The Afro-American

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN LEDGER VOL. XX NO. 32. RACE LEADERS TO MEET AT WASHINGTON RACE LEADERS TO MEET AT WASHINGTON Will Discuss Present Attitude of Race Towards Presidential Candidates. SENTIMENT IS STRONGLY AGAINST TAFT Fedral Office Holders Are Frequent Callers At The Taft Headquarters. Washington, April 4—The call for a convention of men of the race in various sections of the country who are in favor of the presidential candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt is meeting with hearty and gratifying responses. The convention will probably be held in this city on April 24, and it will most likely be attended by representative men from more than 30 States. At the meeting it is expected that the discussions will include the present attitude of the race toward the Republican presidential candidates; plans for getting a satisfactory expression of the sentiment of the race as to the Roosevelt candidacy, as well as the attitude of the present administration toward the race. Judging from the many replies that have been received from representative men of the race, they are hostile to the nomination of Mr. Taft, and are enthusiastic Roosevelt men. Despite the fact that Mr. Taft has apparently the majority of the delegates elected to the Republican National Convention, the men in charge of the Roosevelt headquarters, in the Munsey Building, are optimistic about the Colonel's chances. Senator Dixon, who is directing the Roosevelt fight, has received many assurances from various sections of the country that Roosevelt is the favorite as against Taft. One gratifying piece of news received here this week was that there was hardly a Taft man in evidence around Henderson, N. C. North Carolina is the state where the President recently withdrew ten nominations of men for various federal offices, because, some politicians say, they were not outspoken Taft men. One of the hardest working men at the Roosevelt headquarter is James H. Hayes, of Richmond. Knowing prominent men of the race, in all sections of the country, Mr. Hayes has made a valuable aid for Senator Dixon and Cornsby McHarg. Taft Forces Working Over at the Raleigh, where the Taft forces hold forth, branch activity is being manifest. All of the big cedared office holders and the lesser ones in the Taft ranks are seen frequently there pledging the support of themselves and their friends for Mr. Taft. Many of these men find their way to the White House also, where they either tell President Taft or Secretary Hiles that they think that they will be able to overcome the present hostility among the race to Mr. Taft. The fact that Taft was completely snowed under by LaFollette in Wisconsin ensures Wisconsin's delegation to the Senator first, and only Taft as a last resort, it is thought here. Anyway, it takes a big dice off what Taft would have liked to count among his delegates. With the Republican National Convention only ten weeks off, some interesting developments are 'ex- PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY IN THE INTEREST OF THE RACE. pected, especially in the South where a number of men are fighting the efforts of the Lily White machines to select Taft delegates without letting the rank and file of the party have a voice. Business League Reorganized. Philadelphia, April 3—The Philadelphia Negro Business League has been reorganized with the following officers: Dr. Algernon B. Jackson, president; E. C. Dawkins, vice president; C. Thomas, auditor; John W. Harris, secretary; C. K. Brown, treasurer; Dr. Henry M. Minton; Harry W. Bass; William Geary; Charles Bolden; P. H. Sumner; and John A. Austin executive committee. President Spencer of Morgan College Associated On State Board of Education. Annapolis, Md., April 3 —The Maryland Legislature, which ended its biennial session Monday, passed a compulsory education law. The bill will apply to most of the counties of the State. It was originally drafted to cover the whole State, but a few Democratic senators from counties with a considerable colored population had their counties exempted, so as their counties would not be committed to keeping colored schools open longer than three or four months in a year. Baltimore has had such a law for ten years. The Legislature made a number of appropriations to colored institutions. These include: the colored Normal School at Bowie; Provident Hospital, Baltimore; St. Elizabeth's Asylum; the Industrial Home for Colored Girls at Melvale; and the Colored House of Reformation at Cheltenham. Governor Goldsborough has rehamed several of his appointees to the State Board of Education who failed of confirmation by the State Senate. Among them was Dr. J. O. Spencer president of Morgan College this city who is thoroughly familiar with the educational needs of all classes of the people of Maryland. Supreme Court of Minneapolis, Mins., April 4—The members of the Supreme Court of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows will meet in this city week after next to adopt a revision and codification, of the laws of the order, upon which they have been engaged for the past year. A number of social events have been planned for the visitors, who will include James F. Needham, of Philadelphia, secretary of the order. The members of the court are: B. J. Davis, Atlanta, chief justice; W. L. Houston, Washington, and W. R. Morris, St. Paul, associate justices. W. T. Francis, of this city, is clerk of the court. Boston, Mass., April 4—Bishop Alexander Walters, who has just completed 20 years' service as a bishop of the A. M. E. Zion Church, was tendered a big testimonial reception at the Columbus Avenue A M. E. Zion Church last night. Following the rendition of a special program, a banquet was tendered the prelate. Dr. Walter O. Taylor was toastmaster. Toasts were responded to by Dr. W. C. Lane, Rev. Walter McClane, Lide W. Benjamin, Emory T. Norris, Johnson Rainisay, Edward Everett Brown, Miss Eliza Gardner, and W. Monroe Fretter, editor of the Guardian. Bishop Walters responded gracefully to the many enconiums paid him. BALTIMORE, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1912. RESURRECTION MORN [Illustration of a man with long hair and a beard, wearing a robe with a decorative border featuring flowers.] By NEIL MACDONALD Copyright, 1912, by American Press Association THE Mount which shoots On Calvary's cross And on the brow of the Replaced night's shading Bright plumaged minstrels And chanted matins to the hills and valleys and the gleamed in the beauty of Around the tomb where Christ Anemone and crocus bloom And life, awakened by the sun Had draped the scene with But one there was whom loot To where they laid Him The glow and beauty all are But added sorrow to her Last at the cross and first And sweet her risen Lord Of those who knew his poe Had come to ponder and Atlanta Pastor Preads For Better Conditions THE Mount which shoo' with horror at the sight On Calvary's cross had since resumed repose, And on the brow of Olivet the light Replaced night's shadings with the hue of rose. Bright plumaged minstrels flitted through the air And chanted matins to the day new born. The hills and valleys and the city fair Gleamed in the beauty of the early morn. Around the tomb where Christ had vanquished death Anemone and crocus bloom enhanced the view, And life, awakened by the spring's warm breath, Had draped the scene with Eden's charm and hue. But one there was whom love had early led To where they laid Him in the rocky tomb. The glow and beauty all around her spread, But added sorrow to her pain and gloom. Last at the cross and first to reach the grave And sweet her risen Lord, but she alone Of those who knew His power to save Had come to ponder and her loss bemoan. Urges City to Provide Bath Houses Sweverage Connections and Paved Streets For Colored Citizens. Atlanta, Ga., April 4 — A plea for paved alleys, bath houses and good schools for the race in this city was made by Rev. H. H. Proctor in the course of a sermon at the Congregational Church Sunday. "I wish." said Rev. Proctor, "to make three suggestions which, if followed, would take an active part in the campaign for a cleaner city. "The first is to pave the back alleys and provide them water and sewer connections. A half million dollars spent in this direction would be one of the best investments our city could make. The people of the alleys and those of the front street are bound up together, for it is these alleys that furnish with horror at the sight she had since resumed repose, Olivet the light gave with the hue of rose. flitted through the air the day new born. the city fair of the early morn. Christ had vanquished death from enhanced the view, spring's warm breath, with Eden's charm and hue. love had early led in the rochy tomb. ground her spread, her pain and gloom. at to reach the grave d, but she alone power to save and her loss bemoan. most of the people who wash, cook, and nurse for the richest people of the city. "The second is to put in the more thickly populated sections, where. Negroes, live, a chain of public bath houses, where the masses of the race may have a chance at personal, physical cleanliness. This is done for foreigners in Cleveland, Ohio, and for blacks in Baltimore, Md. Because of the lack of facilities in many Negro houses it is impossible to keep clean. "The other is to open in this city a school for domestic servants, where the principles of practical hygiene and sanitation may be taught in a simple and effective way. The colored people hold in their hands the health of the city, and they should be taught how to meet the great responsibility that is theirs, in this respect. If the people of Atlanta will stand by me, I have a plan by which I can open a school like this in this city within the next ninety days." ```markdown ``` PRICE THREE CENTS True Reformer Officials Re-indicted DELAWARE CITIZENS WILL CELEBRATE DELAWARE CITIZENS WILL CELEBRATE The Fiftieth Anniversary of The Signing of the Emancipation Proclamation WONDERFUL PROGRESS IN FIFTY YEARS Meeting to Perfect Arrangements Will Be Held at State Col- Dever, Del.. April 5—A call has been issued for a meeting of representative citizens of Deleware to consider ways and means for the celebrator of the fiftieth anniversary of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The meeting will be held at the State College on April 18. The call reads: On the 22nd day of September, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the famous Emancipation Proclamation, which went into effect January 1, 1863, setting free four million slaves — our fathers and mothers. Fifty years have passed since this memorable deed by the great Emancipator, and during this space of half a century our people all over this State and country have made wonderful progress in population, education, religion, agriculture, mechanic arts, trade and business, fine arts, literature, the professions, inventions, and all lines of industry. The best informed writers on the history of races tell us that no such progress has been known in such short time by any other people of the world who emerged from slavery as we did. "Such has been the progress of our people that by common consent it is the feeling of all concerned to celebrate this progress in some substantial, way." Henderson Tex. April 4 - The fourteenth annual session of the East, Texas Teachers' Association will be held here on April 19 and 20. Rev. Dr. M. W. Dogan president of Wiley University is president of the association. Annapolis, Md., Mar. 27—The Court of Appeals handed down a decision affirming the decision of the City Court of Baltimore City in awarding John H. Wilson, of Baltimore, $1,400 from Frank W. Sandruck for alleged breach of contract. Mr. Wilson contracted with Mr. Sandruck to build him an auto truck for $2,500. $1,360 of the amount was paid Mr. Wilson with the understanding that Sandruck was to send him enough money to cover the remainder. Sandruck refused to advance the money, turn over the auto until the whole $2,500 was paid, or to return the money already paid, hence the suit. The lower court decided in favor of Mr. Wilson, and Mr. Sandruck appealed. Attorneys Hawkins and McMechen, both of Baltimore, represented Mr. Wilson. Maryland Roosevelt Committee Headquarters Hampton, Va., April 4—African Methodist ministers from all parts of Virginia will be here next week to attend the annual session of the Virginia A. M. E. Conference, which opens here next Wednesday. Bishop Levi J. Coppin will preside. Conference, Work for the nomination of the t Wednesday. greatest living American; "Theo- dore Roosevelt." Conference to Convene Richmond, Va., April 3 — A grand jury in the Hustings Court Monday reindicted A. W. Holmes, former grand master of the True Reformers: W. P. Burrell, former secretary of the order; W. L Taylor, former grand master; J. C. Robertson, former attorney of the order; and Edward Ellis, Jr., all former officials and directors of the defunct True Reformer's Bank for the wrecking of the institution. The indictments against he officials were squashed last week after counsel for W. P. Burrell and contended that they were invalid on the ground that they did not specify that the bank was insolvent. The new indictments contain six counts and are supposed to be proof against legal objection. The trials of the indicted officials will likely be at an early date, and are expected to consume a week. Secretary Knox Entertained By Staition Officials Port au Prince, April 4—Secretary of State Knox and party were received with open arms by the officials of the Haytian government this week. The American minister, Dr. H. W. Furniss, gave a breakfast in honor of the distinguished party yesterday morning. President LeConte, who was present at the breakfast, said that his people welomed American capital for the development of the resources of the country. Trenton, N. J., April 4 — The New Jersey A. M. E. Conference will convene [in annual session] at the A. M. E. Church next Wednesday. Bishop Evans Trye will preside. Rev. Solomon P. Hood pastor of the church where the conference will be held, has made ample arrangements for the entertainment of the visitors. Raleigh, N. C., April 4—At a meeting of the representative colored Republicans Monday, resolutions against the elimination of the Negro from the party councils in North Carolina were adopted. It was decided to hold a colored Republican convention here on May 15, when the Republican State Convention will meet. While no candidate for the presidency was endorsed, the meeting was harmonious throughout, all of those present being taken up with a discussion of the Lily White regime and the exclusion of influential colored, taxpaying Republicans from the party councils. Among those present were: H. H. Taylor, chairman; C. W. Hunter, secretary; W. W. Watson, Edgecomb, N. C.; W. E. Merritt, Wagner, N. C.; T. W. Wallace, Rowan, N. C.; J. P. Arrington, Nashville, N. C.; Rev. R. H. W. Leak, Raleigh; D. P. Lane, Wake, N. C.; and C. F. Rich, Rocky Mount, N. C. Room 406-408-410 EQUITABLE BUILDING Phone St. Paul 4195 All who wish to enroll as members are cordially invited to call or send in their name. POTENT FACTOR IN EDUCATION FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM. Institution Founded by Dr. James E. Shepard Affords Opportunity For Pastors and Teachers to Properly Prepare Themselves—Plans For the Summer School. By GEORGE FRANCIS KING. Durham, N. C.