The Afro-American

VOL. XX NO.52. ATTEMP TO INSTALL WHITE INTERNES FAILS Colored Applicants Who Had Been "Failed" Had Good DR. TOMPKINS LEADS THE FIGHT Kansas City, Aug. 22.—An attempt to install white internes in the old General Hospital has failed through the vigorous opposition of Dr. William J. Thompkins and two Democratic members of the Board of Hospitals and Health. Four colored applications who were reported as having failed, were found to have passed. The hospital was turned over for use of colored patients during the previous municipal regime. when Mayor Jost, a Democrat, was elected head of the city government, some of the white member of the visiting staff of physicians thought they would discredit a Democratic administration in the eyes of the race by turning out the colored internes. The visiting staff is composed of men appointed by the Republican regime. When asked about the appointment of colored internes to succeed those whose terms will end in October, the superintendent of the hospital is said to have replied that he had forgot about colored internes yet admitted that he had issued examinations to fourteen young white doctors. His inquisitor, Dr. Thompkins, then said that it was almost too late to send out a list of examination questions to young colored physicians as most of them had already made their plans for future. The superintendent sent them out, however, with the result that one graduate each of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Boston; the University of Michigan, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Chicago, and two from the medical department of Howard University took the examination. Each of the men was reported as having, failed, and Dr. Thompkins then brought the matter to the attention of the Board of Hospitals and Health. Fourteen of the eighteen visiting physicians had previously recommended the appointment of white internes on the ground that colored applicants had failed making grades of from only 30 to 65 per cent. "Just give me those papers," said President Motley last week. "I will bring them back next week. I would like to know how a man can go to medical school four years, be graduated there and then, make such grades." At a subsequent meeting of the board Mr. Motley, with an "I thought so" expression, surprised the rest of the members by announcing his coup. "I have four sets of papers here which I had regarded by physicians not connected with our medical and surgical staff," he announced. "The men I asked to do this work were simply handed the questions asked these men, with their answers They were not even told they were Negroes. The papers were numbered from one to four and bore no even a name. Look over the results for yourself." suit for yourself. It was seen that No. 1, who had received a grade of 30 per cent, on the part of the visiting staff, had been given 89 per cent.; No. 2, who had received 63 per cent.; was PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY IN THE INTEREST OF THE RACE. graded 83 per cent.; No. 3, who had been given 55 per cent., was raised to $85\frac{1}{2}$ per cent.; and No. 4 whose grade was 65 per cent., rose to $87\frac{1}{2}$ per cent. The papers of No. 5 have not yet been regarded. President Motley asked A. C. Stowell to take them and give them to any disinterested physician and he would agree to abide by the result. The board ordered that the four men receiving the highest averages be notified that they had won positions as internes and to prepare to report for duty in October, when the year of the men now at work expires. President Motley always has favored having Negro internes, nurses and visiting physicians at the hospital. It is said that the regular staff of the new hospital wants white internes in the old institution because of the unusual clinical material found there which is not found among white patients. Sentiment For Roosevelt Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 22—In an interview in the Nashville Globe, Rev. W. A. Lewis, who was a delegate to the recent Progressive Convention, speaks in glowing terms of the proceedings. He says that there were five colored delegates from Arkansas, one each from Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, and Tennessee, besides representatives from the North and West. PROGRESSIVE PARTY HOPE OF THE RACE Colonel Roosevelt Says The Progressive Party Gives Real Recognition to Colored Man New York, August 23.—In the current issue of the Outlook under the caption "The Progressives and the Colored Man." Colonel Roosevelt states it to be his belief that the Progressive party is the only hope of the race. He says the Democratic Party has been brutal in its treatment of the race, that many of the colored delegates in past Republican National Conventions were not men of the highest type and praises the high type of colored delegates to the recent Progressive Convention. "The Progressive Convention," he goes on to say, "on this point differed from the Democratic Convention that there were many colored delegates instead of none. It differed from the Repeubilan Convention in the fact that these colored delegates came from States where there were strong Progressive parties, where as in the Republican convention they came from States where there was no Republican party. The Progressives did justice to their own colored neighbors who dwelt among them, whereas the Republicans had always exercised a cheap virtue by admitting colored delegates from states where they did not dwell." Big Benefit For Hospital Chicago, August 23. A big benefit for the School for Trained Nurses of Provident Hospital was largely attended yesterday morning, many of those who came to the city to attend the sessions of the Business League being present. Jack Johnson has announced that he is going to retire rfrom the ring if he does not get a chance to fight Joe Jeanette. Among the visiting newspaper men here are M. M. Lewey, Ben Davis, Charles Stewart, Fred R. Moore, J. L. Thompson, George L. Knox, N. B. Dodson, and R. W. Thompson LEDGER DAYTON PREPARING FOR GATHERING OF ELKS Will Likely Be The Best Attended Meeting In History of The Order EXALTED RULER PACE WILL WILL PRESIDE (Special to The Airo-American Ledger.) Dayton, O., Aug. 22.—An event of unusual importance is the thirteenth annual session of the Grand Lodge of the I. B. P. O. Elks, which convenes here next Tuesday and continues throughout the week. Waldorf Lodge No. 76, the local lodge of the order, has been planning for the meeting for months in advance. Memorial services will be held Sunday night at Zion Baptist Church Grand Chaplain C. M. Hogans, who is a member of the local lodge, will preside. Monday will be devoted to exhibition flights at the Wright ros. Training Grounds. Throughout the week various entertainments, receptions, smokers, etc., will be given for the visiting brethren. Thursday will witness the great parade. At Boston last year over 2,000 men were in line. The downtown streets were roped off, the Governor and Mayor, both reviewing the parade from specially erected stand in front of the State House and City Hall. The number in attendance at these yearly conventions is gradually increasing and the Elks now claim to be the largest annual secret order gathering among Nergoes in America today. The most important question before the Grand Lodge meeting this year is the attitude of the order toward the recent decision of the Supreme Court of New York. Immediately following this decision Grand Exalted Ruler Pace ordered an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States. His decision was unanimously concurred in by the local lodges and although there were some who favored a change of name and the abandoning of litigation, it was deemed best to continue to fight. This matter will be officially acted udon at the Grand Lodge meeting. The election of officers will be held the last day after the transaction of all other business. It is freely predicted here that Grand Exalted Ruler H. H. Pace, of Memphis, Tenn., and Grand Secretary Geo. E. Bates, of Jersey City, will be reelected for another year without opposition, the rank and files feeling that they are entitled to another term each for the work they have done in placing the order on a solid business basis. J. Finley Wilson is a candidate for grand organizer. The Grand Lodge is in a better shape than ever before notwithstanding the heavy expenditures during the year in winding up and settling various sorts of litigation into which the order had become involved prior to this incumbency. Over ten new subordinate lodges have been added to the order this year, three of them being in a State not heretofore represented. It is believed that within the next year the membership will be doubled if the same aggressive campaign for bettering the condition of the order is maintained. An unusually interesting matter in connection with the meeting this year is the report to be made on the real estate holdings of the lodges throughout the country. From information already in hand, which is only partial, the real estate holdings of subordinate lodges will reach the handsome figure of over a quarter of a million dollars. Special trains will be run from Chicago, Cleveland, Baltimore, New York, and Washington bearing large delegations to the convention. This convention is expected to eclipse all former meetings in point of attendance. The probability is that the next meeting will go to Atlantic City, N.J. which was a strong contender for the honor last year. However, Indianapolis, San Francisco, and Chicago are strong bidders for the 1913 meeting. The committee in charge of the local arrangements is headed by Attorney Thomas Norris, chairman and Mr. Harry Williams, secretary. They have done yeoman service in perfecting arrangements. KNIGHTS TAMPLAR AND SHRINERS MEET International Conference and Imperial Council Attract Large Washington, August 23. —Prominent members from all parts of the country have been here this week attending the fourteenth annual session of the Imperial Council of the Ancient Egyptian Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and the third International Conference of Knights Templar, The Daughters of Isis, a female auxiliary also met here. The Shriners' session opened Monday morning at Odd Fellow's Hall, with Imperial Potentate. Eugene Phillips, of New York, presiding. Reports from various temples and committees were received after which a joint session with the Knights Templar was held at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. A prize drill between Jerusalem Temple, Baltimore, and Medina Temple. of New York, was held on Tuesday afternoon, and that night a big reception was tendered the visiting Masons at Convention Hall. The Shriners held a big parade Wednesday afternoon, forty-seven temples having men in line. An outing at Washington Park was held at night. The parade of the Knights was held yesterday afternoon. The business sessions of the Knights Templar were at Lincoln Memorial Congregational Church, J. Frank Richards, of Detroit, presided over the Knights Templar and Dr. E. D. S. Dickerson, of Cairo, Ill., served as secretary. Colored Voters Organize Philadelphia, August 23.—Colored voters of the city have organized the Roosevelt Prorgressive League with the following officers: A. E. Makel, president; G Edward Dickson, A. M. Harris, and L. W. Carroll, vice presidents; John Clinton and N. M. Griggs, secretaries; T. Byrd, treasurer, and Rev. G. L. P. Taliferro, oragnizer. To Organize Colored Troops Atlantic City, N.J., Aug. 25--At the forthcoming ninth encampment for Spanish War Veterans, a big effort will be made to organize the colored troopers who took part in the war. Among those active in the project is F. C. Newton, formerly of Baltimore, who served in one of the Regiments. PRICE THREE CENTS NO PREJUDICE IF YOU ARE A PRODUCER Booker T. Washington Preahes The Gospel of Thrift at National Business League INDEPENDANCE FROM OWNERSHIP OF LAND Two Thousand Delegates Present From All Over The Chicago, August 23 — Neraly 2,000 business and professional men and women are in the city attending the annual session of the National Negro Business League, which came to an end tonight with a big banquet at the Seventh Regiment Armory. The sessions opened Wednesdays morning at the Institutional Church a large crowd being present. After the preliminary, opening exercises Watt Terry, who owns $5000 worth of real estate at Brockton, Mass; Charles W. Anderson, who does a big fish and gome business in Jacksonville, Fla., and others told of their successes. Dr.Booker T. Washington, president of the league, delivered his annual, address, at night. At Thursday's sessions such subjects as "Developing Industrial Insurance," White Goods Manufacturing and Merchandizing," Conducting a Haberdashery," "The Publishing Business—Its Bitters and Its Sweets," and "Making Printing Pay" were discussed. Julius Rosenwald, the millionaire philanthropist: R. H. Boyd, who spoke of the development of the National Baptist Publishing House, and Bishop I. B. Scott, who spoke of the development of the opportunities that Liberia offered, colored business man, were among the many speakers At today's session reports were received from State leagues, the National Bar Association The National Negro Press Association, The National Negro Bankers, Association and other affiliated bodies. DR. WASHINGTON'S ADDRESS In his address Wednesday night, President Washington praised the colored business men of the city and said in part: "At the present time there are over 270,000,000 acres of unoccupied land in the South and West. In fact, one-half of the land in the South and two-thirds of the land in the West is still unused. Now is the time for us to become owners and users of our share before it is too late. From ownership of the soil comes independence, happiness and real manhood rights. Land that can be gotten at $10 an acre now, a few years hence cannot be got for two and three times as much. If the white man from America and Europe can establish and operate a saw-mill and gain wealth and independence from the use of our millions of acres of forest land, why do not more Negroes do the same thig? CAN DO SAME AS WHITES "If the white man can gain wealth and happiness by owning and operating a coal mine, brickyard or limekiln, why do not more Negroes do the same thing?" 'If other races can again prosperity by getting riches on a large scale from seas, lakes and rivers in the form of fish and other sea foods, thousands of Nergoes can do the same thing. "Activity in these directions (Special to Afro-American.) will bring to us influence and usefulness that no political party can give us or take from us. Before it is too late I want my race to lav hold upon the primary course of wealth and civilization. Our country produces and uses annually about $1,000,000,000 worth of live stock in the way of cattle, pigs, sheep and $50,000,000 worth of dairy products and $150,000,000 of fowls and eggs. Here again there is no color or race line. STAND AMONG PRODUCERS "I do not want members of our race to be content with merely skimming around over the outer edges in form of obtaining odd and uncertain jobs, but I want them to get in at the bottom of these fundamental industries and standa mong the leading producres. There is no law in this country to prevent Negroes from owning and operating iron foundries, cotton mills, oil mills, shoe factories. Our race uses a large number of coffins each year. There is no reason why more of these coffins should not be manufactured by us. There is no reason why more of the bedsteads, bureaus, and chairs used in our households should not be manufactured by us. "In the South especially, just now, millions of dollars are being earned every year by white people oppressing large peach orchards. In the far West other millions are being earned by growing apples on a large scale. The white man is willing to buy peaches and apples grown by black hands as by white hands. If the Italians and Greeks can come to this country, strangers to our language and civilization and within a few years gain wealth and independence in fruits, the Negro can do the same thing." May Have Killed President Port Au Prince, Haytfi.—August 23.—A current report has it that Syrians blew up the President's palace on August 8, when President Le Conte was killed. On the dya of the explosion a Syrian was arrested in a nearby town while he was in the alleged act of setting fire to some buildings. Former President Antoine Simon and M. St. Juste, a former cabinet officer, who are now exiles at Kingston, Jamaica, have been refused passports back to this country. Dr. Boyd's Successor Nashville, Tenn., August 23. Dr. J. B. Singleton has been elected president of the Peoples Savings Bank and Trust Company, viceDr. R. H Boyd, deceased. W. T. Hightower will succeed Dr. Singleton, on the executive committee. Big Fight May New York, August 23.