The Afro-American

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN LEDGER VOL. XX NO. 27. RACE PREJUDICE IN BAR ASSOCIATION Southern Members Try To Oust Wiliam H. Lewis Because of His Color WICKERSHAM LOYAL IN HIS DEFENSE Writes Spirited Protest Against Discrimination on Account Washington, Mar. 1—The attempt being made by Southern members of the American Bar Association to have William H. Lewis, an assistant Attorney General of the United States, excluded from membership in the association on the ground of his being a Negro has brought Attorney General Wickersham strongly to the defense of Mr. Lewis. Mr. Lewis was elected to membership in the association last August, when it held its annual meeting in Boston, and is the first colored attorney in the country to gain such distinction. When some of the Southern members found out that he was a colored man their wrath knew no bounds, and nearly two months ago the executive committee of the association voted to rescind his election. George Whitelock, of Baltimore, was one of those to vote for the exclusion. He was the Republican candidate for Attorney General of Maryland in 1903. Attorney General Wickersham has written a spirited protest to 4,700 lawyers in various parts of the country, and in each was a post card, addressed to Mr. Whitelock, who is the secretary of the association, protesting against the color line. Copies of the correspondence between Mr. Wickersham and Attorney Whitelock were enclosed. Wickersham Charges Hate. Mr. Wickersham charges the executive committee with an assumption of power unwarranted by the constitution "in order to gratify a race prejudice entertained by some of its members." The Attorney General points out that Mr. Lewis was elected after he had been regularly nominated and invited to join by the secretary of the association. He calls attention to the fact that the committee which elected Mr. Lewis went out of office and was succeeded by another committee containing two new members. It was the new committee, he adds, which took action. "The object of the association," the Attorney General continues, "is stated in the constitution to be to advance the science of jurisprudence, promote the administration of justice, ... uphold the honor of the profession of the law and encourage cordial intercourse among the members of the American bar. Any person fulfilling certain requirements is eligible for membership." The action of the executive committee, he declares, can hardly be considered to tend to "uphold the honor of the profession of the law and encourage cordial intercourse among the members of the bar. It certainly does not tend to promote the administration of justice." On January 24, the Attorney General wrote to Secretary Whitelock: "I am especially moved to make this test because Mr. Lewis is an Assistant Attorney General of the United States, holding, as I do, the commission of the President of WHY NOT GIVE THIS MAN A CHANGE MEETING OF SOUTHERN GOVERNORS TO INVITE FOREIGN LABOR A number of Southern Governors took the pains to come all the way to Baltimore, losing considerable time and undergoing expense to discuss immigration for the South, while at their very doors are thousands of the best and most industrious laborers there are in the world. If they would give the Negro half the chance they would give the foreigners the South would bloom and blossom as a rose. Mrs. Terrell Lectures. Cambridge, Mass., Mar. 1—Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Washington's favorite platform orator, addressed the student body of Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Mass., Tuesday, and was given a royal reception by the talented young ladies of Harvard's sister school. A Pythian Bank Started Indianapolis, Ind., Mar. 1—The Pythian Banking and Loan Association will open here for business in a few days. The bank will have an authorized capital of $100,000, of which nearly $15,000 has already been paid in. About $40,00 in deposits have been pledged. The Knights of Pythias of this State are behind the project, lead by Grand Chancellor Ernest G. Fidrington, George P. Stewart, editor of the Indianapolis Recorder, and others. Rev. Bundick Surprised Cockeysville, Md., Feb. 28-On Wednesday last, Rev. P.O. Bundick was the recipient of a surprise donation, tendered him by his members and friends. Allen's Day was observed by the Sunday School of Bazel Chapel. Mrs. Caroline Bond is still very feeble. Baptist Church Troubles Aired. Washington, D. C., Eeb. 29. The troubles of two factions of the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church over the selection of a successor to the late George W. Lee were aired in the police court Wednesday when several members, who had been arrested on charges of disorderly conduct at a church meeting, were discharged. Rev. James S. Willis has been declared pastor of the church. Working for Colored Regiment. Albany, N. Y., Feb. 29—A public hearing on the bill to establish and equip a colored regiment for New York city was held yesterday before the Assembly Committee on Military Affairs. Representative colored men from New York city were present to make a plea for the enactment of the measure. Among those to speak for the bill was Gilchrist Stewart, who was recently appointed to a deputy clerkship in the assembly. Several prominent white militiamen argued against the creation of a colored regiment, stating that social and not military customs precluded the idea of colored men belonging to the National Guard. A provisional regiment has already been organized in New York city with Mayor Charles W. Fillmore in command. BALTIMORE, SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1912. LINCOLN GLEE CLUB REFUSES TO SING When They Find Objectionable Placards Announcing Their Entertainment WAS TO HAVE BEEN HELD AT WHITE CHURCH Rev. P. J. A. Coxe, a Resident Alumnus Says Lincoln Needs No Such Advertisement. (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) West Chester, Pa., Feb. 29—The Glee Club of Lincoln University did not sing Tuesday night at the white Y. M. C. A. for the benefit of the Olivet Baptist Church (white) because placards announcing its coming had been placed all over the city bearing the words, "You Must Hear Dem Darkies Sing." The attention of Rev. P. J. A. Coxe, an alumnus of Lincoln University and pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church, this city, was called to the insulting announcement, and he immediately telephoned to the pastor of the Mt. Olivet Church complaining of the placards. The white minister dismissed his kick as trifling, and when the Glee Club arrived in the city he immediately informed the members of the wording of the placard: The Club investigated and then refused to give a concert, even though they had spent money for railroad fares, etc. The members of the Glee Club are: H. C. Collins, L. N. Midgetts, George W. Williams, H. L. Harley; E. B. Wheaton, Ralph Dunn, and C. M. Cain, who is the manager. Rev. Coxe wrote a strong protest to the Daily LocalNews complaining of the insuting words. It follows in part: "The whole thing is as belittling as it is little. It is heartless. It is unseemly. It smacks of the dive and the cheap theatre. We rave about the scandalous manner in which the showman advertises his ware and in the interests of the morals of the community we hold him within certain legal restrictions. The same people who call loudest against this man are the ones who in the name of the church would ride rough shod over the emotions of a people, just because they cannot protect themselves. I say that the church is in no position to teach morals to the people. When such followers of God came near where the Christ was I think He used the word hypocrite not once but repeatedly. I think the teaching there has more to do with morals than religion. There are those who separate morals and religion. Perhaps these skillful advertisers are among these and therefore I should not criticise them as a church. If there is a separation, need we be surprised at what is left? "It is high time that a certain form of intelligence ought to be sufficient (to say nothing of consecrated) to know that this ruthless way of treating Negroes does more harm than any thing the Negro can do in the community. There is an intelligence whose centre and circumference is ignorance and here perhaps is an expression of it. "If these students are repsonsible for this advertisement they are unworthy of the institution which tolerates them. "While my protest may be spurned with contempt I at least preserve my self-respect while I wonder what is its degree of perfection in some people who advertise. "Lincoln University needs no advertising which prefixes or suffixes the word "darkey." Its magnetism for those of high degree is in the two words as they stand without any hateful, immoral, qualifiers. So speaks an alumnus." Schools Keep Oben Annapolis Md. Mar 1 —Though the colored public schools of Anne Arundel county have been closed on account of lack of funds, the colored residents here are subscribing funds to keep the Stanton School open several months longer. Kittrell Team Getting Ready Kiterell, N. C., Feb. 29—The baseball team of Kitterell College is now preparing for its spring itinerary, which starts early in April. Games will probably be played with Shaw University, Livingstone College, Biddle University, Allen University and Benedict College. Lily Whites Are Being Richmond, Va., Mar. 1—Leading colored Republicans of this State have declared war on the "lily white" Republican regime in Virginia, and a fight to the finish is expected. A meeting was held here a night or two ago, and the air was made to ring with protests against the exclusion of the Negro from the party councils. The recent protest made to the President Taft was thoroughly gone over, and the Brady-Martin-Flegenheimer-Cabell combination scored. A similar meeting was held in Norfolk tonight, and arrangements made for a state-wide meeting in Lynchburg, Va. PRICE THREE CENTS OPINION DIVIDED AS TO TAFT OR "TEDDY" Big Office-Holders Throughout the Country Will Stick To The Administration. BALTIMORE STRONG FOR THE ROUGH-RIDER An Attempt to Defeat Taft Rather Than Elect Roosevelt Says John Mitchell The announcement made by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt that he would again be a candidate for the Presidency has been met with varying opinions around the country. Nearly all of the daily newspapers in the East strongly oppose his candidacy, some say that his entrance in the fight will add ginger to the campaign and a few take kindly to his candidacy. In the last named class is the Baltimore News, which said editorially that Taft has been losing ground since his Winona speech, when he declared that the present tariff law was the best the country ever had. Advices received by the Afro-American Ledger this week from various sections of the country show that practically all of the prominent colored office holders in the country will work for Taft's renomination. Others say that they are opposed to Taft's Southern policy and that they are willing to forget Roosevelt's discharge of the colored soldiers at Brownville, Tex., and support him as against Taft. John Mitchell, editor of the Richmond, (Va.) Planet this week says editorially that Taft's governmental policies are far more preferable than some of the doctrines urged by Mr. Roosevelt in his Columbus speech, and that only a mistake on the part of the Democrats will prevent them from electing the next president. "Four years ago it was," says the Planet, "you must take Taft or me. Now it is, you must either take a Democrat or me." Speaking of Roosevelt's letter to the Governors, it says: "We think we see in this letter,—this reply to the Governors, this announcement of a presidential candidacy—more of a determination to make Hon. William H. Taft's election impossible than the nomination and election of Hon. Theodore Roosevelt possible. "The latter delights to be the storm center of a tumult and an agitation. He has carefully staged these proceedings and he has his heart's desire. He is unquestionably the most popular citizen before the American people. Hon. James G. Blaine enjoyed a similar distinction, but as death never operated in his favor, he was never able to enter the portals of the White House. "Mr. Roosevelt walked out of the front door of the Executive Mansion at Washintgon. He may return there as President in the same way. But if he succeeds in doing this the day of miracles is again at hand and he will go down in history as a brilliant political meteor, the like of which never existed before, during this or any other generation. "To our minds, the sun of Republican success has set; it will require monumental blunders upon the part of the National Democratic Convention at Baltimore to cause it to rise again this year. Harry W. Bass, a member of the Pennsylvania legislature, says, "I Editor Mitchell's Views. will vote for Taft, while N. B. Dodson, the New York newspaper and writes that he if Taft will adopt the Roosevelt program he can be renominated and elected. Roosevelt Struek Keynote. "Roosevelt in his speech to the Ohio Constitutional Convention and again in Boston," writes Mr. Dodson, "struck the keynote to the national situation and upon this will hang in great measure the success or failure of the Republican party in the coming national election." Rev. N. M. Carroll, Annapolis, Md., said: "I am sorry that Mr. Roosevelt has entered the field. Baltimore for "Teddy." Views obtained from representative men of the race in this city indicate that nearly all are opposed to Taft. Among those who have announced themselves for Taft are most of the local colored federal employes, Rev. A. B. Callis and Councilman Harry S. Cummings, who delivered one of the addresses seconding Roosevelt's nomination at Chicago in 1904. "I believe that Mr. Taft's record entitled him to a renomination and reelection. The refusal to appoint qualified colored men to office in communities, where such appointments would give offence, cannot be interpreted to mean that he is against the colored people. The President has honored colored men equal to any other President, and his policy with the South means to conciliate. If you force the lamb on the lion there will remain no lamb, but conciliate and the lamb and lion will lie down together." Dr. F. N. Cardozo—"You may put me down for Roosevelt. I am opposed to Mr. Taft's Southern policy, and do not believe any such policy will help us any. Roosevelt will get every vote that I can influence." Says Colonel Can Win. Louis Davenport—"If there is a statewide primary to elect delegates to the Republican National Convention Roosevelt will beat Taft to a frazzle. I am in favor of Roosevelt's nomination, because I do not believe President Taft can win in the general election." Dr. H. S. McCard—"Nothing but Roosevelt for me." And his brother, Attorney W. C. McCard, said the same. Prof G. D. Pennington—"You may say that Roosevelt is my choice." Favors Foraker. Rev. L. S. Flagg—"Foraker is my first choice. LaFollette my second, Roosevelt my third and Taft not at all." Rev. D. W. Shaw—"You may certainly put me down for Roosevelt, as I am opposed to Mr. Taft's exclusion of colored men from holding office in the South." "I do not see anything in either Mr. Taft or Colonel Roosevelt to make me grow enthusiastic," said Rev. Dr. Harvey Johnson, the veteran champion of the rights of the race. "Mr. Taft has not spoken out against lynching, and his refusal to appoint Hook to the Supreme Court bench was practically forced. We have not forgot Mr. Roosevelt either, and I must say that I am not able to tell just whom I will favor." Dr. Alexander Thinking. "I have not made up my mind yet," said Rev. Dr. Alexander, who was a Taft delegate to the last Republican National Convention, while H. E. Macbeth, editor of the Baltimore Times, declared that he is for Roosevelt. Topeko, Kan., Mar. 1—The Plain-dealer, by Nick Chiles, has installed a linotype machine. Mr. Chiles hopes to be able now to print more news than in the past. Rev. Jackson McHenry Tells Some Hitherto Unpublished Things About the Publishing House and its Mauager. Other Men More Deserving of the Position. SOME FACTS ABOUT THE [From The Atlanta Independent] Things are far from being in a satisfactory condition at the Publishing House of the A.M.E. Church in Philadelphia. The present managing editor, though a sociological student, was not even known generally as a member of the Church until after he was given the present position through the influence of the late Bishop Gaines. For three years he staid in Philadelphia, engaged in his work at the University of Pennsylvania, and never connected himself with any A. M. E. Church, or was even an attendant upon any of the churhes. It is felt that he was unwise in the step he took when assuming charge of his present field to put out of office nearly all the old employees and putting in as bookkeeper, clerk, and secretary three members of his own family. For his brother, sister and brother-in-law are now