The Afro-American

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN LEDGER 1927 1912 VOL. XX NO. 33. LYNCHERS SHOULD BE HANGED. President Taft At Last Makes Public Utterance Agaiust Lynching Evil BLACK CABINET LEADS IN THE APPLAUSE Dwight O. W. Holmes, of Baltimore, Makes Plea For Howard Gymnasium. Washington, April 10—That the people of some sections of the country have not a high regard for the courts and that the leaders of lynching bees should be hanged was the declaration made by President Taft last nlight at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, where local members of the Howard University Alumni Association held a big mass meeting in the interest of raising $10,000 toward the erection of a gymnasium on the university campus. While a fair audience, including 500 students of the university and a number of the resident graduates, was on hand, many of the most prominent colored residents of the District of Columbia were absent. This is taken as an indication of the strong anti-Taft sentiment among the rank and file of the colored people. The praise which Prof. Kelly Miller bestowed upon the President, in introducing him, for the appointment of William H. Lewis as an assistant attorney general was only feebly applauded, even though the faithful Black Cabinet led in the applause. The address is regarded here as a disappointment as the President made no reference to his policy of excluding colored men from high political office in the South—the policy which has made colored people all over the country hostile to the renomination of Mr. Taft. Disfranchisement, Jim-crowism, and other discriminations which the colored people of the country are hostile toward and depely concerned with are among issues of the present campaign. The public declaration against lynching is somewhat late as President Taft has for months been urged by influential colored men and bodies to make a declaration against the lynching evil, and to urge Congress to enact suitable legislation against it. The President, however, has told colored delegations that he abhorred lynchings. Among those seated on the stage with the president were: Dr. W. P. Thirkield, president of the university; members of the faculty; Judge Robert H. Terrell; Auditor Ralph W. Tyler; Assistant Attorney General William H. Lewis; Register of the Treasury James C. Napier; Recorder of Deeds Henry Lincoln Johnson; Hon. John C. Daney; Robert A. Pelham, secretary and treasurer of the gymnasium campaign committee; D. O. W. Holmes, vice principal of the Baltimore Colored High School and president of the General Alumni Association of Howard University; and James C. Waters Jr., secretary of the association. Others who spoke at the meeting included: Shelby J. Davidson, President Thirkield and Mr. Pelman. Music was furnished by the Howard University Orchestra and Mr. Joseph Douglass, who played several violin selections. Prof. Kelly Miller presided and introduced the various speakers. The gymnasium nd received a large addition during the evening. The amount received last night makes that pledged and already in hand exceed $5,000. The alumni of Philadelphia have already raised $1,000. In his address, Mr. Taft said: "We have very good courts if they are only respected. The trouble about it is that we "don't always have public opinion strong enough to support the authority of the courts. We don't always find that individuals are stiff enough and rigid enough in their view of the enforcement of the law and the respect for the law to make the courts respected as they ought to be throughout the length and breadth of the land. "Take the matter of lynching. That, as well as the administration of our criminal law, form a disgraceful page in our social history. I just think it is well to take a text on that subject. I know that our courts are not perfect. I know that they don't apply the law with he certainty and dispatch in criminal cases that they ought to, and I believe that part of this departure Continued on page (4) International Conference To Meet Next Week Tuskegee, Ala., April 12—The world wide problems cf the Negro, with especial emphasis upon the missionary and educational needs of the race in various countries will be discussed at the International Negro Conference, which will be held at Tuskegee Institute next Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Delegates from twenty-one countries and colonies will be on hand, as well as representatives from a large number of religious and secular bodies. Among those who will speak are: Dr. Booker T. Washington, Dr. Ernest Lyon, Liberian consul general to the United States; Casely Haford, West Africa; Bishop I. B. Scott, Roland P. Falkner; Prof. John Dewey, of Columbia University; E. D. Morel, editor of the West African Mail. The problems of West and South Africa, the West Indies, as well as the race question in this country will be talked of by the delegates, who will number several hundred. New Jersey Conference Trenton, N. J., April 12—The annual session of the New Jersey A. M. E. Conference is being held at Mt. Zion Church. Among the speaker today were Rev. W. W. Beckett, secretary of missions of the denomination and a leading candidates for the bishopic; George F. Woodson, dean of Payne Theological Seminary; B. F. Waton' secretary of Church Extension; and Prof. James M. Gregory, principal of the Bordentown, N. J., Industrial School. At the opening session Wednesday, Mayor Donnelly made an address of welcome. Responses were made by Bishop Tyree, who is presiding, and several ministers. At the annual session of the Women's Mite Missionary Society toorrow, Saturday, afternoon, Mrs. I. W. Roundtree, of this city; Mrs. R. C. Ranson, of New York, and Mrs. Mary F. Handy, of Baltimore will speak. Bishop Tyree will preach Sunday morning. The conference will adjourn Sunday night. Performs Serious Operation Labanon, Tenn., April 10—Dr. R. F. Boyd, the Nashville surgeon, was called here last week by Drs. Lewery and Bailey, to perform a serious operation on Annie House. The operation was successful. A GLANCE AT MARYLAND'S TAFT BAND WAGON CUMMINGS GOOD GAINES CALLS STONE GOD BAND WAGON BALTIMORE AMERICAN SHOULD PROVIDE FOR GIFTED MEMBERS That the colored people of a community should help to provide for the education of the gifted members of their group was urged by Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, editor of the Crisis, a magazine published in New York, to the first public mass meeting held under the uspices of the recently formed local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People at Union Baptist Church Thursday night. The meeting was largely attended the audience including many of the most prominent residents of the city. Seated on the platform were: Joseph C. Manning, of Birmingham, Ala.; Miss Mary W. Ovington, of New York, who delivered an address; W. Ashbie Hawkins, who presided; Dr. F. N. Cardozo, president of the local branch of the association; Rev. G. R. Waller, Prof. Mason A. Hawkins, principal of the Baltimore Colored High School, and Rev. Dr. J. O. Spencer, president of Morgan College, this city, who delivered an address in which he declared that the colored people had made greater progress since emancipation than had been made by any race in history. A male quartet from Morgan College sang several selections. "While many are disposed to assert that the work of the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People is mainly negative," said Dr. DuBois, "in that we protest against discriminations against the race we are trying to do a most needed work in aiding promising young men and women of the race. The National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People found out that Richard Brown, who was painting barns in West Virginia, had talent as an artist. Through the aid that the association was able to give him in obtaining an art education he was able to sell a $1,000 lot of pictures in New York city in one week. "The training for leadership of gifted members of a group is something that all members of the group should be interested in. The expense, worry and time in the education of a gifted member of a group is something that cannot be fully met by a single family and the group should help. There is no color line in the ability to be an artist because artistic ability is not the particular heritage of any particular race." After stating that educated members in each group, whose aptitudes are brought out in their training, should be the leaders of the colored people, Dr. DuBois asserted that the race question needs careful and accurate study from the leaders of the colored people in every community. Miss. Ovington, in her address, spoke of the general work that the association is doing, and declared that if the colored people tamely submitted to one discrimination they would be forced later to submit to others. Miss Ovington held a conference yesterday morning at the home of Mrs. Mason A. Hawkins, 1532 Druid Hill avenue, with a number of the leading spirits of the DuBois Circle, a local organization of prominent women. The conference touched mainly upon the work that the circle is to do. Teachers In Annual Session Selma, Ala., April 10—The thirty-first annual session of the Alabama State Colored Teachers' Association, held here last Thursday and Friday, attracted teachers from all parts of the State. The discussion embraced rural schools, high school work, manual training and the problems peculiar to the work of colored public schools. Dr. Booker T. Wahington was the principal speaker at the session Thursday night. White Farmers Compel Negroes to Work For Them Tuskegee, Ala., April 10 — In order to compel the colored people to work on their farms, white planters have secured the enactment of a law forbidding trespass on lands. During the berry season, large quantities of which grow wild and are left to rot, a large number of the colored people of Macon county have earned neat sums by selling the berries in around Tuskegee Institute. As they could earn more money by picking berries and without the hard labor, in the sun when working in the cotton fields, the planters had to go short handed on colored help. This will probably end berry picking on other folk's land, as a sentence on the chain gang awaits violators of the trespass law. Cockeysville School Association Cockeysville, Md., April 11—The patrons of the Cockeysville Public School have organized an association with the following officers: Joseph F. Tucker, president; A. Robinson, vice president; George H. Johnson, secretary, and Marshall Robinson, treasurer. The Easter service at the church were largely attended. PRICE THREE CENTS AND WAGON CALLS SUNDAY BALTIMORE AMERICAN WAGON GOOD WORK BY WEST VIRGINIA INSTITUTE Col. Midnight Lauds Work Being Accomplished by Montgomery, Ala.—I have never been able to understand this education business, but I suppose if I could get it then I would understand it better. I have just been looking at the men and women who have it and then I am a little more inspired to try to get it, but I fear that I have slept on my rights. Whether I get it or not, I am coming to Baltimore and will be with Rev. A., L. Gaines, in Trinity A. M. E. Church. I shall be delighted to see my friends when I come to the city. I do not know just how many other places I am going, but it is settled that I am gong to speak for Dr. Gaines. You see it has been a long time since I have been writing much about education, but spring is coming and the time is on hand when we should be getting down to business, and I feel that this will happen. I did not write a letter last week because I was so full of the education idea. I was going entirely too fast for you, and up to this time I am not through going yet. I went to Institute, W. Va., and it has been a long time since I was there, and I saw many good things there to make me happy. The school is in a flurishing condition. It is called the West Virginia Colored Institute. Really it is the Agricultural and Mechanical College for the training of our boys and girls. It is just a school full of inspiration. To see the school is to make you see just what the Lord hath done for his people. The school was founded some few years ago and Prof. J. McHenry Jones was the first, president, and when he had gotten away from it then he was called to his rest. Then for a few days it was a question with the people as to who would succeed him, but already there was a man in training. The man was Prof. Byrd Prillerman, who was also one of the instructors when the school opened, hence he understood the work. He stepped right in and took hold of the work and it has been growing every since. One starts a work to be finished by others. Prof. Jones discharged his duty, and was called up. Now Prof. Prillerman is in charge and he will carry it just so far and and another will take up where he leaves off, but each must Continued on page (4) Policemen Stationed at Convention Door To Keep Colored Men Away LILYWHITEISM WITH AVENGEANCE Colored Voters Will Send Rival Delegation Instructed for New Orleans, April 0—At a meeting held here last Friday by white men backing the various Republican presidential candidates, it was agreed to keep the Negro off the State committees and from participation in the party councils. Some of those present were loud in their protests against the effort of emissaries of the Republican National Committee being sent to Louisiana for the purpose of having colored men elected to membership in the Republican State Central Committee. The meeting was called by Frank B. Williams, who claims that he is still chairman of the Republican State Central Committee. He says: "They (the emissaries from the National Committee) wanted me to admit certain men we had excluded from our February meeting. I refused to agree to anything of the kind. We offered them what they came for—a solid Taft delegation. They wanted Negroes in the committee in order to control the Negro vote of the North and West." Postmaster A. F. Leonhart and Dr. Fowler withdrew from the conference. At the Louisana State Republican Convention held in Alexandria, La., a police sergeant was stationed in front of the theater where the convention was held to keep colored men out. The convention elected white men delegates at large, and they were instructed to vote for the renomination of President Taft as long as his name is before the Chicago convention. After the adjournment of the convention, John L. Rogers who headed the delegation of colored people from Caddo parish, said that the Fourth Congressional district, as a result of the exclusion of the of the colored delegates, would send a rival delegation to the National Convention instructed for Roosevelt. All of the colored men who tried to get in the convention said that they had been sent and instructed for Taft. Maryland Roosevelt Committee Headquarters 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. Work for the nomination of the greatest living American, "Theodore Roosevelt." SOUTH NOT FREE FROM PEONAGE EXTENT OF THE EVIL NOTED. Decision of the United States Supreme Court in the Alonzo Bailey Cass—Attorney General's Efforts to Enforce the Thirteenth Amendment—Favorable Attitude of Federal Judges. Washington.