—Unless the expected happens there will be no fight here between Jack Johnson and Joe Jeanette on September 25. The State Athletic Commission opposes fights between topotchers. Johnson was to have received $25,000 before he entered the ring, with the privilege of receiving half of the first $60,000 taken in at the gate. A. F. Mando, F. H. Gilbert, Fred. R. Moore, editor of the New York Age, and N. B. Dodson, of the American Press Association, are among the New Yorkers who attended the sessions of the National Negro Business League this week. James H. Anderson editor of the Amsterdam News; John Johnson, and Eugene Phillips, are among the many New Yorkers who attended the Masonic conventions in Washinton this week. John B. Gleed, who as a delegate to the recent Progressive Convention, has been selected to organize the colored voters of the State. OFFICIAL RANK IN WASHINGTON FAITHFUL IN EVERY DETAIL. Group of Business, and Professional Men of Known Ability Who Are Acceptably Filling High Positions of Trust—Duty to Government First. Taft's Ipse Dixit. Washington.—There are more colored federal officeholders now assembled at Washington in representative positions than ever before. The representation under the present national administration is the equal both in quantity and quality of any so far enjoyed by the race. The type of men now in office ranks among the highest ever called to serve the government. These men, too, represent various callings. For instance, Judge Terrell of the municipal court, William H. Lewis, assistant attorney general; J. A. Cobb, assistant district attorney, and Henry Lincoln Johnson, recorder of deeds, are lawyers, J. C. Napier, register of the treasury, is a banker; Ralph W. Tyler, auditor for the navy, and Cyrus Field Adams, assistant register of the treasury, are newspaper men, the former for many years on the staff of an Ohio white daily and the latter an editor of a newspaper published in Chicago. Whitfield McKinlay, collector of customs, is a real estate broker, who operated on a large scale. While political advantage is usually the aim in making appointments to office, these men were selected for the positions they occupy because of fine reputations as citizens, professional and business men established before being called to fill presidential offices. Men of Splendid Executive Ability. None of these officeholders are mere officeholders as the term to many persons in like positions applies, but are rather public servants who know and administer the duties of their offices as C acceptably as any of the best white officials. By so doing they have not only reflected great credit upon themselves as individuals, but they have earned for the race highest respect and greater confidence in the ability of colored men from their superiors in office and the public that has to transact business with it. President Taft himself has indicated in his federal appointments that the primary aim of a public official must be to acceptably serve the government. And he has also indicated both in speech and acts that duty to the government comes before duty to party. It is not infrequent that hear complaints from colored men out in the states that this or that officeholder is not a good representative simply because he has not secured a number of minor appointments, such as clerkships, messengerships and laborers' jobs for his colored constituents. The fact is that the civil service has so completely blanketed all such positions or jobs that even a United States senator or a cabinet officer cannot secure such places, much less colored federal officials. There is but one way now, and only one, to secure a position of clerk, messenger or laborer, and that is by taking and passing the civil service examination and then waiting your turn for certification when vacancies occur. Colored officeholders who fill their positions with signal ability are doing the race far greater service than their predecessors under the old spoils system. Diligent Force of Public Officials. Strict attention to the duties of their office characterizes every man holding a federal position in Washington. There is J. C. Napier, register of the treasury, who seldom leaves his desk except for the most urgent demands by the public for his services in matters of importance. Judge Terrell of the municipal court is regarded by white and colored lawyers as one of the ablest, fairest and most punctual judges on the bench. Cyrus Field Adams gives such close attention to his duties that he is rarely ever seen outside of his office. Wit Ham H. Lewis, assistant attorney general, in the short time he has been in that position has established a reputation in the department of justice as an official the equal of the best and has won all the cases he has been assigned to prosecute or defend for the government. Ralph W. Tyler, auditor for the navy, one of the harshest accounting bureaus of the government, has shown his ability as an official. With the force of clerks in his office reduced, still, by approved up to date methods, he keeps right abreast of the heavy work of his office. Henry Lincoln Johnson, recorder of deeds, has a ready grasp upon his work. James A. Cobb, special assistant United States district attorney, and Whitfield McKinley, collector of customs, each fills his position most acceptably. Record of Anderson and Cottrill. A high official recently remarked that "the race ought to be proud of the colored men who represent it in office here in Washington. Never before has the race had an entire corps of official representatives that measured up, both for high performance of duty and clever tact in meeting the public, than the present corps of federal officials. And never was the race represented by colored officials who stood so stanely and uncompromisingly for what is due the race." If all colored men back in the states had a full knowledge of how ably the present colored officials in Washington fill their offices there would not be a single murmur against one of them. And, according to another high federal official, the record of colored men in office in the states is equally splendid. Charles W. Anderson, internal revenue collector at New York and for the largest rectifying district in the world, is rated by the commissioner of internal revenue as one of the very best officials in that department of the government. Cottuill, at Honolulu, although but a year on the job, is said to have "made good." It is known that every colored federal official, whether in or out of Washington, has the confidence and praise of his superior only because of the conscientious and intelligent performance of duty. Getting places for colored constituents the colored official cannot because of the iron bound, unbreakable restrictions of the civil service rules. CALL FOR BIG POLITICAL CONVENTION IN NEW YORK Sessions to Be Held In Mount Gilead Baptist Church Sept. 13. New York.—A national call has been announced by Rev. Simon P. W. Drew, national organizer of the Consolidated Republican and Independent Political Clubs, for a national convention of the organization to be held in this city for three days beginning Sept. 18 at the Mount Gilead Baptist church in East One Hundred and Thirty-second street, of which Rev. L. B. Twisby is pastor. The purpose of the meeting is to get a national expression from the voters of the race as to a choice of candidate and to discuss other important matters relative to the political and moral welfare of the race in this country. Some of the subjects that will come up before the convention will be the restoration of companies B, O and D to the army, the urging of race representation in congress and a plea for justice in the courts of law. The convention will also ask that congress legislate against lynching and aid in the suppression of the national evil. The convention promises to be one of the most notable meetings ever held in this city and will bring together the largest number of colored voters ever gathered together in a national convention. Fully 2,000 delegates, representing the different political parties, are expected to be present. A significant fact noted in the call for the assemblage is that it invited President Taft, Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt to address the voters at some set time during the sessions of the gathering. Many prominent men who are high up in the political life of the country will make addresses before the convention. Considerable interest is being manifested among the politicians here in the coming convention, and preparation is being made for the entertainment and comfort of the large number of delegates expected. Rev. Drew, the national organizer, is working hard for the success of the convention and is being assured of hearty support from many sources. He is one of the well known men of the race and has figured largely in many movements having for their aim the betterment of the race. He is the pastor and founder of the Cosmopolitan Baptist church in Washington. Annual Meeting of Knights of Tabor. The annual meeting of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor will be held in Louisville, Ky., beginning on Tuesday, Aug. 27. Hundreds of delegates from all sections of the state have signified their intention to be present. The growth of the order within the past three years has been phenomenal throughout the entire jurisdiction. The citizens of Louisville, noted for their genuine hospitality, will endeavor to give the delegates and visitors a royal good time. The program of entertainment contains many social features. National, Educational Association. The National Educational association will hold its next annual meeting at the Temperance Industrial and Collierate Institute in Claremont, Va., in 1913. President John J. Smallwood of the above named institution is vice president of the national organization. LOTT CAREY CONVENTION. Baptist Missionary Organization Meets in Portsmouth, Va., Aug. 28. Portsmouth, Va.—The sixteenth annual session of the Lott Carey Baptist foreign mission convention will be held at Mt. Zion Baptist church from Aug. 28 to Sept. 2, inclusive. The local arrangements for the session are in the hands of a committee headed by the Rev. Dr. J. M. Armstead, who has been for the past thirty years pastor of the church in which the convention will meet. The Zion church edifice is regarded as the handsomest that the race possesses in the tide water section of Virginia. CIGARETTES ARE BAD FOR WOMEN Mrs. Woodrow Wilson Has Decided Views on Subject. AN ERROR IN NAMES. From present indications the session will be the best attended and the most important that the convention has ever held. A committee that attended the recent session of the New England Baptist convention and agreed upon a plan of co-operation between the two conventions will present a report recommending the adoption of the plans for co-operation. A delegation from the New England convention is also expected to attend. Interesting personages at the session will include the Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Thomas, who have been missionaries in Liberia for the past six years. The Liberian government has recently ceded a tract of land to the convention, on which a church, school and home for the missionaries will be erected. The opening sermon will be preached by Rev. Dr. W. W. Allen of Baltimore. A number of prominent persons will deliver addresses during the session, and an address to the country dealing with the civil and political rights of the race will be issued. The women's auxiliary will also meet during the convention. The Lott Carce Baptists have raised about $40,000 for mission purposes during its existence. The collections this year may total $3,000. Much of the burden of raising this money has fallen upon the president, Professor Calvin S. Brown, and the corresponding secretary, Rev. Dr. W. M. Alexander. The present officers are: Professor C. S. Brown, Winston-Salem, N. C., president; Rev. W. J. Howard, Washington; Rev. H. L. Barco, Virginia, vice president; Rev. J. H. Hughes, Norfolk, Va., treasurer; A. W. Pegues, Raleigh, N. C., recording secretary; Rev. W. M. Alexander, Baltimore, corresponding secretary; Rev. W. T. Johnson, Richmond, Va., president of the executive board, and Nelson Williams, Richmond, Va., secretary to the board The officers of the women's auxiliary are: Mrs. L. A. Hope, Richmond, Va. president; Mrs. J. E. Blackwell, South Richmond, Va., treasurer; Mrs. A. L. McGuinn, Baltimore, corresponding secretary; Miss M. E. Wilson, Keysville, Va., recording secretary; Mrs. P. G. Shepherd, Keysville, Va., chairman of the board of managers. ZION'S NEW PASTOR SHOWS CAPACITY FOR LEADERSHIP Spirit of Unity Begins With Regime of Dr. G. W. Johnson. One among the many successful ministers in the A. M. E. Zion connection is the Rev. Dr. G. W. Johnson, the newly appointed pastor of the Fleet Street A. M. E. Zion church in Brooklyn. Dr. Johnson was transferred from the New England conference recently by Bishop Alexander Walters to his present charge, succeeding the Rev. Dr. A. A. Crooke. Rev. Dr. Johnson has been long recognized as one of the strongest men in the connection. He has an honorable record, both as a pastor and an upright citizen. Most of his life hearing upon his Christian labors has been in the Zion connection. He was born in North Carolina and was educated in the public schools of Charlotte, N. C. and tiddle university. He was ordained in 1892 by Bishop Petty and was sent to Birmingham Ala., his first charge. He remained three years at Birmingham and built a new church for the connection. He afterward pastored in Tousaloosa and Mobile, Ala.; Scranton, Miss.; Florida Pittsburg and Wilmington N. C. A. Wilmington Rev. Dr. Johnson did much for the advancement of the Zion work. He was unusually successful as a pastor and in fifteen months added to the church 500 new members. When he was called to the pastorate of the church in Brooklyn he was the pastor of Columbus Avenue A. M. E Zion church in Boston, where he pastored for three years, during which time the membership was increased by 250, and maintained a high stand ard of spiritual excellence. He was identified with every movement that meant race advancement. The Columbus Avenue A. M. E. Zion church is one of the largest in the connection and is the pride of the Zionites the country over. It was the scene in 1911 of the great testimonial given by the members of the New England conference to Bishop Walters. Since going to the Fleet street church in Brooklyn Dr. Johnson has already won the esteem and confidence of the members. He has organized clubs among the members to raise $500 at a financial rally to be held early in the fall. Socialist Party Nominates Russell. The Afro-American members of the Socialist party in Greater New York seemed to be much pleased with the nomination of Charles Edward Russell for governor. Mr. Russell contributes special articles to the Crisis Magazine and is also one of the founders of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People. CIGARETTES ARE BAD FOR WOMEN Wife of Democratic Candidate Gives Out Letter Taking Strong Stand on Smoking Habit. New York.