—Throughout this and other states the ministers of the race are manifesting an appreciable interest in the forthcoming ministers' conference to be held July 0 to 13, inclusive, at the National Religious Training school in this city. This movement was born in the fertile mind of the Rev. Dr. James E. Shepard, the founder of the most essential educational and religious undertaking ever inaugurated for the wholesome uplift of the race. The plans of the conference are so comprehensive and farreaching that not only ministers of the race are sanguine over the needed results that will be gained from such a meeting, but leading white divines in many sections of the country are giving impetus to the effort by substantial encouragement. Dr. W. Y. Chapman, pastor of one of the richest Presbyterian churches in the country, located in Newark, N. J., is an enthusiastic advocate of the conference. He says that the sociological problems of the race are largely to be solved by the Afro-American preachers. He has visited this famous institution several times since it opened for the reception of students and has carefully studied conditions. Such a forceful character as Dr. Chapman, who always contends for giving the Negro every right that is guaranteed an American citizen, will again this year give a series of lectures at the summer school and Chautauqua. Dr. Shepard is receiving applications from ministers in many sections of the country and the preachers in the rural district who need such inspiration and instruction as will be derived from such a conference. The progressive citizens of Durham of both races are preparing to make this meeting one of national import. The institution will entertain during the week of the conference all ministers without cost. Such a concourse of divines, entirely undenominational, deliberating upon questions of vital import to the race and nation will be epocalyptic in character. After a careful investigation it has been found that there are 30,000 Afro-American preachers in this country and that only 3,000 are rightly prepared for the noble work they should accomplish; hence the need of such a conference is apparent. It will be a potent factor in reaching the masses of the race and turning the activities of thousands of them into channels of usefulness. Beginning July 3, the summer school and Chautauqua of this well known educational and religious Mecca will be crowded with students and teachers and visitors. Dr. Johnson of Xenia, O., the noted Bible student and instructor, says that this effort has an influence and helpfulness analogous to the movements of the white race, and, although as one of its lecturers, he was greatly benefited. The musical features are away above the average. Noted singers and reciters are heard daily. Such lecturers as Professor Kelly Miller, Mr. D. Webster Davis, with his wholesome wit and philosophy, and Professor Douglass. The program for the summer school and Chautauqua as is now being arranged will be one of the greatest sources of inspiration, educational and with splendid social diversions, that have ever been accorded the race in the south. The splendid achievements of the race along commercial and professional lines in Durham are "native ideals" for the visitors, so all who will attend the ministers' conference, summer school and Chautauqua will be encouraged by such concrete evidences of racial progress. Race Making Double Fight For Life. To work hard for a living and light race prejudice at the same time is the experience of many persons. Dr. Booker T. Washington says any man who has to work against poverty and race prejudice at the same time has a gigantic problem to cope with. That is true, and the success of the colored people in this country has been marvelous in view of the foregoing facts. It takes a person or a race of more than ordinary patience, physical and mental capacity, grit and persistence to stem the tide of injustice and inequality of opportunity such as the colored people in the United States have to combat, and yet they are brave and optimistic. Odd Fellows Hold Pleasing Recognition. The annual reception of Theobold lodge of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows recently held in Brooklyn was attractive, well managed and enjoyed by a large number of the members, their friends and visitors from out of town. The members do not seem to be at all alarmed over the threatening storm of discord which some say is brooding over the general fraternity with rapid speed. FOREIGN MISSION WORK. Baptist Board In Louisville Issues Urgent Appeal For Funds. Louisville, Ky.-Thirty-one years ago the colored Baptists' of the United States organized for the purpose of doing foreign mission work in Africa. Two years later six missionaries were sent out by the foreign mission board of the denomination. They were the Rev. and Mrs. W. W. Colley. Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Presley. Rev. J. J. Coles and Rev. Hence McKinney. Although there remnants but one of the six original pioneers alive, the work is being vigorously carried on by 120 men and women, who are laboring as pastors and teachers. The extent of their labors may be appreciated when it is taken into consideration that, besides the large work which they are compelled to do among non-Christians, they pastor and teach 14,000 persons who have accepted Christianity. In order to meet the financial needs of the foreign work the Rev. Dr. L. G. Jordan, corresponding secretary of the foreign mission board in this city, has sent out an urgent appeal to the Baptist churches and Sunday schools throughout the United States for funds in aid of the missionaries. Every year the board conducts a financial rally at Easter time for the benefit of the foreign mission work of the denomination. Dr. Jordan is a faithful secretary, and the work under his able supervision has steadily grown. He deserves the hearty support and co-operation of the sisterhood of Baptist churches. From 1896 to September, 1911, the board raised $208,691.29 for African missions and acquired land and church and school property to the amount of $28,485 for the denomination. PUPIL OF THE MASTERS. Critics Praise Musical Ability of Miss Helen Elise Smith. By ALBON LEWIS HOUSEY. BY ALBON LEWIS HOLEY. In the world of aesthetics genius is creative and art interpretative. Shakespeare was a genius, and he left us Hamlet and a Shylock. Dickens created and bequeathed to the fiction world such characters as Micawber, Urland Heap and Mr. Pickwick. But it remains for the artist on the stage to interpret these characters and reveal to us the deeper meaning of these authors. The compositions of Mendelssohn, Beethoven and the other masters are but lines and dots until the artist touches the piano. Then through a labyrinth of marvelously blended tones and rich melodies, his interpretation and expression lead us on until the [Picture of a young woman in profile, wearing a white headscarf and a yellow dress with a white collar. She is looking slightly to the right of the frame.] MISS HELEN EIDRIS SMITH. real soul strivings of the master mind behind the dots and lines are disclosed for our joyous appreciation. The genius, being creative, is sufficient unto himself, but the artist is a happy composition of native ability and superior training. Miss Helen Ellise Smith of New York is an artist. As a little child she evinced a remarkable aptitude for music and at eleven was regarded a very promising piano student. When her musical education had got beyond the ordinary, instructor she easily passed the very rigid entrance requirements for the Institute of Musical Art of New York and after studying there for seven years graduated with honor. Sigismund Stojowski, the favorite pupil of Paderewski, was her piano teacher, and her instructors in harmony, theory and composition are recognized authorities in their particular lines. Mr. H. E. Krebhiel, formerly music critic for the New York Tribune, and other well known critics have emphatically expressed their appreciation of her interpretation of difficult compositions. Aside from her regular students, Miss Smith teaches the piano at the Music Settlement For Colored Children. Miss Smith is modest and more inclined to converse on any subject than her training and ability. However, a glorious future awaits this young woman, so devoted to and proficient in her chosen profession. Tuskegee Commencement Program. The annual commencement exercises at the Tuskegee (Ala.) institute will begin on Sunday, May 26, at which time Bishop Robert Strange of Wilmington, N. C., will preach the commencement sermon. On Monday, the 27th, the annual exercises at Phelps Hall Bible Training school will be held. On Tuesday evening, the 29th, the Boston Trinity church prize contest will be held, and on Thursday, the 30th, the regular commencement exercises of the academic and industrial departments will be held. The annual address is to be delivered by Major Robert R. Moton, commandant at Hampton institute. HER EASTER BONNET. By CLARISSA MACKIE. [Copyright, 1912, by American Press Association.] LECTA SCOTT was saying her prayers in her customary audible manner. That is why Amabel Deering happened to overhear them as she knocked at Electa's side door at 7 o'clock in the morning. E "Lord," Electa was saying plainly, "for five years I've asked you for a new bonnet to wear to church and up to now I ain't had no shadow of an answer. How am I going to church on Sundays if I don't have a new bonnet, and how can I buy a new bonnet when it takes every cent of that pension money to buy bread and butter and contribute to the missionary society? Lord, don't you reckon I need a new bonnet more than them heathen needs flannel petitcoats? Lord, I still have faith. I believe I shall have that Easter bonnet this year. Amen!" When Electa opened the door to Amabel's repeated knocking her face still wore the exalted look of one who had just withdrawn from spiritual communion. "Good morning, Amabel," she said dreamily. "You come after your yeast?" "Yes. Miss Electa." returned pretty Amabel, extending her pitcher. "Isn't it a beautiful morning?" "It's a pretty day." murmured Electa, retiring into her pantry with the pitcher. Her yeast was famous throughout the village, and the sale of it, together with the $100 income which she called her "pension," provided her table. She owned the cottage. "Mother's making doughnuts today, and she says she will send some over," said Amabel as she went out. "That's kind of her, Amabel, but she needn't send them. I'll get them when I come to the missionary meeting. It's going to be to your house today, ain't it?" "Yes, and I must hurry, for I promised to make a cake for refreshments," and Amabel hurried away. Amabel Deering was something of a gossip, but never an unkind one, for she possessed a warm heart and an unselfish disposition. Of course she told her mother about Electa's prayer for a new bonnet. "It's too bad she can't have one, mother." declared Amabel as they worked together in the kitchen of the Deering home. "That old horsehair thing she's been wearing for years is nothing to wear now!" "It's a sight, but what can any one do with Electa? She's as poor as a church mouse and as proud as Lucifer. I expect she'd be mud as a batter if she knew you'd overheard her praying for a bouncer." "I don't know as it's any more foolish to pray for a bouncer than it is to ask for a good crop of corn or for renewed health or for happiness," said Amabel, beating eggs briskly. "If an Easter bonnet, means happiness for Electa Scott she ought to have it!" "How is she going to get it?" asked Mrs. Deering. "Why, can't the missionary society send her one? She's contributed enough to the heathen out of her little income. I should think. Why don't you put it up to the other ladies, mother?" "I don't believe they'd do it. Amabel. It wouldn't be in accordance with the nature of the society to give anything so frivolous and flighty as bonnets, but I'll mention it if I can get a chance before Electa comes." "I'll do more than that," declared Amabel enthusiastically. "I'll corner each one when they're taking off their things in the bedroom and ask them to think it over. I've made up my mind that Electa Scott is going to have a new Easter bonnet if I have to give her my new hat and wear my old one—so there!" Mrs. Deering smiled at her daughter's ardor, and she hoped that there would be no test of Annabel's generosity in the matter of new hats. The Deerings were very well to do and, like many other people in the prosperous farming community, had plenty of clothes for the season, and she could hardly understand how Electa Scott could make such a matter of importance of a new bonnet as to carry it to the Lord in prayer. In fact, Mrs. Deering felt rather shocked about it. It proved that the other members of the missionary society felt the same way about it. No matter how badly Electa Scott might want an Easter bonnet, and they all admitted that hers was wretchedly shabby, it scarcely seemed delicate to mention such a trivial matter to the Lord. "Well," cried the exasperated Amabel at last, "If you won't do anything, please remember that I've told you about this in the strictest secrecy, and if it ever leaks outside it will come from one of the members of this society. I'll see that Electa Scott has an Easter bonnet. My last year's straw is perfectly good." "That's generous of Amabel considering how food she is of clothes," murmured Mrs James Harmon, whose son was "keeping company" with Amabel Deering. Amabel reddened and went to answer the doorbell, for it fortunately happened that Electa was the last to arrive, and as she admitted her the girl noticed that the thin little spinster was aglow with excitement. "Ladies," she cried as soon as she End sented herself to her task of sewing. "I've got, great news! I've just been down to Ellen Lawson's. You all know she's been flat on her back for a year with rheumatiz. and I dechare if she ain't walking around! She is tool! She says she's going to church Easter Sunday." "That's very nice," murmured the members of the missionary society, somewhat chagrined to find that this active member of their circle had been doing some home missionary work unknown to them. But it had been a busy winter, with special work for their mission school in India, and Ellen Lawson lived on the other side of the river. "She's grown so thin, being sick and all, that she ain't got a thing to wear to church, and I promised she could wear my black silk dress. I tell you because I knew you'd all recognize it by the trimming. You've seen it often enough, but I don't want Ellen to think any one'd notice it. She's counting on going to church and seeing the flowers and hearing a sermon. All the church news she's had is what her husband could bring home, and men folks ain't much for that kind of thing," rattled Electa. "What about this sleeve, Mrs. Deering—is that right?" Electa was the last one to leave the meeting that day, but it was noticeable that the members of the society were quite distraught as they separated. Electa carried home her doughnuts and had them for her supper. But she was so excited over the prospect of preparing Ellen Lawson for church that she quite forgot to include in her prayers her nightly plea for an Easter bounten. Ellen Lawson's appearance at church on Sunday in Electa's one silk dress was a matter that must be managed with tact, so that no chance word or look should mar Ellen's happiness at being out once more. "That's what Easter's for, I guess—to make glad all the folks who have been sick and are restored to health," mused Electa as she inspected the silk dress for possible spots or tears. It was an ancient gown and well worn. On the day before Easter Electa Scott walked across the long bridge over the river to Ellen Lawson's house. In her arms she carried a package containing the silk dress. She had given no further thought to what she might wear herself on the morrow, but there was always the old black cushmere that she reserved for rainy days. It was dusk when she reached home. As was her custom, she hurried around to the side door to let herself into the house. As she reached the top step she stumbled over something wrapped in paper—paper that rustled crisply. There was more rustling of papers. There proved to be quite a small mountain of paper wrapped parcels against the door. The mystified little spinster stepped over them and unlocked the door and lighted a lamp. In a daze of surprise she carried in parcel after parcel until they covered her dining room table. With trembling fingers she opened one of the bags. It contained a dainty little black straw bonnet with bunches of delicate white and purple violets. Another one contained a hat—frail straw with a sweeping black ostrich feather. Electa did not know that this was Amelia's Easter hat. In fact, she never really knew whence all the lovely hats and bonnets contained in the six bags left at her door, and she PARKER THE PANCELS COVERED HER TABLE. never questioned the donors, so happy was she in their possession. They were the Easter bonnets of six lean years of poverty. Tears of happiness ran down her cheeks as she tried them on before the dim old mirror. Two young people were standing in her garden watching her—Rob Harmon and Amabel Deering. His arm was about the girl, and their cheeks were pressed together. Amabel was too happy to care about hats for herself. She told Rob that the other missionary ladies must have suffered a revolition of feeling and sacrificed their Easter bonnets for Electa. She knew her own mother had sent a foulard silk dress pattern. 