this phenomenon. No one declares that Newton was in favor of the law of gravitation. He called attention to it quite innocently; the spectator was not advised to climb a tall tree and then let go his hold, in order to test the readiness of the discovered law. Franklin perceived the power of "lightning" to help or harm the individual. Those who fancied that he "indorsed it" doubtless associated him with its ugly aspects. No one who comprehends the raison d'etre of the new philosophy desires to see the movement unreasonably accelerated. A morbidity would follow, the counterpart of rage hatred itself. Acknowledgment of the truth is certainly not a letting down of the bars to indiscriminate. Ill advised mating. It is time, however, for comprehensive information. Increased knowledge means increased circumspection, the best protection for the individual. We should look at the past with improved vision. Some matings involving the racial interchange of cruder times—once declared brutal and immoral—must have had the psychic cleav. This is attested by a fair proportion of the living record. The composite must be considered in a way which will defend him and also insure ourselves against self degradation. Thus even where custom and ordinary law have been ignored by the ancestors psychic force comes spontaneously to remove mysterious temporary stigma. Nature provides increasing kinship, even to those of delayed development, and extending fusion is rendered less and less objectionable, with wider scope for happy selection. This is no more a mere theory than is the law back of the marvelous production of new stock, fruits and flowers. We are reminded to mention a book which authoritatively points to the crossing of types as a means of producing the superior man of the future: "The Training of the Human Plant" (the Century company, 1907). We predicted that Mr. Burbank must arrive at this conclusion. This infinite workman, who makes high philosophy fungible, had in mind the same principle of exchange of needed values with which he is so familiar in plant life. At the Tuskegee Annual Conference. At the recent annual conference of colored farmers held at the Tuskegee (Ala.) institute reports were read which showed that during 1911 the colored farmers contributed half a billion dollars' worth of produce to the wealth of the south. Dr. Booker T. Washington in his usual diplomatic way asked how much of this amount remains in the bank and in homes to the credit of the race. The conference was attended by a large number of white farmers and other business men. ESSAY ON ADVERTISING. BY ALBON LEWIS HOLCEY. A man who recently died in Chicago started an agitation which may revolutionize our system of education. He sought to discourage the burdening of children's minds with abstract theories and formulae, believing, on the other hand, that the child should first be taught to observe. When the child mind is so trained that it unconsciously forms an opinion of shape and color we will then have laid the foundation for a better education. Many people read papers and are not able to tell anything they saw except the fashion, sporting or editorial page, while the other departments are passed by unnoticed. With an education based on observation the average reader would get more real benefit from papers than they do now. A decade ago the advertisements were either bombastic in appearance, including exaggerated statements and impossible propositions, or were simply meaningless words which announced that such and such a firm was in business. Now things are different, for in all first class periodicals advertisements are written in an educational, instructive manner, and people who read them carefully learn many things which help them to save time and also to cut down expenses. Advertisements of standardized, trademarked goods is the best thermometer to gauge the march of progress of invention and scientific research, and no newspaper or magazine should be discarded until it has been read with the greatest care. BOSTON WOMEN HOLD BIG ANTI-LYNCHING MEETING. Senators Asked to Introduce Bill Making Lynching a Federal Crime. Boston.—At a lynching protest mass meeting in Puneuil hail held recently under the auspices of a committee of thirty colored women, led by Mrs. W. Mource Trotter, it was unanimously voted to petition Senator Crane and Congressman McCall at Washington to offer bills in the senate and the house making lynching wherever perpetrated a federal crime. It was also voted to again petition President Taft "to throw his influence in the scale against the men who burn little children and to appeal to colored men to stand against crime or criminals, whether they be black or white, and not to be so easily lynched." In a stirring address on "Lynching and American Public Opinion" Rev. R. C. Ransom of New York city said that lynchings primarily sprang out of the desire of the former slaveholding states to repress the Negro. The south, he claimed, in order to justify itself in these barbarities began by blackening his character and by painting him as a monster who menaced the safety of women. "Negroes themselves," he said, "are largely to blame for the contempt in which they are held and the impunity with which their liberties and their lives may be invaded. Sheriffs, mayors, courts, governors, will not take seriously into account the interests of a people who have lost or surrendered the right to retaliate or call them to account at the ballot box. Mobs do not quail when there is no fear that their wild brutality will be answered by a volley of bullets." He said the action of this government in abogating the treaty with Russia furnishes a striking example as to how the lynching evil can be combated. "We would advise," he said, "that Negro subjects of the British empire who come to this country numerously from the British West Indies travel freely throughout the southern states and when they are jimrowed and otherwise assaulted and degraded that they appeal to the British government on the ground that their treaty rights have been violated." "Within the past twenty-six consecutive years there have been recorded 25,000 lynchings of colored Americans in the United States. Not one lyncher has been punished," said Mrs. W. Monroe Trotter. "Think of the father with his son and daughter murdered on their way to the cotton gin with the products of their labor, the father and son tied to the cart and burned, the daughter shot in the back!" "If these are not horrible enough to move you to sympathy, then think of the mother torn from her suckling babe, raped and with her fourteen-year-old son dragged through the streets of a city and hanged to the ties of a bridge! Think of those bodies swinging in the air, and if these do not move you to action God help us colored people!" New Agricultural Agent at Fort Davis. The recent appointment of Mr. T. J. Murray as United States agricultural demonstration agent is hailed with delight by the farmers at and in the vicinity of Fort Davis. Ala., in which place Mr. Murray will have his headquarters. 1725 ORLEANS STREET We solicit your friendship and patronage. We assure you polite and up-to-date service. We have added several new features to our business, among which is an experienced Female Directress, the first and only colored lady directress in the State. Coffins and Caskets shipped to all parts of the State at Shortest Notice. Carriages and ambulance for Hire. 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PARENTS SHOULD EDUCATE CHILDREN Was Urged By Prominent Speakers At Educational Mass Meeting That colored boys and girls who do not receive at least a grammar school education will be seriously handicapped in the race of life and that parents should make every sacrifice to allow their children to get as complete an education as possible were urged in addresses by Frof. Kelly Miller, George B. Murphy, a supervising principal of Croupe Y; Rev. Dr. Ernest Lyon and others at an educational mass-meeting at John Wesley M. E. Church Sunday night. The exercises were largely attended, and the galleries were filled with school boys and girls of South Baltimore. Others who participated in the program were: Miss Adah Thompson, president of the Parents and Teachers' Club of School No. 106; Mr. H. Milton Gross, who recited; T. Henderson Kerr, who played a violin solo; E. Smyth Jones, the poet, who recited his "Ode to Ethiopia"; Winford Braxton, who sang a baritone solo, and Rev. C. E. Young, dean of Morgan College, who delivered the invocation. Prof. Kelly Miller in his address declared that the city Negro was seriously handicapped if his education was limited. "In Washington," he said, "there are 20,000 colored women employed in various lines of domestic service. Inquiries made of their employers reveal the fact that most of them are not [Picture of a man in a suit with a bow tie]. PROFESSOR KELLY MILLER what they may be because they have not received any training beyond the fifth or sixth grade. "No city boy or girl need expect to be a great success whose training does not reach beyond that of the fifth or sixth grade. The most successful of our men and women are those who have persevered and passed through the high school and ultimately the college. If New England boys and girls with centuries