The Afro-American

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN LEDGER VOL. XXI NO.5 PROGRESSIVE CAMPAIGN NOW ON IN EARNEST Auxiliary Headquarters Opened In The Afro-American Building. WILL BE A FIGHT TO THE FINISH Rev. W. A. C. Hughes Predicts Success For the Progressives With a vim that presages success, statewide movement for Roosevelt, Johnson and the whole Progressive ticket has been started by leading colored men of the city and counties. The leading spirits in the movement are men who are firm believers in the Progressive party and its principles, and who are anxious for the hastening of the day when the masses will be the chief consideration of those who are placed into responsible positions by the people. The movement has been named the Roseville Johnson Auxiliary Committee, and is an outgrowth of the city-wide movement, inaugurated last week. Headquarters have been opened on the third floor of the building of the Afro-American Ledger, C28 N. Eutaw street, and the work of lining-up the colored voters of the state has been entered into with zest. Conspicuous in the movement are Rev. W. A. C. Hughes, who was one of the leading spirits in the campaign that resulted in the defeat of the last disfranchising amendment; Rev. C. H. Stepteau; Alfred A. Mitchell, one of the vice presidents of the city-wide movement; Jeremiah A. Stafford, another vice president; John W. Rich, Joseph P. Evans, who was a delegate to both the Republican and the Progressive National Conventions, and John H. Murphy. The last-named two gentlemen are also members of the general committee of the Progressive party in Maryland. "The principles enunciated by the Progressives," said Rev. Hughes to a representative of the Afro-American Ledger "are those that should receive the support of every man of the race who is interested in our uplift. The larger life, for which we are all striving can be best attained by working with these forces that are primarily interested in the welfare of all the people We have already received gratifying assurances of support from all parts of the State, and only this week heard that the Courier, a newspaper published at Cambridge had decided to support the principles and candidates of the Progressives." "I am in this fight," said Mr. Evans, "because I believe that Mr. Roosevelt offers the largest measure of good for all of the people. Let us not mistake it, that the present fight means much to the whole nation, and the men of the race cannot afford to be out of the line of progress." Poor Service Charged Against the Great Northern New Orleans, La., Sept. 26 — Charges that New Orleans Great Northern Railroad does not provide seating accommodations for the colored people who travel on that line, and that Negroes and whites are compelled to sit in the same compartments on this account, are made in a petition to the State Rail. road Commission by residents of Slidel. They say that the recent shooting of Conductor J. B. Van Zant by a colored passenger was due to this cause. The man had refused to pay his fare because there was no seat for him, and after the conductor put him off the shooting resulted. The petition asserts that the railroad company is jeopardizing the lives of its employees and passengers by poor service. It is further charged that the train carrie no water in the colored section, nor has a toilet in that compartment, and the Negroes go through the white section of the car to quench their thirst. THEY OBJECT TO SEPARATE SCHOOLS Philadelphia. Sept. 26 — The placing of the Durham School and the school at Jefferson and 20th streets in charge of Colored principals are being resented here by a large class of colored residents as an entering wedge for separate schools for both races. Many say that they believe that while it would mean the employment of a large number of colored teachers, it would but open the way for the further extension of prejudice toward the race. In a letter to one of the daily papers, Franklin O. Nichols sums up the views of the objectors as follows: "Regardless of anything that might be said in favor of this system of managing the schools, the fact remains that a certain class of American citizens are separated from the rest because of their color. Nothing is clearer than that the welfare of the classes, as well as that of individual's, depends upon, and is prompted by their usual acquaintances. Prejudice is the child of. ignorance; prejudice is sure to prevail where people do not know each other. Society and intercourse are means established by Providence for mutual improvement. They remove antipathies, promote mutual adaptation and conciliation and establish relations of mutual regard." J. R. Paul Brock is principal of the Durham School and Clarence Whyte of the other school in charge of a colored principal. Both are former teachers in the public schools of Baltimore. Conference Refuses (Special to The Afro-American Ledger. Indianapolis, Sept. 26—The seventy-fourth annual session of the Indiana Conference of the A. M. E. Church, which came to an end last week with the announcements of the appointments by Bishop B. F. Lee, refused to endorse any candidate for the Presidency. The following resolution was adopted: Whereas, it was announced through the columns of the daily press that the A. M. E. Conference, sitting in Kokomo had endorsed the candidacy of Col. Theodore Roosevelt for the presidency, and Whereas, the report on the state of the country stated that the Republican party had outlived its usefulness, and Whereas, That, we the members of the Indiana conference, sitting in its seventy-fourth session, disclaim all responsibility for the above-mentioned report. Washington, Sept. 25 — Prominent colored residents of this city were greatly aroused over a slanderous placard displayed last week to the delegates attending the International Congress on Hygiene. The placard was placed on exhibition by the American Association on Sex Hygiene, and alleges that nearly all city Negroes are afflicted with diseases resulting from immorality. The placard says that hospital practice shows that nearly all city male Negroes have had loathsome private diseases; that women have been infected as a result that practically all colored men in cities are grossly immoral and that colored girls lose their virtue long before they reach womanhood. "The gravest problem to be faced," reads the chart, "in dealing with the city Negro is not his or her industrial future or social equality with the white man or woman. It is the danger to the public of his or her contagiousness or infectious (ness) from the standpoint of physical and moral disease." The claim is made that illicit intercourse between the races is responsible for one-third of the colored people having an admixture of the blood of the white race, and that high mortality among colored people from tuberculosis is the direct result of disease from immoral practices. There are delegates from 33 nations attending the congress, and the placard is regarded here as an attempt to unfairly prejudice foreigners against American Negroes. Prof. Kelly Miller was among the many to protest and the lodged complaints to the District commissioners, the secretary to the President and the chief clerk of the Treasury, in view of the fact that the United States government had made an appropriation to aid the exhibition and congress. The Emancipation Jubilee Congress, in session here, also protested vigorously against the slander, and a committee consisting of F. H. M. Murray, Rev. E. E. Ricks, Rev. Walter H. Brooks, Rev. S. L. Corrothers and others laid a kick against the display of the slandrous placard with officials of the State Department. Pittman Awarded Contract. Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 26—W. Sidney Pittman, the architect has been awarded the contract for the new Odd Fellows&Auditorium. It will be located on Auburn avenue, next door to the new State headquarters' building of the order. Western Democrats At Work. Chicago, Sept. 27—The National Colored Democratic League has opened Western headquarters at 3312 Wabash avenue. James A. Rose is chairman; W. H. Clark, of Hilnois, secretary; E. W. Watson, of Michigan, secretary to the chairman; W. T. Scott chairman of the publicity committee, and F. L. M. Ghee, chairman of the committee on organization. PRIEST Bishop J. Albert Johnson will sail on the Mauretania for London next Tuesday. He will represent the A. M. E. Church at the dedication exercises of the new Westminster Wesleyan Hall. After a brief stay in Europe, he will sail for South Africa. Bishop Johnson has been in this country since last spring, and delivered an illustrated lecture on "South Africa" in various cities of the country. True Reformers In Annual Session Richmond, Va., Sept. 27—Plans for the rehabilitation of the Grand United Order of True reformers were discussed here this week at the annual session of the Grand Fountain of the Order. Grand Master Floyd Ross, in his annual address, predicted that the order would regain its former prestige and asked that each member of the order be asked to donate $1.00 and each employee $5.00, which is to be used in an effort to bring the order back to its former financial standing. When he made the request many of the delegates held up dollar bills crying "Here's mine now." He paid a tribute to the various division chiefs and other employees for their work in behalf of the order. It was reported that the order has 37,707 members and that $100,268.98 was collected last year. Grand Master Floyd was reelected. Memorial services for Grand Master W. R. Griffin, who was killed in a railroad wreck, were held. School Building Dedicated. Sunbury, Pa., Sept. 26—A new $10,000 school building for the Central Pennsylvania Orphanage was dedicated here last week. The building is largely supported by the Odd Fellows of Pennsylvania. Church Estate Worth Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 25—The will of the late Robert R. Church has been admitted to probate. The estate is said to be worth nearly a million dollars. Under the terms of the will, Mrs. Anna S. Church, wife of the deceased is the principal legatee, and is named as executrix R. R. Chruch, Jr., Miss Annette Church, Thomas Church, and Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, of Washington, children of the testator, are named as the other beneficiaries. A farm of 130 acres is left to the wife of the testator, as well, as a life interest in fourteen pieces of property in the down town section of Memphis. The will provider that at her death the property is to be divided among their children. Annette Church and R. R. Church, Jr., E. Thomas Church and Mary Church Terrell, children by the testator's first marriage, are left twenty pieces of reality. The widow is made the residuary legate and is given all of the personal property of the deceased. PRESIDENT TAFT'S EMANCIPATION SPEECH Says Signing of Emancipation Proclamation Was Lincoln's Greatest Act. REFERS TO PRESENT POLITICAL MIX-UP Other Prominent Washingtonians Take Part in Emancipation Celebration (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Washington, Sept. 27—The great story of the issuance of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, resultant events and the progress that the race has made since the Civil War were told here this week at a celebration of the golden jubilee of the lifting of the shackles of slavery from the race. The principal sessions were held in Metropolitan A. M. E. Church with Prof. Jesse Lawson presiding. The women conducted special exercises at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church Wednesday. President Taft delivered an address Monday night in which he praised Lincoln for issuing the Proclamation. "It is a pleasure to be here" said the President, "at the celebration of the greatest act in the life of Lincoln, whose life was filled with great acts. The extinction of slavery meant the extinction of a living lie, because the Declaration of Independence said that all men were free and equal." Mr. Taft went on to say that while Lincoln abhorred slavery, that he realized that it was recognized by the United States Constitution. He told of the bitter criticism made by Garrison and other abolitionists who held that a higher law would justify Mr. Lincoln in wiping out slavery, even though the Constitution recognized it as an institution. Speaking of the bitter criticism that had been insisted upon Mr. Lincoln for his disinclination to abolish, slavery without the legal authority, he made a veiled reference to the Roosevelt-Taft political feud by saying that he did not believe that the criticism of Mr. Lincoln wasany less bitter than in this day of "exchange of compliments." The big audience and the president both laughed at this reference to the present national campaign. Mr. Taft praised the race for wmaking the great progress that it has within the past 50 years, and expressed the hope that the progress made during the next fifty years would still more justify Mr. Lincoln for issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. Following the address, Mr. Taft shook hands with Prof. Kelly Miller, former Congressman George H. White, Rev. I. N. Ross, Judge Robert H. Terrell, Cyrus Field Adams and Professor Lawson, who delivered an admirable address in introducing the head of the nation. During the jubilee, Prof. W.. S. Scarborough, Judge Robert H. Terrell, Prcf. James B. Dudley, Prof. J. R. Hawkins, Prof Mason A. Hawkins, Mrs. Mary. Church. Terrell, F.H.M. Murray, Prof. Kelly Miller, Julia Julia, Hamilton, Walter H. Brooks, Rev. I. N. Ross, Dr P. P. Claxton, Rev. S. Meyman, president of Mary. Church. University, and Robert E. L. Washington were among the many to deliver addresses. A big parade was held Thursday in which floats representing the progress that the race has made along various lines were displayed. A permanent organization, with Professor Lawson as president, was effected. A big reception was held at the closing session at night. Revs. J. W. McDonald, A. L. Gaines, M. F. Sydes and Mre. A. L. Gaines were among the Baltimoreans noticed at the Jubilee. Farmers Hold Conference. Hampton, Va., Sept. 27. — The Hampton Negro Farmers' Conference will be held at Hampton Institute, November 20 and 21. — Exhibits of farm products will be a feature, land prizes will be awarded. Republican Clubs To Convene. New York, Sept. 27. — The Consolidated Republican Clubs will hold a convention here next week in benalf of the Republican National ticket. Dr. P. A. Johnson is one of the electors on the Roosevelt ticket. Washington Schools Open. Washington, Sept. 27.