—For the first time since Woodrow Wilson became the Democratic presidential candidate has Mrs. Wilson appeared. She attended in person her husband's daily conference with reporters, although heretofore she has made special requests that she be not quoted nor written about in the papers. What Mrs. Wilson wished to have fully understood was that if she becomes the first lady of the land she will not, as has been said in a widely distributed interview, have packages of cigarettes in her personal desk at the White House and indulge in smoking them with her callers. Through Governor Wilson, Mrs. Wilson asked that publicity be given to a letter she had written to the editor of the State Journal at Columbus, O., repudiating an alleged interview with her in which she defended cigarette smoking for women. The interview had come to her in a letter signed "American Citizen," which said: Dear Madam, I can scarcely think of any greater calamity to the young women of the nation than to read such a preenchantment as your interview offers them. I am a workingman, and I see men lose their jobs almost every day because they are incapacitated for work by the use of the cigarette. If smoking does this for strong men what will it do for girls and women? The "interview" was indicted a cordial indorsement of the woman smoker. Here are some of its assuring phrases all credited to Mrs. Wilson: phrases, in no context. "A woman writer for a syndicate of Sunday newspapers asked Mrs. Woodrow Wilson if she agreed with Gertrude Atherton's opinion of the smoking of cigarettes by women. She suitingly exhibited three cigarette boxes piled in the corner of her desk, all but empty. "Why shouldn't a woman smoke if she enjoys it?" she queried. "Why hasn't she just as much right to a cigarette as a man? Certainly I agree with Mrs. Atherton that any existing prejudice against women smoking is to the last silly and absurd. "Smoking cigarettes is a question of manners, not morals. It promotes good fellowship." "Some women feel that a cigarette calms their nerves and helps their brains into working order. Personally smoking diffuses my thoughts instead of concentrating them. I enjoy it as I enjoy after dinner coffee. Both are pleasant ways of ending and finishing off; both add to conviviality and good fellowship." The editor of the Ohio State Journal, it was clear, had been much incensed at the apologies for the cigarette habit among women attributed to Mrs. Wilson, as he wrote on Aug. 10 an editorial in which he called for the defeat of Governor Wilson or a repulsion from his wife. If there was no mistake about it, he wrote, "Mrs. Woodrow Wilson shouldn't be mistress of the White House." If the Ohio editor was emphatic Mrs. Wilson was certainly not less so. After the reporters had said they would gladly publish her letter to the Ohio editor she asked for an hour's time in which to write one. This was what she prepared: Dear Sir—I have just received a copy of the Journal with your editorial entitled "Smoking Women," and I beg lead me to indignantly deny the fact that I apportune my smoking cigarettes. The interview upon which your editorial was based is a pure invention. I intensely dislike the cigarette smoking habit for women—in fact, so strong is my feeling on the subject that my real danger lies in being unjust and unkind in my judgment of those who differ with me in this respect. But certainly no woman in our household ever has or ever will smoke. Quite apart from the bad taste of it, I believe with you that it has an extremely injurious effect on the nerves. ELLEN A. WILSON. (Mrs. Woodrow Wilson.) Governor Wilson, in approving the letter sent out by Mrs. Wilson, offered what he thought might prove an explanation for the interview. "I do not think it was maliciously invented," he said. "There is a rather well known writer who signs herself Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, and she no doubt has been confused with Mrs. Wilson." Mrs. Wilson Woodrow was formerly married to a relative of Governor Wilson, and it is understood that her views on the matter of women who smoke are different from those held in the household of the Democratic candidate. The divided Republican party is like the boy "blowing against the wind." There will be a lot of bluster, but it will not take votes away from Wilson and Marshall. Winning with Wilson means more than a mere Democratic victory; it means restoring real prosperity. Wilson is the best equipped man nominated for the presidency since Lincoln. George W. Perkins is sure a "bully" Progressive. ...JOHN H. TOADVIN. Who can urnish a funeral for $10.00 and up; caskets for $3.00 and up. He can furnish you carriages for Funerals, Weddings, Parties, Receptions, etc., from his own stables at the most reasonable rates. 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Equipped Repair Shop Up Town d TOUPEE kind I make are guaranteed to please human Hair Goods, also Tonics, Sham- ork of all kinds made to order. Scalp shampooing. Hair culture, Manicuring. Y, 1308 N. Fremont Ave. THE RENARD Moving Picture Parlor We change our pictures to please our patrons 1230 PENNSYLVANIA AVE, near Lanvale street Are you losing weight? Do you feel worn out, tired and drooping? If so, have your lungs examined. A stitch in time saves nine. Use the famous reconstructive Tonic "STRENGTH & LIFE" which prevents Tuberculosis and checks all incipient cases if the direction is followed. Don't allow your existence to be shortened by Tuberculosis. It is preventable by the defensive process of building up. Dr. Campbell is Specialist in Tuberculosis, Indigestion, Neurosis & Rheumatism. Has the least death rate of the physicians in Baltimore. He examines thoroughly and tells if case is beyond remedial aid. Call or write Dr. David Newton E. Campbell, 1369 N. Carey Street, Baltimore, Md. C. & P. Madison 2862 M. List of cureer furnished on application. OLIVER J. CAULK ..House Painter.. ..And Paper Hanger.. 2143 Druid Hill Avenue. Madison 1029. House Painting Glazing, Graining Enameling, Floors Stained—Varnished or Waxed. Leaky Roofs Cemented and Painted. Estimates and Propositions submitted Having had experience in the Painting Trade I especially solicit your patronage HILLES SAYS ROOSEVELT WAS PLAYING POLITICS When He Invited Dr. Booker T. Washington to Dine At The White House CRITICISES ROOSEVELT FOR DISCHARGING SOLDIERS New York Aug. 5.—In a signed article in the New York American, Charles Hilles, who is managing the Taft campaign, censures Colonel Roosevelt for discharging the soldiers stationed at Brownsville; says that the entertainment of Dr. Booker T. Washinton at the White House was done to influence Negro voters, and declares that the acquiescence of Mr. Roosevelt in the exclusion of colored delegates from the Progressive Convention in several Southern States, is tantamount to sanctioning the disfranchisement of colored voters in the South—a thing he avers the Republican party has always been opposed to. He declares that Ormsby McHarg was active in getting colored delegates in the South for Mr. Roosevelt prior to the recent Republican National Convention and says "no greater outrage was ever perpetrated on the American colored man than that committed by President Roosevelt when he dismissed without honor the colored soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Infantry without trial and without hearing." He neglects to state, however, that President Taft, as Secretary of War, justified the discharge in a message to Congress, in which he said: "Can the government properly, therefore, keep in its employ for the purpose of maintaining law and order any longer a body of men from five to ten per cent. of whom can plan and commit murder and rely upon the silence of their companions to escape detection?" Mr. Hilles then proceeds to say: 'Seeking to palliate his unjust reflections upon the Southern colored man, Mr. Roosevelt went on to say flattering things about the colored man in the North apparently oblivious to the fact that a large per centage of the colored men who have attained prominence and distinction in the North have come from the South. Of the fifteen colored men who hold or have held recently, positions of trust and honor in the government of the United States eleven were born in the Southern States. They are Assistant Attorney General Lewis, Henry Lincoln Johnson, Cyrus Field Adams, W. D. Johnson, ex-Governor Pinchback, Whitefield McKinley, Judge Terrell, Dr Crum, J. C. Napier, and Mr. Scott, of Tuskegee Institute, who was commissioner to Liberia. Mr. Roosevelt and his new party advocate, or pretend to advocate suffrage for the colored, man in the North. When he discovered, however, that of the 356,775 colored voters in the Northern Sates, 200,000 were born in the South, must he not, by the same reasoning, try to disfranchise them too? "To the colored voters of the State of Maryland Mr. Roosevelt owed the delegation from that State in the Republican National Convention, but, having lost the Republican nomination and organized a party of his own, he did not hesitate to slander the colored delegates in the Republican convention and to sanction that disfranchisement of the colored man in the Southern States against which the Republican party has so long and so consistently protested, and, further, to provide by an organic rule of his party against any representation in the future conventions of the disfranchised Negroes in the South." The portable baths at Warner and Hamburg streets, is being well patronized. There are seven booths and during the recent hot spell the capacity of the baths has been taxed. Women and girls are allowed to bathe on Tuesdays and Fridays, the other days in the week being given over to boys and men. Should the baths prove popular the Public Bath Commission may continue them during the winter. Daniel Bowley is in charge. Rev. and Mrs. M. J. Naylor and children have gone on a ten day vacation trip. tollers ALT9 They have been playing with great success at Riverview Park during the summer: They will open at Kernan's Rathskeller for their third successive season, early next month, Mr. Robert J. Youug is manager. NEWS THROUGHOUT STATE OF MARYLAND (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Havre de Grace, Md., Aug. 22—The Baltimore District Conference of the Baltimore Annual Conference met at St. James A. M. E. Church last week. Rev.P. W. Wortham, of Baltimore, presided. Full or part reports were received from every charge. Over $100 was collected in assessments and public offerings. One the features of special interest were the emphasis placed on doing a fair part in the winning of souls for Christ and His church. Mr.A. Thompson, of Trinity Church, Baltimore, and Mr. Skinner, of Havre de Grace, were elected delegates to the next annual conference. Rev. J. H. Pritchett and his good people showed great delight in making it pleasant for the conference and are deserving of great praise. Rev. Dr. P. W. Wortham, to say the least, is a dignified, broadhearted and yet positive presiding elder. The conference in a general way placed itself on record against the fast life, and for a sane, common sense dress and life. The annual sermon was preached by Rev. S. Y. Crawford and the second sermon by Rev. D. G. Hill. The district Sunday School Convention met Friday and Saturday. Denton News (Special to the Afro-American Ledger) Denton, Md., Aug. 21.—Ridgley and Beechams Camps are in progress. Rev. and Mrs. F. Allen Seaton, of Virginia, are visiting Mrs. Seaton's brother, Dr. Linwood Hutchins. Mrs. Annie Truxton, of Cambridge, Md., is the guest of Mrs. Samuel Tucker. Rev. C. B. Bailey, of Preston, Md., was here Monday. Mrs. Martha Thomas and sister, Miss Estelle Jackson, are the guests of Mrs. Mary E. Hutchins. Mrs. A. J. Bailey has returned home from Atlantic City, accompanied by her daughter, Miss Mary and little granddaughter, Eloise Stanford. Mrs. Laura Thomas has returned home from Rohoboth, Del., where she has been spending several weeks. Mr. Edward Williams and children spent last Thursday at Rohoboth, Del. Miss Viola Smith, of Philadelphia, is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James H. Smith. Mrs. Pearl Wilmore, of Philadelphia, is being entertained at Beechamps Camp by relatives who are tenting there. Snow Hill Md. Aug. 22.—Mrs. Lizzie.Tingle died Monday of last week. Rev. Standford, preached at the M. E. Church all-day Sunday. Rev. J. W. Jegett is pastor. Rev. J. W. Jewett is pastor. Rev. Mrs. Dodson, of Salisbury, preached all day at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church Sunday. Mrs. Mary Ward, Mrs. Effie Small, Mrs. Lily Belle Allen, and Mrs. Fmma Coles all, of Baltimore arrived Saturday to spend a few weeks with relatives. Captain Henry Purnel of Wilmington, Del., is home for a few days. Mrs. Annie Townsend, of Philadelphia, is visiting friends here. Crowds of people attended the Baptist bay party Wednesday. Mr. Charles Waters took his family to Ocean City, in his automobile Sunday. Mr. Edgar Dashields, of Millsboro, Del., arrived Saturday for a few days's vacation. Mr. Geo. Dale, has returned to his situation on the steamer Maryland after a two week vacation. Badly Hurt While at Work (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Cockeysville, Md., Aug. 22—Mrs. Mary Lee, the evangelist of the A. M. E. Church, has finished two weeks work here. While here she organized a junior missionary society. A very interesting game of ball was played last Thursday between the men on the Go-Get-Em and the Willowstreaks. While working at the Beaver Dam Marble works, Messrs. Joseph Jackson and Moses Winder were seriously hurt by a falling block of marble. Both were moved to Mercy Hospital, Baltimore, where Winder is said to in a critical condition. Mr. George F. Smith has returned to Bowie after a visit to his parent here. The local representatives to the Baltimore District Conference included Rev. W. W. S. Bailey, Mr. Clarence Johnson, Master Rufus Tucker and Mr. Emory R. Cole. Princess Anne, Md., Aug. 22. Rev. J. H. Nutter, pastor of Metropolitan M. E. Church, preached at the A. M. E. Zion Church last Sunday afternoon. In the evening, Rev. Joseph L. Butler, pastor of the latter church, preached at Metropolitan Church. The choirs and congregations of the two churches also worshipped with their respective pastors. The Pastors Wives' Aid Society of Mt. Hope A. M. E. Zion Church, gave an entertainment Wednesday of last week. Mrs. Joseph L. Butler, wife of the pastor, has been here for the past three weeks assisting her husband in his church work. Rev. C. A. Tindley, of Philadelphia, preached at Metropolitan M. E. Church last Wednesday night. Rev. Dr. T. H. Kiah, principal of the Princess Anne Academy, is [Picture of a man in a suit with a tie]. DR. GEORGE C. HALL. President of the Chicago Business League, which entertained the National League this week. traveling in the interest of the school. Little Bertha Butler is visiting friends in Summit, Va. Rev. Joseph L. Butler left this week for Baltimore, after which he will leave to attend a convention at Dayton, O. Roosevelt Club Organized At Mt. Winans A Roosevelt Club has been organized at Mt. Winans. Meetings are held every Wednesday night, and there seems to be an over whelming sentiment for the colonel. The speakers at the meeting this week included Daniel Price, Matthew Johnson, both of Baltimore, and George Johnson, president of the club. Mrs. Jennie Brown, of Sparrows Point, is visiting relatives in Virginia. A special sermon was preached Saturday to the Seven Wise Men in front of their hall on the Falls Road. Sunday was Stewards' Day at Tyson M. P. Church, West Roland Park. Rev. I D. Mills, of Towson, preached in the afternoon and Rev. Dr. E. W. Scott, at night. Rev. Alfred Baker, pastor of the church. Mrs. A. Robinson, of Towson, has has a new residence built. Miss Maud Daniels, of Roslyn, Va., is visiting friends at Roland Park. The congregation of the Lutherville M. P. Church will shortly begin a renovation of their church. Rev. R. Moore is pastor. Contractor Sydes, of Towson, has just completed a block of houses, and is now erecting another block. Mrs. D. P. Scott and daughter, of West Roland Park, attended the district meeting at Glasgow, last week. Rev. W. A. C. Hughes is able to be out after a slight illness. TREGOR & SONS' (Original Red Box) For Hair Dressing COMB AND HEATER... Modern Ladies and Children to dress the air to any stylish fashion. M. TREC (Original Superior H ...PRINCESS COM To be used by modern Lad Hair to any s should keep this Superior Hair Dressing in stock the next store for it or write direct to us. or wholesale ent on application. TREGOR & SONS Comb, $1.00. Heater 50c. extra. used will be mailed with every order. 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For sale by druggists, accept no other, see that it is Ford's and manufactured by the Ozonized Ox Marrow Company, Chicago, Ill. --- Afro-American Co. J. H. MURPHY, Manager. C. & P. Phone, Mt Vernon 2833. UP-TOWN OFFICE: 1320 Druid Hill Avenue. C & P. Phone, Madison 842. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Payable In Advance One Year.....One Dollar Six Months.....Fifty Cents Three Months.....Forty Cents Single Copy.....Three Cents Postage Prepaid by Publishers. Outside of the United State the price is double. Entered at the Baltimore Post Office second-class matter We are not responsible for the return or preservation of unsolicited contributions on any subject. All articles sent to this office for publication, must have the writer's signature or otherwise such article will be ignored. Churches and others having news notices will please have the same in the office by Thursday to insure publication in the week's issue. Correspondents will please have all communication, in one office by noon on Wednesdays. All communications intended for publication should be addressed to THE AMERICAN LEDGER, 628 North Eutaw Street, Baltimore, Md. Advertising rates made known upon application. All Checks, Money Orders and Drafts should be made payable to THE AFRO-AMERICAN Co. BALTIMORE, AUG. 24, 1912 ROGER TANEY AND DRED SCOTT Roger Brook Taney, a native of Maryland, succeeded John Marshall as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, we think, about the year 1836. Possibly Chief Justice Taney is best known in history in connection with the famous "Dred Scott" decision. Dred Scott is the name of a colored man, who, being the slave of a surgeon in the United States Army, and carried to a free State, sued for the possession of himself. He won his point in the lower court, but on an appeal to the Supreme Court; he lost, Chief Justice Taney delivering the opinion. This decision had much to do with hastening the birth of the Republican party. It as a great moral issue which carried the Republican party into power; and, it is because of a gradual forsaking of moral issues in the interest of material slavery, that the Republican party has gone to its death, and is being succeeded by the Progressive party, which became a moral necessity for giving emancipation from the new and oppressive industrial and social enslavement. Chief Justice Taney, delivering the opinion, says the Negroes had, for more than a century before the adoption of the Constitution, "been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit. He was bought and sold, and treated as an ordinary article, of merchandise and traffic whenever a profit could be made of it." As one of the chief results of the Civil War, the Negro was emancipated. Following the emancipation, several Amendments to the Constitution were made, with the firm and determined purpose of securing to the Negro every right and privilege held and enjoyed by any other citizens of the country. But gradually, the older men in the Republican party like Summer, Thaddeus Stevens, Morton, and others of their kind, died out, and with them seemed to have departed the fundamental principle of freedom which gave birth to the party. In later years the Republican party dressed up in the uniform of these sturdy old veterans of freedom, while diligently ignoring the "unfinished work" of Lincoln, and at the same time, constraining every nerve to add to the burdens of the common people in the interest of the financial barons who own the country. The spirit of the infamous decision of Chief Justice Taney is rapidly obtaining with respect to a very large section of the entire body of people who make up this country. What was said of the Negro while in physical bondage is easily applied to a very large section of the common people of this country, by whose labors and industry, a great class of aristocrats have come into being, and by many of them, these same common people, both black and white, are "regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white aristocracy either in social or political relations." One of the ways the Almighty answers the prayers of the poor and oppressed, is, when the fullness of the time arrived by raising up a man fully equipped for the task of the leading of the people out of the tyranny of oppression. The Progressive party led by Theodore Roosevelt is going to win. It is the answer of many a prayer. Its mission is distinctively moral. The old parties are every way unfitted for the exigencies of the present situation. As long as the Republican party was true to its mission, as long as it emphaized human rights and human interests, there were not wanting in its ranks of leadership men of great moral character, as well as of great minds. But when one notes the names of many of those who are now the recognized leaders the apostacy from the faith is made so plain that he who runs may read. Of course, that particular class of Negroes in the South who have lived off "politics," and who have done much to alienate the great body of Negro people from the sympathy of the best element of white people, will vigorously oppose the Progressive party. This is to be expected. There is no room in the Progressive party for such creatures. The new party is a party of peace and good will. It is a party of faith. It believes that black and white can and will work together in harmonious cooperation. It will appeal to the good in both races, and it will succeed. Roosevelt's policy in the South is the same as his policy in the North. The decent colored citizens, whether North or South, are content to follow the lead of such of their fellow citizens who are best qualified for leadership in party affairs. The Progressive party is the fulfillment of the noble words of the late General U. S. Grant, when he said: "Let Us Have Peace." SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION The Nashville Globe seems to be under the impression that the intention of of the African Methodist Episcopal Church had in mind the establishment of a great printing house when it established the Sunday School Union in Nashville. We are under a different impression. It was the intention of the church to put in operation a publishing house for the purpose of issuing Sunday School literature for the Sunday Schools of the church. For a while this object was held steadily in view, and Sunday School literature was practically all the printing done there. Lately, however, this part of the work has been sadly neglected, and the publications issued from this house are far inferior to that issued by other publishing houses. The Sunday School journal, for instance, is still a quarterly publication, while long since it ought to have been a monthly, containing such matter as would suit progressive, up-to-date Sunday Schools. But, as a matter of fact, if one wants to be up on Sunday School work he must look elsewhere for it than to the A. M. E. Sunday School Union. It does seem that it is about time to emphasize this feature of the Nashville publishing house and while it may be well to endeavor to do all the printing for the great A. M. E. Connection, it ought not to be at the expense of the children of the church, who were the prime factors in the buildings and equipping of this institution. Let the Sunday School Union give us a better class of literature for our schools and let the other matter come as a mere incident. THEY SHOULD CONSIDER Would it not be well for the Evening News to take into consideration that a large number of its readers belong to the Negro race, and while it is probably true that there are not many advertisers among them, we all know that the advertising columns are dependent on the circulation department, and not the circulation department upon the advertisement department. "We pledge our party to protect the rights of American Citizenship at home and abroad. Without the circulation the price of advertising falls very low indeed. The larger the circulation the better the price for the advertisin columns. Now the colored man, more and more, is becoming a reader of newspapers, and just at this time, the News is getting rather more than its share of those who read. Probably the ubiquitious reporter, looking after news gives very little attention to the advertising department, feeling that part of the business is out of his line. But when he writes scurrilous articles about any one race or class of people it is bound to have is effect upon th circulation and then to react upon the advertising. As the Afro-American is a purchaser and reader of the News, it is not wise to be constantly insulting the purchaser by using probious terms and putting language in the mouths of individuals, who probably speak better English than the reporter who would like to be an "Uncle Remus." Possibly the Afro-American sees a little farther than he is given credit for. Have you seen the picture of the "Bull Mooses" in or display window? If not come around and take a look at it. You will say it looks like business. Judging from our personal columns, Atlantic City is the Mecca of Afro-Americans just about this time. And yet they say living is high. But one must not believe all he hears. ORITUARY John W. Brown Mr. John W. Brown, Jr, age 41 years son of Mr. and Mrs. John Brown, died August 5, after a very short illness his funeral took place from St. John A. M. E. Church on Thursday, Aug. 8th at 2 P. M., the services being conducted by pastor Rev. Rev. L. S. Flagg. Appropriate music was rendered under the direction of Mr. Henson president of the Junior Choir of the church. Several favorite solos were rendered. Mr. Brown was widely known in this city having been engaged in the business of moving furniture for 21 years and was kind and courteous to all. Twelve years ago he was married to Miss Ida Bowes who died about two years ago. Since that time Mr. Brown began failing in health but bore it with patience and fortitude until the sorrowful end came. He received the very best medical treatment and his loving father and sister stood by him until the last. But skill and attention could not alter the decree of God. A loving father and devoted sister are left to mourn their loss. Lloyd M. Henderson Mr. Lloyd M. Henderson, of 1610 Division street, departed this life Thursday, Aug. 8, 1912. The funeral services of the deceased took place from the above named residence on Saturday Aug. 10. Rev. Jones Watkins, pastor of Enon Baptist Church officiated at the ceremony and took occasion to mention some of the commendable features of Mr. Henderson's life. Among other things he called attention to the fact that Mr. Henderson had been such a loyal husband, loving father, and devoted friend to those connected with him by blood ties or by those of association that those who knew him could never forget him and to live in the hearts of those we love is not to die. Mr. Henderson is survived by a wife and five children. The floral tributes which were many and appropriate bore evidence the fact that he was held in the highest esteem by the community at large. Brooklyn. Md. Brooklyn, Md., Aug. 22.-Mr. Z. Edwards and son paid a flying visit to Washington, D. C., and Alexander, Md. Sunday. Mrs. Cornelia Edwards left Wednesday for a ten days' stay in Wilmington, Del., Camden, and Trenton, N. J., and Philadelphia, Pa. We Print The News While It Is News TAFT MEN WORKING HARD FOR MARYLAND The Taft forces will make strenuous efforts to line up the bulk of the colored vote of the city and State for the Republican party. Every man of the least influence leaning toward the Taft forces, will be sought, and even the ministers will be urged to enlist actively for the G. O. P. The Roosevelt letter to Julian Harris, the wrong reports in the daily papers alleging that colored delegates were entirely excluded in the South and the achievements of the G. O. P. party in the past will serve as a text for those who desire that the party shall not lose what have been among its most faithful allies. That the managers of the Republican party in Maryland are stirred over the Roosevelt activity is noted in the activity around the headquarters on East Baltimore street. It is said that more money will be poured into this State than has been done in a national campaign since 1896, and that it will be spent. Should the Republicans come out third in the November election it will mean that either the Democrats or the Progresives will be the majority party in Maryland, and if the same thing were repeated in the next state election, the Republicans would not share in the minority appointments. It is said that one of the leading Roosevelt shouters in the state called on Collector Hanna Wednesday in an effort to "feel" his way back into the Taft camp, and there may be some others. The Roosevelt forces will, however, make a most determined campaign. A number of Democrats have already declared that they will vote for the Colonel and there is said to be considerable opposition among the Democrats against Woodrow Wilson. If Colonel Carrington can hold the bulk of the colored vote, along with other recruits, the Progressives will make a most creditable showing in Maryland. The Roosevelt forces have opened headquarters on the fourth floor of the Equitable Building. American Democracy American Democracy in its purity was intended to mean, and I beive does mean something more that selecting officers. Like the sunlight we cannot see it, yet we cannot see without it. And like the sunlight, it has not only buthed this Republic in a sea of beauty and glory but it has warmed and nutured every fruitage painted in the garden of universal brotherhood. American Democracy does not depend upon caste or creed or condition, upon race or color, upon wealth or poverty, upon success or failure. But unerringly, it does depend upon the inner life of the individual citizen. It is an inspiration and an aspiration. It does not alays depend upon the ticket which a man votes. It does depend upon the motive back of the ballot. From Governor's address accepting the Democratic nomination accepting the Democratic Nomination for Vice President. Aged Farmer Passes Away Aged Farmer Passes Away Mr. Hollis Matthews age 70 years departed this life August 10th at his late residence, Laplatta, Charles Co.. Md. He was a well known famrer and property owner. His death was due to a complication of diseases from which he had suffered for a long time. He was a war veteran and was loved by all who knew him. The deceased is survived by his wife, five daughters, Mrs. Mrs. J. Boone, Mrs. Marshall, Mrs. W. Roye, Misses Annie and Matilda Matthews; four sons, Messrs. William, Mitchell, Robert, and Hollis Matthews, Jr.; four grandchildren; and two great grand children The funeral took place on Monday from the Pumphrev Catholic Church. A call for city-wide mass meeting in the interest of the candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt was issued at an overflowing meeting, held under the auspices of the Progresive Republican Club, of the Seventeenth ward, at Moses Hall last Monday night. The call suggests that five delegates be selected from each ward in the city, and that a strong effort be made to unite the colored voters for Roosevelt. After reciting that Mr. Roosevelt won in the majority of the States that held presidential primaries, and that he should have been the Republican nominee at Chicago, the city-wide convention is called to meet at Moses Hall on the evening of the ninth of September. The call is signed by John W. Rich, David T. Harrod, Leuis Davenport, Isaiah Hamilton and Clarence Bright. During the evening stirring addresses were delivered by Charles R. Schirru, L. H. Davenport, Rev. J. W. McDonald, John W. Martin and John W. Rich. The officers of the club are: John W. Ryan, president; Isaiah Hamilton, vice president; Clarence Bright secretary; John W. Watkins, assistant, and Stephen Webb, sergeant-at-arms. Juvenile Troubadoars The Juvenile Troubadours toured New Jersey under the supervision of Prof. L. E. Toomey with great success. They packed Educational Hall in Asbury Park Monday and Tuesday nights of last week, and also repeated their success in Atlantic City Wednesday and Thursday evenings. At both places the work of the youngsters was highly recommended by those who attended. The title of the musical playlet which the Troubadors are playing is "The Courtiers," and during the progress of the extravaganza the vocalists and dancers to display their skill. Another new feature that is being introduced by Prof. Toomey is the Troubadour Mandolin Club. "The Prairie Queen Intermezzo," that the Mandolin Club renders at the conclusion of the first act has proven quite popular with the Jersey patrons. Masters Rudolph Watts and Milton Reid received great ovations each night, and the solos rendered by Masters O. Z. Watts and Charles Johnson, were repeatedly applauded. Among the others who starred in their respective lines were Masters C. Johnson, W. Cornish, I. Hughes, J. Saunders, and G. Riddle. There were many Baltimoreans present both evenings at Fitzgerald's Auditorium in Atlantic City, and during the elaborate dance which followed the concert, these handsomely gowned Baltimoreans were very conspicuous. They played at Cape May Monday and Tuesday evenings. Successful Men's Day. Exercises at Winchester Winchester, Va., Aug. 22.