of cultivation behind them require twelve years of school before finishing the high school; four more before they finish the college, and a few more before they finish the university or professional course, before they are ready for life's work. the colored youth, just a few years removed from slavery, needs at least as much. "It is generally conceded that man ought to live to be 70 years of age, and the man or woman who spends twenty years or a little less in preparation for life's battles should far outstrip those who do not. Each of you have the same prospects, and if you are adequately prepared, you may expect a large measure of success. This is the day of the expert, and he says to the temporary and inefficient to make room for him as he is going to supersede him. If every educational program was devised to develop manhood in men and women much of the problem would be solved, for without manhood real program will not take place." He ended by making a plea that parents make every sacrifice tokeep their children in school, and thus add to their chances for making successful careers. New Building For Odd Fellows. A meeting in the interest of a new hall for the local lodges of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows was held at the Odd Fellows Hall, 549 W. Biddle street, Monday night. Addresses urging that every effort be made to erect a large and suitable meeting place on the present site were made by a number of speakers. PRESS COMMENTS. PRESS COMMENTS. A Human And Noble Work. No work of social uplift or amelioration that is being done in Philadelphia today is more worthy of support and encouragement than that patient labor of self help and self protection undertaken by the colored people of Philadelphia under the auspices of the Association for the Protection of Colored Women. This organization is demonstrating in an intensely practical way the desire of a struggling and backward race to improve its own condition and to remove effectively the reproach so often cast up against it that its members are a demoralizing influence in the community. The especial aim of the association is to receive and care for the young Negro women who are coming here constantly from the South, in response to the ever increasing demand for domestic labor, to the end that they may be safeguarded from the clutches of panderers to vice and fairly started in the paths of honest livelihood. So quietly and yet so efficiently has this work been carried on that in a single year no less than 900 young women, a large proportion of whom under former conditions would have inevitably fallen into evil ways, have been met and provided for until employment in clean surroundings was found for them. The peril against which these ignorant and inexperienced newcomers have been guarded is far from being an imaginary one, for the vice of a great city is most commonly recruited from just such sources, and the cutting off of the supply of human victims not only means the salvation of so many individuals but the uplift of the race and the betterment of the social conditions of the entire community. So modestly and quietly has this work been conducted that few know of its beneficent purposes and results. It makes so direct a contribution to the social health of the community that Philadelphia, through its government as well as by its active interest and sympathy of public spirited citizens ought to give it substantial support. If it cost from $70 to $75 a year to maintain an inmate in the House of Correction or in a reformatory, THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER Words That Freed a Race I do o that all slaves . forward Presiden lamation 1863. how much more rational to contribute toward the support of an association which is saving young women from the courses which lead to correctional institutions at a cost of a dollar or two each year. Refuse to Commission Negroes. The refusal of Governor Blease to commission Negroes as notaries ought to be brought before the legislature for full understanding by the Negroes themselves. We do not agree with the position that the rank and file of Negroes take in rebuking all the white people in South Carolina for what an individual does. It may be a pleasure to Governor Blease to know that it is not the sentiment of his people to deprive the Negro of his rights, and how can we know unless the Negro intercede as to his rights as an American citizen.—Charleston (S. C.) Messenger. Very Much In The Race. With all the great Light before us, we believe Col. Roosevelt is making the greatest race for the presidency without being a candidate that this country ever saw.—Dallas (Texas) Express. (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Snow Hill, Md., Feb. 1—Mr. Daniel Ayers and Miss Cora Duncan were married at Rev. Charles Spence's residence Wednesday night. Miss Helen Henry was the guest of Mrs. Catherine Duncan Friday and Saturday. A revival meeting has been going on at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church. Seven have been converted an others are at the altar. Miss Andie Hudson, of Philadelphia, is home for a short time. Mrs. Lavenia Jewett, who became ill Sunday night in church, is out again. Mr. Nathan Roxborough gave a dinner to his friends Sunday. E. Smyth Jones Lectures. E. Smyth Jones, the poet, gave a recital at Morgan College last Friday night. He was generously applauded by the large audience present. The proceeds were for the benefit of the Morgan College Athletic Association. Mr. Jones gave a recital at Metropolitan Church Thursday night. Snow Hill Notes. order and declare persons held as are and hence shall be free. Lincoln's Proc Issued Jan. 1, Protecting Colored Women In Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Feb. 8—The annual meeting of the Association for the Protection of Colored Women was held here Sunday afternoon at Allen A. M. E. Church. Reports made showed that the association had looked after over 900 women and girls who arrived in the city during the past year. Addresses were delivered by George W. Ochs, publisher of the Philadelphia Ledger; Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, of New York; and Mrs. S. Willie Layton, who is the head of the work of the association. To Erect New Hospital Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 8—Plans are under way for the erection of a new building for the Mercy Hospital, the same to be completed by the first of next year. 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Midnight Visits Some Schools and Colleges And Does Some Thinking Crowley, La.—Now here I am in this section of the country as busy as can be, yet I must stop long enough to say a few words to you when I am through you will be in position to spend a few hours in thought. I have so often said life and property are so cheap in this country, and yet when I say this I almost feel the sting from some assassin's bullet ready to send me to my long eternal homee. To me this is indeed a sad time, sa take my pen in hand to write 'to you. So much information has been handed down to me, and some of my good friends have left this world. Information has just reached me that Dr. L. W. W. Manaway, of Jackson is no more. Of course you are acquainted with Dr. Manaway in this country. He has figured in the affairs of the A. M. E. Church for a number of years, and you would always find him active in the big things of his church. He was in position to help the bishops, and then he carried everything about his church that was worth carrying. I have not been able to learn anything about the particulars, but I am informed that he is dead. He was a candidate for the episcopacy. I shall attempt at another time to find out and let you know more about his death. I had just finished reading this when I was informed that George Law, of Jackson, Miss. is also dead. He was the father of Jennie G. Law, Bessie Law, Mabel and several others. I am sorry to announce this. As you recall I have spent a little time in Florida. I have had a fine time in the state looking around, eating oranges, apples, pineapples and the like. I have viisted many places, and have noted the progress we are making. I hope that we may continue to make progress, until the world can look up to us and praise God that we have been left in a busy world like this. I am now away from the state, and will have to tell you how it happened. I returned to Jacksonville, Fla., had a little chat and stopped over with Prof. N. W.Collier, and went to visit Cookman Institute, and Edward Water's College, and several other schools. I met Rev. John E. Ford D, D., pastor of the Institutional Church, and several other big men. Rev. G. W. Raiford is down here at work and he is doing some good work. I remained over there and had the pleasure of meeting Miss Sarah Blouker once more. She is one of the greatest school women of the age. She has been sick, but is improvin and was well enough to have me meet the girls of the Florida Baptist College and say a few words to them. I also met the boys, talked with them, and bright and early I was up and headed for Albany, Ga., via Cordele. I am sure that you read something about Cordele, because there was a lynching there. It is not my time to tell you about the lynching. I got into town, on a wagon but