—The public schools opened Monday with nearly 14,000 colored pupils emloiled. Among the changes were the removal of the Buisness High School from the Armstrong Manual Training School and the placing of W. T. S. Jackson in charge. Appointment For Leroy Locke. Washington, Sept. 27.—Allen Leroy Locke has been appointed teacher in English at Howard University. He is a native of Philadelphia, where he receive his preliminary education. He is a bachelor of arts of Howard University, and was appointed a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University from Pennsylvania. He studied at Oxford for several years. President Gates Resigns Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 26 — President George A. Gates has resigned as Dean of Fisk University. He is now in Maine, here he is undergoing treatment for injuries received in a railroad wreck some months ago. Pending the election of a new president, Dean Wright, Professors C. V. Morrow and M. W. Metcalf will look after the affairs of the university. Though a movement looking to the selection of a colored man for the presidency is under way, it is thought that a white man will again head the university. State Wide Republican Quite a number of Taft adherents met at the Elks' Hall, 414 W. Hoffman street, Thursday night and organized the Lincoln State-wide Republican League. Speeches lauding Mr. Taft were delivered, his administration endorsed and plans for making a general campaign for Taft and against Roosevelt considered. During the evening Mr. Roosevelt was attacked in speeches by Dr. Ernest Lyon, who presided; Councilinän Harry S. Cmunings, John P. Forrester, Dr. G. H. Rower, Samuel Q. Sanks, Rev. A. L. Gaines and others. Dr. Gaines extolled the Republican party for its work in behalf of the race years ago, and criticised Roosevelt's sletter to Julian Harris. ee eee = = “NEW AGENT FOR FORT VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL “€.B, JOHNSON RECEIVES >. PROMOTION Succeeds the Late Prof. J. H. ‘Torbert As Financial Agent _ For Well Known Bauea- tianal Institution in ‘The South. “New. York.—Professor C. 8. volnson, financial representative of the Fort Valley Thigh aud Industrial school Fort Valley, Ga., 1s considered to be ‘one of the blest educators among ‘Afro-Americans In this country. He Bas bad, wide exnerience in. edneation: “al work and is well qualified other: wise for the résponsible position whit bets ‘he-holds, “During his northern tour in the in- terest of the school this fall Professor ‘Johnson maintains leadquarters in “this city, where hie is already meeting with much success. As’ the successor am | OS —- ae oe ee ee Be ee ee Be tS Mew. ae 2 ee Pe fee ge Po AF re Le ‘PROFESSOR ¢. BR. JOHNSON: ‘of the late Wrofessor J. H. ‘orbert © meh will be expected af Mr, Johason, and from preseut indications he wil mensitre up to the most erltical expec; gations of those respousible for his ap ‘polntment. : By training, experience and manner he Is amply-fitted for his new post and will’put ufo: biswork a large experl- ence’ which, will miiké bine a valuable addition t the'hiculty of the Port Val- Sey Higtatig “industrial school, Me bag the. faethe ‘of autking and holding fried ud his. jiffable manners: will make fits nat with the philanthro- pists"of-the Herth hott profitable and Smpressives £5 Like most dien who ave wow thelr ‘spurs ani who rive to euulnence in any particular tight. I'rdfessor Johnson tells avstory of Hird sirageles In acquiring his édieation. He was born in Groen- ville, §.-C.v amd was educated in the public schools of the city) under Pro- fessor J.C: Martn:: He walked a dis- tance of, te tullesceach. morving to Teach sclivol, but he does not regret © thisearly experience. After’ finishing - the public sehiouls, acting upow Ce ad vlee'of A. N, Robinson, ove of his. In structors, he entered Biddie universt- ty, from whieli be wus gradnated tn 1897: 6 was cue of the mest prominent men in,college and (ok an active part $n colleze settyities. Leaving’ Biddle, “he took wp) work In Harbison college, fa Abpeville. &. C., one wf the strong. Seat of. the Presbyterian schools in. that “section... For fifteen years he remained a member ot the faculty, during which “time lie’ gathered 1 Inne aud ripe-es- “perience. © Bis. reputation “us-an etticient_ aud capable teacher soon reached otber. parts, atid when Professor Hut, who Sformerly tinght “him at Biddle- but now. thie piiticijul of the Fort, Valley Hel ‘and Lintustrial séliool, was seek- fag for some one to represent the duiat * dial Work of te Scboo! he hinmediatels BoUEIE the Services. of Mrofessur Jobii~ gon." ‘The proiootion of Urafessor John- “son: to,is neivs sight tivets'the approval Sof: the, lare -wittober dt his: friends. “fn ediiciitlonal elites. thirotiglibut the gouth. *<o Gee es “SH tins Jonge Dew: prominent in edn- cational :citeles .of ‘the south, and tls “opinions ou matters relative.to the ed- “neational-welfare,.of the rice. has, Of “ten: beeti-soughtee aes 2p the: south, he-wields. dineh indu * ence and tikes an active interest tual Cmatters- pertliding, to the welfare of ithe’ rnee.. Eprofessor. Johnson. bas a°strong, and. <forceti’ pcisonality: and isu man of Datrongyeluiruciery He is us active iu Ahevnortiisoking after’ tne tuanciat Gaterest of tie elon a8 1h we tn yethe- classroom giving instruction to the Sahidents..“ Phe. iIse-to eminence in-ed- aeational aMaies/of; Crufessor Johuixon ahond: shee aw a tuspilration 6, the Siyothg of:the vace. to: make. goorluse of acute copporeiinity “to <thordizUly., Wee: Spare tucinselves, for thelrebesen: pro: BALM: FOR “GREAT: PROBLEMS. Religion. and’ Education Two | Main ‘Factors In-Hunian Progress. ‘seoie one as. said, thst: the, Chris- tid religion’ is the pruiacea -for~ the world’s greatest problems, that the re- ligion tanght. and lived ‘by the “great ‘Teacher would not only ameliorate, bu- man suffering, but alsv create. that fong waited for wew- heaven and ‘new oaths Fes Sa No mn as he-studies’the life ofthe ‘Master and gieitus from that life the ming ethledl-traths and moral Jessons he strove to.teacl will doubt the truth of the assertion. ‘Tre, the evilrix, of” the: Christian roligion was not tailed with Joy, but rather, with stra: of opposition. Indeed, the opposition was so, strong against it, that for conturies religions wis raged with nnwonted fury and madness, so’ terrible snd. vindictive “that the effuets re felt even’ to. this day. Bot it lived amid it atl and be- came the :tandest thing tn the world. Opposition brings out what is truly ‘great in ant individual or @ race. ‘Those individuals or races wha ave riveted ‘their names in hunian history lave sheen those races or individuals who have heen rained inthe schoo! of ad- “versity. Opposition is the keynote to progress, ‘The overcoming of obsta cles ives us a diseipline and spirit of self reliance and sirenzth of character. "And so it is swith every new idea oF resit movement which has for Its ob- ject the enthronement of mankind. “When Harvey discovered the clreula- “Won of {he blood he: was compelled to niet and best the frowns and. scorns of all the doctors in England Rut fo uy: the wentioning of the uaine of Haves: calls wot forth derision, but a respect akin to reverence. Principles sare everlasting, and no amount of opposition can ehange them “one iota, It wonkl be jist as ensy to stop the working of the Inw of ravi ‘tution on