The Afro-American

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN LEDGER VOL. XX NO. 30. ROSCOE CONKLIN BRUCE VINDICATED White Members of Washington School Board Stand Solidly COLORED MEMBERS VOTE AGAINST HIM End of a Bitter Fight Against Assistant Superintendent Washington, March 51—As was predicted in this correspondence two weeks ago, Superintendent of Schools Davidson submitted a report to the Board of Education sustaining Assistant Superintendent of Schools Roscoe C. Bruce., against whom charges of making unlawful promotions and demotions had been filed last September. The vote resulted in a division on race lines, the five white members voting to sustain Mr. Bruce, while colored members, R. R. Horner, Rev. Dr. William V. Tunnell and Mrs. Caroline Harris, voted against the superintendent. Mr. Horner made a big fight against its adoption. Mr. Davidson's report entirely exonerates Mr. Bruce against the allegations that had been made of his conduct of the colored schools by more than 300 colored residents. The reports read in part: "I have carefully considered the question of the retention of the assistant superintendent for the colored schools, to which my attention was directed by the members of the board of education at an informal conference held on the evening of September 13, 1911, and have come to the conclusion that no change should be made in that office." Mr. Horner claimed that Dr. Davidson's report was based on testimony received from only one side "None of the persons who were in a position to testify," said Mr. Horner, "to the actions of Mr. Bruce was called upon by the superintendent to make statements. I mean no reflection upon the superintendent when I say this, because I believe he is the best fitted man for the position that we could obtain. In this matter he merely heard one side of the question. If this report is accepted it will be the first time in the history of this board, since it was presided over by Thomas Jefferson, that the white members of the board united and out voted the colored members in any matter pertaining only to the colored schools of the District of Colubmia." Following the casting of the vote for the supreintendent Mr. Horner noted an appeal. There were quite a large number of prominent colored persons on hand when the vote was taken. Mr. Daniel Murray, assistant librarian at the Congressional Library, was on hand armed with a number of circular letters. Mr. Horner attempted unsuccessfully to have one of these letters read. Besides making a number of appointments and accepting resignations, the board accepted an offer from Charles Zeublin, editor of the New Century Magazine, Boston, of a prize of $10 for the pupil of the Armstrong Manual Training School or the M Street High School for the best essay on "What is Needed to Make Washington a Perfect City." PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY IN THE INTEREST OF THE RACE. Discrimination Against Enlightenment and Efficiency "New York and the Negro" the Topic For Discussion By Social Workers New York, Mar. 21—"New York and the Colored People" was the general topic at the monthly conference held under the auspices of the harity Organization Society Tuesday. The first speaker as Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, editor of the Crisis, who mentioned the effects of social barriers. "Discrimination against the Negro," he said, "was formerly discrimination against ignorance and inefficiency, but is now becoming more a discrimination against enlightenment and efficiency." In the general discussion which followed his talk, Dr. DuBois was asked what was meant by the "grandfather clause." He explained that many of the Southern States had enacted laws only allowing those to vote whose grandfathers had that right, before the time of the emancipation of the race. David Mannes of the Musical School settlement spoke highly of Charles Dougltass, under whom he began the study of the violin. "We understand Germany by her composers," said Mr. Mannes, "and Italy through her pictures. Surely we can only understand the Negro through his music. We look down on rag-time as only a joke, but it is really a serious matter. Give the children a chance so that their warmth and life and color may be given this way of expression." David I. Martin, of the Music Settlement for Colored People, urged that a scholarship fund to aid colored children of musical talent be created. Louisville, Ky., Mar. 21—There have been 280,941 patrons of the Colored Branch of the Carnegie Library during the past six years. There are 4,260 persons holding borrowers' cards at present. The library is liberally patronized by the colored people of this city, and contains many books of reference. Race newspapers are also on file. There are several reading circles and debating clubs which meet there. T. F. Blue is the head librarian, Mrs. Rachel D. Harris, first assistant, and Miss Inez Finney, second assistant. South Before the War Brooklyn, N. Y., Mar. 21—An interesting collection of studies of Negro life by Harry Roseland is on exhibition at the Arlington Art Galleries. Among the pictures is "To the Highest Bidder," which represents a young colored woman in slavery times standing with her child clinging to her dress before the placard which announces that she is for sale; "By the Mark Twain," which shows a Mississippi River stevedore standing on the dock of a steamboat, while he passes along the call of the leadsman; and other studies show the colored people of the "Old South" in various attitudes. Want Rev. Brooks back. New York, Mar. 22—Though Rev. Dr. W. H. Brooks has declared that he would have to give up the pastorate of St. Mark's M. E. Church on account of his health, it is most probable that he will be returned by the New York Conference, so great has the pressure been made for his retention. He is an able minister, and was educated at Morgan College, Baltimore, and Howard University, Washington NEW YORKERS ARE FOR ROOSEVELT Prominent Citizens Visit Him And Pledge Their Support. THE COLONEL IS FOR FAIR DEALING Office Holding New Yorkers are Working Hard For Taft. New York, Mar. 21—That Theodore Roosevelt is the choice of the colored voters of Greater New York is indicated by a poll that has been made by the Amsterdam News, which is supporting the Colonel's candidacy. Those interviewed include men prominent in various walks of life and whose names are well known in this community. The New York Age is supporting Taft. So is Collector of Internal Revenue Charles W. Anderson and a number of the men who hold positions under him, along with some others. A big delegation of members of the newly-formed Roosevelt Colored County Committee called on the Colonel Tuesday and pledged him the support of the majority of the 11,000 colored voters of New York county. After several of the delegation had told Mr. Roosevelt that they were for him, followed by many lusty cheers for the lion hunter, Mr. Roosevelt said: "Teddy" for Square Deal. "Gentlemen, all I am trying to represent is social justice, industrial justice for those that are worthy of it, and that is a doctrine of the square deal. Just let me say how glad I am to see you here today as representative business men and clergymen. As you know, one of the things that I have been especially interested in has been the movement for the upbuilding of the business element among the colored people. "I feel that it is true of every good citizen, but perhaps more true of the colored man, that he not only benefits himself, but he benefits the whole race. The colored man who knows that he is a direct type of self-respecting, self-supporting citizen is a credit to himself, to his people, and to the whole community." James C. Thomas, the well-known Harlem funeral director, who is president of the organization, said: "We bid you God-speed, an we will work for you from start to finish." Gerge W. Harris, secretary of the organization, and chief editorial writer on the Amsterdam News, told Colonel Roosevelt that he also was a Harvard alumnus. "The 11,000 colored voters in this county," he said, "are not going to have their will thwarted by the bosses. We have faith and hope in you as we have had in no man since Lincoln." Rev. Reverdy Ransom, Rev. R. Mont, Henry C. Parker, Rev. F. Sales, Prof. A. F. Mando, and George C. Bramble were among the many prominent men noticed at the meetings with the Colonel. Mound Bayou, Miss., Mar. 21—By a court decision handed down a few days ago, the M. W. Stringer Grand Lodge of Masons was declared the only colored body in the State that had the right to use Masonic principles, name and emblems. Denounces Hyde Park Improvement Association For Unnecessary Race Prejudice Chicago, Mar. 21—An eloquent plea by Rev. John T. Jenifer, a retired inister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, that no effort be made to prevent the House for Good Shepherd, a colored institution, from locating in Hyde Park nearly provoked a riot at the meeting of Hyde Park Improvement Association last Thursday night. H. T. Davis, president of the association, was about to call for a vote on the question, when Dr. Jenifer, who has every appearance of a white man, arose and said: "I would ask indulgence for a moment before you take this step." He then proceeded to make a bitter arraignment of the proposed step. He called upon the members as men of intelligence before they had argued to an act "which could not but reflect on their broadmindedness and humanity. Strike this blow at the Negro race," he continued, "and you go against your God." Angered by Dr. Jenifer's plea for fairness, men from all parts of the house clamored for the right to speak. One man asked him if he would permit his children to go to school with a Negro and he replied that they had with no ill effects. Another asked if he would allow his daughter to marry a colored man. When the vote was taken to ask the rescinding of the charter for the institution, Dr. Jenifer voted in the negative. The Hyde Parkers some time ago tried to have separate schools established for colored people. Dr. Jenifer was formerly an active minister in the Baltimore A. M. E. Conference. Chicago Lining Up Chicago, Mar. 21—International Secretary J. E. Moorland was the principal speaker at the Y. M. C. A. rally last Sunday. He epxressed enthusiasm over the way the project for a new building for the colored Y. M. C. A. is taking shape. As soon as the great majority of the subscriptions are paid, the erection of a handsome and modern building will begin at 38th and Dearborn streets. Dr. Booker T. Washington, Mr. Julius Rosenwald, and Dr. George C. Hall were among the speakers at the rally Sunday before last. Hon. Edward D. Green, a member of the last Legislature, is candidate for re-election. Will Elect Successor to New York, Mar. 21—When the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church meets here next month a successor to the Rt. Rev. Theodore Holly, late bishop of Hayti, will be chosen. While there are no known aspirants, it is most likely that some colored rector will be chosen for the place. Bishop Samuel David Ferguson, who has charge of the work in Hayti, is the only colored prelate in the American Church. Bishops Phillips and Oluwule, native Africans, have charge of the work of the English branch in Sierra Leone. Schools Receive Appropriations Frankfort, Ky., Mar. 21—Among the appropriations made for colored institutions at the recent session of the Legislature were: State Normal and Industrial School, $17,500; Western Industrial School, $10,500; and the Kentucky Home Society, $5000. A number of other schools in the State were also remembered. Washington, Mar. 22—Interest was at keen edge this morning at Ebenezer M. E. Church, where the forty-ninth annual session of the Washington Methodist Episcopal Conference has been in session since Wednesday, on account of the election of ministerial and lay delegates to the M. E. General Conference, which will meet at Minneapolis in May. The balloting began just before noon. The lay electoral conference met in the basement of the church, and after electin officers proceeded to elect delegates. The membership of the lay conference is made of one member from each charge. Nearly all of the larger appointments, including the selection of successors to M. J. Naylor, superintendent of the Baltimore district, and S. R. Hughes, of the Staunton district, have been practically agreed upon. Bishop Anderson, who is presiding, refuses to give out any information in advance. Rev. W. H. Brooks, pastor of St. Mark's M. E. Church, New York, was here Wednesday and told some of the ministers, it is said, that pressure had been brought to bear to make him reconsider his determination to resign the pastorate on account of his health. The Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society met this afternoon. The conference practically began Tuesday night, when the anniversary of the Epworth League was observed. Addresses were delivered by Prof. I. Garland Penn and Rev. E. M. Randall. At the opening session Wednesday morning, addresses of welcome were delivered by Commissioner Cune H. Randolph, Rev. S. H. Brown, pastor of the church where the conference is meeting, and Dr. W. P. Thirkield, preident of Howard University. Responses were made by Bishop Anderson, Rev. J. W. E. Bowen, of Atlanta, and Rev. C. Y. Trigg, of West Virginia. Carnegie Fund Increased. The characters of District Superintendents M. J. Naylor, G. E. Curry, E. S. Williams, W. C. Thompson, Joseph Wheeler, and S. R. Hughes were passed Thursday Their reports show that the work of their respective districts is in good shape. The Carnegie Fund, of Morgan College, Baltimore, was considerably augmented in the conference claims from various charges. Metropolitan and Sharp Street Memorial Churches lead the Baltimore Churches in raising money for benevolences. Among the many who have addressed the conference are: Revs. M. C. B. Mason, of the Freedmans Aid Society; I. L. Thomas, of the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension; C. C. Jacobs, of the Board of Sunday Schools; U. G. Leeper, the spokesman for a delegation of ministers from the A. M. E. Church; H. S. France, representing the white Methodist ministers of the district; and a number of ministers of other denominations. Rev. A. P. Shaw, of Winchester, Va., preached the annual missionary sermon yesterday afternoon, his theme being the "Great Missioner." A reception was tendered the visiting ministers last night. Bishop Anderson will preach at Ebenezer Church tomorrow, Sunday, morning. The ordination of deacon and elders will take place in the afternoon. The conference will probably close Monday morning with the announcement of the appointments. Rev. Brown Removed. Providence, R. 1., Mar. 21—Following a secret investigation of $ _{5} $ a charge that he was seeking to establish an Episcopal mission in this city, Bishop Evans Tyree has removed Rev. P. G. Moore-Brown as pastor of Bethel A. M. E. Church. Rev. C. H. Yearwood, of New Bedford, Mass., has been appointed to succeed him. To Build New Church. Atlantic City, N. J., Mar. 21—Rev. A. L. Martin, pastor of Asbury M. E. Church, has succeeded in getting a loan of Church Extension Board of the M. E. Church for the new building that the congregation will soon erect. Friends of the church have already given $1.000. When the Deleware Annual Conference meets in Salisbury, Md., the first week in April, Rev Martin will report 100 accessions to the church during the year, $300 raised for benevolences, and nearly $6,000 raised for all purposes. Employers Honor Servant. Brooklyn, N. Y., Mar. 21—Mrs. Isabella Johnson, who has been employed by the family of Stryker Williamson, of Gravesend, for the past fifty years, was tendered a reception by her employers last Thursday night. They presented her a bractet made of ten-dollar gold pieces and tied with pink ribbon. Instructed For Roosevelt. Norfolk, Va., Mar. 21—The colored Republicans of the Second Congressional district held a meeting at Gideon Hall yesterday, instructed for Roosevelt and elected Wiley H. Crocker, of Suffolk, and Theodore Nash, of Portsmouth, as delegates to the Republican National Convention. Similar meetings will be held in the remainder of the ten Congressional districts of the State. A State convention will also be held at Richmond to select delegates at large. Two white factions have already selected delegates which means a triangular contest at Chicago. The action yesterday was taken as a protest against the exclusion of the race from party councils in this State. Rev Morris Tendered Reception. Norfolk, Va., Mar. 21—A reception was 'tendered Rev. Charles [S. Morris Tuesday night, the occasion being his first anniversary as pastor of the Bank Street Baptist Church. A number of addresses were delivered by white and colored ministers. Dr. Morris is regarded as one of the ablest pastors in the city. A number of leading colored men organized a Roosevelt Club here Monday night. The membership includes most of those who have been active in fighting against the dominaiton'of the party councils by whites. The colored taxpayers of the Ninth ward are against the proposed bond issue as it discriminates against the ninth ward in the matter of contemplated improvements. Will Hurt, Colored, Fishermen. 1 Austin, Tex., Mar. 21. — The pearl fishery at Lake Caddo will here after be conducted by the State authorities. This will cut out a hitherto profitable business among colored fishermen and others. SOCIAL SEASON IN WASHINGTON THE POLITICAL SITUATION Elite Society Preparing For the Annual Assembly of the Monican Club—Taft and Wickersham Being Praised For Their Loyalty to Assistant Attorney General W. H. Lewis. Washington—No city in the world has such a cultured and intelligent population as this city, and in no city has colored society attained a point so nearly approaching the best society of other races as is true of this city. Washington abounds in beautiful maidens and handsome matrons, and their social entertainments approximate those given by the society devotees in the exclusive aristocratic white circles. The homes of the colored people in Washington—that is, many of them—are large, commodious and elegantly furnished, and with the large number of high colored federal officials now in Washington an impetus is given to the social side of life. Just now the ladies are on the tiptoe of feminine expectation and anticipation in view of the approaching Monican club assembly, which is by far the most elaborate affair in Washington society. The after Lenten assembly of the Monican club is always a perfect riot of beautiful women, elegant gowns and fine looking gentlemen, the very cream of Washington's society always being present. There are few of Washington's colored Four Hundred—that is, the women—who are not now discussing and arranging for the gowns they will wear on this particular occasion. And these assemblies are usually attended by a large number of strangers, ladies and gentlemen coming from a distance to be present at the after Lenten assembly of the Monican club. The invitation list to a Monican club affair is usually limited to 350, and the result is there is always a veritable scramble to secure one of the much covered invitations. The new president of the Monican club is Mr. Walter Pinebrack, a son of ex-Governor Pinchback. The membership of the club itself is limited to twenty-five gentlemen. The regular monthly meeting is always followed by the serving of a collation almost equal to an ordinary Washington banquet. The stand that Attorney General Wickersham took in defense of Mr. William H. Lewis, the colored assistant attorney general, has caused him to be fairlyooded with letters of approval and commendation from colored men in every section and state of the country, and hundreds of white men are also writing the attorney general endorsing his courageous stand for a colored man. President Taft is also being praised in the most earnest manner by colored men, for it is well known here in Washington that President Taft was not only consulted by Attorney General Wickersham in the matter, but he gave unqualified approval of Mr. Wickersham's course. The 100,000 colored population in Washington, men and women in every walk of life, have done nothing for the past few weeks but discuss the defense of Mr. Lewis made by the attorney general. Through it all Mr. Lewis has borne himself with becoming modesty and dignity. Many a man, it is said, might have been swept off his feet by the favorable and commendable press reports received by Mr. Lewis, but not so with the brainy Boston man, who so acceptably fills the highest position ever given a Negro by any Republican administration. Capable Mon In the Federal Service. Recorder of Deeds Henry Lincoln Johnson, who is just back after a month spent in his native state, Georgia, is so full of political news that you have only to mention politics to start the general colonel from Atlanta and discussing on the expanded qualities of his chief, Carroll Taft. Mr. Johnson, it is said, is the man who swung Georgia in line for the president. An encouraging sign of the times is that Mr. Johnson is working loyalty with the other distinguished colored federal officials here in looking after the best interests of the race. A distinguished member of congress the other day in referring to colored federal officials—and, by the way, he was a Democrat, too-said: "The class of colored men now holding office is a big improvement over those who held office some years ago, taken as a whole. And no president ever was surrounded with as many bright, brachy and really efficient Negroes as President Taft has surrounded himself with. It used to be that the average colored federal official simply drew his monthly stipend and permitted the white men of the office to do the work. The bunch of colored federal officials in Washington, and it is the largest number ever assembled at the capitol, are all workers, every man of them knowing his duties and performing them with signal ability. The fact that President Taft has surrounded himself with such an intelligent, capable and efficient corps of colored officials, and so many of them, is responsible for his (the president's) strong hold on the race." The foregoing from a congressman, from a man who frequently has business with the bureaus over which colored officials preside, is regarded by colored men throughout the country as a high tribute to the race. Judge. Robert H. Terrell of the municipal court delivered an address at Harrisburg, Pa., recently before the largest colored audience ever assembled in that city. The reports reaching Washington are to the effect that the judge made one of the finest addresses ever delivered there by a man of any race, and the large number of whites present attested to the popularity of the judge and the good feeling existing between the whites and colored people of Harrisburg. Judge Terrell, like Assistant Attorney General Lewis, is in great demand as a speaker by his race, requests being received by both of these men from every section of the country. Mrs. Mary C. Terrell, wife of Judge Terrell, easily the most brilliant colored woman orator in this country and having few equals among the whites, is also in great demand. The recent appearance in Boston of Mrs. Terrell, when she addressed the girls of two exclusive white schools, was one of the highest compliments ever paid the race, and Mrs. Terrell, according to the white press of Boston, acquitted herself splendidly. But Washington is thronged with colored men and women who are good speakers in public. Oratory is not a lost art among the colored people in Washington. Famous "Black Cabinet" to the Fore. The now famous "black cabinet" is being praised by the race in every part of the country for the effective work it did recently in urging the president to consider the cause of their race in making his appointment of a judge to succeed the late Judge Harlan. The "black cabinet," as it has been styled by a few, is