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Davis, editor of the Atlanta Independent, chief justice of the Odd Fellows' Supreme Court and prospective grand master of the order, has been indicted for alleged wrongfully and illegally removing whiskey from a borden warehouse and has never been tried for the same, has aroused some of the white people here, who have made a demand that he be tried for the alleged offense. Davis, who was a gauger under Collector of Internal Revenue Henry A. Rucker, was presented by a United States Grand Jury about ten years ago, but at each term of the United States Court the case has been postponed for some reason. Some of the postponements were caused by illness of the indicted man, he averred in affidavits. Should Mr. Davis be tried at the coming term of the United Court and a conviction be secured his hopes for election as grand master of the Odd Fellows to succeed Edward H. Morris will have gone arguining. Chief Justice Davis, who now faces the prospect of being tried before a judge of the United States Court, was recently acquitted for the alleged use of the notarial seal of one A. Graves. A number of prominent white men were on hand to testify as character witnesses for Davis. Following his indictment, Davis lead the campaign which finally resulted in Henry A. Rucker being succeeded by Henry S. Jackson (white), as collector of internal revenue for Georgia. Married at Winchester Winchester, Va., April 4 — Miss Edith Martin and Mr. Marion Carter were married at the parsonage of St. Paul A. M. E. Church last Wednesday evening. The ceremony was performed by Rev. R. J. Butt. The bill at the Empire Theater was furnished by amateurs last Friday. Mr. Earl Evans won the first prize and Mr. Mayberry got the hook. A week's rally services will end at St. Paul A. M. E. Church this Sunday night. A successful leap year party was given at the Free Baptist Church a few evenings ago. Mr. James W. Stephenson has returned from a visit to Hagerstown, Md. Miss Patsy Carter has returned to Fairfax, Va., after spending some time with friends and relatives here. Mt. Winans, April 4—Mrs. Christina Murdock, of Paca street, is convalescent. Mr. Frank Howard met with a severe accident Thursday of last week being caught under half a ton of iron. He is much improved after the careful attention of a physician. Mr. E. Pembroke is confined to his home with spinal malaria. Star Bethel A. M. E. Church rendered service all day last Sunday. The collections amounted to $29.80. Rev. Columbus Handy is pastor. The faithful old Charlie, horse-servant, owned by Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Hopkins died March 80 1912 Charlie was the center of attraction around and about Mt. Winans and the city. Bishop Coppin at Hagerstown. Hagerston, Md., April 4—Bishop Levi J. Coppin preached to large congregations at Bethel A. M. E. Church Sunday. Fourteen persons were read into full membership. Rev. David Johnson, pastor of the church, was complimented on the erection of a new church. The new edifice will be dedicated on June 16. Rev. Edward Moore, who has just been returned as pastor of Asbury M. E. Church, was tendered an ovation by his congregation Sunday. Mrs. Margaret Wagoner has returned from a week's visit to Baltimore. Rev. S. M. Johnson, presiding elder of the Hagerstown district, was in the city this week. News has been received in the city of the death of Mrs. Laura Watkins, of Brooklyn, Md. She was a sister of Mrs. David Johnson. JOHN H. HARRIS BICHARD L. BROWN. A rising young artist whose pictures brought nearly $800 at their exhibition at the galleries of the Ovington Brothers' Co., in New York. The pictures were on exhibition from March 18th to 23rd. News From Annapolis Annapolis, Md., April 4. Members of Asbury M. E. Church are delighted with the return of their pastor, Dr. N. M. Carroll. Mrs. H. M. Norwood entertained the ladies whist club Thursday afternoon Miss H. F. Reynolds and Miss Blanche Roy, of Baltimore, spent Monday in Annapolis. Dr. L. C. Custis, pastor of Mt. Moriah A. M. E. Church, is preparing for conference. Mrs. L. C. Custis spent the week end in Baltimore. Rev. A. H. Mahoney visited clerical and professional friends in Baltimore and Washington last week. Miss Mamie Johnson and Mr. Clifton Colbert, of Camp Parole, were quietly married last Thursday evening at the A. M. E. parsonage by Dr. L. C. Custis. Mrs. N. Nickens, of Washington D. C., will open a music class in this city in the near future. Mr. John Connor, of the United States Navy, has been ordered to Charleston, S. C. A Stocking Social will be given at the residence of Mrs. Sarah Smothers, 43 Franklin street, on next Tuesday evening. Last Sunday the services at St. Philips P. E. Church were very interesting. The altar was decorated with palms and carnations, and palm branches were given to the members and visitors at both the morning and evening services. At 4 P. M., a musical rehearsal was rendered under the leadership of Mrs. Broom, of Baltimore. The rector, Rev. A. H. Mahoney, preached two interesting sermons. Denton Happenings Denton, Md., April 4—Miss Laura Murray and Mr. George Johnson were married at the parsonage of the M. E. Church last Wednesday. The ceremony was performed by Rev. F. T. Johnson. The bride was attractively attired in a blue silk princess. Mr and Mrs. Charles Boston entertained Rev. and Mrs. J. G. Bryant Sunday. The annual institute of the teachers of Caroline country was held last Thursday and Friday. Miss Mary A. Bailey has gone to Atlantic City or the summer. Mr. Charles B. Bailey has returned from a visit to Baltimore. Men's day services were held at Union Bethel Church Sunday. Charles Boston spoke in the morning, J. B. Thomas in the afternoon, and A. J. Bailey at night. Rev. F. T. Johnson, pastor of John Wesley Church, is attending the sessions of the Deleware Conference at Salisbury, Md. Fairfield Happenings Fairfield, Md., April 4—The Educational School Club's parent and non-parent rally was a success. The parents raised the most money. Hugh E. Macheth, of Baltimore, was the principal speaker. E.J. H. Gillespie, L. G. Vallingdingham, and Walter W. Brown also delivered addresses. Mrs. Florence Burse has returned to North Carolina and is staying with her daughter, Mrs. William Anderson. Mr. Lee Sloan went to Washington Saturday to meet his wife. Mrs. Annie Gillespie and Mrs. Jack Henderson, who are on the sick list, are improving. THE AFRO=AMERICAN=LEDGER HOW DOUGLASS HELPED MANNES The story of how Charles Douglass, the dead violinist, helped David Mannes, brother-in-law of the late Walter Damrosch, was told by Mannes a few days ago. The New York Mail, gives the following account: Douglass was a Negro lad in a southern town when he attracted attention as one possessed of conspicuous musical talent. So great was the promise he showed with the violin that rich patrons backed up his ambitions and sent him abroad to study under the masters there, and as he became a violinist of power he became, too, a man of wide reading and a fluent speaker of French and German as well as of English. When he had finished his study he came back to America, hoping to find a bright future in the music world of the North. But this hope was never realized, for, though there was recognition of his ability among people who knew, the color line was drawn to shut him out of fair opportunities. There was no room for him in a great symphony orchestra. There seemed to be no place for him to pursue his career on the level for which his taste and his education had prepared him. And, gifted and accomplished though he was, he had to turn to the guitar and the banjo as the instruments with which a Negro could gain a hearing. Heart Broken, He Died. "And I know that when he died," said Mr. Mannes, "he died of a broken heart." One day, a broken and a disappointed man, Douglass was walking along Twenty-seventh street, when he heard the strains of a violin rising from the basement of one of the old brown stone houses there. "It is my son who is playing," was the proud reply of the woman there to the question that Douglass stopped to ask, and, going in, he found a boy of thirteen or there-abouts, fiddling away for dear life. "You do not play badly," the Negro said, little wistfully, as Mr. Mannes remembers it, for he was the boy with the violin. And out of that meeting grew a friendship between the boy and the disappointed Negro, who taught him the things he had learned abroad, and who read to him from Poe and Tennyson, and helped to shape his life. Mr. Mannes afterward studied under the masters in Europe, but it was the colored man playing the banjo for a living in New York who first started him in the right direction. That was thirty years ago, but it is to the memory, of Douglas that Mr. Mannes has dedicated the Musical School Settlement for Negroes that is in progress in the quarters of the Mary F. Walton Free Kindergarten, on West Sixty-third street, and in the parish house of St. Philip's on 102d street. Great Oratory by the Late Senator Bruce. Philadelphia, Mar. 21—In a letter to the Public Ledger, Henry Irvin Nicholas, who witnessed the unsuccessful struggle to nominate Grant for a third term at the Republican National Convention in 1880, tells of the striking speeches that James Garfield, who captured the nomination; Senator Roscoe Conkling and Senator Blanche K. Bruce made. Speaking of Mr. Bruce, who was United States Senator from Mississippi from 1875 to 1881, and who was appointed register of the Treasury by President Garfield and was reappointed by President McKinly, Mr Nicholas writes: "There were so many giants of expression at that convention that one of the best is sometimes overlooked or else forgotten; I refer to Senator Bruce (colored) from Mississippi. In a fervent speech at a late hour, he carried the convention off its feet by an impassioned pearation pledging the loyalty of the people and of himself for all the sentiments of patriotism for which Lincoln lived and died and for which the North fought and died. As a young man that convention left an impression of zealous patriotism upon me that has never and never will pass away." Hagerstown, Md.. April 5th Mrs. Caroline Harris has retruned from North Carolina, where she was called four months ago by the illness and subsequent death of her brother, James Clemens. TO THE LADIES MRS. LUCY S. 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All Checks, Money Orders and Drafts should be made payable to THE AFRO-AMERICAN CO. TAFT'S SOUTHERN POLICY It is difficult to follow out the ramifications of President Taft's wicked Southern policy. It is a noteworthy fact, that when a Northern white man "falls from grace" and adopts the Southern Bourbon contention against the colored race, he usually sets out to "out-Herod Herod." He can always be depended upon and in most cases goes the Southern man one better in his exhibition of race prejudice. This has been conspicuously true of President Taft. The few weeks he spent at Augusta just prior to his inauguration were apparently successfully used by his Southern hosts to inoculate him with their peculiar political virus. And it took! President Taft came to Washington prepared not only to exhibit the grossest ingratitude to the colored men of the South who had really nominated him, but he was actually prepared to betray the whole race whose votes elected him; and he was further fully determined to violate openly, want only, the party pledges made in the platform of 1908, upon which he was elected and to which he was most solemnly pledged. He threw the colored Southern delegates to Chicago down with a callousness that has not been equaled since Hayes surrendered the colored people of the South to the Klu Klux clan. He destroyed the last lingering semblance of a political existence enjoyed by the colored Republicans of the South with as little compunction and with no more ceremony than a cat destroys a mouse. President Taft not only recognized no claims upon him, acknowledged no debt to the black delegates who nominated him, but he sought from among the unreconstructed Democrats of the South the material, in many cases, from which to fill the offices in the Southern States. And then as if "to rub it in" when the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States died instead of promoting the logical candidate to that office in the person of that great defender of human rights—the late John M. Harlan—who, it is whispered, died of a broken heart on account of having been rejected for the well-merited and well-earned promotion to the Chief Justiceship which would have fittingly rounded out his long and honorable career to the Supreme bench—he elevated to this high position a Democrat and ex-Confederate, apparently not satisfied with his former record of unfriendliness to the colored people, shown in the appointment of two Southern Democrats as Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, of the United States, thus assuring for many years to come a court whose predilections would be against us upon any Southern issue. There can be no hope of favorable action from the Supreme Court as at present constituted upon any of the great questions affecting our civil and political rights. One of the most uncalled for and unnecessary features of President Taft's Southern Policy was shown in his instructions with regard to the taking of the census. The equivocal position of the Southern people in their every day dealing with us would be ludicrous if they did not work such hardships upon us. They insist upon segregation and jim-crow laws and yet many of the most zealous advocates of these most vicious doctrines are head of colored families. The Southern white man will travel in the same seat of the car with his colored employee, but will insist upon the ejection of the very same colored person if he happens to be otherwise independent of him. He will accept his mail from his colored butler, but should the same butler afterward become a mail carrier, he will refuse to accept his mail from him. He will eat what a colored cook prepares but will not eat with him. This list to ridiculous contradictions might be elaborated indefinitely. President Taft during his sojourn in the South discovered these beautiful traits of Southern character and in a consuming desire to win the favor of the South which has seemed to dominate him ever since that visit, when the time came to arrange for the enumeration for the census he proceeded to "out-Herod Herod" by giving the here-to-fore unheard of instruction that colored enumerators should count only colored people! This is the worst blow that has ever struck us. By this policy the President has set the seal of presidential approval upon its Southern contention for segregation—a most unjust, un-American and unholy theory—and he has done this notwithstanding the fact that he was elected pledged to give "exact justice to all men without regard to race or color." For years since the war the census has been taken by colored and white enumerators and no one ever thought of suggesting such a separation for this work. Even if it has been suggested the utter wantonness of such a course has not allowed any former President—not even Hayes—to adopt it as a policy. If he felt the obligation which his party placed upon him to see that "exact justice without regard to race or color" was done to all men and particularly to those men without whose votes he could never have been the President, President Taft would not have done this unholy thing. If the theory of our government is right and if the Republican party plank means what it says, there could have been no more reason for the appointment of colored enumerators to count the colored people only than for the appointment of German enumerators to count only the Germans, or Jewish enumerators to count Jews only. This thought is the Southern race propoganda. The Southerners are assiduous and untiring in its dissemination. Taft was among them at the psychological moment and became infected. The pestilential disease developed in him so rapidly and so effectively that he forgot the black friends who made him a presidential possibility; forgot the black citizens whose votes elevated him to his high office; forgot the principles of the great Republican party—the party of freedom, justice, and fair play—forgot the republican platform upon which he was elected and especially the plank guaranteeing "exact justice to all men without regard to race or color;" forgot everything except his feverish desire to please his Southern hosts even though it meant being ungrateful and unfaithful to us and recreant to the sacred trust imposed upon him by our party. GRAND LARCENY OF CIVIC RIGHTS Now that the Legislature has adjourned, and the great agony is [a]thing of the past, let us thank]Providence that is is no worse than it is it us We would like to have a serious word with the thinking and decent men of both of the political parties, but especially do we invite the attention of the Governor of Maryland. According to the constitution of our country, Negroes are included in "the sovereign people." They are a part of the State. The theory of the supreme law of the state is "the people," neither white nor black, but simply the people. Yet, it is a FACT, and not a theory, that colored citizens irrespective of virtue or other qualifications, are systematically treated as though they were outside of "the people' of the state. THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER And, all this by high-minded and intelligent men of the "superior" race claiming enlightenment in their consciences. It matters not if we take service on jury, on the police force, the fire department, and the various offices whether municipal or state, without any warrant of law, except it be that "might makes right," we are absolutely left out and ignored as though we had no existence. This is bad enough, but does not stop here. One might reasonably imagine that being left out of count in all of the above items, that for the sake of decency alone, there would be some disposition, upon the part of the ruling classes, to at least make generous provision for our education and charitable needs. But, even here we are but the "poor Lazarus lying at the gate of the rich man, desiring to be fed with the crumbs" from the table. Out of over a half million dollars of the public money voted to chatable and educational institutors of the state, the pitful sum of about twenty thousand dollars goes for the help of the entire Negro race in the state. The educational advantages offered the race in the several counties are perfectly shameful. And, yet, white Republicans are elected to the state Legislature by Negro votes, and they are ashamed to rise in their seats and plead for a "square deal" on behalf of their black constituents. What are we going to do about it? Well, if we are to have genuine "primaries" something can be done. Under the "boss" system almost nothing can be done. We have been too timid. We have been more disposed to help secure victories for the Republican party, than to secure the election of fair-minded men who are disposed to assist in the amelioration of the unjust condition into which we are forced. If a colored man has character, intelligence, and is ready to submit his case of qualifications to any fair-minded set of men, why should he esteem himself as unfit to serve his city or state in civil affairs, solely because of the color of his skin? There ought to be in this city a sufficient number of self-respecting colored men who will persistently and consistently refuse to vote for any man, Republican or Democrat, who will not grant the Negro a "square deal." We do not claim to be better than white men, but the claim is made that our citizenship rests upon the very same basis upon which theirs rests. Why should we not be treated by the same measurement as applied to them? Colored men have to pay the same rates as white men pay. During the next two years, every Negro in the state of Maryland who is a tax-payer will pay each year a certain amount for the new Johns Hopkins Technical School and the new State Normal School, designed, contrary to law for the exclusive use of persons of one race only. The money of the whole people of the State is appropriated for the use of institutions which do not render a service to the whole state. Negroes are forced to pay money for such institutions, when it is well know that the only possible connection which they may sustain towards them is that of janitors or charwomen. It would not be polite to term it highway robery but the fact remains that we are unjustly deprived of our rights of citizenship by a public sentiment which claims to have behind it the influence of the followers of the Man above all others who made no distinction of race or class but who unhesitatingly threw the weight of his influence on the side of the suffering and despised ones. If we make no effort to cover what is our own, then, possibly, we give the best evidence that we are not men in the same sense as those whose leader cried out "Give me Liberty or give Me Death." A is a white man and B is a colored man. Both are citizens of Maryland. The State has erected a State Normal School. A and B both must pay the stipulated sum towards its support prescribed by the supreme authority in the State. But A may send his daughter to that institution; and yet, B is forbidden to send his daughter, although he is as much a citizen as A and pays the same tax. This is even handed," justice." B's daughter needs the benefits provided by the State as much as does the daughter of A and yet, because the daughter of B is black she can not receive those benefits, although her father must pay the tax towards a State institution. Let some of our white republican spell-binder's elucidate the "justice" of the matter; or else, let them feel ashamed to talk about equality of rights when they know they do not believe one word they say. There was a good deal of truth in what the old colored brother said when he prayed: "The wind may blow, and the acorns may fall, but the white man's hog will THE INDEPENDENT AND BR'ER DAVIS Angered by the criticism made by the Afro-American Ledger and the New York Age on an alleged utterance made by Hon. Henry Lincoln Johnson before the recent Georgia State Convention, the Atlanta Independent proceeds to let the world know how the criticism is abhorred by it. The alleged utterance that the Afro-American Ledger criticised, was first published in the Atlanta Constitution, and since Mr. Johnson has himself contradicted it, we cheerfully accept his version. Mr. Johnson charges that the Atlanta Constitution always misrepresents him, and as the friend of Mr. Johnson, the editor of the Atlanta Independent should have been the first man to brand the report that appeared in the Constitution as essentially false. Instead he allows the country to think that the Constitution's report was correct, and when race papers, miles away, proceed to criticise the alleged utterance, Editor Ben Davis begins to rave. He does not criticise the Constitution, as its publisher, Clark Howell, is a white man. We have been watching the so-called constructive policies, likewise the destructive ones of the Atlanta Independent for many moons and find that the Independent has more grouches than the Boston Guardian. With this difference, however: Editor Trotter is fighting for what he believes will deliver the race from unequal and unfair condition, while Ben Davis in effect condones the wrong treatment of race, when it does not affect the interests of the editor of the Atlanta Independent. We remember that just a fortnight ago, the Independent applauded the sentencing of Editor White to the chain gang because the Georgia Broadaxe published a story that had been clipped from a Chicago paper. Ben Davis would have all colored papers throttled in speaking against race conditions, except the Independent, of course, but he would permit the white press of Georgia to say all manner of mean things about the race, and many of which do not contain the truth, for which Editor White has been imprisoned. The Afro-American Ledger believes in constructive leadership, and is not much concerned as to who leads, just so the work is done creditably. It has no hostility to Henry Lincoln Johnson, but, on the contrary, wishes him every success, and when Mr. Johnson does a anything to help the race it stands ready to chronicle that fact. We remember that it was Mr. Johnson who saved Editor White from being lynched when Editor Davis did not bestire himself and recommend to the editor of the Atlanta Independent that in taking up the cudgels for the Recorder of Deeds he should at least be ready to have the broad sympathies and a manly toleration for others that hundreds of Mr. Johnson's friends claim are among his strong points. EASTER Sentiment and feeling both combine to make this one of the most joyous of Christian festivals. Easter season brings us to the conquering climax of the earth pilgrimage of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of men. With the wise men we traveled from the East with weary feet, and with the shepherds, we heard the angel song over Bethlehem as they sang their universal song of peace and good will; then in the manger knelt and worshipped the young King. Then through weary years, we followed Hinn o'er hill and plain, until He came to Calvary's brow and there gave up His life to redeem the world. Today, the cross on which the Master hung and cried, "Eli Eli lama sabachthani," is gone. More than that, Joseph's tomb, where loving hands laid Him, and Roman sentinels stood guard, is empty. All the world is astir today on account of the gladness heralded by Mary, as she carried the angelic message: "He is not here. He is risen as He said." Like the foot travelers on the day to Emmans, Christian men and women have walked by faith with the risen Lord, and their hearts have burned as they talked with Him by the way. The hurrying feet of the women, who left the empty tomb, that they might bear the news to the desciples, are still going through the earth and the glad joy of Easter fills all lands today. With this conquering truth of Easter, the disciples of Jesus have filled the earth, until from "Africa's sunny fountains and Judia's coral strand," the heralds of the cross are singing: "All hail the power of Jesus' name, Let angels prostrate fall." Until Jesus arose and flashed a new light on the finals of life, men stood before death hopeless. The dead man or a shattered pillar. She knelt before the risen Christ, her face, Rapt, pure and passionless, to his upturned In love and worship, which removed all trace Of what she suffered when He was inurned. He stood before her, with His brow thorn-scarred, And smiled upon her as she humbly knelt, But with restraining words and gesture barred The full expression of the joy she felt. MAGDALENE ship gone to pieces; a race lost; a harp with broken strings, with all its music lost; a flower bud crushed with all its fragrance in it. Such were the utterances of the grief of men as they stood face to face with death. Not until Jesus came, yea, not until with conquering triumph, He walked out of Joseph's tomb did man begin to see that death is the gateway to life. So Easter joys are dashing the earth with light and the long night is radiant, and hope is streaming everywhere. Today, we stand by the graves of our dead, not as of old, but with a new hope. We shall see them again is the old, old message that still runs on from the grave of Lazarus, where Jesus gave him back to the loving embrace of friends. So from the tomb, to all the living will come some day, all the dead of the past, "for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised." "Then we which are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words." A Pretty Wedding Danville, Va., April 4 — Miss Mary H. Lawson, a teacher in the public schools, and Rev. S. S. Morris, pastor of the Third Street A. M. E. Church, Richmond, Va., were the principals in a fashionable wedding here today. The ceremony was performed by Bishop Levi J. Coppin, assisted by Revs. W. E. Spratley and A. A. Gavin. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Madison Lawson, and was educated in the local public schools and the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute. The groom is a native of the Tidewater section of the State, and was educated at Morris Brown College and Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Ga. He is a trustee of Kittrell College, and is one of the delegates from the Virginia Conference to the A. M. E. General Conference. Thanksgiving Sermon To The Knights Of Pythias Atlanta, Ga., Mar. 28—The annual thanksgiving sermon to the Knights of. Pythias was preached here Sunday by Rev. W. A. Fountain, president of Morris Brown College. Over 3,000 members of the order and friends heard the sermon. Dr. and Mrs. I. Garland Penn gave a birthday party recently in honor of their daughter, Miss Georgia, who is a senior at Clark University. The reception was largely attended. Salisbury, Md., April 6—Ministers and laymen from the northern part of the Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and a part of Pennsylvania are here attending the Delaware M. E. Conference. A number of those holding prominent offices in the church have delivered addresses. The election of clerical and lay delegates to the M. E. General Conference took place today. Miss Ida R. Cummings, of Baltimore, will be one of the speakers at the annual meeting of the Women's Home and Foreign Missionary Society tomorrow. The ordination of deacons and elders will take place Monday night. Tendered A Surprise Mt. Friendship, Del., April 3—Rev. M. E. Hazzard Barrett, wife of Mr. Clarence Barrett, and her brother are visiting relatives in Richmond, Va. A surprise social was tendered them by Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Briscoe a few evenings ago. A successful rally has just closed at Bethel A. M. E. Church. Delaware Conference In Session Crisfield, April 2—The company of ladies and gentlemen, known as the Somerset Wanderers, gave a musical concert at Pocomoke City for the benefit of Rev. J. S. Collins' church on March 25. They realized $40.00. The concert was highly appreciated and largely attended. A company of ladies gave an entertainment at the Odd Fellows Hall Monday night and it was largely attended. Mr. Geo. Baily preached at Hopewell for Rev. Adams Sunday evening. Mrs. Rose Collins an aged lady died here at the home of her son, Chas. Collins, on S. 4th street, and was taken to her former home, in Fairmount, Md., for burial. George H. White A Candidate Philadelphia, April 4 — Hon. George H. White, who was a Congressman from North Carolina from 1896 to 1900, has announced his candidacy as a successor to the late Congressman H. H. Bingham. He was active in North Caolina politics for years, and was the last man of the race to serve in Congress. He has been practicing law in this city for the last ten years, and is president of the People's Bank, located at 1508 Lombard street. BUSINESS MEN SHOULD COOPERATE Co-operation among the colored business men of Baltimore would mean a great impetus among the small enterprises that are being run by men of the race. With the Business League either dead or in a torpid state, there is little point of sympathetic contact among the colored business men of the city. They do not meet to discuss trade conditions, or consider ways and means for getting larger patronage or for buying in such quantities that would enable them to compete with white merchants in the same line. For example, should the more than twenty-five colored men and women who conduct comparatively small and really small grocery stores in this city form themselves into an association for the purpose of buying in such quantities that they could offer inducements to the trade as well as extending their volume of business large establishment of the kind would be just the question of a few years. If Jones, Smith, Johnson, and others who are in the grocery business would agree to buy flour in carload lots and apportion it among themselves according to the amounts of money that each had paid, they could compete with the larger stores. This same thing carried to other lines of their business would enable them to compete all along the line, and if the public were let known that he could sell a first class quality of goods as cheap if not cheaper, than whites, trade would come to them that is now going at the whites. There is between $40,000 and $50,000 spent every week here by the colored people for groceries, and ninety per cent of this goes to white merchants. The colored people, like other elements of the population, must have groceries and more modern methods on the part of the colored grocer and a desire to compete with others in the same line would transfer this business of the race. A wholesale grocer, large retail stores, wagons running everywhere, clerks, cashiers, bookkeepers, drivers, all of whom would be Negroes—would be the result. The owners of these establishments would be among the moneyed men of the race, and could therefore give financial help and the value of their experience to various public movements. Annapolis, which has a colored population less by more than 80,000 of the race's numerical strength in this city, has in the grocery establishment of Wiley H. Bates one of the largest in that city. Cambridge has a number of grocery stores run by the race and all doing a good business among the 2,500 colored people of that city. There are other stores run by the race in a number of the towns of the State, and these, proportionately, reach 100 times more people than do colored grocery stores of this city. Another phase of co-operation among business men of the race should be in business of the race patronizing each other. The grocer should patronize the colored tailor, and the colored tailor the grocer, and each, in turn, the colored druggist. The colored doctor should send his patients to the colored druggist to have their prescriptions filled, and the colored lawyer should patronize various branches conducted by the race. All, in turn, may buy coal of the colored coal dealer, and the coal dealer see to it that each business man gets his patronage. business man gets his