hadies déscending through _shue ws it would he to stor some reat x soul stirring movement; liewee men and women did nat hesitate to kay down “thelr lives in his name. Af etixion is the pancon Cor the work's greest evs and the sui of all sveat worldt problems in busi tess, ote. thor education, with Its transforming and uplifting power, comes sevmid only to it Mon tacet only on the heights, tn the citadel of education have the tierce and nure- Tenting battles of the intellect been fought for trot, Haieation aplitts co | Contrast if you please, x settlement fn the heart of frien with one in New Enghand, The contrast is sv striking in its nsimitarity thst i hardly: bears and steope! in ignorinee and super- stition, while the other bs progressive and. represents the highest type of eiv- Feet USEFUL; LIFE.OF THE REV. "MRS; FLORENCE RANDOLPH. Brief Account of Her Work as Min- savand Teaser, | The Rev. Mrs, Florence Randolph of Jersey City is a native of Charleston, & GC. She tuts been a resident of Jer- sey City for many years. Her success fn religious and edneational work has been of tie most help fat nd uplifting buture, and her Influence in the com- mannity has pat many a young person on the road to 2 life of usefuluess and self reliance. Mrs, Randoiph took: ap the study of “theology after earernt meditation as to hor call to thesgospel mnfnistrs. She first scained distinction as a Sunday school worker aud. organizer. She be- cmne a local preacher in. 1807. For a time Kev, Mrs. Itandolih was: pastor In charge of the A. M. E, Zion chnreh In Jersey City. and in this: expacity: she gave entire satisfaction to the con- gregation, Upon the recommendation of Bishop Alexander Walters. Srs.-Randolph was ndmiited to membership into the New Jersey cuniference of the A. M. E. Zion ehureh, by which body she°was an- thorized ani recognized. as a inlulster of the zospel.- a Resides. her pastoral work, Mrs. Rundolyh is an_ardent worker In-all good. movements for: the edueationel and material advancement of our peo- ple. ‘As a speaker she is. thoughtful, forceful ‘and entertaining. “Mrs: Ran: dolph’s= most fecent work aside from Preaching bis heen in, the hiterest of the various organizations of women's ‘élabe. CAUSE FOR RACIAL UNREST. Russian: Inquisitor Given Lesson on Ameriéan. Situation: When a distinzuisied Russian was Informed uot Jon azo that some Amer- lean. Negroes were “radical, aud, some conservative bie could not restrain his laughter ‘Tlie. idea’ of conservative Negroes was thure than the. Cossack’s Hisibilities cynld endure. “What on earth.” ‘he “éxclaimed with astontsh- ment, “havé they to conserve?" ™ According to a strict constrnetion of terms a corisertative is one’ who is satisfied. with und aulvocatex the con- tinnance of existing. conditions. while A Fadical “clanwors~ for ametivration through chiinge.~ No thowzhitful. Negro -ig.satisficd ‘with’ the. present statns, of iS rave, -sheltier viewed ta: Hts -po- litical, civil oF general aspect... _ He-labors ander an wiiftiendly public pinion’ whieb-is being rapidly. éystat- ized into rigid-caste and:enactedsinto ‘inrighteotis law... How: ean: he “be -eX- pected. to:contemplate such, oppressive “conditions -with: satistsction” and <com- Pare eka Es eT BANE ‘OF RACE: PREJUDICE. “Neted Brooklyn Writer. Commends ‘Stand, Taken by. Standard Union. “In=reply" to a ‘recent ‘editorkel in the Brooklyn Dail Standayd Coton. undér the exiption “A Prejudive Which Sliould Be Removed.” Mrs. M. Cy Lawton, the well known writer and-azitator for the legal riglits vf Afro-Americans.-says: “It-ts a sad-coimmentars on: civil- fned goverment when worth and ebar- acter. must: surrender to’ petty race prejudices. yxirticnlariy when stich eon. eessions dwiirf the development avd growth of mi ntire rave. intellectual Iy, financtally! physically sind morally. Tntelleciiatiy. because the doors of many of ont higher institutions sare closed azainst him, and xet he Is 0x- pected to compete with Cie man who can enter any coltege. in. the. world, ‘This privileze heinz denied him, he is Dranded us mentally inferior to other, races, Financially. hecanse. he. is an Gerraied, therefore underpaid, Resides there sire $0. many: fields af labor into which he may not. enter. because of race prejudice. “Physleally, beeause he. is. warred from athletic assorfations which make ft possible. for him (0 take the physical enltinre £0 woressary to 2 sound phys- leat body, symmetry of form. ete. Mor- ally. becanse af the congested manner in thany fnstanees in which this hydea- headed) monster. prafudice, forees bin to live. If the locality ts desirable the rent is So extortionate tit ‘he must take all soris of persons. in his home to meet the monthly expense. Again, although his aulary fs less than that of any other eliss af citizens. he must pay interest for fis color, This con- Gition is cwleulted to. lower Che moral statis of amy race oF people. ‘Fo shut the door of opportunity in the face*of any man and then brand lim ae shiftless and indolent is a ma- Helous crime, ‘To bar him from edu- cationat advantages and then label bim as infetior is equally as exivainat, “Phere are men and women in the colored rice whose identity. would pe a finperceplitie under a tnieroseope. set if iL is kuwsen that they possess 1 per cent. of colored blovd the #8 per cent “Ot the white blood counts for nanght. Mathematics is no faetue inthis probe Jem: henew the discrimination ig. not based] on the complesion nar the tex- tnre.of the imir. ‘There are also Scores fof refined, intelligent. enltuved men and wonnen who are just as aiich os- tracized as the most vagraitt and un- eouith wien ane! women of their race. “1 heartily indorse the spirit of the editorial referred to: in that It favors fairness and justin for the. self re- specting Halting, at the same tine im- ploring the self respecting rlass of that rice 1 condemn the -vicioys and treacharoug smug them, “What is true of this particular class fs no less true of the catored people. Let them ever be on the alert, Gom- mending. worth and itesrity wherever they find them and, condemning crime wherdteritesists, 5 a “1 assuine that this fale and square article ix uo less directed to one rice than another and that tie Standurd Union. so widely read among thé col ored citizens: xenerally of Prooklym, will ever be Found ot the side of right as it sees. it, regardless of race, eveed or previous condition.” ‘The artiele in question dealt with the Aiserimination practiced against Tal fans ais fensints. THRIFTY BUSINESS MAN. How a South American Is Succeeding In the States. Among the youn men of the race who hive kmniched ont on a business career. and the type stat always meet the approval of men like Dr. Booker Washington, is B. Callender, who Is conducting a suecessfnl express, cellar cleaning and dirt hauling business in Orange, N. 4 Mr. Callender conducts one of the few places of the kind n-the city and fs. bnilding up a successfol business. Te does most of the express and dirt hunting of ‘the town thronzh contre, and by steady devotion to his work he fs building up a splendid business, - Mr, Callender ix among the young ten at the race with foresight who seized upon the opportunity 19 get away from the city and start a hnsiness of is own, He began In business by buying a horse and wagon amd engaging Jn the express Insiness. bat his