—Colored citizens generally are very often heard to complain bitterly that the federal government does not enforce the war amendment of the constitution. Much that the federal government does in this respect very often goes unnoticed. Undoubtedly the most important of these amendments, if any one of them may be said to be more important than another, is the thirteenth amendment, which abolished slavery and which was intended to secure to every man the right to individual liberty and freedom from servitude of any kind except as a punishment for crime whereof he has been duly convicted. Therefore the decision of the supreme court in the Alonzo Bailey case, rendered by Mr. Justice Hughes, holding unconstitutional the state law of Alabama which held Bailey as a peon, in which Attorney General Wickersham and Assistant Attorney General Harr appeared, was a distinct triumph for the cause of freedom. the cases. It should be remembered that it was not the official duty of the attorney general to appear in this case, but his act was wholly voluntary in the interest of the enforcement of the thirteenth amendment and the peonage statutes. The report of the attorney general for 1911 gives two pages to the subject of the enforcement of the peonage statutes. The report says: The vigorous enforcement of the statutes against peonage, conducted by the department in the last few years, it is believed, has do much toward stamping out the form of involuntary servitude in many districts, but in some of the south states this practice appears to be still quite extensively carried on. Prosecutions under the peonage statutes have been instituted in nearly all the southern states and in a few states not in the south. The reports also recommend that— The statutes of the United States upon the subject of peonage and slavery should be amended so as to render them more effective for the protection of the servitude against slave-servant servitude in a punishment for crime. Make Amendment More Binding. Here it would seem is a large field for the workers of the race to secure from congress laws necessary to render more effective the thirteenth amendment and thus make more secure the lives and liberty of our brethren in the south. The records will show that prosecutions of persons for violating the peonage statutes have been instituted in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, Texas and other states. Convictions have resulted in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia, with prosecutions still pending in Kentucky, Louisiana and Texas. In a number of cases prison sentences have been imposed upon men of wealth and standing, in addition to being sentenced to pay heavy fines. The local United States attorneys have had the assistance of special agents of the department of justice and the assistance of special attorneys in the prosecution of these cases. Great credit should be given them for the courage and vigor with which they have tried to enforce these laws under circumstances where juries might be expected to be slow to convict. Federal judges, notably Judge Emory Speer of Georgia and Judge Thomas Jones of Alabama, have been most outspoken and courageous in their charges to the grand juries considering these cases in their respective districts. A few more years of this kind of campaign, with the assistance of congress, ought to result in stamping out peonage and involuntary servitude of all kinds. It will be recalled that just after the war the southern States passed a great many black laws for the purpose of re-enshaving the Negro, all of which they were required to strike from their statutes before being readmitted into the Union or participate in the national government. Various devices have been used since to accomplish the same result, such devices as "vagrant laws," "handlord and tenant laws," "false pretenses," the "claim of indebtedness," etc. Many a man has been held as a virtual slave in the turpentine camps and contractors' stockades by coercion and brute force. One of the methods used if a person desires the services of a laborer who has broken his contract or been guilty of other misdemeanor is to swear out a warrant, take the prisoner before a justice of the peace, go surety on his bail bond, then take the man to his farm or plantation and compel him to labor. Other Illegal Methods In Practice. Sometimes the case is dropped with the above action, or if it is prosecuted a fine is paid. The person desiring to hold the laborer in his service will pay his fine and compel him to work out the fine. One of the methods used is to have a man confess to the commission of a crime and sign a criminal court contract whereby he undertakes to work out the fine for the person who pays it. This person is called the confessor. At the July term of the United States district court for the southern district of Alabama twenty-one indictments were returned against twenty-six defendants for holding nine different persons as peons and slaves. These indictments are still pending. In one case a man was convicted of petty larceny. In the state court, fined $15 and costs, judgment and all amounting to $43.75. One John Doe, a stranger, came into court under the state laws and confessed; judgment for the defendant and paid the fine and costs. Thereupon the defendant entered into what is called a criminal contract to work out this amount at six a month. The defendant ran away after working over a month. He was rearrested on an affidavit by John Doe, fined one cent and $70.5 costs. Then another stranger, Richard Ree confessed judgment; another contract is entered into by which the defendant in the state court agrees to work fourteen months and fifteen days at the rate of $6 a month. A little later the defendant ran away again, was rear rested and this time fined $300 and $112.80 costs, making $412.80, and sentenced to hard labor for more than a year. Steamboat Case on Alabama River. There was another case of old fashioned slavery where a man was working on a steamboat plying up and down the Alabama river. Three persons took him off the boat, carried him to their plantation and forced him to go to work. This man refused to work, was cruelly beaten and whipped and when he was unable to work was to go to. He was afterward arrested on a charge made by the kidnappers of carrying concealed weapons and fined $33.85 costs, judgment confessed upon him, and he was taken away into slavery again to work it out at $10 a month. White men, as well as colored men, have been held in peonage. Indeed, one of the poons named in one of the indictments above referred to is a white man. The Harlan and Gallagher cases decided at the December term of the supreme court, 1010, were cases in which white men were held as poons in the bumber camps of Florida under "most arreocious system of enforced labor." While these state laws making peonage possible are made with special reference to compelling the labor of the Negro, they occasionally catch white men as well, particularly immigrants working under contract, as in the Harlan case, all of which goes to show that the liberty of no man is safe as long as the humblest black man may be held as a peon or a slave. NEWSPAPER DRAWS COLOR LINE IN PRIZE CONTEST Race Resents Insult by Advising Withdrawal of Its Patronage. In one of the large cities of the country a certain newspaper opened a voting contest for women. The prize for the winner was announced as being a trip to Europe. One of the bright, intelligent young colored women of the town entered the contest and had received 800 votes when the manager of the contest found out her racial identity and informed the young lady that she was not eligible, so it is said. This is but another instance of the unfair treatment which respectable, honest and industrious colored people are daily receiving at the hands of the so called best white people. From such injustice and hypocrisy may God deliver us. When the action of the contest manager became known one of the prominent colored citizens of the town immediately advised every member of his race who had been reading, the paper which drew the color line to read it no more. This was a mainly stand to take, and it is hoped that his advice will be strictly adhered to. Nothing is so mean and base as the act of one person or persons to withhold from others that which is legally and civilly due them simply because of their color. When one looks at the present status of things, however, from a moral standpoint and from the stand point of honesty it would seem that the colored people should rather rejoice in the fact that they are not of the class here spoken of. As Dr. Booker T. Washington well says, we belong to a young race, a race which has opposition and prejudice to fight, a race whose future is before and not behind it. If others would be mean and low and cowardly, let us be good and kind, honest and brave. The Benefit of Summer Schools. The custom of holding summer normals at the various institutions for higher learning is becoming more general. It gives teachers an opportunity to perfect themselves in those branches which they desire to know more about and also brings them in direct contact with the more advance methods of imparting instruction. It is well to hold such summer schools, and even a larger number of them would no doubt receive full patronage. Miss Jones an Honor Pupil at Ithaca. At the third public recital of the advanced students of the Ithaca (N. Y.) Counselor of Music recently held Miss Clarice Jones, daughter of Attorney Thomas L. Jones of Washington, was given the honors of the evening by her finished knowledge of the critical works of the oil masters, which were used on this occasion. THE AFRO=AMERICAN=LEDGER The Roster of His Supporters Furnishes Legal Proof. SOME OF THE MEN BEHIND HIM Corporation Lawyers, Standpat Senators, Trust Organizers, Machine Politicians, Are All Working For Taft. A respected member of Mr. Taft's cabinet has been circulating a pamphlet containing a speech written by himself to prove that Taft is a progressive. That ought to settle it, especially as Mr. Taft himself says he is a progressive. The best proof as to Taft's progressiveness, however, lies neither in the pamphlet of the cabinet member nor the statement of Mr. Taft, but in the list of progressive American statesmen who are leading the fight for Mr. Taft in the United States and who have declared Mr. Taft's progressiveness as the only genuine brand which they were willing to invest in or indorse. As a nation of lawyers—for that, it seems, is our chief magistrate's conception of the American people—we are entitled to the best evidence—to legal proof. And the best legal proof of what Mr. Taft is and what Mr. Taft stands for is to be found in who the men are and what the men stand for who are leading the fight for his renomination. They know him better than the average citizen, for they are daily working with him and for him. Here is a small list of the main Taft enthusiasts who have put the brand of "progressive" on the Hon. William Howard Taft and are now booming him for four more years of "progress." It is not a complete list, and the reader is at liberty to add to it from the store of his own political knowledge. It is arranged for convenience by states. New York. The Hon. William Barnes, Jr., whom Taft made chairman of the Republican state committee, boss of Albany county, recently charged, in vice report now before the New-York legislature, with protecting gambling and prostitution; old guard dictator in the legislature; impractable foe of Roosevelt, Hughes and direct primaries, and leader of the combination between Tammany and the Republican machine. J. B. Duke, who recently promised Taft his support, head of the tobacco trust, whose "dismemberment" as a result of Wickersham's prosecution has simply amounted to an immunity bath and a license to continue its dishonest warfare against competition at a profit already of more than $100,000. Mr. Duke is also head of the southern water power combine. Chauney M. Depew, ex-railroad senator, officer in secrety corporations and trusts, lieutenant of the late Thomas C. Platt. The Hou. James Wadsworth, stock raiser and ex-congressman, who lost his seat in congress as the result of his fight against Roosevelt's meat inspection bill. Washington State. Richard A. Ballinger, late secretary of the interior, forced from office by public opinion in spite of President Taft's determination to keep him, supporter of the Morgan-Guggenheim-Cunningham Alaska interests. Jacob Furth, representing the Stone and Webster water power, electric railway and electric light corporations throughout Washington and other western states. The Hon. Wesley Jones, standup senator, supporter also of Senator Lorimer. Minnesota. Ex-Congressman James A. Tawney, Taft leader of Minnesota, principal lieutenant of Cannon, the man who helped Cannon in his fight to oppose Roosevelt's pure food and drug law, the chief representative in congress of the lumber interests and one of the strongest opponents in congress of progressive legislation, supported by Mr. Taft, Mr. Cannon and the cabinet in his unsuccessful fight for re-election to congress. James J. Hill, the most active friend of corporate privilege and fee of progressiveness in the west, who recently called upon the president and gave public assurance of his support of Taft's candidacy. Iowa. Ex-Senator Lute Young, an old fashioned reactionary politician, who succeeded Delliver through Taft's influence. Massachusetts. The Hon. Murray Crane, boss of Massachusetts Republican politics; one of the largest individual holders of General Electric, Bell Telephone and Western Union securities in the United States; deeply interested in the New England textile industry and in the water power enterprises in the west and south; also one of the most powerful influences in the J. P. Morgan merger of New England's steam railways, electric railways and steamship lines; since Aldrich's retirement the most powerful friend of corporate privilege in the senate. Taft offered Senator Fulton the positions of minister to China and federal judge. California. Pat Calhoun, boss of the ring of San Francisco and traction maginate. Mr. Calhoun at a recent dinner in Boston sat by President Taft, spoke in his support and denounced Roosevelt's progressive policies. William F. Herrin, who is counsel and political boss for the Southern Pacific political machine and who in this capacity dictated the choice of both Republican and Democratic nominees throughout the state until Governor Hiram Johnson put the Southern Pacific out of Republican politics in California. Idaho. Senator Heyburn, arch standpatter and reactionary, who agreed to help the Cunningham claimants get their patents. He has always been a strong special interest man and a clamorous enemy of conservation in congress. New Hampshire. Senator Gallinger, the representative of the New York, New Haven and Hartford system; for many years chairman of the District of Columbia committee in the senate and who during this time has opposed every measure to control the public service corporations in the District of Columbia, also an active opponent of self government in the District of Columbia. Rhode Island. Nelson W. Aldrich of the rubber trust, ex-boss of the United States senate, the framer of the Aldrich tariff bill, the man who more than any other made the senate an instrument of special privilege and a body unrepresentative of the people of this country. Supported and publicly praised by Taft for putting over the Aldrich bill. Senator Henry F. Lippitt, who succeeded Aldrich. The man who wrote the cotton schedule of the Aldrich tariff bill for Mr. Aldrich. Delaware. Senator du Pont, political boss of the state of Delaware and head of the powder trust. Wisconsin. Senator Isaac Stephenson, lumber baron and lumber interest representative in the senate. Colorado. William G. Evans, gas, water power, public service and political boss of Colorado. Senator Simon Guggenheim of smelter trust and Alaskan fame, the benchman and representative of the Evans interests. Rob Spier, mayor and boss of the city of Denver. Utah. James F. Smith, president of the Mormon church, a political, religious and financial oligarchy which controls Utah and which has promised to throw its support to Taft. Smith is not only president of the Mormon church, but director in the Union Pacific railway and president of the Utah Sugar company, whose stock is controlled by the sugar trust and the Mormon church jointly. Senator Reed Smoot, one of the twelve apostles of the Mormon church. A sugar and wool senator and now leader of the reactionaries in the senate. Pennsylvania. Senator Boies Penrose, one of Mr. Taft's closest advisers, boss of the state of Pennsylvania. "Divine Right" Guer, president of the Philadelphia and Rending railway and head of the authracite coal trust; the man who during the hard coal strike in 1862 promulgated the theory that Providence had placed the authracite coal in the hands of the hard coal trust and given to him and his friends "the divine right" to dispose of the hard coal for what price they saw fit. Montana. The Amalgamated Copper company a corporation organized by H. H. Rogers and William Rockefeller and controlled at present by Standard Oil. is the political and financial boss of the state. Taft's strength in Montana is due to the all powerful political ring which is owned by Amalgamated Copper. Illinois. Joseph G. Cannon, reactionary ex-boss of house of representatives, whom Mr. Taft unsuccessfully supported for re-election as speaker William B. McKinley, Cannon's first lieutenant in house, the traction magnate of Illinois. Manager of the Taft campaign and strong opponent to government by the people. William Lorimer, now on trial by the senate on the charge of buying his seat and who hopes to win through Mr. Taft's support. Wyoming. Senator Warren, head of the Warren ring in Wyoming, Washington representative of the combination between the wool producers and wool manufacturers, the man who helped the Union Pacific Coal company to acquire the coal fields of Wyoming, which operation is spoken of by Chairman Knapp in his report to the interstate commerce commission as having been accomplished by violence, fraud and theft. Congressman. Mondell, reactionary, member of public lands committee, the most conspicuous enemy of conservation in the house. Ohio. Boss Cox of Cincinnati, prizefighter, ex-saloon keeper and boss of a political machine in comparison with which Tammany Hall is a good government club. Charles P. Taft, who, with his brother, William Howard, backed the Cox machine in the last Ohio state election in its fight against the Ohio progresses. HARRY A. ..Baltimore's Popular Main Office and H. 1725 ORLEA We solicit your friendship and patron date service. 