employed. This is nepotism with a vengeance. All the books and conference requisite that are sold around at the conferences pass only through the hands of the Wright family. But if such conduct of the business does not pay the Church, it certainly pays the manager, because he has been enabled within two years to purchase two homes and is now buying the third one. It has been said that Dr. Wright was the only man in the Church who would accept the position and that only now are there others willing to take the place. Correspondence will show that there were at least a dozen other men who would have gladly assumed the editorship. Among those are: Drs. A. L. Gaines, C. M. Tanner S. P. Hood H. H. Pinkney, J. G. Robinson, Joshua Jones, D. J. Jordan, J. A. Jones, and a number of others. All of these men, in years gone by have aspired to the place. Strange indeed is it that when a vacancy occurred they would not have place! But no the change was made quietly and only a very few knew about it until it was over. These men have done the bidding of the Church upon every other occasion. It is a base libel on them to now say, they would not have the work. No they were refused. The shadow of death has fallen across this case, but more, than one simony has been charged. That the concern was saved by this Daniel come to judgement, is again a slander upon such connectional characters as Drs. Watson, Hurst, and Hawkins. Why can not BUSINESS LEAGUE HERALD. New Monthly Publication to Represent Business Men Generally. At the annual meeting of the Alabama State Business league, recently held at Tuskegee, the first number of the Negro Business League Herald was issued. This paper is published monthly by the National Negro Business league. The editors are Emmett J. Scott, corresponding secretary of the National league, and Charles H. Moore, national organizer. In its announcement the editors say: "The Negro Business League Herald is published, as its name states, in behalf of the Negro in business. It does not regard itself as the official organ of the National Negro Business league or of any organization. "Its major interest is helping to advance the business and economic condition of the Negroes of the United States. It earnestly hopes, to begin with, that it may have the eager support of state Negro business leagues and local Negro business leagues as well as of all persons who are in any way concerned with business enterprises among the Negro people." Noted Speakers at Abyssinian Church. The three weeks' special meetings held by the Abyssinian Baptist church in New York recently resulted in the addition of ninety new members to the church. The Rev. Dr. A. Clayton Powell, pastor, was assisted in the series of meetings by Dr. W. Bishop Johnson, pastor of the Second Baptist church in Washington. Another series of special soul saving meetings will begin on Friday. March 1, to run for three weeks. The first week will be devoted to Bible study under the lead of Dr. S. N. Vass, and the next two weeks Dr. Charles T. Walker of Augusta, Ga., will lead in the revival work for soul saving. Opposition to Hook Was Nation Wide. Opposition to the appointment of Judge William C. Hook to succeed the late John M. Harlan as associate justice of the United States supreme court seems to have been nation wide in so far as the colored citizens were concerned. The attitude of Judge Hook on the color line is said to be the cause of his failure to land the job. A. M. E. PUBLISHING HOUSE. men be consent to it without seeking to destroy all those with whom they are associated? Dr. Hurst was instructed by Bishop Gaines to be in Philadelphia and redeem the concern. Drs. Watson, Thornton, Hawkins, and Bishop Coppin were there. Dr. Hurst had the money but Dr. Wright would allow anyone to act until she had made this grand stand play of "saving" the concern. Dr. Thornton, at Mother Bethel was also on guard. He was ready and worked incessantly. But no, it must be published to the world that all these men, whose work the Church well knows, had suddenly turned traitors and there was but one man to redeem the Recorder. If this is true, then every one of them should be relegated to the traitor's place. But it is not true. For Dr. Wright charged the Church $106 for the use of $1,800 for about 48 hours and if Dr. John Hurst had not threatened him with a suit in court, he would not have turned over the judgment of Mrs. Collett to the Financial Department of the Church, but would have carried out his original plan to hold the balance of the judgment over the church as the sword of Damocles. I believe that this is the first time the real inside of the Napoleonic move in Church finance has ever been disclosed. Drs. Hurst, Hawkins, Watson, and Thornton are all candidates for place. They have kept silent and endured this false accusation rather than be drawn into a controversy. But I am not a candidate and can speak. How far short, too, did the editor come when in his obituary notice of the late Bishop Gaines he declared that he was an uneducated man an never mastered his mother tongue. This might have been said by some reporter, but by the editor of our official paper and a servant of the Church in a normal resume of the life of one of the Bishops, never. How many men are there in America who have mastered the English language? Few, if any. Certainly not Dr. Wright. But consider the work Bishop Gaines did. Morris Brown College founded and scores of churches established. Still he is to be measured and judged by a man who has never spent two years in the pastorate. More anon. JACKSON M'HENRY—Delegate to General Conference. SHE NEEDED THE EXERCISE How Man Dodged Criticism for Allowing Lady of Ample Proportions to Row Him. Allen had been visiting friends on their houseboat, moored off Edgewater, on the Jersey side. When it came time to leave Mr. and Mrs. Wilson volunteered to row Allen and Miss Wilson, sister of the husband, to a dock near the Fort Lee ferry. Mrs. Wilson and Miss Wilson are of ample proportions, and Allen didn't like the idea of allowing his hostess to row, especially as it was rough and the tide was coming in. So he protested. "No, I must row," he said. "Couldn't think of it," returned Mrs. Wilson smiling. "I need the exercise, you know. I don't get exercise on the houseboat." And she had taken the second pair of oars and settled herself in the seat behind her husband before Allen could bestow himself and baggage and assist Miss Wilson to a seat in the stern. "What will those fishermen think of me, allowing a woman to row me?" he protested. "I'm going to explain it to them as we pass. I don't want to get in bad." Sure enough as the boat passed the fishermen on the pier Allen called out: "The lady needs exercise!" And the fishermen, appreciating the situation, grinned, and by their demeanor indicated they absolved Allen from appearing to take it easy.—New York Herald. In the Garden of Eden. "Did you know this was my birthday?" asked Eve. "Could I forget it?" answered Adam. "Let's see—how old are you, this year—now don't answer—let me guess. Your are—ah—seven!" "You hateful wretch!" cried Eve. "I'm only five, and you know it. "But that is just like, you men—you try to pretend that the time is dragging and that your wives are growing old! Just because you are over six, and have lots of gray hairs you think you can insult your wife!" Eden was never the same after that THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER BUSY LIFE OF DR. J. D. HERBEN Summary of His Activities as Pastor and Evangelist. KNOWS HOW TO GET RESULTS Hardworking Minister Who Has Made His Way by Persistence From Obscurity to Prominence—Conducted First Missionary Journey at Eleven Years of Age. Atlantic City, N. J.-J. Douglas Herben, the subject of this sketch, is a native of Greensboro, N. C. He received the rudiments of his early education in the public schools, in which he made rapid progress. He is of a family of ten children, whose mother died when Douglas was seven years of age. After the death of his mother young Herben went to work at a salary of $3 per month. Having felt the call to the ministry early in life, he began preparation after his conversion at ten years of age. When eleven years of age he started on a preaching tour which took him as far west as Cincinnati, O., where he was baptized in the Ohio river by the Rev. G. W. Wyatt, pastor of the Antioch Baptist church, from which he received his license to preach. This was in March, 1891. He attended the public school in Cincinnati from which he graduated before changing his residence to Pittsburgh, whither he went in 1855. In Pittsburgh Rev. Mr. Herben entered iron City college, where he took the course in the theology. He is noted as a successful worker in revivals and has conducted successful meetings in the John Wesley A. M. E. Z. church, Ebenezer Baptist, Carron Street Baptist, Good Hope Baptist, Shiloh Baptist, St. Paul Methodist and Brown's A. M. E. chapel in Pittsburgh and REX. DR. J. DOUGLAS HERBEN. many other churches. He was ordained by the First Baptist church in Frederick, Md., twelve years ago. He has traveled extensively throughout the southwest, doing evangelistic work. During his pastorate of the Zion Baptist church at Harpers Ferry he completed a beautiful church edifice and greatly increased the membership. Rev. Mr. Herben has also pastored successfully in Washington and in Maryfield, Va. At his present charge, the Second Baptist church in this city, he has served seven years with great success to the cause. He has fellowshiped over 1,400 members and erected one of the largest and most beautiful church edifices in the state. Rev. Mr. Herben has the distinction of knowing how to meet difficulties and overcome them. This fact has been thoroughly demonstrated during his pastorate of the Second Baptist church. The people of Atlantic City regard the work of Rev. Mr. Herben very highly. He is available, ambitious and sincere and lets no opportunity pass by which he may benefit his people. He is broad minded and liberal in his dealings with all denominations. The high estimation in which Dr. Herben is held by clergymen of note may be judged from the following: Dr. J. Douglas Herben has conducted meetings for me, and I find him to be a preacher of rare ability.-W. B. Johnson, LL. D., Pastor of Second Baptist Church, Washington. Few men have greater power in revival services than Dr. J. Douglas Herben of Atlantic City. He is honest with pastor and people.-Chrone Parish, Pastor of Galilee Baptist Church, Roxburgh, Pa. I most highly commend Dr. J. Douglas Herben of the Second Baptist church. Atlantic City, to the brotherhood.—William A. Credit, D. D. LL, D. Pastor of Cherry Memorial Baptist Church. Philadelphia; President Downingtown Industrial School and College and President of the New England Baptist Missionary Convention. He is quite an eloquent speaker, and we are proud of him as our son. Greenbush (N. C.) Observer. Dr. J. Douglas Herben of Pittsburgh is stirring the northwest of the city at the Vermont Avenue Baptist church. He carries large crowds—Washington Post. Lucy Laney League to Hold Reception. The seventh annual reception of the Lucy Laney league will be held in New York on Friday evening. March 8. The proceeds from the reception will be donated to the Haines Industrial school in Augusta, Ga. The league is composed of former student- and graduates of this institution. TEACHERS' COLLEGE NOTES. New Light on This Department of Howard University. Washington--The enrollment in the Teachers' college of Howard university has reached the encouraging figure of 137. These students are all of college grade, as there is now one standard for admission into the School of Liberal Arts, and all candidates are recommended by a single committee. This number is an increase of eight over last year. The dean reports that the freshman class is the best prepared that has ever been received. The instructors in the Teachers' college have now been divided into two groups. The first group consists of the faculty of education, giving particularly academic and professional work, and the second group is composed of the faculty of practical arts, giving work in domestic science, domestic art, manual training, library economy and music. The important work in the practical arts is thus brought into full adjustment with the other courses in the Teachers' college. The largest advanced class in the practical arts ever sent forth will be graduated this year. By joint action of the instructors in the Teachers' college and the College of Arts and Sciences the establishment of the new degrees of bachelor of arts in education and bachelor of science in education is recommended to the board of trustees. The dean reports that this action should, if practicable, carry with it of necessity the enlargement of the professional and academic work in the Teachers' college and the consequent better fitting of graduates for specific work in teaching. These new degrees and new courses of study are designed to be in line with the work of the Teachers' college at Columbia university, Chicago university and other leading schools of the country. In order to carry out the plan contemplated an additional teaching force is needed immediately for the Teachers' college, as there will be required professional educational courses in English, with a minimum of nine hours' work, of history nine to twelve hours and modern languages twelve hours. With this addition our work will be relied on a serious handicap under which it is now laboring. Dr. Lewis B. Moore, dean of the Teachers' college, also reports the enrollment among its students of four candidates for the degree of master of arts, one of whom is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh. Thus the institution is measuring up to its high privilege. SCHEDULE OF HAMPTON'S FINANCIAL CAMPAIGN. Captain George W. Blount Conducts Annual Northern Tour. Hampton, Va.—Every year Hampton institute, which is neither a state nor a government school, must raise annual through voluntary contributions over $125,000 for current expenses and scholarships. To secure this money, campaigns are conducted several times a year. Captain George W. Blount of the commandant's office has taken a party of twenty Negro and ten Indian boys north for the Hampton winter campaign in New York, Brooklyn, Boston, New Haven and Philadelphia. The campaign opened on Sunday Feb. 25. One meeting was held in Brooklyn and another in New York. The schedule of the meetings cover the following dates: Feb. 26, 8 p.m. Carnegie hall, principal address by Hon. Joseph H Chatee; Feb. 27, 3 p.m. Plymouth theater, Boston, address by Dr. H. B Frissell; Feb. 28, Woolsey hall, New Haven, Comm. Dr. Booker T. Washington will speak, and Professor Henry Farnam of Yale will preside; Feb. 29 Brooklyn Academy of Music, addresses by Dr. James M. Taylor, president of Vassar college, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and Robert C. Ogden of New York city, who is president of the Hampton board of trustees. On Friday, March 1, two meetings in New York private schools; March 1, Orange, N.J. address by Dr. James M Ludlow; March 2, two meetings in New York; March 3, two meetings in Philadelphia; March 4, Horticultural hall Philadelphia, principal address by Hon George McAney of New York, Dr. H B. Frissell, principal of Hampton institute, will speak on "Negro and Indian Folklore" and Indians in costume will render the following numbers: "Love Song," "Death Song," "Planting Song," "Ball Dance" and "War Dance." A Zulu student at Hampton, Madi kane Q. Cele dressed in native costume, will sing a love song and give a war dance. Major Robert R. Moton, commandant of cadets at Hampton institute, will speak on "The Meaning of Hampton." A group of thirty Negro students dressed as road workers will sing a labor song. The Hampton boys dressed in their military uniforms will sing plantation songs or "spirituals." Stories of Indian and African life will be told by Michael V. Wolf, a Chippewa Indian from Reserve, Wis., and M. Q. Cele of Zulufland, South Africa. Judge Pleased With Colored Jurors. For the first time in the history of Reno county, Kan., a case was recently tried at Hutchinson before a jury composed exclusively of colored men. It was the case of Mrs. M. J. 