businéss in- erensed fo xuch sth extent that-he soon added an’ additional force, in order to meet. the demands for.his services. ‘Mr. Callender Isa native of Yenezite- In and came fo Ainerten In 1907. While his bnsiness place bs in Orange, Mr. Callender finds, time to aet as sexton for the Twenty-third Street” Presby- terlan church, one f the largest white churches in New York. is example conld well be followed by other young mii ortho wae Golden: Rule Tabornacle of Moses: ~ Golden tule ‘Tabermacte. the Order of Moses. has heen recently organized. ir MeKeesport. Pa., with a membershir of fifty-four, “Grand. Master Joseph J Minor condneted .the. ceremonies, and was ably-assisted by Mrs. Anna Del phia, organizer of the new. tabernacle Mr. Minor expresses himself as being well pleased -with the ‘progress whieh the order is: miking’ in Pennssivania, as Is true of-its work fn other states. To, Teach at Howard Industrial School Ry securing the services of Miss AL horta Everett of Lynchburg. Va,, as a member ‘of the faculty, the toward ‘Andustrial setiool nt. Kinze Park. New York. gains 2 zedlous, worker and wel ‘qualified: teacher. Miss Everett is the Anighter of Mr-A.-J. Everett. the well known contractor and builder and one: of ‘Lynehburg’s most highly. ‘re- -spected Citizens. : | THE MAN WHO WAS PEART By M. QUAD Dye ee ee ert een ere as * nessee mountains was sixty years old, | bot sas so strong and ale aud hearty that I knew be mist baye been a woul derfully. tough’ man in bis younger days. I tried soveral times to draw him out, and. one evening as we sat smoking, with his good wife on the [other side of the fireplace, be begun: | "When | got married 1 thought Twas jest the peavtest thing on the face of [ the ‘wirth. 1 conkd: ontfomp, outholler ; and outfight anything L-enm across on these. yere mountains. I bad never { been licked by b'ar. or maa, and If any [ critter was shoutin’ whe T hove in sight he shet up mighty sudden; Yes, T was the hull thing, and. it kinder makes me lonesome to think back (0 I them days.” | “to the Himes when yon was makin® i'n fule of xo'seif! said Mrs. White | without raising her eyes from her kult I ting. ‘Arter 1 had got martied.” continued Zev. with 1 wink at me, “T thought to | steady down, but folks wouldn't let ave If T didn’t have a fuss with somebody about so ofien they talked that I was Iosin’ my sand, Mind yo’, 1 didn't go ; howlin’ around like a rain’ Hon lookin’ | tar trubble, but the eritters who were | achin’ fur lickin’s cum to me, T had to I tackle six different men right yere to home in ane week.” “And sou was glad to do It!" sald Mrs, White, “Waal, 1 was ao man to run for the bresh when a man eum along and sed he was most dend for want of | hoantn’ tok i fo boa kinder way to turn to and give him what he want- | ed. One nizht in the summer, as.1 had ‘gist got to sleep, a Yellin’ starts mp [.abont a half a mile away, TE was a noise hetwixt the roarin’ of @ lion and “the growiin' of a bulldog, and as It - drawed nigher the old womair sot Mp anil asks: “ize White, bat what in the name of ail creashun is that? “ALS a hnllgine got off the railroad tracks and makin’ Its way across the kentres says 1. “Tes nuthin’ of the kind,’ says she. “it's Gabriel soundin’ tis trumpet for the jedziment day!” We was both niistaken, however. ‘The noise enme nigher and nigher. and bimeby we made ont that if was a man, He bad come to lick me. Te iad came fifty miles. Tk was a moon- light night, and: 1 got np ani looked out (he winder at him, ‘The siglt made my hair curl, Me was nigh I seven feet high and as broad as a Harn, Me was as hig as a ginnt In a Pecos When ne ew ns wend at the winder he gives a rar that goes | echoin’ aver the mounting and says: | ‘Come down, Zeh White! | 1 hain't got no furse with yon.’ says 1. “Rut come down and obleege me and make me feel that life is worth isis? [Tn come down says Land nots | withstanding the old woman hang on [1 me with tears and said Ta be Kill Led T went down, | “Ar this Zeh White? he asks In a parrin’ valee. “at ac? “Phen Tam the thankfulest man in all ‘Tennessee! Zeb, I'm goin’ to squash sat all to squash! “T made up my mind that T was a | dead coon." rantinned Zeb, “hut swantd | do the best T could. We squarad off I and went at it. and in about two min- tutes T was a surprised man. | “So was the'stranget. Fle was nuth- jim but a winddag, Ie was as abby "aS a goose and as soft as wax, and T i beliere { coutd have licked lim with | one hiand tied behind me. Tt was over /n fire minntes, and he was hollerin’ for | meres. When T let him ap-he said: | Ze st seas squar’ and fair, and: t Falv't no complaint to make. Did you “erer sce a cirens?* Pia aerer sd: “phen go, down to Rristol on Wed- nesdiig and see one, Thar’s all sorts [of animals, and one Js called an ele- ‘phant. He kin ek you In two min- tes. f | “Met the old woman had a deal of curiosity about that eléphant, as we find’ uever seen one, and so we got [ready and went to town,. ‘Phe elrens ‘and the elephant was thar, along. with a heap of other things. “We pays our money and zoes,in, and T says to the feller inside:- : “What's that éritter they calls the ‘elephant, if you please? . | He pints the way. and we go over ahd 1ook at Lim: Te was the biggest ier thing I ever say. but after loot ‘sn" him over I says to the old waman: ML reckon he's achin' to be walloped. and 1 reekon I'm the eritter to do it. “She hezs and pleads with me not to ‘tis It on. She prints ont the fact that he's bizzer'n our new shed and that -aa't ktand no-xhow; bat Udiffered with : Te Ne oe mS”. 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In short, how many of the eighty-five thousand : Colored People in Baltimore know whether or no you are in business? ’ There are fully twenty thousand people! who read the Afro-American Ledger. every’ week, Twenty thousand people who believe: in supporting race enterprises whenever they” have the opportunity. We know ‘this by ex-- perience. What do they know about you or’ your bisiness?. Why not let us tell them? Ronin bene If so advertise it reser st. D acy Are jeu a Tait" C THE AFRO-AMERIGAN Are you'aDressmaker’ ® Irn Are you a Grocer LEDGER 628.N. EUTAW STREET . ; Or Call up Mt, Vernon 2883: =. EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION As noted in the Afro-Amrican Legger last week, the fifteenth anniversary of the issuance of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation occurred Sunday. During the week celebrations of the event were held in Washington, Rochester, N. Y., and other places. President Taft delivered a most interesting address at the Washington celebration. The New York Evening Post, the New York Sun, the Philadelphia Public Ledger, the Washington Star, and other large dailies noted the event with special articles and editorials. "Lincoln had always abhorred slavery, and as President he still hated it, but would not let his hatred cause him to take action without the regard to the constitutional right for the existence of Negro slavery. His view on the evils of slavery were the same as he made in memorable reply to Stephen A. Dougrass, at Alton, Ill., October 15, 1858, to wit: "That is the real issue. That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself will be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles—right and wrong—throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time. The