patronage. The ties of interest made by this co-operation would soon take hold of the masses, and the business man would be the one to profit most thereby. Clothing stores, boot and shoe dealers, dry goods stores, meat stores and other agencies for taking care of the actual daily needs of the race would soon flourish, and Baltimore Negroes would be the most prosperous in the country. A certain Hebrew vigor dealer of this city is aiding his race in a cooperative way. This man is a man who did not have much money five years ago and he has not a great pile today. But he belongs to a Jewish building association, is buying houses and selling cigars. He is now selling popular brands of cigars for four cents each, and drawing trade. One striking interest of this man's interest in his race is shown when a Jew started a grocery place a few weeks ago in his vicinity. This store had been previously run by a German and is located in a colored neighborhood. The Jewish cigar dealer as soon as he found that his fellow race man had secured the grocery store went around the neighborhood advising the resi- THE GREAT LIGHT Trinity Baptist Church, 20th St., near Charles EASTER SUNDAY EVENING, APRIL 7th, 1912 You and your friends are cordially invited to attend the recital of this beautiful Cantata on the life of Christ, including the birth, crucifixion and resurrection. The Resurrection to be sung by our noted lyric tenor, Mr A. Rich, is very dramatic and well worth hearing. Other good soloists. Admission free. Doors open at 7.30 P. M. G. R. Wallef, D. D., Pastor. Mrs. H. O. Wilson, Pianist. George White, Director. By Mr Lewis H. Murray At Albaugh's Theatre Friday, May 3rd, 1912, at 8.15 P. M. WITH MR. TRAVIS M. TUCKER And Mme. Anna Hazelton-Lee, Mme. Lillian Dolman-Weaver, Mme. Pauline Jackson-Stevens, Mr. Otho Church, Mr. Lincoln Weaver and 100-Chorus of 100 PRICES .25c., 35c., 50c. AND 75c. Tickets at all drug stores and at 540 West Lanvale Street. Lady Board of Managers: Mrs. Julia A. Carr, President, Mrs. Alice Ennis, See'y. Mfs. Minnie Harvey, Treas. The greatest book of its kind published. Nothing like it on the book market. This book presents the trials, efforts and achievements of the Negro race from the first agitation of the slave question to the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt, all woven in the form of a pleasing romance. The book is instructive, contains much valuable data and is beautifully illustrated with fine half tone cuts. Price by mail. $1.00. Send all orders to Dr. C. H. Fowler, 1065 W. Lexington St., Baltimore, Md. Agents wanted. Send application to Charles H. Fowler, 1065 West Lexington Street, Baltimore, Md. THE RISEN CHRIST (A Cantata) To be rendered by Trinity A. M. E Sunday School EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 7th, 1912 T. J. Holliday, Superintendent. Rey. A. L. Gaines, Pastor Superintendent Charles J. Koch will give his illustrated lecture on the "History of Baltimore, and the Battle of North Point." Tuesday, April 16th, 1912, at 8 P.M. This lecture was schedule for April 4th but owing to the Easter holidays will be given on April 16th, at Zion A. M. E. Church, Pennsylvania Avenue, near Dolphin Street. It is the final lecture of the series given in connection with the Night School by the Department of Ed- dents to patronize the Jewish grocer as he is a good man. And he is getting the trade now. The Late James E. Griffin The late Jas. E. Griffin, son of Amelia and the late Jas. C. Griffin, who died in Jacksonville, Fla., was buried from Sharp Street Memorial Church on Tuesday at 2 P. M. The funeral arrangements were in charge of Samuel W. Chase and son, undertakers, and the services were conducted by Rev. E. W. S. Peck, assisted by Revs. M. J. Naylor and D. G. Hill, Mr. Edward Peck, organist, and Mr. Clarence Lowry, soloist. He was buried in Laurel Cemetery. Mr. Griffin, who was better known to his friends as Son Griffin, has been a member of Sharp Street Memorial Church since early boyhood, but owing to his being away from the city most of the time, he was not a regular attendant and consequently not well known to the membership. But his circle of friends, with whom he was very popular, was very large, both in this city and New York, where he lived most of the time. Mr. Griffin, who as thirty-seven years of age, had been sick but one week and although he received the best of medical treatment and was attended by his faithful and loving wife, human skill and attention could not alter the decree of God. He leaves a mother beides his wife and one child to mourn him. St. Luke's Pay $100 Claim The Independent Order of St. Luke pays 100.00 death claim. Baltimore, Md., Jan. 7, 92. This is to certify that I have received from Mrs. Maggie Walker, Right Worthy Grand Secretary of the Right Worthy Grand Council I. O. of St. Luke, one hundred dollars ($100.00) in payment of the death claim of my husband, Rev. C. C. Layne, who was a member of Laynes Excelsior Council No. 773, of Baltimore, Md. Mrs. Mattie Lavne, beneficiary 320 N. Wolfe street I. T. Carpenter, S. D., 1108 N. Carey street. THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER CORNISH—Sacred to the memory of my dear son, William, who departed this life five months ago November 1, 1911. God called him home, it was His will, But in my heart I love him still My memory of him is as dear today As in the hour he passed away. By his loving mother, Mary L. Cornish. CORNISH—In loving but sad remembrance of my dear daughter, Lilly, who departed this life one year ago today, March 31, 1911. The month of March once more is here The saddest month of all the year, It was the month my dear and only daughter departed. And by her loss I am broken hearted. By her loving mother, Mary L. Cornish. SMITH—In sad but loving remembrance of our dear mother, Sarah L. Smith, who departed this life six months ago, April 1, 1911. Death has robbed us of our comfort. Can we help but shed a tear? Yes, we miss her; Oh! how we miss her When we see the vacant chair, But Oh! how sad the home is without her FLEMMINGS—Departed this life Tuesday, March 26, 1912, at 10 p. m. George H. Flemmings, the beloved husband of Sarah Flemmings. The funeral took place Friday March 29, from Metropolitan M. E. Church. Rev. John A. Holmes officiated Interment at Mount Auburn Cemetery. He is survived by his wife, sister and one daughter. ALLEN A. M. E. CHURCH. Lexington and Carlton Streets Rev. I. G. Martin, Pastor 11 a. m., Sermon by Rev. S. W. Johnson, P. E. 2.30 p. m., Sunday School Easter Exercises 4.60 p. m., League Easter Program 8 p. m., Communion saw a great light."—Matt. 4:16. EAT LIGHT , 20th St., near Charles NING, APRIL 7th, 1912 y invited to attend the recital of this list, including the birth crucifixion CRUCIFIXION ARD RESURRECTION, a most beautiful cantata, under the direction of Howard E. Young, will be rendered by the Seniors of Bethel A. M. E. Sunday School, on Easter Sunday, April 7th, 1912, at 8 o'clock. Beautiful music and magnificent costumes will be the features. In addition two very beautiful solos will be rendered by Baltimore's best soloists. Special exercises by the juniors and tots at 8 o'clock. Every one is cordially invited to these exercises. Edward F. Barnett, Musical Director; Thaddeus Copeland, Superintendent; Dr. D. G. Hill, Pastor. John Wesley Sunday School will hold an Easter Prayer and Praise Service on Sunday, April 7th at 2.30 P. M. The public in general is invited to come and give praises to a once crucified and now risen Saviour. There will be a drama entitled "Hiawatha" given at John Wesley M. E. Church corner of Sharp and Montgomery street for the benefit of the Sunday School. The public is also invited to come and spend a pleasant evening with us. Don't miss it. It is a treat Cards of admission 10 cents. Exercise will begin at 8 o'clock. Miss Katie B. Jolley, directress. Mrs. Jennie Milk, supt., Rev. Ernest Lyon, D. D., pastor. "THE KING OF GLORY" A Sacred Cantata, by Fred. W. Peaces, by fifty voices, at Sharp St. M. E. Sunday School, Easter Sunday evening, April 7th, at 8 P. M. Silver offering at the door. There will be a sermon preached to Zerrubbabel Chapter No. 4 R. A. M., in St. Paul's Church, West Saratoga street on April 4th at 8 P.M. All R.A.M., M. M. & Ladies are intited. James Dansbury, H. P. R. B. Marriot, Secretary. Don't forget to come and hear the Oratorio"The Great Light" at St. Paul M. E. Church, Easter Sunday, night at 8.15 o'clock. Sung by the Choir. A welcome awaits you. Positively a silver offering at the door. Music a plenty. Vocal and instrumental. Rev. S. H. Norwood, pastor. Madison St. Presbyterian Church Easter Service 11 a. m. Sermon by Pastor 4.00 p. m.— S. H. RHODES P. A. SCHNECKER Easter Cantata The Risen King BY THE CHOIR OF THE MADISON STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Directress Organist Pastor Miss Delia Butler Mr. U. G. Chambres Rev. L. Z. Johnson, Special Notice A grand literary musical and conundrun entertainment at St. John A. M. E. Church, Lexington street near Pine, Tuesday evening, April 16, 1912. Madame Lee Slade, of Washington, D. C., one of the best elocutionists of the age, will entertain you with readings of wit, humor, and pathos. To hear her once means that you will wish to hear her again. She will be assisted by some of the ministers from the State of North Carolina, who will be here visiting the Annual Conference. Valuable gifts given to lucky contestants in conundrum contest. This will be the best entertainment of the season. Admission 15 cents. Benefit pastors' conference claims. L. S. Flagg. pastor. CALL AND SEE ME MME. CARRIE MORRIS for hair dressing, manicuring, and massaging. Hair and switches. I also have a very fine hair cream that is sure to make your hair grow. 1118 N. CAREY STREET. EASTERN M. E. CHURCH McElderry St., and Patterson Paik Ave. Rev. S. R. Hughes, Pastor. 11 a. m., Sermon by pastor. Subj: "The Christian's Hope" 2 p. m., Sunday School 6 p. m., Epworth League 'Bro. John M. Barnes, Pres. 8 p. m.. Sermon by pastor. Subject: "Christ the Magnet." All Cordially invited JOHN WESLEY M. E. CHURCH, Sharp and Montgomery Sts. Dr. Ernest Lyon, Pastor. Early morning services, commencing at 4 a. m. with a Covenant Service, and at 5 a. m. sermon by the pastor, "The Resurrection" 11 a. m., The Choir in their new vestments, will render choice Easter Anthems. Sermon by pastor. 2.30 p. m., Special Easter Service by Sunday School. 8 p. m., Song Service especially arranged for the occasion by the choir Everybody Welcome Special Silver Offering at each Service CENTENNIAL M.E. CHURCH Cor. Caroline and Bank Sts Rev, D. W. Shaw, D. D., Pastor 11 a. m., Easter Sermon by Pastor 2.30 p. m., Sunday School Wm. L. Gibson, Supt. 4.30 p. m., Epworth League AMES MEM, M. E. CHURCH, Carey and Baker Sts. Rev. D. D. Turpeau, Pastor. Sunday, April. 7th, 1913 6 a. m., Special services of song and Resurrection Sermon by the pastor. 11 a. m., Dist. Supt. W.A.C.Hughes, D. D. 5 p. m., Special Easter program by the E. L 8 p.m. The Sunday School will have their Easter services, which include a very delightful program WHALCOAT M. E. CHURCH Franklin and Pineus, "King's Birth Rev. Alfred Young, Pastor. 5 a. m., Early Meeting 11 a. m., Easter Sermon by Pastor Come and See! Come and Hear! 3 p. m., Special Easter Music in the Sunday School 4 30 p. m., Epworth League 8 p. m., Sermon by Rev. J. S. Cole, P. E. Zion A. M. E. Church Monday, April 15, Pastoral Reception ASBURY M. E. CHURCH Lexington and East Ste. Rev. C. G. Cummings, B. D. Pastor 9.30 a. m., Bible Class 11 a. m., Easter Sermon by Pastor 2.30 p. m., Sunday School 5 p. m., Epwcrth League 8 p. m., The Lord's Supper Strangers Cordially Welcomed Chas. T. Stewart, Supt. Mrs. Laura Thomas, Pres E.L. EBENEZER A. M. E. CHURCH THE GREAT LOVE FEAST All converts of the three hundred who were converted under the administration of Dr. George T. Watkins, thirty-five years ago, in Ebenezer A. M. B. Church and in other Churches of Baltimore or elsewhere living, will celebrate their Thirty-fifth Anniversary Love Feast on Friday, April 12th, 1912. All other converts of later dates are invited, also all Christians. J. W. Norris, Pastor C. Y. W. C. A. 1200 Druid Hill Avenue You are invited to attend the services on Sunday, April 7th, at 5 p.m. Miss Colt, General Secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association, will make an address on the Resurrection. Special Music. M. E. Murphy. Pres. E. E. Bright. Sec. EDENZER A. M. E. CHURCH Rev. J. W Norris, Pastor STEWARDDESSES DAY Sunday April 14th 1912 11 a.m., A sermon by the pastor to the Widows. Widowers and Bachelors of Ebenezer A. M. E. Church and all sister Churches in the city of Baltimore The new novelty of this religious service. The Widows. Widowers and the Bachelors will march beneath the Widow's staff. Two girls dressed in white will stand on either side of the Widows staff with the flowers of hope. 8 p. m. Sermon by Rev. Cole. His choir and congregation will be present. 8 p. m. Sermon by the pastor to the Sons and Daughters of Moses. Mrs. Jennie Doughty, Pres Mrs. Sarah E. Brown, Sec. Look! All female preachers are cordially invited to attend the ministerial meeting each Monday beginning Easter Monday at 1711 Keyser street, East Baltimore from 3 to 5 P. M. The object of these meetings is to bring about a proper spirit and a closer union among our missionaries and female preachers, that we may be able to get down to work, and discuss how we can raise money to assist Home Missions. So says the Rev. Jeannette Johns, the well known open air Evangelistic preacher. 100 NEAT VISITING CARDS. 1 or 2 lines in neat Engravers Roman for 65 cents in advance, mailed to any address free of charge. Moore Printing Co., 217 S. Clinton Street, Baltimore, Md. EBENEZER A. M. E. CHUROH Rev. J. W. Norris. Pastor Easter Services All Day. 11 a. m., Easter sermon by pastor. Baptizing of children. Communion. Special music by the choir. 2.30 p. m. Special program in the 2.30 p. m., Special program in the Sunday School. 6 p. m., Special program in the League. 5 p. m., Easter praise and song service by the choir and congregation. Twenty-two Leaders will sing a selection. Herbert Frisby, Supt. John Murray, Pres. of League TRINITY A. M. E. CHURCH, Rev. A. L. Gaines, D. D., Pastor. 5 a. m., Special Easter talk, prayer and praise services. 11 a. m., Sermon by the pastor; Reception of full members; Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. 2.30 p. m., Sunday School Exercises. 6.30 p. m., Allen U. E. League. 7.45 p. m., Easter Cantata under Calcium Lights. Churches of 300 voices. PAYNE MEM. A. M. E. CHURCH Laurens and Calhoun St. Rev. P. W. Wortham. D.J. Pastor 8 p. m., Easter exercises by Sunday School. ST. JOHN'S A. M. E. CHURCH, Lexington St. near Pire, Rev. L. S. Flagg, Pastor, 11 a. m., Sermon by Pastor. "The Resurrection of Christ." 2.30 p. m., Sunday School. Miss B. Fleming, Acting Supt. 6.30 p. m., A. C. E. L. Meeting Joseph Holman, Pres. 8 p. m. Holy Communion. Subject- "How May One Know Whether He Is Eating and Drinking Acceptably to God." HANDY MEM. A. M. E. CHURCH Cor. Baker and Bruce Sts. Rev. John Offer Custis Pastor. 1514 David Bill Ave. 10 a. m., Love Feast 11 a. m., Holy Communion 2.30 p. m., S. S. Easter Services 8 p. m., Special Easter Program. H. W. Hiner, Secy. Wednesday Night, April 10th, 1912 8 p. m., Special Services. Sermon by Rev A. L. Grines, D. D., of Trinity A. M. E. Church, accompanied by chlor and congregat on. All choirs and organizations invited GRACE PRESBYTEIAN CHURCH Dolphin and Etting Sts. Rev. W. Edw. Williams, Minister. The Mansc. 623 W. Lanvale St. 11 a. m., Sermon: "The Easter Dawn" Solo:Miss Pattie Banks; Anthems by the Choir. 3 p. m., Special S. S. Program 8 p. m., Sacred Song Service Solo "Golgotha" Miss Cie飞 J. Combes Solo "The Heavenly Song" Miss Bertha Dickerson Solo "A Lord of Life" Winfort J. Press Braxton Quartette Miss Ruth B. Lee, Mrs. Helen Irvine, Winfort J. Braxton, Gough D. McDaniels Recitative and Quartette Mrs. Edna Reid and Quartette Anthems by the Choir Seats Free All Welcome Miss Ruth B. Lee. Directress Miss Margaret L. Rosk, Organist William Anderson, Supt. PENN. A. M. E. ZION CHURCH Rev. E. D. W. Jones, Pastor 11 a. m., A Memorial Service. Subj: "Immortals" 2.30 p. m., Sunday School 4 p. m., Class Meeting 6 p. m., Christian Endeavor. Special Feature. 8 p. m., Pastor's subject: "What are They Doing in Heaven To-day?" CHRISTIAN CHURCH, Riggs near Carrollton Ave., Rev. R. I. Curtis, Pastor. 11 a. m., Rev. Saul Bedford. 2 30 d. m., Sunday School 8 p. m., Rev. Dr. G. W. Kennard C. Maillord, Clerk Come One! Come All! A JAPANESE 7 EA At Waters A. M. E. Church, Aisquith And Orleans s. Sts., Thursday evening, April 11, 1912, at 8 o'clock. An exe- cient program will be rendered. L. Woingust L. Jackson E. B. Hill! BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH Cor. Drudt Hill Ave. & Lanvale St. SUNDAY, APRIL 7th 1912 Allen's C. E. League at 5 o'clock Program: Violin Solo Mr. Leroy Davage Solo Miss Gertrude Dennia Paper Miss Ella Richardson Piano Solo Miss Lilian Young Solo Miss Zopolio Folks 16 GILLIS MEM. M. P. CHURCH Stockton Street near W. Baltimore Rev. B. H. Knight, Pastor. 