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DuBois, editor of the Crisis and authority on economic and social questions affecting the Negro, denied the publication in the Amsterdam News, of New York, that he had gone over to the Socialists. He was also asked to give his reasons, if reports were true, for so doing. He says: "The article you mention is simply a sensational statement without enough basis to have an article. Indeed, I should much prefer to have nothing further said." The assertion that Dr. DuBois had gone over to the Socialists, was published in the New York paper mentioned the fact that he had, as secretary of the Association for the Advancement of the Negro, addressed the audiences composed of Socialists and that he was impressed with the fairness of that party to the Negro. The article follows in part. "The greatest bit of news in local social circles this week is that Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, the eminent colored sociologist and educator has become a member of the socialist party. The shock was pleasant and sudden, but not altogether unexpected. The learned professor has been studying the socialist party and its principles on and off for more than five years. In the days after Brownsville, when the doctor was editor of the Horizon, he advised the colored people, in the event of Mr. Roosevelt's nominee becoming the Republican candidate, to vote the socialist ticket. He said this only once and no more. What persuasions were brought to hear were not known, but subsequent issues of the Horizon advised colored men to vote for Bryan as against Taft as 'an open enemy is better than a false friend.' "Since Dr. DuBois came to New York to live he has lectured on the colored man to large Socialist audiences at various times. Time and again he has been asked why he did not join the party. At first he held off, declaring that he was not as yet satisfied that the Socialists were sincere so far as colored people are concerned. But at each lecture his position would get nearer and nearer to the Socialists standpoint until at his last lecture at the Lenox Casino he declared that the Socialist philosophy was sound and that their proposed solution of the Negro problem was the only effective one." Miss Powell Weds. Miss Emma E. Powell, daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Powell, of 926 Druid Hill avenue, and Mr. William H. Butler were the principals in a pretty wedding at the home of the bride Wednesday evening of last week. The ceremony was performed by Rev. L. Z. Johnson, pastor of the Madison Street Presbyterian Church. The bride was handsomely gowned in white mull over silk and carried bride roses. The mother of the bride wore a gown of white silk. Mr. John Wilton Cook was best man. Mr. John Caldwell gave the bride away. The wedding march was played by the Janey Brothers' Orchestra. The presents were numerous and handsome. Mr. and Mrs. Butler will reside at 936 Druid Hill avenue. Dies at Ripe Old Age of 124. Bloomington, Ind. Feb. 19—Mrs. Hafford, said to be 124 years of age, is dead at her home in this city. She was born in Richmond, Va., and was sold seven times while in slavery, being being owned by George Hafford, near Monticello, Ky., when the war began. She came here soon after receiving her freedom and for years supported herself as a house servant. She was the mother of seventeen children, but ten of them were sold before she was freed and she could never find any traces of them. "No Kick Coming. "Some say there is a sucker born every minute." "I don't know anything about that," responded the eminent trust magnate. "I cater to eliminate consumers and the birth rate is very satisfactory as to them." DR. HURST FOR THE BISHOPRIC Mr. Editor:— It is customary for a friend of the person who is a candidate for an office, either in Church or in state, to write up his biography, or to promulgate his good qualities, and other commendable traits, which he is known to possess. When there is a prominent and a possible candidate before the Church, running for the highest position in the gift of an electoral body, the electric search-light, yes, even an X ray should be turned on him, so that the electorates will know for whom they are casting their votes to fill that high and evalted office. It is said, that a Methodist Bishop has more power delegated to him by those over whom he presides as chief pastor, than does an emperor, a king, or a president; for no empire, nor kingdom nor state delegates to its ruler alone, the weal or woe of its people as is delegated to a Methodist Bishop in his appointing power. In this article, we would be pleased to speak of the excellent qualities of several of the candidates, both for the bishopric and for general officers, but this would make this article entirely too long, and would take up too much valuable space in this paper. Thus, we will confine this article to one who has been favorably spoken of for the bishopric, and one who we will fill that office with honor and dignity: that person is Rev. John Hurst, D.D., the present financial secretary of the A.M.E. Church. Before writing this article, and without divulging to him my object, I casually asked Dr. Hurst to tell me something about his ancestors, and how they happened to be in the republic of Haiti, and why in the A.M.E. Church. In answer to this question the good Doctor gave me some of his family reminiscences which I am sure the whole A. M. E. Church will be pleased to know. Dr. Hurst being a native of Haiti. I took him to be a foreigner by blood and by ancestry, but in this I was grertly mistaken and surprised, for I learned from him that his great grand-father was born in Philadelphia, Pa. and was one of the founders of the A.M.E. Church. He said, that his great grand-father was named Samuel Gordon, and was one of those persons who was in St. George's Church when the colored people were practically pulled from their knees while at prayer and told to take the back seats. Dr. Hurst has documents to show that his great grand-father, Samuel Gordon, was one of the organizers, and was present at the meeting called by Rev. Richard Allen in 1787, to take into consideration the unkind treatment of their white brethren "who considered them a nuisance in their house of worship, and to organize a Church so that they could worship God under their own vine and figtree. Thus it was," that Dr. Hurst's great grand-father became one of the organizers of the first African Church on American soil, and one of the pillars of the great A.M.E. Church. Among the many documents and relics of his great grand-father that have come down to him, is a class book which he used, for he was a class leader under Rev. Richard Allen. Dr. Hurst said that his grand-father was also born in Philadelphia, Pa. His name was John Gordon, and he was also a class leader and a trustee under Richard Allen in old mother Bethel Church, Sixth and Lombard Sts. soon after its organization. His grand-father, John Gordon, with several others left Philadelphia in 1824 and sailed for the island of Haiti seeking a land of liberty and of freedom. They organized the A.M.E. Church at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, soon after their arrival and all of his grand-father's descendants, a numerous family, have been members and followers of this church, and have made many sacrifices for its perpetuation and maintainance. Dr. Hurst's parents were prominent members of this church and he was brought up in its Sabbath School, and at a very early age he became a communicant member. When the Rev. C.W. Mossell was a missionary at Port-au-Prince, Haiti; he sent several young men to this country to prepare themselves for the ministry at Wilberforce University, Ohio, Among the first to come were Rev. S.G. Doree, and Rev. A.H. Mevs. These two young Haitians entered Wilberforce in 1880, the same year the writer of this article entered, and we were graduated in the same class in 1884. THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER [Picture of a man in a suit and bow tie]. REV. JOHN HURST John Hurst then but a boy, came to Wilberforce in 1882, and my acquaintance with him dates from that period, nearly thirty years ago. He made his home at the residence of the late Bishop D. A. Payne who delighted to converse with him in the French language. John Hurst was graduated in the class of 1886 with high honors. After his graduation he went to Baltimore, Md., and was ordained a deacon by Bishop Wayman, and was assigned to his home church, the church in which he was raised, as its pastor. The Rev. A. E. Peets, the present pastor at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in a recent article on our work in that city, in the Voice of Missions, tells of the great work that Rev. Hurst did when he was pastor there; how he established a day school in connection with his work, and how he raised the status of the A. M. E. Church to a high point in that Catholic Country. After three years of successful work in his home church, he was selected by the Haitian government to represent that republic, as its first Secretary of Legation at Washington, D. C. He spent four years in this position, and in the line of his duties he came in contact and in touch with many of the leading statesmen, both of this country and of Europe. The Honorable Mr. H. Price, the Haitian Minister, under whom he acted as Secretary was greatly dependent upon him, and considered his services as Secretary of the Legation invaluable. After the recall of the Honorable Mr. Price from Washington, Rev. Hurst remained in this country; purchased a beautiful home in Baltimore, Md., married a wife, and settled down to the Ministry; his life work. He put his transfer from the Haitian Conference into the Baltimore Conference, and told Bishop W. J. Gaines that he would go wherever he wanted him to go. He was sent to a small circuit near Baltimore, Md. and seemed to have taken great pleasure in this field. He built a neat little church on one of the points, and came to conference with the best report along all lines that was ever brought from that circuit. After spending one year on this circuit, Bishop Gaines sent him to Waters Chapel, Baltimore. Md. He remained at this church four years and did excellent work. While he was serving this church, I became his presiding elder and can testify of the splendid work he accomplished there. He was next sent to Bethel Church, Baltimore, Md. He remained at this charge five years. While there he had mother Bethel beautifully frescoed and painted, and it became one of the most attractive A. M. E. Churches in that city. Dr. Hurst selected and purchased an old Folks' Home for the aged colored people of that city, which has given shelter to several worn out preachers, and preachers' widows. This home was recently turned over to the Baltimore Conference. He remained at Bethel church five years. From Bethel he was returned to Waters Chapel for the second time. A new church had been purchased by his predecessor, and the debt of the church, was heavy and embarrassing, and it needed a good financier to straighten it out. Rev. Hurst was sent back for this purpose, and he soon got things in good shape, and arranged the debt so that the payments could be easily met. He remained there five years. From there he was sent to St. John's Church, Baltimore, Md. and after serving this church about one month he was elected by the General Conference at Norfolk, Va. as Financial Secretary. He has made good in this office, and the whole church is pleased with his administration. pleased with his administration. I must say, I have been a frequent visitor to the Financial Department ever since its organization in 1872, from the day of the late Rev. J. H. W. Burley down to the present time; but I have never seen it run with so much precision, and ease, and general satisfaction as is being operated now. There is less embarrass- POULTRY Properly Fed on Sweet, Clean Grain and Pure Water Fowl Produces Egg That Is Delicious. Nearly all good eaters in England and on the continent relish duck eggs, even more than the hens' eggs. Properly fed on sweet, clean grain, green stuff with pure water the duck produces eggs that are delicious. 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Very often I hear persons say, "Our hens don't lay in the winter because our hen house is not warm enough." I have kept hens, lots of them, for 25 years, and kept them for eggs and I got the eggs, too, and I never kept them in a warm house either. I will tell you what I depend upon to keep the hens warm in winter and that is good heavy feathering (I have the Rhode Island Reds and there is no breed that has a better coat of feathers for winter than this one), says a writer in the Successful Farmer. Rich blood and active exercise keep it in circulation. Yes, I used to try to make my hen houses warm, but only succeeded in introducing a condition which, if followed up, looked to me as though they would be worse than the cold. I don't wish to have it understood that my houses are open with cracks and knot holes, for they are not; every part is made tight except at the windows where the muslin curtain is in. 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BALTIMORE, FEB. 24, 1912 Help instead of knocking. Knockers are out of style. Winter's backbone which was said to have been broken last week seems to have knit in a remarkably short time. We are thankful, however, for the brief spell of good weather we have had. --- T. R. said many good things in his recent speech, but we do not like his recall of judges. A good honest judge would more likely be recalled than a dishonest one. No recall of judges for us. Keep the judiciary out of the reach of the cheap politicians. --- The colored people of this city should give their moral as well as financial support to Lawyer Ashie Hawkins in his fight against discrimination on the bay steamboats. It is a fight for the rights of the people and he ought to be sustained. It has been demonstrated that we can accomplish something if we go at it in earnest and in the right way. Lawyer Hawkins is not fighting his own battles but the battle is for the people and the people should sustain him. THIRD TERM BUGABOO In the ever increasing light which falls on the new experiment of nation making, along the line of representative or republican form of government, no fixed rule can yet be laid down as the basis of all future action. We are not much more than an experiment in either the written or unwritten law, and no law, either written or unwritten ought to serve as a bar to progress and development. To allow such a condition to fall upon us would be equivalent to putting iron masks on our babies' heads that they might not grow. In a growing republic like this, which has now become a world power, with interests and territory so vast that the sun is never set upon them all, we need men of vision and courage who can lead men in the mightiness of our national activities. Great questions are up for solution both at home and abroad and the nation's best leaders are needed at the front. Any rule or apparent rule not crystalized into law, must not be allowed to stand in the way of any man giving his best and needed service to the public. Because George Washington was worn out and tired and therefore refused to serve his country in the third term of a presidency, is no valid reason why a man like Roosevelt, who is in the robustness of health and therefore in his intellectual prime, should not, if the people want him, serve his country any number of terms as its executive head. No sane man would be foolish enough to undertake to make himself a dictator or set up a sovereignty over the people of this great nation. Its pulse of liberty is too mighty for that and such a dictatorship is out of the question. That the people, if allowed to say would send Roosevelt back to the president's chair, is evident from the canvass of the Kansas City Star. In a poll of more than 150,000 voters, Roosevelt received more than 77,000 votes as first choice for the nation's executive head. Politicians may by way of conventions and political trickery and organization defeat the will of the people, as they often have done, and then the only alternative of the people is to defeat the politicians at the polls, which they are not averse to doing. Mr. Roosevelt is quoted as saying he would never accept another nomination, and on this the politicians have tried to disqualify him. Neither Mr. Roosevelt or any other man in a great republic has a right to say he will not serve the nation if wanted. The nation reserves the right of eminent domain over men and territory wherever found. Although a man might say he would not go to war again, should war arise, and men are needed the nation will draft him and send him to the front regardless of him having said he would not go to war again. The only thing the nation asks, is he fit for service, and he is sent to the front. If Roosevelt is needed and is eminently fit for service, the nation, regardless of his proclamation, is likely to send him to the executive front of the nation. We have outgrown the baby clothes of the beginning of the republic and must now get on a man's attire. If the Republicans are to retain the reins in the national government, they must put up a man who can win --- A WHITE MAN WHO IS A FRIEND IN DEED There is a white man, in this state, not a politician, but a plain country man, who is doing as much as any other one man in this state for the highest and best welfare of the Negroes of the commwealth. We refer to Mr. John B. Pyles, the superintendent of the House of Reformation for Colored Boys. The present writer has been associated with Mr. Pyles for more than ten years, and, hence, we speak from deliberate personal knowledge and contact. There is no institution in this state serving the interests of our