one is the common right to humanity and the other is the divine right of kings." Lincoln was a president who believed in taking action according to limitations set forth in the organic law of the country, and there were severe critics of his who believed in the abolition of slavery and who declared that a higher law would justify its abolition even if the Constitution recognized the institution. William Lloyd Garrison was one of these men. COUNTRY WAS STARTLED. When President Lincoln announced to the world on September 22, 1862, that all slaves, in any section to the country then in open rebellion against the Union would be free after the following January, the whole country as startled. The New York said editorially of the Proclamation: "It is the beginning of the end of the rebellion; the beginning of the new life of the nation. God bless Abraham Lincoln." "The wisdom of the step taken," said the New York Times" . . . which declares free the slaves of the rebel states after the first of January, is unquestionable." The New York Herald observed: "The gravity of this proclamation will strike everyone. It has been forced upon the nation by the abolitionists of the North and the secessionists of the South. It inaugurates an overwhelming revolution in the system of labor in a vast and important agricultural section of the country, which, will, if the rebels persist in their course suddenly emancipate three or four millions of human beings, in the fulness of their helplessness and ignorance, upon their own resources and the wisdom of the white race to properly regulate and care for them in their new condition of life." The New York World, which to day is counted as being eminently fair to the race, characterized the Proclamation as showing that Lincoln "is fully adrift on the current of radical fanaticism." The issuance of the Proclamation greatly bolsters up the courage of those who were fighting only for the preservation of the Union and also those who were fighting both for the preservation of the Union and the abolition of slavery. 200,000 black men, most of them from the slave and border states, were enlisted in the Union army, and the rebel cause was finally given up with the surrender of Lee at Appomattox in April, 1865. The Philadelphia Ledger, in speaking of the anniversary of the Proclamation, said editorially last Tuesday: "By the terms of that simple Proclamation the United States would recognize and maintain the freedom of the enfranchized Negroes and would commit no act or crime to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they make for their actual freedom. The political emancipation is but part of the story. More significant still has been the effort of the Negroes themselves to improve their racial status, their industrial condition, their educational facilities. Their progress is remarkable when the brevity of the interval between plantation paternalism and their servility is considered." In an editorial last Saturday, the New York Evening Post said, in part: "With the immediate effect of emancipation upon both the slaves and the military operations, we are less concerned today than with its larger aspects. No one has yet it seems to us, adequately measured the services of the colored troops, the recruitment of which, already begun went rapidly formward, as soon as the proclamation came into being. Massachusetts leading. Nothing in all history was ever more fitting, however, than that the first troops to enter Richmond should have been General Godfrey Weitzel's black men; it was a direct corollary of emancipation, in which is hard not to see the hand of Providence. Nor have we yet had a complete study of emancipation from a master hand--that extraordinary period in which, as Carl Schurz said, the problems were not to be solved in any way without erring and some grave injustice. But the great fact remains that all the efforts to preserve or extend slavery, or to pretend that the issue of emancipation was unrelated to that of preserving the Union, were swept away by the inexorable march of events. Lincoln himself found the public pressure irresistible in 1862; the mills of the gods were grinding exceeding fine that year the hopes of both the slaveholders in the South and of those men of the North who would have compromised with the institution which the Abolitionists correctly termed the "sum of human villain." Today, however, men of the North and the South may differ as to the treatment of the Negro, however much they may differ as to their reading of the historic past, no one is to be found anywhere who would reestablish the curse of unpaid, chattel labor. The most pessimistic of cotton-growers today, he who can say no good word for his Negro laborers, would not urge a return to the old days. For he knows that those prophets of evil who declared in and out of Congress that cotton could never be made to pay with a wage-cost added have long since been refuted, and that free labor at its worst is vastly better than that driven by the lash. So, too, have those been refuted who were typified by the men who asked Wendell Phillips if he did not know that emancipation would make the entire South impossible as a residence for white men, and particularly women. To him Phillips replied that he "intrenched himself upon the principle of human freedom, and left the working out to God." Never was faith better justified; for, despite many cases of lawlessness—which was not unknown in slavery days—the colored people are today among the most law-abiding of human beings, when due allowance is made for the condition of degradation and ignorance, of deprivation of the protection of the law and rights of citizenship, under which millions are compelled to live. As for the colored people themselves despite all the injustice under which they still stagger, they have every reason both to venerate the name of Lincoln, and to take heart as they look back fifty years. From a chattel to a human being —that is the measure of the effect of Lincoln's pen. To own one's body and one's soul; to know no longer the anguish of seeing wife and child sold to meet a creditor's demand or an executor's order—surely the burdens of today are but slight compared with those of half a century ago. And the future is still theirs. How can they falter or fail to have faith and hope when they think not only of the change since 1862, but of the story of the fifty years which preceded the Proclamation? Their weakness today is chiefly their inability to organize to defend their rights. United they would stand far better; divided they fall before oppression. Can anything else be expected when one reflects on the conditions of their servitude? Or is there an innate race-weakness such as the Jews have never known in the darkest days of their age-long battle against prejudice and injustice? Time alone will show—not a year, nor a decade or two; Mr. Washinton's powerful business league may even now be blazing the way. But even if the colored people should always need help and protection the glory, the majesty, and the wisdom of the Emancipation Proclamation remain undimmed as the first great step to right the most fearful wrong the Western Hemisphere has ever known. Fashionable Wedding Rride and Groom Leave After Cerc mony For a Six Week Stay In