—Rev. W. W. Roberts and Rev. P. M. Eskell have returned from Staunton, where they attended the annual District Conference of the A. M. E. Church. The Men's Day exercises, held at John Mann M. E. Church and Mount Carmel F. B. Church, were of a high order and much enjoyed. The musical and literary entertainment given at Mt. Carmel F. B. Church was well attended. The lecture given by Rev. H. Brown, of Alexander, assisted by his wife at John Mann M. E. Church, was much appreciated. The stork visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Triplet on last Tuesday a week and left a fine baby girl. Rev. Walker Carter who recently had his arm injured by being struck by a moving train, is improving. Inflammatory Substances. Inflammatory substances. "Breech of promise suits" said Uncle Eben, "is de result of a man dears his heart on his sleeve meetin' a gal dat carries hers in her pocketbook." Mrs. Emma Braxon, of 430 N. Gilmore street, entertained the ladies of the C. and E. Circle in honor of her twenty-fifth marriage anniversary on Monday night. After enjoying a pleasant evening the guests were served with refreshments: Mrs. Virroqua T. Ross, of 1705 Orleans street, has left the city for Niagara Falls, O tario, and various points in the Dominion. She is accompanied by Mrs. Car She is accompanied by Mrs. Carrie Jackson. Master William R. Gantt, of 155 Dolphin street, has gone to visit his grandparent, Mrs. Albert Gantt, of Calvert Co. Mrs. Sidney Dorsey, 736 Waesche street is the guest of Mrs. Merchant, of Orange N. J. Mr. and Mrs. J. Macauley Dorsey have returned home after two weeks visit to Philadephia and New York. Miss Gertrude P. Hoban, of 21 S. Schroeder St., has returned home after spending a week in Washington, D.C., the guest of Miss Irene Hoban and Mrs. Joseph Parr. Mrs. Ada Keeley Hawkins, and Mrs. Edith Stanley Williams are spending their vaction with Mrs. S. C. Stanley at Cambridge, Md. Prof. and Mrs. Chas. A. Johnson and their son Richard, attended the Sunday School Convention at Havre de Grace. Miss Grace Webb and M. Charles Perry, of 209 W. Pine street, have returned from a four weeks stay at McDaniel, Md. Mrs. Nellie F. Prann, of 425 Druid Hill avenue, has gone to Atlantic City for a while. Mrs. Norman L. Allen, of 416 Myrtle avenue, is spending a few weeks with her parents at Snow Hill, Md. Miss Cora A. Tucker, of 1836 Druid Hill avenue, is on an extended vacation trip in the North visiting Montclair, Jersey City, New York, Atlantic City, etc. She will return in September. Mrs. Bertha Scott, of 521 W. Lanvale street, left the city this week for a two weeks stay at Atlantic City. Mrs. Chas. Tolson, of 506 Baker street, accompanied by her son, James, left the city this week for a three weeks visit to Pittsburg, Pa. and Atlantic City. Mr. Samuel M. Chase, of 1355 N. Carey street, will leave next week for Boston, where he will continue his studies in high class piano music. Mr. James Edwards, of Schwartz avenue, Govanstown, left this week for a ten days trip to Atlantic City. Mrs. Mamie Horton, 911 Druid Hill avenue, is spending days with her cousin, Mrs. Carrie Colly 64 N. West street, Annapolis, Md. Mrs. Lydia Peck Hughes, of 938 Warner street, will spend her vacation with her cousin, Mrs. Lydia Gibson at Mt Gilbo, Baltimore Co, Md. Mrs. B. F. Harris, of Park avenue, has returned from a visit to Philadelphia and Atlantic City. Mrs. Rachael Wicks, of Mt. Winans and son Thomas, are spending two weeks with her sister at Churchton, Md. Miss Bell Trippe, of 575 Dolphin street is visiting friends in Philadelphia. Mr. Thos. E. Kelson, of Presstman street is spending a few weeks in Prince George. Excursionists Disappointed A thousand or more excursionists were disappointed after going on a supposed trip to Cambridge, Md. The excursion was given under the auspices of Sharp Street. Memorial Church and many of those who went had communicated with friends and relatives in Cambridge that they were coming. When the steamer Annapolis hove in sight of the Eastern Shore town, a good sized crowd was noticed at the wharf, and a number of teams ready to carry the Baltimoreans uptown. Instead of making to the wharf the Annapolis just turned around, and began the return trip. During the trip up the Bay a fierce storm arose, frightening many of the women and children on board. Teachers Resign Mrs. Helen Irvin has resigned a a teacher in the Colored High School to accept a position at Howard University, Washington. Mrs. Irvin has just completed a summer course at the University of Chicago. William H. Garrett, of Baltimore. Elecied Deputy Grand Master New Rochelle, N. Y., Aug. 21. Theeighth annual session of the Grand United Order of Fishermen of Galilee was held at League Hall last week. Delegates were present from New York State, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. Following an address by William Cordial, acting mayor of the city, a response was made by B. M. Johnson, of New York. The annual sermon to the order was preached by Rev. Van Buren, pastor of St. Catherine's A. M. E. Church, and a big banquet was held on the opening day. Reports submitted during the session showed that the order was flourishing and had over 3,000 members. Grand Master Mumford presided at the various sessions. The next session will be held in New York City. The following grand officers were elected for the ensuing year: E E. Holland, New Yory city, grand master; William H. Garrett, Baltimore, deputy grand master; Eliza Young, grand associate; Charles Gibson, grand orator; John Minnis, grand chaplain; William G. Price, Baltimore, grand marshal; A. J. Daes, grand financial secretary; Alverta Turner; grand treasurer; J. Sampson, grand inner guard; W. Witherspoon, grand outer guard; Mrs. Brown, grand right hand supporter to grand master; Mrs. Jackson, grand left hand supporter to grand associate ruler and Annie Cornish grand left-hand supporter to grand associate ruler. Town Chat The fight that the Afro-American Ledger made against men, women and children following parades has resulted in a cessation of that pastime. The police swooped down on a crowd of parade followers two weeks ago, and made some arrests. A few days ago another parade passed down one of the streets of the Seventeenth ward without the usual vanguard of camp followers. One boy was heard to say to another: "Jimmy, don't you follow that p'rade for the cops will get you." Boys many times show their ingenuity in striking ways, but a boy beat the crowd this week with a "home made" pool table. This table was made of smooth boards mounted on stilts, had six tobacco bags for pockets and big marbles for pool balls, and all the boys around Eutaw and Rose streets tried to show their epertness. --- An admirer of Councilman Harry S. Cummings says that the city solon is always ready with timely speechs and tells of a little incident in the City Council to sustain his view. About the time that "Bernie" Lee was appointed warden of the City Jail and was about to give up his councilmanic duties to accept his new position, Mr. Cummings made a happy speech of felicitation At the conclusion of his remarks Mr. Cummings turned from Mr. Lee and addressed conclusion remarks to his colleagues as follows: "And he is going to prepare a place for you." The Council chamber roared with laughter. For Rent—First class flat. Apply 1919 Druid Hill avenue. For Rent—Two third story rooms, private. Suitable for middle aged man and wife or two middle aged ladies. Also front cellar suitable for any business Apply 302 N. Pine street. HAIRDRESSING Having completed the course in the Mme. C. J. Walker, Wonderful Hair Grower, I am prepared to teach the course and also treat the hair. Call or phone for full information. Mrs. J. S. Fennell, Madison 1345 or 1509 Druid Hill avenue. Ready For Business This is to certify that Mme. M. Thompson, of 2143 Division street has completed the course in Mme. Walker's wonderful hair grower trade. I am now, ready to serve you if you want your hair to grow long, ect. Give me a trial. Terms reasonable. Mme. Walker's Hair Grower now on sale. 7-24-4t A Lion Scared by a Mouse. In the Berlin zoo a mouse was put in the cage of a lion to test whether, as the old stories assert, there was a natural affection between them. The experiment was rather astonishing. The lion saw the mouse before he was fairly through the bars and was after him instantly. Away went the little fellow, squeaking in fright. When he had gone a few yards the lion headed him off, and this was repeated until the mouse stood still. The lion then stood over him, studying him with interest, and presently he brought his paw down on the mouse, but so gently that it was not injured in the least. Then the lion played with the mouse, now letting him run a few inches and stopping him again. Suddenly the mouse changed his tactics and instead of running when the lion lifted his paw sprang straight at the big animal's head. The lion, terrified, gave a great leap backward and roared in extreme fright, while the little mouse made his escape. Of the two the lion was the more frightened. The Marechal Niel Rose. There is a pretty little history in connection with the Marechal Niel rose, which is named after the famous general of the Franco-Austrian war. "When General Niel was returning from the scene of his victories in war," writes an eminent florist, "one of the peasant women along the line of march presented him with a beautiful basket of yellow roses. One of these flowers still had its roots clinging to it, and on his arrival in Paris Niel planted the flower in his garden. The rose thrived and finally grew to a bush covered with blossoms. The general then presented the plant as a gift to Empress Eugenie. She was delighted with the beauty and fragrance of the flower and, on learning that the rose had no name, said significantly: "Then I will give it one. I christen it the Marechal Niel.' And at the same time she bestowed upon the amazed general the jeweled emblem that betokened his promotion to the exalted office of marshal of France." Why Metals Bust. Why Metals Rust. Gold does not tarnish like other metal because it is not acted upon by oxygen or water. It is the moisture in the atmosphere which causes other metals to tarnish, owing to their oxidation. Water contains a large proportion of oxygen, and it is the oxygen, of course, in the moist air air combining with the surface of the metals that covers them with tarnish. Platinum, like gold, resists the influence of oxygen and moisture and when pure neither rusts nor tarnishes. Aluminium also does not rust, neither hot nor cold water having any action upon it. The sulphurured hydrogen of the atmosphere, which so readily tarnishes silver, has no effect upon aluminium, which under ordinary circumstances preserves its appearance as perfectly as gold does. Silver tarnishes on exposure to the air, the agent producing this effect being the sulphur. Iron is the metal which tarnishes and rusts most easily, its oxidization proceeding until the metal is completely eaten or burnt away with the rust. Sir Philip Sidney Outdone. In the seventh century wars between Denmark and Sweden a wounded Danne was about to raise a wooden bottle of water when a cry reached him from a wounded Swede stretched on the ground at a little distance. The good Danne, using the words of Sir Philip Sidney, stumbled to the side of his enemy and, saying, "Thy need is greater than mine," kneeled down and offered the water to his lips. But the Swede, suddenly raising a pistol, fired and wounded the Dane in the shoulder. "Rascal!" cried the twice wounded soldier of Denmark. "I would have befriended you, and you would murder me in return. Now I will punish you. I would have given you the whole bottle, but now you shall have only half." He then raised the bottle to his lips, drank of it and afterward gave it into the hand that had attempted to kill him. Old English Pence. Halfpence and farthings were not coined in England before the time of Edward I, and until they were the penny, which was then made of silver, was issued deeply indented with a cross in order that it might be broken into two pieces for halfpennies or into four things, or farthings. The silver penny was the first coin of the Anglo-Saxons struck in England. In 1672 an authorized coinage of copper pennies, halfpennies and farthings was established. Silver farthings ceased to be coined under Edward VI, and silver halfpennies under the commonwealth. Three Strange and Remarkable Men. As Dumas, the grandfather, prided himself more upon his wonderful strength and skill in athletics than his generalship, as Dumas the second prided himself more upon his knowledge of cookery than the authorship of "The Three Musketeers," so Dumas the third prided himself more upon his knowledge of art than upon the writing of "La Dame aux Camelias." They were three strange and remarkable men. Dead Men's Bones Alexander the Great, seeing Diogenes looking attentively at a parcel of human bones, asked the philosopher what he was looking for. "That which I cannot find," was the reply—"the difference between your father's bones and those of his shaves." Proved. Mrs. Jamlee-He loves Marie all right. Mrs. Deero-How do you know? Mrs. Jamlee-When he proposed he actually didn't know what her father Sweet Music Salt Air Sightseeing Take a trip wlth us down the Bay on the Modern Queen of the Waves "THE DREAMLAND" Wednesday, September 11 Come and enjoy the crowd Committee—Dr. C. H. Fowler, W. H. Tompkins and Boat leaves Pier 5. Pratt Tickets may be secured from the Look, Watch and W Grand Moonlight Excursion By the Ladies Aid of N Tuesday Night, Good Music i Mrs. Mary Prettyman, Chairman Mrs. Mary Taylor, Treasurer Brown's Circle, East Baltimore and Tickets 25 Cents. Boat le Ho for Port Deposit MONDAY, AUG PAYNE AND HANDY Come go with us and witness the beauty Steamer Annapolis leaves pier 6 Light made to go aboard as you go to the pier 10 and 15 cents. Give the little ones Tickets, J. O. Custus, Pastor of Handy C. J. G. Martin, Pastor Labor Day September Grand Tour HIGHLAND ELECTRIC Over 15 horses entered for Address to Knights, Dr. S. B. E. B. Taylor, Dr. Edw. Wright, I. Coronation Address, Mr. Howa Mr. George Chapman. Manage Hall. Ernest Purviance and "Rush ADMISSION Music: Kerr's Orchestra NOTE—For further informa 1209 Druid Hill avenue. Day, September 11th. Tickets. One and enjoy the crowning event of the season. Dr. C. H. Fowler, W. A. Williams, B. Conn. H. Tompkins and Wm H. Daly. It leaves Pier 5. Pratt street Wharf at 9 a.m. May be secured from the committee and all D. Look, Watch and Wait. There will be a Moonlight Excursion to Greater Browns by the Ladies Aid of Mt. Zion M. E. Church on Tuesday Night, August 27th, 1912. Good Music in Attendance— Prettyman, Chairman Mrs. Barbara Hawkins, Taylor, Treasurer Mrs. Matthias Willis, Circle, East Baltimore and the Coachmen's Aid and Events. Boat leaves Miller'f Wharf at For Port Deposit Family Excursion MONDAY, AUGUST 26th, 1912 NE AND HANDY A. M. E. CHURCH and witness the beautiful scenery up the Susquehanna leaves pier 6 Light street wharf 8 a.m. A board as you go to the pier. Don't bother about boat. Give the little ones a trip. Babes in the aisle. Tickets, 50 Cents to Pastor of Handy Chapel J. G. Martin, Pastor of Payne Memorial. September 2d, from 12 m. Grand Tournament LAND ELECTRIC PARK, (Formerly) 15 horses entered for running and hurdle jumps to Knights, Dr. S. B. Hughes, Judges, Dr. Dr. Edw. Wright, Dr. Terrell and J. Garrard. Address, Mr. Howard G. Charge to a Chapman. Managers, Messrs George Chapman, Purviance and "Rush" Williams. ADMISSION 25 CENTS Kerr's Orchestra and Metropolitan For further information apply to Ernest Hill avenue. Wednesday, September 11th. Tickets. 50 Cents Come and enjoy the crowning event of the season Committee—Dr. C. H. Fowler, W. A. Williams, B. Connoway, Dr. H. Tompkins and Wm. H. Daly Boat leaves Pier 5. Pratt street Wharf at 9 a. m. Tickets may be secured from the committee and all Drug stores Look, Watch and Wait! There will be a Grand Moonlight Excursion to Greater Brown's Grove By the Ladies Aid of Mt. Zion M. E. Church 'Tuesday Night, August 27th, 1912 Good Music in Attendance Mrs. Mary Prettyman, Chairman Mrs. Barbara Hawkins, Secretary Mrs. Mary Taylor, Treasurer Rev. Matthias Williams, Pastor Brown's Circle, East Baltimore and the Coachmen's Aid are invited Tickets 25 Cents. Boat leaves Miller'f Wharf at 8.30 p. m. PAYNE AND HANDY A. M. E. CHURCHES Come go with us and witness the beautiful scenery up the Susquehanna River. Steamer Annapolis leaves pier 6 Light street wharf 8 a.m. Arrangement is made to go aboard as you go to the pier. Don't bother about baskets, lunches 10 and 15 cents. Give the little ones a trip. Babes in the arms Free. Tickets, 50 Cents to all J. O. Custus, Pastor of Handy Chapel J. G. Martin, Pastor of Payne Memorial. 17 24-in Grand Tournament HIGHLAND ELECTRIC PARK, (Formerly Pitts) Over 15 horses entered for running and hurdle jumping Address to Knights, Dr. S. B. Hughes. Judges, Dr. E.Stokes, E. B. Taylor, Dr. Edw. Wright, Dr. Terrell and J. Garner. E. B. Taylor, Dr. Edw. Wright, Dr. Terren and J. Garner. Coronation Address, Mr. Howard Gross. Charge to the Knights, Mr. George Chapman. Managers, Mesrs George Chapman, Basil Hall. Ernest Purviance and "Rush" Williams ADMISSION 25 CENTS Music: Kerr's Orchestra and Metropolitan Band NOTE-For further information apply to Ernest Purviance, 1209 Druid Hill avenue. 