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Morris, of Minneapolis, Minn., and Butler R. Wilson, of Boston, Mass., are the colored men whose connection with the association has been hinted at. Mr. Morris is one of the associate justices of the Odd Fellows' Supreme Court, and his brother, Edward H. Morris, the Chicago lawyer, is grand master of the same order. Mr. Whitelock, who is opposed to the retention of Mr. Lewis as a member of the Bar Association, was the Republican Candidate for attorney general of Maryland in 1903. He says, among other things, in his reply: "Your contention is that Mr. Lewis has been wrongfully and illegally injured by the action of the committee. I shall not discuss the question at this time, but leave it to the association. You have among other things, undoubted right to raise it in the annual meeting and to point out, if you can wherein the injury consists and to ask a reversal of the action. But you are not the titular head of the Bar Association, and, whatever your rights may be in the premises, they pertain to you as member of the association in no wise as attorney general of the United States." Mr. Lewis was elected to membership at the meeting of the association in Boston last August. The fight started on him as soon as it was found out that he was colored. Mr. Lewis is a college graduate and received his legal training at Harvard University. He is rated as a fine lawyer, and before becoming an assistant attorney general of the United States, was a assistant United States district attorney at Boston, Mass. Since the fight has made been going on against his membership, Mr. Lewis has maintained a dignified silence, and his attitude has gained him many friends. When asked by a representative of the Afro-American Ledger a few days to give an expression concerning the campaign agianst him, he said: "I do not care to be quoted at all in the matter." The Nazarene Well Rendered. A large audience was present at St. John's A. M. E. Church, West Lexington street near Pine, last Friday night to witness the rendition of the cantata "Nazarene." by the choir of the church. Class No. 1 and Mrs. Daisy Beander recently gave excellent musicals at the church. The Christian Endeavor Society will give a musical next Tuesday evening. Mrs. Anueie Lee Slade and a number of local singers will be on the program. These musicals have been rendered through the efforts of the pastor, Rev. Lewis S. Flagg, and a number of the leading spirits of his congregation. Prominent East Balti- Mr. William W. Adams, one of the best known residents of East Baltimore, died at, his residents, 1228 Jefferson street, Thursday of last week, after a two weeks illness from pneumonia. Mr. Adams was born in this city 50 years ago. He was a member of Centennial M. E. Church. He was also active in the work of the Knights of Pythias and the Good Hopes. His wife, Mrs. Clara Adams; a daughter, Mrs. Carrie Adams Dean; three sisters; and two grand children. Funeral services were held at his home Sunday afternoon, a large concourse of friends of the deceased being present. The services were conducted by Rev. Daniel W. Shaw, pastor of Centennial M. E. Church. Interment was in Laruel Cemetery. Robert A. Elliott had charge of the funeral arrangements: Rev. P. P. Samuel, of Philadelphia, is conducting a ten day revival campaign at Good Hope Baptist Church. Rev. R. D. Johnson, is M. Rev. James G. Martin, who is winding up his fifth and last year as pastor of Allen A. M. E. Church, is one of the most active members of the Baltimore A. M. E. Conference, of which he has been a member of or the past twenty years. He was born in Charleston, S. C. and was educated at Harvard University, Washington. Among his appointments have been Pocomoke City, where he improved the church and bought a cemetery; Easton, Md., where he built a parsonage; Cambridge, Md., where the church prospered under his care and purchased a cemtery; and Cumberland, Md. During his pastorate at Allen Church, he has secured a $2,000 parsonage for the congregation, paid off a $5,000 mortgage on the church property and nearly doubled the membership of the congregation. He has been active in the community life of the vicinity of his congregation, and has been instrumental in securing a number of good homes for the residents of his neighborhood. He is book steward of the Baltimore Conference and is one of the six ministerial delegates to the A. M. E. General Conference. Dr. Curtis Performs Operation Dr. Austin M. Curtis, of Washington, performed a difficult operation on Mrs. Henrietta Norton, a patient at the Provident Hospital Thursday of last week. He was assisted by Drs. H. Stanton McCard and E. V. Fitzgerald. The operation was entirely successful. Dr. S. Bernard Hughes successfully operated on a male patient at the hospital last Saturday for some serious organic trouble. FOOD VALUE OF EGGS. Eggs contain about 29 per cent of protein, about the same as in cheese, average meat and fish and a little more than in peas and beans and nuts. For a man doing hard labor beans or chuck steak would be preferable to eggs as a source of protein from the point of both physiological and household economy, although none of these is necessary, since corn or whole wheat bread contains sufficient protein. The egg is easily digested and combines fairly well with toast, which supplies the carbohydrate and bulk, but with meat, beans and most other foods the egg is incompatible and its retention in the stomach long beyond the period of its digestion often leads to serious results. The yolk contains a large percentage of fat, easily assimilated, with all the mineral elements. The diet of Cornaro, whose life was prolonged from 45, when physicians said he must die, to 102, was almost exclusively grape juice and uncooked eggs, compatible and easily digested. The popular notion about eggs is that they are good because they are nutritious, but whether they are good or bad depends largely on what other foods are taken with them. (Copyright, 1911, by Joseph B. Bowles. THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER MINISTERS DENOUNCE SCHOOL CONDITIONS The inferior conditions of the colored schools in most of the counties of Maryland, as well as the fact that in a number of the counties, the colored schools only run six months in the year, or less, was sharply criticised by a number of speakers at the weekly meeting of the Methodist Episcopal Ministerial Meeting Wednesday. "The law which compels white schools to keep open nine months in the year," said Rev. M. J. Naylor., pastor of Sharp Street Memorial M. E. Church, "to pay the teachers of such schools at least $300 a year in order to get the full State appropriation, is a discrimination in that it does not apply to the colored schools also. The law places the colored schools distinctly in the hands of the various county boards of education and they are not compelled to [keep the colored schools open a full year. "Under this system, the colored people of the counties are greatly handicapped in getting an education. High schools are maintained for the whites in all sections of the State; good graded are maintained for them, while the colored people are compelled, in many instances, to put up with schools whose equipment is poor, whose teachers are underpaid and whose terms are hardly long enough to give a boy or a girl a decent primary school training. We must look into and fight this discriminatin Revs. R. R. Riggs, N. M. Carroll, S. R. Hughes and others also spoke against the discrimination. Must Cooperate to Solve The Race Problem Philadelphia, Pa., April 10.—The problem of the education of the race formed the theme of a meeting of the historic Pennsylvania Abolition Society, Henry W. Wilbur, president of the society, called the gathering to order. He urged a spirit of sympathy in dealing with the Negro as the very foundation policy of the organization. Dr. Robert Strange, Bishop of South Carolina, declared that the problem must be solved by cooperation between the races. He held the preparation for a life work as the best education for the Negro, and lauded the work done by such institutions as Tuskegee and Hampton. He said a need was the teaching of the nobility of useful and efficient service. Dr. A. W. Pegues, supervisor of the colored deaf and blind school in North Carolina, urged a better understanding of the Negro home life for those who would help him. He described the condition of the race in the South. Colonel James A. Bryan, of Berne, N. 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All Checks, Money Orders and Drafts should be made payable to TIME AFRO-AMERICAN CO. BALTIMORE, APRIL 13, 1912 THE RACE DOES NOT TAKE ITSELF SERIOUSLY. It should create no surprise that others do not take us seriously when we fail to take ourselves seriously. It is a little too much to expect of poor human nature to expect our white friends to think more highly of us than we think of ourselves. Many of the deprivations which we sustain with respect to our civil rights and privileges are occasioned by our own failure in giving forth convincing evidence of our genuine sincerity. Among our white fellow citizens are all kinds of combinations and organizations to advance certain interests which they esteem of the utmost importance. And, behind such organizations are real men, who give themselves, their time, and their means towards realizing the desired objects. The success-which comes to such organized efforts results from the active and hearty cooperation yielded by them in such combinations. Strange as it is, yet the fact remains, we seem to think that it is possible for us to attain the full fruit of our citizenship by quietly reposing on our arms, confidently expecting luck or chance will bring to us what other men work and endeavor to attain. We do not take ourselves seriously, and hence we are not taken seriously by the white community. We reap according to our sowing. If, on the other hand, we become so desirous of securing the enjoyment of all the rights and privileges pertaining to citizenship, as to lead us into unity of purpose and action, and concentrate all of our resources in well directed effort to attain, we thereby furnish the actual proof of our seriousness and determination. Serious and determined men, sooner or later, force a hearing of their cause, and in the end have their prayers anwsered. This is the one thing which we must learn if we would win. Colored men who firmly believe that members of our race should receive the same consideration in all civic matters, even in voting and holding of offices, can only hope to accomplish the desired end by combination and cooperation. This lesson we have not sufficiently learned; hence the slowness of progress we are making in that direction. It is not by working some "scheme" or prating about the large number of votes possessed by colored men, which will bring us the victory, but rather by some well defined system by the which we may awaken and educate our people, and secure a sufficient number of them to stand firmly together in an endeavor to so educate public sentiment that the natural justice and fairness of our fellow citizens of the other race will generously accord to us that which they freely yield to all others. The trouble about all this, there is no short cut to such an accomplishment. When men really love their race, and their country, they will, thus associate themselves in honest endeavor, realizing that in so doing they are equally serving the best interests of all men of all races. We must take ourselves seriously, if we expect others to take us seriously. DOES AN OFFICE PAY THE DEBT? The colored voters must enter the approaching campaign as colored men with special interests whether they will or not. The unreliability of our party and its pledges in the past; the recreancy of President Taft to his promise to uphold the laws and carry out the party platform; the persistent and untiring efforts of the Democratic party to abridge and destroy our political and civil rights, have made us a special class with special interests, and if we would maintain any semblance of a position of influence, or self-respect even, we must agitate and agitate and fight. In this presidential campaign it is not a question of whether we are to continue to be Republicans. For many years to come there can be no doubt about the fact that logically we must ally ourselves with the Republican party, and the question we must thresh out is our intra-relationship with the other elements of our party. Are we content to remain simply a Republican asset for election purposes only? Are we willing to hearken to and follow the wil-lo-the-wisp promises of the candidates and platforms of our party only to realize after the elections that political promises and political platforms are not made to be kept? The President of the United States apparently thinks that the millions of disfranchised and downtrodden colored voters should be satisfied because he has given us an assistant attorney general of the United States. After his degrading Southern policy, his betrayal of the black delegates from the South, who made his nomination possible; his monumental ingratitude to the colored voters without whom he would never have been president; his conscienceless disregard of his party's platform promises to give "exact justice to all men without regard to race or color;" and in the light of our deplorable political condition throughout the country, the South particularly, are we willing to accept this office in satisfaction of our claim? Is it not rather an insult to our intelligence to offer, as President Taft has practically done, this office in settlement of our claims for some positive action looking to the amelioration of our condition? With the elective franchise taken away from the great majority of our voters; with our citizenship rights — those same inalienable rights so forcibly portrayed in the Delegation of Independence—abridged and denied by "grandfather clauses" and jim-crow legislation of every hue and description; with the