was not expected that early. The Rev. L. H. Smith, had been informed by a friend that I could not reach town until 10 o'clock at night, hence he was not down there to meet me. I went there just the same and the young man soon found out that I was to stop with Rev. H. H. Williams, one of the leading citizens of the town and a man of great influence. I went to see him at the shop and he told his boy to call a carriage and sent me right up to his house. The boy did not do this, for I refused the honor, saying I wanted to look around. Sunday morning, I preached at the church, and Sunday afternoon I spoke to the young men of the city and vicinity. They said that they were truly glad to hear and see me. This all happened at Bethel A. M. E. Church. Sunday night I spoke at Eureka Baptist church. That closed out my Sunday engagement there. I was invited to dinner with Mrs. W. Cox, whose husband was at the head of a great school in town. It was a source of pleasure to visit the school. Next found me up bright and early Monday morning, writing a few letters. It was soon pouring down rain. I had several engagements and tried to fill them. I visited three schools, and spoke to the young people, and returned to dinner. After dinner, through the rain, I found my way to church. The meeting for women was announced for 3.30, and they did attend in large numbers. The church was filled. Fully 800 women and girls heard the special lecture to them. I shall not have anything to say about it this week, and I am not going to say anything about Cordele, Ga., and the lynching there. I am sure you have read about it. Now a visit to Thomasville, Ga., thence through Monticello, Fla., to Tallahassee, Fla., the capital of the state. I got there a little a head of time, but then Prof. Young and his people were delighted to have me come to them. Without a doubt, Prof. N. B. Young is a man who is doing some real good work for his people. He has gotten connected with his school a real college department and the first class will graduate this year. It is interesting to see these young people in the senior class march in with their college caps and gowns. It would take me a long time to tell you all I know about President Young and his people. He is now just occupying an important place in the development of our people. Off from there to Mobile. While en route to Mobile met one of our great business men, Hon. C. First Johnson, of Mobile. He shook hands with me and invited me to take a seat with him. I accepted the invitation, and he talked with me all the way to Mobile, and then ordered a carriage and toted me out to his home and then carried me to my stopping place. Mr. Johnson has a fine wife. She is just one of the women who believes in her husband, and if you are his friend she will welcome you to her home. She is educating her boy and looking after her husband. Her sister lives with her, and then I had the pleasure of meeting one of the leading young educated women of our race in this country, Miss Elbert. Only a short time was spent in Mobile, then to New Orleans. I was rudely awakened by the loud talking of women. It looked to me like a thousand women were in the car where I was asleep, but behold there were only two of them. It seemed that one of them had stopped with a Rev. C. C. Ducker, and he had attempted to take advantage of her in some way and she fired it into him. He had been arrested. Only an hour or two was spent in New Orleans, La., then to this place. I stopped, off an hour or two at New Iberia, and I shall have something to say to you that will open your eyes in a few ays. I am in this place. Upon reaching the town I was fast asleep. Sidney McClung, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. William T. McClung, stayed up to meet me. He was in the act of leaving, saying that I did not come, when he looked in the window and saw my big head, and he rushed in and got me off on time to keep them from carrying me by. It was about 3 o'clock in the morning. I thanked them. Now at that hour they had something to eat on the table for me, and I had too much manners to refuse to eat. Stopping with Mrs. McClung is Miss H. Elizabeth Maxson, who is a graduate from Leland University, where my private secretary got her education. Now this young woman is just up to now and then, and is doing a good work. She is teaching domestic science. She knows all about the cooking business. It is inspiring to meet our educated people. Send all mail for me care Hon M. M. Rogers, LaGrange Texas. Tendered A Reception. The Misses Burley, of Gwynn Falls Park, Walbrook, entertained a few friends at a welcome reception from 8 to 11 o'clock Thursday, January 31. In honor of their brother William who has been in Wheeling, W. Va. for the last three months. Everything consisted of chocolate, punch, wines, ices, bonbons, nuts and cake was served. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. David Howard, Master Wm. Howard. Mr. William Burley, Miss Nora Burley, Miss Daisy Briggs, Miss Lula Briggs, Miss Bertha Melbourne, Mr. Lewis Bruce, Mr. Alexander Smith, Miss Rosie Burley, Mr. Raymond Smith, Miss Louisa Burley, Mrs. Sarah Burley, Mr. John Burley and Mr. Vandebilt Burley. $10,000 - Ten Thousand Dollars to Loan on City and County property in separate lots from $50.00 up on mortgages, notes and other forms of approved security. Money on hand—no delay. THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER FARMERS CONFER AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE (Continued 1st from Page.) raising two and three crops each year. Fewer acres produce more crops. Men are raising more kinds of food for themselves and or their stock. Thomas C Walker, Gloucester Court; House, Va., a graduate of Hampton who is a lawyer farmer, declared that there is no man in a free country who can or ever will be free who is a pauper. He urged the young colored people to stay out of the big cities of Virginia and till the soil. He declared that the Negro of the present must work for his forty acres and mule. R. A.Folkes, division superintendent of schools of Gloucester County, Va., spoke on the "Possibility of a Life." C. W. Bowry, of Burkeville; Va., superintendent of schools in Amelia and Nottoway Counties, told the story of John Pierce's work in improving Negro farms, schools and homes in Nottoway County, Va. He said that there was no greater influence for good in Negro school work than that of John Pierce, who is an example worthy of being followed by Hampton students. About sixty ministers joined the farmers in their discussions. The general topic for discussion was "The Cooperation of the Negro teacher and minister." Among the ministers who spoke were: Rev. J. B. Tynes, Berkley, Va.; Rev. C. S. Morris, Norfolk; Rev. C. I. Withrow, Norfolk; Rev. S. Hockawday, Norfolk County; and A. A. Graham, Phoebus, Va. The points empasized were: The cities receive from the country some of the best and some of the worst people. It is the duty of the country church to hold boys and girls in the country and keep the Negroes from being killed off in the cities by disease. The country preacher should live among the people to whom he preaches. The rural school teachers should be Christians. The Negro preacher must minister to the social, mental and religious life of his people. The rural minister should understand the elements of scientific farming and should cultivate a small garden. Country teachers and ministers must learn to appreciate the working people in the country. Bradford Knapp, of Washington, D. 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Among those who attended the Farmers' Conference were: Jackson Davis, Richmond, Va., state supervisor of elementary school; C. W. Bowry, Burkeville, superintendent in Amelia and Nottaway Counties; Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Coggin, Charles City; F. C. Button, state supervisor of elementary, schools, Frankford, Ky.; H. M. McMannaway, Charlotteville, Va., who has charge of the Y. M. C. A. social study work at the University of Virginia, where a group of seventy-five Southern men are making a study of the Negro; R. A. Folks, superintendent of Gloucester schools A. C. Monahan, Washington, D. C., specialist in rural school work, United States Bureau of Education; Dr. J. O. Spencer, president of Morgan College, Baltimore, Md.; F. B. Jenks, Washington, D. C., specialist in agricultural education, United States Bureau of Education; Joseph D. Eggleston, Jr., Richmond, Va., State superintendent of public instruction; J. H. Binford, executive secretary Virginia, Cooperative Education Association. Seven Negro demonstrators who are helping the farmers, and seventeen Negro supervising teachers, who are at work in eighteen counties of Virginia, were present at the Conference: Progressive Circle day at Ebenezer A. M. E. Church Sunday, February 11, 1912 in the interest of the trustees. 11 a. m. sermon by Rev. C. H. Stepteau D. D. 3 p. m. sermon by Rev. E. D. W. Jones, pastor of Zion A. M. E. Church, Choir and congreation will accompany him. At 730 p. m. annual sermon to the G. W O. of Fishermen of Galilee by the pastor. Mrs. Annie R. Jones, president. Mrs. Jannie H. Brooks, secretary. Rev. J. W. Norris, pastor. Come and get the benefit of our liberal reductions on suits and overcoats. 