composed of Assistant Attorney General Lewis, Register of the Treasury J. C. Napier, the collector of customs here, Whitfield McKinley; Judge Robert H. Terrell, Henry Lincoln Johnson, Recorder of Deeds James A. Cobb, assistant United States district attorney, and Ralph W. Tyler, auditor for the nary. Mr. Tyler is regarded as the dean of the cabinet. He has been styled by some the "Black Senator Crane" for the reason that he is so quiet, unobtrusive and effective in what he undertakes to do. The pretty thing about this cabinet is the cordial relations existing between them. Hardly a day passes but what these six officials take their noon lunch together, at which time they carefully discuss and plan things for the benefit of their race. Hon. J. C. Napier, register of the treasury, is back at his desk after a trip through Florida with Dr. Washington. Before returning to Washington Mr. Napier stopped off at his home in Nashville, Tenn. Mr. Napier is making a most enviable reputation as register of the treasury, and the treasury department regards him as the superior of any predecessor. Officeholding is a public trust and duty with Mr. Napier, for possessed of much of this world, good he does not need to hold office for a livelihood. Hon. Ralph Tyler Back From the West. Mr. Ralph W. Tyler, auditor of the navy department, is back in Washington after a quick circuit of the west. What he heard and saw no one knows, for, as usual, in political matters he is as uncommunicative as a clam. William L. Houston, ex-grand master of the Odd Fellows and present member of the Odd Fellows' supreme court, is making quite an active and, they say, effective campaign for the grand secretaryship of the order. Mr. Houston is one of the most popular colored men in Washington, liked by every one because of his genial disposition. A friend referring to him the other day remarked that "Bill Houston is a ray of sunshine and a cup of cheer." Most of Washington votes are on this. Dr. L. N. Ross, pastor of the Metropolitan A. M. E. church, the largest congregation in this city, is an out and out candidate for a place on the bishopric bench of his church. Reports received in Washington indicate that the eloquent pastor of Metropolitan church has quite a following, and not a few have the temerity to predict that he will be elected a bishop at the next general conference. Prior to coming to Washington Dr. Ross was pastor of Big Bethel at Atlanta, Ga. He has had many charges in many states and has been very successful. As a pulpit orator Dr. Ross has few equals in his church. L. B. Lapsly on Ann Arbor Track Team Lorenzo B. Lapsly, student in dentistry at Ann Arbor university, Michigan, is a full fledged member of the college track team. Lapsly is a native of Portland, Ore., where he graduated from the Ladd grammar school before going to Ann Arbor. He is fond of athletic sports and is considered a valuable acquisition to the athletic fraternity of the university. State Federation of Women's Clubs. The annual meeting of the Empire State Federation of Women's Clubs will be held in New York city for two days, beginning on Tuesday, July 2. Prominent clubwomen from many sections of the country are expected to attend, as many of them will be on their vacation and en route to the national association, which meets in Hampton, Va., in August. Political Situation in Arkansas. The colored citizens of Arkansas are organizing to defeat the "grandfather clause" which will come up for adoption at the fall elections. In Little Rock the Hon. John E. Bush is giving the matter of organization much personal attention. The scheme of the author of the amendment is to disfranchise the colored voters of the state. THE NEW YORK MISSION. Needs and Future Usefulness Pointed in Pre-Pro Lifter Buster Out by Dr. J. L. Bargon. Speaking of the urgent needs of the New York Colored mission, Dr. J. L. Barton, chairman of the board of managers, said recently: The Negro in the north needs industrial training as much as or even more than the Negro in the south. In the north he must compete with the white man, and unless he can do as well or even better he cannot get remunerative employment. In the cities a large majority of the Negroes are hopefully submerged. Little can be done to increase the efficiency of the older generation, but an earnest effort should be made at once to rescue the boys and girls from the adverse conditions which surround their parents. The first step to this end is to supplement the knowledge gained in the public schools with an industrial training. The New York Colored mission, an institution founded and managed by white people for the moral, social and religious elevation of the Negro, after a careful study of prevailing conditions desires to establish an industrial farm institute. A farm of 465 acres located in Orange county, N. Y., fully equipped with agricultural appliances, has been offered at a maximum price of $50 per acre. Is there not some one with large means and a larger heart who will purchase this farm and help the New York Colored mission to inaugurate this currently needed work? Contributions may be sent to L. Holingsworth Wood. 2 Wall street, New York, treasurer of the board of managers. Further information will be cheerfully furnished and references of the highest character given as to the standing of the institution to those who may be interested. CENTURY OF METHODISM. To Be Celebrated In 1916—Movement Started by Dr. R. H. W. Leak. Rateigh, N. C.-Rev. Dr. R. H. W. Leak of this city has started a movement to celebrate the centennial of the African Methodist Episcopal church to be held in Philadelphia in 1916. The idea has already been approved by the board of bishops of the denomination. It was in Philadelphia in 1816 that Richard Allen and a band of followers who had a few years before seceded from the Methodist church on account of the manifestations of race prejudice met and organized the A. M. E. church. From that time the denomination has steadily grown until today it has nearly a million members, many educational institutions and other interests. Its foreign mission work in West and South Africa has grown to large proportions. Many of the most successful ministers and teachers among our people received their education and KEV. DR. R. H. W. LEAK. special training in the schools fostered by the African Methodist church. Dr. Leak's plan will probably be adopted by the coming general conference of the denomination. Dr. Leak is one of the best known men in the connection. Born in North Carolina over fifty years ago, he has long been active in the church, having been a delegate to every general conference since 1880. He is the founder of Kittrell college at Kittrell, N. C., and even mortgaged his home to give this now flourishing school a start. He is prominently mentioned for the episcopacy and has strong backing from his conference, the North Carolina, and from other sections of the country. He is a presiding elder, with headquarters at Durham, N. C. Able Trio of United States Senators. Forty-two years ago the late Hiram Revels, who was a native of North Carolina, was elected to the United States senate by the Mississippi legislature. Mr. Revels was educated at the Quaker college, Liberty, Ind., and at Knox college in Illinois. In 1860 he went to Nateche, Miss., where he soon became active in politics and was elected to the city council, and the next year he was duly chosen as United States senator. He served as such from February, 1S70, to March, 1S71. Two other colored men have also served as United States senators—namely, the Hon. P. B. S. Pinchback and the late Hon. B. K. Bruce. They were all able men and filled their station with credit and marked adaptability. Professor J. Melvin Lamb Dies. In the recent sudden death of Dr. J. Melvin Lamb, professor in the medical department of Howard university. In Washington, the institution has been deprived of one of its most efficient instructors. Professor Lamb had served the school for over a quarter of a century. He was widely known, much loved and noted for his close application to the science of medicine in all of its branches. STEAMER STARLIGHT READY FOR BUSINESS Overhauled and Enlarged it Is Now One of the Best Excursion Boats in The Harbor. Overhauled throughout, enlarged and repaired, the steamer Starlight made a trial trip a day or two ago. The vessel has been undergoing improvements by the Spedden Shipbuilding Company, and will be probably the largest and handsomest boat owned by colored people in this country. The improvements cost $8,000, and include the increase of the passenger capacity to nearly 1,200 and the installation of a refreshment room in the hitherto unused hold of the boat. While the vessel will be used for the most part in carrying excursions to Brown's Grove a resort owned by Messrs. George W. Brown and Walter Langley, who are also the owners of the Starlight, excursions down the Chesapeake Bay will also be looked after. The boat is valued at $30,000. The success of Messrs. Brown and Langley is deserved because they started out at a time when white companies refused to let colored people have boats until late in the summer. Since their advent one or two companies have made every effort to land colored excursions right in the heart of the summer season. Six years ago they commenced with the steamer Newbill, which carried about 400 passengers. They then secured the present boat, which at that time carried only 450 passengers. The boat has been enlarged three times and its carrying capacity nearly trebled. As an example of the way the business of Messrs. Brown and Langley has grown, it may be stated that during the excursion season last summer nearly 110,000 passengers were carried on the Starlight and the total receipts exceeded $21,000. "I am grateful to the public," said Mr. Brown to a representative of the Afro-American Ledger, "for the patronage that we have received from the people. We have tried each year to increase our facilities, and how well we have succeeded is shown by the increased patronage each year. I am firmly of the opinion that the people stand ready to patronize race ventures when the same inducements that others give are offered. Brown's Grove has been improved, and will more than ever cater to the needs of excursionists." If your business is a failure. it may be that you are at fault. When the bargain hunter wants a bargain hunter wants a bargain they look in the newspaper.. Is your ad there? Dr. D. H. Bro, of St. Augustine, Fla., has discovered a remedy that promises to revolutionize the medical world. 1)r. Brown is a graduate of Meharry, and has been in the practice about fourteen years. n the Mag- remed Company of which Dr. Brown is president and Geo E. E. Taylor, of Iowa is secre- tary and managers owns and manufactures this wonder uiremedy which is guaranteed under the present pure food drugs act. The Cut of trade-mark appears M. B. H. erewish and attracts attention by its uniqueness. This new remedy is called "Dr. Brown's New Consumption remedy" and the company claims to have many recent testimonials from persons whom they have actually cured of consumption. Great indeedmust be the demand for this remedy wherever people are suffering from this dreadful disease, consumption. The Magnolia Remedy Company are shipping this remedy into nearly every state in the Union, now and it has only been on the market since the first day of last July. The company makes the open statement that "consumption can be eu.ef" this remedy and that they stand ready to demonstrate the proposition The remedy is sold in $1.00 and $2.00 bottles which they ship by express everywhere The policy of the company is to sell through the aency system and not not through wholesale drug houses. Agents wanted Proper terms. Address Magnolia Remedy Company, St. Augustus, Fla., U. S. A., Box 754. HARRY A. VODERY ..Baltimore's Popular Funeral Director.. Main Office and Establishment: 1725 ORLEANS STREET We solicit your friendship and patronage. We assure you polite and up-t odate service. We have added several new features to our business, among which is an experienced Female Directress, the first and only colored lady directress in the State. Coffins and Caskets shipped to all parts of the State at Shortest Notice. Carriages and ambulance for Hire. Lady Embalmer—Lady Shrouder. BRANCHES: 2023 Oak Street. .. 630 N. Caroline Street. I-12-2-8t Who can furnish a funeral for $10.00 and up; caskets for $3.00 and up. He can furnish you carriages for Funerals, Weddings, Parties, Receptions, etc., from his own stables at the most reasonable rates. You need not come to see him, just call South 422 or South 396-Y. 142 W. Hill Street n Mount Vernon 5138 826 Druid Hill. Wish to announce to the generous public that I am still doing business at my old stand, 578 W. BIDDLE ST. Thanking the public for all past savors and hoping for a continuance of the same. Carriage for hire for weddings, parties and funerals, and special attention given to all orders lay or night. Yours, ALEX, HBMSLEY, GEORGE H. HOLLAND, Manager. C. & P. Phone: 585 Y-Madison. Expert Embalming, Courteous Attendants, Shipping Funerals Specialty. Rubber Tire Carriages for hire for all occasions. Both Phones. Day or Night. FUNERAL DIRECTOR BOTH PHONES—C. & P. Mk. Veron 3003 Md. Courtland 1028 the branch offices. Not connected with any other firm. No Agents. expanded will be offered to anyone who detects any person doing business under the name of Felix B. Pya. Sz. BALTIMORE LIFE INSURANCE CO. F. S. Strobridge, President Home Office: Cor. Charles & Saratoga Sts., Balto., Md. The Leading Life Insurance Company in Maryland Life Insurance Policies issued on ages from 2 to 79 Premiums collected weekly from the homes of the insured Issues The Best Contracts MME. BAUM'S HAIR EMPORIUM. Our Specialty Real Creole Crimpy, also Afro-American and Natural Wavy Hair Goods We absolutely guarantee our Hair to stand Combing, and to retain its Quality and Color. We make any Shade of Hair, none too difficult. All Kinds of Wigs, Rats, Frontpieces, and Switches in Black made to Order. Mail Orders promptly filled to any Part of the Country. Free Price List. 486 Eight Ave., New York city Between 34th and 35th street. Phone, Wolfe 1958 Male Attendants Polite Service Square Deal HARRY A. ...Baltimore's Popular Main Office and 1725 ORLEANS We solicit your friendship and patron date service. We have added several which is an experienced Female Directr rectress in the State. Coffins and Caskets shipped to all Carriages and ambulance for Hire. BRAN 2023 Oak Street. I-12-2-8t JOHN H. T. 142 W. HILLE THE UP-TO-DATE Who can furnish a funeral for $10. He can furnish you carriages for Fun- etc., from his own stables at the m come to see South 422 or South 396-Y. Mount Vernon 5138 Alex. Hemsley Wish to announce to the generous at my old stand, 578 W. BIDDLE S stors and hoping for a continuance weddings, parties and funerals, and day or night. Yours, ALEX. HEM Mt. GEORGE H. HON ROBERT A. Baltimore's Lea 506 ROG Expert Embalming, Courteous Specialty. Rubber Tire Carri Both Phones. FELIX B. 102 E. Mulberry St. FUNERAL BOTH PHONES—C. & P. Mc. Vee the branch offices. Not connected , enward will be offered to anyone who the name of F THE BALTIMORE LIFE F. S. Strobridge Home Office: Cor. Charles & The Leading Life Insurance Life Insurance Policies is Premiums collected weekly f Issues The H The Old MME. BAUM'S H Our Specialty Real Creole Cri Natural Wav We absolutely guarantee our Ba its Quality and Color. We make a All Kinds of Wigs, Rats, Frontp Order. Mail Orders promptly filled Price List. 486 Eight Ave. Between 34th ..B. F. SMITH.. NEW and SECOND HAND FURNITURE BOUGHT & SOLD AT REASON ABLE PRICES Bed Room suits and Parlor Suits from $15. up. All kinds of Household Furniture. at Low- est Prices. Of next week furniture can be stored here for $1 per load for each month. Please give me a call: 1122 Druid Hill Avenue. Always Open Female Attendants Good Quality Honest Prices PLEASE HELP THIS) NILE WOW would have the courage, as she has had, to keep together a family of an invalid father and three chil- dren when she herself was suffering with consumption. . But Mrs: H.— is not an _ ordi- nary woman. The proof of that is in the fact that she has brought upher children so well, that one of her sons, though only eleven, is in the sixth grade, and the other, a boy of eight, isin the fourth. Both are doing well, and their teacher says that if it were allow- able, she could advance them oo more rapidly than-has been done. When Mrs. H married her hus-' band twelve years ago, he was a strong, able man, with a good re-| cord, and a promising future. He was a hard worker,, and - with ordinarily good luck would have been-able:to hold a repsected~ place in the communitty. But fate-was against him. After his children had been born to: his wife her strength gave out and he was forced to spend lots of money for doctor’s bills. Then he teo was taken ill and things began to look blue. Since then his health has completely failed. Last winter they took stock and both went to the doctor. Harvey, the husband, was told. that his heart had given out and that exer- tion of any kind would be fatal. Mrs. H’s trouble was diagnosed as tuberculosis. There were-now three children, and the situation was very serious. But the Federated Charities heard about the ease, and the agent went to work. She talked with Dr. Hamman over at the Phipps Dispensary. for Tuberculosis, where Mrs. H. was being: treated. “She is a good clean womaa,”’ he said. ‘‘She is so careful about her home, and so willing to. obey my instructions that I believe that it will be safe for her to stay at home and do her house work, and that she will improve her health and possibly later help with the ineome.’” “Will the children be gafe?’’ asked the agent, who knows of the danger of infection in such. cases. “They will’ be perfectly safe, provided "Mrs. H. does as well as 1 expect,” answered the doctor. So with that report, the agent went to work. She inguired. of. the church of which Mrs. H. was a regular atcendant. and found that they were only too glad to help her. Since that time they have been contributing $6.00 a month toward the: rent of the little house, and toward giving coal. The Fed- erated Charities found that. by expending five dollars a week for food, and two dollars more a month toward the rent, they would be able to keep the wolf from the door of the little house. All: during: the recent spell of cold weather, and even up: to: the present time; |. they kept up. their contribution. Every day, too, the mother was riven'a quart of good rich milk, just the thing to keep up her strength. ; But, now, the Federated Chari- ies has come to the end of. its|’ ether. Unless money is sub- cribed for the. support of the fam- ly, they will have to give up their fort to-keep the family. together intil the boys are old enough to york. ‘ ‘Ewenty-five dollars a month is he amount which the agent has lecided will be necessary for the vork: fEwenty-five dollars: will mable. Mrs. H, who is happy. in}s pite of her troubles, to keep her hildren at home, educate them so hat they will be a credit to the ace, and give her unfortunate hus- and the care that his condition lemands. ‘Mrs. Hiis indeed’ the. happiest. erson in_all, Baltimore: ‘Indeed’ Lam happy,”” she said his morning. ‘Why shouldn’t I xe? It isn’t every woman, who an have three such. children as hese of mine: And it isn’t every voman who is: blessed with the]. strength that I have’ to fight . off” AS ee ene ne oe ne at a a anata: HOLLIDAY STREET THEATRE... _ Week Commencing MONDAY, MARCH 25th. Matinee Daily 3 ; You HAVE SEEN THE REST NOW SEE THE BEST 7 WITH §. H. DUDLEY THE MAN WHO MADE A MULE LAUGH INTHE MERRY MUSICAL HA! HA! Dr. Beans From Boston : SA Seream Every Minute And Sometimes Two. : ‘ Bee «. SEATS NOW, ON SALE?., . = “She doesn’t want you to repay her’? said the reporter from the Afro-American, ‘‘she only, wants you.to keep up the .good fight you are making,~so'that'the people of the community will’ know. that you are worthy’ of the. assistance they can give.” Now will the readers ofthis ar- ticle. come tothe rescue of this brave woman, who is struggling against awful odds to keep up her end? Don’t you think she deserves help? Of course youdo. And you are going to do it,. You have come through a hard winter and you and yours’ have been. blessed. ‘Now help this brave woman in her fight against the awful white plague. Subseriptions for’ Mrs: H can’ be left. atthe office of the Afro-Amer- jean Ledger or at the rooms of the Y. W. C. A.,-the Y. M. C. A., the Federated Charities, or at any of the drug stores, mentioning the name.and the Afro-American. All amounts will appear in the col- umns of this paper no matter how small. Mrs. Joseph Gans Again A Bride Is Now The: Wife Of Mr. Ford Dabney, The Theatrical Man, Of Washington. Mr, and Mrs. Ford Dabney. who were quietly married in Washing- ton Thursday evening of last week, have received congratulations from friends in all sections of the coun- try. ‘While many had looked to: their marriage, their journey to the na- tional capital came as a_ surprise. The ceremony. was performed by Rev. Matthew .W. Clair, pastor of Asbury M. E. Church, Washing- ton, Mr. and Mrs. Dabney will reside at the Goldfield. Hotel, whiclr* the ‘bride has been conducting since the sth of her husband, the late Joseph Gans. | To Celebrate 15th Anniversary. The congregation of Ebenezer Baptist Church, Twenty-third street near Barclay, is planning to celebrate its fifteenth anniversary in May. ‘The church has 300 members, and is one of the ‘most flourishing among ‘local Baptists. The revival; which has just closed, resulted in 60 conversions. _ Rev. John Jones is pastor-of the church. A New Paper Launched. The Maryland Voice, a paper published by leading spirits in the Cooperative Baptist Convention of Maryland, made its first appear- ance last week. Rev. Dr. W. M. Alexander, pastor of Sharon Bap- tist, Chureh, is the editor-in-chief Bishop J. Albert’ Johnson de- livered an illustrated lecture on “South Africa’’ tc large audiences at Waters and Bbenezer A. M. E. Churches Sunday and. Monday nights, respectively. Rev. Hayes At Ames. Rev. W._P. Hayes, pastor of Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, one of the largest congregations in New York city, preached to a large con- gregation a Ames Memorial M. E. Church Sunday morning. He filled the pulpit at Israel Baptist Church, Prestman street, at night. THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER. i WE ARE MAKING A SPECIALTY OF i ( WEDDING INVITTIONS i y)) ‘CALLING CARDS \ ) CLUB INVITATIONS Ki MOURNING CRDS we ( ‘AND OTHER'KINDS OF SOCIETY 0 PRINTING... ( met i CORRECT FORM AS WELL AS GOOD TASTE & ‘ DEMANDS THE. USE. OF THE. BEST IN THE. PRINTER'S ART \ ) “- WE FURNISH THE BEST | THEAFROAMERNCD. ) 628 NORTH EUTAW STREET. ib (ES 2S Stes WILL NOT BE DRAWN INTO CONTROVERSY Bitter’ resentment was shown against the attitudue of a local weekly paper for its continued attacks upon local ministers at the meeting of the Ministerial Alliance at Grace Presbyterian Church Mon- day. dust near the:close of the meet- ing, Rev. D. D.. Turpeau - intro- duced a resolution which con- demned the paper in question fot calling ministers racsals and -other terms not regarded as compli- mentary. The introduction of. the resolution. precipitated a lengthy debate in which- all of those who took part condemned the attitude of the paper, but proposed other methods for doing what Rev.. Tur- peau had proposed, 7 “Ido not think we should be drawn into the matter,’” said 2 well-known Baptist minister,’’ and thus give the editor of that paper achance to advertise himself. 