courts of justice aligned with the political machinery for the execution of the devilish devices for the destruction of our political influence; with our president of the United States—nominated and elected by our black votes—adopting and pursuing a policy thoroughly in sympathy with these unholy and un-American practices and furthering them by appointing to the Supreme Court of the United States, our court of last resort men from the South where such sentiments have the full effect of law, and with which they are apparently in full sympathy; with the Republican leaders lending a deaf ear to our petitions for our manhood rights; with those of our own race, who are in the few high political positions we hold; stricken with lockjaw and dumbness when confronted with the necessity for a "voice" to cry out against these wrongs; will our pleas for "exact justice to all men without regard to race or collar" be silenced by this paltry gift of an office, as if an office would right our wrongs, and will we in effect, "sell our birthright for a mess of nottage?" The time is past when we will accept offices as a legal tender in settlement of our claims. The time is past when we will quietly gulp down the specious promises of candidates and platforms, in view of the betrayals of the past and the certainty of deception in the future. What we want, what we demand, is not the appointment of an assistant attorney general, with an emasculated office, or a register of the treasury, or a fourth auditor, THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER or any other place for any individual—these should go to black politicians as they go to other politicians as reward for political services—but what we demand is "exact justice for all men without regard to race or color" and that this practice should begin with the president of the United States; we demand the recognition of the black Republicans of the South, not as material for presidential delegates only to be used as such and afterward cast aside, but as full-fledged members of the Republican party entitled to the consideration attaching to such membership; we demand the abandonment of the damnable Southern policy of President Taft, involving, as it does, the total abrogation of his party's platform; we demand that there shall be no jim-crow practices within the Republican party; we demand the recognition of majority without regard to color; we demand action from our part looking to the overthrow of the wicked and unconstitutional "grand--father clauses" and other jim-crow laws of the South which abridge our citizenship; we demand the ballot and protection by the general government in its exercise. We are weary of promises. We are sufeited with the high sounding phrase of party platforms. We are sick and tired of the preelective gush of Republican spellbinders. We want action. We have laws on the satate books and we want their enforcement. We want our party to redeem its pledge. We want our president to discharge the obligation the party has placed upon him. We want a candidate who will regard a party promise as a solemn obligation, who will reward us by fairness and justice and not basely betray us when we make his election possible. Taft was elected on a platform promising to give "exact justice to all men without regard to race or color." He carried out that promise by giving us his Southern policy, the most conscienceless betrayal of political' allies that is recorded in the history of American politics. He has broken his obligation, betrayed his party' strust and destroyed our confidence in him. Notwithstanding this record of weakness, cowardice, and ingratitude, the party leaders are determined to renominate him and will probably succeed. But of one thing they can be assured and that is that wherever the opportunity presents itself the black voters of the country will show their resentment at the poll. --- AROUSING AND STUNNING. Much store had been, set upon the New York and the Illinois primaries, as settlers of the contest between Colonel Roosevelt and President Taft, as to the preference of the people for presidential candidate. In New York, the scandalous steam roller process defeated the proper expression of the will of the people, in Illinois, where the proper safe guards were used, Roosevelt has swept the state. It must be rather staggering to the Taft men to have the New York delegates, even after the steam roller process in the State, go to Chicago without instructions. The New York leaders have not lost their senses and even after the shameful mockery of the primaries, they did not have to complete their effrontery to the people by instructing the delegates for Mr. Taft. The action of the New York convention is a practical surrender, and prima facia evidence that they are in doubt as to the wisdom of forcing Mr. Taft upon the party. If the leaders of the party are really desirous of continuing the Republican party in power, they will not be guilty of turning a deaf ear to the voice of the people. No sane man can fail to see that the plain every day people are with Colonel Roosevelt, and believe in him and his theories of government. The people have long wanted a chance to make their own leaders. The people have tired of having a few political bosses get together and make the ticket for them to vote. The people have grown weary of this government by minorities. The time has long since passed when the people are satisfied to let a few men sit back in their palatial offices and make up the slate for them. This condition has caused many a party man to vote independently or remain away from the polls altogether on election day. By this minority rule in political parties, the whole party has been shamed and good men have hung their heads when they have found at times the most corrupt leaders of corrupt gangs set up for their franchise. Then, we have been told by the political orator, we must vote for them because the party is more than a man. In that way corrupt and unprincipled men have been elevated to places of power by the franchises of the people. All of this is manifestly wrong. If the plain workaday people are expected to vote men into office after the ticket has been made, the plain people have a right to say who shall go on that ticket. It is true today as it has even been true the men elected to office serve the interests and the men most influential in putting them into office. If a few men, forming a sort of political oligarchy, can behind closed doors dictate the ticket of the party, certainly the men who by this means are put upon the ticket and elected to office will serve the interests and men which lay back of their nomination and election. This is why it is such a difficult matter to get a single piece of legislation passed in the interest of the common people. The prohibition question in this State is a case in point. This enactment and enlargement of laws in the interest of big business, placing daily a heavier yoke on the neck of the common people, is accountable for the tremendous and fearful upheavals manifest throughout the country, resulting in strikes and dynamitings. The plain people find the multiplication of laws against them and favoring the corporations whose greed has daily increased their burdens, and they are answering the condition with a deep seated and ominous unrest, which forebodes our republic no good. We are repeating the history of France previous to the outbreak of the French Revolution, and the student of history can see the rocks which are ahead. Mr.Roosevelt is a profound student of men and history, and undoubtedly has a vision of the real needs (cf our nation and those who are responsible for guiding the ship of state would do well to hear this man who is pleading the cause of the people in our land today. The common people have suffered and endured, until they have about now decided to rebel against the present social order, and will, unless they can elect such men as will be interested in them and do something to lighten their burdens. If any favors are to be shown, the common people need them; they are the nation's wealth, they are the nation's hope. Princes and lords may flourish and A breath cat make them as a breath was made; But the proud yeomanry a country's pride, When once destroyd, can never be supplied. LYNCHERS SHOULD BE HANGED. from law into lynching and disorder is due to the fact that courts are not full of dispatch in disposing of criminal cases. "But we must not attribute it all to the courts. There is among our people a disposition to forget the sanctity of the law, and to ignore the fact that no civilized country can live unless the law is respected. Now lynchling is justified because it is said to only apply to one offense that is particularly heinous in the minds of all of us. That is not true. Statistics show that lynchling is applied to a great many crimes. Lawless Example Bad. "The moment that the mob acquires that wolfish desire for human blood, the example is dreadful to the community in which that exhibition of lawless is given. There is not any crime—I don't care what it is—that justifies a departure from law in the punishment of the person who is charged with guilt. "One of the serious questions we have to face in this country is that we have not among all our peolpe as profound a respect for the law and the necessity for obedience to it we ought to have. and that is part of the reason why we have these exhibitions of lawlessness over the country and these cruel murders, for that is all they are. vidual opinion of the necessity for the enforcement of law. Mr. Holmes made a forceful plea for the kindling of the spirit that would make the graduates revere toward University as their alma mater. A spirit, he said, that would not show itself so much in deeds as in words. Here counted the atheltic events of the student body that hd brought the university fame, and said that the building of gymnasium would be a step in the great work that is now being done to make Howard University the national educational institution for the race in this country. "The athletes of this university, he continued, 'have been noble in victory and in defeat, and it is time for us to be noble, and to show that nobleness that has been GOOD WORK BY WEST VIRGINIA INSTITUTE [Continued from page one] long sleeping and make our alma mater rise into its own." be a step forward. Strong men and women are members of the faculty, and each year additions are made. One of the great features now is the summer school, which is one of the best in the country. Then their agriculture department is also very good. These strong men and women are working to develop our young people. I was delighted to see Prof. C. E. Mitchell, the man of brains and ability. He has taken unto himself a wife and she is indeed an accomplished musician. The students are of a high class and they know their business. They are preparing to take hold of the busy world. I noticed them for a whole day, and then I watched Prof. Prillerman. He is a busy man. I spent a day or more there and then turned my attention to other things. It would just take me a week to tell you the things I saw at Institute, and the work being done there by the students and teachers. After spending a little time out there in the educated atmosphere, I was accompanied to Charleston by Prof. Mitchell, and found a committee of high school boys to meet me and show me the way to the Charleston High School. This was indeed a nice trip for me, to see the high school. I also visited Hotel Brown. I am glad to report to you that Mr. and Mrs. Brown continue to have a first-class hotel, and they are doing well. I stoped in Lexington with Rev. Dr. Clark, of the A. M. E. Church, spending the night at the home of J. C. Jackson, thence on to another part of the world. I cretinally did enjoy getting around there. I would like to tell you just all the places I have been. In Louisville, I stoped with Editor William H. Steward, of the American Baptist, and leaving him, I found my way to another place. I have been to Frankfort, and it would not be out of place for me to refer to it. In Frankfort, I had the pleasure of seeing Mrs. Amanda Coleman, and then going to Mrs. Martha E. Williams, where I had dinner and then had another dinner at the Capitol hotel with B. D. Madison. All of these things were inspiring to me. Now I am here, and will not be here long, for I am leaving as I write this letter for Cordele, Ga. Send all mail for me, care of Hon. E. Taylor, St. Augustine, Fla. Dr. McCard Honored. Dr. H. Stanton McCard, of 2005 Druid Hill avenue, has been appointed a member of the educational commission of the National Medical Association. The work of this committee will embrace an investigation of the work now being done in colored medical colleges, and to make recommendations that will put them on a par with other leading medical schools. Among the colored medical colleges are: Leonard Medical College, Raleigh, N. C.; Meharry, Nashville, Tenn.; Flint, New Orleans; and Howard University, Washington. Public Waiters Banquet The annual banquet of the Public Waiters' Association was given at Young's Auditorium Tuesday night. Councilman Harry S. Cummings, who is the attorney for the organization, delivered an address. Toasts were responded to by a number of the members. The banquet was served by Caterer John R. Young. The organization was founded eight years ago by William P. Lansey, and is one of the most floursihing in the city. Mr. and Mrs. George Casie gave a beautiful tea in Washington Easter Sunday in honor of Mrs. Margarett Henderson and Miss Sarah Powell, of Baltimore. Revs. S. M. Johnson, A. L. Gaines, C. H. Stepteau, and B. F. Watson, the latter of Washington, attended the sessions of the Virginia A. M. E. Conference at Hampton, Va., this week. Mrs. Henrietta T. Allen is confined to her home, 619 W. Biddle street, by illness. She is in an improved condition. Mrs. Mary V. Burke, mother of Misses Grace and Maria Burke, died at her home in Catonsville Monday night. The stork visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Jones, of N. Carey street and left a fine little girl Mother and daughter are doing fine. Delegates Meet. The Baltimore Conference delegation to the A.M.E. General Conference met last Saturday to talk over matters that will engage the session of the General Conference next month. They reaffirmed their previous action of endorsing Rev. John Hurst, financial secretary of the denomination, for the bishopric. Rev. A. L. Gaines, pastor of Trinity A. M. E. Chureh, was again endorsed for the editorship of the Christian Recorder, the leading denomination organ. Dr. Hurst has made a fine record as financial secretary of the denomination, and Dr. Gaines' education and experience in journalism are regarded as eminently fitting him for the editorship. The following members of the delegation were present: Revs.C.H. Murray, chairman; James G. Martin, secretary; A. L. Gaines, D. G. Hill, P. J. Jordan, and C. H. Stepteau, J. Frank Blagburn, of Washington, and Thomas J. Hilliard, the latter being lay delegates. Funeral of Mr. Joseph Moore. The funeral of Mr. Joseph Moore, which was held Tuesday at his late home, 1227 Jefferson street, was one of the largest attended in East Baltimore in recent years. Mr. Moore died Saturday after a lingering illness. He was one of the most active spirits in the Doctor's Coachmen's, Junior Association, and a large delegation from that association attended the funeral. The services at the house were conducted by Rev. D. W. Shaw of Centennial Church. Resolutions on behalf of his fellow club members were read. Headed by Samuel Procter's Band, the members of the association preceded the funeral party to Laurel Cemetery, where the interment took place. The floral tributes were numerous and handsome. Harry A. Vodery, of 1775 Orleans street, had charge of the funeral arrangements. Funeral of Henson D. Murray The funeral of Henson D. Murray, who died at his home, 909 N. Eutaw street, Sunday morning after a brief illness, was held at his late home Tuesday afternoon. The services were in charge of Rev. D. G. Hill, pastor of Bethel A. M. E. Church, of which congregation he was a member, and Rev. G. F. Bragg, Jr. assisted. Mr. Murray was born in this city 45 years ago. He was educated in the local public schools He was engaged in the newspaper business for nearly 25 years, handling all of the local papers, including the Afro-American Ledger. He was a member of St. James' and St. Andrews' Societies. His wife, Mrs. J. F. Murray, and daughter, Annett, survive. . Hagerstown Notes Hagertown, Md., April 11—An industria and agricultural educational conference wa held in the new Ebenezer A.M.E. Church Thursday of last week. The conference was arranged by Prof. Benjamin S. Smith, supervisor of colored schools in Washington county. The speakers included: Assistant Superintendent of Schools Purdum, Rev. David Johnson, Prof. Walker, of Harpers Ferry, W. Va.; the Mayor of Hagerstown, Hugh E. Macbeth, Robert Young, both of Baltimore, and Professor Smith. Rev, David Johnson will be tendered a reception by his congregation Monday night. He will leave for the session of the Baltimore A. M. E. Conference Tuesday. Rev Johnson was recently presented a new suit of clothes by the Golden Rod Club of Ebenezer Church. Annapolis Personals Annapolis, Md.; April 10—Mrs. Samuel Johns-and daughter spent Easter in Baltimore, the guest of Rev. and Mrs. Wheeler. Mrs. Samuel Simms spent the Easter holiday in Baltimore, the guest of Mrs. N. E. Harris. Mr. H. M. 