people which is more entitled to the confidence and warm support of the race than the House of Reformation, located at Cheltenham, Md. It is wholly unnecessary for us to dwell upon the personality of Mr. Pyles. Sufficient to say, that both the superintendent and his wife are just as gracious, considerate and kind in this work as could be expected of any sincerely Christian man and wife. It has always been a sincere and genuine pleasure for us to meet and greet the superintendent and his devoted wife upon every occasion when we visit the institution. But from the handsome and most artistic biennial report of the institution we desire to give a few extracts which will be of special interest to our readers. In answering the question "what good is being accomplished?" Superintendent Pyles among other things says: Those who manifest an interest in reformatory work and consequently in the future welfare of the degraded, dishonest, vicious or unfortunate youths who are committed to this and various institutions frequently ask the question what good is being accomplished; are the inmates better at the time they are paroled or discharged than when they are received; has the community received an equivalent for the expense necessary for their support. After being officially connected with this institution its various branches, and as superintendent, I am prepared to say that the city and state have been well reimbursed for the efforts put forth in appropriating to this reformatory. It has been the means of taking from the city and the counties hundreds of vicious and incorrigible boys who were being educated in crime through their daily intercourse in the low haunts of iniquity by which many of them were surrounded, dishonest and degrading habits being the desire of their hearts to this institution a general history of their past lives is recorded, with the offences for which they are committed. Their unwholesome acts are discarded; they are given a bath and clean under clothing, and supplied with two suits of the regulation uniform, one for daily use, the other for Sunday and special occasions such as general inspection, is required every Sunday morning during good weather, company drill and parade. The change from a filthy condition to that of cleanliness makes them realize that they are and will be benefitted by coming to this institution. They are closely questioned to determine their mental and moral calibre, their general temperament which governs their treatment, and their inclination to work which regulate their assignment. They are under the care of an officer at all times and must be looked after carefully, restrained or encouraged as may be necessary. Bad habits of the past must be discarded and a new course started. The individuality of each inmate must necessarily be considered in order to wisely administer such discipline as will obtain the desired results." In the brief extract which we shall now quote, Mr. Pyles shows himself infinitely more sympathetic and human than do some of the Negro mothers at whom the blast is unquestionably aimed. The people of our race will do well to seriously ponder such wise and wholesome words. Mr. Pyles says: "This is not an orphanage or a refuse into which heartless and unaffairful parents may send their children. To send such children who simply need care, kindnesss and training is a great wrong—a flagrant abuse of the hospitality and benevolence of the State." And, yet, there is such a thing as a comparatively young woman desiring to re-marry, and to have a "good time," by being freed from the care and rearing of her own child, ready and anxious to make oath to a wicked lie, and murder the moral and intellectual life of her own child by having him sent to such an institution!. Our constant regret is, that such few of our better class of colored citizens have ever visited this institution, which, in most respects is more like a great industrial school, along military lines, than a House of Reformation. The Rev. Dr. Gaines, who made his first visit last year, was so execedingly pleased that he almost determined to commit some act whereby he might be permanently committed. EDITORIAL OPINION Speaking of the conference of Southern Governors and leading white men of that section of the country, held in Baltimore last December, (a committee of which again met here this week) to encourage white immigration for the South, the Natchez (Miss.) Herald makes the following pertinent comment: "The Negro is almost ignored in this demand for immigration. He is set down as hopeless, trifling, rutil, impossible. If the South's 11,000,000 Negroes could be traded off for 11,000,000 whites that would be a solution. But they cannot be. The Negroes are here and will be here. To make the most and the best of the Negro workers is the first big duty of the South. It is the most difficult problem before the nation. It cannot be solved by an effort to drive the Negro out. He will not be driven out. He must be looked after, educated in the right way, given a chance to be selfrespecting and encouraged to improve his condition." "The Negroes of Baltimore do the right thing, as reported in the Age, in fighting the separate waiting room proposition. The Baltimore and Maryland Negroes have developed 'a fighting streak' for their rights, which may be stamped as 'gilt-edged.' Example is the thing contagious, and a contagious good example is the thing the Negro should most desire and hold fast when he has got it."—New York Age. "Colonel Rocsevelt will not ask for a nomination' says Gifford Pinchot. Certainly not. If Colonel Rocsevelt will decide that he wants a nomination, he will go and take it."—Charleston (W. Va.) Advocate. We believe that ex-President Roosevelt has the largest personal following of any Republican in the country. On a popular vote we do not believe that any American leader in the country could poll the votes that this distinguished American can command. He must now confront conditions which are distreasingly peculiar so far as we are concerned. The same weapons that were used to make Taft the chief executive are now used against him. It is the irony of fate."—Richmond (Va.) Planet. FROM SLAVERY TO THE BISHOPRIC Fiction, Have you ever read any stories about slavery? Our story this month takes us to the land of Africa. Here years ago, cruel white men left their ships on the coast and went inland, raiding and burning the little villages of defenceless black people. Men and boys, girls and women were chained together and driven back to the coast. There they were huddled into the holds of ships, and amid sickness and despair were carried to America and sold to labor in the cotton fields of the South. Over a hundred years ago, a little black baby was born in Africa. His name was Adjai. His parents belonged to one of the largest tribes on the west coast of Africa, in the Yoruba country. One day the men-stealers entered his village and captured men, women and children, and drove them, chained, to the seacoast, and put them aboard ships to carry them to the slave markets. Adajal's family were among the captured ones. He was then a little boy about eleven years old, and he was separated from his father and mother and brothers and sisters. After a long, weary march and many days in a crowded slave pen, Adajal was placed on board a slave ship, which fortunately was taken by a British steamer sent out to capture slavers. Adajal was placed in the home of some missionaries, in the English Colony at Sierra; Leone. Here he went to school and for the first time heard about Jesus Christ, and His love for all boys and girls. Adajal's story somehow reached England, and an English, clergyman arranged to pay for his tuition at the best school in Africa, at Freetown. Here, when he was sixteen years, he was baptized and given a new name—the name of his good friend in England—Samuel Crowther. In a few years friends took him to England for a year's schooling there. He was quick to learn and showed great skill in languages. He also mastered the carpenter's trade, and both of these acquirements were of great use to him in his later life. When he returned to Africa he married a native christian girl who, like himself, had been rescued from a slaveship. Together they established and carried on a very successful boarding school for Negro boys and girls, and in many ways devoted their lives to winning the people about the Niger River to Christ. England was at this time most anxious to explore the Niger River; first, to put a stop to slavery in the interior of Africa, and also to start trade with the natives. Two missionaries were to be sent with the expedition and one of those chosen was Crowther. It was a long, dangerous journey, but Crowther's acquaintance with the language and customs of the people was a great aid. They passed through heathen countries, and Crowther tried to tell the chiefs and their people about Jesus, and aided as far as he could the sick and dying. His work on this trip showed the Englishmen who were with him that he was far above the average Negro worker, and they wrote to England recommending that he be ordained to the ministry. One day when he was preaching at Freetown, near where he was taken when rescued from the slave ship, he saw a very old Negro woman in the congregation who looked very sad and unhappy. Crowther spoke kindly to her, and she told him about her hard life as a slave and how all her children had been torn from her. "But worst of all was losing my little boy, Adjai," she wailed. The son had found his mother and his lifelong prayer had been answered. His mother became a Christian and took the name of Hannah, whose son was Samuel. Many years of faithful service followed, and when, in 1864: West Africa was in need of a bishop, who should the House of Bishops in England choose as best fitted for this responsible task, but Samuel Adjai Growther. He was consecrated in Canterbury Cathedral 'before an immense audience, and until his death, at the age of eight-two, in 1891,/he labored unceasingly to win his people to Christ. The Bishop of the Niger was once only a little African slaveboy. Christian people gave him a chance and he made the moat of it. There [Picture of a man with a serious expression, wearing a suit and tie. The background is plain white. The portrait is oval-shaped with a black border.]] Candidate to Succeed Rev. W. W. Beckett as Secretary of A. M. E. Missiona. are thousands of just such boys in Africa today, waiting for the boys and girls in our Sunday schools to give them the chance to win all Africa to Christ. The Spirit of Missions Winchester Notes. Winchester, Va., Feb. 21—The funeral of Dr. Edward Brown, who died in Pittsburgh, Pa., was held here yesterday at John Mann M. E. Church. Rev. A. P. Shaw had charge of the funeral services. Mr. Thomas Washington, who had his foot amputated, is doing nicely. Mr. Mack Washington, of Connellsville, Pa., is here. Anniversary exercises came to an end at St. Paul A. M. E. Church Sunday night with a lecture by Rev. R. J. Butt on the "Holy Land." Rev. Armstead, Rev. Baker, and Prof. J. H. Quilt were among others who took part in the program. Miss Ada Farley, of Philadelphia, is visiting here. Mr. Joseph Stephenson gave a reception to the junior workers. Those present included Misses Clarissa, Rosa, Arlester, and Eliza Carter, Lelia Wilkinson, Janey Queen, Mary Long, Amanda Long, Messrs. L. H. Nickens, and Charles F. Martin. The charity entertainment was a success. Washington News Washington, D.C., Feb. 22—The Taft renomination bureau has opened headquarters in the Raleigh Hotel with the Hon. W. B. McKinley, of Ilios, incharge. W. Calvin Chase and Aaron Bradshaw have been elected delegates to the Chicago Convention by a majority of about 1,100. They are for Taft. The Washington American has not suspended. It made its usual appearance last Saturday. Dr. J. E. Shepard will speak before Bethel Literary and Historical Association at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church March 26 on "Religious Training, the Hope of the Negro Race." A delegation of colored Virginians called on the President last Saturday and gave the "lily-white" Republicans of the Old Dominion a "jolt." They were referred to Chairman McKinley who guaranteed that they should have a "square deal." Mr. McKinley comes clean on the question of colored men's participation in politics. Delegate Pegg, city sealer of Omaha, Neo., the only colored delegate to the convention of weights measures, was unanimously elected sergeant-at-arms of that body. The office was created for him. He made a clavier speech of acceptance. Dr. Lucy B. Moten, principal of the Normal School No. 2, will attend the meeting of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association in St. Louis February 11. Rev W. P. Gibbons, Ph.D., pastor of Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, is dead. Bishop Daniel Payne 101ST ANNIVERSARY OF DANIEL PAYNE His Dream of The Greatness of Wilderforce University Realized The one hundred and first anniversary of the birth of Bishop Daniel A. Payne, the pioneer in the cause of education for the youth of the race and for nearly 42 years a bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, occurs today. He was born in Charleston, S. C., February 24, 1811. His father and mother were earnest workers in the M. E. Church. The Minor's Society, an organization of free colored men of Charleston, supported a school, and leading spirits in the society paid young Payne's tuition and book bills for two years. Through private instruction, as well as study, he learned the English branches, history, mathematics and languages. In 1829 he opened a school in Charleston, and though his success as not great at first, the school grew so rapidly that an act was passed by the South Carolina legislature forbidding the instruction of free colored children. One day, while standing in the streets of Charleston, twirling a cane, a white man snatched it and struck him over the head, saying that a "nigger" should not be seen with a cane. He retaliated and was imprisoned for defending himself. Tiring of the enslaved condition of the colored people, there he sailed out of Charleston in 1835, and landed in Philadelphia. He entered the Lutheran Theological Seminary, at Gettyburg, the same year, but was compelled to give up his studies on account of weak eyes. He taught school for a year or two and was ordained a Lutheran minister in 1837. Three years later he joined the Philadelphia A. M. E. Conference. After serving two years at Israel A. M. E. Church, Washington, he was sent to Bethel Church, Baltimore. It was during his regime there that the old house of worship on Saratoga street was rebuilt. It was then the largest church owned by the colored people in this country, as is the present Bethel Church. It was largely due to his influence that the late Bishop Handy was inspired to rise. He also served at Ebenezer Church, this city. While stationed in this city he made his now famous appeal for an educated ministry. The majority of the ministers of that time were men of strong native talents, but with little scholastic training. His views on the subject were published in the A. M. E. Church Review, and may be regarded as the forerunner of the great educational work that the A. M. E. Church is now doing. He was elected a bishop at the General Conference, which met in New York in 1865, being the tenth man to be given that exalted office. The comparative smallness of the salary of a bishop in those days may be seen from the fact that the General Conference of 1866 fixed the salary of a bishop at $200 a year, with board for himself, wife and children under 12 years of age, and a house and fuel thrown in. He purchased Wilberforce University for the denomination in 1863, pledging his credit, and lived to see evey dollar of the original debt paid. He served as president of the university until 1876, when he resigned. In giving up the work, he said, in part: "Now what shall I say about the future of Wilberforce? This is only known to the Infinite. But this I am warranted in saying, if we be true and loyal to Wilberforce, God will never leave it without friends to work for its success." Bishop Payne returned to Charleston in 1865, on the day and date that he left 30 years before to plant the banner of the A. M. E. Church there. He was also the founder of the Payne Theological Seminary, Wilberforce, O., and was serving as its president when he died, November 29, 1893. He had lived to see great fruit come from his plea for education made over 40 years before. He was buried in Laurel Cemetery, this, city, here a handsome monument has been erected over his grave. Male Yodd's Share of Burdani. After the eggs of the midwife toad have been laid and fertilized the male winds a string of them around his hind legs, retires to a burrow for three weeks and then deposits them in a pool, where they are hatched is the usual way. ADVERTISE—IT PAYS SEER fot CEs gor NE is araiee ae May hea cam ore a Sy cat ao) cle eee inane: phe sesh chee Chat ean ke aac pute BR Ma RE 2 oi Rae eee ego feos Se RNR i eae OR Tg ee Ce ee ee ole Sea <4 Bin os AO mea tc) SB Ca i Fe ue | a ee OI fy MR ERE Na akc eta ai Leet el Bo oo aa ee eae eee Car incr aes eine canes eae eee ence ime meen (att in oni eaae a Poe ence eee cee En eee eR A aime Jonas Haughton, M, T, Jones, J, Thomas ‘Odd Fellow’s Lodge Set Apart Through and under thé able. Ui: rection and supervision of Supervi- sor Marshall T, Jones, of the 21st Sub-district of the state of Mary- Jand; Brothers of Unity Lodge, No. 8645 was set apart by P. M. V. P. J. ©, Johnson and P. N. F. Jones, of Evening Star Lodge, of Baltimore city, March 30, 1911. Brother Jones and his helpers have not eased. to strengthen the ‘bonds. of unity and’extend the principle of F, L, and T. throughout his dis- tict. On February 9,° 1912, P. N.F. M. A. Jones; P. N, F, Jas, Thomas; P, N. F, Jonas Haagh- ton, the committee. from No. 8645 set apart Good Will Lodge. No. '8874 of Barclay, Md., into the rank cof G. 0.0. F. and it consists of -some of the best officers ever made into a lodge as follows: Rev. O. P. Dickerson, P: N. F.; Wm. Chase, .N. F.; Robert Dickerson, W. F.; Rev. E. T. Addison, advocate; Geo. Dickerson, W. C.; Ernest Stansbury E. §.; Jas. E. Hines, P. S, Never in the history of our lives have we had such grand. prepara. tions made for: our reception as was smade by the above lodge: After we trimmed the beards of the goat ‘and gave them a gentle ride on re: quest of Brother P. N. F. Jona: Haughton deliverd an address or the high ideals of moral, economic, civic, and industrial possibilities of every American citizen, which was vigorously applauded. En. thusiasm runs high and bids fair te inerease FL. and ‘T. throughou' this. sub-district. ot .