1! am.of the opinion that we:. can best settle the matter by silent contempt.’” Rey. G. F. Bragg. declared that he was in favor of a committee of five to draw up a suitable protest, but this action was opposed by Rev. A. L. Gaines, who said ‘that.such action .meant a month’s delay. Rey. W. Edward Williams. opposed any condemnatory resolution what: ever on the ground that it wa: against. the spirit of the Alliance. As the set time for adjournmen came during the heat of the debate no definite action was taken. Rev; Turpeau, in ‘his “speech, Said that some of the references to certain ministers of the Washing- ton M. E.. Conference, published ine the last issue of the paper should not pass unchallenged. Rev. P. Carter Neal presented. a thoughtful paper on ‘“The Miracles of Our Lord.’*. Bishops “Coppin and. Johnson -and Rev, W. P. Hayes; of New. York, were among the visitors. introduced. Rev. Thomas Lee will read a paper at the April meeting. —_——— Don’t hide your light under a bushel. Tell the people what you know about your business, Advortise TO THE LADIES I LEAD—OTHERS FOLLOW I carry a full Line of Colored Hu- man Hair Goods Combings made in puffs and braids Madame J. CREDITT’S Hair Dressing, Face Massage and * flanicuring Parlors 1140 Druid Hill Avenue Entrance.on Dolphin St., 3rd floor. “Hairdresser to Society” Of course there are other Hair Dressers . BUT ONLY ONE EXPERT [IASSAGING AND MANICURING 831 DRUID HILL AVE. THE BEST THING Known for the hair is Paramount Hair Derssing Prepared‘by The Barnes [fg. Co. 722 Ensor St. For sale by druggists and al notion stores. i | VERYTHING NEW | { AND UP-TO-DATE Lee] 2 EY | .E LAUGH HA! HA! r Boston ~~ T.G.MARSHALL, —DEALER IN— Groceries & Provisions, Butter, Eggs. & : : ...and Poultry... 585 Dolphin St. Baltimore, Md. 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All articles sent to this office for publication, must have the writer's signature or otherwise such article will be ignored. Churches and others having news notices will please have the same in the office by Thursday to insure publication in the week's issue. Correspondents will please have all communication, in one office by noon on Wednesdays. All communications intended for publication should be addressed to THE AMERICAN LEDGER, 628 North Eutaw Street, Baltimore, Md. Advertising rates made known upon application. All Checks, Money Orders and Drafts should be made payable to THE AFRO-AMERICAN Co. CLERICAL DECORUM It is important, most important, that the race should maintain the highest possible ideal in the personnel of its clergy. Not only must our ministers be well trained, but above all else they must be godly. As compared with the other large cities of the country, upon the whole, Baltimore, in this respect, stand in the front ranks. For this, we should be thankful, not boastful. In this particular respect, the colored churches of this city are but following the good example set them by the fathers well-nigh a century ago. With all that we have said, it is far from us to imply that we have reached such an ideal as would warrant us in ceasing to be ever vigilant with respect to maintaining the high standard which has been reached. It would be manifestly unfair to expect of all the colored clergy such a standard of attainments and superior elevation of Christian character as are specified in such men as John Albert Jenson, John Hurst, Harvey Johnson, and the like; and, it is equally unfair and wrong because of the delinquencies, or supposed delinquencies, of a few of our colorel ministers, to create the erroneous notion among the people generally, that the rare exception among us in clerical life, is of the proper moral and ethical standard. The ministry is too sacred a calling to be used as a target for the irresponsible fulminations, may be, of some not always discreet layman who wandering out of the path of rectitude have been fellow sinners with some poor unfortunate ministerial brethren. If such have the direct evidence against such ministerial sinners, although in the same boat, they ought to come forward, in the name of God, and expose both themselves and the ministers in question, and not add to their own baseness by reflecting upon the whole body of as godly and devoted men can be found in any city the size of Baltimore. We freely admit that there is much room for improvement in various matters connected with our churches; but, we have steadfastly taken the ground that reformation and improvement therein are to be had by that small group of over cultivated and hyper-critical young Negroes finding a place and work in our several churches, rather than through "open-letters" and the skillful juggling of words in the columns of our newspapers. It is hardly less than audacity and supreme impudence, not to permit the proper authorities in the several churches to attend to their own affairs. Certainly, there is enough common sense as well as common decency yet resident in such churches to discover that which offends, and to apply the necessary means of discipline and correction. At any rate, with the large number and great variety of Christian churches of various faiths among the race in the city, when the oral odor and atmospheric conditions become beyond endurance in any particular congregation with out much inconvenience, the sober and sane, in such infected districts, may easily find a satisfactory home wherein they may be edified and built up in the doctrines of God, their Savior. THE MOUNTAIM PROBEEM We have suddenly thust upon us a new problem, and this time it is not the Negro problem. It is the Mountain Problem. And, by this we do not mean the converting of the mountain into a plain. Last week was enacted in the good old State of Virginia one of the saddest tragedies which has disgraced a State with such a historical legacy of greatness which pertains to but few of the American States. The details of this sad tragedy are too familiar for restatement in these columns. Sufficient to say, a band of white men, of the "Superior race," invaded a court of justice, murdering the presiding judge, and other court officials, and attempting to blot out the entire judicial machinery. Providence thus witnesses against the absurd and foolish talk about racial "inferiority." The white race is not to be accounted "inferior" because of the deadly work of these "inferior" men of that race; nor is it any more justifiable to condemn the whole Negro race to inborn "inferiority" because of the evil deeds of "inferior" members of that race. This very point, showing the shallowness of the contention of racial inferiority, on the part of the Negro, was strikingly brought out, more than twenty-five years ago by one of the most intensely radical, and at the same time goody men the South has ever produced. We refer to the late Rt. Rev. Dr. Wilmer, Episcopal Bishop of Alabama. It was a plea against any separation of the races, in Church, on the ground of color. Bishop Wilmer then said in part: "It is proposed to set off missionary organizations for the colored people, not on the ground of their incapacity and ignorance, but on the ground of color. I say not on the ground of incapacity or ignorance, for it is notorious that there are multitudes of white people in some of our States who, as it regards intelligence, education, and manners, are not superior to the colored population and are quite "inferior" to that class of colored people who are prepared to enter the communion of this Church. If, then a separate missionary organization be desirable for any of our people on the ground of their incapacity and ignorance—and that point is the one now to be determined—why is it not equally desirable for people of all colors?" Problem it certainly is to link unequal things together, and make them equal. The law does not make "superior" and "inferior" people. The Almighty God has placed within man certain internal resources, and as man approximates the Almighty he likewise approximates "superiority" whether his skin be black or white. As he recedes from the Almighty he becomes correspondingly "inferior" whether he be black or white. Now, he ho sets himself to the task of changing this divine law is certainly up against the most difficult of all problems. Some day the State will be persuaded that it is best for the whole of society to recognize, with respect to this matter, what the preacher declares after he has just performed the wedding ceremony: "Those whom God hath joined together let not man put asunder." Virtue is virtue whether in a black or white fleshly setting, and, in the end, it will seek its own. Dust to dust, and spirit to spirit; and, it can not always be that man will continue to say "Our Father" without finally seeing their own Father in the face of every other man. The so-called "Negro Problem" is but the stern disciplinary measure by the which the Almighty seeks to introduce the "superior" race to the real and profound meaning of the opening words of the Lord's Prayer, "Our Father." PRESIDENT TAFT AND THE COL- ORED VOTERS As the presidential campaign proceeds the interest of the colord voters should not center around the tariff, the recall, and the referendum but upon those men and measures whose success in November will assure us protection in the enjoyment of our civil and political rights. With us this should be the paramount issue, just as the labor people and the anti-saloon people determine their affiliations. No matter how widely at variance men and parties may be upon the great economic and political questions of the day, American sentiment seems to be crystallizing more and more definitely against according to the colored man a full measure of citizen rights. Even the Republican party, the champion of American liberty, born in the throes of human slavery agitation with no other excuse made or sought for its existence than a desire to champion human rights, has grown cold and indifferent toward us, and the time seems to have arrived when the call comes to us to make our own fight with our own weapons for a citizenship which is now ours only in name. Negro problem has been and continues to be the veritable mill stone around the neck of our body politic. Astute politicians have tackled the subject and, invariably, after disgusting others by, and themselves with, their failure to secure any satisfactory solution, have slunk away acknowledging their defeat. Nor has the pulpit thus far offered any acceptable solution. It has without fail hereofore been this way—the solution which proved satisfactory to the white man has always been proportionately unsatisfactory to the Nero and vice versa. And, at last, the occasion and a man for the occasion have met. In his latest book, "Wisdom's Call," Dr. Sutton E. Griggs has found and offers to the American a solution and a remedy for the Negro problem which can not fail to be eminently satisfactory to the white man and none the less to the Negro. Dr. Griggs' solution and remedy antagonize the interests of neither race but is in complete We have no longer the great champions of human rights to fight for us. One by one the Great Reaper has fallen upon their ranks until now scarcely a corporal's guard is left and their voices are scarcely heard. We no longer have a public sentiment to which we can appeal. Slowly and surely the callousness of plutocratic wealth and the relentless proselytizing of a Southern prejudice have poisoned the very sources and so thoroughly contaminated the head waters of once friendly sentiment that now there is little to choose between Northern and Southern sentiment toward us. We no longer have our own representatives to plead our cause at the bar of executive and legislative action. Those of our number who are in the high positions and holding much coveted places are dominated by fear—that great paralyzer of manhood, whose very touch chills the heat of our wrath over the wrongs heaped upon our people; leaves unuttered the call to resent and punish the treachery of our ante-election friends or openly oppose the activities of our foes, and reduces its victims to the dead level of impotence and inactivity. To the rank and file of us then, it is left to bear the burden of this struggle in the heat of the day. To the men behind the guns then, comes the call to stand for our manhood rights; to refuse to sell our birthrights for a mess of pottage, and to give our votes to such men and measures as will definitely and positively work for the improvement of the unbearable conditions under which we live. The attitude of the Democratic party, dominated as it is by the sentiments and opinions of the poorer elements of the dominant race, the oft-repeated assertion that the Democratic party is a white man's party, and the more recent treatment of those colored Democrats who essayed to participate in the birthday reception held in honor of Speaker Champ Clark and who were, it is said, so ruthlessly excluded conclusively show that there is yet no place for us in that party. It remains for us then, to hold our places within the Republican party and by a consistent and persistent and united agitation and effort to seek to commit that party by action to the success of our cause. Upon this course colored men should unite. This leads us to submit for the consideration of thoughtful colored men these propositions, whose right settlement should determine how our vote should be cast in November: 1. Is the Republican party, as at present constituted, fulfilling its pledge to guarantee to all classes of citizens the fullest measure of manhood rights? 2. Are the leaders of the Republican party inspired with an honest determination, after as well as before election, to keep party pledges? 3. What has the party done during the past three years in fulfilling these pledges? 4. Has President Taft been true to the great principles and traditions of the Republican party? 5. Does President Taft deserve the suppot of the colored voters? LATE LITERARY NEWS Sutton Griggs Latest Book, "Wisdom's Call" Ever since the Negro first set foot on the American soil, his ignorance, his superstition, his dissimilarity, and his admittedly temporary inferiority to the white man have created problems which, in quantity and quality have increased with the increasing years. The Negro problem has been and continues to be the veritable mill stone around the neck of our body politic. Astute politicians have tackled the subject and, invariably, after disgusting others by, and themselves with, their failure to secure any satisfactory solution, have slunk away acknowledging their defeat. Nor has the pulpil thus far offered any acceptable solution. It has without fail heretofore been this way—the solution which proved satisfactory to the white man has always been proportionately unsatisfactory to the Nero and vice versa. And, at last, the occasion and a man for the occasion have met. In his latest book, "Wisdom's Call," Dr. Sutton E. Griggs has found and offers to the American a solution and a remedy for the Negro problem which can not fail to be eminently satisfactory to the white man and none the less to the Negro. Dr. Griggs' solution and remedy antagonize the interests of neither race but is in complete harmony with them. And mind you! This book deals with no plausible theories—no Utopian dreams. It does, however, deal with hard, cold, well-known facts which are everywhere observable and must be observed. Dr., Griggs is a philosopher, a psychologist and a logician evenly balanced and happily blended in one. He takes for his premises simply facts—facts you have no desire to deny, then with the wisdom of a philosopher, the delft analysis of a psychologist and the unerring merciliness of a logician, he partly leads you—partly drives you to conclusions from which you have no desire to escape be you white man or be you Negro. You simply wonder, why a thing so self evident had not before by you been seen. As an unmistakable panacea for all the ills growing out of the Negro problem—be they religious, financial, political, or social, this book cannot fail to be a success. It needs only to be read by each and both of the races. The highest form of mission work a man in American do is to read this book himself and then pass it on. Let the Negro read it, then pass it to some white man. Let the white man read it then pass it to some Negro. It is the book which will give the American people permanent relief from all phases and conditions of the Race Problem. The book contains 193 pages. It is well printed on good paper and has a beautiful leatherette cover. It may be obtained by sending fifty cents, with five cents added for postage, to The Orion Pub. Co. East Station, Nashville Tenn. THE PEOPLE'S FORUM There Should Be No Doubt In Colored Voters' Mind. To the Editor of the Afro-American Ledger: In choosing between President Taft and ExPresident Roosevelt, so far as the colored voter is concerned, there should be no doubt. The official acts of each we have well in mind. And we are to weigh them by their official acts. Both have had their faults, but the faults of President Taft are more numerous and more damaging than those of former President Roosevelt. The attitude of Taft toward the Nægro has been anything but satisfactory. Reference is made particularly to his Supreme Court appointments and his Southern policy. With all things considered and proper deductions made, every fair-minded man whose vote is not predetermined by circumstances, will cast it for Roosevelt. A vast majority of the race leaders in Baltimore and elsewhere have unhesitatingly declared their preference for Roosevelt and state their reasons for so doing. Doubtless they think the same of Roosevelt today as did Mr. Cummings on the twenty-third of June, 1904, when, in seconding the nomination of Roosevelt said in part: "For the distinguished honor of seconding the nomination of that grand type of American citizen, Theodore Roosevelt, I am profoundly grateful. "He is above all things a true, honest, earnest, patriotic American citizen. He is a leader of unfinching courage, a man of wisdom, a man of action. He is open and frank, free from intrigue or concealment. In his life and walks and conduct he stands unapproached and unapproachable. He is a broad man, broad in intellect, broad in sympathies, broad in soul; he lends a listening ear to the cry of the down-trodden and oppressed, and with strong and ready arm encircling the weak and helpless, he bids them rise and hope and live. "With a vision unclouded by bias or prejudice, he sees through the outer clay, clad in different hues, the man within, standing there beholds the image of the Divine Master indicating the Fatherhood of God and the bristlerhood of man. "God grant that in our party's struggle to reach that time it may ever have a man to place before the American people for their suffrage who has the ability, courage, honesty, and aggressiveness of Theodore Roosevelt." March 18. J. Sumner Holly. Approves Course of the Afro-American Ledger To the Editor of the Afro-American Ledger: Permit me to express approval of the course the Afro-American Ledger is pursuing in bringing the attitude of President Taft toward us a race so conspicuously to the minds of our voters, some of whom are able to see and have seen these very things for a long time. These men are not so bound in their allegiance to the Republican party that they will vote for its candidates, regardless of the effects upon us as men. The readers and observers among our men know that in Mr. Taft we have had an indifferent President so far as our rights and privileges go. Whether deliberate cr not we do not know, but the fact remains, however, that the foregoing assertion is true. It seems that lynchings and mob rule have flourished to a greater extent than before. These things have apparently not disturbed Mr. Taft very much. He now has the hardihood to ask our endorsement of his course as President. Mr. Editor, I would like to ask if any Negro with a spark of manhood in him can under the circumstances support Mr. Taft I for one cannot and will not. Your views as expressed are conservative and are readily assented to by the men of your city, but where you will have to organize for more effective work is out in the rural districts. March 20. Walter C. Jones, SMART SET AT HOLLIDAY STREET S. Dudley and the new Smart Set Company in "Dr. Beans From Boston," the big musical comedy of substance and originality, will be the offering at the Holliday Street Theatre on Monday, March 25th, and judging from the inspiring reports that have preceded it, it is altogether probable that it will establish a record where by others in the future will be judged, so far as concerns plausibility coupled with novelty and attractiveness. The main object to be attained in the presentation of an entertainment of this kind is the greater number of effective features of a novel kind to be crowded into entertaining space, as will share equal interest with a large array of pretty, talented girls, and as many really funny comedians as can be depended upon to relieve the strain of the ensemble and chorus work. Then, too, it becomes a matter of positive necessity to provide scenic equipment, and costume accessories on a scale of superlative elegance, in order to keep pace with such offerings as "Dr. Beans From Boston" is proclaimed. However, this attraction has one advantage that it would seem hard to overcome, and that is, it tells an intensely amusing story, built upon rational force lines, and while the plot is made subservient to many explosions of unconscious mirth and entrancing melody, nevertheless it lends tangibility and sanity to the whole atmosphere. There seems to have been method in the madness that prompted the making ready of this seasons version of "Dr. Beans From Boston." From every direction comes the verdict of superiority of elaborate details, regarding the production, and what must be more gratifying still to the promoters of such an extravagant venture, is the financial results that have already been achieved for an entertainment calculated to impress an audience with its novelty and honesty of purpose. The book is the joint work of Mr. Dudley and Henry Troy, who is also a member of the cast. The jingles were provided by Will H. Vodery with lyrics by Henry S. Cramer. Those who contribute to the excellence of the performance are Arthur Talbot, Daisy Martin, James Burris, Roley Gibson, Ella Bevans, Frank De Lyons, William Ramsey, Alberta Ormes, and Jessie Harris. Matinees will be given daily. Berkley, Md., Mar. 21—The literary society has been meeting regularly and many instructive papers have been read.' Mrs. E. N. Washington recently read a paper on. "The Needs of the Race." TALKS OF THE PEOPLE OF OKLAHOMA Meets Some Interesting People While Visiting Different Places In The State Chicago, Ill.