1302 PENNA. AVE., Near Lanvale. Dyeing, Cleaning and Repairing Neatly Done. OPENED FOR DATES amer Starlight inspect the new Steamer. See the booking your date with anyone inspection April 1st. given Churches, Sunday Schools incursions. The inducements for institution. ply to George W. Brown, 1451 N. Hayes, 1418 Jefferson Street. It will keep you fully posted by Saturday night, and especially mentioned address. You may call not forget the address, 1451 North Director and Embalmer... MAN STREET Our $75.00 funeral best in the city. Carriages for hire for all occasions apolis, Md. C. & P. Phone. Rington BAZAR auspices of the Knights of Pythias western Hemisphere. S' HALL eman' Street 1, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 1912 Special Features Cents Each Evening CHURCH NOTICES CENTENNIAL M.E. CHURCH Cor. Caroline and Bank Sts Cor. Caroline and Bank Sts Rev. D. W. Shaw, D. D., Pastor 11 A. M., Sermon by Rev. Chas. E. Jones, Washington, D. C. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School, W. L. Gibson, Supt. 8.00 P. M., Sermon by the Pastor, subject: "Abraham Lincoln and his work." Moving Picture Exhibits Monday night, Feb. 12th EASTERN M. E. CHURCH McElderry St., and Patterson Park Ave. Rev. James H. Jenkins, Pastor. Sunday Services. 11 A. M., Preaching by Rev. Arthur J. Smith. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School, J. W. Jones, Supt. 6 P. M., Epworth League. St. Luke's U. M. A. E, Church League will be present. 8 P. M., Preaching by District Supt., Rev. Joseph Wheeler. All are cordially invited. Everybody welcome. John M. Barnes, Pres. E. L. JOHN WESLEY M. E. CHURCH, Sharp and Montgomery Sts. Dr. Ernest Lyon, Pastor. 11 A. M., Sermon by the Pastor. 2.30 P. M. Sunday School 8 P. M., Sermon by Pastor. AMES MEM. M. E. CHURCH Carey and Baker Sts. Rev. D. D. Turpeau, Pastor. Sunday, Jan. 7th, 1912. 11.00 A. M., sermon by Pastor. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 5.30 P. M., Epworth League. 7.30 P. M., Sermon by Pastor. WHATCOAT M. E. CHURCH, Franklin and Pine Sts. "King's Hill" Rev. Alfred Young, Pastor. 11 A. M., Special Sermon by Rev. P. S. Henry 2.30 P. M., Sunday school. 3 P. M., Sunday School 3.30 P. M., Member's Meeting 4.30 P. M., Epworth League. 8 P. M., Preaching by the Pastor Revival services every night dur ing the week Prayer Meetings Wednesday and Friday. W. C. Tongue, Superintendent Edyth M. Cooper, Pres, E. L. ASBURY M. E. CHURCH Lexington and East Sts. Lexington and East Sts. Rev. C. G. Cummings, B. D. Pastor. 9.30 A. M., Bible Class. 11 A. M., Mrs. E. E. Peterson, Temperance Evangelist. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 3.30 P. M., Sermon to W. H. M. Society by Rev. N. M. Carroll, D.D. Annapolis, Md. 5 P. M., Epworth League. 8 P. M., Sermon to G. U. O. Seven Wise Men. GILLIS MEM. M. P. CHURCH Stockton Street near W. Baltimore 3 00 p. m., the War Horse and his congregation 6.30 C. E. League. 8 p. m. Sermon to St. Frances Court and I. P. Brown's Pasture of Nazarites, by the pastor J. W. Fowler, Pres. G. E. T. H. McGowan, Supt. C. Y. W. C. A. You are invited to attend the Sunday afternoon services on Feb. 11th, at 5 P. M. Mrs. B. Holmes president of the W. M. Missionary Society of Trinity Baptist Church will speak: King's Daughters Day Mrs. Amanda Robinson, presiding M. E. Murphy, Pres E. E. Bright, Sec'y. Notice! Sunday, February 11, 1912 is known as Morgan College Day in the Epworth League at Whatcoat M. E. Church, Pine and F.anklin Sts. An elaborate Lincoln Day program has been prepared by the students of the College. The public is invited to attend this exercise Sunday afternoon at 4.30. Rey A. Young Paster Notice! Rev. W. A. C. Hughes, will preach a sermon to the Women's Auxiliaries of Ames Mem. M. E. chrch Sunday, Feb. 18th at 3 P.m. under the auspices of the Ladies aid Society. His choir and congregation are needed to be present. Co. and worship with us. C. Jones, President. L. Mumie Curtis, Sec'y. L. D. Turpeau, Pastor. CHURCH NOTICES BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH Druid Hill Ave and Lanvale St. Rev. D. G. Hill, Pastor. 11 A. M., sermon by the Pastor 2.30 P. M., Sunday School 4 P. M., Grand Mass Meeting of the Temperance workers in the main Auditorium. Addresses by the Temperance organizers of the Colored People, Mrs. Peterson and others 7.30 P. M., Sermon All welcome. WATERS A. M. E. CHURCH Aisquith St., near Jefferson. Rev. Dr. M. F. Sydes, Pastor. 427 Aisquith Street 11 A. M., Sermon by Pastor. Subject: "Dry Bones in the Valley." 2.30 P. M. Sunday School. J. F. Waters, Supt. 5.45 P. M., A. C. F. League. Miss Mymie Woolford, President. B. P. M. Seraphoy Rey. Kennard Laurens and Calhoun St. Rev. P. W, Wortham, D.D., Pastor 11 A. M., sermon by Pastor. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School 8.00 P. M., sermon by Pastor. Strangers always welcome. T. Andrew Moore, Pres. A.C.E.L Linden Ave. and Biddle St. Rev. A. L. Gaines, D. D., Pastor. 11 a. m., Sermon by the Pastor. subject, "Richard Allen" 2.30 P.M., Sunday School. Richard Allen Program 6.30 P. M., A. C. E. League. Exercises. Miss A. L. Martin, Pres. 7.30 p. m., Allen Day Exercises by The Daughters of Allen. Mrs. Ruth Collett, Speaker T. J. Holliday, Superintendent ALLEN A. M. E. CHURCH, Lexington and Carlton Streets Rev. J. G. Martin, Pastor 11 A. M., Sermon by the pastor. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School 3 o'clock, preaching by Rev. Winn of Morning Star Baptist Church, Saratoga street 4.30 Allen League, Mrs. Peterson of California and other ladies of the W. C. T. Union will address the League. Extra program Miss Annie E. Russell, Supt. Wm Butler, pres of the League Cor. Baker and Bruce Sts. Rev. John Offer Oustis, Pastor. 11 A. M., Preaching. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 6.30 p. m. Christian Endeavor 7.30 p. m., Union Meeting Car- ol and Mt. Calvary Churches Rev. P. H. Green, will preach EBENEZER A. M. E. CHUBOH Rev. J. W. Norris, Pastor Progressive Circle Day 11 A. M., Sermon by Rev. C. H. Stepteau, D. D. 2.30 p. m.; Sunday School. 3.30 p. m. Sermon by Rev. B. D. W. Jones, pastor of Zion A. M. E. Church, choir and congregation 6.00 p. A. C. E. League. 7.30 P. M., Sermon by the pastor to the G. U. O. of Fishermen of Galilee. Mrs. Annie R. Jones, pres. Mrs. Jennie H. Brooks, secretary PENN. A. M. E. ZION CHURCH Rev. E. D. W. Jones, Pastor 11 A. M., Preaching by Presiding Elder Holy Communion 1 p. m. Sunday School 6 p. m. Christian Endeavor 8 p. m. Pastor's subject: Going to Heaven by Water Penna ave. near Hoffman Sunday, February 11, 1912. 6 p. m. Piano overture by Miss LLlian Reid Thompson A treat to hear her We will also be favored with an address by Master Joseph Hammond, a promising young evangelist of our city and the A. M.' E. Church. Special attractive features Rev. J. L. Butler, pres. E D. W. Jones, D. D., pastor CHRISTIAN CHURCH, Carrollton Ave., corner Riggs Ave. Men's Day Sunday, February 11th, 1912 Services 11 a. m., 4 and 8 p. m. C. Mathias, Clerk. Rev. R. J. Curtis, Pastor. GRACE PRESBYTERI V CH. Dolphin and Etting Street Rev. W. Edward Williams; Min. 623 W. Lapvale St. 3 P. M. Sunday School. 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. the minister will preach Bishop I. Albert. Johnson, D. D. will deliver an address on Africa on Sunday, February 18th at 3:39 Madam Ringgoid will sing. William Anderson. Supt. Miss Ruth Lee. Directress. ANEW PRESIDENT = FOR LIER OTERO VIS ee seountry’state that the inauguration Sof Daniél BE, Howard: as. president of Liberia inganuary 1, was a most ‘auspicious occasion. Ase loan of $1,000,000 was recently floated to aid that country. The administra- tion-of-the: foan- and’ the- sinking funds thereof were placed in charge of Reed Paige Clark, of Washing- ton. “The Liberians regarded the event'as starting a new era for the Jittle West African Republic. ‘The; new president of Liberia was educated at. Liberia College, and has long been un active, figure in Liberian polities. He served for anumber of yeurs as chairman of the True Whig party, and was. sec- retary of the treasury when elected tothe presidency last May. He willbe the first president to. serve a term of six years, the term hav- ing. recently been lengthened from four. Themembers of the Liber- jan fegisiature wii! also serve six years instead of four, as in_ the past. Along with President How- ard,.