2t.in31 Clayton Williams University Baltimore This is an institution of learning more the metropolis of the South; an our school is incorporated with full uni est development of the race. This is the and girls Course of Instruction—College. Thory Business and Music. Session Cation send for Catalog. WILLIS J. 4t-14in. Baltimore, Maryland an institution of learning, located in the C ropolis of the South: an educational centre of the incorporated with full university powers and stands out of the race. This is the best school for men and Instruction—College, Theological, Academic, No and Music. Session October 1st to June. For or Catalog. WILLIS J. WINSTON. President 424 W. Biddle Street, This is an institution of learning, located in the City of Baltimore the metropolis of the South; an educational centre of the highest rank Our school is incorporated with full university powers and stands for the highest development of the race. This is the best school for men and women, boys and girls Course of Instruction—College, Theological, Academic, Normal, Preparatory, Business and Music. Session October 1st to June. For further information send for Catalog. WILLIS J. WINSTON, President 424 W. Biddle Street, Baltimore, Md. In Memoriam RINGGOLD—Frank Ringgold departed this life Sunday, Aug. 18, at 4.45 P. M. The funeral took place Wednesday at 2 o'clock from 817 Lemmon street. He is survived by his mother. Mrs. Martha Ringgold, and one sister, Mrs. Julia Ringgold'Jones. We did not want to lose him But God's will must be done. By his sister, Mrs. Julia R. Jones, 1104 W. Lexington street. Mrs. Sarah V. Henderson and children of 1610 Division street, thank their many friends for their kindness during the severe illness of their husband and father, Mr. Lloyd M. Henderson and for their floral tributes at his death which occured on Thursday, Aug. 8, 1912. CARD OF THANKS I wish to thank my many friends for their many evidences of sympathy following the death of my husband, Ishmael Hiner. Mrs. Maria King died suddenly atthe residence of her daughter, Mrs. John Offer Custis, 1514 Druid Hill avenue last Sunday, aged 69 years. She had been a member of the Baptist Church for years. Four daughters, one son, and nineteen grandchildren survive. Funeral services were held at her late home Tuesday afternoon, Rev. A. L. Gaines, of Trinity A. M. E. Church, officiating. Mrs. Cornelia Anderson sang several hymns. The remains were taken to Virginia where after funeral services they were interred. Mrs. Harry E. Purnell and family, of 546 Mosher street, wish to thank their relatives and many friends for their kind sympathy during the brief illness and death of their mother, Isabella Jackson, and also for the handsome floral designs. If you call once, you will call again. Where? To Madam L. E. Morris, Hair Dresser I make braids and puffs out of your own combings. I also have a very fine hair preparation, which will sure make the hair grow. Advertise--It Pays --- --- Maryland located in the City of Balti- duational centre of the highest rank- iversity powers and stands for the high- e best school for men and women, boys cological, Academic, Normal, Prepara- tober 1st to June. For further infor- WINSTON, President 424 W. Biddle Street, Baltimore, Md. NOTICE! The attention of the public and pleasure seekers is called to the Patronage is solicited. Before booking your date for entertainments for the season you will be benefitted by consulting us. The Porter's Exchange Boarding and Lodging by the day or week. Mrs. C. F. Camphor, Proprietress. Great Contest, National Rally and Convention Day, at Cowdensville A.M.E. Church Sunday, August 25th, 1013 Benefit of the Stewards At which time Rev. Stepteau will be present and preach. Also preaching at 8 p. m. each Sabbath: The progressive circle of Cowdensville church and other circles are invited to be present and vote for their choice. No one will be excluded from voting. Male, female or child. The stewards, stewardesses, trustees; literary societies, Young Men's Helping Hand Society are asked to secure all the electoral votes possible at the convention in favor of your favorite nominee. Rev. A. L. Gaines or Trinity A. M. E. Church, Baltimore, his choir and congregation have been invited. He is expected to preach at 3 P.M. DAYLIGHT MOONLIGHT DON'T FORGET SEPT. 4 ST. ANDREWS MALE BENEFICIAL SOCIETY To Brown's Grove JOHN WESLEY M. E. CHURCH, Sharp and Montgomery Sts. Dr. Ernest Lyon, Pastor. 11 a. m. Sermon by the pastor 2.30 p. m. Sunday School 7.80 p. m. Preaching All welcome AMES MEM. M. E. CHURCH Carey and Baker Sts. Rev. D. D. Turpeau, Pastor. 11 a. m., sermon by the Pastor. 2.30 p. m., Sunday School. 7.80 p. m., sermon by Pastor. Every possible attention given to strangers—Seats Free W. A. Jones, Supt. CHRIST INSTITUTION Ensor Street. Rev. Dr. G. W. Kennard, pastor 11 a. m., Sermon by Rev. Samuel Myers 2.30 p. m., Sunday School 8 p. m., Preaching by Pastor All invited. WHATCOAT M. E. CHURCH, Franklin and Pine Sts. "King's Hill" Rev. Alfred Young, Pastor. Six Singing and Praying Bands will hold a Day's Meeting in the Church 6.30 a.m., Prayer and Praise Meeting 11 a. m., Rev. Samuel Murray 3 p. m., Special Sermon 3 p. m., Sunday School. Everybody welcome. 8 p. m., Rev. Benjamin Gross, of Laytansville, Md. Band march at 7 p. m. Meals served at the church Everybody welcome W. C. Tongue, Supt. Magothy camp will commence Sunday, August 25, and close September 2. For both Sundays you will get your tickets from Captain Brown. No tickets will be sold by anyone else. That is the best arrangement. H. A. Carroll, Pastor. Tickets on sale at the beat Camp Meeting at the New Asbury Grove, Reisterstown Md. commences Sunday August 11 and continue to September 1. Special services each Sunday and every Thursday night Take Emory Grove Car, get off at Bond avenue. Meals will be served on the ground. All are invited. Rev. A. Carter, Pastor. SERVICES at the NEW ASBURY GROVE CAMP Reisterstown, Sunday, August 25 9.30, Union class meeting led by 7.30 P. M., Rev. C. Albert Johnson John Wesley praying band has been invited and will be with us on the above date. We extend a cordial invitation to all our friends to be present. L. A Carter, pastor. Special services at Pennsylvania Avenue A. M. E. Zion Church on Pennsylvania avenue first and second Sundays in September. First Sunday, September 1, Rev. J. W. MacDonald, D. D., will preach a special sermon at 11 A. M., subject: "The Dry Bones in the Valley." The second Sunday, September 8 quarterly meeting all day. Rt. Rev. Josiah S. Caldwell, D. D., of Philadelphia, Pa., will preach both morning and night. At 3 P. M., Rev. C. D. Hazel, D. D. the new presiding elder of the Washington District, will preach, Every bastor and his congregation in the city are cordially invited to be present and help us We have our grand rally the same day. Rev. J. W. MacDonald, Pastor. Stars of Bethlehem and Collett Memorial A. M E Churches. Camp Meeting. Ridgely street, Mt. Winans, Sunday, Ten o'clock, class. 11. A. M. to 3P. M., Rev. Dr. J. J. H. White, Evangelist 4. P. M., St. Luke and Waters Singing Band. 8. P. M., Preaching by Pastor. Rev. Columbus Handy, pastor. R. E. Hill, Supt. Columbia avenue or Westport cars. SPECIAL TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC: We hereby give notice that the renting of the Fishermen Auditorium, 401 W. Biddle Street, which has a seating capacity of 650 persons with improved facilities has not changed the price of rent as alleged. Secure your dates early for your fall and winter entertainments. We also have very fine, well ventilated lodge rooms for rent. Come and look us over. For information see Janitor or Columbus Gordon, President of the Joint Stock Association. FOR RENT—A nice parlor sued for office for physician or detist. Apply at 537 Bloom street... WANTED A short order cook at once. Apply to Mrs.C. F. Camphor. 217 S. Sharp street. Rev. J. W. Norris, Pastor 11 a. m., Sermon by the Pastor. 2.30 p. m., Sunday School. 8 p. m., Sermon, Song and Praise Service. Sunday, Sept. 1, 1912, Quarterly Meeting. P. E. will preach at 11 a.m. and 8 p. m. W. D. Naylor, 3 p. m. All are invited. Herbert Frisby, Supt. HANDY MEM. A. M. E. CHURCH Cor. Baker and Bruce Sts. Rev. John Offer Oustis, Pastor. 1514 Druid Hill Ave. Take Preston St. cars, get off Fulton Ave. and Baker St., or Gilmor St. cars, get off at Gilmor and Baker Sts. 10 a. m., Bible Missionary Institute. 11 a. m., Preaching, a stranger 2.30 p. m., Sunday School. 3.30 p. m., Preaching—Stranger 6.30 p. m., A. C. E. League. Reorganization Mr. Sam'l E. Robinson, Pres. Mrs. Matilda Peatt. Supr. Jr. Dept. 8 p. m., Special Services. All are invited. TRINITY A. M. E. CHURCH, Linden Ave. and Biddle St. Rev. A. L. Gaines, D. D., Pastor. 11 a. m. Sermon by Rev. P. W. Wortham 2:30 p. m., Sunday School. 8 p. m., Sermon by Rev, Wortham T. J. Holliday, Supt. PAYNE MEM. A. M. E. CHURCH Laurens and Callhoun Streets Rev. J. G. Martin, Pastor. Residence: 1342 N. Calhoun Street Old People's Day Preaching on Church Lawn 11 a. m., General Experience Meet- ing 2:30 p. m., Sunday School. 4 p. m., Dr. P. J. Jordan, choir and congregation of Allen Church. Broadcasting on the lawn 8 p.m., Preaching on the lawn. Open Air Meeting each night while repairing is going on in church. ST. JOHN'S A. M. E. CHURCH, Lexington St. near Pine; Rev. L. S. Flagg, Pastor 11 a.m., Sermon by the Pastor, subject: "Going on to Perfection." 2.30 p.m. Sunday School. Bertha Fleming, Supt. 8 p.m., Preaching. PENNSYLVANIA AVE. A. M. E. ZION CHURCH. Rev. J. W. MacDonald, D. D., Pastor. Special Services next Sunday. 11 a.m., Sermon, Rev. G.W. H.Sawyer subject: "The Displeasure of God." 2.30 p.m., Sunday School. W. W. Brown, Supt. 7.30 p.m., Sermon by the Pastor, subject "The Good Shepherd." All welcome to services GILLIS MEM. M. P. CHURCH Stockton Street near W. Baltimors Rev. B. H. Knight, Pastor. 10 a. m., Class 11 a. m., Preaching 2 p. m., Sunday School. 6.20 p. m., Praise Meeting 8 p. m., Rev. Dr. Cragler T. H. McGowan, Supt. SPECIAL NOTICE—BOYS DAY Mt. Calvary A. M. E. Church, Towson. 11 A. M., Rev. J. O. Custis will preach special sermon to boys 3 P.M., Platform meeting, Mrs. Ruth M. C ollett, presiding A committee of ladies will furnish special music. 7.30 P. M., preaching by Rev.P. W. Worthham, P. E., subject: Our boys, the hope of the race. All are cordially invited to attend. PARADISE CAMP, Rev. J. A. Briscoe, and Rev. D. G. Hill, pastors Sunday, August 25 10 A. M., Sermon by Rev. J. A. Bricsoe. 8 P. M., Rev. C. W. Mossell and his congregation of Wayman's. Ebenezer Band will lead the singing. All Band leaders and singers are welcome at 1 P. M. All Days's Meeting at St. Luke U. A. M. E. Church, Spring street near Jefferson. Sunday, August 25 11 A. M., Preaching 3 P. M., Preaching by Richard Thomas, Mt. Zion singing and praying bands in charge of the meeting, Robert Carter, leader. 3.30 P. M., Preaching by able divine. R. S. Accooe, pastor, Robert Carter, leader of praying and singing bands Colored Young Women's Chris- tian Association, 1200 Druid Hill Avenue. You are cordially invited to attend the regular service on SUNDAY, AUG. 25th, at 3 P. M. HELPING HAND DAY, Miss Emma Mitchell, presiding. M. E. Murphy, President, E. E. Bright, Secretary. CENTENNIAL M.E. CHURCH Cor. Caroline and Bank Sts Rev. D. W. Shaw, D. D., Pastor. 11 a. m., Rev. D.. PSeaton, of Wash: ington 2.20 p. m., Sunday School. Wm. L. Gibson, Supt. 4 p. m., Open Air Meeting, corner of Dallas street and Fairmount avenue. 8 p. m., Sermon Monday night, Watermelon Feast at 1906 E. Lombard St. --- IT IS UP TO THE BAR ASSOCIATION THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BACKS WATER Attorney General Wickersham Will Lead Fight For Colored Lawyers Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 23. When the American Bar Association holds its annual session here next week the race question will be brought prominently to the fore on a referendum vote as to whether or not William H. Lewis, Assistant Attorney General of the United States; Butler R. Wislon, of Boston, Mass., and William R. Morris, of St. Paul, Minn., will be allowed to retain their membership in the association. When the association was meeting Boston last year, the names of the three men were proposed to the executive committee for membership and they were duly elected. Sometimes after the meeting it was found out that Mr. Lewis was colored, and the executive committee rescinded its action last February. This brought on a controversy between Attorney General Wickersham and George Whitelock, of Baltimore, the secretary of the association. Mr. Wickersham sent out letters to nearly 5,000 members of the association protesting against the exclusion of Mr. Lewis on the ground of his being a Negro. During the height of a the controversy it was learned that Messrs. Wilson and Morris were also colored. Mr. Lewis is a graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School and was famous as a foot ball player. Before his appointment as an assistant Attorney General, he was an assistant United States District Attorney for Massachusetts. Mr. Wilkson is regarded as one of the most capable lawyers in Boston. Mr. Morris is a brother of Edward H. Morris, grand master of the Odd Fellows, and is one of the justices of the supreme court of the order. In passing the decision up to the members of the Bar Association, the executive committee says: The committee has not rejected any one of the three mentioned gentlemen for membership in the association, or assumed to determine the desirability of electing to such membership a colored man otherwise qualified. But for as much as the settled practice of the association has been to elect only white men as members thereof, the committee felt itself constrained to reserve the important question of electing colored men for determination by the association itself, and to that end the committee has regarded it as a plain duty to rescind its earlier action. The status of the three above named persons as candidates for admission remains unimpaired. Having endeavored so to proceed as to leave the association free to exercise its own plenary power the committee now reports the matter to the association without recommendation in the premises; and, in as much as doubt has been expressed as to the right and jurisdiction of the Executive Committee to pass its resolutions of Jan. 4, 1912', and Aug. 12, 1912, the question as to whether the committee had power to act thereon, or to adopt such resolutions, is also hereby referred to the association. The report was signed by all the members of the committee, except Ralph W. Brackenridge, who signed a minority report. He says that although he doubts the right of the committee to rescind the elections of the three men he is willing to leave the matter to the association as a whole. Guests at Hotel Dale [Special to The Afro-American Ledger.] T Cape May, N. J., Aug. [21.— the following persons were guests at Hotel Dale during the past week: Mr. Robert Smith, Mrs. J. Gordan Baugh, Miss Mabel C. Baugh, Mr. Norman Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cummings, Mr. S. Walthom, Miss F. C. Gaskins, Mrs. Butler, Mrs. Mary Delarge, Miss Sadie Jones, Miss M. Holland, Mrs. M. Place, Mr. Hatchett and wife, Dr. J. Thos. Stanford, Mr. T. Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Johns Mr. P. V. Baugh, Mrs. Nannie Crevin, Mrs. Agnes Chase, Mrs. W. A. Johnson, Mrs. Catherine The Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Morning drills for boys; special gymnastic training for girls; swimming pools for boys and girls ttractive grounds; more than 100 buildings, large comfortable, airy; electric lighted; 186 teachers. Catalog will be forwarded on receipt of (6) cents for postage. Address: [Picture of a man in a suit with a bow tie and a mustache]. E. Nugent, Mrs. Thomas M. Thomas and Master Richardson, Mr. J. W. Thompson, Miss R. Brooks, Miss Irene Hill, Mr. J. B. Johnson, Miss Howard, and Miss Nellie Edmond, all of Phiadelphia; Mrs. George W. Cook and son, Miss Susan Cook, Mrs. Daniel Murray and son, Mrs. L. N. Truatt Miss M. I. Hardwick, Mr. W. B. Evans, M. D., all of Washington, D. C. Mrs. I. V. Jones Mrs. D. A. Wilson, and Mr. and Mrs. D.A Wilson, of Norristown, Pa.; Mrs. Anna B. Farrell, Mrs. T. W. Hawthorne Mrs. Moore, Miss Ida Hill, Mrs. J. B. Lowe and niece Miss Howard, all of New York; Mr. and Mrs. R. Madison and daughter, of Albany, N. Y; Misses M. M. Henderson, E. V. Henderson, and H. M. Henderson, of Oberlin, O.; Mr. Robert Hilton, Mr. and Mrs. Venable; Mrs. J. W. Nichols and daughter Mrs. Ida Hilton, Mr. L. Chaney all of Baltimore, Mr. W. D. Rich Roland Park; Mrs S. E. Randolph Richmond Va. and Mrs. Wm. Miller; Mr. F. Diggs Frederick Md.; Mrs. Dora Lyttle Chester Pa; Dr. Jas. E.Shepard, Durham N. C.; Mr. C. H. Shepard, Mr. C. C. Spaulding Prof. W. C. Pearson all of Durham N. C. Field Day Will Draw Large Crowds The annual field day of the First Patriarchie Regiment of Odd Fellows, which will be held at Staunton, Va., on Labor Day and the day preceeding, promises to attract a large number of Odd Fellows. An elaborate program has been arranged, and many Baltimoreans are expected to take a prominent part. Among those who will go are Messrs Hamilton N. Hayes, Thomas B. Slater, and Harry Franklin. [Illustration of a soldier in uniform, holding a sword and standing in a pose of readiness.] SLAUGHTER MUST GO, SAYS THE BOSS "Ben" Davis After Scalp of The Editor of the Odd Fellows Journal. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 22.—Henry P. Slaaughter, editor of the Odd Fellows' Journal must go. So says Ben J. Davis, boss of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, chief of the supreme court of the order and the next grand master of the order. Mr. Slaughter has been editor of the Journal since J. C. Asbury was deposed by the sub-committee of managementt. For the past few months the bosses of the order have been planning to get rid of him, and it is said that they favor either C. A. Howe, editor of the Birmingham (Ala.) Wideawake, or Frank Farrell, of New Orleans. As the sub-committee promised him a contract, and failed to give him one Mr. Slaughter has wisely held on to his job in the Government Printing Office at Washington, and Mr. Davis, in the last issue of the Independent, declares that Slaughter has been robbing the order if he has held on to the government job and the editorship also. Prospective Grand Master Davis proceeds thus to read the riot act and demand that the whole order do his bidding: "Somebody must stand up for the interest of the order We had the moral courage to support him when we believed him to be right, and we have the moral courage to expose him when we know he is wrong. We love him and had hoped for a bright future for both him and the Journal, but we found out long ago that his election was a mistake. We had no idea that he would do the order such a deal; that he would work for the Government all day and undertake to render the order sundown services. "Slaughter must resign, and upon his failure the sub-committee must summarily remove him. It is up to the Grand Master to ascerta in the truth and to do his duty." It's A Good One. Too Hundreds of persons have stopped to take a look at the display window of the Afro-American Ledger to take a look at the picture of the thousands that crowded the Bull Moose Convention Hall when Roosevelt was about to speak. The picture is owned by Mr. Joseph P. Evans, who was one of the delegates to the convention. "I regard the Tuskegee Institute as the most considerable educational invention of modern times," writes Prof. W.I. Thomas, Professor of Sociology in the University of Chicago. Industry is the spirit of Tuskegee—industry and discipline are made of habit. The choice of some 40 trades is offered young men and young women. Tuskegee graduates are earning from $50.00 to $80.00 and $100.00 per month as Academic Teachers, Farm Managers, Steam and Electrical Engineers, Tailors, Teachers of Domestic Science, Nurses, in fact, the demand for men and women trained in all the trades at Tuskegee is far beyond the supply. The Academic Work is vital and real; it is close to realities. The school seeks soundness and efficiency; the Academic and Industrial Work are closely correlated. The Spiritual Work of the school is strong. It ranks fifth in the United States in number of students studying the Bible. It is guided by a Chaplain and a Secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association and thru a Bible Training School. Former Football Player, Race Hors $ ^{e} $ Man and Man About Town In Another Role Archer B. Owens, athlete, globe trotter, and all round good fellow, has now bobbed up in an unexpected field—a Burns detective. It was he who payed a part in getting evidence against the men charged with the lynching of King Johnson at Brooklyn, Md., last Christmas Day. Owens is Baltimore boy. During his school days he worked with his father for Franklin Davis Nursery Company. He was graduated from the Colored High School in 1908 and after working here for the next two years, he left to go rail-roading. When seen in New York a few months ago by a representative of the Afro-American Ledger he told a glowing story of his success, and said that he never expected to come back to Baltimore to live. The past spring he blew into town, and told his friends that he had gone into the junk business on Light street. This was the place that the Burns men opened while securing evidence against the alleged lynchers. He hustled old junk like a veter stevedore, all the while assisting in getting evidence. His work being done here, he is now in another part of the country on a similar line of work. Dr. Payn's Painless Dentistry Perfect Fitting Set of Teeth All Work Guaranteed For Twenty Years. from $5.00 up. Bridge Work $5.00. Fillings 60 cents Gold $1.00. Crown and Bridge Work $3.00 to $5.00. All work done by Small Payments. EASY TERMS EXAMINATION FREE 118 W. LEXINGTON ST. Institute, Tuskegee. Ala. M. H. GIRL IN INSTITUTE UNIFORM AND HAT swimming pools for boys and girls ery; electric lighted; 186 teachers. e. Address: TON, PRINCIPAL KEGEE INSTITUTE, ALA. What is your child doing these Summer months? What are YOU doing to start that child on the way toward a Successful Future? Why not let us start him in business? You should early start your children on the way to the making of successful business men and women, and there is no better way than by teaching them how to earn their own living—the value of a dollar—and taking upon themselves a part of the responsibilities that will tend toward the development of those qualities of thrift, ambition and self-reliance, that so mark the present-day man of affairs. And there is nothing that will so develop these qualities as selling newspapers. Some of the most successful men and women in public life started out in that way, and today they would not take in exchange all the wealth they possess for the experience gained during those happy childhood hours when they were vending newspapers on the streets. THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER is more and more and more becoming recognized as the real home paper among colored people everywhere. Our circulation is increasing every week, and it is largely through the efforts of our young salesmen who start out every week with a bundle of papers under their arms, that this increase is made possible. We want more boys and girls in every section of the country to act as our agents. We want men and women too, but we are particularly anxious for the youngsters. There is a wealth of experience and a very good income for the boy and girl who will devote a few hours on Friday afternoons and a part of Saturday to selling THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER. It is easy to build up a good circulation in your neighborhood that will in a short time more than pay you for your trouble. We will give your boy or girl a star AB SLUTELY FREE Baltimore, Md. Select Home Killed Poultry Wholesale and Retail Dealer WM. H. BEVANS Stalls—1010 Lexington Market and 312 Hollin Market Also Orders Received and Delivered from Home residence 1029 N. CAREY STREET or by Phone. Call Madison 3923-Y at residence. 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ROBERT ADKINS Braddock Heights MD BOARDING By Day, Week and Month Summer Board MRS.W.M. L. PASSEY Locust Cottage St. George P.O. Bal. Co. Md. Boarding for Summer by Day or Week Five minutes walk from St. George Station on the Western Maryland Railroad. Snort walk from Emory Grove Car Line Phone, C. & P. Madison 2674 Y. GEORGE W. LESTER Fresh Killed Poultry - Stall: 254 Lafayette Market. Residence: 1204 Argyle Avenue Phone and Postal Cards orders promptly attended to Please Give Me A Trial. MADE HIS MARK AS SCHOLAR. Some Facts in the Busy Life of Rector George Frazier Miller of St. Augustine P. E. Church in Brooklyn-His Career as Student, Voluminous Writer and Author Briefly Told. By Mrs. M. C. LAWTON. Brooklyn—Rector George Frazier Miller of St. Augustine P. E. church. in this city, is a native of Alken, S. C., where he was born forty-eight years ago. His parents were Alfred A. and Ellen Collins De Reef Miller. His grandfather on the maternal side was Richard Edward De Reef, a prominent merchant of Charleston, S. C. The elder De Reef's parents were natives of Santo Domingo. They emigrated to the United States during one of the insurrections on the island many years ago. Mr. Miller's preliminary education was acquired in the public and private schools of Charleston. His father died when young Miller was only six years of age. His mother was a woman of great ambition and self reliance. With the assistance of her father-in-law, a man SIR JOHN BURTON GEORGE PRAZIER MILLER. of considerable means, she was able to continue her son in school. After completing the normal school course Mr. Miller matriculated for college, entering Howard university in the fall of 1881. By the diligence in his studies he was graduated with the degree of bachelor of arts in 1888. In the fall of the same year he entered the General Theological seminary in New York, being graduated from this institution in the class of 1891. The degree of master of arts was conferred upon him in cursus in 1893, the thesis of the time being a philosophical discourse upon the subject "The Value of the Moral Argument of Theism." In 1901 Mr. Miller entered the Graduate School of Philosophy of the University of New York, taking a post graduate course and devoting especial attention to the philosophy of religion, logical science and metaphysics. While pursuing these studies he wrote a syllabus of logic (unpublished) which was approved in toto by Professor James E. Lough, Ph.D. of the department of logic and psychology. He published a work entitled "Adventism Answered," a philosophical discussion which treats on biblical and ethical grounds of Christian liberty in the observance of days and makes answer to the ancient Sabbath claim or duty of Saturday observance. He has written numerous tracts and essays, and his recent pamphlet, "Socialism and Its Ethical Basis," written as a concise statement for the Hannibal forum of Brooklyn, has called forth words of high commendation from men of state in different parts of the country. many of whom hold the economic principles of other schools of thought: The professors and other authorities at Howard university had watched Mr. Miller's career for twenty-four years. They hold him in high esteem as an alumnus who had honored his alma mater, so they felt that the time had come for the university to honor him, with the result that at the commencement Bishop Thirkield, the retiring president, invested him with the dignity, honor and title of doctor of divinity. Encampment of the Order of Moses. The various tabernacles of the Grand United Order of Moses in Brooklyn will soon begin preparations for entertaining the delegates and visitors to the grand annual encampment of the order, scheduled to meet in Brooklyn Tuesday, Oct. 15. Erects New Baptist Church Edifice. The newly finished Baptist church edifice in Chickkasha, Okla., erected at a cost of $50,000, reflects credit upon the entire denomination in the state. It is pastored by the Rev. George W. THE NEW POLITICAL PARTY. What Afro-American Papers Are Saying About the Movement. ING About the movement. "For all time in the history of this country after the election next November the Afro-American will be found in all parties, and if the bull mooses accomplish nothing else they will have done well. It is a mighty good thing for the 'colored brother.'"—Baltimore Afro-American Ledger. "We indorse the spirit of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's letter to Julian Harris, the Athanta (Ga.) journalist, for the position he takes on the-race issue in the south. He does not side-step the issue, but deals with facts as they really are. Except to dispute what we all know to be true, there is no room for argument to the contrary of the colonel's position."—Philadelphia Solid Rock Herald. "At first the new Progressive party looked like the solution of the whole problem until Colonel Roosevelt expressed the wish that no colored men in the south should have any part in the birth of the new party. That itself is enough to give the 'lily white' enthusiasts more encouragement than they have received throughout the whole Taft administration, and Mr. Taft is the daddy of all the lily whites."—Nortolk (Va.) Journal and Guide "But is it a crime to support Mr. Roosevelt, or would one be read out of the party of Republicanism by so doing? Colored Republicans today are divided between the two Republican candidates. Some are for President Taft and some are for the former president."—Detroit (Mich.) Informer. "Theodore Roosevelt was more guilty of ignoring the deprivation of the constitutional rights of colored men than any of his Republican predecessors. He was the first Republican to go further and add a positive act of injustice and deliver a shocking blow at our rights. He was the first to call for the political heads of all those old fashioned Republicans who opposed injustice to colored men."—Indianapolis (Ind.) Recorder. "President Taft has been criticised, but he is 'an angel of light' to the colored man as compared to the brutal declarations of the brilliant Progressive candidate from Oyster Bay, N. V."—Richmond (Yn.) Planet. "Roosevelt the just, the champion 'square dealer,' the redeemer of all unfortunate humanity, the adjuster of people's rights, the world's reformer, has at last thrown the die which will be the fate of all his aspirations and the undoing of all his political achievements. In his endeavor to break up the 'solid south' he would distranchise the entire Negro race in the south. His aim is to create a 'illy white' party in which the Negroes have no part. Roosevelt knows that the Negroes have been disfranchised in nearly all the southern states, and, rather than help them to regain their citizenship, he treats them as a nonentity and places greater barriers before them."—Harrisburg (Pa.) Advocate-Verdict. "Mr. Roosevelt's letter to Julian Harris explaining his new Negro policy is a cloud of words. Over the entrance to the Progressive party he puts up the placard, 'No Negroes Need Apply.' He comes out squarely for a white man's party in the south. Negro delegates from southern states, though chosen with as good a title as any white man, were steam rollered out of his Chicago convention."—Boston Guardian. FORMER HOWARD STUDENT NOW MEMBER OF FACULTY. Hon. C. C. Robertson Worked His Way Up From the Bottom. Among the young college men of the race making good in life is C. C. Robertson, one of the instructors in mathematics at Howard university. Mr. Robertson is a promising young man and is amply prepared to take a high place in the educational ranks of the race. He was born in Hampton, Va., near the great industrial school in that town. He received his early education at the Spiller academy and Wayland seminary of the Virginia Union university in Richmond, Va. After his preparation for college he entered the Virginia Union university, from which he was graduated in 1910. He was among the leaders of his class and was prominent in college activities, especially as a Young Men's Christian association worker. In further preparation for his life's work he entered Howard university, doing work in the Teachers' college. He did special work in mathematics and German and received his degree of Pd. B., 1911. His work in mathematics at the university attracted the attention of the authorities, and on the completion of his course he was offered the post of instructor in mathematics. Mr. Robertson is among the youngest members of the faculty. He believes in thorough preparation. He has matriculated for the master's degree at Columbia university in New York. Concord Literary Reopens Sept. 12. The Concord Literary circle, in Brooklyn, will reopen for the fall and winter season on Thursday, Sept. 12. President Walter K. Taylor and his associates in office are arranging the program of meetings to cover three months. While many prominent persons from out of town will deliver addresses and lectures and read papers, members of the circle will take an active part in the exercises at each meet THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER HIS POEMS HAVE REAL MERIT Devotees of the Newspaper Profession Increases Usefulness as a Literatus by Writing Epic Verses—"Hope's Fruition" His Masterpiece—Order of Mysterious Ten's Supreme Session. St. Louis.