—Now you see I am in Chicago, but I must turn my attention to saying some other things. I have promised to tell you a little more about Oklahoma. I enjoyed very much the trip through the state. The men of our race are putting forth real manhood there. Rev. W. H. Jernagin arranged for me to make the trip and the people were so kind to me that the gave me money enough to pay all my expenses while riding from place to place, and there was only one place on the whole trip where they would accept of a cent of my money for entertainment and that was in Boley: As I told you in my last letter, Boley was strictly a town belonging to our people. I did not get to spend much time in getting around, because of the heavy rain which greated me. I met the bankers, and the lawyers, and the merchants, and the professors, and the business men and women of every grade. It is indeed a hustling busy town. Banker Turner is a big man and has a heart and soul, but both have been worked on to such an extent that he did not know how to take hold of the next man who came along. He said that many newspaper men had been there to write up the town, and that has been the last of it. They have gotten the money, went on their way rejoicing, and there is now a newspaper man in this country, if he can just get his hands on him, something is going to drop. I hope it ill not drop yet awhile, but if it should drop, I will feel sorry for the man. "He came here," said Mr. Turner, "recommended by Dr. Young, and was to write up the town for $50. We put up the money, Dr. Young entertained him, and then he drew a check on a bank in some place in the United States. The cheek was returned, I have never seen a single paper, although he was to furnish us with 500 papers. I hope to put my hands on him." On account of rain, I did not get to meet the mayor of Boley, but I had the pleasure of meeting the Y. M. C. A., and delivered at a talk for the men Sunday afternoon, and then from there, I pulled on down the road, until I had reached other places, going to the banks, stores, schools, and post office. I made a trip to Langston City to visit Langston University. Many were the men I met there. I had the pleasure of being with President Inman E. Page. To my mind he is one of the greatest men of our race. He is a man who is doing something. He stands for something. In Guthrie, I was with Dr. H. W. Conrad, formerly of Louisville, Ky. but who has been in Guthrie for years. He has purchased a fine home. Mrs. Conrad is just a busy woman. She plants her own chickens, and has her own eggs, and then I don't know what else. I am delighted that I had the pleasure of meeting her and seeing her home. Dr. Conrad is a fine doctor. I will not say more about Oklahoma, but I have a few more things back in my mind. From Oklahoma I went to visit Hon. John Wright, who is treasurer of the city of Topeka. Did you ever see a man of your race the treasurer of such a large city? I have never seen one like him before, and I was indeed delighted to see him, and look into his face. He is a fine man, and then the Lord blessed him with a fine wife. Mrs. Wright is one of the best and sweetest singers of the race. She one time was with Blind Boone, but now she is keeping house. I do not know when I have seen a woman who delighted so much in doing for her guests. In my last letter I told you I was entertained by the Back-Bens. This is a club composed of 15 men of brain, men of worth, men who are working for the betterment of the race. I was delighted to be with so many educated men and hear them talk about the things of the day. Lawyer James H. Guy introduced the current events, and I tell you he was up on what had happened, and then Prof. Nathaniel Sawyer made a big speech, and it made me feel good to hear him. It was just the thing to meet these men. I will not say more. ‘You know I have been to Kansas City, and from there to Boonville, Mo., where | had the: pleasure of meeting Prof. C:. G.° Williams, qwho: has been principal of the school for years. He isa good man and ina good place. Right py: his side is his wife. She was proud of him. She is one of. the best. primary teachers in the eountry. Thy have a fine young daughter, Miss Este!l williams. She is educated’ in music, and as re- fined and cultured as can be, and at the same time domestic, for she knows something about house keep- ing, cooking, and washing. It means.something to have educated girls who know all these things and are not afraid to take hold of ‘them. 7 A visit to. Marshall, Mo., and this is a place 1 have never been before. 1 accepted. an invitation from Mrs. Nevada Hayden Kenner to visit her city, and 1 am glad indeed that I had the pleasure of accepting the invitation, because it means something to me to be able to accept these things. Mrs. Kenner is. Most Ancient Matron of the Heroines of Jericho, a fe- male Masonic branch. She is just making the world: know the Grand Court of Missouri, and when the women elected her at the head of the order for the State, they did a great thing. Now I think I have called your attention to many things and I am atmost, ready to give up now. Prof. Kenner has been principal of “the school at Marshall for 25 years. He js a fine teazher and a fine man. He has invested some money in the jand. He now owns half of what he owns and his wife shares with him. He pays more taxes than any forty men of the race in Mar- shall. Now from there to Glasglow, spending a little time with. Prof. A. R. Chinn. I'am. delighted to tell you all these things. 1 am now in Chicago, but will not say anything abvut it until next week. J. O. Midnight. Special Notice. A feast of good things under the auspices of the Christian Endeavor society of the Pennsylvania A. M. 5. Zion Church on Sunday, March 24, 1912. lla. m., Mrs. A. D. Blackburn Traxon, the evangelist, subject *‘Weighed in the Balance’ 3p. m., Platform meeting, Mrs J. A. Handy, presiding. Address by Miss Charlotte Davage, of Grace Pregbyterian Church. Solo _ by Miss M. E. Ford, of Shiloh Baptist Church. Recitation (Beyond) by Miss Emma.G. Butler. Solo, Mme. Lillian Reed Thompson. - 6 p._m., Christian Endeavor hour. Be with us to greet Ebene- zer Christiam Endeavor Society. John L. Murray, president. 8 p. m,. service, Hon. Joseph C. Evans, presiding. Address by Rev. L. Z. Johnson, D, D., pastor of Madison street Presbyerian Chureh. Address by Mrs.. M. E. Williams, of Grace Presbyterian Church. Solo by Mme. Lula Scott, of Enon Baptist Church. Solo by Mme. Bessie Speed, of Leadenhall Street Baptist Church. Trio. by Mme. Ida V. Coston, Mr. Joseph A. Coston, of St. John A. ME. Church, and Mr. Joseph L. Butler. Chorus tnusi¢ under the direction vf the choir of the A. M. E. Zion Church under the direction of Prof. James T. Butler. Rev. E. D. W. Jones, pastor. Joseph L. Butler, president of V. ei. s. ©. & P. Phone, St. Paul 7464 JAMES C. HAWKINS 310 St. Paul St. Real Estate. Rents Collected. Mortgages and loans , — hegotiated. L:- Gregory Hubert, Manager. Up-town office, 1217 Argyle Avenue. . LOANS LOANS $10,000 —Ten Thousand Dollars to. Loan on City and County? property m separate: lots from $50.00 up on. mortgages, notes t and.other forms 'of approved se- curity: Money on hand—no: de Tay. Harry S. Cummings, Attorney-at-Law, “219 Courtland Street If It Comes Under The Head Of . “DRUGS” ‘We Have It. Terrel: & McNeill SUCCESSORS ‘TO Z GATE’S PHARMACY | Corner. Carey. and -Presstman Streets.) PreScription Work: : oh EER Spécialty\ Denton Notes. Denton; Md.,Mar, 21—Woman’s day services were held at’ John Wesley M. E. ChurchS unday. The fourth quarterly. conference of Union Bethel A. M. E. Church was held Sunday. Rev. P. J. Jor: dan, the presiding elder, preached in the morning. Mr. Wesley Horner, of . Preston, Md., was the guest of Miss Eliza- beth Henry Sunday. Mr. J.J . Thomas is running the grocery store that was formerly run by Mr. J. W. Standford Master Mercer Henry. gave 2 birthday reception Saturday even. ing | Mrs Eliza Addison, of Barclay, Ma, is visiting her mother. Mrs. 0. G. Flamer ‘and C. B. Gasson have: returned from Phila: delphia. é Mr. Charles W.. Jones is visiting his mother, Mrs. Mary B. Jones. Misses Ida and Caroline Bailes are in Baltimore . visiting thei sister, Mrs, Frank Duke. | Miss Jeanette Fountain has re jeovered from a recent attack of th erip. Mt. Winan Notes. Mt. Winans, Mar. 21—Rev. Co- lumbus Handy is running’ revival services at the A. M. E. Church. A delegation will viist the Balti. more A. M. &. Conference to ask for the return of Rev. Handy. Rey. Dolkie Carrol!, an evange- list, will preach at the A. M. E. Chureh Sunday night. Mrs. Christian Murdock, daughtet of Mrs. Bailey, is very ill. ° Mr. Daniel Home is confined his home by illness. ——— Winchester Notes. - Winchester, Va., Mar. 20 — A “tackly party’? wes given at Jobr Mann M. E. Church. last. Friday niht. Rev. A. P. Shaw, pastor. o1 the church, is attending the M.. E. Conference at Washington. Rev, Walker Carter has returned from Sharpsburg, Pa., where he went to attend the funeral of his sister. The anti-tuberculosis League held meeting at St. Paul A. M. E. Church Tuesday night, Addresses were delivered by Prof. Joseph Fletcher, A. F. Martin, William Davis, and Rev. R. J. Butt. Mt. Friendship Notes. Mt. Friendship, Del., Mar. 21-— Mrs. Ella Nichols gave a success- ful-enterainmentt at the Odd Fel- lows’ Hall. Music was furnished by Johnson's * Cornet Band, of Smyrna, Del. A suecessfu) drama was also pre- sented at the hall a few evenings ago. brof. Alexander C. Butcher gave a successful old folk’s entertain- ment. Rev. M. &. Hazzard Bar- rett delivered the principal address. SPECIAL NOTICES The annual election of officers of the C. Y. W. C. A., 1200 Druid Hill avenue, will be held on Thurs- day, March 28 at 8 p. m. All mem- bers are earnestly urged to be present. £ M. E. Murphy, president. BP. E. Bright, secretary. “‘Whosoever will,’’ are invited to attend the Men’s Day Service at St. John A. M. E. Church, Lexing- ton street. near Pine, Sunday, March 4th, 1912. 7 Services g lla. m., sermon by the pastor, subject, ‘‘Sampson in The Toils.’” 3p. m., sermon by Rev. D. G. Hill, of Bethel A. M. E. Church. 7:30 p. m., platform service. Opening Exercises Address Rev. Dr. D. N. E.Campbell Quartette Mr. Wiliam Johnson, leader Select Reading (Poem) . Mr. . Samuel Carroll Piano Solo Mr. John W. Brown Address Mr. J, Harry Owens Essay Miss Buena Wright Closing Remarks by the Pastor Rev. L. S. Flagg The First Baptist Church Literary Society organzed- February 27, 1912, meets every Tuesday evenng from 8 to 10 p. m. at the Church, Caroline and McElderry streets. | NOTICE NOTICE. The opening exercises of the:Allen C. E. League will be held in chape! of Bethel A. M. E. Church, Druid Hill Avenue ‘and Lanvale street. Sunday March 24 at 5 o’elock p.m. 2 The-following program will be rendered, | Opening address) Mr. Howard Young. : Duet Misses Estelle Carroll and Beatrice Connor. ed Solo Dr..0. D.-Jones. ey Select ‘reading ary K. ‘Owens. oe Recitation Mg Everyone is:ii Miss Mary KS ‘Miss Bessie Sa] Rev. THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER The Annual Thanksgiving Services of the e KNIGHTS OF PY THIAS ON A, SAS EA, A G&A. Will be held at John Wesley [. E. Church * ‘Sunday afternoon, March 24th at 3 o’clock Sermon by Rev. Ernest Lyon, Former Minister to Liberia. ~ The public is invited to worship with us. - ‘ GEO. A. WATTY,{Grand Chancellor Josiah Diggs, G: K. of R. &S. Lewis E. Williams, Brig. Gen’l. Wanted 100 People to Eat! DALY’S-WHY? American and European Plan | NOW OPEN 1117 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE —-THE—— Famous Juvenile Troubadors and Mr. T. Henderson Kerr, Violin Soloist Paim Sunday Afternoon, March 31st, 1912, at 6.15 o'clock In A Sacred Service At Galilean Auditorium Mr. L. Ellsworth Toomey In charge Su pervision of the,Galilean Silver Offering ; — There Will Be Held—— A Grand Novelty Bazar For the Improvement Fund of Macedonia Bapt. Church : Cor. Saratoga and Vincent Streets Commencing Thursday, March 30th, and Ending Friday Evening, April 19th, 1912 Special Literary Program Each Evening Season Tickets Twenty-five Cents, Mrs. D. G. Mack, Manageress Mme. Rosa Bias, Pianist . Rev. D. G. Mack, D. D., Pastor. GREAT! GRAND! ANDALUSIAN. CONCERT & LYRICAL FANTISMA CONCERT . Given by the Alphian Male Singing Society GALILEAN FISHERMEN’S AUDITORIUM, 411 W. Biddle Street Monday Evening, March 25th, 1912 a Come one, come al} and be entertained by the Henderson Kerr’s Premier Orchestra, and also meet,the Smart Set Company after theatre. : CARDS. OF ADMISSION, — 25 CENTS. Clarence Beads, President. William_O. Johnson, Director. THE SEVEN LAST WORDS OF CHRIST ‘i BY: DuBOIS. Will be rendered AT TRINITY A. M. E. CHURCH Linden Avenue and Biddle Street . GQOD FRIDAY NIGHT, APRIL 5th, 1912, at eight o'clock sy Trinity Choir, assisted by some of Baltimore’s Pe Best Delent, 8 : anstall; Baritone. : « Madam Editn Gibson, :Sonzano. <-.. iggs, Tenor. agen Madama Re ogc Mp Wk i Se SPECIAL NOTICES = SS—————S—S—_—_—_— _ Look Up Lift Up. ‘The Carrie.L.Lilly Junior League of Eastern M. B. Church, McElderry streeat and Patterson Park avenue, will deliver a program of eloquence Sunday, March 24th, at 6° P.. M. Everybody welcome. Carrie Lilly .Rrooks, Supt. Bessie Simms, Assistant.. ‘The Grant Family and Company will speak and: sing Sunday after- noon, March 24th, at 4 o’clock, at Centennial Chureh,- Cor. Caroline and Bank streets, at the Epworth League service. Mrs. Helen Cooper, President. - Don’t fail to attend therfendition of the“ ‘Seven Last Words of Christ’’ at Trinity Chruch, Linden avenue and Biddle street, Good Friday night. Cards of admission 15 cents. Mr. Nelson Tunstall will appear in ‘Seven Last Words.of Christ’’ at Trinity A. M. E. Church Good Friday night. The choruses in ‘‘Seven Last Words of Christ?” ar: superb. Those who attend Trinity Good Fri- day night will be delighted. Tickets for ‘Seven Last Words of Christ’? at Trinity Church, Gaod Friday night are 15 cents. Ss Notice! The printing plant and_publish- ing company formerly owned by 5. FE. Watkins, at 118 Dover St., will be owned and operated by Joshua ¥. L. G. Duvall, at the same loca- tion. — NOLICEDS ’ Brown’s. Boarding and Lodging House. | Furnished rooms with or -with ‘out board. Permanent or transi- ent. boarding and lodging. Special attention to out-of-town people. 1026. DRUID HILL AVE. Good Clean Rooms. LAFAYETTE CAFE 1339 Pennsylvania’Ave, Five doors from Lafayette Ave, Tobacco and Soft Drinks. Quick Lunch. * Hot Bread a Specialty. Boarding and Lodging. Open All Night. 21 Meals, $3.50. 18 Meals, $2:50 W. L. JONES, Manager. FOR SALE-A. type printing hand press, only in use 1 month. Reasonable price. 217 S. Clinton Street, Highlandtown. Se eae earns WANTED — Two strong girl: to sew on bed ticks. Call at once. Folding Feather Mattress Co., 714 N. Eutaw Street. ~ cea eee, OSTRICH FEATHERS, CLEAN. ED, CURLED AND RENOVATED. Willow Plumes and Bands Mad _ to Order. EDITH P. BUTLER, 4230 Etting Stree ©. & P. Phone, Madison 6597 pe ll ee Don’t hide your light under « bushel. ‘Tell the people what yo know about your business, Advortis t@-WHATCOAT M. E.. CHURCH, Franklin and Pine Sts. “King’s Hil Rev. Alfred Young, Pastor. HEE nage Sool PERE Rey 11 A. M., Strauger. 3P. M., Sermon-by by Rev. W. E, Williams, Pastor of Grace Pres- hyterain Church. His choir and congregation will be present. 8 P, M., sermon by Stranger. Rev, Alfred Young, Pastor. Revival service every night. (@-CENTENNIAL M.E. CHURCH Cor. Caroline and ‘Bank Sts Rey, D. W. Shaw, D. D., Pastor 11 A. M.,Sermon by Mrs. Rev. Mary E. Lee, of Philadelphia. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School, W. L. Gibsoo, Supt. 4,30 P. M., Epworth League, Mrs, Helen A. Cooper, Pres. 8 P.M.,Dr.Ssaw will preach a special sermon. The Doctors and Coachmen’s Junior Association will turn out, and special invitation to Dr. Shaw’s many friends as this may be his farewell sermon. t@rAMES MEM. M. £. CHURCH, Carey aad Baker Sts. Rev. D. D. Turpeau, Pastor, Sunday, March 24,1912. 11,00 A. ML, sermon by Pastor. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 5.00 P. M,, Epworth League. 8 BP. M.,:Sermon by the Pastor. PENN. A. M.E, ZION CHURCH Rev, E, ND. W, Jones, Pastor Sunday, Maach 24, 1912. 11 A. M., Mrs, A.D Biackburn Traxon, the Evangelist of Philadel- phia, Pa. Subject, “Weighed in the Balance.” 3.P.M., Platform Meeting, Mrs. Bishop James A. Handy, presiding. 6 2. M., Frateroal Visit’ from Ebenezer Christian Mudeavor So- ciety. Joho T. Murray, Pres. S'P. M, Service, Hon. Juseph P. Evans, presiding, A service of un- usual interest. The public invited. Joseph L. Butler, Pres, Rey, E. D. W. Jones, D.D,, Pastor. SPECIALNOTICES c. ¥. W. CG. A. 1200 Druid Hill Avenue. Se ee Re eee You are cordially invited to at- tend the services on Sunday, Marck 24,at5 P. M. Miss Anderson, ausical instructor of Morgan Col lege, and students will bave charg: of the program. Miss Emma Mitchell, presiding. : M. E. Murphy, Pies E. E. Bright, See’.y Special Sermon. There will be a special service, Sunday, March 24,1912, at 3,3¢ P, M,, under the direction of the W. M. M. Society of Waters A. M. -E Charch. Address dy Mrs. Lee, the great westero evangelist, assisted by local talent, All members of or- ganizations invited. Mrs. Mary Sephas Benton, Pres. Susie Chase, 1 V. Pres., Mrs, Lavin ia Henson, 2 V. Pres., -Hallie An- derson, Sec, Mrs. A. H. Moore; Cor, Sec., Matilda Slocum, Treas, M.F. Sydes, Pastor. Apniversary Sermon. Presiding Elder J. A. Cole, for- mer pastor of Zion A. M..E. Church will Preach the Anniversary Sermon to the King’s Sons and Daughters of St. John's A. M. E. Church, Lexington street near Pine, Sunday evening, March 31,-1912, at 3 o'clock. All co-work »rs and sister ‘churches are cordially. invited. Rev. L. S. Flagg. Pastor. Special Notice, The Federation of Christian. Wo- men will hold a special meeting at the Young Women’s Christian’ As- sociation on Monday evening; March 25th, Business of Importance. By order‘of-the President, Mrs. Mary F. Handy. At St. Paul’s M. E. Church, Saratoga'street near Cary, Raster Sunday night April 7th, 1912, An Oratorio Subject, The Great, Light will be rendered, by 40 voices under the auspices of the choir. Postively a silver offering at the. door: Mr. T. H. Franklin, Director Mrs. M. L. Freeland, Organist. S. H. Norwood, Pastor Rag Men’s Organization ‘ The-Rag Men's Organization will turn out at St. Paul M; E. Church, Sunday,. March 23th, at 8° o’clock PLM ——— — -Buy. Your-—— é Meats, Groceries and Provisions (Brom Harr. G.. Bolander: Nees gn aa =. deftersors (Where! you. yet the :besw ee. prices CHURCH NOTICES, Fourteenth Annual Women’s Day: te TRINITY A. M. £, CHURCH, Rev. A. L. Gaines, D. D., Pastor... Sunday, March 24th, 1912 11 A. M., Speakers: Mrs. Edith Brooks, and Mrs. Lula Scott, 3P.M., Speakers, Miso-Mary Beale, Mrs U. L Stepteau, Mrs. Mamie. White and three’ minutes’ addresses from the Presidents of the Organizations of sister churches. © *7.30 -P. M.. Platform Meeting, Mrs. Mary FP. Handy” Presiding. Speakers’ Miss Ethel ‘Thompson, Mrs. Annie Wortham; Miss Laura E. Campbell, Mrs. Elinora B, Will- iams aod others. Mrs. Mary Wright, Pres. Miss Julia Thornton, Vicé-Pres. Mrs, A. L. Waters, Sect’y. Pastor, subject, “How to get Re- ligion. quick.” HANDY MEM. A. M. EB. CHURCH Cor, Baker and. Bruce Sts. Rev: John Offer Custis, Pastor. 1514 Druid Hill Ave. 11 A. M., Preaching. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School. 3.30 P. M., Special Sermon. £§P. M.. Preaching to Star of Bethlehem Society. Men’s Day—Palm Sunday, March 31st, 1912—Special program . allday. < Mz. Samuel E. Robinson, Pres: H.W. Hiner, Sey; ss t@r WATERS A. M. E, CHURCH Aisquith St., near Jefferson. Rev. Dr M. F. Sydes, Pastor. 4.27 Aisquith Street 11 A, M. Special Sermon by Pastor, subject: "The Unpardonable Sin.” 3 BP. M. Sunday School, J. F. Waters, Supt. 3.30 P. M., Special Missionary Sermon by Sister Mary E. Lee, con- ference evangelist. General plat- form meeting. All interested. in mis- sionary work come and help us. 545 P. M., A. C. E. League, Miss Mamge Wolford, President. _ 7.30 P. M., the Pastor will preack a special sermon, subject: “4 Court Murdered,” All welcomed. - PAYNE MEM. A. M. E. CHURCH Laurens and Calhoun St. Rev. P. W. Wortham, D:D., Pastor Sunday, March 24th” 11 A. M., Sermon by Pastor. 3.30 P. M., Sermon by Rev. E, D. W. Jones; D. D., pastor A. M. E. Zion Church, {His choir and ¢con- gregation will accompany him. 8 P. M., Sermon by Rev. S. M. Johnson, D. D., P. E.,.to Bishop A W. Wayman Lodge No. 4739, 6, U. O..0. F. ‘Tuesday,.March 26, 8 P. M., Rey. A. L. Gaines, D. D. “His choir and congregation will. worship with ices / dvev. J. W. Norris, tf astor CLASS DAY Each Leader will stand: at the head of bis class. 11 A. M., sermon’ by Pastor. 2.30 p.m., Sunday School. 3.30 P, M., Sermon by Rev. Wm. H. Harris, of Wayman A, M, E. Church and congregation. 6.00 p.m. A.C. E. League. 8 P. M,, sermon by the Pastor Herbert Frisby, Supt. John Murray, Pres, of L. ALLEN A, M. E, CHURCH, Lexington and Carlton Streets Rev. |. G. Martin, Pastor GIRLS! DAY 11 A. M,, Sermon by Pastor, 2.30.P. M., Sunday School. 4,30 P. M., Allen League. 8 P. M., Special Progtam. for Girls’ Day. March 31,3 P. M.—Sermon to Rebecca juvenile Lodge No. 8 Grand United Order: Good Hope. Wm. Butler, pres. of League Miss A. I. Russell, Supt. t@-GILLIS MEM. M. P, CHURCH, Stockton Street near W. Baltimore Rev. B. H. Knight, Pastor. 10 a.m, Class, . 11 A. M., Rev A. White. 2.30 P. M., Sunday School 6.30: CE. League. 8 P. M,, Sermon to the Grand United Order of Seven Wise Men by. the Pastor. J. W, Fowler, Pres. O: E. 'f, H. McGowan, Supt. 3° PERKINS. SQ. BAP. CHURCH - George and Ogston Streets Rev. F. 8. Williams, D.D., Pastor | 11 A. M., Sermon by Pastor. 8 P. M., Thanksgiving Sermon to the Court’ of Calaathe, Knights of Pythias, Mrs. -Kosa., Richardson, G.W.C. Kev, Dr: Newton, of Cam. den, N J., will preach. Sunday School at.9.30°A, M. and 2.30.P. M. : 7 Brilliant Program.”\. °°. At the A. C: E. -Leagné: of Water’s A, M. E. Church; \ie- quith near. Jefferson ..street, -Sukyg ‘day, March 24th:5:452P. Ms >7:. MI ALH. Pitts,’ Mrs, Emma Nor andiol haerinaiaionee Last spring, a boy walked up to an odd little street in New York with a portfolio under his arm and knocked at the door of George de Forest Brush, the famous artist. He was eighteen yeas old, and since that is not an age of wide worldly experience and he only knew Mr. Bush through his work, it took some courage to make the brief journey from the corner of the studio door. Perhaps he would never have ventured if he had not been somewhat desperate. He meant to put squarely to Mr. Brush the great question that would settle his life for him. "Do you think that I can ever become an artist?" If Mr. Brush said yes, then he would not change his fate with anybody in the world. If he said no, it was good-bye to dreams and a return to such occupations as are open to young colored men with good high school education. Richard Brown was his name, and he came from Parkersburg, West Va. He had been born in Indiana, but all his life had been spent among the hills of West Virginia. He had come to know and love those hills as few know and love them. To get away from everybody and paint them had been his chief pleasure in life. He cared to paint nothing but landscape. His parents had been ambitious for him and sent him to the Charlestown Institute, and there in the manual training department he was taught house painting. He did well in his studies and well in his house painting, but it was in his work in water colors that he won most applause. Everybody assured him that he was remarkable. Fortunately for Richard Brown, his head had been put on his shoulders in a very square and level fashion. Nearly any boy would have been quite content to accept the opinion of everybody about them. Most of us have a lurking suspicion that we are remarkable, and the suspicion rapidly becomes a conviction as soon as people begin to look on with approbation. Richard was pleased to be complimented, and he might have become quite satisfied with himself had the flame in his heart burned less steadily and clearly. As it was, he thought the matter out very sanely. He was certainly able to paint much better than other people he knew, but it was easy to shine where there are no rivals. It was true that Charlestown thought him already a finished artist, but then Charlestown, with all its advantages as a place of residence, could hardly be called a centre of art. Young Richard was deeply disturbed about himself. He had an ideal, formed entirely from his fancy, for he had seen nothing that could help him, of what landscape painting should be. It was vague, but he felt it to be true so far as he could formulate it and he was sure he was a long way from attaining it. In time this anxiety to know where he stood grew quite unbearable. Something had to be done and he packed his bag and went to Pittsburgh. There, he knew, were pictures and a school. The first would tell him what he wanted to know, and the second would help him to reach his ideal. Pittsburgh was a revelation. In the institute he found many pictures and he studied there day after day. He worked in the school, too, but somehow he did not feel that things were going well with him. Before the perfection of the pictures he saw he was discouraged. "Will I ever be an artist?" he asked himself, and he grew more and more restless and uncertain. Nothing satisfied him. He must have been very wretched and unhappy. He was a sensible boy and yet he did a very wild thing. He was convinced that New York, where great artists lived