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FOR THE BIG OFFER Ball Glasses—rimmed or rimless eyetacles fitted with our famous EX CLERO LENSES $ fused with the ear and near—no g away with un will be delighted culist or hospital ed free at any 0., IN MEMORIAM. WHITING—In sad and loving remembrance of my dear, dearest husband, Lewis Whiting, who died 4 pears ago, April 4, 1908 The month of April again is here The saddest of all the year to me Because it took from me my husband dear How I miss him no tongue can tell The home is lonely without him I sit and often think of him When I am all alone For memory is the only thing That grief cannot call her own In sad remembrance of my dear brother-in-law, whom God called to rest 4 years ago. How we mess him, he was so kind to all, but God loved him best. By his brother-in-law J. G. Graves 501 E. Washington Lane Germantown BURLEY—In sad but loving remembrance of our beloved mother Alverta A. Burley, who departed this life two years ago, April 10th, 1010 For so long as life and memory last We will remember thee By her husband and children THOMAS—In sad but loving remembrance of our mother, Elizabeth Thomas, who died nine years ago (April 14, 1903,) Time rolls along, years creep a pace But never from us departs, The memory of our dear mother's [face, Deeply graven on our hearts. By her son, Henry L. and wife. Grandma is sleeping, so free from all pain, Oh, wake her not sweet spirit to suffer again, She slumbers so soundly,, Oh, let her sleep on, Her suffering are over,he., troubles are gone By her grandchildren. JONES—In sad, but loving remembrance of Elizabeth Jones, who died, April 12, one year ago yesterday. Death has robbed us of our comfort Who we loved and cherished dear It was our dearest friend 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. For there is no mother there. NICHOLSON—In loving remembrance of our dear daughter and sister, Isabella L. Nicholson, who departed this life one year ago—April 12, 1911, One year has passed She sleeps—we leave her in peace to rest The parting was painful, but God knoweth best. By her parents J. A. D. and Maggie A. Wilson, and brothers Sleep on wife and take your rest God called you home he thought it best It was hard, indeed, to part with thee. But God's string arm supported thee. SMITH—In sad but loving remembrance of our dear mother, Sarah L. Smith, who departed this life one year ago (April 1, 1911.) Death has robbed us of our com- sort Whom we loved and cherished dear; It was our dear mother Can we help b 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 For there is no mother there. By her daughters Alverta Jones and Alma Smith TURNER — Departed this life Saturday, April 6, 1912, Lizzie, beloved mother of Thomas W. Turner, of this city and Miss Fannie R. Turner, teacher in the Washington public schools. Funeral from her late residence 421 J. street N. W. Washington, D. C. thence to St. Augustine's Church where requiem high mass was celebrated by Rev. Father O'Connor at 10 o'clock Tuesday morning for the repose of her soul. Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery. WILMORE—In loving memory of our beloved leader, Emanuel Wilmore, who departed this life two years ago. CHURCH NOTICES CENTENNIAL M.E. CHURCH Cor. Caroline and Bank Sts Rev. D. W. Shaw, D. D., Pastor 11 a. m., Sermon by Pastor 2.20 p. m., Sunday School Wm. L. Gibson, Supt. 4.30 p. m., Epworth, Literary and Musical Program—Mrs. Helen Cooper, President. 8 p.m. Sermon by the pastor, topic: "Whole crosses and Half Crises" Sunday Night, April 21st, The Commonwealth Concert Band assisted by declamers and vocalist will give a Sacred Musical Concert. Silver Offering at the door. ASBURY M. E. CHURCH Lexington and East Sts. 11 a. m., Sermon by Pastor, Subject: "Seeing Jesus." 2.30 p. m., Sunday School 5 p. m., Epworth League 8 p. m., Sermon by Rev. N. G. Jones to Miriam Circle King's Daughters and other organizations. Strangers Cordially Welcomed Chas. T. Stewart, Supt. Mrs. Laura Thomas, Pres. E.L. AMES MEM. M. E. CHURCH, Carey and Baker Sts. Rev. D. D. Turpeau, Pastor. Sunday, April, 14th, 1913 11 a. m., sermon by the Pastor. 230 p. m., Sunday School. 5 p. m., Special program by the E. L. 8 p. m., sermon by the Pastor. All invited and welcome Supt. Rev. S. R. Hughes, Pastor. 11 a. m., Sermon by pastor. Subj: "What is the Church." 2 p. m., Sunday School 6 p. m., Epworth League Bro. John M. Barnes, Pres. 8 p. m., Sermon by pastor. Subject: "The open window." All Cordially invited WHATCOAT M. E. CHURCH, Franklin and Pine Sts. "King's Hill" Rev. Alfred Young, Pastor. 11 a. m., Sermon by the pastor, text: "Some on Boards and Some on Broken Pieces of the Ship." 8 p. m., Sunday School 8.15 p. m., Railroad Sermon at Trinity A. M. E. Church. 4 30 p. m., Epworth League 8 p. m., Holy communion. Monday, April 15, Pastoral Reception 11 a. m., Sermon by the Rev. John H. Reed of the College of Africa, American vice Consul General and delegates-elect to the General Conference. Dr. Reed is one of the ablest and most eloquent ministers in our Connection. 3 p. m., Sacrement of the Lord's Snapper, the first of the Conference Year. It is advisable for every member to be on hand. 8 p. m., Sermon by the Rev. J. W. Norris. CHRISTIAN CHURCH, Riggs Ave. near Arlington Avenue Prayer and Praise Services Wednesday. C. Maillord, Clerk Rev. Alfred Young, pastor of King's Hill, will deliver the famous RAIL ROAD SEEMON at Trinity A. M. E. Church, Linden avenue and Biddle st. SUNDAY, APRIL 14 At 3 p. m. Don't miss the train. Rev. A. L. Gaines and Rev. A. Young, Pastors Annual Sermon To Order of Good Hope at Bethel A. M. E. Church 10th ANNIVERSARY OF KING DARIUS Lodge No. 22. Grand United 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 Bethel A. M. E. Church, Druid Hill Avenue and Lanvale Street, Sunday, April 14th, 1912, at 7.30 p.m. The Order will meet in the chapel not later than 7 p. m. P. S.—The Outlook Quartette will render a selection, the opening Hymn, "The King's Business". Mdme. Authur Evans, sop., Mdme. M. J. Gross, con., Mr. Jas. Allen, tenor, Mr. Jas. Smith, bass. Solo by Mdme. Authur Evans, [The Great White Throne] Bro. Jno. R. Gross, W. S. Bro. I. P. Brown, F. S. 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. Surg by the Choir. A welcome awaits you. Positively a silver offering at the door. Music a plenty. Vocal and instrumental. T. H. Franklin, director. L. M. Freeland, organist Bow S. H. Norwood, pastor. TRINITY A. M. E. CHURCH. Rev. A. L. Gaines. D. D., Pastor. 11 a. m., Sermon by the pastor. 2.30 p. m., Sunday School Exercises. 6.30 p. m., Allen C. E. League. 7.45 p. m., sermon fly the Pastor. ST. JOHN'S A. M. E. CHURCH, Lexington St. near Pine, Rev. L. S. Flagg, Pastor. 11 a. m. By special request of the congregation sermon by pastor—Sampson and Delilah. 3 p. m. Rev. W. E. Williams, choir and congregation of Grace Presbyterian church will worship with us. 6.30 p. m. A. C. E. L. Meeting Joseph Holman, Pros. 8 p. m. The Lady Elks will hold their memorial services. Stewardesses Day & Dollar Money 11 a. m., sermon by the pastor to the widows, widowers and bachelors, young and old, and maids, young and old. They will march beneath the Widows Staff. Two girls dressed in white will stand by the Staffs with the flowers of hope. All in Baltimore are invited. 2.30 p. m., Sunday School 3.30 p. m., A sermon by the Rev. Samuel Ward, of Fulton Baptist Church Division street. His chair and congregation are invited. 6 p. m., Allen C. E. League 8 p. m., Sermon by the pastor to the Grand United Order of the Sons and Daughters of Moses. They will assemble in the lecture room. Herbert Frisby, Supt. John Murray, Pres. of League WATERS A. M. E. CHURCH Aisquith St., near Jefferson. Rev. Dr. M. F. Sydes, Pastor. 427 Aisquith Street 5 a.m., Class, No. 1, Frank Snowden, Leader 11 a.m., The Pastor will preach his last sermon for this year, subject, by request: "Dry Bones in the Valley" Come and hear this sermon as this is the pastor's last sermon before conference. 2.30 p.m., Sunday School 3 p.m., Platform Meeting conducted by Dr. C. G. Cummings, pastor of Asbury Church, music by his choir; congregation invited. Short address by Prof. Hawkins, principal of High School D. N. E. Campbell, M.D., and Dr. Edward Jones, Zion A. M. E. Church; his congregation will accompany him. As this is a special rally day all are requested to attend and give one dollar. 7.45 p.m., Dr. John A. Holmes, pastor of Metropolitan, choir and congregation will worship with us. Dr. Holmes is one of the ablest preachers of the race, please hear him. I am making my last appeal for the year friends. All are requested to pay your dollar money, aside from other collections. Pastors reception Monday Night. PAYNE MEM. A. M. E. CHURCH Laurens and Calhoun St. Rev. P. W. Worthham, D.D., Pastor 11 a. m., Local preachers hour sermon by the "Old War Horse" 2.30 p. m., Sunday School 8 p. m., Sermon by Pastor; several lodges of the G. U. O. of Odd Fellows will be present. Tuesday, April 16, Tom Thumb Wedding. HANDY MEM. A. M. E. CHURCH Cor. Baker and Bruce Sts. Rev. John Offer Custis, Pastor. 1514 Druid Hill Ave. Last Sunday before Annual Conference 11 a. m., Special 2 30 p. m., Sunday School 3 30 p. m., Star of Bokhehem Society 8 p. m., Sermon by the pastor to Ruth Cuth. No. 28, Knight of Pythias All are invited. Come praying for a grand success. H. W. Hiner. Supt. GRACE PRESBYTEIAN CHURCH Delphin and Ering Sts. Dolphin and Etting St. Rev. W. Edw. Williams, Minister, The Manse: 623 W. Lanvale St. Services: 11 a.m. "The Hem of His Garment." 3 p.m., Sunday School 3 p.m., Union Service at St. John A. M. E. Church 8 p.m., Sermon Wednesday, 8 p.m., Bible Study and Praise Service Mist Ruth B. Lee, Directress Miss Margret L. Rusk, Organist William Anderson, Supt. GILLIS MEM. M. P. CHURCH Stockton Street near W. Baltimore Rev. B. H. Knight, Pastor. 10 a. m., Class 11 a. m., Stranger 2 p. m., Sunday School 3 p. m., Rev. Arthur White 6:30 p. m., C. E. D. J. W. Fowler, Pres. of C. E. D. T. H. McGowan, Supt CHRIST INSTITUTION Ensor Street. Rev. Dr. G. W. Kennard, pastor 11 a. m., Able divine 2.30 p. m., Sunday School 8 p. m., Able divine C. Y. W. C. A. 1200:Druid Hill Avenue. You are cordially invited to be present at services, Sunday, April 14, 1912 at 5 p. Paper-Mrs. A. Smith-Williams. Paper-Mrs. Jaid Raitif M. M. Murray, Fda M. E. Bright, Sec E. E. Bright, Sec There will be a sermon preached to the Junior Choir of St. John's A. M. E. Church and Logan Relief Corps. G. A. R., No. 17. Sunday, April 14, at 3 o'clock. The sermon will be preached by Rev. Jones of A. M. E. Zion Church at Logan Hall, Orchard and Tessier sts. All friends are cordially invited. Mrs. Martha J. Brown, G. A. R., Ch'n EQUCATIONAL NEEDS OF BOTH RACES educational needs of both races were discussed at length at the thirteenth annual session of the- Conference on Education in the South, held here last week. - In the discussion: ‘on the Negro, Oswald Garrison Vil- lard, editor of the New York Even. ing Post, declared that the Negro was the greatest asset of the South, and W. D. Weatherford, a promi- nent Y. M. C. A. official, who spoke on ‘'The ‘fraining of the Ne- gro,'’made.a.plea for better schools for the race. and declared that the standard. of living of the great mass of Southern colored people must be raised. The Fish Jublilee Singers charm- ed the large audience at the con- cluding session lust Friday after- noon:by singing old Negro melo- cies. Robert C. Ogden, of New York, was re-elected president for the thirteenth successive time. Others elected were: Walter H. Page, editor of the. World's Work, vice president; William A. Blair, treas- urer; Dr. Holils B. Frizzell, presi- dent of Hampton Institute; Clar- ence Poe, Harry Hodgson. A. P. Bourland, George J. Ramsey, J. H. Kirkland, J. H. Hinnemon,. J. Y. Joyner, J. B. Aswell, S. P. Brooks, A. A. Murpree, and Joseph Cook, executive committee. “Primarily, let me say,’ said Mr. Villard, ‘‘that in no field of the Southern educational work is their greater need of co-ordination and supervision and contro) as in this particular one. No one knows how many rural schools for Ne- groes there are. Dr. Dillard, of the Jeanes Rural Schoo! Fund Board gas, listed about 150 Negro schools and colleges bat there are many oth- ers, some, no.doubt, worthless;oth- ersare placed where thereis no press- ing need for them; still others have only. pitifully ineffective begin- nings. where the necessity for them is tremendous; some are simple frauds upon the public; others exist only on paper and makéa_hand- some living for canvasers who play upon the beneficence of the North. “Wher the Stokes fund was created it seemed as if the ‘appeal of this opportunity. must_be com- pelling, but as yet its trustees. are not interested. Finally, there was organized three years ago, and now in process. of careful urganizatiun, an ambitious society, the National Association for the Advancement of. Colored People,| which has de- termined if no one else enters the field, it will beg means to do this great work to the general public. “We need the best beaines that the colored’ peuple possess in. this work, stimulated by the best train- ing, to assume the proper leader- ship for the little struggling heart breaking factories for the turning out of honorable American citizens of swacthy skins. “Binally, let_me impress upon you particularly you, my friend of the South that for every dollar in- vested!’ in ane of these schon! you will withdraw thousands. - ‘The Ne- gro is the South's greatest asset. Not its rivers, nor its water pow- ers; nor its natural resources. com- pare with the worth to it of its col- - ored people, without whose labor King Cotton, still the corner stone of the Southern prosperity, would topple from his throne. “It isnot placing it in the high- est ground to point out to you that the new science of scientific manage- ment alone dictate the compulsory education of every Negro as of every white child. ‘That policy is folly under which in Wileox county, Ala., there was expended in 1910 but $3,839.70 foi the education of 10,758 Negra children: while $30,- 612.75 was spent on 2,000 white children,only about $15.50. per cayy- ita for white children. and but 32 cents a heaa for colored children. Who will dare say that it is ¢ square deat for either race? Whe will dare say that is is fair play for the Negro, Who will dare say that the counury that spend: 32 cents a year a piece it the education for certain of it opposed to any adequate training for the Negro Still a.larger num- ber are indifferent, and compara- tively few white people are agzres- sively giving themselves to @ policy of thorough training for the South- ern Negro. It would seem as if the time has now arrived when we of the South.as a united people should aelberatly set ourselves to a con- structive work in Negro. training. | Must Educate Race. | “There are many reasons why such.a policy must be followed at fr present time—the first of which has an economic bearing. The greatest and most pressing need of the South today, economically speak- ing, is for a trained and efficient force of labor. and the lack of such a trained laboring class is_retarding the progress of the South at the present’ time more than any other single influence. Inasmuch as the [Negro is almost our only source of labor, the only way to have an in- telligent laboring class in the South is to give the Negro such training ‘as will make him efficient. : | “The average employer of the Negro laborer at. the present time complains that the Negro. cannot be induced to work regularly, that he will labor for only three or four days and will be idle the remainder of the week, living off the wages already secured. According, there- fore, to the testimony of those who are less fayovrable to the Negro, the greatest handicap of our laboring elass in the South is that its wants are too few. These wants can be spuplied from half time labor, and consequently it is impossible to get many Negroes to work full time. . Iu order to. meet this situation, the standards of living for the Negro must be rais- ed. He must be made to want better homes, more comforts, some read- ing material, better food, better. clothes. To this end.there mustité a raising of standards through the better training of the masses of Negroes. ‘Again, we must set. ourselves definitely to a policy of aggressive training because the ignorant Ne- gro isa menance to the health of the entire community in which he lives. An ignorant and untrained Negro is very:much more apt to be filthy and unhygienic in his habits than is the Negro that has at least an elementary training. ‘The prev- alence of typhoid, tuberculosis, hookworm, and other diseases which are such a present menace to the entire South ean never be greatly lessened until the Negro is taught the meaning of sanitation and cleanliness, Mor the sake of self- preservation, therefore, we in the South are bound to train the Negro. “Still again, the ignorant Ne- gra is far more frequently a crim- inal than is the better trained Ne- gro. Itisacommon saying that to educate a Negro means to make him ueriminal. The facts do not hear out this statement. Dr. Book- er T. Washington has asserted again and again, and so far as Lam able to learn his assertion has never heen controverted, that. there is not and never has been a graduate of Hampton or Tuskegee or anum- ber of. other leading schools in the South put behind penitentiary hars. This is almost a. startling fact when it is taken in connection with the additional fact that . 67 per cent uf the Negro criminals to- day are illiterate and. of the re- maining 33 per cent, the majority have no real training. Ignorance is Costly. “If the South wants to be free froma fearful crime, itis none ton svon to deliberately. start ona more ¢effinite plan of Negro-train- ‘ing. Last of all, ane ought ® say Uhat, regardless of the economic improvement, to give definite at- tention to this great problem. / The men are. discouraged, that ‘they fill the weight of this great very fact that some ignorant mass pressing upon our Southern life, is all the greater reason why a. group ‘of broad minded educators -sheuld THE AERO-AMERICAN-LEDGER. house, a.hair mile away sroln the headquarters of this plantation, it was such. a plice as is fitted for the housing of horses and cattle. The annual report of education in. one of the States in the South, speak- ing nf-the buildings, says: ‘Lhe Negro:school houses are miserable beyond description. They are us- ually without comfortable equip- ment, proper lighting 6r sanita- tion. In most cases they are a’ ser- ‘ious reflection on our civitization. “The next great thing in an ad- ‘vanced policy is for a larger amount of money to be spent on the col- ored children. One. State in the South annually.. spends $12.62. on every white child’ enrolled. and $1.71. a year on every Negro child enrolled. At the rate of $1.71 a Negro child would have spent on its education in twelve years of school life $20.52, which is very far less that what is spent annually on the children of many of our Northern States. “Tam rite aware that the South has done, heroically in the years that are past'and that. vut of its poverty it has contributed to Ne- gro training in the South since the yéar 1870 perhaps one hundred and ninetyfive million of dollars.. I am aware also that the fact of adouble school system, which is absolutely necessary under the conditions .of Southern life, has put a burden upon the Southern people heavy to be borne. ‘The heroic and courage- ous manner in which educators of the South have stood for advancing policies i& to be highly commended, but while one is glad to see these thing, it is impossible to pass over in silence the fact that the Negro child does not. have and never has had a fair chance for training. The funds are all too meagre to give such a chance. ‘ “The third great need of theNe- gro school is a new type Of curricu- Ium—a curriculum not modeled: af- ter the curriculum of the white child altogethes, but suited to the environment of the Negro child. In the last year's time | have visit- ad personally, [ suppose, a hundred Negro schools in the country. f have rarely ever gone to one of these schools anc heard a group of Negro children reading, that the incongruity of the whole course has no impressed itself upon me. The Negro child uses a reader prepared by a white man, in which all of the pictures are of white children and all. of the. sturies concerning white heroism, and yet we wonder why the Negro has no race pride and why the Negro is not interested in building up the life of hiscommunity. Why should the Negra child be forced. into the same mold as the white child? Why should his baoks not tell him some- thing abvor the trees and bird and the crops in the midst’of which he lives? Why should he not read something about the heroic mem~ bers of hig own race” Why should he not come to know the poetry of Phyllis Wheatley or Puul Lawrence Dunbar-—Negroes of pure African blood, and poets whem any race should be proud to have produced’, Lam not pleading for any: less effective training or any less thorough text hooks, but for a train- ing and a text buok system that is fitted. to Lne needs:and the environ- ment of the Negro child, Here is a chance fur some erlucator to do for the Negro race that for which they will forever rise up: and call him: blessed. “The fourth great need of the Negro schoot is better supervision. Supervision for all rural schools has been poor, indeed, but supervision for Negro rural schools has ‘been al- most entirely. wanting. 1 have met county superintendents who did not even know, the location of all the Nevro-schools in their county. __ Holliday Street Theatre WEEK wg MONDAY, APRIL 15 pany THE BLACK PATTI Musical Comady Company Presents The Topical Musical Comedy Success - JIN THE JUNGLES . , HEADED BY SISSIERETTA JONES, "sick Parr. ana . “HAPPY” JULIUS GLENN : The Wangdoodle Comedian TOGETHER WITH A GREAT SUPPORTING COMPANY The Landslide of Melody and Merriment ; Snow Hill Notes. | Snow Hill, Md.. April 10—Mrs. Celia Dale. and Mrs. Georgia Pur. nell have gone to Baltimore to visit friends and relatives. Miss Helen Henry “has returned from Baltimore. | Miss Hattie Martin and Mrs. Morgia Franklin are home from Philadelphia. ’ | Miss Clara Cottingham, of Phil- ‘adelphia, is home. Mr. John Brown is home from Wilmington, Del. The adept mystic entertainment, given at Friendship Friday night by Mr. F. L. Henry and sister, was a Success. Mrs. Mary Queen Henry has _ re- turned from Salisbury, Md. Mr. Sydney Robins is on-the sick list. Mrs. Georgia Corbins is home from Philadelphia. Miss Maggie Henry, of Berlin, is visiting Miss Maggie Tingle. | Denton Happenings Denton, Md., April 11,—Splen- did Easter programs were render- ed in the local churches Sunday. Mr. Arthur Braynt, a student at the Delaware State College, spent the Easter holidays with his father, Rev. J. G. Bryant. Mr. Joseph Wayman and Miss Tolson, both of Ridgle, Md., were the guests of Miss Ida Bailey, Sun- day. Miss Cornelia Fountain has re- turned from a visit to Baltimore, and Miss Della Bailey is back from a trip to Atlantic Gity. Mr. Charles Boston and Miss Viola Horner are on the sick list. Winchester Notes. Winchester, Va. April 11—The Easter exercises held by the Sunday School of St. Paul A. M. E. Church and the egg yolling at Mt. Carmel Bree Baptist Church were largely attended. | Revs. P..M- Esklick and R. J. Butt are in Hampton, Va., attend- ing the sessions of the Virginia A. ae E. Conference. Miss Emily Smith and Mr. Sam- ‘uel Lemon: were the prinpeipals: in.a pretty wedding Monday. ‘The ceremony was: performed at the bride’s residence; 918 S. Main street, Rev. A.B. Mann, of John Mann: M.. E. Chureh, offiiating. ‘The wedding march was played. by Mrs. Fletcher... Lessie Fin- ley was flower girl; Georgie Smith, ribbon. bearer; Mrs. Luey Coleman. Johnstown. Pa.; maid of honor;. Miss Ethel: Carter, brides- maid; and. Mr. Joseph ‘Fletcher, best man, ‘The ushers were Messrs. William Briscoe, Joseph Beunt, and William. Dikes: were the ushers and Master Joseph. ¥ietcher ~ ring hearer. Mrs, Lola Valentise is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Mannie Esklick, Mr. Duvall Evans bas returned from a visit to. Atiaatie City and Mrs, Harriett B. Beil has returned from a_ visit.to-futends in Harris- burg, Pa. At the annual election of the parish of St. James P. E. Church, Messrs. D. W. Queen, Solomon De- Coursey. George A. L. Anderson. Walter §. Emerson, Robert H. peneinetan Edward’ Stokes, Su., William E..Young and Herman: 4. Smith were-vestaymen. Hebe 6. Outerbridge and George A. Ander- son were elected church wardeas; Walter S.. Emerson,. registrar ; Rob- ert H. Pennington, treasurer: Sol. omon DeGoursey, delegate to the Diccesan. Cozvention, and Walte: S. Emerson, alternate delegate. NEW EBENEZER A.M.E. CHURCH, Hagerstown, Md. Loe cei > BBS © SG aR RBA SES BSR Seay ihe ee a aE SS aS. PRS NEES Seco EES ASS oe es ah Sees TS ROR cae aerate nr Sarl EVA e ee Pee NS Neen Na Sire ie eee eee SLI Eo eS eres a RE rg ee Sg Wanted 100 People to Eat! ’ DALY’S-WHY? American and European Plan 1117 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE is —There Will Be Held—— A Grand Novelty Bazar For the Improvement Fund of Macedonia Bapt: Church Gor. Saritoya and Vincent Streets Commencing Thursday, March 30th, and Ending Friday Rvening, April 19th, 1912 Special Literary Program Ech Byening, ‘ Season Tickets Twenty-five Cents. Mrs. D. G. Mack, Manageress Mme. Rosa Bias, Piani Rev. D. G. Mack. D. D., Pastor. NEW CHURCH TO BE DEDICATED Great Work Accomplished by Rev. David Johnson During His Pastorate (Special 10 ‘The Afro-American Ledger.) +. Hagerstown, Md., April 8—Rev. David . Jonson has succeeded in erecting one of .the handsomest chureh eidfices in Hagerstown. The interior walls are beautifully de- signed and stenciled, elevated floors, the benches being arranged in a semi-eircle and has a seating capa- icity of 700. The choir gallery is in the rear of the pulpit, and. the large pipe organ from Mother ‘Bethel, Baltimore (formerly sed) will be installed. ina few days. The exterior is built of concrete block and the windows. are of npal- esrent Cathedral glass. Rev. John- son is exceedingly popalar among his people ‘and upon several exea- sions quite a number of white people have attended his: church. Easter services’ were held in the new edifice. Ow Baster Monday night the members of the church presented their pastor wth a hand- some Prince Albert suit of clothes. ‘A series of services to continue one month:/ha been arranged. for the dedication, June 16th to- July 16th. -A white minister with his congregation is programed: for an evening service. Special trains from Baltimore and Washington will be ran.to Hagerstown om the dedication’ day, June 16th. ‘The cost is something over ten thousand. dollars. ‘The parsonage is also being naimted and renovated. The church Fe es 4 a oe Ree: tale rao ae Bee Sas a 2 | Me MRR eGR Beige ue aap eeesizetcie on Wilmer ce, eee | oS Se Boer Eee Sire RO ee REV, DAVID JOHNSON ‘The successful pastor of Ebenezer Church has passed a resolution inviting the 1912 session of the Baltimore an- nual cwnference to meet there. Teachers Asaociation Meet, Selma, Ala., Apefl_I0 — The thirty-first annual session of the Alabama State Colored Teachers’ Association, held here last ‘Thurs- day and Friday, attracted teachers fnmn all parts of the State. : The discussion embraced rural schools, high school work, manual training, ‘and the problems peculiar to the work of colored publie schools. Dr. Booker T. Washington was the jrincipal speaker at the session Thursday night. RACE LEADERS IN LONE STAR STATE GOOD INFLUENCE OF W. E. KING Recognition of the Services of an Able Editor to Center In His Promotion to Chancellorship of Knights of Pythias—Warm Friend of Ambitious Young People. Dallas, Tex.—With due respect to the scores of our people in this state who are daily doing all in their power for the development of our race here and throughout the nation, Texas really can boast of at least two real leaders who are progressive and constructive. One is the Hon. R. L. Smith, the moving spirit of the Farmers' Improvement society and president of its bank, and the other is the original of the cut illustrating this article; the Hon. W. E. King, editor of perhaps the most widely read paper in the southwest, the Dallas Express. Mr. King hails from Mississippi. Hails is the word, for he belongs to most every secret fraternity in Texas, and members of few organizations can ask him from where he hails, or whatever word their ritual prescribes, for he is able to meet the requirements of their code as to state limitations. Sometimes he has to answer in a half dozen or more different ways, but finally he locates his accoster, and with an iron grip that is characteristic of the indomitable spirit that pushes him upward and onward he grasps as man to man the hand offered him and slaps his newly made friend on the back and says, "Glad to meet you, brother." Editor King makes friends easily, and probably no man has a larger personal acquaintance in Texas than he, and along with Bill McDonald he shares the honor of being the best known man in Texas. As the editor of a paper of fearless convictions and the possessor of a peculiar style of writing what he says is read, and what he says is readable. Few people in Texas fail to know of the Dallas Express, but invariably they refer to it as King's paper. The Dallas Express, not just as a paper, but as a business institution of merit. When he dies he wants his only monument to be the Dallas Express, and the flowers for which he craves after death are the bright eyed, big brained, EDITOR W. E. KING. level headed young men and women he hopes to leave in charge of his paper and implant. Some men because Mr. King of being stern—very stern—but no aspiring youth ever found him other than sympathetic. His greatest enemies are men against whom he had no ill thoughts, but fought because they headed not the cry of the colored youth and persistently helped to close the door of opportunity against them. At present Mr. King is the leading spirit among the men of the race who are fighting Cecil Lyon, whom he termed the Lily White destroyer of the Republican party and its principles in Texas. Others are fighting Lyon secretly and under cover, but the callot of the Express fights always in the open and when racial interests are at stake asks for no quarter and gives none. He gives his time and money and space in his paper to the present fight, and so far as