—Touched, as it were, by hallowed fire from the heights of Parnassus, Charles S. Hunter, a brilliant young newspaper man of this city, is stinging his way into the hearts of the people. Though as yet not widely known, his short stories and poems have real merit, not the mere jingle of the rimester, but verse that breathes excited thought. Unlike Dunbar, he has not essayed as yet the more difficult role of diadect poems, but has satisfied himself with what he terms his epic, "Hope's Fruition—A Reverie," and a few minor poems which are marked by that refinement of sentiment which makes real poetry inspiring. These lines from a poem, "Tell Me Now," tell their own story of worth: If faults I have, as faults I must, And you must needs conceal that fact. My God and your sullon sanction such an To fragile human clay and erring dust. If virtues, tell them o'er and o'er in song Till cadences of joy my soul doth thrill, And love anon shall sing its "peace, be sill." To heart's unrest endured and suffered long. These lines from a poem called "Life's Journey" are full of that rare quality which indicates genius: We're nearing Jordan's waters, Still he holds my hand. "I hope's Fratition—A Reverie," however, is Mr. Hunter's most ambitions effort. It is a historical poem, telling in stately ring the story of the black man from 1619 to the present day. Business Man March In Big Parade. Business Man March In Big Parade. The parade of the business men which inaugurated the Terrace garden at Handlan's park recently created community wide interest and marked a new epoch in the business life of our people in this city. The display was in every way creditable, and the classic float of Clark and Smith, tailors and haberdashers, won merited applause. The garden was visited by from 15,000 to 20,000 pleasure seekers during the ten days' celebration and was a notable success. The United Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of the Mysterious Ten, a widely known secret order, held supreme sessions during the week ending Aug. 17 in the mammoth coliseum. Thousands of visitors were in attendance from all parts of the country. Delegates from foreign lands were also accredited to this international convention. NEW FRATERNAL SOCIETY. National Ideal Benefit Concern Formed in Richmond, Va. The new fraternal organization known as the Supreme Fountain of the National Ideal Benefit society, incorporated, which was recently launched in Richmond, Va., is forging to the front. At a public meeting recently held in its interest A. W. Holmes, supreme master of the new society, made a lengthy speech, setting forth the work of the society. He placed particular emphasis upon the fact that the field in Richmond and the country at large is broad and there is plenty of room for this new fraternal society. Others spoke along similar lines. The meeting was full of enthusiasm and encouragement to the members. The society has open spacious headquarters at 527 N. First street. At a business meeting of the board of directors plans for organizing all over the country were fully discussed and the appointment of deputies for this especial work arranged and other important business was transacted. Cleveland Gazette's Thirtieth Year. The Cleveland (O.) Gazette recently rounded its thirtieth year of continuous publication. The Gazette has been moderately successful as a business venture, eminently so as a defender of equal rights according to law for colored Americans. Editor Harry C. Smith has not been in the editorial harness all these years for naught. Ohio's civil rights and anti-lynching laws and many other helpful measures were enacted through his untiring efforts. Work of League on Urban Conditions. Following closely the line of work for which it was organized, the National League on Urban Conditions Among Afro-Americans has decided to open an employment bureau in New York early in the fall. During the present year, 1912, the league has covered a wide field in its work in the various cities, and the spirit of better conditions among us along all lines has been kindled anew. SUNDAY SCHOOL. Lesson VIII.—Third Quarter, For Aug. 25, 1912. Text of the Lesson, Luke iv, 16-30. Memory Verses, 18, 19—Golden Text; John i, 11 (R. V.)—Commentary Prepared by Rev. D. M. Stearns. According to the harmonies of the gospels, this lesson takes us back in the story a long distance, back to a time before the Sermon on the Mount, to a time soon after the first miracle at Cana and the meeting with the woman of Samarra, according to Matt. xiii, 54-58; Mark vi, 1-6. He did revisit Nazareth after the events in last week's lesson and taught in the synagogue, but could do mighty work, except healing a few sick folk, because of their unbelief. They were astonished at His wisdom, but they were offended at Him and said: "Whence hath this man all these things? Is not this the Carpenter, the Son of Mary, the brother of James and Jones and of Juda auid Simon, and are not his sisters here with us?" He only replied, "A prophet is not without honor but in his own country and among his own kin and in his own house." Because He said something similar in our lesson for today some one must have thought the incidents the same, and the more perhaps because Luke only records this, and only Matthew and Mark the other. The incident of this lesson occurred very early in His ministry, while that was much later and was probably His last visit to Nazareth. Turning to this lesson, we note that it was His custom to go to synagogue on the Sabbath day, and it could not have been for the benefit received from any discourse there, but there was always a portion read from the law, the prophets and the psalms, and that could not but be profitable to a truly devout mind. Forsaking the assembling together is one of the common and increasing sins of our day, disobeying Heb. x. 25. There is a great forsaking of the house of God and despising of His word, but all things hasten to the consummation, and the kingdom shall be the Lord's. On this particular Sabbath He was asked to read, and there was given Him the roll or book of the prophet Isaiah. Finding the place known to us as chapter lxi. He read just a few sentences and closed the book or roll and gave it again to the minister and sat down. With what expression He must have read! It was surely according to Neh. viii. 8. He read distinctly and gave the sense, and now, having taken His seat, He was about to cause them to hear. He was about to cause them to understand the reading. We do not wonder that the eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on Him (verse 20), for if this was His first reading it was the first time they had ever heard the Son of God read from His own book. How wonderful and startling were the words He uttered, "This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears!" (21). For a literal fulfillment of each sentence that He read see Luke vii, 22; vii, 12; viii, 42; ix, 30; xiii, 16; John ix. It was so through all His ministry. Anointed with the Holy Ghost and with power. He went about doing good and the devil all that were oppressed of the devil, for God was with Him (Acts x, 38). They could not but wonder at His gracious words, and yet they could not forget that He was their own townsman, who had been brought up in their midst, whom they had seen and known day by day for nearly thirty days. Had He not made and mended their plows and yokes many a time? What could he mean by His reference of that Scripture to Himself? Whom did He think Himself to be? Truly they knew Him not; but, oh, if they only had believed His word and inquired of Him more fully and meekly, how grand it might have been for them! What a heartache (as we would say) Israel always gave him, drawing from Him such words as: "Oh, that they were wise, that they understood, that they would consider!" "If thou hadst known!" "How often would I, * * * and ye would not!" "Israel would none of me" (Deut. xxxii, 20; Luke xix, 42; Matt. xxii, 37; Ps. [xxxii, 11). How patient and long suffering He has been. But there is a limit, and so they have been scattered now these many centuries, and He has been keeping silence, bearing with His church and the nations and the devil, but there was a sentence in Isaiah which He did not read that day at Nazareth. He stopped just as He came to it and shut the book. We are still living in the acceptable year of the Lord and still waiting for the day of vengeance of our God upon His enemies and the time to comfort all who mourn in Zion isa ixi, 2, 3; lxiii, 4. See l's. 1, 1-3; lsa. lxvi. 15, 16. They seem to have been offended not only at His saying, but also because He did not in their town some of the mighty works He bud done at Capernaum. He reminded them that in the days of Elijah and Elisha it was not a widow or a leper in Israel who was in a special manner helped, but a widow of Sidon and a leper from Syria, although at that time there were many widows and lepers in Israel. 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Union Picnic The auspices of the Sons and Daughters of Monday, August 26th, at Germania Pan- ear Frederick Road. Admission to all, 10 alter Jones, Pres. Sons of Allen Gorgia Thomas, Pres. Daughters of Allen Rev, P. J. Jorda For the benefit of Grace A. M. E. Church, Catonsville, Md. Monday, September 2, At Greenwood Electric Park Winters Ave., Catonsville, Md. BASE BALL 2.30 SHARP Social Giants of Catonsville vs. Black High Rocks of Mt. Washington Music by the Metropolitan Band Gerry Fields, Floor Manager Tickets for all. 20 Cents James Matthews, Gatekeeper Joseph Washington, Ticket Agent Philip S. Briggs and Buc Brown, Gen'l Mgrs N.B.—Take Frederick Road or Ellicott City Car and get off at Winters avenue. Parade in Catonsville at 6 p. m. Grand Union Picnic Under the auspices of the Sons and Daughters of Allen A.M.E. Church, Monday, August 26th, at Germania Park, Longwood avenue near Frederick Road. Admission to all, 10 Cents. Mr. J. Walter Jones, Pres. Sons of Allen Mrs. Georgia Thomas, Pres. Daughters of Allen Rev. P. J. Jordan, Pastor HOUSES FOR SALE on terms to suit on Druid sion St., Argyle Ave., My Carey St., Calhoun St., S every cross street from I buy before seeing my list. phone, or drop a postal. J. Welsh, 2024 W. San Call from 7 to suit on Druid Hill Ave., Etting Argyle Ave., Myrtle Ave., Carro Calhoun St., Stricker St., Mou ss street from Hoffman to Bake seeing my list. Call to see me drop a postal. Selsh, 2024 W. Saratoga St., Teleph Call from 7 to 9 P. M. on terms to suit on Druid Hill Ave., Etting St., Division St., Argyle Ave., Myrtle Ave., Carrollton Ave., Carey St., Calhoun St., Stricker St., Mount St., and every cross street from Hoffman to Baker. Don't buy before seeing my list. Call to see me, or telephone, or drop a postal. J. Welsh, 2024 W. Saratoga St., Telephone Gilmor Call from 7 to 9 P. M. Baltimore's Leading Colored Undertakers in Prices JOHN H. 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"Yes, sir!" breathed the waiter. "By the way, waiter, your face is strangely familiar." "Possibly, sir. Last year I was a guest here, not a servant. But—if you will pardon me for my presumption—I seem to know your face too." "Probably. Last year I was a waiter here." Isn't it pathetic, this renewing of old friendships? — Cleveland Plain Dealer. Labor Day Celebration club, of Catonsville, and the b of Mt. Washington and will give a- October 2, E. Church, Catonsville, Md. Electric Park Catonsville, Md. 2:30 SHARP Black High Rocks of Mt. Washington Metropolitan Band Floor Manager 20 Cents of all Kinds Noseph Washington, Ticket Agent Luc Brown, Gen'l Mgrs at 3 p. m. Er Ellicott City Car and get off at Catonsville at 6 p. m. Sons and Daughters of Allen A.M.E. at Germania Park, Longwood Admission to all, 10 Cents. Sons of Allen Daughters of Allen Rev, P. J. Jordan, Pastor Hill Ave., Etting St., Divi- rtle Ave., Carrollton Ave., Tricker St., Mount St., and Hoffman to Baker. Don't Call to see me, or tele- atoga St., Telephone Gilmor to 9 P. M. Miss Mary C. Brown, of 2145 Division street, is confined to her home by illness. Miss Clara Thompson, of Barclay street," is spending some time at Atlantic City, N. J. Mrs. Violet Wright, of 1103 Russell street, is visitng friends in Nanticoke, Md. Mrs. Mary Hicks, of Philadelphia, has gone to Calvert county, Md., after visiting her sister, Mrs. Sophia Kelly, of 606 S. Eutaw street. Mrs. Edward Jenkins, of 918 Warner street, is visiting relatives in Virginia. Mrs. W. Edward Williams and children, of 623 W. Lanvale street, has returned from a visit to Virginia. Mr. Samuel Burton is spending ten days in Philadelphia and Atlantic City. Mrs. Hattie Williams, of New York, is visiting relatives in the city. Mr. Alfred Upsher, of Lanvale street, has returned from a visit to Buffalo, N. Y., because of the illness of his aunt. Mrs. Lula A. Drewry, who was confined to her home for several wees by illness, is now at Atlantic City. Mr. Robert Taylor, of 2123 Division street, is able to be out after a brief illness. Miss Aldine Gwathney, of 568 Wilson street has returned from a visit to her grandfather at Tappahannock, Va., and with her mother is now spending a few weeks with her father, Mr. Wm. T. Gwathney at Asbury Park, N. J. The Misses Cornelia and Erie Watson, of 435 W. Conway street, are visiting relatives in Accomac, Co., Va. Mr. John Drumman, of 430 W. Henrietta street, is visiting his mother at Accomac Co., Va., for several weeks. Mrs. Maud Crosby has returned home from Atlantic ity Mrs. Bertha Smith, of Pine street is visiting in Virginia. Mrs. Cora Roberts and Miss Evelyn Minnis, of 681 Pierce street, have gone to Ocean City and Virginia, visiting their grandparents. Mrs. Lucy Jeffries and two daughters have returned to Baltimore after spending four weeks visiting Mr. and Mrs. Branch at Chase, Md. Messrs. James K. Whittington and John Whittington, of Calvert Co., Md., have returned home They were stopping with their daguhter and sister-in-law, Mrs. H. Albert Whittington, of Division street. Miss Carrie Ewing, of 1217 Division street, is spending a week at Atantic City. Mr. Clarence M. Palmer has entered upon his new work at the Voorhees Industrial School, Denmark, S. C., where he has been engaged as bookkeeper, cashier and stenographer for the school. Mrs. Annie Perry Cephas, of 2114 Druid Hill avenue, has arrived at Asbuuy Park, N. J., to join Mr. Cephas who is returning from a motor trip from Canada to Baltimore. Mrs. Hester Douglass, of 621 George street, has gone to Norfolk, Va., for a week's stay. Miss Corrine Taylor, of 1136 Argyle avenue, has recently returned home from visiting friends in New York and Atlantic city. Mrs. Luke M. Edelen and daughter, of 2022 Druid Hill avenue, are visiting relatives in Altoona, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hilton, of 554 Dolphin street, is spending the remainder of the summer at Hotel Dale, Cape May, N. J. Mrs. Dora Harris, of Pittsburg, Pa., is visiting her cousin, Mrs. Alex. C. Crane, of 560 W. Dolphin street. Miss Ella Peck, of 1905 Druid Hill avenue, left last week for Philaephia, to meet her sister, Miss Amelia F. Peck, and cousin, Mrs. Ward Wilson, of Philadelphia, enroute to Bridgeton, N.J., for a stay after which they will visit New York City. Mrs. Cassie D. Brooks, of 1095 Druid Hill avenue, left last week to spend the remainder of the summer visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Priscilla Pinn, of Middleburg, Va. Mrs. Casey was formerly Mamie Browne. Mrs. Ida Fine, of 1331 Division street, left last week to spend the remainder of the summer with her mother, Mrs. Mar-ha Ward, L. Smithfield, Va. Mrs. Clarence Williams, of New York, formerly of this city, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Mary Holden, of 756 Mulberry street. "Well sir, have you heard it?" "Heard what?" "All about the big Dreamland excursion on September 11" Mrs. Martha M. Kenney Reid, of Washington, D. C. is spending a few days visiting Mrs. Minnie Garnett, of 2147 Division street. Dr. and Mrs. Short, of 1812 Druid Hill avenue, entertained a few friends last. Thursday evening in honor of Miss Hallie (Burk. of Centerville; who was visiting them, and Mrs. Morris and Mrs. Walker, of Liberia, West Africa, who will sail on August 31. Mrs. Helen Jones and her two children are visiting in White Stone Co., Va. Sweet music, sight seeing, salt air, September 11 and the big Dreamland. Mrs. Alice Roberts, of 140 Hoffman street and her son. Lawrence, are visiting in Atlantic city. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Lee, of 1217 Upton street, has returned home from a trip to Atlantic City. Mr. Oscar C. Dorsey, 648 W. Hoffman street, is spending his vacation with his sister, Mrs. Erina D. Bell at Orange N. J., He will also visit a few friends in New York. Mrs. Mamie L. Casey, of 953 N. 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