*nyone wishing’ information con: TOWER OF ENEMIES’ HEADS Monument af Modern Barbarlem 1; Erected by the Turks In 1809 ‘at Nish, Servia, “ cA strange: mouiitient “of: modern barbarism still survives at Nish in southedst Servia. During’ the war of independenc# in 1809 the Servian gar rison here exploded’ a powder maga zine and perished Userein rather than fall into the hands of the Turks. A battle bad previously taken place and the Turks commemoratad their vietory by erecting a rude tower, or namented with the heads of their ens mies. Old people will tell you that there were once 1,200 heads, but as the tower was never more than 25 feet high, this is probably an exaggeration, Lamurtine and. other travelers re- late that they saw hair still clinging to the skulls, which must have formed @ grewsome spectacle. During: many years visitors were in the habit ‘of carrying off skulls as souvenirs, but when. Nish: became: Servian. the re- miatnder were taken away for decent Durial, all save a few that were too deeply imbedded. Recently :the re mains of the tower have beon covered over with a roof to protect them against the elements and they are re garded as a plous object of patriotic pigrimage—Wide World Magazine. ati INSTRUCTIONS OF A PIPER Ingenious Method of Téaching HIs Pu: ~ "pil Adopted by the Mighland t ‘Misiclan;, ‘A Highland piper who had’ @: pupil to teach originated -a metlioy’ by which he succeeded in reducing. the Wificulties of the task to-a minimuty, and at the same time fixed his lesson 4n the pupil's mind. “Here, Donald,”’ said he, “tak--yer pipes, lad, an’ gle usa blast. "Sol. Vera weel blawn, indeed, but ‘what's a sound, Donald, wi'out making You may ‘blaw. forever. wi'out making ‘a tune ot, if I dinna tell ye how’ the ‘queer things on the paper maun help Te" 3, "Ye seo that big fellow wi’ a round ‘open face”—=pointing to a semi-brev— “between two lines of a bar?,He moves ‘slowly from that line to this, while ye ‘beat ane wi’ yer fist’ an’ gie a. long Dlast. “% “If ye put aleg to bim, ye mak twa .0° him, ‘an’ he'll move twice’as' fast. €- “It, now, ye black bhis-face, he'll run tour times faster. than the fellow wi’ the white face; and:if,.after blacking his face, ye'll bend his. kneo or tie his Jeg, he'll hop eight times faster: than ithe white ‘faced:chap I showed yo first ~-“Now,"-concluded the piper, senten- tiously, “whene'er'ye blaw. your pipes, “Donald, remember. this:’that the tight- _ qf those fellows: legs are tied, the fast- er they'll run, and‘the quicker they're ecne to Aamee, Tekin nk Paee eeee, Mie a SP, RAEN YS YS Ted eT hale ome tet éerning ie eller and perpett- ation of HE @;,U: OQ: of O. F, please address Broa. 6# Unity Lodge ‘No. 8645'J. Haughton, T. S._ Mar- shall;.T. Jones, supervisor. Head- quarters, Chestertown, Md. Ches- ‘tertown is the place that the Grand ‘Lodge will convene in September, | 1913, ‘and Brother’ Jones, along with Todeegls. 8645, is sparing no pains in:making strenuous prepara- tions to éntertain them royally. In-commemorating the cordial welcome,of Good Will Lodge No. $874, we cannot but say that the receptloti Colnitittee was composed of ladies of the highest ideals: of moral worth and intellectual great- niesa that will count for itself in this age of civilized progress of wonten, The anticipation of other insti- tutions are imminently ascertained in the near future. The Odd Fel- lows in our section have taken on new life looking forward to Peter Ogden’s celebration day,March 12, 1912. Peter Ogden was the foun- der of our grand and glorious or- der. They are looking foward to the second Sunday in May when they will give thanks. to. God our Father for keeping us in the bonds of unity and extending among us FL, and T. 7 We herewith extend greetings and beg to remain : Yours in F. L, and-T. Brothers of Unity Lodge No. 645 | “J. T“HENSON, N. 6G. J, HAUGHTTON,P. S. E rt ¥ | IN MEMORIAM ~ DOUGLASS—ini 844 but loving remembrance of my ‘deat husban¢ James Douglass, who departed this life one year ago today, February 21, 1911. You. are not forgotten husband dear, Or will you ever be For, as long as life and memory last; I will always think of thee: By his wife Hester Douglass. ——— HALL—In memory of William H. Hall, who.died 14 years ago, February 20, 1898. 1 siti home in heaven, loved ones, Oh! so happy and so bright, There is perfect joy and beauty In this everlasting light Father! thou art gone before me God would noé permit you stay When. the form of death overcomes me . Meet me on the way. By his eldest daughter, Aféna’- JACKSON—In sad but loving ré membrance of our dear mother, Virginia Hill Jackson, who died one year ago February 21, 1911 at Charlestown, W. Va. By her’ lov- ing children, William B. and Kath- erine B. Hill Bs PULLEY—In loving remem: brance of our dear son, James, whc departed this life six months ago, August 25,. 1911. Time cannot, heal our wounded hearts _Or fill the vacant chair; We miss‘our dear son all the while, _ We miss him everywhere. | Farewell, dear son, but not forever There’ will he a glorious dawn’ We:shall meet to part no’ more . Oty the resurrection morn. His parents: OLIVER=In sad’ but loving ‘re- membrance: of my dear husband, James H. Oliver, who departed this life one year’ ago;- February 26, ant. Dearest husband, how I'miss you, |.’Sinee from earth you passed away, ‘And my heart is acking’ sorely ‘As I-think- of you each day. Some may think I'l] soon forget'you, “And-my:wounded heart be ‘healed, But they little’ know the sorrow That's within my heart coricealed: By-his ‘loving wife, Florence: “THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER _ a aoe it T a ae e ° ... MID-WINTER PICNIC... At Perkins Square Baptist Church z Géorge and'Ogston Streets. ‘Commencing Monday, February t9th—Ending Friday, March Ist ‘A. Good Time in Piney Grove. Novelties Great ? & SEASON TICKET é 25 CENTS . — VIGILANT COMMITTEE— | M._L.-Williams E.R. Williams, Ph. D.D.,-Pastor SMA WINS) ss ES * BOOKS ARE NOW OPENED FOR DATES i : : = The New Steamer Starlight AF Fully equipped in every way according to law. i Inspected by the government, will be allowed to i Ut) re mend wn ee are fally able to take your excursion wherever youmsydesiretog. =» 5 + + HAVRE DE GRACE POST DEPOSIT * { CHESTERTOWN ST. MICHAELS -- * BASTON OXFORD { CAMBRIDGE : __ OR TO THE WELL-KNOWN i) a GREATER BROWN’S GROVE cs i . . i () WHAT iS YOUR EXCUSE Now? d S\\ We especially request joit t inrpe:t the new Steamer. See ( ( for yourself and get terms before béoking your date with anyone IN) Mg else. Steamer will be open for inspection Aprit tet: ie _-A-areater inducement will be given Citirchies) Siitlay Schools Ge Alt and Organizations for Day's Excursions. ‘The inducements for (( Moonlights are beyond your expectation: 7 4) J) For further information apply to George W. ‘Brown, 152 N. \\e , Carey Street; or Walter R. Langley, 1418 Jefferson. Street. f (( Keep your eye on this paper. It will keep you fully posted {\\} Nf Mr. Brown can be seen every Saturday night, and especially 3} = sunday morning at the above mentioned address. Yon may call any evening after 8 P. M. - Don’t forget the address, 1451 North i Carey Street. Baltimore, Md, * ) (EGS SSS SUSSD STAR CONCERT== ASBURY Ml, E. CHURCH ‘Thursday evening, February 29, at 8.30 p.m. The program will be rendered by the best,mnusical talent of thecity.. Admission 25 Cents, Committee—Mesdames Susie Howard, Arnie Henson, Lydia Nugent, Alice Smith, Lillie Ellis, Miss Emma Jenkins, 2433-2, NIXON BROTHERS TAILORS 1302: PENNA. AVE., Near Lanvale. Dyeing, Cleaning and Repairing Neatly Done. ee LOANS LOANS $10,000 —Ten Thoéand Dollars to Loan on City and County: property in separate lots from $50.00 up on mortgages, notes and other-forms of approved se- curity. Money on hand—no de- lay. Harry S. Cummings, - | Attorney-at-Lav, 219 Courtland stret I£It Comes Under The Head Of “DRUGS” : We Have It. ' Terrel & McNeill __. SUCCESSORS TO GATE’S PHARMACY Corner Carey and. Presstma * Streets, Prescriptiot’ Work A Specialty. FOR SALE—A first class_ barber shop; fine fixtures and an: excellent trade in the N. W, section of the city: Owner leaving city. Apply at 21 E. Saratoga street. H.-M. BURKETT. QUICK: BUYER "ad | 524 Robert St. Ground Rent $60 Price $1500. Apply.:1319 Argyle avenue. $100 cash, balance as rent. NOTICE, AND READ. A bargain for quick buyer.. 1413 Myrtle avenue, Ground Rent $64. Price.$1600, $100 cash, -balance as rent. Apply 1319 Argyle avenue. “. FOR. RENT. @ desirable rooms for. rent, Suit- able for light house keeping. : -1130-W.. Saratoga street, ot SS 7 FOR. RENT, Furnished: Rooms for Gentlemen. "825 George Street. St! Luke’s U. -M, E. League: will He'visited by ‘the:.Eastern Chapel Geague text: Sunday. at 6.30 P.M. <= Bvéryone ‘invited.;- : °°.“ 7 foses Johnaon; President, sa CHRIST INSTITUTION “ed qi Ensor Street. 11. A. M., sermon byRev.Miles 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 7.30 P.M. Sermon by an able Divine. | Allare invited. | Dr. G. W. Keondrd, Pastor in charge. 4 Cc. Y. W. C. A. 1200;Drnid Hill Avenue. You are invited to attend the Sunday. alternoon services on Feb. 25th, at 5P, M. Short Addresses by Mrs. Emma Truxon and Mrs. D. D, Purpean, . Helping Hand. vay Mrs, Etama Mitchell, Presiding Special Music M. E. Murphy; Pres E. E. Rright, Sec'y. Sacred Concert Asbury M. E. Chureh | Sacred Concert. Gotham’ Sextet, Mr. Robert G. Young, director un- der the auspices of. Peck Chapter, Epworth League, Asbury M. E. Church Sunday, February 25, 4.30 p.m Allen C..E., of Waters A. M. E. Church will be represented on the program, - Silver Offering. Mrs. Lena Thomas, president. Rev. C. G. Cummings,. pastor: MEMORIAL SERVICE. Asbury M. E. Church, Lexington and East streets, Sunday March 3, 1912, 3:80 P, M. For members that have died during this conference. year. In.charge of the Ladies Aid. Miss Emma. Jenkins; President, Miss Estelle Forrest, secretary, Rev. C. G. Cummings,” Pastor. “At the Av M. E. Zion Church, Penna. aventie, Between -Hoftman ‘and Dolphin'streets. Sunday, Feb- wary 25; :1912. Special . Pro- gramme by the B. Y¥. P. U. of ‘Enon: Baptist: Church. ‘Thomas A. Johnson, President. Be present at 6 o'clock P. “M.- Joseph Butler, President. Great Pancake Supper At the-C. V.JW. C, A, 1200 “-" Druid’ Hill avenue Wednesday evening, Feb. 28th. For the benéfit. of ‘the $1 00 Campaign of ‘thé’ Empty. Stocking and-Fresh Air Circle, “The Menu; Waldorf. Salad, Slaw; Pancakes, Cocoa, Coffe, Rolls Mrs. Aunia Willianis,: Cheirtiam Mrs. Mrrtha Thompson. - . Mrs, Henrietta Robobli!:.. 3", RR fc Chm? CHURCH NOTICES 1 CENTENNIAL M.E, CHURCH Cor. Caroline and Bank Sts Rev, D. W. Saw, D..D., Pastor 11 A. M., Sermon by the Pastor: 2:30 P. M., Sunday School, W. L. Gibson, Supt. s 3,00° P.M. Waters. A.-M. E. Charch, Choir and congregation expected, {Sermon by Dr. M. F, Sydes. : 4.30-P, M., Epworth Léague; lit erry program: Mme, Helen A Cooper, Pres. 28,00, M,, Address by Pastor Fopic: ‘Some Things the -Churct ought to know.” Grand concert Tuesday night, JOHN WESLEY M. E. CHURCH, Sharp and Montwomery-Sts. . Dr. Ernest Lyon, Pastor. 12 A. M., Woman's Hour, Ad- dzesses by. Mrs, A. R: A. Miller and and Mrs. Mary F. Handy. 3°P:M. Local Preachers’: Rour: Sermon by Rev. A. Maloy. 2.30 P, M. Sunday School 8 P. M,, Sacred’ Concert by the Alphion Siging Circle. Silver of fering at the door. ‘ j@-WHATCOAT M. E. CHURCH, Veanklla aud Pine Sto: “singe Hil Rev. Alfred Young, Pastor, 11 A. My Special Sermon by Pastor) subject: ,"'Zacharie's Vision in the Bottom Among Myrtle Trees,” 3P.M., Sunday School 4,30 P. M., Epworth League, | 8 P.M., Special Sermon by. Rev. J. S. Cole, P. E, of the Zion A. M. E, Church, to the Calendar Associ- ation, Grand, Rally all day.by the Will- ing Workers,’ Mrs, Janie Thomas, Pres, Revival services every night dur- ing the week W. C. Tongue, Superintendent Edyth M. Cooper, Pres, E. L. ta ASBURY M. E. CHURCH “@ Lexington and East Sts. Rev. C. G, Cummings, B D. Pastor. 9.30 A. M,, Bible Class. ALA. M,, Preaching by Rev. W. E, Buglish, of Westminster; Md. | 2.30 P. M., Sunday school. 5 P.M, Sacred Concert, Gotham sextet. | §P,M,, Specialites Rally. | Strangers cordially welcomed. Charles T, Stewart, Supt. | Mrs, Lena Thomas, Pres. E. L, War aMes MEM, M. hb. CHURCH. Carey aad Baker Sts. ~ Rev. D. D. Turpeau, Pastor. Sunday, Feb. 25th, 1912. - 11.00 A. M., sermonjby Rev. D. DeWitt Turpeau, subject: “Promo- tion of Christianity in 1912 a NMan’s Job." ext, Acts 26°18. 2,30 P,. M., Sunday School, 3.30 BP. M., The Rev. Ernest Lyon, D. D., Pastot of John Wesley M. E. Church, will preaeb. 5.30 P.M, Epworth League. $2, M., Symposium, Men and Religion, Dr. Edwin Short, presid- ing. Addresses by Messrs. George 4. Owens, lobn H. Toadvin, Harry S. Cummings, J. H. Murphy and Dr. W.H. Wright. Special music all day by Men’s Choir. Mr. A. A. Spriggs will ren- der a solo at the afternoon meeting. GREEN SPRING M, E. CHURCB Chattolanee, Md, Rev. R. A. Green, Pastor. 10 A. M., Class Meeting. * 12 A. M., Sermon by -Rev. C. Chaney. 2.20 P, M., Sunday School - ; 4 P.M, Epworth Leagne & P.M, Rev. Chaney. Mr. S. 8. Oliver, Supt, Mrs, J. R. Milligan, Pres, E,L. Mrs. Nellie James, Pres. L. Aid §@> EASTERN M. E; CHURCH“! McElderry St., and’Patterson Patk Ave. Rev? James H, Jenkins, Pastor. Sunday Services. * 11 A: M,, Preaching by Rev: Jos. M, Barnes. 2.30°P, M., Sunday School; J.:W. Jones, Supt. 3P.M., Sermon by Rey. Lusby pastor of St. Luke's U. A. M. E. Church. Choir and Congregation will be present. 6 P. M., Epworth League will visit St. Luke’s League. 8 P, M,, Preaching by an Able Divine, S All are-cordially: invited. Everybody; welcome. Jobo M. Barnes, Pres: E. Le *- METHODIST CHURCH, Cor. Sarah Ano and Carlton Sts; Sunday, Feb: 25th, 11 A:M.,.Preaching by Pastor. 2.30 P, M., Sunday School” .~ 3P, M.; Sermon’ by Rev. Dr, White, a 8.F. M., Sermon by Rev, Arthur White,” - singe haa All éeats: are free.’ All’ persons are'welcome. 4 a There shall-be® a, big day in: ME: Piegabie: 00S a i Rev:. W:. H.. Thompson; Pastor ey eine Seem CHURCH NOTGIES: ee ee HANDY’ MEM, A. M. bp CHURCH or. Baker ‘and-Brace Sts. Rey. John Offer Oustis, Pastor. 11, M..’Preaching: 25° 8 2.30: P, M.,Sunday School. ::47 <8:30 P.M. Services 28 piss » 6.30. p: m, ‘Christian: Endeavar, 77,30. py.m., Services: 22% ‘Bilare- welcome "os *: HUW. Hiner, Spt: gga PAYNE. MEM, A. ME. -CHUI Laurens aud Calhoun St..° Rev. P. W. Wortham, D.D.,: Pastor, 11, M., sermon’ by Pastor! <4 2.30 P,.M,, Sunday. School” ”, 8,00 P.M,, sermon by: Pastor— 57 Strangers alwaya-reloomer = Re Andrew Moores Pres. A.CE.L: a ae ee ee ates wk i Rev. J..W: Norris, Pastor". Quarterly Meeting. °°» 11 A. My sermon by “Rev. S.-M. Johnson, D. 0, PLB. os 2 2.30-p.m., Sunday. School.) 6.00:p.m. A.C, E. League... The Presiding Elder will speak te the Stinday School ‘and League. : 7.30 P; M., Sermon. by Rev. M. Johnson, D..D,, BeBe.) xe. ‘Herbert Frisby, Supt.: 2° + Jobn Murray, Pres. of Le" = Sa ee Dn reeset | Rev. L: S; Flagg,’ Pastor, | Wonlan’s:Day. 2 <4 1LA.M, sermon by’ the Pastor’ "230 P.M, Sunday School: Henry Ebb, Supt. 8 P. M, Sermon ‘by the Pastor =; The wonten ‘of St. John’s extend : a cordial invitation to the auxiliar-» ies of other. churches to. waMRhip with them. «+ : wer Mrs, Sarah Bailey,SPrésident.°. -; Mrs. Rachel ‘Hackett, Secretary Mrs. Rachel Hayes, Treas. <> 1@ WATERS: A. M:-E. CHURCH Aisquith St., near Jefferson. Rev. Dr. M.-F, Sydes, Pastor. 