is known not one has given anything to further the fight or assist him. Alone he has braved the storm and stood like a stone wall against the enemy. The masses of our people in this state are beginning to realize more and more the results of the efforts put forth by Mr. King in their behalf. He has been an active participant in the various secret societies for many years. He is not satisfied with simply being a member of a society, but has given them the benefit of his knowledge and experience freely. His efforts have been directed along constructive lines. In view of the fact that Mr. King has never sought to hold an office in any of the secret societies to which he belongs and to which he has given much time, thought and labor and in recognition of his unstinted services to the race along other avenues of usefulness, his friends all over the state have decided to present his name for grand chancellor of the Knights of Pythias. His business acumen, his foresight and his training in life's great school of experience make of him an ideal man for the place his friends desire him to · FAVORS MANHOOD RIGHTS. Recorder Henry Lincoln Johnson Defends His Atlanta Speech Anent the story circulated to the effect that the Hon. Henry Lincoln Johnson, recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia, was opposed to the participation of the race in politics is stoutly denied by Mr. Johnson. It is well known that he is one of the leading men in Georgia and has done much for the advancement of the race along all profitable lines in education, business and among the large secret societies. As a member of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows he is recognized as a man of more than ordinary executive ability. He is also a successful lawyer and a member of the Atlanta (Ga) bar. It is begging the question, therefore, to even suggest that such a man would be opposed to members of his race taking part in or exercising their legal right to participate in things political. In reference to his recent speech in Atlanta Mr. Johnson says: "I was addressing a very large convention of both white and colored delegates and a large number of white HON. HENRY L. JOHNSON. and colored spectators at the Orpheum theater, in Atlanta. I had observed that the primary mission of the Republican party was one of enamulation and that they had accomplished bodily enamulation of the colored race under the final decree signed by Mr. Lincoln in his enamulation proclamation; that the Republican party in Georgia must now address itself to the enamulation of the white people in Georgia from their seemingly inexorable mental and moral bodge; that Providence had especially and munificently endowed the state of Georgia with those natural resources the development of which would be best conserved under economic policies. "The fact that fourteen colored men and one woman had been lynched in our native state in the past nine months was proof positive of the mental and moral thiradom of some of the people in Georgia who control the state and that its only hope for disenchantment lay in the beneficent policies and spirit of the Republican party, manifested under its laws and in their orderly execution that officeholding, as a recent Democratic paper had alleged, was not responsible for any of these outbreaks; that the matter of officeholding is not the aim and destiny of any great party and should not be its principles are the main things and officeholding merely incidental." WOMEN AGAINST LYNCHING. Cambridge and Boston Public Unite in Big Protest Meeting. Under the leadership of Mrs. Mary James a well attended mass meeting to protest against launching was held in the St. Stephen Baptist church in Cambridge, Mass, recently at which Mrs. M. C. Hall of Boston presided. The women of Cambridge, Boston and vicinity are alive to the best interest of the race and are more determined in their efforts to create public sentiment against the launching of human beings than ever before. Among those who delivered strong addresses on the subject besides Mrs. James were Mrs. Addie H. Jewell, Mrs. C. G. Mergan, Mrs. Alexander Wright and the Rev. Johnson W. Hill, Mrs. J. W. Hill is also much interested in the work and assisted in opening the meeting. It was decided to hold such meetings monthly and arrange to have different speakers each time in order to get the views of a larger number of those interested in this work for the protection of human life. There is no mistake about it, agitation along right lines is bound to bring good results. There was a time when bloodhounds were used almost solely to hunt down runaway slaves. That wholesome pastime having lost its usefulness in that particular, bloodhounds are used now in various ways and for various purposes, the latest being to run down the white murderers who shot up the Hillsville (Va.) court. Women's Clubs Loyal to Mrs. Tubman. The work of the various women's clubs to raise funds for the maintenance of Mrs. Harriet Tubman, of underground railroad fume, has been quite successful. Mrs. Tubman is nearing the century mark, and, although feeble in body, her mind is clear. She can tell a story with case and accuracy and delights to rehearse the thrilling adventures with which her early life was crowded. National Association of Teachers. The ninth annual meeting of the National Association of Teachers In Colored Schools will be held in the historic city of Chattanooga, Teen., beginning on Wednesday, July 24, for four days. THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER Work of Converted Natives Related by Rev. Mr. S. R. Vinton. Rev. S. R. Vinton, who has been in mission work for twelve years in Burma, spoke recently at the Hampton (Va.) institute. He told briefly the story of Baptist missionary work during the past sixty years and referred to the fact that there are in Burma many native Christians at the present time. Mr. Vinton said that in his own field there, were 159 organized churches; having 11,999 communicants. Much of the missionary work is being done by converted natives. Owing to the lack of roads and to the wet and dry seasons communication is extremely difficult. The missionaries are compelled to travel in ox cars and often suffer from the wear and tear of travel. Roy Mr. Vinton showed with the aid of colored lantern slides and moving picture films the various phases of life in Burma and the beauties of the costly pagodas. He declared that some of the pagodas reach a height of 365 feet and are a quarter of a mile in circumference at the base. The pagodas are monuments of a sacred character at which the people of Burma worship. These structures are substantially built and are famous the world over for their ornamentation. The clearness of labor makes it possible for the government of Burma to hire men at 12 cents a day to water the streets. The ordinary unskilled laborer earns 12 cents a day. In telling the story of the building of a church on his station, known as the "Vinton Memorial," Mr. Vinton said that a $21,000 structure represented $36,000 days of labor by the natives of Burma. He gave an excellent illustration of the use of the tonal language of Burma. About sixty-seven languages are spoken in "pagoda land." ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING OF TEACHERS AT BOWIE, MD. Professor Williams Holds First Institute at State Normal School. Bowie, Md.-The Institute For Colored Teachers of Prince George county held a two day session at the Maryland State Normal and Industrial school. No. 3. of this place, the latter part of March. It was the first institute held by Professor J. T. Williams, vice principal of the State Normal school and the newly appointed supervisor of the colored schools of Prince George county, an arrangement having been made with the state authorities of Maryland by which this school gets the benefit of Prince George county's allowance of $1,500 per annum for industrial training of colored students in exchange for the service of Professor Williams, whose mission it is to supervise and assist in introducing industrial features in the various colored schools of the county. The large attendance of teachers, parents and trustees far exceeded expectations and tested the chapel, dining and dormitory capacity of said school, which proved an ideal place for such a gathering and where Principal D. S. Goodloe, his charming wife and family and accommodating student body did all in their power to see that all were hospitably entertained and cared for in a most satisfactory manner. The welcome address by Principa Goodloe was a masterly effort, intensely practical and thoroughly appreciated, by the visiting teachers, as was also the splendid example of well rounded and evenly balanced womanhood which was furnished the institute in the person of his better half, who is the mother of several healthy, courteous and intelligent children and who presides with equal grace and efficiency in the kitchen and other domestic departments of said school, as she does at the plane, where she proved a veritable artist in interpreting Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner. Every teacher of the thirty-eight colored schools of Prince George county except three, who were absent on account of illness, were present and participated in a lively discussion of the many interesting and practical subjects on the program. Special addresses were made to the institute by Hon. F. A. Sassere, county superintendent, who is an ardent advocate of education for the colored people of Maryland, and by Professor William D. Davis, principal of the Colored Business High school of Washington. Hon. M. Eates Stevens, state superintendent of education, Maryland, sent a splendid letter to the institute, which was replete with encouraging sentiments and practical suggestions, and regretted his inability to be present, as he had planned. All of the thirty-eight buildings and sites used by colored students in Prince George county are owned by the county. four of them have more than one teacher, and the two recently constructed buildings at Pairmont heights and Bladensburg are valued at $1,500 and $1,200 respectively. Baptists to Meet in Greenwood, S. C. The next meeting of the South Carolina Baptist state convention will be held with the Morris Chapel Baptist church in Greenwood, S. C. on Wednesday, May 1. The program as arranged by the executive board embraces many new features. First Indiana Banking Institution. The first banking and loan institution owned and operated by colored people in Indiana opened its doors at the Knights of Pythias building, Senate avenue and Walnut street, Indianapolis, with a capital stock of $100,000. SUNDAY SCHOOL. Lesson II.—Second Quarter, For April 14, 1912. THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES. Text of the Lesson, Mark ii, 23 to iii. 6-Memory Verses, 27, 28-Golden Text, Mark ii, 27-Commentary Prepared by Rev. D. M. Stearns. The record of today's lesson. two Sabbath day incidents, the disciples plucking corn and a withered hand restored in the synagogue. is found in Matt. xii and Luke vi, as well as in Mark, so that it must concern Him not only as the Jewish Klug rejected, but also as the perfect servant, and as the Son of Man, to whom all things will yet be subdued. To understand Him and His words and works we must consider Him as Nathaniel spoke of Him, "the Son of God, the King of Israel" (John i. 49), as "the King of the Jews" whom the wise men sought (Matt. ii. 2), and as the "Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace, who will yet sit upon the throne of David and whose kingdom shall know no end" (isa. i. 6. 7; Luke i. 22. 33). The late Dr. Weston in his "Genesis of the New Testament" says that the Jewish Sabbath was the one peculiar and distinctive ordinance of the nation. Other nations practiced circumcision and had temples, offered sacrifices and performed religious rites, but the Sabbath was the religious nation flag. In it they claimed a peculiar relation to God as their Creator, Redeemer and Rest, and, if by this man's treatment of their Sabbath they are to be deprived of their distinction from other nations, what is the use of being God's people? Considering this, it is not so surprising that the immediate occasion of the determination by the Jewish rulers to put Christ to death, as stated in all the gods, was His relation to the Sabbath. He claimed to be greater than Solomon or the temple or the Sabbath (Matt. xii. 6. 8. 42), but they would not so receive Him. They honored Him with their lips, but their heart was far from Him (isa. xxix. 13; Ezek. xxxii. 31; Matt. xv. 7, S. They had a form of worship without any power. Jehovah, whom they professed to worship, was in their midst, and they knew Him not. Matthew says that as the disciples passed through the cornfields they were hungry, and Luke says that they rubbed the ears of corn in their hands and did eat. Our Lord Himself was an hungered on other occasions, as recorded in Matt. iv. 2; xx1. 10. Concerning Israel it is written that He suffered them to hunger (Deut. vill. 3), but it was to prove them and teach them. The wicked are ever watching the righteous and seeking to stay them (Ps. xxvvii. 32), and here they are finding fault and condemning the disciples, and the Lord, too, because they knew Him not, nor the Scriptures, which they professed to reverence. He referred them to their own Scriptures, saying, "Have ye never read what David did when he had need and was an hungered? (Verse 25). There is no word of condemnation here for David and his followers. He came not to condemn, but to show mercy, hence His quotation from the prophets in Matthew's record, "I will have mercy and not sacrifice" (Matt. xii. 7; Hos. vi. 6). The rest of the verse in Hossein says that the knowledge of God is better than burnt offering. The primary idea in sacrifice is that God gives to us, not that we give to Him, for in the first sacrifice the Lord gave to Adam and Eve redemption clothing which He Himself provided, a foreshadowing of Christ loving the church and giving Himself for it, purchasing it with His own blood. We cannot give anything to God not offer Him acceptable service until we have received mercy from Him as the one who saves sinners. Before ever sin entered this world God set apart one day in seven as a time when man might be free from all work and give himself up wholly, to becoming acquainted with God, for there is nothing that can compare with knowing God (Jer. ix. 23. 24). The Lord of the Sabbath gave to man in His own image a day on which He might specially bless him by the revelation of himself as the source of all being and blessing and life and love and peace. The than in the synagogue with the withered hand was strongly suggestive of the condition of the nation and of their inability to do anything for God until they would accept His mercy. In the record, in Matt. xii. 11. 12. He uses the illustration of the necessity of rescuing a sheep from a pit, even on the Sabbath day, but He speaks of the owner of the sheep doing this, saying, "What man shall have one sheep, not see a sheep. He loved these wayward sheep. He came to give them life. He was as ready to heat them as He was to restore that withered hand, but they would not let Him, and the hardness or blindness—margins of their hearts was a grief to Him. Note the cry from His heart concerning them, "We would not." "We will not," "If thou hadst known" (Matt. xxiii. 37; xxii. 3; John v. 40. Luke xix. 41. 42). Instead of having anything like a penitent spirit, a conviction of sin, their proud hearts so rebelled against Him and His teaching that they went away and took counsel how they might kill Him. For His love they gave Him hatred, they knew Him not, they would not have such a one as their Messiah, but the time will come when they shall say, "Our God." EUREKA COMB CO. Use The Eureka Comb Price $1.50 With Lamp Cap For Heating. A combination of metal electrifying influences Straightening crimpy hair. Most convenient and Satisfactory. LAMP CAP MAKES HAIR GROW Mrs. Mitchell's Improved Hair Cream Price 35 Cents Large Jars. Makes the Hair Soft and Glossy. Stops falling Hair. Try it for those places on your temples. Not greasy-will not gum. Scalp Treatment. Hair Straightening. Mail Orders Promptly Attended. Mrs. Alice E. Mitchell-Office for The Eureka Comb 2121 Druid Hill Avenue WHAT IS YOUR LINE? WHAT IS YOUR LINE? Have YOU any real estate to sell, rooms or flats for rent? 