and great landscape paintings were collected, would settle his difficulty one way or the other. Counting his money he found he could pay his fare to New York and have $2 left over. Hardly stopping to consider what might happen to him when that small capital was gone he took the train. The cost of living in New York would be more than in Pittsburgh, that he knew, but he was rather bewildered to find that to hire a cow would alone require all his money. He had nott, indeed, condered the matter very carefully, was shock. He had the One can ride a long way for five cents, and he rode the longest way three times, carrying his little bag of clothing and his precious portfolio. At the end of each journey the guard would yell, "Hi—you there! Wake up! All out!" and the exhausted boy would struggle up from his cramped corner. The next ten days are a good deal of a blank to him. He remembers that he ate buns and apples, as providing more food for a starving boy at a cost of five cents than anything else. He made a few pennies in one way or another, but he lived for the most part on his two dollars. There was hardly an art dealer in New York the boy did not approach. He would have sold any of his paintings for ten cents, and been thankful, but everywhere the result was the same. A colored boy of 18—who wanted to look at him? Nobody—not one dealer took him seriously enough to even glance at his pictures. Some did not bother themselves to treat him with decent courtesy. He had absolutely nothing for his pains but disappointment, tired feet, and an increased need for something to eat. Finally he got work house painting. Every evening he spent in the Metropolitan Museum. The pictures he found there stirred him as nothing else had ever done. Before the landscapes of the French school, Rousseau and Corot especially, he fairly worshipped. Any self conceit he may have had fell away completely before them. He knew he was only at a beginning with a long and weary road to travel. Fate had undoubtedly determined to try Richard Brown to the utmost, for at this period of his vicissitudes she gave the threads of his already tangled existence another twist, which had very nearly the effect of tying them up in an inextricable kno: At the moment when he was discouraged, when the struggle most reduced him mentally and physically, he was made an offer which meant comfort and usefulness. His old school needed some one to teach house painting and offered him the position. There he was squarely confronted with the question whether or not he had a right to sacrifice his youth to so far-off an ideal, whether it would not be better, and above all, more honorable toward the parents who had done so much for him, to settle down in Charleston, teach for a living, paint for his pleasure, and fill his useful, inconspicuous, commonplace niche in the world. To a conscientious boy, free from conceit, it must have been a hard struggle. In fact, it was so hard that he could not fight it alone, and he might have given in had he not had his great idea. He had seen the work of George de Brush and admired it. So he decided to call on Mr. Brush and ask him frankly whether he was running after a rainbow or whether he really might some day reach his goal. So this was the history of Richard Brown, who was knocking at Mr. Brush' studio door, that the oracle might speak and determine his future course. Mr. Brush, fortunately, is by no means so haughty a personage as an art dealer's clerk, for he is much too busy to think about his fame in the world. He invited his caller to come in and said he would be glad to look at his studies. Richard Brown took them out and held them up for inspection. There was this quality in the young artist's mind, that all nature was so dear to him he never chose distinctly "pretty spots." He had gone out and painted what was all round him. There were winter scenes, with only a bare tree and dried grasses in the snowy foreground, and the West Virginia hill is misty and ghostlike in the distance. He had painted hillsides in the autumn, bleak and treeless, with perhaps a little cabin somewhere about, but never a human being. And everywhere he saw everything through the love of nature that was his passion above all else. All his little sketches he showed Mr. Brush. That gentleman looked at them with interest and asked a few questions. Finally Richard Brown came to the fatal point and asked if Mr. Brush thought he could ever be an artist. To which the great man made the prompt reply: "Why, my boy," he said heartily, "you are one THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER things which teaching cannot give—the eye that sees and the heart that feels, these the boy knew; but other things having to do with some matter of technique he: had to learn. However, even technically, he had acquired a good deal. He had perspective, and his foregrounds, which, artists, many say, are stumbling blocks to all beginners, were already good. Thus Richard Brown was able to make his great decision. There was an end to anxiety, an end to the period of house painting, buns, and apples, for Mr. Brush did more than give advice. He made the boy his pupil, and in the goodness of his kind heart took him to his summer place in New Hampshire, that the boy might lose no time. Here all last summer, he painted the New England landscapes with the same insight he had had in West Virignia, with his master near by to help and criticise. He progressed so rapidly that at the end of the summer a dealer offered to take some of his work and exhibit it in his rooms on Fifth Avenue. Orders, too, had come in here and there, so that even financial success seemed to have arrived. The boy's friends had looked forward to four or five years of study for him and it was a little disconcerting to find him so soon on the road to independence. They were not sure that he would sell so soon, before his genius had fully developed, but since buyers came after all why not? He had always the watchful eye of Mr. Brush upon him and his friendly warning ready should he try to go too fast. He had, however, no disposition to overestimate this early success. The same clear flame that saved him before saves him still. He only rejoices that he is able to be independent and that he sees, not very far off, the possibility of helping others. It was not long after the desperate pilgrimage to the studio of Mr. Brush that the young artist came in contact with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the members of the society were among his earliest friends and admirers in New York. W. Rethenstein has said of him: "He has a very precious gift—a vision all his own of nature which has a touching quality of beauty." Now Richard Brown is to give his first individual exhibition. His pictures will be shown March 18 to 23 inclusive, at the gallery of Ovington Brothers Company, 314 Fifth Avenue. Although he lives, apparently, only for his art, it does not fill all the corners of Richard Brown's heart. He cares deeply, too, for his race, and he thinks much of its present of persecution and its possible future of success, especially along the lines of art. Artistic by instinct the white American is not, but the black American certainly is. No one disputes his musical talent, and the day may not be long off when in painting also he will begin to be a factor. He needs the right environment to develop like all other human beings, but here and there some gifted boy or girl by force of determination will find it as Richard Brown has done. To be able, some day, to help them is his greatest ambition.—N. Y. Times. Snow Hill Notes Snow Hill, Md., Mar. 21—The colored schools of Wicomico county closed last Friday after a five month's session. Special closing exercises were held at the grammar school. Prof. P. E. Gordy, supervisor of colored schools in Wicomico county, was the guest of Rev. J. E. Henry last Friday and Saturday. The funeral of Mr. Benjamin Selby was held here last Thursday. The funeral of Mrs. Sarah Johnson was held the same day. Mr. John Spence, Mr. Peter L. Henry, and Miss Vietta Taylor visited friends in Berlin, Md. Sunday. Mrs. Lavinia Jewett, accompanied by Miss Ellis Adams, left Saturday to visit her parents in Preston Md. Rev. Charles Spencer, of Snow Hill Circuit, preached at the annual rally services of Mt. Zion Baptist Church. The rally was a success. LET PEOPLE RULE SAYS ROOSEVELT Opposes President's Attitude on Popular Government. PEOPLE'S VOICE MUST PREVAIL Cheered For Speech In Opening Active Campaign For Nomination — Quotes Taft as Opposed to the Majority. Stands Squarely on His Columbus (O.) Address. The silent passages in Colonel Roosevelt's forceful campaign speech delivered in Carnegie hall, New York, Wednesday evening, are given below: The great fundamental issue now before the Republican party and before our people can be stated briefly. It is, Are the American people fit to govern themselves, to rule themselves, to control themselves? I believe they are. My opponents do not. I believe in the right of the people to rule. I believe that the majority of the plain people of the United States will, day in and day out, make fewer mistakes in governing themselves than any smaller class or body of men, no matter what their training, will make in trying to govern them. I believe again that the American people are as a whole capable of self control and of learning by their mistakes. Our opponents pay lip loyalty to this doctrine, but they show their real beliefs by the way in which they champion every device to make the nominal rule of the people a sham. I have scant patience with this talk of the tyranny of the majority. Whenever there is tyranny of the majority I shall protest against it with all my heart and soul. But we are today suffering from the tyranny of the minorities. It is a small minority that is grabbing our coal deposits, our water powers and our harbor fronts. A small minority is fattening on the sale of adulterated foods and drugs. It is a small minority that lies behind monopolies and trusts. It is a small minority that stands behind the present law of master and servant, the sweatshops and the whole calendar of social and industrial injustice. It is a small minority that is today using our convention system to defeat the will of a majority of the people in the choice of delegates to the Chicago convention. Not For Recall Everywhere. My opponents charge that two things in my program are wrong because they intrude into the sanctuary of the judiciary. The first is the recall of judges and the second the review by the people of judicial decisions on certain constitutional questions. I have said again and again that I do not advocate the recall of judges in all states and in all communities. The integrity of our judges, from Marshall to White and Holmes—and to Cullen and many others in our own state—is a fine page of American history. But—I say it soberly—democracy has a right to approach the sanctuary of the courts when a special interest has corruptly found sanctuary there, and this is exactly what has happened in some of the states where the recall of the judges is a living issue. Is it not equally plain that the question whether a given social policy is for the public good is not of a judicial nature, but should be settled by the legislature, or in the final instance by the people themselves? The president of the United States, Mr. Taft, devoted most of a recent speech to criticism of this proposition. He says that it "is utterly without merit or utility, and instead of being * * * in the interest of all the people and of the stability of popular government, is sowing the seeds of confusion and tyranny." (By this he, of course, means the tyranny of the majority—that is, the tyranny of the American people as a whole). He also says that my proposal (which, as he rightly sees, is merely a proposal to give the people a real instead of only a nominal chance to construe and amend a state constitution with reasonable rapidity) would make such amendment and interpretation "depend on the feverish, uncertain and unstable determination of successive votes on different laws by temporary and changing majorities," and that "it lays the ax at the foot of the tree of well ordered freedom and subjects the guarantees of life, liberty and property without remedy to the fiftful impulse of a temporary majority of an electorate." This criticism is really less a criticism of my proposal than a criticism of all popular government. It is wholly unfounded, unless it is founded on the belief that the people are fundamentally untrustworthy. This is the question that I propose to submit to the people. How can the prevailing morality or a preponderant opinion be better and more exactly ascertained than by a vote of the people? The people must know better than the court what their own morality and their own opinion is. I ask that you, here, you and others like you, you the people, be given the chance to state your own views of justice and public morality and not sit weekly by and have your views announced for you well meaning adherents of philosophies, who exalt the formulas above the vital man life. This position is up from ber of reputable and honorable men who down at bottom distrust popular government and when they must accept it accept it with reluctance and hedge around it with every species of restriction and check and balance so as to make the power of the people as limited and as ineffective as possible. Mr. Taft fairly defines the issue when he says that our government is and should be a government of all the people by a representative part of the people. This is an excellent and moderate description of an oligarchy. It defines our government as a government of all of the people by a few of the people. I am not speaking jokingly nor do I mean to be unkind, for I repeat that many honorable and well meaning men of high character take this view and have taken it from the time of the formation of the nation. Essentially this view is that the constitution is a strait-jacket to be used for the control of an unruly patient—the people. Now, I hold that this view is not only false, but mischievous, that our constitutions are instruments designed to secure justice by securing the deliberate but effective expression of the popular will, that the checks and balances are valuable as far and only so far as they accomplish that deliberation and that it is a warped and unworthy and improper construction of our form of government to see in it only a means of thwarting the popular will and of preventing justice. Mr. Taft says that "every class" should have a "voice" in the government. That seems to be a very serious misconception of the American political situation. The real trouble with us is that some classes have had too much voice. One of the most important of all the lessons to be taught and to be learned is that a man should vote not as a representative of a class, but merely as a good citizen, whose puline interests are the same as those of all other good citizens. Taft's "Disbelief In the People." Taft's "Disbelief in the People." Mr. Taft again and again, in quotations I have given and elsewhere through his speech, expresses his disbelief in the people when they vote at the polls. In one sentence he says that the proposition gives "powerful effect to the momentary impulse of a majority of an electorate and prepares the way for the possible exercise of the grossest truancy." Elsewhere he speaks of the "feverish uncertainty" and "unstable determination" of laws by "temporary and changing majorities," and again he says that the system I propose "would result in suspension or application of constitutional guarantees according to popular whim," which would destroy "all possible consistency" in constitutional interpretation. I should much like to know the exact distinction that is to be made between what Mr. Taft calls "the fitful impulse of a temporary majority" when applied to a question such as that I raise and any other question. Remember that under my proposal to review a rule of decision by popular vote, amending or construing to that extent the constitution, would certainly take at least two years from the time of the election of the legislature which passed the act. Now, only four months elapse between the nomination and the election of a man as president, to fill for four years the most important office in the land. In one of Mr. Taft's speeches he speaks of "the voice of the people as coming next to the voice of God." Apparently, then, the decision of the people about the presidency, after four months' deliberation, is to be treated as "next to the voice of God," but if after two years of sober thought they decide that women and children shall be protected in industry, or men protected from excessive hours of labor under unhygeneic conditions, or wage workers compensated when they lose life or limb in the service of others, then their decision forthwith becomes a "whim" and "feverish" and "unstable" and an exercise of "the grossest tyranny" and the "laying of the ax to the foot of I've tree of freedom." That is the old, old doctrine which has been acted upon for thousands of years abroad and which here in America has been acted upon sometimes openly, sometimes secretly, for forty years by many men in public and in private life, and I am sorry to say by many judges; a doctrine which has in fact tended to create a bulwark for privilege, a bulwark unjustly protecting special interests against the rights of the people as a whole. This doctrine is to me a dreadful doctrine, for its effect is, and can only be, to make the courts the shield of privilege against popular rights. Naturally, every upholder and beneficiary of crooked privilege loudly applauds the doctrine. It is behind the shield of that doctrine that crooked clauses creep into laws, that men of wealth control legislation. "Just Judges Safe." Remember I am not discussing the recall of judges—although I wish it distinctly understood that the recall is a mere piece of machinery to take the place of the unworkable impeachment which Mr. Taft in effect defends and that if the days of Maynard ever came back again in the state of New York I should favor it. I have no wish to come to it, but our opponents when they object to all efforts to secure real justice from the courts are strengthening the hands of those who demand the recall. In a great many states there has been for many years a real recall of judges as regards appointments-promotions, reappointments and reelections, and this recall was through the turn of a thumbscrew at the end of the distance rod in the tests. I believe that far safer in the hand in the hands the result of a ill- stitutional law, but continued experi- mental power. to redress social and industrial evils. Again and again earnest workers for social justice have said to me that the most serious obstacles that they, have encountered during the many years that they have been trying to save American women and children from destruction in American industry have been the courts. That is the judgment of almost all the social workers I know and of dozens of parish priests and clergymen and of every executive and legislator who has been seriously attempting to use government as an agency for social and industrial betterment. What is the result of this system of judicial nullification? It was accurately stated by the court of appeals of New York in the employers' liability case, where it was calmly and judicially declared that the people under our republican government are less free to correct the evils that oppress them than are the people of the monarchies of Europe. To any man with vision, to any man with broad and real social sympathies, to any man who believes with all his heart in this great democratic republic of ours, such a condition is intolerable. It is not government by the people, but mere sham government in which the will of the people is constantly defeated. It is out of this experience that my remedy has come, and let it be tried in this field. When as the result of years of education and debate a majority of the people have decided upon a remedy for an evil from which they suffer and have chosen a legislature and executive pledged to embody that: everybody in law and the law has been finally passed and approved I regard it as monstrous that a bench of judges shall then say to the people: "You must begin all over again. First, amend your constitution [which will take four years]; second, secure the passage of a new law [which will take two years more]; third, carry that new law over the weary course of litigation [which will take no human being knows how long]; fourth, submit the whole matter over again to the very same judges who have rendered the decision to which you object. Then, if your patience holds out and you finally prevail, the will of the majority of the people may have its way." Such a system is not popular government, but a mere mockery of popular government. People Will Define "Liberty." The decisions of which we complain are, as a rule, based upon the constitutional provision that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law. The terms "life, liberty and property" have been used in the constitutions of the English speaking peoples since Magna Charita. Until within the last sixty years they were treated as having specific meanings—"property" meant tangible property; "liberty" meant freedom from personal restraint, or, in other words, from imprisonment in its largest definition. About 1870 our court began to attach to these terms new meanings. Now "property" has come to mean every right of value which a person could enjoy, and "liberty" has been made to include the right to make contracts. As a result, when the state limits the hours for which women may labor, it is told by the courts that this law deprives them of their "liberty," and when it restricts the manufacture of tobacco in a tenement it is told that the law deprives the laudlord of his "property." Now, I do not believe that any people, and especially our free American people, will long consent that the term "liberty" shall be defined for them by a bench of judges. Every people has defined that term for itself in the course of its development. Task Is to Strive For Justice. Task is to Strive For Justice. Friends, our task as Americans is to strive for social and industrial justice, achieved through the genuine rule of the people. This is our end, our purpose. The methods for achieving the end are merely expedients to be finally accepted or rejected according as actual experience shows that they work well or ill. But in our hearts we must have this lofty purpose, and we must strive for it in all earnestness and sincerity or our work will come to nothing. In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive to make their dreams come true; who can kindle the people with the fire from their own burning souls. The leader for the time being, whoever he may be, is but an instrument to be used until broken and then to be cast aside, and if he is worth his salt he will care no more when he is broken than a soldier cares when he is sent where his life is forfeit in order that the victory may be won. In the long fight for righteousness the watchword for all of us is spend and be spent. It is of little matter whether any one man fails or succeeds, but the cause shall not fail. If it is the cause of mankind. We, here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years, and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed. If we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men. If on this new continent we merely build another country of great but unjustly divided material prosperity we shall have done nothing, and we shall do as little if we merely set the greed of envy against the greed of arrogance and thereby destroy the material well being of all of us. To turn this government either into government by plutocracy or government by a mob would be to repeat on a larger scale the lamentable failures of the world that is dead. We stand against all tyranny, by the few or by the many. We stand for the rule of the many in the interest of all of us, for the rule of the many in a spirit of courage, of common sense, of high purpose, above all in a spirit kindly justice toward every man. --- HENSEN AMONG SPRING AUTHORS FOREWORD BY ROBERT E. PEARY Noteworthy Achievement of Foremost Explorer of the Race—Authentic Account of Many Dangerous Adventures and Thrilling Scenes—Illustrations From Photographs by the Author. Bv N. BARNETT DODSON. New York.