427 Aisquith Street ; 11 A. M., Special Sermon by ihe - Pastor; subject; ‘The .Judgmen*” Day.” ‘ 2:30 P, M. Sunday-School:? +. \: J. FE. Waters, Supt. : 5.45 P. M., A.C. E. League,. Miss Mymie Woolford, President. "~~ 7.30 P.M., Grand Sacred’ Con-: cert, Music by Harrison M, Dodge Orchestra, Addresses by prom nent cpetkers. Silver, offering’ at\ the Door, gree Z All welcome. - ee ter TRINITY A, M. B, CHURCH," Rev. A, L. Gaines, D: D., Pastor. Ila. m., and 7.30 p. m., Preach- ing by Rev. R, E. Ford, Pyesiding Bilder. © | 2.80 P.M., Sunday School: » 4:30 Allen 0, E. League, Miss A. L. Martin, President’ ~ T, J. Holliday, Supt. : BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH Druid Hill Ave-and Lauvale St. Rev..D: G. Hill, Pastor 11. A. M., sermon by’ Pastor: subject; ‘The beginning of wisdom 3.P.M., Sunday School 7.45 P, M., Seemon by the Pastor” subject “be Virtue of Ruling One's: Spirit.” : PENN, A. M.B, ZION CHURCH Rev, E..D,.W: Jones, Pastor 11.A. M., Preaching“ by. Pastor “Bzekiel’s Mystery of Wheels’ © 1 p.m. Sunday School - 3 P. M-, Class Meeting 3 6P. M., Varick C,.E. Society. 8 P. M,, Sermon by the Pastor, subject; “The Christian Colorbear- er” to The First Separate Company: undes command of: Capt:. Spenicer: 1@-GILLIS MEM. M. P. CHURCH Stockton Street near W. Baltimore Rey. B.. H. Knight, Pastor.” 10.a. m. Class,. : ILA. M.. Rev White, mae 2.30 P. M., Sunday: School 6.30. C. E. League. 8-P. M.,°Sermon’ by Pastor’ or. Stranger. Tribe Rallys 320%. ° 4: J. W, Fowler, Pres, 0. BE. ; T. H. McGowaa, Supt. 97° SHILOH, BAPTIST CHURCH, Clinton "Ave. and George St. -11.A. M., special. “sermon’ by tlie Pastor and Baptizing. 08° 000°" 2 P.M., Sunday School. 3. M..Comaiunion. 5,30 Pe Me; Be Ye PEW. og 7-8 P.M. Prayer and, Praise ser?) wice. $ Sight ee peta 8 P.M. sermon by, the’ Pastor.’ King’s Daughters. 98928005) sks All-weleome. 20000 000) 882. 2 WE We Allen; Pastor:* MT. VERNON ‘BAPTIST CHURCH: Wooryear Sti, near Lanvale OEM, Sermon. 802 207 £2,30'P."M:,.Suuday School: © <3: ACS P.M. the Pastor will preach 8 epecial sermon’ to, the : Women’s Missionary Society. , You are; ig Wed ancl ee Be Ty pes pia spe FOUR NEW BISHOPS RECOMMENDED Seni Annual Council of Bishops May Decide to Give Aid to Mother Bethel. DISCRIMINATIONS SEVERELY DENOUNCED. Rev. J. H. Morgan. The semi-annual session of Council of Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church came to an end at Bethel Church last Saturday night with the adoption of a resolution declaring that the prelates had always fought discriminations against the race. The resolution followed an appeal from the Allen Christian Endeavor Union, of Indianapolis, Ind., asking that the bishops speak out against lynching, disfranchisement, "Jim Crow" laws, and other discriminations that the race suffers. "We appeal to you," states the plea, "as our sages in the great cause for human rights, to make an appeal to Congress to bring pressure to bear upon the various States to enforce the laws under the Constitution of the states that protect our rights as citizens." "The council adopted the following resolution of sympathy and interest: "The bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, assembled in council, having heard the appeal from the Allen Christian Endeavor Union, of Indianpolis, take this opportunity to express their most hearty sympathy with the expressions therein and beg to assure them and all concerned that we are most vigorously engaged to the extent of our ability and opportunity in the futherance of every means and movement looking to. the removal of these and all other discriminating and humiliating disabilities under which, as a people, we have been forced to live and labor." At the concluding session, Bishop J. Albert Johnson again told of the needs of the South African work; the council heard a appeal from ministers of the Baltimore Conference that financial aid be given Bethel Church, this city, which was purchased $90,000; adopted a proposal made by Rev. R. H. W. Leak, of Raleigh, N. C., that the centennial of the denomination be observed in Philadelphia in 1916; adopted a recommendation for the election of four new bishops to take the places of the late Bishops E. W. Lampton, Abraham Grant, James A. Handy and Wesley J. Gaines; listened to a delegation that asked for the reinstatement of Rev. J. H. Morgan, who was dismissed from New Jersey Conference two years ago, following the clearing of the late Bishop Gaines on charges that Morgan had filed against him; and made final arrangements for the General Conference of the denomination, which opens at Kansas City on May 6 next. They adjourned to meet in Kansas City the Thursday preceding the opening of the General Conference. Notes Of The Council. The illustrated lecture on South Africa attracted a large audience at Bethel Church last Friday night. Bishop J. Albert Johnson was at his best in describing conditions over there. He preached to a large congregation at the church Sunday night, and in the afternoon spoke at Grace Presbyterian Church. Bishop Turner said that the plea of Rev. J. H. Morgan for reinstatement was a masterly one. Rev. W. Decker Johnson of Columbus, Ga., was on hand to press his claims as the next secretary of missions for the denomination and D. J. Jordan, president of Kittrell College, let it be known that he was not averse to serving as secretary of education. Bishop Lee is now in South Carolina, Bishop Coppin sunning himself in Florida and Bishop Heard on the high seas, bound for West Africa where he is to hold two annual conferences. J. M. Conner is also picked by some, while W. D. Chappelle, T. N. M. Smith, the eloquent Joshua H. Jones and that North Carolina nestor, R. H. W. Leak, also have strong friends. The bishops recommended that four new bishops be elected and five may slip through as Bishop Salter is said to seriously ill and another one did not look to be in his accustomed physical vigor. The banquet was a revelation to many of the visiting ministers. Caterer George E. Frey had every thing that might tempt a ministerial appetite. A number of public waiters volunteered their services to look after the comfort of the prelates and ministers and to dole out the chicken and other adjuncts of a good feed. While R. R. Wright, A. L. Gaines, and C. M. Tanner each have strong backing for the editorship of the Christian Recorder, a sentiment prevailed among some that some competent layman of wide experience in the printing line should be elected business manager of the publishing house. Rev. R. H. W. Loak has been a delegate to every General Conference since 1880, when Bishop Turner was elected. Rev. W. D. Chappelle, president of Allen University, Columbia, S. C., says that the school is in a highly flourishing condition. Rev. J. M. Conner, presiding elder of the Little Rock District, is one of the big men of the Southwest. Rev. C. M. Tanner was busy explaining his plan for the care of wormout preachers. He was at one time a missionary in South Africa. Big Bethel Church, Atlanta, where he is now pastoring, has 3,600 members, the largest of any church in the denomination. Mrs. Ruth M. Collett had a seance with the bishops Saturday regarding the claim of her husband, the late Rev. J. H. Collett, against the Book Concern at Philadelphia. Remarkable Growth of Benefit Association Washington, D, C., Feb. 21—The remarkable growth of the National Benefit Association was told at a public meeting held here last night under the auspices of the Home Agents' Club. The principal address was delivered by S. W. Rutherford secretary of the association. He outlined the growth of the association during the past 13 years as follows: Policy holders enrolled, 97,000; gives employment in full time to 752 persons; employs part time, 218; agents employed in Washington, 99; clerks employed in home office, 24; insurance in force, $3,641,000; on deposit for protection of policy holders, $50,000; real estate owned, $35,000; stocks and bonds owned, $66,000; dividends paid to stockholders each year, 15 per cent; paid to disabled members, $200,107; paid in salaries and commissions to agents, etc., $379,000; paid in death claims, $94,000. DR. HURST FOR THE BISHOPRIC Continued from Page 3 ments, less borrowing money from banks, less complaints, and the bishops and general officers are paid promptly. And then again, more money has been paid out this quadrennium to assist the other needy departments than ever before; yet, Dr. Hurst will carry to the General Conference a greater surplus than in the history of this department. Dr. Hurst has spent, including his preparatory years at Wilberforce, 26 years in active ministry of the A. M. E. Church. Hundreds have been converted to God during these years, and many have been helped and lifted up under his inspiring sermons. Dr. Hurst is a Christian gentleman and in Baltimore where he spent 14 years of his active ministry, he is greatly respected and reverenced. He has led the Baltimore Conference delegation to three general conferences in succession, and if he had not been the Financial Secretary he would lead the delegation to the next General Conference. Dr. Hurst has been unanimously endorsed for the bishopric by the Baltimore Conference delegation, and he has the hearty support of the whole Baltimore Conference. I, therefore, take great pleasure in recommending Dr. Hurst as a fit person to be elected as one of the bishops of the A. M. E. Church at Kansas City, Mo., in May next. THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER [Image of a man in formal attire, seated and holding a book]. BISHOP J. ALBERT JOHNSON, of South Africa. LILY-WHITEISM IN VIRGINIA POLITICS Richmond, Va., Feb. 21—"Lily Whitism" was in evidence at two factional conventions held in South Richmond Monday by a few Republicans of the Third Congressional district. The Cabell faction allowed a few colored men to attend their convention, but the Henson-Morgan-Treat Brady-Flegenheimer one even asked two colored men who were seen in the meeting hall to take a sneak. George A. Hanson, of the latter faction, made an address, in which he declared that while the Negro should be a Republican, that his participation in party government savored of social equality. The first faction elected delegates instructed for Taft, while the latter also chose delegates to the Republican National Convention, but did not instruct them. The fight will L. M. HBRSHAW, ESQ. be carried to the Chicago Convention. Alvah Martin, the Republican boss, of Virignia, is being backed for national committeeman and was supposed to be for Taft, with whom he had a talk several weeks ago. He lives at Norfolk, where he has held a fat State office for a generation. The Negro has but little show in the councils of the Republican party in Virignia. A convention of leading colored men of the state was held at Petersburg, Va. last week, and protests registered against the exclusion of the colored man from the councils of the party, which is now largely in the hands of white office holders. Protest to Taft. A delegation was appointed to go to Washington and acquaint President Taft with the anti-Negro attitude of the whites. This delegation called to see Mr. Taft at the White House, in Washington, last Saturday, and proceeded to tell him of the conditions in this tate. The President sent them to Congressman McKinley who has charge of the Taft headquarters in the District of Columbia, and the Congressman told them, it is said, to line up for Taft, and that efforts would be made to smooth things over. Those in the delegation were: R. G. I. Paige, W. H. C. Brown, Dr. G. Jarvis Bowen, C. S. Canaday, all of Norfolk; Thomas L. Jones and L. M. Hershaw, who practice law in Washington, and vote in Virginia. BALTIMORE BOYS AGAIN VICTORIOUS 26 to 13. Commonwealth Hall was a raging flame of madness during the basket ball games Saturday night. The Freshman and Sophomore classes of the High school locked up for a tussle which proved the decided superiority of the older classmen. Then came on two teams of the Dunbar Athletic Club. This game was more closely contested than the first but the winners held a fairly wide margin, so that the crowd was anxious for the main bout. Dunbar had had quite a stiff practice during the afternoon in preparation for the Philadelphia Y. M. C. A. game on the 22 and did not show the snap and life usually seen in their playing. The crowd gave a ringing cheer when Capt. Murray came on the floor at the head of his five men to wrest the spoils from the invaders from Washington. The game started with a rush and "Nooney" Rice almost immediately caged one for the High School. The referee had to wait a moment for the noise to cease before the sphere was tossed up again at centre Then after a short period of stiff, snappy passes, with now and then an interception of the ball the High School hit the netted ring for two points more. Again and again the ball went through the ring. Rice's aim was unerring accuracy itself and the counting kept up with first Rice and then Murray as the tosing machine. The crowd was wild. Time and again Washington tried to shoot but time and again Carroll and Tinsley spoiled the aim, so that Washington scored only once during the whole first half. The second half found the High School slightly inclined to loaf. Washington made the advantage tell and the scorer chalked up points time and again until only two separated the two teams. Here High School woke up and began a steady march upward until the last whistle blew. The High School line up was: forwards, Rice and Murray; guards, Tinsley and H. Carroll; center, G. Scott. Referee. Jas. Garner; umpire, W. a. Giles; time keeper, L. Wilson; scorer, L. Shipley. Score, High School 21—Washington 13. The High School interclass championship and the graded school championships were begun during the week of the 19th and will continue during the afternoons and nights until the close. Watch these graded school boys and let them make you glad. WE ARE MAKNG A SPECIALTY OF WEDDING INVITIONS CALLING CARDS CLUB INVITATIONS MOURNING CRDS AND OTHER KINDS OF SOCIETY PRINTING... CORRECT FORM AS WELL AS GOOD TASTE DEMANDS THE USE OF THE BEST N. HE PRINTER'S ART WE FURNISH THE BEST THE AFRO-AMERICAN CO. 628 NORTH EUTAW STREET. THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF MARYLAND News Gathered by Our Correspondents In Different Part Of The State. (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Hagerstown, Feb. 22--Last Sunday was the fourth quarterly meeting at Bethel A. M. E Church. Presiding Elder A. M.; Johnson preached able sermons morning and evening to large congregations. The quarterly conference was held on Monday night and the reports showed that the church is in an excellent condition. Each report highly praised the pastor, Rev. David Johnson, for his work during the year. A unanimous vote was taken for his return. The church passed a resolution requesting the privilege of entertaining the Baltimore annual conference at its annual session in 1913. Asbury M. E. Church held a successful mock conference. Mrs. Mary Cooper, who has been confined by illness, is able to be out again. Mr. Richard Miller, of North street, is on the sick list. Prof. D. M. Reed, the blind singing evangelist, of Chicago, held a service in the churches during last week. Snow Hill Notes. (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Snow Hill, Feb. 22—Mrs. Florence Harman, the wife of Mr. Asbury Harman, died last Saturday morning. She was buried Monday afternoon. Mrs. Coleman, of Harrington, Del., has been visiting Rev. and Mrs. I. D. Paine. The Adept entertainment given by Mr. P. L. Henry at the Friendship M. E. Church was a success. Miss Harriett Duffield, who has been quite ill, is much better. Mr. John E. Ginn has come home from Morgan College, Baltimore quite ill. Mrs. Wm. Dale entertained a number of friends Monday night in honor of the public school teacher, Miss Helen R. Henry. The Steamer Maryland left here Monday morning for Baltimore, the first time since the freeze. Notwithstanding the rain Sunday night the rally at the M. E. Church wasa success. Rev. J. W. Jewett, B.D. is pastor. Denton Happenings. (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Denton, Md., Feb. 22—Appropriate Lincoln Day services were held at John Wesley M. E. and Union Bethel A. M. E. Churches. Miss L. T. Kennard read a paper at the latter church. Bishop J. Albert Johnson is slated to deliver a lecture on "South Africa" at Union Bethel A. M. E. Church. Washington's birthday will be celebrated at the church tonight. Miss Myrtle Bryant was the guest of Miss Sarah Casson last week. Mrs. Edward Williams and daughters are visiting Mrs. Williams' sis- WE ARE MAKNG WEDDING I CALLING C CLUB INVIT MOURNING ter-in-law, Mrs. John W. Clark, of Philadelphia. Rev. and Mrs. J. G. Bryant have returned from Baltimore where they attended the session of the council of A. M. E. Bishops. Don't Want A Fat Husband. Fairfield, Md., Feb. 22—Mrs. Annie Graham, the attractive North Carolina widow, who told your correspondent last week that she wanted a 250 pound husband with a home in Baltimore now says that she was only joking and that she did not intend her joke to be published. She states that she does not wish her friends to think that she is so anxious for a husband that she has to advertise for one. St. Michaels. (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) St. Michaels, Md., Feb. 22—Mr. John Newman, one of the oldest residents here, died Tuesday of last week after a months' illness. He was said to be 101 years of age, and was active until his last illness. He is survived by a daughter, two grandchildren and several great grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. T. C. Roach, assisted by Rev. J. U. King. Havre de Grace, Feb. 22—The Women's Mite Missionary Society will meet at the home of Mrs. Rebecca Durham, the first Monday in March. Miss Elizabeth Frazier, vice president of the society, is rapidly improving from her illness. Mr. Frank Harvey is rapidly recovering from his illness. Mr. S. J. Ennie has a first-class grocery store on Revolution street. Fairfield, Md. Fairfield, Md., February 22nd The fourth quarterly conference was held at Hubbard Colored Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday. Reports showed that over $600 had been raised during the year, that a brass bell had been bought by a club headed by Mr. John Shiver, a pulpit bought by a cub organized by Mrs. Walter W. Brown and money raised for the installon of electric lights by a club organized by Walter W. Brown. Presiding Elder G. T. Long presided. Good In Low-Voiced Reply: We have discovered in our home that if the table talk gets too noisy one of the family may bring the rest to order by speaking in a sudden whisper. Parents often sacrifice much to give their children dancing and music lessons, but the most lovely accomplishment of all, a soft and pleasant-speaking voice, is something they may themselves develop in the children. I find that a child reflects almost instantly the tone of voice of one who speaks to him. A very gentle and low-voiced reply to an excited or angry child reduces his next remark to half in volume. To answer the vexation of a little child in a whisper catches attention, often brings a laugh and is far better than to stamp the fretful tone deeper by mimicking it, as parents sometimes do. Example is better than precept. Parents who have themselves learned self-control, and that it is never necessary to raise one's voice in order to speak with dignity and authority, are teaching their children priceless lessons. That a soft answer turneth away wrath is a cardinal maxim for the household.