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Henderson Kerr's Orchestra. The grand march was led by Mr. William H. Bishop, president of the assembly. Carterer George E. Frey served supper at midnight. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Wm. E. Bishop, John J. Wheeler, George E. Frey, T. Evans Fernandis, W. C. McCard, H. S. McCard, E. V. Fitzgerald, Truly Hatchett, W. J. Braxston, D. Grant Scott, J. Clarence Chambers, W E. Wright, Alfred A. Ro, hoblit, D. H. Murphy, Luther Sadgwar, of Washington; J. Howard Payne; Leland Simmons, of Washington; Mason A. Hawkins, Edward J. Wheatley, Howard E. Young, E. Bernard Hughes. Mesdames Mollie Rodman, George B. Murphy. Misses Augusta Rohoblt, Roberta Waring, Alice Mitchell, Mabel Wilson, Aldina Hawkins, Roberta Hawkins, Lucy Slowe, Mary Toney, Bertha Dickerson, Flossie James, Nellie Bragg. Emma Dorsette, Mary Hughes, Isabelle Hughes, Bertha Young, Ella Browne, Constantia Brown, Nellie Monroe, Edgleaner Fessenton, Mary Lansey, Florence Lansey, Emma Shipley, Maudelle Brown, Lula Perkins, Jeanette Johnson. Mesrss. W.Ashbie Hawkins, Carrington Davis, Roscoe Price, John Hampton, J. Edward Lansey, Bernard Taylor, Arthur Bragg, James Callis, Harry Bragg, Charles Woodland, Fearless Williams, James F. Fessenton, James W. Hughes, T. S. Hawkins, F. E. Brown, of Washington, Lewis Green, Howard Wright, Glendon Pennington, Gough McDaniels, Jesse Smith, Robert Young, Edward Thomas, Edward V. Stokes, John Howard, Irving Hall, Wallace Lansey Young Ladies Give Leap Year Party One of the most enjoyable affairs of the Easter holidays was a leap year dance given by the Coterie, an organization of young society girls, at Young's Auditorium, on Wednesday evening. The young ladies provided in a most lavish way for the entertainment of their gentlemen friends—escorting them to and from the party—and otherwise showing their guests "just how things should be done". Refreshments were served at midnight. The party was chaperoned by Mes, dames T. Evans Fernandis, L. Ellsworth Toomey, Winfort J. Braxston and D. H. Murphy. The members of the Coterie are: Misses Sarah Fernandis, president; Ella Beames, secretary; Ruth Diggs, treasurer; Violet Clements, Villa Hughes, Sarah Beames, Etta Smith, Flossie James, Roberta Hawkins, Jeanette Johnson, Martha Sutton Violet Hill, Pauline Wilson, Regina Wright, Bessie Waters, Rosa Murdoch, Viola Clark, Cecelia Connor, Hattie Powell, Victoria Smith, Julia Thomas, Edith Lynch and Marie Fitzgerad. Miss Emma Shipley Marries Miss Emma E. Shipley, daughter of Mrs. Emma Shipley, of 226 W. Biddle street, and Mr. Charles H. Watts were married at the parish house of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church Wednesday evening. The ceremony was performed by Father Dennis. They were attended by Miss Georgia Crane and the bride's brother, Mr. Lee Shipley. A supper followed at their future home, 226 W. Biddle street: Covers were laid for thirty persons. Lawyer McCard's Home Robbed While Mr. and Mrs. William C. McCard, 1940 Druid Hill avenue, were out visiting Tuesday night, robbers entered the house and ransacked it. Upon their return, Mr. and Mrs. McCard found the house in disorder, and pair of shoes which indicated that the robber had made a hasty exit. A search of the house revealed the fact that a handsome gold watch that Mr. McCard give his wife a few years ago was missing, together with a silver locket and a small sum of money. The matter was reported to the police. Miss Wilkins, sister of Mrs. McCard, was sleeping in the house at the time the robber was making his rounds. A Pretty Wedding A very pretty wedding was solemnized last Wednesday evening at the residence of the bride's aunt, Mrs. Laura V. Garrett, 1700 Druid Hill avenue. The contracting parties were Mr. Romie Branch of Sparrows Point, Md., and Miss Viola M. Chester, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Chester, of this city. The bride was attired in crepe de chine and Parisene lace and carried Marcheinelle roses. Mr. Winfield Chester, brother of the bride, acted as best man. The bridesmaid was Miss Susie Nelson and little Miss Ethel Scott served as flower girl. At 6:30 P. M., the bridal party entered the parlor, the bride on the arm of her father, amid the strains of Wagner's wedding march, rendered by Master Monroe Scott. Rev. W. A. C. Hughes, D. D., superintendent of the Baltimore District, performed the ceremony. The happy couple were the recipients of many handsome and useful presents. Mr. and Mrs. Branch will be at home to their many friends Sunday April 7, at Hot Springs, W. Va. Mrs. Wortham Surprised While attending the Tom Thumb wedding at Bethel Church Wednesday evening, Mrs. A. M. Wortham was called home by an urgent message left at the church door. Upon arriving there, she found the parsonage lighted from top to bottom, and the sound of music from within told her that something out of the ordinary was going on inside. The young people of Payne Memorial A. M. E. Church and Sunday School, under the direction of the Mary F. Handy Circle, had gathered at the home and after arranging the dining room table with the good things they brought with them, sent to the church for Mrs. Wortham to come home immediately. Miss Marion Breckenridge stated that the purpose or the gathering was to do honor to Mrs. Wortham, the founder of the circle and Mrs. Mary F. Handy, for whom it was named. Responses were made by Mrs. Handy and Mrs. Wortham. A very enjoyable evening was spent. County Teachers Get a Raise. A committee, composed of Jesse L. Nicholas, Mrs. Fannie N. Briscoe, Henry J. Lowers and Royal C. Addion, representing the Baltimore County Colored Teacher's Association, waited upon the Baltimore County School Board, at Towson, Wednesday, and presented the board a petition for an increase in salaries. The spokesman of the delegation, Mr. Nicholas was attentively listened to as he made a plea for an increase. The committee also presented a tentative schedule of salaries and the board by a unanimous vote adopted it. The new schedule carries about 12 percent. increase in salaries. The teachers had been working for months on the new schedule, and they were aided by Prof. Albert S. Cook, county superintendent of schools, and assistant John T. Herhner. The salaries of colored and white teachers were practically the same in Baltimore county until two year ago, when the white teachers secured a substantial raise. Baltimore county is one of the most liberal counties in the South regarding colored schools and besides keeping the schools open ten months in the year pays fair salaries to all of the teachers. Black Patti at Holliday St. Ask any person versed in musical matters what race of people are the most musical and have the best voices as a whole, and he or she will reply without a hesitation the Negro or colored race. It is seldom that you will find any member of this race that cannot play some musical instrument or that is not the possessor of a pleasant singing voice, and in most cases no matter how illiterate he may be in other matters, it seems to be natural for him to be proficient in this respect. The sense of humor is also highly developed, an to use a common expression the Negro is a natural-born comedian. The Back Patti Musical Comedy Company which is composed entirely of this race of people, is now in its fifteenth consecutive season, and is said by the press and public everywhere to be one of the best musical companies on the road. "In the Jungles," is a vertable mine of comedy and seet music of the whistly kind. Black Patti (Madame Jones) is this season at her best and the surrounding company entirely adequate. The Black Patti Company is the attraction at the Holliday Street next week. The ladies of the Phyllis Wheatley Drill Corps, No. 1, gave a German and la France at Good Hope Hall last Monday night. The affair was largely attended, and the ladies want to return thanks to the public for their support. CARDS OF THANKS A Card of Thanks. I wish to thank my many friends for their many evidences of sympathy and floral tributes following the death of my husband, William W. Adams. I wish to extend card of thanks to our many friends for their cordial hospitality extended during the illness of my wife, Mrs. Jessie L. Winstard, who died on March 20 at 1424 Druid Hill avenue and I more than appreciate the heart rendered sympathy extended me in my behalf. Many thanks to all. James G. Winstard, 1424 Druid Hill ave. I wish to announce to the friends and customers of MR. G. R. FLEMINGS That his place 1206 Brevard Street Will be open for business Monday, April 29th, 1912 COAL, WOOD AND ICE Your Patronage solicited Robert Boston Proprietor Greater Brown's Grove 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. 2nd. Maryland Union Company. 3rd. Rag Men's Association. 6th. Sharon Baptist Church Social and 13. 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. 23rd. 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 Workers of N. W. Baltimore. 30th. Baptizing—Rev. Belt's congregation. JULY. 1st. 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. 21st. Furniture Men's Association. 23rd. Friendship Lodge, No. 29. K of P., from Chestertown to St. Michael 24th. Trinity A. M. E. Sunday School. 25th. Mt. Nebo Lodge, No. 1866, G. U. 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Agent for The Mutual Ben Oldest and strongest Run for Color PHO LET ME SELL YOU A H Desirable house $60.00 to $1 Pianos and Organs, Pia Any m Satis RESIDENCE 0-12-9-4t Call Me up o The Mutual Benefit Society, Fayette and Pearl Streets. and strongest Insurance Company in Maryland: run for Colored People by Colored People. PHONE—1933 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. SIDENCE: 506 BAKER STREET Call Me up or send a Postal and I will be there immediately Agent for The Mutual Benefit Society, Fayette and Pearl Streets Oldest and strongest Insurance Company in Maryland: Run for Colored People by Colored People. PHONE—1933 ST. PAUL. LET ME SELL YOU A HOUSE Desirable houses for sale in any part of the City, $50.00 to $100.00 balance as same as rent. Pianos and Organs, Pianolas, Victor Victorias on Easy Terms. Any make you may desire. Satisfaction guaranteed. RESIDENCE: 506 BAKER STREET 0-12-9-4t Call Me up or send a Postal and I will be there immediately WANTED to J. N. Fitzgerald, between 9 and 11 A. Baltimore's Leading Colored Undertakers in Prices JOHN H. OWENS @ SON Undertakers & Embalmors Complete 75.00 FUNERALS $75.00. Complete Net worth $65.00, in black cloth, steel gray or white plush; oak or walnut outside case; beautiful rubber-tired hearse, day or white, to match casket, as desired; five heated car- ial up-to-date; fire burial robe, embalming, opening grave, al, six pairs of gloves, door crepe, candles, candelabra, cru- ical, rugs, chairs etc., all of the latest designs. Annual cost elsewhere.....$136.00 Saving you.....$61.00 Uses as low as $25, $25, $40, $50. Higher Grade $100, $150, $175. No charge for removal of remains from Hospitals. Hoping Funerals, $25.00 and $50.00 Complete 222 Division St., bet. Dolphin and Lanvale. Residence C. & P. Phone. Madison 4067 Baltimore's Lead JOHN H. Undertak Complete 75.00 Baltimore's Leading Colored Undertakers in Prices JOHN H. OWENS @ SON Undertakers & Embalmers Complete 75.00 FUNERALS $75.00. Complete A fine casket worth $65.00, in black cloth, steel gray or white plush; highly polished oak or walnut outside case; beautiful rubber-tired hearse, either black, gray or white, to match casket, as desired; five heated carriages, new and up-to-date; fine burial robe, embalming, opening grave, advertise funeral, six pairs of gloves, door crepe, candles, candelabra, crucifix when desired, rugs, chairs etc., all of the latest designs. This funeral cost elsewhere.....$136.00 Our price.....$75.00 Saving you.....$61.00 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 KES & DERRY'S Druid Hill Avenue Corner Oxford DRUGS Lyric The Lyric (Main Hall) Mt. Royal Avenue ing of Friday, May the 10th, 1912, at 8 o'clock. umptuous production of the Musical Myth. The Lyric The Lyric (Main Hall) Mt. Royal Avenue FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 19th, 1912 Hear T. Henderson Kerr's Orchestra playing in the Fish Pond, While eating our Supper FREE by the river side. ADMISSION 25 CENTS. SUPPER FREE Phone, Madison, 3778.M. ```markdown ``` # R. H. BUTLER, 1211 DRUID HILL AVENUE. Organizers that are Bright, Busy, and full of Hustle. Address or apply 1929 Druid Hill ave., Mondays, M. T POPULAR PRICES Howard University Adult Meeting, Thursday, April 18 At the C. Y. W. C. A., 1200 Druid Hill avenue. All alumni urged to be present. Address by Mr. Shelby J. Davidson. W. Ashbie Hawkins, Pres. Mrs. Wm. H. Ross, of 2047 Division street, spent the Easter holidays in Richmond, visiting friends Her son, William, accompanied her. Mrs. Georgia Purnell has returned to her home in Snow Hill, Md., after a visit to Mrs. Horace Tingle, of Hoffman street. Mr. Henry Thomas, of 427 W. Henrietta street, who recently underwent an operation in a local hospital, is reported to be in an improved condition. Rev. and Mrs. A. L. Brown spent the Easter holidays with Mr. and Mrs. George T. Brent, of N. Carey street. Mrs. Brown is the daughter of Rev. Dr. W. H. Brooks, pastor of St. Mark's M. E. Church, New York City. Misses Ruth Seward and Aleine Chandler spent the Easter holidays in Washington D. C. Misses Ethel Thompson and Estella Peace, both of Druid Hill avenue, returned from a visit to Atlantic City. Mrs. Jerome Dolman, of 1213 Druid Hill avenue, is spending a few days with her mother in Washington. Mrs. Josephine Steward, of 687 Mulberry street, is able to be out after a few weeks' illness. Mrs. Cornelia Snyder Smith, a well known worker in fraternal bodies, is confined to her home, 1928 Brunt street, by an attack of paralysis. She is reported to be in a slightly improved condition. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Rich attended the wedding of Miss Carrie Henry in Philadelphia this week. The B. and O. Central Building Employees will give their opening dance on Monday evenin, April 15th at Galilean Fishermen Hall. T. Henderson Kerr's orchestra. Don't fail to hear Asbury choir of Washington at Sharp Street Church Sunday, April 21, at 8 P. M. Sermon by Rev. M. W. Clair pastor. Come take a trip on the B. and O. R. R. to the Galilean Fishermen Hall April 15th. Henderson Kerr's orchestra. Mrs. Hattie Cole, of Washington, D. C., was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Thomas Randolph, Easter week. Miss Viola Parker, of 715 Mulberry street, spent Easter Sunday in Washington, D. C. Mrs. Ishmael Hiner, of 502 Gold street has returned home after spending two weeks in Hagerstown, Md., the guest of Mrs. Victor Keetes. Mrs. Ida Fine, of 1331 Division street and Mrs. Minie Stepney, of Gilbert street, were in Chestertown for a few days this week, the guest of Mrs. Jenkins. Kerr's orchestra on Monday, April 15th. NOTICE. Your Prescriptions at moderate prices FENNELL'S PHARMACY Druid Hill Ave. and Biddle St. Prof. Verona, World's Greatest Business and Trance Medium. GREATEST BORN MEDIUM MAKES NO CHARGE if the object of your visit is not explained without asking a question Can be seen on all matters of business love, courtship, marraige, investments, etc. By my advice I remove evil influence witchcraft, spells, cure diseases and unite the separated. I never fail. I also teach hypnotism and how to become a medium. No matter what your troubles are or what you wish to know, this Gifted person can positively help you..... if you are hundreds of miles away. 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