—Among the many spring publications thus far issued Matthew A. Hensen's book, entitled "A Negro Explorer at the North Pole," is considered by literary critics to be the most valuable contribution to the literature of exploration since the appearance of Commander Robert E. Peary's book, "The North Pole." The foreword is written by Commander Peary and the introduction by Booker T. Washington. In the foreword to the book Commander Peary says: "Friends of arctic exploration and discovery with whom I have come in contact and many whom I know only by letter have been greatly interested in the fact of a colored man being an effective member of a serious arctic expedition and going north not once, but numerous times, during a period of over twenty years, in a way that showed that he not only could and did endure all the stress of arctic conditions and work, but that he evidently found pleasure in the work. "Henson proved his fitness by long and thorough apprenticeship, and his participation in the final victory which A. planted the stars and stripes at the north pole and won for this country the international prize of nearly four centuries is a distinct credit and feather in the cap of his race." Dr. Booker T. Washington in his introductory remarks writes: "One of the first questions which Commander Peary was asked when he returned home from his long, patient and finally successful struggle to reach the pole was how it came about that, besides the four Eskimos, Matt Henson, a Negro, was the only man to whom was accorded the honor of accompanying him on the final dash to the goal!" The question was suggested, no doubt, by the thought that it was but natural that the positions of greatest responsibility and honor on such an expedition would as a matter of course fall to the white men of the party rather than to a Negro. To this question, however, Commander Peary replied in substance: "Matthew A. Hensen, my Negro assistant, has been with me in one capacity or another since my second trip to Nicaragua in 1887. I have taken him on each and all of my expeditions except the first and also without exception on each of my farthest sledge trips. This position I have given him primarily because of his adaptability and fitness for the work and secondly on account of his loyalty. He is a better dog driver and can handle a sledge better than any man living except some of the best Eskimo hunters themselves." The book is interesting not only because it tells of the extraordinary achievements of a colored man, but the clear and logical manner in which Mr. Hensen relates in detail every important feature of the journey to and from the pole, with side lights on Eskimo life and arctic customs. There are seven illustrations from photographs showing Commander Peary in his arctic furs. Hensen immediately after the journey, Camp Morris K. Jeup at the north pole, taken by the author, and the Roosevelt in winter quarters at Cape Sheridan. Mr. Hensen is without doubt the foremost explorer of the colored race, and the account which he gives in his book of the final conquest of the pole is the only one which will ever be given by a member of the race, for, as he well says, "I went all the way." The book should be in every home for the encouragement and inspiration which it is sure to give to all who may read it and study the methods by which Mr. Hensen made himself useful, honored and respected and, last of all, won for himself world renown. VILLARD ON LEGAL RIGHTS. Condemns Color. Line Policy of American Bar Association. The action of the executive committee of the American Bar association in withdrawing the name of Assistant Attorney General William H. Lewis from the membership roll has caused much dissatisfaction among fair-minded men of the legal profession as well as among many prominent public spirited men who believe in a square deal. From a national standpoint the thing looks bad in view of the high standing and character of Mr. Lewis, and it looks worse when the reputation of the Bar association is taken into consideration. The letter to the president of the Bar association written and sent by Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of the New York Evening Post and chairman of the board of directors of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People, on the subject is well worth reading, the full text of which is here given: New York, March 8. Mr. Lewis Cass Ledyard, President of the American Bar Association. American Bar. My Dear Brother. The board of directors of this association wishes to express to you in broad regret at the action of the executive committee of the Bar association in regard to Mr. William H. Lewis. We believe this action to be illegal and contrary to the principle of justice for which your association must stand. We cannot think that it reflects the opinion of the body of high minded, intelligent men who make up your membership. There is a growing criticism today of the attitude of the courts in the United States toward colored men. We ourselves have found numerous cases of discrimination solely because of color. If an organization pledged to advance the science of jurisprudence, to promote the administration of justice, shows prejudice by excluding a man, particularly elected into its membership when it finds that he is not just as jurisprudence will be justified, and it will be justified as applied to men high in the legal profession whom we have had a right to believe stood for the impartial administration of the law to black and white like. We wish to express to you our profound conviction that the effort to dismiss from your membership because of his color a man of merit and high attalment is a denial of justice and a blow at democracy. Your truly. OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD. Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People. NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST MISSIONARY CONVENTION Will Hold Thirty-eighth Annual Meeting In Philadelphia June 13. Philadelphia.—The thirty-eighth annual meeting of the New England Baptist missionary convention will be held in this city for five days beginning on Thursday, June 13, at 2 o'clock. The sessions of the convention will be held in the Monumental Baptist church on Ludlow street, of which the Rev. Dr. Alexander Gordon is pastor. The president of the convention is the Rev. William A. Creditt, L.L. D., pastor of the Cherry Memorial Baptist church. Fifteenth and Christian streets, this city. The convention comprises within its jurisdiction churches in ten states, Haiti and Nova Scotia, where within recent years churches and missions have been organized and the doctrines and work of the denomination explained and built up. The late Rev. Dr. J. Francis Blair of Brooklyn made a tour of Haiti in the interest of the denomination prior to his death about five years ago, which aroused considerable interest among the natives. The work in Nova Scotia is getting well on foot, and the convention is planning to make a illegal contribution to both foreign fields. In accord with the many timely suggestions made by President Cregditt in his annual address to the convention at its session in Providence, R. I., in 1911, the convention ordered the appointment of a committee of fifteen, whose duty is to plan for enlarging the scope and usefulness of the convention, so as to more fully develop that part of its territory which has hitherto received but scant attention from committees usually appointed on new fields. For home and foreign mission work the convention has obligated itself to raise $0,000 for the fiscal year which ends June 17. The annual sermon will be preached by the Rev. Dr. William Maurice Moss, pastor of the Concord Baptist church in Brooklyn. The general officers of the convention are William A. Creditt, LL, D. Philadelphia, president; A. Clayton Powell, New York, vice president; W. A. Harrod, D. D. Hartford, Comm. corresponding secretary; A. Mark Harris, D. D., Jersey City, N. J., recording secretary, and the Rev. Dr. Robert D. Wynn, Newark, N. J., treasurer. Educated Young Men on the Farm. The colored population of Alabama has increased by upward of $0,000 within the past ten years, according to the latest report. There are 10,200 more farms owned by the race in the state, and the total farm acreage is said to be 3,000,000. The valuation of farm property is estimated at $10,000. This remarkable increase is due in a large measure to the more recent improved methods of intensive farming used by the hundreds of educated young men who have gone out from the various industrial schools and are devoting their time to agricultural pursuits. Brockton's Successful Business Man. One of the most successful dealers in real estate in Brockton, Mass., is Mr. Watt Terry, who owns a long string of houses and store buildings valued at $400,000. When he became a resident of Brockton in 1900 he went to work as a coachman. RACE ADVISED TO SPLIT VOTE TAFT STOOPED TO CONQUER. Book Dealing With Many Phases of Racial Interest Compiled by Monroe N. Work Devotes Much Space to the Arguments Advanced by the Different Political Organizations. The review of the political activities among the colored citizens of the country during the past year as prepared by Mr. Monroe N. Work of the department of records and research at the Tuskegee (Ala.) institute is a timely document. It is especially interesting in view of the present national political situation. The matter is now in press and will be issued in book form. The situation is pretty well covered by the following facts: May 17 the national Negro Democratic convention was held at Indianapolis, ind. The following appeal was sent out: We, the Negroes in the national Democratic convention assembled this 11th day of May, 1911, desire to appeal to the colored voters of the United States to open their eyes to the condition surrounding us as a race and suggest that it is wisdom's way that the Negro should no longer follow blindly one party to its own harm and detriment, as he has heretofore followed the Republican party. We believe that the American Negro should divide his vote the same way the white man and the black man all political parties for precisely the same reason that the white man are found in all parties. Therefore, as we Negro Democrats reform our allegiance to the Democratic party, believing that its principles for recklessity and for trifle for revenue only are the most conducive for an economical administration of the affairs of the American government and comes nearer to meeting the approval of the masses of the common people, we earnestly appeal to the intelligent, honest, law abiding colored citizens of the United States of America to organize and bind themselves together in Democratic clubs preparatory for the war of the ballot in 1912. Remember the ancient adage "The wise man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself, but the foot goes out and is overtaken in the error of his ways." The National Independent Political Rights league met in Boston in September. In its address to the country it demanded (1) the enforcement of the constitution to stop disfranchisement and pennage; (2) the passage of an anti-filmrow law for interstate passengers; (3) federal aid to education, with the same schooling for all; (4) restoration of the discharged Brownsville soldiers; (5) legislation making Lynching a capital offense under federal jurisdiction. President Taft, on the matter of officeholding by Negroes, said in an interview published in the Outlook: "What I have done in this line of officeholding of the Democracy of the south) has been without sacrifice of any interest of my own party. I have appointed many Negroes, to office and have given some of them, like Lewis, Johnson and McKinley, offices of essential dignity at Washington. What I have not done is to force them upon unwilling communities in the south itself. I have appointed none where I knew that the race feeling was strong and have preferred giving large offices to well equipped Negroes of the higher class to scattering a lot of petty ones among the mass of their race. This is not because I lack sympathy with the Negroes, but because I want to see them advance." In California the woman suffrage advocates appointed special workers among, the colored people, and it is reported that the Negroes generally supported the suffrage movement. In Illinois 150 delegates of the Coalition league met in Springfield and adopted resolutions in which they declared themselves opposed to all present political parties. The Negro voters of the state were urged to vote independently. In Louisiana there has been a bitter fight against the black and tan faction and the illy white faction of the Republican party for supremacy. The fight was carried before the recent meeting of the national Republican committee in Washington, and the old line Republicans charged the illy whites with not dealing fairly with them. In Maryland the colored voters played a part in the recent state election which was out of the ordinary. They did not ask the white political leaders for money, but organized and contributed funds to carry on the campaign. They placed $500 in the hands of the leaders of the campaign, with the request that the money be used for the election of the Republican governor and to defeat the Diggs disfranchisement bill. Early in December the Taft Colored Republican Association of New Jersey met in Trenton and adopted resolutions indorsing the administration of President Taft and pledging allegiance to the Republican party, both national and state. In North Carolina the lily white faction of the Republican party is said to have made a miserable and disappointing show in the state election. In South Carolina it is said that for the first time in thirty years all the colored Republicans are working together and are being supported by the old line white Republicans. The Rev. Richard Carroll, Professor M. T. Frederick, Thomas E. Miller, Henry Toole and several other colored men voted in the South Carolina Democratic primary. Independence in voting seems to be getting more popular. SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON March 24, 1911. Title—Feasting and Fasting. Mark 1: 13-22. Read Matt. 9: 9-17; Luke 5: 27-39 The lesson of today suggests to us three kinds of fasting—the fasting of the Pharisees, the fasting of John, and the attitude of Jesus toward fasting. The fasting of the Pharisees was merely formalism. While there were many good Pharisees, ordinary Pharisaism did not reach below the surface. The fasting was a rite looked upon as, having a value on its own account, or as a means of winning the favor of men. They had their reward in the applause of men. That was all. It had no spiritual significance. It called for no spiritual insight on the part of the instructor and for no religious response on the part of the descipe. It was simply a balm for their conscience, it helped none and hindered none. This came from the other side, the side of intense spiritual preoccupation. So completely were they engrossed in the things of the spirit that they minimized or even disregarded the claims of the body. It may be that John's lack of consideration for physical comforts was a protest against the softness and self-indulgence of the world which he came to rebuke. Jesus said of John that he came neither eating nor drinking, and that he carried his abstemiousness so far that men said he had a devil. There was a sharp contrast between the fasting of John and the fasting of Jesus. Jesus did not seem to lay as much stress on fasting as John did. The life of Jesus was much more normal than that of John, in fact it may be claimed that His was the real normal life. In all probability the very nature of John's life and work compelled him to go to an extreme. It was necessary for Jesus, on the other hand, to make a revelation of a higher and fuller life than it was possible for John to make. Jesus came to give us the every highest type of manhood, spiritually, morally, and physically. As it was He not only found time for fasting, but He found time to mingle with the people and at their feasts. With Him fasting was a means to an end. Jesus gave us no rules for fasting, no more than He gave any fast and hard rules for anything else, but it was His aim to set for us an ideal, a spiritual ideal and have us look up to and follow that. There was no necessity of His desciples fasting at this time, He was with them. The time would come, however, when He would not be present with them when it would require all their fortitude, helped both by fasting and prayer to follow Him and His teachings, and give to the world that gospel Jesus intended it to have. These bottles were made of skins, and when emptied were frequently folded and laid aside. It would not do to use these bottles or skins for new wine, for the fermentation which would take place would in all probability burst the bottles and waste the contents. What was true of these skins was equally true of the old and new cloth. The edges of the new cloth would hold the sewing while the edges of the old cloth would give away. Jesus meant that a new gospel must start in the hearts and minds of men who had not been fitted by any of these extremes, for said he that though John was the greatest of prophets, the least in the kingdom of heaven was greater than he. Unless you become as one of these, a little child he had set in their midst, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. A child born in the kingdom of heaven has a chance of being taught the truth at the very beginning. He does not have to unlearn anything. How hard it is to teach old people anything new. 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C.; and Grand Chancellor George A. Watty. Similar services will be held at John Wesley M. E. Church, Sharp and Montgomery streets, this Sunday afternoon. Miss Martha Greunig Addresses Local Organization. An enthusiastic and largely attended meeting of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was held at the rooms of the Colored Young Woman's Christian Association Monday evening. The principal address was delivered by Miss Martha Gruenig, of New York, one of the secretaries of the association. She spoke of the aims of the association in detail. The purposes of the association are, she said, to uplift the men and women of the race and to secure to them equal rights and privileges and equality of opportunity. The association favors every movement designed for the moral and educational uplift of the race. She mentioned its efforts to secure fair trials for colored people, to secure evidence against lynchers and to create a healthy sentiment for the race. A mass meeting will be held at Union Baptist Church on April 11. The speakers will include Dr. DuBois, Mr. John E. Milholland, Dr. F. N. Cardozo, Mr. Mason A. Hawkins. The officers of the local branch are: Dr. F. N. Cardozo, president; J. Clarence Chambers, vice president; Thomas W. Turner, secretary; E. Bernard Taylor, treasurer; Rev. G. R. Waller, Dr. T. S. Hawkins, George B. Murphy, Dr. H. J. Brown, William L. Fitzgerald, and W. Ashbie Hwkins, executive committee. Dramatic Club Formed. The Dramatic Study Club was organized Tuesday night at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. George V. Lottier, 1145 N. Carey street. The members are: Missee Edith Clarke, Emma E. Clarke, Inez S. Crampton, Gertrude Dickerson, Loretta Dunlap, Annie Gaines, Viola Hill, Aldina Hawkins, Mary R. Moore, E. Parker Moore, Geneva Simmons, Ettamay Smith, Jennie Smith; Mesdames Lillian Lottier, Olivia Thomas; and Messrs William Anderson, George Williams, R. Augustus Fry, J. Alton Landon, Daniel H. Murphy, R. N. Moore, George V. Lottier, and Enoch Dickerson, M. D. The officers are: Mrs. Lillian Lottier president; Mrs. Olivia Thomas, vice president; Miss Inez Crampton, secretary; and Mr. George V. Lottier, treasurer. President Taft Endorsed. President Taft was endorsed for a renomination at a meeting of the Seventeenth Ward Organization, held Tuesday at the residence of Councilman Harry S. Cummings, 1318 Druid Hill avenue. James N. Young, State Central Committeeman for the ward, presided and William Murray acted as secretary. Resolutions were adopted which said that "President Taft, by his wisdom, solidity and breadth of mind, has jinspired not only the confidence of the party but of thousands of others." Dr. Brown Wins Organ. Good Hope hall was crowded to the doors Monday night, the occasion being a big ball given under the auspices of Monumental Lodge of Elks. Dr. Harry F. Brown drew the lucky ticket which entitled the holder to an organ. A Bridge Party. Mr. R. Syears gave a bridge party at 1714 Etting street in honor of Miss Josephine Burton, of Wilmington, Del. The decorations were carnations and greens. A collation was served. Among those playing were: Miss Fannie Green, Miss Vioia Brown, Mrs. Fannie Adams, Mr. L. Rawlings, Mr. J. Hawkins, Mr. W. Thomas, Mrs. R. Gunis, Mr. Jones Johns, Miss Eliza Mitchell; and Mr. W. Watkins. Mr. William H. Jones, the artist, has been appointed one of the supervisors of the fourth sub-district of the Marylad Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows. The district takes in Lodges 1447, 1728, 1595, ad 4739. ...IRON STEAMER ANGLER... 