$. C. Harmon was sworn in as vice president. The following gentlemen will be members of I’resident Howard's official family: C. £2. B. King, see- retary of State; W. &. Dennis, sec- retary of War and Navy; J. J. Mor- ris, secretary of the Interior; Isaac Moore, Postmaster General; S. A. ‘Rose. attorney general; and B. W. Payne, superintendent of Educa- tion. Mr. Payne is a native Liber- jan; and was cducated in the United States. ‘Phe last messuge of the retiring president, Arthur Barclay, suggest- ed that the financial condition of the government be improved and recommended that. efforts. be made for satisfying .the _ aboriginees. Speakitic of the latter, he says: “The object ot che administra- tion will be Co obtain for the gov- ermment-of Liheria the confidence and firnr'support of the industrious and laboring section of the native population, upan whose exertions the State-really vests. These peo- pte waat to farm and trade, and de- sire protection: for their persons andiproperty ‘They would like to seu che roads in chief centers of trade kept-open and made secure, and if this is done, we-shall always be able to. count. confidently upon their-attachment, their support and their loyalty:'” ‘The message also urges that a suituble legation be se- eured-in.or near Washington for Liberian. consw). to this country. De. Ernest Lyon, vf Baltimore, is the. present representative. Liberia was established nearly 60 years ago as a haven for free col- ored people and freed slaves of ‘this country. -Jts scheme of government is modeled after that of the United States. The tottering financial con- diton. of the country [caused the United States to. send. Roland _P. ¥aulkner, Emmett J. Scott and Dr. George Sale, former president of Atlanta. Baptist: College as a com- mission to stedy conditions there several years. ago. ‘The findings and recommendations of the com: mission are how a part of the ree: rds of the State Department. Dr. “Gale died’ in. New York several weeks age, ‘New Church to. he Completed In ‘April (Special: to"The Afco-American Ledger.) Hagerstown, Md., {Feb. 8—The new house of worship of Bethel A. ‘M. -E...Church will probably be completed in April. It will not be dedicated until June, when a month's celebration will take place. Bishep L. J; Coppin will preach. at the..chureh: the iast Sunday in March. Successful revival services have. just ended. Ry. David: John- son is pastor of the church. Mr. Charles Wesley, of Balti- more, was here'a few days. ago to purchase ‘the pipe organ of Bethel Church. The organ” was formerly: used..in. the .old “Bethel Church, Baltimove?- NMlrs: Maty.V: Coaver is on’ the Siekiste . Asbury! Mi... and Bethel. A: M. E. Churehes , will: shortly: hold 2 mock conference. wei Tech OOaa: ie We wish to.make'some mark in life: ‘We turn tothe: distant and: far: away, When, Indeed Ache:‘things “for: us,/the ‘things; to snake our. marks >upon,- the things to. do, with; grow by, to Tet us nto‘ the‘aestred: iappiness are: the lit ‘tle ones Iyfrig\ just :hersabout our “dally, patb—the oveflooked, things next to ug LIM Wares see ee MEMORIES OF PAUL LAURENCE DUNE Today,fmarks the sixth anniver- sary of the death of'Paul Laurence Dunbar, the sweet ‘singer of the ‘moods. idiosyneracies and ‘the heart-throbbings of the Negro. He passed away at -his home in Day- ton, 0., February 10,. 1906, after battling for several years with tu- bereulosis. Dunbar was born in Dayton in the early: seventies. Graduating from the Datyon High School in 1901, he found no employment. be- fitting his educational advantages, and.he accepted a. position as an elevator hoy. -He began to write poetry of merit, and. soon made Friends. A resident of Toledo, 0. ‘became interested in him: and it ‘was not long before W. Dean How- elis, the writer, became interested fn him, Mr, Howells wrote the in ‘troduction to. Dunbar’s first_ book —'‘Lyries of Lowly Life.” Revit- ts ‘the North and in. England, heightened his fame, and he was ‘through the interest of the late Rob ert C. Ingersoll, appointed a read- * in the Congressional Library, at Washington. This gave him the ‘opportunity for intellectual im- provement and literary work. | and ‘his prose and poetic: compositions appeared in many publications. He was one of the most gifted, ss well as one of the most prolific writers of his generation. ; ~~ One of his favorite poems in_his ‘recitals was his poem ori '‘Life.”” fe follows: A crust of bread and a_ corner to sleep in A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, Ana never a laugh that the, moans come double; And that is life! A erast and a corner that love makes precious, With the smile to warm and_ the tears.to refresh us; Ad joy seems sweeter when. cares come after; Anda moun is ‘the’ finest of foils for laughter: * And that is life! Returns Home Miss Mary E. Nottigham and Mrs. Dorresser Trower, of Cape Charles, Va., have returned to their home after a few weeks stay with iss Lila Morris, of 1623 Druid Hill avenue. gen, Ban ee Bo apo Oe can ps | PP teen a ee ene ; Sue a cry Wipatteces mrad See eee Raph cee ae tateee se pS MS feecak emer REV.-JUNIUS GRAY Grand Times In -Zion. With the Psalmist. Baptist Church, Riggs avenue and Wood- year street, Rev. Junius Gray, D. D. pastor, is conducting: the. meet- ing with great success, $2 conver: sions, 24 have been baptized, and 2 by restoration. Rev. Gray is in- deed:an Evangelist. He has avery few equals and-byhis.genial open heartedness-has made many friends, he is. a man of striking personality, will succeed. “He: has built: two churches in’13 years, the Psalmist Baptist Church is: the ‘mother: of Shiloh Church, Rev. WW. W.. Allen, B.D. pastor; Israel. Chureh,. Rev. David Bryant, B. D.. pastor; :and the Antioch Chureh, Rey. T. Wil- liams, D..D., pastor. Each one of these churches supports its’ pastor: Rev: Dr. Gray is also the chairmar of the exeeutive board of the Coop: erative Baptist State Convention. Rev..Dr. ‘Junius Gray will’ preach at Payne Memorial-Church, Febru: ‘ary11,.at'3:30: p. m. and:his ‘choi will-sings-2 0.05 = tii THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDUER ‘PROGRESS OF THE Peet ORDER OF ELKS| Lodges. In Greater ten ta | : TD “and Vicinity Are Prosperous. | So POTENT AGENCY FOR UPLIFT.|2 = - . Thrifty Secret Order of National Re- pute After Many Difficulties and Op- position” From. Within and. Without . Has Gairied a Firm Footing Through- ‘out the United States. New York.—One of the strongest and most influential secret organizations in this elty and one which is dofug, real uplift work is the Improved. Benevo- lent and Protective Order of Elks. It is in the forefront of the secret so- cleties which are doing great work for the moral development of its. members and bringing about a better standard of manhood and citizenship. Since the beginning of the Elk move- ment twelve years ago among colored men the order bas hada steady growth until today it is one of the’ strongest organizations of its kind in the United States, In New York Manhattan lodge has probably the largest membership of any ove of the subordinate lodges of the order. It was organized nine years ago wh- der the leadership. of W. W. Winfeld, avho is one of the most prominent Elks $n the country. The lodge bas bad a Cee hoes > ye eee, oo ie ee Lee ¢ fe: =e ae a Sey eee oc Qe aa gee, oS > fake yee? ” Jayres B. ANDERSON. steady growth until today it has a membership of 750. Many of the most prominent men. of the race in New York are active in the welfare of the Elks and are doing much for the pro- motion and advancemeut of the order. Promivent among them are J. runt: Wheaton, the well known lawyer; Dr. Kellogg, 2 stiecessful physician; James Hi. Anderson, the hustling newspaper man.and managing editor of the Au- sterdam News, aud many others. To a recent statement given out by: Mr. Ap- derson concerning the Elks he: said: “The type of men who belong to the Elks is of the very best among'our fel- low.citizens.. ‘The Elks ean set an ex- ample ‘for a great many of our lodges in the matter of loyalty to the tenets of the order. “phe general organization of the Or- der of Elks hnd. its-inception among our people about twelve years ago. Mr. B. ¥. Heward. was the leader of the movement. ‘he order has had a re- markable growth, due doubtless to the many’ benelicent advantages which it offers to its members and the conger- fal fellowship which it seeks to pro- mote. Among the many advantages derived ftom. membership. in. the Elks are the ample provision made for. its members in time of sickness and the Mberal. aid’ given tothe heirs of a de: censed member at the time of such member's death." Like most all: good movements in the interest’ of humanity, whether as Indi- viduals‘ot a collective body, the organ- ization has had to face many difficul- tles und combat the most severe oppo- -sition. For the past three years, more or less, tliere was much dissatisfaction within its own ranks, while at the same time: strong opposition: trom out: side ‘sotitees nenrly swept the orgaui- zation from Its course. All told. the order has won a. na: tlonal reputation -throtighout the coun: try and is now on, a firm footing, and ‘good work is being done by the mem- bers of the various lodges.” The public fiinetions of the order wherever held are always the occasion for much en- thusiasm on the part of the public... In New. York city, Brooklyn and. Jersey City, N. 2... thie lodges are very aggres: sive andssuccessfal in meeting thelr ‘obligations to the members. eS. Dr. Howard Accepts Pittsburgh. Call. ‘The members of. the Central Baptist chureh in Pittsburgh are rejoicing over ‘the-acceptazice of the Rev. Dr.. George By Howard: to become their pastor. in ‘the early spring: , Dr., Hosward: fs pas: toriug the Gildfield “Baptist® cbureb in ‘Petersburg. Va... where be bas labored successfully fora number 6f years. ‘The Gildfield cburch was made. famous by the late Rer. Hears Williams, who swas’ Known, thtoughont, the cotntry. ‘Dhis church. has a, membership of over ‘8.000. . Rey. “De, Howard’ ‘pastored“in Pittsburgh’ before going to’ bis present ichiateo tin: Petaraburet.c) 500s : > 7 BA. 3 S own Z| : 7 eg Zi : : i Mozart’Basket Ball Team, “iiss” VS. Colored High School Monday Afternoon, Feb: 12th, 1912. ADMISSION. 