10 a m., Class 11 a. m., Rev. J. R. Richards 2 p. m., Sunday School 6.30 p. m., C. E. D. conducted by the Sunday School Easter service 8 p. m., Preaching and Communion J. W. Fowler, Pres. of C. E. D. T. H. McGowan, Supt. 10th ANNIVERSARY OF KING DARJUS Lodge No. 23, Grand Urited Order of Brothers and Sisters of Good Hope of America with the Grand Lodge and the Subordinate Lodges will have their 10th annual sermon preached by Rev. D. G. Hill, D. D., pastor of Jethiel A. M. J. Church, Drud Hill, Avenue and Lanval Street, Sunday, april 14th, 1912, at 7.30 p. m. The Order will meet in the chapel not later than 7 p. m. r. S —The Outlook Quartette will render a selection, the opening Hymn, 'the King's Business'-Mdme. Author Evans, sop., Mdme. Mr. M. J. Gross, con. Mr. Jas. Allen, tnor. Mr. Jas. Smith, bass. Solo by Mdme. Author Evans, [The Great White Throne] TAFT'S ATTITUDE TOWARD THE NEGRO It may be interesting to those who are deeply interested in the outcome of the campagin for the Republican presidential nomination to read carefully several notable utterances of Presidential Taft regarding the Negro, as well as the Negro plank in the National Republican platform in 1908. One is the speech he delivered at Greensboro, N. C. in 1906, when he advocated the appointment of Southern Democrats to federal positions in the South; his inaugural address, in which he stated that no colored men would be appointed to offices where the whites objected; and the one that he delivered before a New York meeting in the interest of Hampton Institute, in which he advocated industrial education as a solvent for the race question. The fact that Mr. Taft has appointed no colored men to prominent federal positions in the South, has appointed whites to positions that were held by colored men, has elevated a Southerner to the Chief Justiceship of the United States Supreme Court and has appointed two other Southern Democrats, men who could reasonably be supposed to agree with the South's policy of disfranchisement and jim-crowism, as justices of the Supreme Court, has caused the widespread opposition to his candidacy that is now rampant among colored men who are not active in politics. The speech at Greensboro was delivered when Mr. Taft was secretary of War, and was not considered as a presidential possibility. It follows in part: "It is of vital importance both to the country at large and to the South if a political break can be made in the still solid Democratic South, to bring it about. "I do ot wish to seem ungracious but I must be candid. In my judgment, the Republican party in North Carolina would be much stronger as a voting party if all the federal offices were filled by Democrats. "As long, however, as the Republican party in the Southern States shall represent little save a factional clause for federal offices, in which business men and men of substance in the community have no desire to enter and in the result of which they have no interest, we may expect the present political conditions of the South to continue." This speech infuriated many old line North Carolina Rpublicans, who resented the charge that they stood for nothing more than what they could get out of the Federal Government. Though Mr. Taft, has not been reported as making a single utterance during the past four years against disfranchisement and race discrimination, the Republican platform on which he ran and was elected to the presidency made the following declaration in favor of the same rights for the Negro that other classes of American citizens enjoy. The Party Stands For The Race. "The Republican party has for more than fifty years been the consistent friend of the American Negro. It gave him freedom and citizenship. It wrote into the organic law the declarations that proclaim his civil and political rights, and it believes today that his noteworthy progress in intelligence, industry, and good citizenship has earned the respect and encouragement of the nation. We DEMAND equal justice for all men without regard to race or color; we declare once more, WITHOUT RESERVATION, for the enforcement in LETTER and SPIRIT of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments of the Constitution, which were designed for the PROTECTION and ADVANCEMENT of the Negro, and we condemn all devices that have for their real aim this disfranchisement for reasons of color alone, as unfair, un-American, and repugnant to the Supreme law of the land." In an address in the interest of Hampton Institute, delivered in New York city, February 23, 1909, Mr. Taft argued against any attempt to deport the Negro, but declared that race prejudice was a fact. Needed As A Laborer. "The Negro is absolutely essential to the development of the South," said Mr. Taft. "His labor the South needs, and the more you instruct that laborer the more valuable he becomes to the (white) South. Hence it is that the work of the Hampton Institute has its intense importance. It is the solution of th race question. I do not believe in too many crutches for people that are trying to learn to walk, but if you furnish them JUST ENOUGH EDUCATION to know how to use their minds and their hands and their legs in productive occupations, and then if they are a race that has the spirit to help themselves, the future is before them and the opportunity is theirs." Mr. Taft has since then been quoted as saying that he as in favor of higher education for the race. The inaugural address of President Taft enunciated his Southern policy which has occasioned so much adverse criticism. In that address Mr. Taft said that colored men of merit ought to be recognized in the distribution of patronage, but not in communities where the whites objected. "The Negroes are now Americans," said Mr. Taft. "Their ancestors came here years ago against their will, and this is their only country and their only flag. "Any recognition of distinguished Negroes, any appointment to office from among their number, is properly taken as an encouragement and an appreciation of their progress, and this JUST policy shall be pursued. "Personally, I have not the slightest race prejudice or feeling, and recognition of its existence only awakens in my heart a deeper sympathy for those who have to bear or suffer from it, and I QUESTION THE WISDOM OF A POLICY WHICH IS LIKELY TO INCREASE IT." Dr. Mason Talks Rev. Dr. M. C Mason, one of the secretaries of the Freedmen's Aid Society of the M. E. Church, who came to the city this week to deliver an address before the Baltimore M. E. Conference, talked interestingly to a representative of the Afro-American Ledger about the educational work that the Methodist Episcopal Church is doing for the race. He was educated in the schools maintained by the denomination and is a fine example of the work that his denomination has and is doing for the race. As an orator he is regarded as one of the best in his church and has delivered addresses to white conferences in all parts of the country in the interest of his work. Should the General Conference of his denomination, which meets at Minneapolis next month, decide to elevate a colored man to the bishopric, Dr. Mason will be among the first to be considered in that connection. "The Methodist Episcopal Church," said Dr. Mason, "maintains twenty-three schools for the race. These schools are scattered in all sections of the country, but are for the most part in the South, where our people live in larger numbers. They have given thousands of our young men and women that training that has enabled them to become most potent factors for the race's uplift. For this work the denomination has raised $750,000 within the past four years. Interest from various funds amount to over $1,000,000, which shows in a way what the denomination is doing for our young men and women." While in the city, 'jr. Mason was the guest of Rev. Dr. Ernest Lyon. Prominent Men To Speak At Big Mass Meeting. A big mass meeting, at which Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, editor of the Crisis, and probably J. E. Milholland and Oswald Garrison Villard editor of the New York Evening Post will be the principal speakers, will be held at Union Baptist Church-Druid Hill avenue above Dolphin street next Thursday evening. The meeting will be held under the auspices of the local branch of the Association for the Advancement of the Colored People and will be for the purpose of calling the attention of Baltimoreans to the splendid work that the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People is doing for the race. A special musical and literary program will also be offered. Dr. F. N. Cardoza, president of the local branch desires that the public turn out in large numbers, as no admission fee will be charged. Miss Maud R. Miller, of Washington, spent three days in this city last week, the guest of Miss Esther Gatewood, 1514 Argyle THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER NEGRO DEMOCRATS WILL GATHER HERE NEGRO DEMOCRATS WILL GATHER HERE Will Be Much In Evidence At Meeting of The National Democratic Convention. When the Democratic National Convention meets here in June a large number of colored Democrats from various sections the country will be in evidence around the Fifth Regiment armory, where the sessions will be held. As some of the Democratic bigwigs have shown a disposition to invite the assistance of colored voters, and especially since the last Congressional election which heightened Democratic hopes somewhat. The bronze dieciples of the party of Thomas Jefferson will be more in evidence here than they have in any Democratic convention with in three years. Bishop Walters, who heads the National Negro Democratic League, Nepoleon Bonparte Marshall, who is one of the editors of the New Era, a Democratic weekly which recently made its appearance in Washington; Chief Edward E. Lee, of the United Colored Democracy of New York City; R. W. Wood, leader in New York State; Ralph Langston, James D. Carr; and a big number of the followers of Charles F. Murphy, in New York avenue, expected from Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Indianapolis. St. Paul, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Denver, and the Far West. Colored Democrats are few and far between in the South, but in the North and West they abound and have received political recognition. Negotiations are now underway to secure a local hall as head quarters for colored Democrats during the convention. Frank Humphrey a Topeka, Kansas, Mar. 27—Frank Humphrey, 29 years old, employed at a local railroad depot, is barely able to read and write, yet he can solve difficult problems in mental mathematics with a rapidity and accuracy possible to few persons. Humphrey is a Nergo. He knows little of the rules of mathematics, and says that he attended school only long enough to learn multiplication tables. "What is the cube root of 357.911?" he was asked. "Seventy-one," relied Humphrey, without the least hesitancy. "Multiply 102¹ by 67¹, Humphrey." This caused the Negro to hesitate for a moment and then his face brightened and he said: "Sixty-nine thousand nine hundred and forty-four and three-eighths." The clerks in the railroad office found amusement in figuring the answers to intricate problems and then propounding them to Humphrey. In a moment he gives results which the clerks found difficult in obtaining in 15 or 20 minutes' hard work. For years Humphrey supposed that every person could solve problems just as he does, and was surprised when he learned that his was a special gift. Snow Hill Notes (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Snow Hill, Md., April 4—Rev. I. D. Paine was called away last week to attend the funeral of his mother, who died in Camden, N. J. Mr. John Robins is on the sick list. Mr. George Robins, Jr., as returned from Boston, Mass., where he spent the fall and winter. Miss [Salonia Armstrong gave a birthday party Wednesday, and was the recipient of many presents. Mr. and Mrs. John E. Manuel are the guests of Mrs. Leah Harman. Revs. J. W. Jewett and I. D. Paine left yesterday to attend the M. E. Conference at Salisbury, Md. Ball Game At Bowie. Bowie, Md., April 4—The Millersville Greys defeated the baseball team of the Colored State Normal School last Saturday by a score of 5 to 2. A double header would have been played had not Louis Gray, the pitcher of the first named team wrenched his back in the first inning. The Fletcher Town Nationals also defeated the Normal School team by a score of 13 to 9. Give BY JAMES A. EDGERTON An Easter Thought Suggested by Hofmann's Picture of Christ and the Rich Young Man. Copyright, 1912, by American Press Association. George A. Owens, Superintendent. Louis E. Toomey, Director John A. Holmes, Minister. SILVER OFFERING. Via. The Basement of Sharp street M. E. Church. April 8th, to 12th inc. See the beautiful stores along the Board Walk, and "Princess Wee" on Young's Pier Admission each evening 10 cents. ...TO THE BIG MASS MEETING... That will be given by the Maryland Branch of the National Association for the Advancement Thursday Evening, April 11th, 1912 Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, editor of the Crisis, will speak on the work of the Association and other questions of moment. Miss Mary White Ovington, Secretary of the National Body, will speak Splendid program. The public invited. Wanted 100 People to Eat! DALY'S=WHY? 1117 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE For the Improvement Fund of Macedonia Bapt. Church Cor. Saratoga and Vincent Streets We do not know the beauty of His face, And yet no countenance has been so wrought Upon by artists, seeking thus to trace In outward guise the the glory of His thought. We do not know the music of His speech, And yet no words have ever lived so long Nor had such power the hearts of men to reach In precept or in song. AND now and then some hand divinely gifted Has limned a likeness that, however dim, Has made us dream Time's curtain had been lifted And we were privileged to look on Him. 'Twas such transcribed this vision, for if ever The face Divine by mortal art was shown We have it here to charm the world forever. These features are His own. Baltimore To Atlantic City YOU ARE INVITED AT UNION BAPTIST CHURCH Druid Hill Avenue, Above Dolphin St. American and European Plan NOW OPEN YOU know the scene—how one had come to find Eternal life through doing God's commands; How by his very mien may be divined. The wealth that wastes not, and "wouldst perfect be, Sell that thou hast and give it to the poor And come and follow Me." GIVG is the key-word—give; give of your treasure; Give health and happiness; give heart and mind; Give from a heaped and o'erflowing measure Of service unto God and humankind; Give of your solace to the broken hearted; Give of your life till self is sacrificed, for only by your giving is imparted The message of the Christ. Smith's Ready Market List Something every Housekeeper needs. Send 10 Cents to A. R. Smith 518 N. Second Street. 4-29 Richmond. Va. ST. MICHAELS, MD. It is situated in the best locality of the town. Upper porch commands a view of Miles liver and other landscape scenery. 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Great indeed must 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 cued by this remedy and that they stand ready to demonstrate the proposition The remedy is sold in $1.00 and $3.00 bottles which they ship by express everywhere The policy of the company is to sell through the agency system and not through wholesale drug houses. Agents wanted. Proper terms. Address Magnolia Remedy Company. St. Auversius. Fla., U. S. A., Box 754. CANDIDATE FOR THE BISHOPRIC STANDS IN THE FRONT RANK. Friends of the Former President of Western University Give Reasons For Urging His Elevation by the General Conference of the A. M. E. Church. Man of Achievements. By CHARLES S. HUNTER. St. Louis.