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Oh the memory of that morning As we stood with broken hearts; Seeing the one I loved so dearly Pierced by death's most evil dart. By her loving daughters, Mary E. Johnson and Sarah E. Savoy, Olivet, Md. WILLIAMS—In sad and loving remembrance of our dear daughter, Agnes, who died one year ago, March 20, 1911. You have gone from us, dear Agnes To your Saviour, good and true; You have won the heavenly glory, We wish you a trade. Which is for us to do. Jesus, while my heart is bleeding Over the loss of our dear daughter, Help me, oh my blessed Saviour, Kindly say "Thy will be done." By her father and mother. Dear sister, how could we give you up, A sister whom we loved so well; How could we drink that bitter cup And say the word "Faewell." By her devoted sisters. SIMMS—Sacred to the memory of my beloved wife, Leona Simms, who departed this life six months ago, March 17, 1912. It has been six dreary months Since we were forced to part; But the memory of my dear wife Still is fresh within my heart. Oh! how I loved my dear wife, No tongue on earth can tell; But Jesus loved her better, And called her home to dwell. Oh! that meeting in the morning, Over on the other shore; Wont that be a happy greeting When we meet to part no more. TILGHMAN—In loving remembrance of my mother, Mary Tilghman. Gone but not forgotten, How glorious is the star; How I wish you was my mother, But God, alone took you. SULLIVAN—In loving remembrance of my sister; Georgiana Sullivan, who departed this life eight years ago today, March 20, 1904. Six long years, how I miss her. Friends may think the wound is healed; But they little know the sorrow That's within my heart concealed. When you ask me do I miss her, Yes, it fills my heart with pain; But her spirit softly whispers Take courage, we will meet again. By her sister. Mrs. Horense Randall. HUGHES—In sad but loving remembrance of my dear wife, Sudie Hughes, who departed this life, four years ago today, March 25, 1912. I often sit and think of you, When I am all alone; For memory is the only friend That grief cannot call her own. Card of Thanks. I wish to thank the many friends for thier kindness during his illness and death and for the beautiful floral tributes. Departed this life suddenly on February 18th, I 912, Sadie J. Herbert, the beloved daughter of Wm. Herbert, of Calvert County, Md. May she rest in peace. By her sister, Laura A. Brown. CHARTER NOW ...IRON STEAM Over 1100 capacity, seaworthy, swift, fc fully equipped with every facility a York Harbor. Booking excursion Bay or River Landings of Maryland 13 days during the month of July, 19 WM. LEWIS, Baltimore Phone Madison 3948 M. The Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Will Present Witty's "FRO On the Evening of Easter Sunda IN THE MAIN AUDITOR Orchard Street, near THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER Cockeysville, Md., Mar. 21—A concert to assist in raising conference claims for Bazel A. M. E. Church was given by the Sunday School of the church, under the supervision of the assistant superintendent, Mrs. Alberta Robinson. The Mite Missionary Society of the church will give a leap year party next Wednesday night. John Clenshaw, who died of consumption, was buried here last Wednesday. In Honor of Easter. The joyous Easter period—not only suggestive of spring but commemorative of the greatest event in the life of Christ, the resurrection—is upon us. Elaborate services will be held in all the churches. The Metropolitan M. E. Sunday School, the largest in the city, is preparing to render, as a memorial of the day, Witty's cantata "From Manger to Cross." This work, never before produced in Baltimore, portrays all the important events of the eventful life of the Master from His birth in the khan at Bethlehem to His death upon the cross on Golgotha's hill. A well trained chorus of fifty picked voices, supported by Kerr's augmented orchestra, will present the cantata. Calcium lights, oriental costumes and picturesque scenery will be used. Mr. Lewis E. Toomey, the pressario, will direct. The greatest event of the season. The widows of Water's A. M. E. church will give their second annual star concert at the above named church Thursday evening, March 28. Tickets 10 cents. Mrs. Mollie Giles, president. Mayme Woolford, directress. Rev. Dr. M. F. Sydes, pastor. Look out for the big masquerade and leap year march at the Odd Fellows Hall Friday, March 29, 549 W. Biddle street. Everything ur to date. Good music in att endance. OCTUARY Addison White departed this life on March 17, 1912 at his late residence, 1114 Etting street, after a short illness. He was the beloved husband of Maggie White. His funeral was held from the above address on Tuesday, March 19, 1912 at 2 p.m. Rev. J. A. Holmes officiated. The ceded was a member of the Masons and Wise Men Lodges. He was also a faithful servant for 23 years in the late Ex-Mayor Latrobe's family up until his death. Interment in Mount Auburn Cemetery. Mrs. Frances Cooper, the beloved wife of Garrison and godmother of Cora M. Jones, died at her late residence, 1413 Jefferson street, March 12. Funeral was from the First Baptist Church, March 15. The family extends many thanks to the friends that were at her bedside during her long illness. Many many thanks for the beautiful flowers that were sent. She leaves a mother, two adopted boys and six sisters and two brothers to mourn her death. BEVANS—Suddenly on Tuesday, March 5th, John Albert, beloved husband of Lillian M. Bevans, departed this life. Residence 1803 Winchester street. CARD OF THANKS CARD OF THANKS Mr. Frazier and Mrs. Ida Henry wish to thank their many friends for their kind tokens of remembrance at the death of his wife and her daughter, during their bereavement. CARD OF THANKS Mrs. Lillian M. Bevans of 1303 Winchester street, wishes to thank her many friends for services tendered and lovable attentions to her bereaved family. EXCURSION LATER The New Steamer Starlight We especially request you to inspect the new Steamer. See for yourself and get terms before booking your date with anyone else. Steamer will be open for inspection April 1st. A greater inducement will be given Churches, Sunday Schools and Organizations for Day's Excursions. The inducements for Moonlights are beyond your expectation. For further information apply to George W. Brown, 1451 N. Carey Street, or Walter R. Langley, 1418 Jefferson Street. Keep your eye on this paper. It will keep you fully posted. Mr. Brown can be seen every Saturday night, and especially Sunday morning at the above mentioned address. You may call any evening after 8 P. M. Don't forget the address, 1451 North Carey Street. Baltimore, Md. on terms to suit on Druid Hill Ave., Etting St., Division St., Argyle Ave., Myrtle Ave., Carrollton Ave., Carey St., Calhoun St., Stricker St., Mount St., and every cross street from Hoffman to Baker. Don't buy before seeing my list. Call to see me, or telephone, or drop a postal. J. Welsh, 2024 W. Saratoga St., Telephone Gilmor 2253. Agent for The Mutual Benefit Society, Fayette, and Pea! Streets Oldest and strongest Insurance Company in Maryland: Run for Colored People by Colored People. PHONE----1933 ST. PAUL. RESIDENCE: 506 BAKER STREET O-12-9-41 Call Me up or send a Postal and I will be there immediately Baltimore's Leading Colored Undertakers in Prices JOHN H. OWENS @ SON Undertakers & Embalmers 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, candelabra, crucifix when desired, rugs, chairs etc., all of the latest designs. This funeral cost elsewhere.....$136.00 Our price.....$75.00 Saving you.....$61.00 ```markdown ``` Agent for The M Oldest and Runs LET ME SELL Desk Pianos and C RESID O-12-9-4t WANT to J. N. Fitts between 9 and Baltic JOHN Unde Complete A fine casket highly polished on either black, gray riages, new and u advertise funeral. Fully equipped in every way according to law. Inspected by the government, will be allowed to carry one thousand or more passengers. We are fully able to take your excursion wherever you may desire to go. HAVRE DE GRACE PORT DEPOSIT CHESTERTOWN ST. MICHÄELS EASTON OXFORD CAMBRIDGE ANNAPOLIS OR TO THE WELL-KNOWN GREATER BROWN'S GROVE WHAT IS YOUR EXCUSE. NOW? especially request you to inspect the new Steamer myself and get terms before booking your date with the Steamer will be open for inspection April 1st. Greater inducement will be given Churches, Sunday organizations for Day's Excursions. The inducements are beyond your expectation. Further information apply to George W. Brown, Street, or Walter R. Langley, 1418 Jefferson Street. Up your eye on this paper. It will keep you fully Brown can be seen every Saturday night, and esmorning at the above mentioned address. You must arrive after 8 P. M. Don't forget the address, 1451 Street, Baltimore, Md. the new Steamer. See your date with anyone April 1st. Churches, Sunday Schools The inducements for George W. Brown, 1451 N. Jefferson Street. Keep you fully posted by night, and especially address. You may call the address, 1451 North HOUSES FOR SALE to suit on Druid Hill Ave., Ettings, Argyle Ave., Myrtle Ave., Carroll St., Calhoun St., Stricker St., Mount ss street from Hoffman to Baker seeing my list. Call to see me drop a postal. Malsh, 2024 W. Saratoga St., Telepho Ave., Etting St., Divi Ave., Carrollton Ave. St., Mount St., and to Baker. Don't to see me, or tele- St., Telephone Gilmor R. H. BUTLER, 1211 DRUID HILL AVENUE With a full line of SINGER'S SEWING MACH to serve you better than before. Prices and less. Repairing of any make of machine at guarantee same. Don't forget number, 1211 D HILL AVENUE. IS SEWING MACHINES read more. Prices and payments are of machine at half price an at number, 1211 Druid Hill Ave 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 and guarantee same. Don't forget number, 1211 Druid Hill Ave CHARLES TOLSON. The Mutual Benefit Society, Fayette and Pe and strongest Insurance Company in Mary Run for Colored People by Colored People. PHONE—1933 ST. PAUL. CELL YOU A HOUSE Desirable houses for sale in any part of the City, $60.00 to $100.00 balance as same as rent. And Organs, Pianolas, Victor Victorias on Ea Any make you may desire. Satisfaction guaranteed. RESIDENCE: 506 BAKER STREET Call Me up or send a Postal and I will be there. NTED Organizers that Bright, Busy, and full Hustle. Address or ap Fitzgerald, 1929 Druid Hill ave., and 11 A. M. Bayette and Pearl Streets company in Maryland: explored People. BUL. A part of the City, home as rent. Victorias on Easy Terms. desire. teed. ER STREET And I will be there immediately. nizers that are easy, and full of address or apply Hill ave., Mondays J. N. FITZGERALD. Baltimore's Leading Colored Undertakers in Prices. JOHN H. OWENS & SCOTT Undertakers & Embalmer Complete 75.00 FUNERALS $75.00. Complete kett worth $65.00, in black cloth, steel gray or oak or walnut outside case; beautiful rubber, gray or white, to match casket, as desired; five up-to-date; fine burial robe, embalming, op- eral, six pairs of gloves, door crepe, candles, can- ered, rugs, chairs etc., all of the latest designs. General cost elsewhere.....$75.00 Saving you.....$75.00 As low as $25, $35, $40, $50. Higher Grade $100. No charge for removal of remains from Hospitals. Hopping Funerals, $25.00 and $50.00 Complete 222 Division St., bet. Dolphin and Lanvale. Residence C. & P. Phone. Madison 4067. AT POPULAR OKES & DERRY 5 Druid Hill Avenue Corner Oxford takers in Prices @ SON embalmere $75.00. Complete , steel gray or white plush; beautiful rubber-tired hearse; as desired; five heated car- embalming, opening graves; rose, candles, candelabra, cru- test designs. .....$136.00 you.....$61.00 Either Grade $100, $150, $175. from Hospitals. $0.00 Complete and Lanvale. Madison 4067. POPULAR PRICES ERRY'S corner Oxford D R U G S Handshake Everybody is going to the Red Shadow Novelty Dance, at Galilean Fishermen's Auditorium, on Friday, March the 29h, 1912. "Sampson in The Toils" at St. John Church Sunday 11 a. m. Mrs. Carrie Watson and Miss Julai Syphax, of Washington, were the week-end guests of Mr. Charel A. Williams and Mrs. A. V. Smith, of 1120 Riggs avenue. Try Daly's chicken supper. "Sampson in The Toils" at St. John Church Sunday 11 a. m. Mrs. R. T. Jackson, of 1335 Division street, who has been very ill for the past six wekes, is convalescent. Dr. J. C. Robinson attended her. "Sampson in The Toils" at St. John Church Sunday 11 a. m. Try Daly's chicken supper. Mr. James L. Thomas, a member of St. Paul's M. E. Chuerh, is in Washington, representing his church in the Lay Eiectora Conference of the Washington Conference. Try Daly's chop and steak suppers. Mrs. Lillian M. Mosoley, of 612 Gold street, is visiting her brother, Mr. Contee, of Washington. She is also taking in the M. E. Conference. Mrs. Mary Gross is confined to her home, 209 Hill street, with blood poisoning of the hand. Try Daly's chop and steak suppers. "Sampson in The Toils" at St. John Church Sunday 11 a. m. Mrs. William S. Haynes, Jr., Miss Ida Gates and Miss Mary Brooks entertained a number of their friends at cards Thursday evening of last week at Mrs. Haynes' home, 1340 N. Carey street. Quite a number of out of town guests were present. Try Daly's chicken supper. Master Earl Bundy, gave a very pretty Birthday party on Monday 18 1912, Master Eale was 12 years old. "Sampson in The Toils" at St. John Church Sunday 11 a. m. Du Bois Circle Meets. The monthly meeting of the DuBois Circle was held Tuesday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Mason A. Hawkins, 1532 Druid Hill avenue. The ladies present discussed Dr. DuBois' recent book, "The Quest of the Silver Fleece." Try Daly's chop and steak suppers. Mr. Oliver Strawn, 1612 Mullikin street, a colored letter carrier of the Baltimore Post Office, who was injured February 26, 1912, while working his district in Forest Park, is able to be out again. He was well remembered by the patrons of his district, who sent him many good things. If its pure Drugs it's here. Fennell's Pharmacy, Druid Hill Ave. and Biddle St. Money to Loan on Real Estate. Persons having mortgagee may borrow. Houses bought sor 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. GREATEST BORN MEDIUM MAKE NO CHARGE if the object of your visit is not explained without asking a question. Can be seen on all matters of business love, courtship, marriage, investments, etc. By my advice I remove evil influence witchcraft, spells, cure diseases and unite the separated. I never fail. I also teach hypnosis and how to become a medium. No matter what your troubles are or what you wish to know, this Gifted person can positively help you.....if you are hundreds of miles away. A word to the wise is sufficient. Are you sick? Have doctors and medicines failed to help? If so, seek the advice and help from this wonderful man. Gives good luck, Hours 9 to 9 daily and Sunday. Fees very moderate 217 S. CLINTON ST., near Pratt, Highlandtown Md. The number 217 is on window. Take Roland Park car to Clinton street. und Eastern avenue, walk 3 squares north. I also sell books of the Egyptian Secrets, the 6th and 7th Books of Moses, and Dream Books. Remember, Verona transacts all Business at his office. Beware of mediums, imitators, etc. going from door to door. In writing send 2c. stamp for reply. Verona is woonderful Verona is powerful. Friends common sense teaches you that a man has more power to help you in troubles thru- this life than women. PLAN AND SCOPE OF EXPOSITION Senators Favor Appropriation For Industrial Celebration. BILL PROVIDES FOR $250,000 Major R. R. Wright and His Associates Hold Successful Conference With Senate Committee on Industrial Expositions—Convincing Facts by Drs. Wright, Du Bois and Ross. Washington. A committee of prominent colored citizens appeared before the senate committee on industrial expositions in Washington recently in behalf of the bill introduced by Senator Bradley of Kentucky providing for an appropriation of $250,000 for an exhibition of the progress of the race since emancipation. Senator Root of New York presided, and Senators Crane of Massachusetts, Taylor of Tennessee, Newlands of Nevada, Paynter of Kentucky, Stephenson of Wisconsin, Jones of Washington, Works of California, Gronna of North Dakota and Swanson of Virginia were present. The speakers representing the Negro Emancipation association were Major R. R. Wright of Savannah, Ga.; Dr. R. R. Wright, Jr., editor of the Christian Recorder, Philadelphia; Professor W. E. B. Du Bois of New York and Rev. I. N. Ross of Washington, each having assigned to him a particular phase of the discussion. After Senator Root opened the meeting Senator Bradley introduced Major R. R. Wright; who told the object of the exposition, the success he had had for the past six years in exhibiting the progress of the Negroes in Georgia and reasons why national aid should be given this exposition. He stated that since 1876 the government had appropriated over $25,000,000 for expositions. He now asked for M. DR. W. E. P. DU BOIS. only 1 per cent of that amount, $250.000, which is only 2½ cents for each Negro inhabitant in the country. Major Wright then introduced his son, Dr. R. R. Wright, Jr., who would show the committee what progress the Negroes had made which would warrant an exhibition. This was done by a comparison between the condition of the race in 1800 and in 1910. Dr. Wright said the population had more than doubled, being 4,500,000 in 1800 and 10,000,000 now; the illiteracy had been cut in half, being 96 per cent in 1800 and 44.5 per cent in 1900, possibly under 40 per cent today. Public school attendance had risen from practically nothing to 3,000,000. In labor Negroes have risen from farm laborers to the control of 917,000 farms and the ownership of 250,000 farms. They have held their own as farm laborers, besides developing other trades. New occupations, unknown fifty years ago, have emerged. There are 60,000 Negroes in professions today. Negro physicians, lawyers, etc., unknown in the south to the generation before the war, are now in every city. Negro teachers number 25,000. Negro property holders have emerged. No accurate count has ever been made. Fully 500,000 homes and farms are owned. Worth of the Negro is estimated at $1,000,000,000. Negro literature, art and music tell a story of progress. There are over 200 newspapers. 500 Negro authors. Some of the most popular music of the day is written by Negroes, and Negro musicians have appeared on every principal American stage, and Negro artists exhibited in our leading art galleries. Dr. Wright told of the growth of Negro banks, insurance companies, real estate operation, etc.; also of Negro organizations, their towns, churches, secret orders, saying that, whereas the race dity years ago was not organized, today organization is the rule rather than the exception. One above twenty-one years of age is organized. These items represent some of the facts of our progress, a story MAJOR R. R. WRIGHT. which cannot but interest and encourage all who have at heart the progress of our country. The committee showed special interest in the recital of the progress. Next Senator Crane introduced Dr. W. E. B. Duis of New York, who told the plan of the exposition. It is to be held between Jan. 1, 1913, and Dec. 31. There are to be, first, collected maps, pictures, models, etc., representing Africa and African industry. There would also be exhibitions of, second, the Negro physiique; third, Negro population; fourth, Negro occupations; fifth, Negro education; sixth, Negro organization; seventh, Negro in cities, Negro cities, etc. There would be awards and medals for meritorious exhibits. A grand historical impugn, a musical festival and finally a permanent exhibit. Dr J. N. Ross, pastor of the Metropolitan church, Washington, made the closing address on the good such an exhibition would do. His speech was pronounced one of the most eloquent and pointed five minute speeches ever made before the committee. Dr. Ross said in substance: "Such an exposition would show the real significance of the American form of government and the meaning of American opportunity." "Second.—It would be an inspiration to millions of our people who do not know the opportunities that are theirs and who are despondent because of ignorance of the progress made by their race. "Third. It would inspire hope and respect in the whites. They would then see a side of the Negro which is not usually seen and would be brought to respect him more, thus bringing about a more friendly feeling among the races. "Fourth. It would also show the world that America has interest in all her people." Senator Bradley then made a few remarks, and Major Wright thanked the committee, which went immediately into executive session and after a short deliberation decided to report the bill favorably, which has since been done and also placed on the regular senate calendar. WELL REGULATED SCHOOL TRAINS FOR LEADERSHIP. Spelman Seminary Foremost In Work Among Young Women. Atlanta, Ga.—Spelman seminary and its beginning April 11, 1881, in the basement of the Friendship Baptist church in this city. Father Quarles, the good pastor of that church, was on his knees praying that the Lord would send women from the north to help the women of his race. He arose and opened the door of his study to admit Misses Packard and Giles, who were seeking advice about the location for the work to which they felt called of God to enter upon. Today Spelman seminary is one of the largest and best equipped schools for colored girls and young women to be found in the south. It has furnished to the different communities of the south at least 7,000 young women prepared to be of help to the several communities—hundreds to do good work in the settlement, church, school and home. Teachers are sent to both public and private schools and to do all grades of work from primary to the college. Among those especially appreciated are our nurses. When the city of Atlanta needed a physician and a trained nurse for the work in the public colored schools two of Spelman's alumnae were given the work and are rendering most acceptable service. Five have answered the call from the foreign field and have gone to Africa as missionaries. The school is sending out printers, milliers and dressmakers in large numbers well trained to be helpers in the various lines of industry wherever their lot may be cast. The institution does well to send out skilled workers—the world is calling for such—but it does better, far better, in making its first endeavor the training and sending forth an army of Christian young women to become the home makers of our people. This is Spelman's special province. The home is the foundation of all else in the civilization of any people. Besides having an able corps of teachers for the various departments, the school is fortunate in having Miss Lucy Hale Tapley as president. Miss Edith V. Brill dean, Miss Lucy H. Upton general secretary and Miss Angie E. Kendall treasurer. Needs of Kowaliga Institute. Principal J. A. Myers of the Kowaliga institute at Bexley. Al., is meeting with much succession in his duties. THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER raise funds for the immediate need the institution. The new buildings erected in the place of those destroyed by fire a few years ago are in need of heating, lighting and water equipment. An effort is now being made to raise $10,000 for this purpose. The New York trustees of the school are Mr. Clarence H. Kelsey, president of the Title Guarantee and Trust company; Oswald Garrison Villard, editor of the Evening Post; Miss Emily Howland, Miss Isabel C. Barrows and Miss Alice Lewisohn. INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON By Rev. William Prass, D. D. Director Bible Cor Monday Bible Institute, Chicago. LESSON FOR MARCH 3 Future Guest of Historical Society Casely Hayford, a prominent barrister at law on the Gold Coast of Africa and author of "Gold Coast Native Institutions" and "Ethiopia, Unbound," will speak for the Society For Historical Research in Yankers. N. Y., while in this country this spring, whether he comes to attend the international conference on the Negro to be held at the Tuskegee A. Institute for three days beginning on Wednesday, April 17. Foreign Educator Visits America. Andrew G. Fraser, president of Trinity college at Kandy, on Ceylon island, was one of the noted visitors at the recent celebration of the birthday of General S. C. Armstrong at the Hampton (Vn.) institute. Professor Fraser's visit to the United States is for the purpose of studying educational methods and aims such as are in vogue at Hampton and Tuskegee institutes for the betterment of his own work in India. Head Worker For Racial Advancement. Dr. Bu Bois, the topnotcher and one of the foremost Negroes of America, is always cracking some hard nuts in order that Negro editors may eat the fruit of profit to them and their people, says the Pioneer Press, Martinsburg. W. Vn. Right you are. Brother Clifford. Du Bois is right up there at the head of the class of workers for the advancement of our people along all right lines. AFRICAN SOCIETY WEALTHY. Barriers Which Make Entrance Into Organization Difficult. The constitution of the New York African society limits the total membership to fifty persons and provides that the entrance fee shall be $100, with monthly dues of 25 cents. Twenty years' membership in good financial standing exempts members from payment of dues. Members receive $15 per week when sick, during from day of illness for ten weeks, and $5 for ten weeks, after which no member will receive more than $200 during one year for sickness. Any member receiving benefits who may be found spending his time in brothels, gambling or tipping shall be expelled from the society and forfeit all his right of membership in the society. The work of Mr. Edward V. C. Eato in behalf of the society has been highly beneficial to the membership. The limited number makes it hard for a person to gain admission. It is said that there is a waiting list of nearly 1,500 applicants for membership, but the society moves carefully before acting and has had little chance to act on these applications, because few of its members die and none resign. It is certainly an object lesson to the new school Negroes who fritter away their time and money on get-rich-quick schemes which only benefit their handed promoters. The two pieces of real estate owned by the organization are valued at $17,000 and $20,000, respectively. The total worth of the society is estimated at from $40,000 to $50,000. SOME NOVEL FRENCH CANES Handles of Walking Sticks are Receptacles for Coins, Matches and Other Things. The ingenuity of the Frenchman has not been confined to the making of weapons out of apparently harmless canes. In fact there is quite a variety of uses which the cane is made to serve. One of the canes is fitted with a coin box and a match box, these being contained in the head, which is provided with a carefully concealed lid. The coin box is arranged to permit of depositing and easily removing the coin by a slight pressure of the thumb, thus obviating the necessity of fishing for coins in the pocket. Another cane handle contains a complete outfit of the game known as Petits Chevaux. When the lid is open betting can begin and the horse crossing the wire first wins the stakes. One of the latest Parisian novelties consists in a ladies' parasol handle containing a roulette wheel which can be used for gambling at any place or moment. These handles have become very popular. They are of fine workmanship and generally of gold or silver. One handle contains almost everything that one would be likely to need. A long sheet of paper is wound around the rod, from which pieces may be torn off for taking notes. When the lid is opened penknife, pencil, nail file, combs and looking glass are disclosed. These objects are small, but large enough for practical use—Scientific American. National Society to Meet in Chicago. The next annual conference of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People will be held in Chicago In May. A large attendance is expected, as the organization has many friends in that section of the west. west INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON By Rev. William Evans; D. D., Director Bible Course Woodr Bible Institutes, Chicago CALL OF THE FIRST DISCIPLES. LESSON TEXT-MARK 1:14:28; Luke 6:14; MEMORY VERSES-16, 17. GOLDEN TEXT-The harvest truly is plenteous, but the harvest truly is arruary. In the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest.-Matt. 9:27-33. (This exposition of the lesson is based on the narrative in Luke 5:11.1.) Already in our previous lessons we have seen Christ as the founder of the Kingdom of Heaven upon the earth. He was born a king; his baptism was in a sense the inauguration of the king; the temptation, the testing of the king. Being himself thus prepared, we see him starting out to recruit the first members of his kingdom, who, in addition to being members of the kingdom themselves, should also be instrumental in enlisting others under its banner. In the call of these first disciples, we recognize the essential conditions which were to underlie all subsequent calls of discipleship. To discover these conditions should be the purpose of all who teach this lesson. The fundamental condition, or conditions underlying entrance into the Kingdom of God, are forever the same with each succeeding generation. "The gifts and calling of God are without change." We are told that the "crowds pressed upon Jesus to hear the Word of God." The preaching of the Word of God is always a drawing card. The crowds have not weared of the preaching of the gospel, but only of the average preacher who fails to preach the gospel. Wherever you find a man who, like Moody, Torrey, Spurgeon, and many others, preaches the Word of God, there you will find the streets full of men and women still pressing to hear the message. Fire will always attract those who are cold, and food those who are hungry. So will the preaching of the simple gospel attract the hearts of men for whom it is prepared. The world was made for the gospel, and the gospel for the world. All great sermons in the Bible were preached in the open air. If the people will not come to church, then let us take the church to them. If it was not beneath the dignity of Jesus Christ to hold open air meetings, it surely cannot be beneath any pretended and assumed dignity we may profess to possess. Let some ministers who, during the hot months of the year, preach to but a corporal's guard, go out into the open air and preach to the crowds. The best way to reach the masses is to go after them. Jesus requested of these men the loan of their boats, and they at once complied with the Master's request. In other words, he asked these men to surrender their business for a little while to him. And they did. How magnificently he repaid them is seen in the miraculous draught of fishes. No man can surrender his business to Jesus Christ without eventually being a gainer by it. He "shall receive a hundredfold more in this life, and in the world to come life everlasting." Next, Jesus requires that these men recognize him as knowing more about their business than they do themselves. He requires them to do what their own common sense tells them there is no use in doing. This is evident by the answer of Peter: "Lord we have toiled all night and caught nothing, nevertheless," etc. The word "Lord" meaning "shipmaster." Christ required from these men the surrender of their whole lives. They forsock their nets, and their business and followed him. This was final and complete obedience. Ever after they were to devote their lives to catching men, not fish. No man can enlist under the banner of Christ, nor become a member of the Kingdom of God, who is not willing to make an absolute surrender of himself and all that he has and expects to be to the Christ and his service. "So likewise, whoseheur be he of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple." Of course, Christ may not, in fact does not call upon us all to leave our daily vocation and become preachers or missionaries. No; oftimes he calls upon us to do what is very much harder---to stay in business and use it for him and his kingdom. There can be no question, however, but that ere we can become Christ's disciples there must be the complete surrender of ourselves to his absolute and authoritative control. This is the crucial test of Christianity. And it is just at this point of unconditional surrender that many people hesitate and oftimes refuse to comply with the terms of discipleship. Implied, yea, clearly stated, in this call to membership in the kingdom, was was the consecration of these fishermen to the task of catching men. In some Sunday schools, there is kept what is called a "Fishermen's Roll," on which there is recorded each Sunday the names of those who have brought in new members. It is a great work to bring others to Sunday school and to church; it is greater still to bring them to Jesus Christ. 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The place cards were in the form of tiny baskets of pink roses. Those present included: Misses Emma Gibson, Edwina Kruse, Arleen Bowser, Anna Broadnax, Gertrude Baldwin, all of Wilmington; Ethel A. Lewis, Maudelle Brown, Lucy D. Louise, R. M. Parm, Lucinda Cook, all of this city; Mesdames Conwell Banton, George Anderson, J. B. Stubbs, Alice Dunbar, all of Wilmington; Helen Irving, Evans Fernandis, Dr. and Mrs. Albert O. Reid, Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Wright Prof. and Mrs. D. O. W. Holmes Mr. and Mrs. Truly Hatchett, Mr. James A. B. Callis, Mr. Ralph Reckling, Mr. Gough McDaniels, Attorney and Mrs. W. C. McCard, Drs. Edward V. Stokes, Richard G. Baker, Edward Wright, Lewis H. Green, B. M. Starks, Allen Leroy Locke, of Philadelphia, and Walter Dyson, of Washington, D. C. Progressive Club Holds The Baltimore Ladies Progressive Club held their annual meeting at Mrs. Sarah Sanks, 514 W. Lee street last Monday night where much important business was talked for the year. After all business was transacted the guests were ushered into the dining room where the table as laden with delicacies. Those invited were: Mrs. Helen Vaughn, of N. Carolina; Mrs. Emma Hudson of Georgia; Dr. B. M. Stark; Mr. Joseph Garner; Miss Hattie Long, of Cambridge, Md.; Mrs. Agnes Vaughn, of Newark, N. J.; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ross; Mrs. Carrie Pinket, of Cambridge, Md.; and Mrs. Engene Williams of Baltimore county. The members of the club are Mrs. Arena Carpenter president; Mrs. Sarah Keyler, secretary; Mrs. Lulu Bivins, treasurer; Mrs. Mary Young, Mrs. Maggie Bishop, Mrs. Isabell Burley, Mrs. Mamie Parren, Mrs. Martha Chew, Mrs. Liza Brooks, Mrs. Robinson, Mrs. Pernell, Miss Nora Gross, Mrs. Harris, Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Haney, and Mrs. Sarah Sanks. Dr. Alexander Honored. The twenty-seventh anniversary of the founding of Sharon Baptist Church, as well as the pastorate of the founder, was observed Thursday evening. Addresses extolling Dr. Alexander's work were delivered by Rev. Dr. George F. Bragg, Prof. George B. Murphy, Hugh E. Macbeth and a number of ministers. Dr. Alexander was presented a purse at the close of the speech making. In accepting the gift, he delivered an address, in which he recounted the history of the church. The music was under the direction of Mr. Samuel A. Boulden, with Mrs. M. J. Gross as organist. Mr. F. A. Gaines had charge of the arrangements for the exercises, and Dr. F. N. Cardozo presided. Dr. Alexander will preach an anniversary sermon Sunday morning. Leap Year Reception A Leap year reception was given at St. James A. U. M. E. Church Jefferson avenue Towson Thursday evening. The affair was in charge of the following ladies of the Willing Workers' Club: Mrs. Della Myers president; Mrs. Annie Mills vice president; Miss Hattie Barber secretary; Mesdames Clara Stepp Mary Pratt Lillie Blake and Annie Wiggins. Rev. S. I. Mills is pastor of the church. Sermon To Pythians Pythians of the Eastern and Western Hemispheres division of the order rathered in large numbers at Sharon Baptist Church last Sunday night, when the annual sermon to the local lodges and courts of Calanthe was preached by Rev. Dr. W. M. Alexander. Supreme Chancellor W. Ashbie Hawkins made an address outlining the work of the order, likewise Miss Ida R. Cummings and Mrs. Jennie Ross. Local lodges are now holding a fair at Elk's Hall to raise fund for the purchase price of their new hall 1188 Druid Hill avenue. Mr. J. E. Moorland, an international secretary of the Y. M. C. A., was in the city yesterday conferring with representatives of the Central Y. M. C. A. regarding the erection of a $100,000 building for the Colored Y. M. C. A. A number of the leading spirits in the central association are deeply interested in the project, and they may give financial help for a new building. Mr. Moorland also had a talk with General Secretary W. F. DeBardeleben and the directors of the colored Y. M. C. A., also held a conference and such enthusiasm for a new building was manifested. "I feel very optimistic, said Mr. DeBardeleben," about our future. A new building we sorely need, and we are going to make a big effort to secure one. Our white friends are deeply interested in the project, and many of the leading men of the race have signified their intention of aiding." The association is now engaged in a campagin for increased membership. There are three camps hustling for recruits, and the one that gets the least number of members will have to set up a feed. The camps are known as the W. E. B. DuBois, Kelly Miller, and Booker T. Washington, Camps. DuBois Circle Meets The monthly meeting of the DuBois Circle, an organization of ladies, was held at the residence of Mrs. Minnie L. Gaines, 1016 Linden avenue - Tuesday afternoon. The program was devoted to Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the poet of the race, who died several years ago. Essays dealing with his work, as well as quotations from his writings, made up the program. OWLS ELECT OFFICERS Baltimore Nest, of the Afro-American Order of Owls, has installed the following officers: Caleb Robinson, president; B. Thomas Smith, vice president; Thomas Dodd, secretary; Isaac Hardy, treasurer; Benjamin Robinson, lecturer; and Dr Harry Brown physician. The installation was conducted by Past President Daniel Richardson assisted by Dr. Harry F. Brown and Norman Simms. Patriotism Patriotism is something which ought to exist in every human heart. love for country, and for flag. Think what your forefathers have suffered for your liberty. That shedding of blood was true patriotism. Every boy and girl should be ready to suffer death for his country. Remember we have reason to honor and love our country. We are free. George Washington was the greatest patriot that ever lived. If you are true to your country, you will be true to every body. Then, let us all try to be patriots, young as well as old. Patriotism is not shown by blowing off your own fingers and putting out some one's else eyes. If you look in the dictionary you will find the definition of the word patriotism to be love of one's country. I, as a girl, love my country dearly. Alice G. Dennis, 706 N. Caroline street. 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 News Of Interest From All Parts Of The Country And State Dr. Newell Dweight Hilles, of Brooklyn, N. Y., in a sermon Sunday said the great need of the rase was educated leaders. "The argument for colored leaders," he said, "is based upon the fact that every race has its own temporamental gift and can best be guided men of its own race." Rev. Sutton L. Griggs, the author, preached last Sunday at the anniversary services of the pastorate of Rev. Dr. J. P. Robinson, pastor of the first Baptist Church, Little Rock, Ark. A number of the Stringer Grand Lodge of Masons, of Mississippi, have seceded and formed the Hill Grand Lodge. S. D. Redmond was elected grand master; G. T. McIntosh, secretary, and D. Cox, treasurer. Harry C. Smith, editor of the Cleveland, O. Gazette has written a letter to the Ohio Public Service complaining against "Jim Crow" signs on railroads entering Cincinnati from the South. George Bucahana, a Missouri farmer, recently left $24,000 to seven colored men and women that had been employed by him. A campaign to win colored men over to the Socialist party started in Louisville, Ky. Monday night. Governor Hooper, of Tennessee, has pardoned Mrs. Lillie Hill, who was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment last October for shooting a white man who insulted her twice. Owing to ill health, Rev. W. H. Brooks has resigned as pastor of St. Mark's M. E. Church, New York. He succeeded Rev. Ernest Lyon as pastor 15 years ago. Rev. Brooks was educated at Morgan College, Baltimore. Dr. William A. Sinclair, president of the Pennsylvania branch of the Constitution League, declared in a recent address that "lynch law must go." The colored waiters in the cafe of the Crawford House, Boston, have replaced by white men. Lincoln University, Pa., Feb. 21 —Lincoln Day was observed here Monday of last week with elaborate exercises. Charles Alexander, an attorney of New York, was the principal speaker. J. B. Saunders, of North Carolina and J. W. Rhetta, of Alabama, were the students who delivered addresses. In the evening the mandolin and glee club gave a concert, assisted by Philadelphia talent. Following the exercises, Mr. Alexander was the host at a reception to the students and faculty. He was a classmate at Princeton with Dr. John B. Rendall, president of the university. The exercises were attended by several hundred visitors from Philadelphia, Wilmington and other points. SPECIAL NOTICES Mt. Nebo Church, 27 Catherine street The Cedar Pleasure Social is cordially invited at 8.30 P.M. Committee—D. Price, Wm. Price, Rev. R. S. Accoo. P. A. 4. M. class. Wanted—200 men at Ames M. E. Church, February 25, 12. Men's day. Men to the front. A war to the finish for masculine supremacy in church as well as state. James Crichton ...CHARLES TOLSON... Agent for The Mutual Benefit Society, Fayette and Pearl Streets. Oldest and strongest Insurance Company in Maryland: Run for Colored People by Colored People. PHONE—1933 ST. PAUL. LET ME SELL YOU A HOUSE Desirable houses for sale in any part of the City, $50.00 to $100.00 balance as same as rent. Pianos and Organs, Pianolas, Victor Victorias on Easy Terms. Any make you may desire. Satisfaction guaranteed. RESIDENCE: 506 BAKER STREET 0-12-9-4t Call-Me up or send a Postal and I will be there immediately 1319 Argyle Ave Baltimore, Md. Salesman with J. Castelburg National Jewelry Company. All orders promptly attended to. Write, Call or Telephone St. Paul 1933. 3-16 Sermon by Rev. C. G. Cummings, D. D. pastor of Asbury. He will be accompanied by his choir and congregation. The following classes and their leaders will have charge of the arrangements. Class No. 3, Jacob Robinson Class No. 4, Richard Robinson Class No. 11, Robt. C. Nickens Class No. 17, Edward Davis; Class No. 23, George B. Brown. Tuesday Night, February 27th, 8 P. M. Sermon by the Rev. John A. Holmes, D. D., pastor of Metropolitan M. E. Church. His choir and congregation will accompany him. The following classes will control the arrangements. Class No. 5, Lloyd W. Dorsey; Class No. 6, John H. Lee Class No. 10, Thos H. Lee Class No. 19, Elias Woodis. Wednesday Night, February 28th, 8: P. M. Sermon by the Rev. M. J. Naylor, D. D., District Superintendent of the North Baltimore District. John Wesley Choir will conduct the singing. Dr. Wheeler, District Superintendent will introduce Dr. Naylor. Classes in charge: Naylor Classes in charge Class No. 1, James E. Alton Class No. 8, Draper Pinder Class No. 11, I. P. Brown Class No. 16, R. W. Ross Class No. 18, W. F. Taylor. Thursday Night, February 9, 8 P. M. Sermon by Rev. W. A. C. Hughes, D. D., pastor of Sharp Street Memorial. His choir and congregation will be his body guard. Classes in charge: Class No 7, John F. Thomas Class No. 1212, Frank Brown Class No. 14, John T. Gibson Class No. 15, John H. Chew Class No. 22, J. L. Anderson Class No. 21, John T. Boyer. Friday Night, March 1st, 8. P. M. Sermon by the Rev. D. D. Turpeau, D. D, pastor of Ames Memorial M. E. Church. The Sunday morning and evening classes: Class No. 2, George W. Williams Class No. 1, W. T. Lambson Class No. 20, Basil Wilson. All collectors will report each night. Those holding boxes will return them. Hear Bishop J. A. Johnson of South Africa At The Great Ingathering and Campaign Closing BY The Colored Empty Stocking & Fresh Air Circle FRIDAY, MARCH 1. 1912, 8 P. M. In the chapel of Bethel A. M. E. Church next Friday night. All Organizations of Women are Invited. On this night the Circle expects to pay the mortgage on the Farm. Every member will wear a spray of wheat. Everybody invited to attend. Inspiring music directed by Mrs. Lawson. Admission Free. Miss Ida R. Cummings, President, Mrs. M. M. R. Bruce, Secretary, Mrs. N. G. Bragg, Treasurer. Baltimore's Leading Colored Undertakers in Prices JOHN H. OWENS @ SON Undertakers & Embalmers 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; five burial robe, embalming, opening grave, advertise funeral, six pairs of gloves, door crepe, candles, candelabra, crucifix when desired, rugs, chairs etc., all of the latest designs. This funeral cost elsewhere.....$136.00 Our price.....$75.00 Saving you.....$61.00 Other Funerals as low as $25, $35, $40, $50. Higher Grade $100, $150, $175. No charge for removal of remains from Hospitals ```markdown ``` Agent for The M. Oldest and Run LET ME SELL Desk Pianos and O RESIDENT 0-12-9-4t At J. Sermon by H. will be accompany and their leaders Class No. 3, Class No. 18 Class No. 22 Sermon by the M. E. Church. following classes Class No. 5, Class No. 10 W Sermon by the of the North Bald singing. Dr. W. Naylor. Classes Class No. 1, Class No. 11 Class No. 18 Sermon by H. Memorial. His ses in charge: Class No. 7, Class No. 14 Class No. 22 Sermon by the M. E. Church. Class No. 2, Class No. 20 All collectors turn them. Hear Bish At T. The Colorful FI In the cha A On this night Every member at tend. Inspire Miss Ida R. Mrs. N. G. Braga Ball JOHN Unh Compl A fine casket highly polished either black, gra- riages, new and advertise funerai cifix when desire This funer Our price: Other Funerals No Ship 12 R. H. BUTLER, 1211 DRUID HILL AVENUE. 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. Don't forget number, 1211 Druid Hill Ave. CHARLES TOLSON... Mutual Benefit Society, Fayette and Pearl Streets. strongest Insurance Company in Maryland: for Colored People by Colored People. PHONE—1933 ST. PAUL. YOU A HOUSE Warrable houses for sale in any part of the City, $50.00 to $100.00 balance as same as rent. organs, Pianolas, Victor Victorias on Easy Terms. Any make you may desire. Satisfaction guaranteed. DENCE: 506 BAKER STREET Call-Me up or send a Postal and I will be there immediately. ERTHUR L. JOHNSON Le Ave Baltimore, Md. with J. Castelburg National Jewelry Company. All orders promptly attended to. Write, Call or Telephone St. Paul 1933. 1211 DRUID HILL AVENUE. 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. Don't forget number, 1211 Druid Hill Ave, ...CLASS WEEK... John Wesley M. E. Church Monday Night, Feb. 26th, 9 P. M. Monday night, February 26, 8 P. M. Mrs. Georgia Carr has presented Bethel A. M. E. Church, $10 which she raised by selling tickets at one cent each. Rev. G. R. Waller is confined to his home, 1800 McCulloh street, with an attack of rheumatism. Mrs. Lulu Smith, who has been ill at her home, 171 W. Hamburg street, is able to be out again. Mrs. Lucy Thomas, who is ill at her home, 427 Henrietta street is able to be out again. The condition of Mrs. Martha Butler, who has been ill at the home of her son, Rev. Joseph L. Butler, remains practically the same Mr George E. Read, an active worker and deacon at Sharon Baptist Church died late Thursday afternoon at his home on Division Mrs. Eliza Deane, 1514 Druid Hill avenue, celebrated her fifty-fourth birthday anniversary on Sunday, February 18 and entertained many of her friends. Mrs. Elizabeth Custis, 1514 Druid Hill avenue, was called away from home to Virginia over three weeks ago owing to the illness of her mother and has not been able to return on account of the icy condition. Mr. Charles L. Emmanuel, a student of Lincoln University, was in the city Wednesday, to arrange for a joint debate that will take place between the university and the Virginia Union University, of Richmond, here in April. Mr. W. Johnson, who has been ill at his home, 610 Wayne street, is able to be out again. Miss Agnes Thomas of Elkridge Md. spent last week in the city as the guest of Mrs. Estelle G. Young of 1821 Druid Hill avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ryan, of 570 St. Mary street, gave a prelenten luncheon Tuesday. The guests included Attorney and Mrs. E. C. Brown, of Hampton, Va.; Miss Annie Lomax; Miss Ruby I. Pratt, of Atlantic City; and Mrs. Thomas. Governor Appoints Colored Men Among the many appointments announced by Governor Goldsborough this week were those of Dr. J. Q. Spencer to be a member of the State Board of Education and Truly Hatchett to be a notary public for this city. Dr. Spencer is president of Morgan College, this city, and is deeply interested in the education of the race. Mr. Hatchett will be the first colored notary public in Maryland. 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. GREATEST BORN MEDIUM MAKE NO CHARGE if the object of your visit is not explained without asking a question. Can be seen on all matters of business love, courtship, marraige, investments, etc. By my advice I remove evil influence, witchcraft, spells, cure diseases and unite the separated. I never fail. I also teach hypnotism and how to become a medium. No matter what your troubles are or what you wish to know, this Gifted person can positively help you.....if you are hundreds of miles away. A word to the wise is sufficient. A Are you sick? Have doctors and medicines failed to help? If so, seek the advice and help from this wonderful man. 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