15 CENTS CHILDREN, 10. CENTS COMMONWEALTH HALL Pennsylvania avenue near Dolphin Hiawatha Basket Ball Team, wasiincton, D.c Vs. High School Team Will Not Spend Much Money on Excursions i) WE. ARE MAKING A SPECIALTY OF q WEDDING INVITATIONS : Uy CALLING CARDS ( _ CLUB INVITATIONS ( =“. MOURNINGCARDS- z ( AND OTHER KINDS OF SOCIETY y PRINTING... yl CORRECT FORM AS WELL AS. GOOD TASTE i _ DEMANDS THE: USE. OF THE. BEST !. ‘IN THE. PRINTER'S ART: WE. FURNISH THE BEST THE APCAMERICAN C0, | ( ~-628 NORTH EUTAW. STREET. - JIS) Fin (Special to The. Afro-American Ledger.) Winchester, Va., Feb, 8—Many persons here are praising the stand taken by the Afro-American Ledger against the ‘Jim Crow’? regula- tions at Camden Station, Baltimore. ‘As the colored people here spend hundreds of dollars on. the Balti- more and Ohio Railroad during the excurison season, many are declar- ing that they will reduce their pa: tronage to a minimum; Mr. Robert Dangerfield is able to ‘be out after a severe illness. o"Messrs, Geoige W. Nickens and Henry Wells, who have been: ill, are much improved. z Misses, Sallie Hathaway "and Amanda Gilkerson,. who were injur- ‘ed by falling on the ice, are able to-be out: again. “ Miss Alice Barnett has returned from a several. months’ visit to Washington and other points.” i Mrs, Fannie Jeffries, of North Carolina, is visiting friends here. ‘The funeral of Miss Winnie’ Ma: gruder was held Sazurday. at the Free Baptist Church. Many of her schoolmates attended. Rev. 'W: P. Fisher officiated. ~~ "Anniversary exercises will. begir at'St: Paul A.-M. E: Church. this Sunday. 9 ae 3 Advertise With Us. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Copyright, 1913, by American Press Association SOME lofty heights there are That pierce the azure skies; Some peaks so tall, so grand. They to the heavens rise; Some lifted lands that seem Scarce of the earth, so high, Where floating ships of air— The fleecy cloud fleets—lie. HIGH, high, among the great, Brave, loyal, noble, grand, Our Lincoln-dear the name- A mighty tower doth stand. He was a son of Toil And yet her devotee. His life he gave to make Her worthy children free. A MISSION his from God, And he performed it well. A nation's soul awoke Beneath his gentle spell. Because he lived, today From ocean unto sea Dwells in this fairest land No soul that is not free. ARTHUR J. BURDICK. A. B. HIGH, high, high, Brave, lo Our Lincoln— A mighty He was a son And yet I His life he gav Her worth (1) A MISSION And he A nation's sou Beneath h Because he live From ocean Dwells in this No soul t MANUFACTURING N an illuminating article in the January number of World's Work Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, the sociologist, describes the progress that the 25,000 colored residents of Durham, N. C., have made along various lines. Colored men there are engaged in every line of business, and better prepared to look after their various needs than in the great majority of cities of the country. The article follows in part: But black Durham has also five manufacturing establishments turning out mattresses, hosiery, brick, iron, articles and dressed lumber. It has a building and loan association, a real estate company, a bank, three industrial insurance companies, about twenty-five professional men, twenty school teachers, and as many churches. The men who built up these enterprises are unusual, not because the enterprises in themselves are so remarkable, but because their establishment met peculiar difficulties. Today the white man who would go into insurance or haberdashery or hosiery making, gathers his capital from rich men and hires expert managers who know these businesses. The Negro gathers capital by pennies from people unused to investing; he has no expert whom he may hire and small chance to train experts. and he must literally grope for success through repeated failure. "These men began the economic building of black Durham; a minister with college training, a physician with professional training and a barber who saved his money. These three called to their aid a bright hustling young graduate of the public schools and with these four, representing vision, knowledge, thrift and efficiency, the development began. A $25,000 Income "The college man planned the insurance society, but it took the young hustler to put it through. The barber put his savings into the young business man's hands, the physician gave his time and general intelligence. Others were drawn in—the brick maker, several teachers, a few college-bred men, and a number of mechanics." As the group began to make ABOVE the town are raised, Into the upper air, Some spires, like fingers set To point a pathway there, And, towering, stand some lives Above the level line, Grand pinnacles that stretch Toward the life divine. LIKE one who to mankind Came in the long ago, He dwelt and suffered with The humble and the low. Their fears he knew, their woes. No pangs that they had known But he had felt them too. Their sorrows were his own. Born Feb. 12, 1809 heights there are be the azure skies; to tall, so grand, the heavens rise; bends that seem the earth, so high, g ships of air— cloud fleets—lie. ABOVE the town Into the upper Some spires, like f To point a path And, towering, stair Above the leve Grand pinnacles the Toward the lif among the great, royal, noble, grand, dear the name— tower doth stand. On of Toil her devotee. Have to make why children free. IKE one who to me Came in the long he dwelt and suffered The humble and their fears he knew, No pangs that the but he had felt them Their sorrows we his from God, performed it well. Paul awoke his gentle spell. lived, today un unto sea its fairest land that is not free. ARTHUR J. BURDI ING INDUSTRIES IN B money it expanded and reached out. The richest man in the group has an income of about $25,600 a year from business investments and eighty tenements; the others of the inner group are making from $5,000 to $15,000—a very modest reward as such rewards go in America, "Quite a number of the colored people have built themselves pretty and well equipped homes—perhaps fourteen of these homes cost from $2,500 to $10,000; they are rebuilding their churches on a scale almost luxurious, and they are deeply interested in their new training school. Keeping a horse and carriage and sending children off to school is almost the only sign of more than ordinary expenditure. "If we were considering a single group, geographically isolated, tis story might end there. But Durham is in the South and around these 5,000 Negroes are twice as many whites who own most of the property, dominate the political life exclusively, and form the main current of social life. Whites Sympathize. "What has been the attitude of these people toward the Negroes? In the case of a notable few it has been sincerely sympathetic and helpful, and in the case of a majority of the whites it has been hostile. Of the two attitudes great as has undoubtedly been the value of the active friendship of the Duke family, General Julian S. Carr and others, I consider the greatest factor in Durham's development to have been the disposition of the mass of ordinary white citizens of Durham to say: 'Hands off—give them a chance—don't interfere.' "As the editor of the local daily put it in a well-deserved rebuke to former Governor Glenn of North Carolina: 'If the Negro is going down, for God's sake let it because of his own fault and not because we are pushing him.' "The Duke family gave nearly $20,000 for building and equipping a hospital for Negroes. Other white men have helped the Negroes by advice; as, for instance, in the intricacies of banking; and they have contributed to the new training school. Not only have Southern philanthropist thus helped, but they have allowed the Negroes to administer these gifts themselves. A. B. n are raised, ber air, fingers set pathway there, and some lives el line, hat stretch fe divine. A. B. mankind in ago, bed with in the low. their woes. they had known in too. were his own. A. B. The hospital, for instance, is not simply for Negroes, but it is conducted by them; and the training school is under a colored corps of teachers. Work on Equal Terms. "But all this aid is as nothing beside that more general spirit which allows a black contractor to bid on equal terms with a white, which affords fair police protection and reasonable justice in court, which grants substantial courtesy and consideration on the street and in the press, and which in general says' Hands off; don't hinder, let them grow.' It is precisely the opposite spirit in places like Atlanta, which makes the way of the black man there so hard despite individual friends. "A Southern community is thus seen to have it in its power to choose its Negro inhabitants. If it is afraid of ambition andenterprise on the part of black folk, if it believes that 'education spoils the nigger,' then it will get the shiftless, happy-go-lucky semi-criminal black man; and the ambitions and enterprising ones will either sink or migrate. On the other hand, many honest Southerners fear to encourage the pushing, enterprising Negro. Durham has not feared. It has distinctly encouraged the best type of black man by active aid and passive tolerance. 