—We have reached the period in our racial life when we appreciate the potency of brains; when we recognize the fact that education, training and special adaptability are items to be taken into account when summing up the fitness of men for place or station. We have long demanded that men be so qualified in the mechanic arts, in commercial life and in the professions, but it is only during the last decade that we, as laymen, have been insistent for this type of leadership in the men who are to pastor our churches and have the supervision of our denominational life. The coming general conference of the African Methodist Episcopal church in Kansas City, Mo., next May will mark an epoch in our racial as well as religious life. Questions of vital import will present themselves for our consideration. Men and measures will demand our prayful thought if our decisions are to be in the limb of wisdom. The past ninety-six years have been rich in achievement, wondrous in obstacles surmounted and difficulties overcome, stupendous in numerical growth, in material and educational acquisition and still more marvellous in the type of men who have been the builders in the church of Allen. But the last is behind us: the future looms big on the horizon of the future. New conditions, graver responsibilities, problems of greater magnitude await us. The hilly, becoming conscious of its power, its growing importance, is demanding that men whose sympathies have touched and quickened their lives, whose piety and eloquence and earnestness have won them and whose actual knowledge of their needs has held them be selected for Episcopal honors—no more political churchman, but one whose work for humanity is the measure of the man. Such a one is Dr. Frank Jesse Peck of Los Angeles, Cal., son of a prominent minister of the church, the late Dr. Frank Jesse Peck, Sr., of Baltimore, and a graduate of Storer college, successful pastor and church builder, a man who has given almost twenty years of his life to church development and expansion here in the west, and this section, rich in future possibilities for the church of Allen, offers him as its candidate for the highest office in the gift of the church—a bishop—and feel that the east, his birthplace; the south, the field of his earliest labors, together with the west, should unite and work for his success to the end that we many have a resident bishop in this section of the country. The modern church demands men of action, men who have done things and who can do things. Dr. Peck has served twenty years as a pastor in this western country; was formerly president of Western university, at Quindaro, Kan.; built the churches at St. Joseph and Kansas City, Mo.; installed the manmoth pipe organ at Denver, and he has doubled the congregation at his present pastorate. As a pulpiter, financier and constructive churchman he stands in the front ranks. This is our candidate and we feel that the church will honor itself by his elevation. BISHOP ALBERT J. JOHNSON. Some Facts Connected With His Useful and Eventful Life. It may not be generally known, yet it is a fact, that the polished and able Bishop J. Albert Johnson, who has done such good work in South Africa as missionary bishop of the A. M. E. church, was private secretary to Rev. Josiah Henson, who was the original Uncle Tom of Mrs. Stowe's great novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The African Methodist Episcopal church does not possess a more eloquent, capable, diplomatic or useful representative than Bishop Johnson. If he, were not a great bishop he would be a great and forceful statesman in some one of the West Indian or African colonies. The bishop is on a visit to the United States and will not return until after the general conference of the A. M. E. church, which will be held in Kansas City, Mo., in May. He is doing wonderful things for African Methodism on the dark continent. Nature's Answer to Race Question. The series of articles written by Horace J. Rollin of Troy, O., recently bears, the stamp of the philosopher, the humanitarian and the scholar. Nature's answer to man's race question was the general subject of Mr. Rollin's articles, in which he showed that until men are educated to the point where they are willing to accord to other men the same rights which they wish for themselves nature's answer will remain incomplete. Effective Work of the W. L. Cohen Faction at Primary Election New Orleans--The recent primary election in this city was fraught with many exciting incidents. The able and manly contention for their legal manhood rights by the colored citizens was a feature of the battle which will not J. NADISON VANOE, BSQ. soon be forgotten by those acquainted with political methods in this section of the country. The W. L. Cohen faction, known as the "Black and Tans," gave the so-called "Lily White" Republicans such a severe jolt that it will no doubt be a long time before they recover from the surprising shock. It was a battle for the free and lawful exercise of the constitutional right of qualified American citizens to the ballot. The use of money had no influence with the colored citizens. As the time drew nigh for the primary election to be held the Lily White Republicans began to grow restless. When they saw the colored men registering they were convinced that they had a hard fight on their hands. It is said that prominent colored men were invited by the whites to call at headquarters. In the majority of such cases the colored men reported this action to W. L. Cohen before holding any conferences with any one. Mr. Cohen gave them full instructions how to proceed with Lily Whites in order to win out. The Cohen faction was loyal to their leader. The following well known colored citizens were elected: Hon. W. L. Cohen, J. Madison Vance, Esq., E. J. Le Branche, J. Touchard, W. E. Robinson, Colonel James Lewis, B. V. Barango, J. W. Cooke and S. W. Green. The man who got the information about the methods used by the Lily Whites to win votes was Mr. John A. Tholmer. He has the whole story and can give it exactly as it is. word for word. Mothers' Club to Aid Tubman Fund. The Mothers' club of Brooklyn has decided to assist the various women's clubs in Greater New York in their efforts to raise a substantial fund for the relief of Mrs. Harriet Tubman. THE WEST INDIAN IN HIS NEW HOME IN AMERICA: Quick to Take Advantage of Every Opportunity For Self Preservation. Every West Indian immigrant has a definite purpose in view when he lands in New York, says the Southern Workman. In his own country there were activities which were wholly in the hands of white men, but here he can enter upon these and assume that position of natural leadership which was denied him at home. His ambition is aroused. A massive race consciousness, the like of which he has never experienced before, blinds and connotes him to the service of his race; the superiority of his early training inspires him with a new and strange sense of power, and with this comes the desire seen among aliens—the strong and steadfast determination to master a new society and civilization for the sake of self preservation. Seeing that the standard of intellectual requirement in the average colored school is below what would have been exacted of him in his own land, he steadily and vigorously pushes his way to the front and finds little opposition in so doing. He questions everything, taking nothing for granted and never resting until he can see the reason underlying all. American methods of education seem to leave too little for the mental teeth of the student, the whole diet being predigested. The American student usually makes a better recitation, retelling page after page to the astonishment of the West Indian, but the latter cannot do this, as he has been accustomed to correlate and associate every new fact with an old. He carries with him only facts which he can incorporate into his mental consciousness for all time. The West Indian student does not care how long he takes so long as he understands every move and step leading to the solution of a problem. Where routine work is concerned the American will very often surpass the West Indian. In initiative the latter is better. Figures Show Progress of the Race. At the conference recently held under the auspices of the central auxiliary of the Charity Organization society in New York Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois recited many instances and quoted figures which showed that the colored people have greatly advanced in citizenship. The present prejudice against the race seems to be not on account of its inefficiency and ignorance, but rather because of its efficiency and THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER TAFT CAMPAIGN ON THE VERGE OF COLLAPSE Reactionary Leaders Now Admit He Cauld Not Be Elected if Nominated. NEW YORK SUN TELLS TRUTH In a Carefully Prepared Article This Representative of the Interests That Are Supporting Taft Frankly declares That His Renomination Means Defeat In the November Election The Secret Scheme Uncovered. That President Taft cannot be elected if nominated is conceded by the New York Sun in a carefully prepared article published Sunday, March 31, and sent by the Sun for simultaneous publication in all the newspapers throughout the country which subscribe to the Sun news service. The undeclareable importance of this statement by the Sun is due to the Sun's attitude of opposition to all progressives and to Theodore Roosevelt in particular, as well as to the recognition given it as a representative and spokesman of the great business interests which center in New York and of the political organization in New York which recently manipulated the fraudulent and farcical primaries held in the state. It adds to the significance of the Sun's statement that its article, although ostensibly the result of careful investigation, was withheld until after the organization bosses had put through the fraudulent primary election of delegates, in which they carefully refrained from instructing a single one of the men they claim to have elected for Taft. The investigation upon which the article is based had been completed and the article actually prepared before the primaries were held, showing apparently that at the time the New York bosses were engaged in stifling public sentiment in order to prevent the election of Roosevelt delegates there was what the Sun declares to be a general agreement among the reactionary political leaders that Mr. Taft's candidacy had become a virtual impossibility: It is now apparent that the sole purpose of the machine bosses and the special privilege interests, to whom Mr. Taft is looking for a renomination, have abandoned all idea of supporting him and that their only purpose is to prevent the nomination of Roosevelt, so that a compromise candidate favorable to the special privilege interests and in harmony with machine purposes may be selected at Chicago. Although still friendly to Taft, the Sun declares that the time has arrived when the possibility of electing a candidate has become a "subject for serious consideration on the part of Republicans who believe their party to be of vastly more importance than any man in it, no matter how exalted his station, and who place party loyalty above personal fealty. These Republicans declare that they will take any reasonable step which would seem to insure their party's victory at the polls in November next. "The Republicans who expressed these views." the Sun says, "are believers in season and out of season in the policies of their party. Among this class of Republicans are merchants, importers, business men generally and professional men and the rank and file of small Republican shopkeepers and workingmen." The Sun then says: "Several months ago influential Republicans, some of them very close to President Taft, declared beneath their breath that the president if renominated could not be re-elected. While expressing this opinion they hadn't the remotest shadow of a doubt that the president, through the power of federal patronage, could force his own renomination." Among the reasons given by the Sun why President Taft cannot be re-elected the Payne-Aldrich law is cited as of greatest importance. Respecting this the Sun says: "The Republican national platform of 1908 called for an immediate extraordinary session of congress in the event of Taft's election to revise the tariff. In obedience to his party's platform President Taft called the extraordinary session of congress, which produced the Aldrich-Payne law, and the president's troubles and his party's complications have grown and become more entangled from the day he signed that law. That law gave the progressives substantial footing for their opposition to the Taft administration and afforded them grounds to go before the people on the question. In addition there have been a myriad other troublesome complications, all intended to weaken the president and to bring about bitter discord in the ranks of his party. "It has been this discord, these公理ifications, that have led Republicans entirely friendly to the president to declare that, while he could force his own renomination, it was exceedingly doubtful if he could be re-elected." The Sun adds: "With the assembling of congress in Washington in December last the declarations that the president could not be re-elected if renominated took on a more amphitone tone." SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON Sunday, April 7th, 1912 Title: 'The Appearances of the Risen Lord.—I Cor. 15:1-11. Memory Verses: 10-11. Golden Text: {This Jesus Hath God Raised Up Whereof We Are Witnesses. —Act 2-32.} The Apostle Paul is the author of the lesson before us today. In it he gives us the proof of the resurrection of Christ. Christ had appeared to the witnesses whom Paul names—to Cephas, to James, to the five hundred, and last of all to Paul himself, while on the road to Damascus, which he places on the same plane as the revelation to the disciples who stood around the empty tomb as well as on the road to Emmaus. But even that experience was not the only proof which Paul had of the risen Christ, great as it was. The experience on the road to Damascus was but a beginning Christ thereafter was in his life as a friend and companion. It was his certainty as to the presence of Christ in his own life which made him certain of the power of the risen Christ. And the proof Paul had is within the reach of the humblest believer today—the satisfaction which comes through belief in Christ as a present friend. Now what about the proof which is to convince the world. Paul is well satisfied, with the proof which has come to him, but the world is not so easily satisfied. Of course the marshalling of the facts of evidence is impressive only to those who have an open mind, but there is a more forcible argument than the examination of verbal testimony. The examination of witnesses themselves is very important. What happened to the witnesses? If Christ really revealed himself to them certain mighty consequences must have followed. It will not do to push a material analogy too far, but the claim of the decipies that they had seen a vision of the risen Christ, was really a claim to have come in possession of a great spiritual wealth. The real proof before the world as to whether this was true or not was the conduct of the decipies. Did they really act as if they had come in possession of a great spiritual wealth? There can be only one answer to this question. The decipies suddenly became spiritually rich. They had an abundance of life to enjoy and bestow upon others. Another and further sign which emphasized the great spiritual wealth which became theirs, was the power which became theirs. Not only were they themselves filled with a spirit of rejoicing, but they found themselves in possession of an instrument of surpassing effectiveness. The doctrine of the risen Lord was to the desciples, as it has been to the church ever since, the most powerful instrument for the advancement of the Kingdom. Even the most hostile critics of Christianity.admits. They declare that without the belief in the risen Lord the church never could have got started and never could have continued until this day A mark of the new found wealth of the desciples who claimed to have seen the risen Lord, was the new joy that came upon them. They were certainly poor enough in inner feeling when Christ was laid in the tomb. They were cast down in utter despair, and despair is the mark of spiritual destitution. They had for the moment nothing to which to cling. They were as destitute as shipwrecked sailors. They were without hope, without understanding, without plan. All that Peter could do was to think of going fishing, and all the others could do was to go with him. Suddenly they arouse out of this lethery to a fullness of joy, and they began to act like men who had had a vision. And the joy abides. Bright eyes are among the most radiant of beauty's jewels, since they give animation and light to the entire face. A dull eye means a heavy drooping expression, a condition to be avoided by the employment of extreme measures on the part of the girl who would attract. A harmless and generally satisfactory way to bring brightness to the eyes is to bathe them with a solution of boracic acid and tepid water. Put in a basin full of tepid water as much boracic acid as can be placed on a dime. 