Europe, (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Salisbury, Md., Sept. 25 — Mrs. Bessie G. Coleman, of Philadelphia and Mr. Fields Johnson were the principals in a very pretty wedding Monday night. The wedding took peace at the residence of Mr. Lewis Parsons, which was especially decorated for the occasion. The ceremony was performed by Rev. W. G. Parks, of Philadelphia, assisted by Revs. R. G. Waters and E. D. W. Jones, both of this city. The bride was given away by Rev. T. P. Wilson. Mrs. Parsons was matron of honor and Mrs. Sydney Wilson played the wedding march. The bride wore an exquisite gown of white satin, trimmed with white fringe. Immediately after the ceremony, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson left for New York, where they sailed on the Campania for a six-week stay in Europe. They will visit London, Paris, Rome, Constantinople and other places. Upon their return they will make their home in Philadelphia. Those who witnessed the ceremony included: Mesdames Laura Houston Parker, Sydney Wilson, Lizzie Anderson, Oliver Johnson, Belle Cathell, Jane Burbage, Addie Leonard, Theodoreia Johnson, Ella Leonard, Ruelhel Byrd, Cassia Augusta, Lillie Jones, Amanda Johnson, Miss. Sadie Anderson, Miss Bessie Leonard, Mr. and Mrs James L. Johnson and Mr. U. G. Langston. News From Snow Hill Snow Hill, Md., Sept. 24.—Mr. Othio Harman and Mr. Mankfield Harman came from Atlantic City Saturday to spend a few days with their parents. Rev. E. J. Henry has returned from Atlanta, Ga., where he attended the 16th B. M. C. Mrs. Sadie Castle and Mrs. Celia Dale have been spending several days at Ocean City, Md. Mrs. Mary Queen Henry and Miss Helen R. Henry left for Baltimore, Thursday to spend eight or ten days with Mrs. Mary W. Williams, 519 Presstman street. Mrs. Mary Brown, Mrs. Lilly Temples, Miss Della Purnell, Miss Harriet Woolford, of Morgan College, who have been spending sometime here, left for Baltimore Thursday. The Old Fellows and Household of Ruth gave a social Wednesday night, which was largely attended. The colored schools of Borecester County will open next Tuesday, and continue five months only. Preparing to Celebrate Emancipation Salisbury, Md., September 26 — At meeting of the Wycomico County Emancipation Celebration Association plans looking a state wide celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation were discussed. Governor Goldsborough and other State officials will be seen in an effort to get their active cooperation in the proposed celebration. The citizens of Salisbury will hold an iniversary exercises on October 15, at which time Judge Robert H. Terell of the District of Columbia, will deliver the principal address. Walter B. Miller has also been in vited to speak. James E. Stewart is president of the Emancipation Celebration Association and W. D. Winston, secretary. JOHN WESLEY M. E. CHURCH Sunday the 29th, at 11 a. m. Dr. Ernest Lyon will preach the 3rd of his series of sermons on the "Call of Illustrious Leaders." Subj:—"The Appointment and Ordination of Joshua, the Successor of Moses." The public is showing interest by the large crowd in attendance. Services at 3 p. m. and at 8 p. m. The public is cordially invited. A special feature of these services is the music rendered by the choi which is praised on every hand. TO THE LADIES Mrs. D. B. Simmons of Silce, Ark., writes: "I tried one bottle of Ford's Hair Pomade and found it to be the best preparation I have ever used. It stopped my hair from falling out and breaking off and my hair is now as soft as it can be and is longer than it has been for a long time. My friends all want it. Ford's Hair Pomade, the old, reliable dressing for stubborn, curly hair makes harsh hair more pliable, glossy and easy to comb. Try it and Ford's Royal White Skin Lotion, for the complexion. For sale by druggists, accept no other, see that it is Ford's and manufactured by the Ozonized Ox Marrow Company, Chicago, Ill." "Hairdresser to Society" Of course there are other Hair Dressers BUT ONLY ONE POINDEXTER EXPERT MASSAGING AND, MANICURING 831 DRUID HILL AVE. 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. 1118 N. Carey Street. HAIRDRESSING Having completed the course in Mine C.J. Walkers, Wonderful Hair Grower, I am prepared to teach the course and also treat the hair. Call phone for full information. Mrs. J. S. Fennell. Madison 1845 or 150 Druid Hill avenue. Mme.L. C. Parrish HAIR CULTURING, MANICURING AND SCALEP TREATMENT W. H. Largest Manufacturer of Hair Preparations in Boston. Largest Importer of Pure Human Hair. Trained in the best schools. Many years' experience. Honest dealing with the public. Honest dealing with the public. For Growing Hair on bald Heads and Bare Temples, use Parrish's Never Fail Hair Food, per jar 25c and 50c For Developing and Beautifying the Skin, use Parrish's Orange Flower Skin Food, por jar. 25c. We manufacture all other kinds of Toilet Articles—Hand Made, Natural Looking Wigs, Switches, Brads, Puffs, etc. Free Catalogue. Parrish's Never Fail Hair Food is absolutely one of the best hair preparations on the market, and it is perfect for applying at the ends and falling out. It will make your Hair Grow. It is praised by people in all sections of the country. Send 10 cents for a sample jar. Adjusts wanted. Write for terms. Mm6. L. C. PARRISH, 95 Camden St., Boston, Mass. Phone 888 R Tremont. Mention this paper when writing. 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EGOR & SONS umb, $1.00. neater 50c. extra and will be mailed with every order. EGOR & SONS Makers of Perfumeries and Toilet Articles Baltimore. Washington, D. C. Ba Comb Price $1.50 Camp Cap For Heating. Certifying in fluences Straightening crimpy hair. Invent and Satisfactory. ES HAIR GROW Improved Hair Cream Cents Large Jars. Easy. Stops falling Hair. Try it for those plies. Not greasy—will not gum. Hair Straightening. Promptly Attended. Office for The Eureka Comb Druid Hill Avenue and TOUPEE the kind I make are guaranteed to please Human Hair Goods, also Tonics, Sham- work of all kinds made to order. Scalp shampooing. Hair culture, Manicuring. AY, 1308 N. Fremont Ave. Save your Combings Mrs. Mamio E. Jones HAIR DRESSER Will make up your combings in any Style. Combings bought. 1506 Presstman St. Balto., Md. We are the largest manufacturers of Colord Peoples hair in this country. We make everything in its lin, and our prices are much lower than those quoted elsewhere. 