—Good Housekeeping. CHARGE AGAINST WILLIAMS VOID Arkansas Jury Frees Man Accused of Assault on Woman. BIG VICTORY FOR DEFENSE. Graphic Story of How Attorney Scipio A. Jones Broke Down State's Evidence In Sensational Criminal Case In Pulaski County Circuit Court Case of Mistaken Identity. Little Rock, Ark.-The case against Lee Williams, charged with the crime of rape upon a white woman in Pulaski county. Ark., recently came up for trial in the circuit court of the said county and failed. Williams was indicted by the county grand jury and faced the court with a strong array of state witnesses against him. He was defended by Attorney Scipio A. Jones. According to the evidence given by the state, the woman had been criminally assaulted and Lee Williams was the man who had committed the crime. Williams had been thoroughly identified by the woman as her assailant. She had picked him out of a collection of seven colored men at police headquarters and declared him to be the guilty man. She knew he was the man. She had seen him several times before and knew him. She had previously failed to identify any one of several colored men brought before her, but by the time she saw Lee Williams she declared him to be her assailant. The state also produced some testimony which supported the main prosecuting witness. When the state closed its testimony it was the general impression of nearly all the spectators in the courtroom that the state had made out an ironclad case and that Williams would surely be convicted and executed. And this conclusion was not at all strange, for Williams was a colored man and P. had been declared by the white woman to be the criminal, and in such cases the custom has been that a conviction would follow. Against this ironclad case of the state Lawyer Selpio A. Jones, who represented Williams, proved possibly the most complete, the most sweeping and the most irresistible alibi that has been produced in the court in recent years. And with it he utterly annihilated the state's testimony, forcing the state to an unconditional surrender, with the result of a verdict of "Not guilty" by the jury. This meant, of course, the complete exoneration of his client. Able Defense by Attorney Jones. Williams had been employed by the Blissville Hardwood Lumber company. Mr. Jones produced an array of witnesses, time checks, time slips and written records, which proved beyond the shadow of a doubt that at the time of the alleged crime Lee Williams, the defendant, was on duty at this mill, which was 100 miles from the place of the alleged crime. The proof on the part of the defense showed that the prosecuting witness was mistaken in her identification of Williams. "She knew Williams was the guilty man. She knew she could not be mistaken about it." But she was mistaken, as Williams was not the man. This striking illustration of the imperfection of all human judgment teaches a valuable lesson and should be carefully considered by all the people, as it is of universal concern, and most especially should it be remembered by our courts and juries, not that guilty men may escape punishment, but that innocent men may not be put to death. The court and jury of Little Rock and Pulaski county, Ark., are to be congratulated upon the spirit of fairness and justice exhibited by them throughout the trial, which was a great credit to that community, state and southland. The facts in this case and its final conclusion illustrate the splendid position held by Lawyer Jones in the courts and demonstrate his extraordinary skill and ability as a trial lawyer. Lawyer Sclpio A. Jones in this one case in bringing forcefully to the minds of the people the universal frailty: weakness and uncertainty of all human conclusions as to ability to perceive clearly, remember correctly, describe accurately or identify truly in addition to preserving the innocent life of his client has rendered man kind universal service. He has made his way up on higher ground by close application, dint of hard study and Ja. The House by the Side of the Road CAREER OF THE REV. A. J. STOKES His Achievements as Minister and Educator In Montgomery. First Baptist Church Holds Elaborate Exercises In Honor of the Twentieth Anniversary of Veteran Pastor—Sermon by President M. W. Gilbert of Selma University. Montgomery, Ala.—In a two weeks' celebration recently held in this city the colored people signally honored the Rev. Dr. A. J. Stokes, the veteran pastor of the First Baptist church. The event marked the twentieth anniversary of Dr. Stokes' pastorate in Montgomery and was participated in by the pastors and members of the various churches without regard to denomination. The anniversary sermon was proclaimed by the Rev. M. W. Gilbert, D. D. president of Selma university, who was a classmate of Dr. Stokes at Benedict college, Columbia, S. C. Dr. Stokes has the distinction of being the pastor of a church, with the largest membership of any church among our people in the country, having an enrollment of more than 5,000, with over 2,000 active willing workers. He is in many respects a remarkable man, is of commanding influence in the state of Alabama and as far as his congregation is concerned is loved and revered. Dr. Stokes was born a slave in 1859. His father had purchased his own freedom and had paid for the freedom of his wife, with the exception of $14, when emancipation came. Consequently the earlier children were slave property at their birth. Through his father's help he received his education at Benedict college, finishing the course in 1884. Dr. Stokes went early into the ministry and has been one of the most successful church builders within his denomination. He has built eighteen churches in South Carolina, one being a $5,000 structure at Orangeburg, his home town; one in Clarksville, Tenn.; repaired a church and erected a parsonage in Fernandina, Fla. After taking the pastorate of the First Baptist church in this city Dr. Stokes completed the church. Including all the interior work, and built its membership up until it has overtopped THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER the 5,000 mark. He has had an eventful career in Montgomery. By his unusually manly stand upon political matters, announced in an emancipation address in 1857, he brought down a storm of denunciation upon his head through the agency of the white press; but, singularly enough, his congregation and other friends have always stood by him in whatever advanced step he has taken or advocated with reference to his people. He is pronounced in favor of a system of education which teaches children to be proud of their race and to that end begin a school in Montgomery, known as the Montgomery academy, which is supported entirely by the membership of the First Baptist church. The school has been in existence about fourteen years and is attended annually by about 200 students. While the church is large as to membership and is what might be considered unwieldy, a remarkably well systematized management does away with any laxity in church management. The forty-two deacons have each district under their immediate care and watchful supervision, so that the needs of any individual are specially looked into and adjusted. Each deacon visits in his section, making careful report of conditions, and, to accommodate the pastor in his arduous work of calling upon his members, he has been provided with a handsome automobile. The church does a large amount of benevolent work among the poor people of the city and tenderly looks after any of its own members who are in any way unfortunate. Just now a handsome brick office is going up, at a cost of $55,000, and when the building is ready for occupancy in October every cent necessary to pay for its construction will have been paid. The building was designed by W. T. Bailey, the architect at Tuskegee Institute, and is being erected by two colored contractors of Montgomery. The erection of this building is a fitting climax to the twenty years' service of a telling and helpful nature that Dr. Stokes has given to Montgomery. He is held in high esteem by the people of this city and state, and ever since he has been in Alabama he has been moderator of the Spring Hill District association. He is also treasurer of the National Baptist convention. Dr. Stokes is counted well off in this world's goods and has invested his salary for the most part in well paying farm land in and around Montgomery. He has a goodly amount of city property: a 720 acre farm near Wetumpka and thirty acres in rich cotton land within the corporate limits of Montgomery. INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL By Rev. William Frans, D. D., Director Bibio Course Moorc Bibio Institute, Chicago. BAPTISM AND TEMPTATION OF JESUS. LESSON TEXT-Mark 1:9-13; Matt. 4:1-11. MEMORY VERSES-Matt. 4:3-4. GOLDEN TEXT-For in that He Himself hath suffered been tempted, He is able to succor them that are tempted.-Heb. 2:18. Three things deserve special notice in connection with the scene of the baptism of Christ: The baptism itself, the descending dove, and the heavenly voice. The baptism of Christ is connected with the fact that Christ was thirty years old. This was the age when Levitical priests were set apart and consecrated to their office. The baptism, therefore, has reference to the priestly office of Christ. By submitting to baptism Jesus identifies himself with the world's sin. Christ's baptism then was not personal—for he himself was sinless. The lesson tells us that while others, after their baptism, stood confessing their sins in the Jordan, he immediately went up out of the water, for he had no sins to confess—but official and representative. Christ submitted to the same baptism which the generation of vipers had received, not because he was one of them, but because he was their representative, and had come to take upon himself their sins. Christ, in submitting to John's baptism, set his seal upon the divinely appointed ministry of John as the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecy. He recognized in John's baptism God's plan for him, and he submitted to it without questioning. If any man in his own right did not need baptism, it was Christ. By this act, Jesus set his seal upon the rite of baptism, a rite which may be abandoned only when it no longer teaches any truth. Rebellion against customs and rites for robellion's sake is vicious individualism. The descent of the Holy Spirit indicates Christ's equipment for his service. In his sermon in the synagogue he referred to this truth when he said, the spirit of the Lord God is resting upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel. Even Christ could not accomplish his life work without the aid of the divine spirit. Nor can we. The voice from heaven could scarcely have been heard by Christ without his associating it with the identification of himself with the servant of the Lord in the prophecy of Isaiah (chapters 42 to 60). The temptation is closely allied to the baptism of Christ; indeed, it is based on the proclaimed sonship of the baptism. From this we learn that the greatest temptations oftimes, indeed generally follow the greatest blessings. The temptation was a real event, and not a mere mental or soul struggle. The personality of Satan is as evident as the personality of Christ in the narrative. Nor is there anything in the story to indicate that it is an allegory, but everything predicates a reality. All of the temptations were along the line of Christ's intention to establish the Kingdom of God in the world. Satan's suggestion to Christ was to take a short cut to the obtaining of the Kingdom. The adversary did not ask Christ to do a single wrong thing; he did suggest doing right things in a wrong way and with wrong motives. There is nothing wrong in being hungry and satisfying hunger, but it is sinful to use wrong measures to satisfy even so natural an appetite. Nor is it wrong to trust in the word and promises of God for deliverance when we find ourselves in places of danger, but it is wrong to unnecessarily place ourselves in compromising positions because of the temptations of the evil one, and then presume to rely upon the promises of God to extricate us from a position into which we have thus been brought. Such is not an act of faith, but of presumption—it is tempting the Lord God. Nor is it wrong to engage in the act of worship, but it is sinful to worship anything or anybody other than God. Christ's method of victory is significant. He does not resort to dazzling inventions or manifest any attempt at shrewdness in his answers. He does not even try to be original. He goes to the quiver of God's word, and takes out an arrow that had been polished by much use, and hurts it at the adversary. He exemplifies the psalmist's expression: "Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee." No doubt Jesus quoted from memory. Herein lies the blessing of learning gospel texts, and of storing the memory with scripture. Jesus was tempted in all points like as we are. We must not think that these three temptations were the only ones Christ endured, even in the wilderness. The narrative says that "When Satan had finished all the (whole cycle of) temptations, he left him for a season." This implies that there were other temptations, and that his whole life was beset by temptations. There is not a single note in the great organ of our humanity, which, when touched, does not produce a sympathetic vibration in the mighty scope and range of our master's being except the jarring discord of sin. 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The 85 pounds class from 116 met those from 110. Special anxiety was felt on both sides as the preliminary games will eliminate the losers from further participation in the contests. Indeed the anxiety was not relieved until the last whistle blew. School 110 yelled for Emory and Christmas, whom they trusted to cage the ball. It seemed that no one would score as the ball see-sawed new up, and now down the field from goal to goal but nobody was given half a chance to start free. In the last part of the first half Emory for 110 heaved a pretty one for the field. This was the only score of the game. The 116 lads would not give Emory another chance and they could not do the trick themselves. The game ended 2 to 0 and school 110 feels partially repaid for being forced by 116 to "play second fiddle" in the meet last spring. Line up:116, Butler, and E. Williams, forwards; Harden and W. Williams, guards; Thomas, center. 