'What accounts for this? I may be overemphasizing facts, but I think not, when I answer in a word: Trinity College. The influence of a Southern institution of learning of high ideals, with a president and professors who have dared to speak out for justice toward black men; with a quarterly journal, the learning and catholicism of which is well known—this has made white Durham willing to see black Durham rise without organizing mobs or secret societies to 'keep the niggers down.'" National Society to Meet In Chicago. The next annual conference of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People will be held in Chicago in May. A large attendance is expected, as the organization has many friends in that section of the west. INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON By Iev. William Franks, D. E. Director Bible Course Moody Bible Institute, Chicago LESSON TEXT - Luke 2:40-52. GOLDEN TEXT - "How is it that ye sought me? Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business." - Luke 2:30. MEMORY VERSES - 46, 47. This lesson is the one solitary instance recorded in the strangely sealed thirty years of the Master's life. Here is an illustration of what is meant by the inspiration of election — only those things that were of vital and redemptive importance in the life of Jesus are recorded. John says, "Many other signs truly did Jesus which are not written in this book: But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name." For this reason, we should value every word that is written. The lesson furnishes a model in character building for the youth. Jesus is the example, and the model boy. Jesus was a real boy. He ate, drank, played, grew, asked questions, just as other boys do. His character, like all other character building, was a growth: "He increased in wisdom and stature." No character is instantaneous; it is the work of growth and of years, indeed, of a lifetime. An icicle is formed drop by drop. Character is formed by single words and acts. A mushroom may grow in a night, but surely not the character of a man. Just as words and sentences are formed by means of the single letters of the alphabet, so words, thoughts, deeds, actions, looks, motives—these are the alphabet from which we spell character. Sow a thought, and reap a word; sow a word, and reap an act; sow an act, and reap a habit; sow a habit, and reap a character; sow a character, and reap a destiny. Christ's character was developed in the home. He had a Christian home—the greatest gift of God this side of heaven. What chance has many a child today to build character in a home where the parents know not God, never read the Bible, never pray, never go to church! If for no other reason, parents should become Christians for their children's sake. If our children are lost, we parents are to blame, unless we have set before them the example of a Christian life. As a boy, Christ was obedient to his parents. This was a manly thing. Parents are in the place of God to the child: God cannot be everywhere, so he made parents. The first commandment on the second table is obedience to parents, and it is the first commandment with a promise. The apron strings of the mother may become the reins of government of the nation. We must obey before we can command. The character of Jesus was developed in the church also. His parents were churchgoers, and they had cultivated that habit in the child. In speaking of Jesus as a churchgoer, Luke says that "as his custom was, he went into the synagogue." What great thoughts must have come to the mind of Christ as he visited the temple! What dormant potentialities were aroused as he sat and listened to the exposition of God's word! Humanly speaking, Christ owed a great deal in the development of his character to his attendance at the temple. Can a symmetrical character be produced outside of the church and religion? We think not; certainly the best character cannot be produced in one who ignores these. In spite of all her failures, the church is the best institution in the world today for the building of character. We do our children a great wrong when we deprive them of the privileges of the church. But Jesus was also a member of the Bible school—the teaching part of the church. This is evident from the fact that the instruction received was in answering and asking questions. No doubt many of the Scripture passages quoted by him were learned in the Jewish Bible school. The bey Jesus was an interested as 'well as an interesting scholar in the school. He was no mere visitor. He came with a well prepared lesson, and that indicated that he had studied the lesson at home under the instruction of his parents. What a lesson for parents today! Have you ever considered how many great and noble men the Sunday school of our land have been instrumental in producing? Did you ever think how many of the most influential men of the world today give their time to Sunday school work, thereby recognizing the power that their own early training in the Sunday school had been in their lives? Consider the great characters that have played upon the stage of American history—or the history of the world over for that matter—and you will find that a great part, if not the greatest part of the credit for the splendid characters possessed by these noble men and women is to be given to religion and the church. "For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call and?" Use The Eureka Comb Price $1.50 With Lamp Cap For Heating: A combination of metal electrifying influences Straightening crimpy baix Most convenient and Satisfactory. LAMP CAP MAKES HAIR GROW Mrs. Mitchell's Improved Hair Cream Price 35 Cents Large Jars. 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Gentlemen:— The Colored Baptist Ministers' Meeting of Baltimore and vicinity in conference assembled unanimously adopted the following preamble and resolutions, expressing their grievances because of the action of your company, respecting what we take to be a great injustice to our race: Whereas the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company has placed separate waiting rooms for the passengers of the two races at Camden station, and Whereas there is no just cause for this discriminating since all pay the same fare and conduct themselves alike, and are therefore entitled to the same accommodations; and Whereas, all such separations by other roads have resulted in humiliating the colored people, by curtailing their privileges and liberties; and Whereas, the colored people have enjoyed equal privileges at this STATION all of the years past, and no unpleasantness between the races has ever arisen; Therefore, be it Resolved, that, we the Colored Baptist Ministers of Baltimore city and vicinity, representing as we do, a large portion of the population of Baltimore city and the sate of Maryland, and being organically connected with more than two millions, five hundred thousands of the population of the country, do hereby enter our most earnest and solemn protest against said discrimination, as unjust, unprovoked, unchristian, and degrading both to the offended and the offender in transcending the standard of right, wholly unworthy of a great corporation, vexatious and mischievous, and, therefore, should not be tolerated by gentlemen of high character and true bravery. We protest that the strong should not endeavor to crush and oppress the weak; that the colored people are not responsible for their skin nor previous conditions, but for their behavior. They possess the instincts and characteristics of man, and can feel the keen arrow of discrimination when it is buried in the manhood of the race, and we believe that any attempt at separation is stamped with prima facie intent to insult the race by humiliating it. The colored people are not clamoring for anything more nor less than that which is given to others. The same fare and accommodations will suit them. Nothing more nor nothing less. These and other reasons cause us to raise our voice and use our pen to register this protest. We do now appeal to the officials to cancel said restrictions. We make this appeal to their sense of right, because we have always regarded the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company as fair and just to all. We hope we shall have no cause to change our opinion of it with regards to all of the patrons of the road. Respectfully, J. H. Taylor B. D., President, J. A. Fry, D. D. secretary J. H. Taylor B. D., I. J. Hall, B. D., W. I. Johnson, B. D. —Committee. Quietly Married. Mr. Wm. T. Hall and Miss Mary E. Johnson was quietly married at 8 o'clock last Wednesday night at the St. Johu's parsonage. Dr. L. S. Flagg, officiating. Only a few friends be present to witness the ceremony. The bride was becoming attired in a blue broad cloth coat suit, with hat to match. Mr. Wm. H. Booker acted as best man. Miss Cora Johnson, sister of the bride, was bride's maid. Those present at the marriage were Mrs. Clarence Dublin. Mrs. Wm. Johnson, Mrs. Edward Franklin, Mr. C. B. Wright and Mr. G. O. Taylor. The bride was tendered a very nice reception at their future home, 225 Dolphin street, where many friends awaited them. The couple were the recipients of many useful and handsome presents. Mrs. Florence Jefferson of New York was recently the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jefferson of Lafayette avenue. STONES THAT ARE SOCIABLE Traveling Pebbles of Nevada When Separated Move Rapidly Toward a Common Center. "Traveling stones," from the size of a pea to six inches in diameter, are found in Nevada. When distributed on a floor or other level surface, within two or three feet of one another, they immediately begin to travel toward a common center, and there lie huddled like a clutch of eggs in a nest. A single stone removed to a distance of three and a half feet, upon being released, at once started with wonderful and somewhat comical celerity to join its fellows. These queer stones are found in a region that is comparatively level and little more than bare rock. Scattered over this barren region are little basins, from a few feet to a rod or two in diameter, and it is in the bottom of these that the rolling stones are found. The cause for the strange conduct of these stones is doubtless to be found in the material of which they are composed, which appears to be lodestone or magnetic iron ore.