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Hughes, who succeeded the last Rev. James H. Jenkins as pastor of the Eastern M. E. Church, received a flattering welcome Sunday. Rev. D. W. Shaw, who was reappointed to Centennial M. E. Church, was well received by his members, likewise Rev. C. G. Cummings, of Asbury Church. Revs. S. H. Norwood, of St. Paul Church; D. D. Turpeau, of Ames Memorial Church; and Matthias Williams, of Mt. Zion Church, were also given flattering receptions by their congregations. Rev. John A. Holmes, who was returned to Methropolitan Church for the sixteenth successive time, which is longer than any white or colored Methoist minister has served a local charge, received a most flattering reception by the large congregation present at the services last Sunday. John Wesley Church Will Rev. Dr. Ernest Lyon pastor of John Wesley M. E. Church, says that the story that appeared in a local weekly paper that the congregation contemplated moving to anuptown location is untrue. "While our church, like other congregations in South Baltimore," says Dr. Lyon, "has been affected by the uptown movement, the officials of the church have never considered a plan for moving the church. We have, however, considered plans for coping with the loss occasioned by the moving of many members from the vicinity of the church.. Most of those who have moved away are found in their pews every Sunday and they attend the class meetings also. I may say that real estate men have come to the board of trustees several times with the offer of a location in another section of the city, but we have not considered the same, beyond a casual investigation. It certainly appears that the church will remain in its present location for some time to come." Historical and Literary Society A public mass meeting, under the auspices of the Baltimore Literary and Historical Society, will be held at Bethel A. M. E. Church, Druid Hill avenue and Lanvale street, next Friday night. The principal speaker will be Prof. Kelly Miller, of Howard University. His subject will be "Higher Education in the Light of New Conditions." The public is invited to attend the meeting, the admission to which is free. Woman's Day Services At Woman's day services were held at Payne Memorial A. M. E. Church Sunday. Mrs. Mary Lee-filled the pulpit in the morning, the Y. M. C. A. conducted platform services in the afternoon, and Mrs. Carrie Jackson occupied the pulpit at night. The collection during the day amounted to $125. Rev. W. A. C. Hughes, the new superintendent of the Baltimore district, conducted his first quarterly conference at Ashbury M. E. Church Monday night. Reports submitted by the pastor, Rev. C. G. Cummings, showed that the church was in a flourishing condition. Dr. Hughes preached at the church Sunday morning. He has moved from the parsonage of Sharp Street Memorial Church to 637 Mosher street, which house he bought several years ago. Miss Carrie Henry gave a birthday reception on March 12 in honor of Miss Ella Hatton There were many friends present at the occasion. A largely attended meeting of the Alumni Association of the Colored High School was held at Bethel A. M. E. Church Thursday evening of last week. Addresses were made by Prof. Mason A. Hawkins, principal of the High School, and Mr. Jagess A. B. Callis, president of the association. Musical numbers were furnished by Miss Maudelle Brown, Mr. Harry T. Pratt, and Mr. Llewellyn Wilson. Miss Alma Kelly recited. A Card of Thanks. Mrs. Amelia Griffin and Mrs. Susie Griffin thank their many friends for their expressions of sympathy and their floral remembrances. An Easter Offering. Witty's sacred cantata, 'From Manger to Cross,' will be sung for the first time in Baltimore when, on next Sunday evening—Easter—it will be presented by the Metropolitan M. E. Sunday School. The presentation will take place in the church auditorium, Orchard street near Druid Hill avenue. The cantata is a graphic portrayal of the life of Christ, the opening recitation being the prophetic words, "And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse." Several familiar and standard hymns including "O Come All Ye Faithful," "Brightest and Best," "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross," and "Jesus Christ is Risen Today" are effectively and wondrously set to new music without destroying their meaning or beauty. The finale, "Soldiers of Christ, Arise," is the climax of the work. With a matchless chorus of fifty carefully trained voices, a select company of well-known soloists, and the best orchestra—Kerr's—in the city to play the accompaniment, the presentation promises to be a memorable one. Oriental costumes, realistic scenery, and calcium effects will be used. Prof. L. Ellsworth Toomey will direct. Greater Brown's Grove SEASON 1912 STEAMER STARLIGHT Secure Your Dates Early. 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. Michaels, Easton, Oxford, Cambridge, Annapolis or to the Well-known Greater Brown's Grove. MAY. 30th. Grace Presbyterian Church JUNE. MAY 2nd. Maryland Union Company. 3rd. Rag Men's Association. 6th. Sharon Baptist Church Social and B.Y. P. U., to Port Deposit. 9th. B. & O. Porters. 16th. Alphian Singing Social. 17th. Progressive Order of N. D P. O. of K. & D. 27th. Seven Star House, No. 7, B. & S., S. & D. of Job. 24th. Metropolitan M. E. Sunday School. 26th. G. U. O. of True Reformers to Havre de Grace. 27th. Willing Workerz of N. W. Baltimore. 36th. Baptizing—Rev. Belt's congregation. JULY. 4st. Fresh Air and Empty Stocking Circle. 4th. Furniture Men's Association. 7th. Knights and Daughters of David, Mt. Lebonon. No. 1. 9th. Asbury M. E. Sunday School. 11th. Macedonia Baptist Church and Sunday School. 12th. Church Aid of Metropolitan M. E. Church. 16. John Wesley M. E. Sunday School. 12st. Furniture Men's Association. 22nd. Friendship Lodge. No. 29, K. of P. from Chestertown to St. Michael 24th. Trinity A. M. E. Sunday School. 26th. Mt. Nebo Lodge, No. 1366, G. U. O. of Odd Fellows. 28th. Wayman Circle. of Ebenezer A. M. E. Church. PAUGUST. 4th. Dayton Club of Monumental Lodge, No. 3, I B. P. O. Elks of the World. MOONLIGHTS. MAY. 30th. The I. O. C. Society. JUNE. 3rd. John Wesley Choir. 10th. Doctors' Coachmen's Union. 13th. Afro-American Order of Owls 17th. Avon Pleasure Club. 20th. The Six Brothers' Progressive Association. 24th. The Imperial Association. 25th. The Shriners' Arab Potrol. JULY. 1st. Go-Get-Ems. Until April 15th, Mr. Brown can only be seen at his home, 1451 N. Carey Street, Saturday nights, and Sundays. After that date at Miller's Wharf, foot of Caroline Street. ON BOARD THE STEAMER ANGLER... city, seaworthy, swift, commodious, wide open daylight Steamer, used with every facility for excursion purposes, formerly of New York. Booking excursions now for any place on the Chesapeake Landings of Maryland waters, for a short excursion period of eight the month of July, 1912. Write, 'phone or call, M. LEWIS, Baltimore Excursion Manager, on 3948 M. 1319 Argyle Ave., Baltimore, Md. Opportunity—Books are now open for securing Baltimore's favorite Park. Hustlers on the amusements at Greenwood Park. We will let out for the season amusement or as a whole to right person or persons. WM. WASHINGTON, General Manager. C. WOODLAND, Agent, Catonsville, Md. Sunday Afternoon--Prof. Dabney's Matinee Dance, from 2 to 7 P. M. Good Hope Hall, Lexington St., near Pine. And Eubie Blake, of the Goldfield, will sing between dances. Dismission. Goldfield Orchestra. ADMISSION 15c. ...IRON STEAMER ANGLER... Over 1100 capacity, seaworthy, swift, commodious, wide open daylight Steamer, fully equipped with every facility for excursion purposes, formerly of New York Harbor. Booking excursions now for any place on the Chesapeake Bay or River Landings of Maryland waters, for a short excursion period of 13 days during the month of July, 1912. Write, 'phone or call, WM. LEWIS, Baltimore Excursion Manager, Phone Madison 3948 M. 1319 Argyle Ave., Baltimore, Md. Business Opportunity—Books are now open for securing dates to Baltimore's favorite Park. WANTED—Hustlers on the amusements at Greenwood Electric Park. We will let out for the season amusement right in part or as a whole to right person or persons. WM. WASHINGTON, General Manager. Phone 54 W. C. WOODLAND, Agent, Catonsville, Md. Easter Monday Afternoon--Prof. Dabney's Matinee Dance, from 2 to 7 P. M. New Good Hope Hall, Lexington St., near Pine. Madison Ried and Eubie Blake, of the Goldfield, will sing between dances No intermission. Goldfield Orchestra. ADMISSION 15c. 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 and guarantee same. Don't forget 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. --- HOUSES FOR SALE on terms to suit on the vision St., Argyle Ave. Carey St., Calhoun n. every cross street to buy before seeing my phone, or drop a post J. Welsh, 2024 V 2253. ..CHAR Agent for The Mutual Bee Oldest and stronger Run for Color PH LET ME SELL YOU A $ Desirable house $50.00 to $5 Pianos and Organs, Pie Any m Satis RESIDENCE 0-12-9-61 Call Me up WANTED suit on Druid Hill Ave., Etting St., Divi- ergyle Ave., Myrtle Ave., Carrollton Ave., Calhoun St., Stricker St., Mount St., and street from Hoffman to Baker. Don't seeing my list. Call to see me, or tele- trop a postal. Sh, 2024 W. Saratoga St., Telephone Gilmor CHARLES TOLSON... The Mutual Benefit Society, Fayette and Pearl Streets. and strongest Insurance Company in Maryland: run for Colored People by Colored People. PHONE—1938 ST. PAUL. ALL YOU A HOUSE Desirable 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. 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OWENS @ SON Undertakers & Embalmers ete 75.00 FUNERALS $75.00. Complete worth $65.00, in black cloth, steel gray or white plush; bak or walnut outside case; beautiful rubber-tired hearse; y or white, to match casket, as desired; five heated car- up-to-date; fine burial robe, embalming, opening grave; six pairs of gloves, door crepe, candles, candelabra, cru- d rugs, chairs etc., all of the latest designs 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, embasining, opening grave; advertise funeral, six pairs of gloves, door crepe, candles, candelabra, crucifix when desired, rugs, chairs etc., all of the latest designs. This funeral cost elsewhere.....$136.00 Our price.....$75.00 Saving you.....$61.00 Other Funerals as low as $25, $35, $40, $50. Higher Grade $100, $150. $175. No charge for removal of remains from Hospitals. Shipping Funerals, $25.00 and $50.00 Complete 1222 Division St., bet. Dolphin and Lanvale. Residence C. & P. Phone, Madison 4067 A Phone, Madison, 3778.M. 8 ```markdown ``` 25 Cents EXCURSION LATER R. H. BUTLER, Organizers that are Bright, Busy, and full of Hustle. Address or apply 1929 Druid Hill ave., Mondays M. J. N. FITZGERALD. ```markdown ``` Mrs. M. L. Trusty, of 529 Druid Hill avenue, and Mrs. M. M. Webb are attending the sessions of the Deleware Conference. Mrs. Susie Berney, of 519 Oxford street, who has been ill with the grip, is convalescent. Mrs. Annie Hill, of 1151 N. Carey street, is confined to her home with pneumonia. Mrs. Mary Cornish, of 920 S. Sharp street, is ill at her home with pneumonia. She is reported to be in an improved condition. Mrs. Carrie Henson, who has been ill at her home, 1218 Argyle avenue, is in a greatly improved condition. Mrs. Annie Smith gave a birthday pary at her home on North Eutaw street a few evenings ago. If Ernest Purviance gave a Drexel Superba at the Galilean Fisherman's Hall on April 10, and a lady didn't know where it was, would the Drexel Candy Shower—(Show her?) Rev. W. Edward Williams, pastor of Grace Presbyterian' Church, has been invited to preach the baccalaureate sermon at the annual commencement exercises of Biddle University, Charlotte, N. C., on May 26. "Society, that's all, Easter Monday night." Mrs. Wiliam White, of 422 Pine street, has returned from a visit to friends in Washington. Mrs. John H.' Wilson and Mrs. William A. Toodle, both of 1125 Druid Hill avenue, are attending the Deleware Conference at Salisbury, Md. Mrs. Annie Smith, of 938 N. Eutaw street, entertained a few friends at her home on Friday evening of last week. If Ernest Purviance gave a Drexel Superba at the Calilean Fisherman's Hall on April 10, and a lady didn't know where it was, would the Drexel Candy Shower — (Show her?) Mrs. Alice Addison, accompanied by her children, has returned to Baltimore after an extended tour of the West and South. Come take a trip on the B. &O. R. R. at Gal. Fish. Hall. Mrs. William R. Carr has returned to her home, 2037 Division street, after attending a tea, given by her cousin, Mrs. Contee, of Philadelphia, which was a very fine affair, and well attended. B. & O. Central Building Employees April 15 Where? At the Gal. Fish. Hall. Mr. John M. Carter, whose arm was broken while plastering in the Baltimore Bargain House, is entirely recovered. "So different from the rest" with continuous music. Miss Emma Carmack of Park avenue is spending Easter in Atlantic City as the guest of Mrs. L. Aleaxnder Cook. "Frogs, Easter Monday night Fish. Hall." Mr. H. D. Murray of 907 N. Eutaw street the news dealer is ill at his home with pneumonia. "Everybody is a frog on Easter Monday night." Show your Easter "togs" at matinee dance Easter Monday at Fishermen Hall by Kerr's orchestra. No intermission. The big dance Easter Monday afternoon by Kerr's orchestra. Miss Ida Bluford, of Somerset County, was the guest of Mrs. Rosa Shipley last week. Mrs. H. Ella Ovelton, of Robert street, will spend Easter at Atlantic City. "Orchestra in Frog pond." Easter Monday night. Mr. William Johnson, of 507 Robert street, who has been sick for the past three weeks, is convalescing. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Edwards and Mrs Martha E. Porter, of 1619 McElderry street, gave a five o'clock tea Saturday, March 23 in honor of Mr. Wilis Chanlier and Mr. James Jones, both of Brooklyn, New York. Mrs. John A. Williams will spend Easter at Atlantic City with her niece. From there she will go to New York. Miss Anita Gaskins, of Prestman street, is spending the Easter holidays in Ardmore, Pa., with relatives. Miss Ella and Amelia Peck, of 1905 Druid Hill avenue, will spent the Easter holidays in Philadelphia, visiting their cousins, Mr. and Mrs. James Johnson, of 923 S. 15th street. Mrs. Eugene Hatton, of 336 Forest street, who has just recovered from a recent illness, is home from Atlantic City Mr. Magnus L. Robinson, editor of the Industrial Enterprise, Alexandria, Va., was in the city Wednesday. Mrs. Bessie Purnell, of Philadelphia, is visiting her brother. Mr. Andrew Purnell, of 1546 Argyle avenue. Rev. Dr. B. F. Watson, secretary of the Board of Church Extension of the A. M. E. Church, was in the city Wednesday. Mrs. Stephen H. Truxton and Miss Elsie L. Hill are attending the Deleware M. E. Conference at Salisbury, Md. Mrs. Bertha A. Smith and Miss Dora Profate, of Carlisle, Pa., were the guest of Mrs. Florence Green, of Washington, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. James Woods, of 809 McDonogh street, have returned from Middlesex county, Va., where they spent the winter. A memorial service for Edward Wilmot-Blyden, the Liberian scholar will be held in one of the local churches, probably John Wesley Church, in the near future. Miss Emma Carmack, of Park Avenue, is spending Easter in Atlantic City as the guest of Mrs. L. Alexander Cook. Rev. Moses Lake was in town last week. During his stay, he bought a beautiful home in the 1600 block of Division street from the well known real estate agent, Phillip H. Pratt, 1322 Argyle avenue. Miss Mary Brisco gave a reception in honor of the Bryn Mawr Social Friday, March 29 at her residence, 1220 Division street. The table was laden with the delicacies of the season Those present were: Misses Julia Dorsey, Maggie Fisher, Mamie Gardon, Sadie Young, Cora Meredith; Messrs. John W. Grooms, Horace Tingler, and Howard Ebb. Revs. P. J. Jordan, R. E. Ford, Samuel M. Johnson, and C. H. Stepteau, presiding elders of the Baltimore A. M. E. Conference, met Wednesday at the home of Dr. Stepteau to consider matters that will be brought to the attention of the Baltimore Conference, which will hold its ninety-fifth annual session at Bethel Church week after next. Bishop Levi J. Coppin will preside. Dr. Lyon A Benedict. Miss Marie Wright, daughter of Mrs. Ella Ball, of 1111 W. Lexington street, and Dr. Ernest Lyon, pastor of John Wesley M. E. Chruch, were married in Philadelphia on Thursday of last week. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Henry A. Monroe, a retired minister of the Deleware Conference; who had often epxressed a desire to unite Dr. Lyon and some lady. Dr. Lyon has been married before, his wife dying in Liberia where he was American minister for seven years. Dr. and Mrs. Lyon will be "at home" to their friends at his summer home in Laurel, Md. next Tuesday. Howard University Alumni Meeting Thursday, April 18th, at8 p. m., at Y. W. C. 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