110, Christmas and Emory, forwards; Dare and Powell, guards; Johnson, center. The next treat was the middle weights of 116 vs. those of 108. Here was a game one sided in many respects and the surprise of the evening. Everybody expected school 116 to win by a wide margin. Imagine the consternation in the camp when the 103 lads began to shovel points into the basket by twos again and again while nothing fied the other basket but air! Time and again the daunters five from "The Great Avenue" heaved counters at the basket, but—"Oh!" (the crowd would yell.)—they missed the ring, and the first half ended with the score 116—0, 113—6. The avenue boys came back 'red eyed' for victory during the second haf and Jackson caged one from the field and shot a foul netting 3 point. This ended their scoring but the 103 boys were relentless and shoveled 5 more points into the basket. School 116 had the misfortune of having her middle weight team broken up by absentees. Line up:—103, Bailey and Whitington forwards; LeCoster and Macbeth, guards; White, center. 116. E. Williams and Jackson, forwards; Smith and Powell, guards; Thomas, center. Then came on the heavy weights from 116 and 113. The avenue boys had lost two games during the evening and the big boys were thirsty for victory. The game began with all 116 and there was not a moment during the whole contest that the result was doubtful. The big boys from "The Great Avenue" seemed to be on 113 for the defeat of other teams. The scoring never stopped until the scorer emptied both baskets. The Girard boys could not find the netted ring. Little practice was the reason. Line up: 1—13, Trussell and Bunch forwards; Trayham and Glascoe, guards; Gee, center. 116, Butler and Tinsley, forwards; Carter and Lewis, guards; Adams, center Harry Carroll, referee; Mr. Pitman, of Public Athletic League, timer; Briscoe and Bantum, of the Dunbar, scorers. Too much cannot be said for the Public Athletic League in making this series possible. A Pretty Dinner. Mrs. Wm. D. Whittington, of 519 Bloom street, gave a dinner on Friday in honor of her nieces and nephews. Among those present were: Misses Eleanora Carter from New York; Bertha Collins, Annie Delaney; Mrs. J. O. Carter, Mrs. J. C. Fisher, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O. Randall, Mr. and Mrs. Whittington Messrs. Everett Young, of Chaneysville and Philip E. Young. They spent quite an enjoyable evening. RETURN BY REQUEST OF POPULAR SHOW "My Friend From Dixie Again To Occupy The Footlightns At Holiday St. Theatre "My Friend from Dixie," a frolicsome musical comedy in three acts, with the well known colored comedians J. Leubrie Hill, Brown, and Shelton, Evon Robinson and a large and well drilled chorus of dusky beauties, will be next week at the Holliday Street Theatre. J. Leubrie Hill's impersonation of Mandy Lee, a southern colored woman who tries to break into Washington society, is irresistibly amusing, while the singing of Will Brown and Avon Robinson, and the grotesque dancing of Richard Shelton are all well remembered. The company is the same as that last seen here. Besides the new songs, that range from Negro croonings to the latest ditties of Upper Broadway, are the old Vodrey favorites, "Molasses Candy," "Ever Lovin' Summer Time" and "Going to Have a Good Time While I Can." There will be matinees daily and no advance in the regular prices of the theatre. Seats are on sale now. Special attraction for Friday night will be a buck and ring dancing. Contest open to all comers. My Friend from Dixie is classed as the best colored show on the road. The Misses Douglass Entertained Mrs. Emma Smith and the Misses Douglass entertained a number of their friends at a chocolate dip at their residence, 1800 Druid Hill avenue, last Monday night. Those present included: Misses Esther Wyatt, Sallie Stewart, Mildred Thomas, Mary Scott, Mamie James, Bessie Thomas, Mary Davis, Mrs. Nannie Lindsay, Mesrs. Edmond Douglass, William West, John Pitts, James. Pendleton, George Brown, James Douglass, Henry Preston, William Laws, Nathaniel Adams and Charles H. Diggs. Dr. I. L. Thomas Out Again Rev Dr. I. L. Thomas, field secretary of the Board of Home Mission and Church Extension of the M. E. Church, who has been confined to his home by reason of a serious affection to his right eye, waa able to be out this week. He caught cold while riding in an unheated "Jim-Crow" car in the South. A Social Entertains The Silver Star Social; an organization of young people gave a reception at the home of the secretary, Miss Evelyn Henderson, 31 N. Caroline street Monday night. An enjoyable evening was spent by the many present. Mr. Maurice B. Williams is president of the social. Relieved of His Watch. While waiting for an Emory Grove car at Lexington and Courtland streets, Sunday night, William W. Brown was relieved of his watch by an accommodating stranger. Mr. Brown now suggests that everybody should keep the number of their watch on a piece of paper at their homes. S. S. Council Meets The A. M. E. Sunday School Superintendent' Council met at the residence of Mr. John O Ewell, 605 W. Lanvale street, last Friday night and elected the following officers: George Sumner Whyte, president; Mrs. Rosa Richardson, first vice president; R. Ellsworth Hill, second vice president; H. W. Hiner, secretary; Howard D. Bent, assistant secretary; and Thaddeus Copeland, treasurer. Ninth Marriage Anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Queen celebrated the ninth anniversary of their marriage at their home, 530 W. Lee street, Wednesday evening. A large number of their friends were on hand to wish them continued happiness. Mr. and Mrs. Queen were the recipients of many handsome presents. Supper was served at a late hour. The District School at Blueberry Corners, a farce, based on country school life, was presented on last Friday night by a company of young ladies and gentlemen, to a large and appreciative audience at Grace Presbyterian Church. The play was given under the management of Mr. and Mrs. William G. Thomas and was for the benefit of the church. THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER PERSONALS. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac C. Bannister have changed their residence from 1145 N. Carey street to the Belmont Apartments, 1849 N. Stricker street. Mr. Jas. D. Blake, of 513 Robert street, is out, again after undergoing an operation for the appendicitis. Miss Viola Gross, of 1140 Argyle avenue, gave a dance on Friday Miss Eleanora Carter, the daughter of Rev. Virgil Carter, was the guest of her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Carter and cousins, Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Randall, of 519 Gold street. She has returned to New York. Mr. Thomas Edwards, of 1619 McElderfy street, who has been confined to his bed for several weeks, is much improved and expects to be out in a few days. Mrs. Annie Fortie, of East Baltimore, died February 23 at the home of her niece, Mrs. Mary E. Edwards, 1619 McElderfy street, at the age of 92 years. She was a member of Bethel A. M. E. Church for 70 years. Mr. Chas. A. Williams, of Chicago, is visiting his sister, Mrs. Alice V. Smith, 1120 Riggs avenue. Miss Lucretia Gertrude Loveday, daughter of Mrs. Carrie D. Smith and Mr. Charles Henry Jenkins were married a few days ago in New York city. They will reside at 1226 Argyle avenue. Mrs. Robert Bagnall, wife of the Rev. Robert Bagnall, pastor of the Episcopal Church in Detroit, Mich., is in the city on a visit to friends and relatives. Before her marriage, Mrs. Bagnall was Miss Lillian Anderson, of this city and she has a wide circle of friends here. She is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Abel Monroe Burgess, of Dolphin street. A Pretty Wedding. A very pretty wedding took place on Wednesday evening February 14th, at 8 oclock at 936 Druid Hill avenue at the home of the bride's parents Mrs. Elizabeth Powell. The contracting parties were Miss Emma E. Powell and Mr. William H. Butler. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr. L. Z. Johnson, pastor of Madison Street Presbyterian Church. The bride was handsomely gowned in white silk mull over white silk and carried bridal roses. The bridesmaid was Miss Harriet Bannon. She wore white marquisette over Alice blue and carried white carnations. The best man was Mr. Wilton Cook. Mr. John Caldwell gave the bride away. The brides mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Powell, wore white silk. The presents were both numerous and handsome. The wedding march was played by Janey Brothers' Orchestra. Mr. and Mrs. Butler will make their future home at 936 Druid Hill avenue. U. Grant Tyler, Solicitor, 222 Courtland Street. Trustee's Sale of Printing Apparatus at 118 Dover Street, near Sharp. By virtue of a decree of Circuit Court of Baltimore city the undersigned Trustee will sell at public Auction on the premises, on Wednesday the 20th of March, 1912, at 10 o'clock A. M. the following property. Three printing presses, one large size, one medium size, one small size; one paper cutter; one roll top desk; five double cabinets, with 51 cases of type; three single cabinets with 32 cases of type; one composite stone; one cabinet of wood and iron type; one cabinet of ornaments with four cases of type; two lead racks; eleven type sticks; one lead cutter; twenty brass galleys, consisting of three double galleys; about twenty coins; five coin keys; seven wrenches; two files; nine rollers; about eighty zinc and copper cuts. Terms of Sale: One third cash, balance in six and twelve months, or all cash at the purchaser's option; deferred payments to bear interest from the day of sale, and to be secured to the satisfaction of the trustee. A deposit of one third on the whole or anything purchased is required at the time of the sale. U. Grant Tyler, Trustee. Schwab Bros. & Co., Auctioneer. Don't fail to attend the installation of teachers of Lethel A. M. E. Sunday School Sunday, March, 3, at 3 P. M. Thaddeus Copeland, superintendent. Mrs. Fannie Chew, who has been ill, is much better. Mrs. Gertrude Hammond of 1306 Division street, who has been ill for several weeks, is much improved Picnic Hams, 10½c. lb. Breakfast Bacon, 15c. lb. Full Cut Shoulder, 15c. lb. Ham, - 15c. lb. Fresh and Corn Shoulder, - 11c. lb. Fat Back, - 9c. lb. Porter House Steak 16c. " Sirloin, - 15c. lb. With a full line of SINGER'S SEWING MACHINES ready to serve you better than before. Prices and payments are less. Repairing of any make of machine at half price an guarantee same. 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Com- pete worth $65.00, in black cloth, steel gray or oak or walnut outside case; beautiful rubber, gray or white, to match casket, as desired; fine and up-to-date; fine burial robe, embalming oak, six pairs of gloves, door crepe, candles, ca- direal, rugs, chairs etc., all of the latest designs. General cost elsewhere..... Rate.....$75.00 Saving you.... Salas as low as $25, $35, $40, $50. Higher Grade $10. No charge for removal of remains from Hospitals. Hipping Funerals, $25.00 and $50.00 Comple- 1222 Division St., bet. Dolphin and Lanvale. Residence C. & P. Phone. Madison 4067 AT POPULAR OKES & DERRY 6 Druid Hill Avenue Corner Oxford Baltimore's Leading Colored Undertakers in Prices JOHN H. OWENS @ SON Undertakers & Embalmors Complete 75.00 FUNERALS $75.00. Complete A fine casket worth $65.00, in black cloth, steel gray or white plush; highly polished oak or walnut outside case; beautiful rubber-tired hearse, either black, gray or white, to match casket, as desired; five heated carriages, new and up-to-date; fine burial robe, embalming, opening grave, advertise funeral, six pairs of gloves, door crepe, candles, caudelabra, crucifix when desired, rugs, chairs etc., all of the latest designs. This funeral cost elsewhere.....$136.00 Our price.....$75.00 Saving you.....$61.00 Other Funerals as low as $25, $35, $40, $50. Higher Grade $100, $150, $175. No charge for removal of remains from Hospitals. Shipping Funerals, $25.00 and $50.00 Complete 1222 Division St., bet. Dolphin and Lanvale. Residence C. & P. Phone, Madison 4067 STOKES & DERRY'S 1016 Druid Hill Avenue Corner Oxford DRUGS Quite a number of persons attended and an enjoyable evening was spent. Miss White attends school in the West. A Star Concert was given at Asbury M. E. Church, Lexington and East strees, on Thursday nigh of this week. A very creditable program was rendered by the following well known local talent: Mrs. Rosalie Fisher, Mr. Robert Young, Mr. Harry T. Pratt, Dr. J. E. Smith, Miss Helen Cooper, Mr. Clarence Lowry, Miss Louise B. Anderson, Mrs. Lillian Weaver, Mr. R. A. Jackson, and a number of others. The Eva Jenifer Neighborhood Club is arranging for a Baby Contest, the proceeds of which are to used in furthering and extending the neighborhood workof the club in northwest Baltimore. The prizes to the babies receiving the largest number of votes will be presented on Friday evening, May.3rd, at Galilean Fishermen's Hiall. Mrs. William H. Wright is president of the club. Try the Afro-American. ```markdown ``` A Baltimore, Md. National Jewelry Company. attended to. The St. Paul 1933. 3-10 CAMPMENT... M.E. CHURCH ing Streets. 7th and 8th, 1912 represent the Wilderness of es. Splendid Orchestra s Each Evening Undertakers in Prices INS & SON Embalmers CALS $75.00. Complete cloth, steel gray or white plush; case; beautiful rubber-tired hearse; kasket, as desired; five heated car- robe, embalming, opening grave; or crepe, candles, candelabra, cru- t of the latest designs. $136.00 Saving you.....$61.00 50. Higher Grade $100, $150. $175. remains from Hospitals. and $50.00 Complete Dolphin and Lanvale. One, Madison 4067 POPULAR PRICES DERRY'S e Corner Oxford CURIOUS BITS OF HISTORY TROUBLES IN LAYING THE ATLANTIC CABLE. BY A. W. MACY. Cyrus Field labored incessantly for twelve years, and made fifty voyages across the Atlantic before he finally succeeded in accomplishing his great work of laying a cable across the ocean. The first cable was completed August 5, 1858. After a short time it ceased to work, and the friends of the enterprise were greatly disheartened. The Civil war came on, making further progress impossible for the time. But Field held on, and in 1865 the second cable was begun. After the Great Eastern had proceeded 1,200 miles on her way, unwinding this second cable, it parted. Still Field persevered, though $5,000,000 had been lost in the enterprise. In July, 1866, a third cable, 2,000 miles long, was coiled on the Great Eastern and she started once more across the Atlantic. This time the experiment was a complete success. (Copyright, 1911, by Joseph B. Bowles.) A Mrs. Martha Liverpool, mother of Dr. J. H. Liverpool, who has been quite ill for the past week, is still confined to her home in Mt. Winans. Mrs. Mamie Harris, of Druid Hill avenue, has returned from Washington, where she was the guest of Mrs. Horetta Leonard. Mrs. Josephine Steward, who has been ill at her home, 687 W. Mulberry street, is improving. Her granddaughter, Josephine Boone, is also convalescent. Miss Hettie Johnson, of 524 Cross street, is able to be out after several weeks' illness. Mr. Raymond Bevans, who has been ill at his home, 1006 Creek alley, is improving. Mrs. Kate Wright, of 90412 N Eutaw street, wascalled to Old Point Comfort, Va., this week by the death of her daughter. Mrs. Moody, of 1413 Brunt street has returned from a visit to Philadelphia. Mr. Jay Gould, who formerly lived in New York, is representing the Amsterdam News, of New York. He is interested in the theatricals also. Mr. John W. Henderson, the well known East Baltimore funeral director, who sprained his leg a few days ago, is doing nicely. Miss Agnes Thomas has returned to her home in Elkride, Md., after visiting Mrs. Estelle C. Young, of 1821 Druid Hill avenue. Mrs. William H. Martin is confined to her home, 909 Myrtle ave, by illness. Mrs. Minnie Garnett is spending a week in Washington as the guest of Mrs. Martha M. Reid. Mrs. Sara Dent of Woodville Md., is at St. Joseph Hospital, and is improving. Mrs. Martha Moore is at her home, 727 Peirce St. Bishop J. Albert Johnson, resident bishop of South Africa and former pastor of St. John A. M. E. Church, will greet his former parishoners on the 15th of March. The Women's Day at St. John A. M. E. Church, was a success. Mr. Thaddeus Copeland, of 1922 Druid Hill avenue, is confined to his home with a case of la gripper. The ladies of St. John A. M. E. Church will tender a reception to the Rev. P. J. Jordan, presiding Elder of the Eastern District, Mon. day evening, March 11. Frost Son To The Parkers. Society was deeply interested in the announcement, that a Frost Son was born to Mr. and Mrs. John Parker, Feb. 11, 1912, 603 Bradely street. If its pure Drugs it's here. Fennell's Pharmacy, Druid Hill Ave. and Biddle St. Money to Loan on Real Estate. Persons having mortgages may borrow. Houses bought for cash and for sale on terms to suit. Strictly confidential. J. Winfield Thomas, 2127 Druid Hill avenue. Prof. Verona, World's Greatest Business and Trance Medium. 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