-Harper's Weekly. Care of the Eyes. If a woman has the slightest difficulty with her sight, she should lose no time in consulting an oculist. Nothing will bring undesirable crow's feet more quickly than straining the eyes, and local treatment to prevent the lines will be inefficacious if the seat of the trouble is not attended to. It is far better to wear glasses when sewing and writing than to let the whole face have a drawn and aged look. Of course, massaging about the corners of the eyes will make a tremendous improvement in a woman's appearance, but the work will be without results unless she does it regularly every night. Also, if she is trying to smooth away crow's feet, she must remember that stroking is not to be done so severely as to loosen the skin, which would cause bagginess, but merely that friction is to stimulate circulation, nourishing the skin tissues. Mr. Seabrook Entertains Friends Mr. Jesse Seabrook, of 546 Robert street, had a delightful, stag, party, consisting of two large, oposums, dressed in Maryland style which were captured by Mr. Seabrook in St. Marys County. Those that were present were Messrs. Thos. Jones, Jno. Ward, W. Bevans, Benj. Livingston, Dr. M. C. Burke, Alex. Ross, Jesse Seabrook. The Late Mrs. Rosa Jolly. Mrs. Rosa Jolly, who was buried from Union Baptist Church Thursday of last week, was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Lindsay, of Essex County, Va. Besides her husband and daughter Eugenia, of Baltimore and Mrs. A. Townson, of New York and Newport, R. I., she is survived by one son, William C. Bentley, of Toledo, O., three sisters, Mrs. Edward Patterson, of Philadelphia; Mrs. Robert P. Ritchie, of Center Cross, Va.; and Mrs. John Baker, of Baltimore; three brothers, Joseph Lindsay, R. Leroy Linosay, Jr., of Baltimore; and Robert S. Lee, of Chicago. Mrs. Peterson, national organizer of W. C. T. U. among colored people, will speak at Bethel Church Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. All temperance, missionary and other organizations are invited to attend and hear this distinguished woman. Margaret P. Hill, president of the U. C. T. U. Grace Westcott, secretary. SPECIAL NOTICES Wanted—200 men at Ames M. E. Church, February 25, 1912. Men's day. Men to the front. A war to the finish for masculine supremacy in church as well as state. James Custis leader. Rev. Alfred Young will preach the annual sermon to Queen Esther Hall committee and the H. H. No. 55 G. U. O. of O. F. Sunday afternoon, February 18 at 2 p. m. at the Odd Fellows Hall, 549 W. Biddle street. All members of the order are invited to be present. Everybody welcome. Come out and crowd the hall. SPECIAL NOTICE The Mid Winter Council of the Bishops' of the A. M. E. Church will convene at Mother Bethel A. M. E. Church Thursday, Feb. 15-16. Meeting opens at 11 A. M. Sermon by Bishop Evens Tyree D. D. followed by Communlon. All are invited. D. G. Hill pastor. Rooms for rent with kitchen, furnished. Apply 1023 Park avenue. ADTERTISE, IT PAYS. THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER DR. D. L. WASHINGTON Wonder Dance & [Image of a man with a mustache and a suit, facing forward. The background is a plain, light color. The portrait is oval-shaped.] Prominent Candidate for Conference Delegate Among the ministers of the Washington Conference prominently mentioned as a candidate for election as a ministerial delegate to the General Conference, is Dr. D. L. Washington. The subject of this sketch was born and educated in the public schools of Baltimore, Md., studied Theology in the Centenary Biblical Institute under Dr. Rounds and in Elmira N. Y. Dr. Washington is well versed in law having taken a three years course. At one time he was associated editor of one of the leading colored news papers of West Virginia. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was bestowed upon him by Livingston College in May, 1899. Dr. Washington stands for manly integrity. He is a safe leader. He is also active in the educational and general affairs of his church and race. He has made a splendid record as a pastor and a financier. He entered the ministry quite young, joined the Washington M. E. Conference. He has been successful in paying off church mortgage and notes to the amount of $17,745.00. Dr. Washington is an able preacher coupled with being a noted lecturer which has won fame. Dr. Washington is a man who has sought no religious honors. He is of pleasing manner, commanding appearance and modest and unassuming disposition. He has a record as a leading citizen and a Christian getleman, a wonderful preacher and a great financier. JOLLY — Entered into rest on February 7th, 1912, Alice, the beloved daughter of the late Levin and Henrietta Nichols, and sister of James, Luther and Sarah Nichols. Funeral from her late residence, 340 Forrest street, on Saturday at 10 A.M. Relatives and friends are invited to attend. Though suffering she breathed not a murmur, For the Comforter stood by her side; And said fear not I am with thee, And with me thon shall ever abide. Across the river the pale boatman hastened hastened. She heard the soft dip of the oar; And from earth and her trials, He bore her across to the beauti- He bore her across to the beautiful shore. By her brothers and sister. RICH—On February 4th, 1911, Ida, beloved daughter of Julia McComick. Death has been here and robbed us, Of the one we loved so well; Her busy hands are locked, Her work on earth is done; Her trials are all ended, SMITH—In sad but loving remembrance of our dear grandma, Emily J., who died six months ago, August 4th, 1911. What grief and pain she suffered here. None of us will ever know; For Jesus took her home with Him Where no tears will ever glow. You are not forgotten, grandma dear, Nor will you ever be; For as long as life and memory last We will remember thee. By her three grand-daughters, Mrs. Bessie Webb, Mise Eliza beth BUKGESS—In sad but loving remembrance of my dear husband. Thomas, who departed this life three years ago, Feb. 12th, 1909. Gone but not forgotten. By his wife, Mary Burgess. Wonder Dance & Leap Year Carnival By the Wonder Club and Prof. Pred Dabney's School in Dancing at New Good Hope Hall, Tuesday evening, February 20th, 1912. Goldfield Orchestra. Admission, 25 Cents. N. 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Mrs. Redman Cray, who fractured her leg this fall at her home, 339 E. Chesapeake avenue, is improving rapidly. Mrs. Birdie Sides is seriously ill at her home on Pennsylvania Ave. Benjamin Johnson and Son, contractors, are doing work in Roland Park this week. Miss Rose Campher of 552 Presstman St. gave Blanche Mingo Campher a birthday dinner Sunday evening February 4th 1912. Mr. James Pinkney gave the first of a series of card parties on Thursday of last week at his home, 418 St. Marys street. Miss Florence Gantt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gantt, of 1513 Montrose street, was married to Mr. Vincent Balls, Wednesday evening. The ceremony was witnessed by a host of friends of the contracting parties. The presents were numerous and handsome Miss Erma Bruce has been appointed teacher of German at the Colored High School. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan, and has been teaching in the High School at Columbia, Mo. Her father, B. K. Bruce, is head of one of the Schools in Kansas city. Whist Tournament. A number of prominent ladies of Wilmington, Del. will play at a whist tournament at the home of Mrs. H. S. McCard, 2005 Druid Hill avenue, next Friday night. The visiting ladies will include: Mrs. Conwell Banton, Mrs. H. C. Stevens, Miss Cruse, Miss Gibson and Mrs. J. B. Stubbs. Medical Asso. Holds Meeting. The monthly meeting of the Maryland Medical Pharmaceutical and Dental Association was held at the residence of Dr. Edward Short, 1816 Druid Hill avenue, last Monday evening. Dr. D. Grant Scott read a paper, after which a general discussion took place. A collation followed the meeting. Admitted to Practice Law. Mr. William E. Jones, who passed the State Bar examination in December, was admitted to practice before the Court of Appeals a few days ago. He is a native of Lancaster county, Va., where he is now spending a few days. 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