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All communications intended for publication should be addressed to THE AMERICAN LADDER, 628 North Eutaw Street, Baltimore, Md. Advertising rates made known upon application. All Checks, Money Orders and Drafts should be made payable to THE AFRIO-AMERICAN CO. BALTIMORE, SEPT. 28, 1912 If you think you will forget to reigster, tie a string on your fingers. The Bull Mooses are beginnin to set the pace an earnest in Baltimore. It is of prime importance that your register. This is an entirely new registration and unless you register between now and November, you will not be able to exercise your right of franchise at the coming presidential election. If you want to get your name in the American or Star write a letter declaring for Taft and there you are. Any other time you would have to commit a crime of some sort in order to get even a little bit of hearing. WHO'S LOONEY NOW? "The mountain laboured and brought forth a mouse." After five weeks of the hardest and most laborious kind of work, our local contemporary comes out in a whole page editorial and announces that it has decided to support the Republican ticket. Five weeks of sounding the colored people from the Allegeny mountains to the sands of Worcester, and the "clearest thinkers white and black, from Main to the Gulf and from the Atlantic to the Pacific," our contemporary has decided to tell the "colored people" that it is for Taft. Wonderful. And to think, it would have us believe all this non-sense. The Afro-Americaa Ledger is in possession of the facts, and we can assure the "Colored People" that no such consideration moved our friend. Probably in the near future we may give the facts and then we shall see what we shall see. Our contemporary is not fooling anybody unless it is the Baltimore Amercian. THE YEAR OF JUBILEE The year of Jubilee is almost upon us. 1913 will be the fifthieth anniversary of the issuance of the Emancipation proclamation of Lincoln. It will chronicle two most significant events in American history. In the first place it will proclaim to the whole country in such a way as cannot be doubted, that after fifty years of slavery to the Republican party, the Negro has been emancipated, and, hereafter there will be no 'Negro Party' but the Negro many be found, in goodly numbers, in the ranks of a the leading parties of the country. The importance of this fact can hardly be overestimated. The other significant fact is, that with this political emancipation of the Negro the National Republican party passes off the stage as a serious factor in the affairs of the country. One fact signals larger freedom for the Negro; while the other fact signals the entombment of the political party which trifled with moral issues, and in the place of human rights substituted hum n enlargement and oppression. It is only among the ignorant and unthinking classes of colored persons that there is any fear in the election of Wilson as President of the United States. The members of the Republican machine in this state are so extremely obtuse in their mental faculties that they fail to understand that most of the Negro voters, survivors of the late Civil War, are almost on the brink of the grave, and that the great body of Afro-American voters are living in the mighty present. Colored men, if they so elect, have the same right to vote for Mr. Taft as they have to vote for Mr. Wilson or Mr. Roosevelt. They as thinking men must use their best judgment. But, when they are appealed to on the score of what the late Republican Party achieved in their behalf in 1863, they should turn from such an invitation as they would from an entombment before having departed this life. The year of Jubilee has come. The white men of Maryland who held federal jobs may be expected to use every device whereby they may keep colored men in line, so that the machine which they serve will not fail, and they will continue to hold office. But surely in view of the tremendous educational advance of he race it ought to be almost impossible to lead colored men astray, or keep them in captivity through such efforts. Thus, Mr. Taft, and the late Republican Party, are in their political grave yard, and we are not minded to seek the living, or living issues, among the dead. Mr. Wilson and Mr. Roosevelt are both live wires. They are concerned with the present and the future, and not trying to continue on issues that are dead and buried. Thus, we are to make choice between Wilson and Roosevelt. Unquestionably there are many and good reasons why colored men should vote for Wilson. We fully recognize this fact but there are infinitely more and better reasons why colored men should rally around and support Theodore Roosevelt. We are a new race with a great future before us, and turning our backs upon the wreck of the late Republican party we should claim our place in the line with all progressive Americans laboring for the good of the whole people, without regard to race or sex, and put into power men of tried experience, whose past achievements constitute pledges of future performance. It is the year of jubilee. It is the year of gladness. The power of our endeavor should be love of our neighbor. We have both the force and the energy within to compel a new alignment. The success of the Progressive party next November, means a new era for our brethren throughout the Southland. An era of good-will and mutual co-operation. Let us support the man who knows, and knows that he knows; and that man is Theodore Roosevelt, whose face is turned away from graveyards to the living issues which are thrilling the souls of all patriotic Americans of all races, and of all colors. A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY A splendid opportunity, for what? Yes, the question well may be asked. Through the election of Mr. Joseph P. Evans, as president of the new city wide organization, an unusual opportunity, if rightly used, is presented for constructive and effective work on behalf of the race. That such an organization is needed is manifestly evident. The present controversy about the School on Argyle avenue, not to mention the crying need for a proper High School, removes the very least doubt with respect to the need of proper organization. We need to do something original, and not simply follow blinily past precedents along this line. We say a splendid opportunity, for every one who knows Joseph P. Evans, knows that he is both honest and brave. With such a head, and the admirable men selected as vice presidents in the four Legislative Districts of Baltimore city, we have the form for as healthy aggressive organization, among our people, as can be formed in the city of Baltimore. But, it is such an awfully hard thing to persuade some of our leaders, that in quietness lieth our strength. They seem to have confidence in the most hurtful course that could be pursued. That is, they are eager to make a noise, and anxious to let somebody know what is up. This is our weakness, instead of our strength. If the vice president of each Legislative District could be pursuaded to go quietly about the selection of one thoroughly reliable man or woman, in each of the six wards of his district, and, then, put each of these men, quietly to work organizing their respective wards into small groups of ten or fifteen in each precinct, we would have one of the very best organizations possible for real constructive work among our people. Each group should be well selected, and should be composed of both men and women. The very simplicity of such an organization is its strength. Fifteen persons can get together and wisely consider the very same propositions which two thousand or more persons are thus considering, in such small divisions, than it would be possible to do business with the two thousand assembled together. The fact, after the first appointment that each group would elect its own chairman, would directly give us three hundred or more 'heads' directly commissioned by their own constituency. With district, ward, and city oragnizations, we would be in a genuine position for doing some real business on behalf of our suffering people. If ever we really get together, it must be along some simple line as suggested. No organization will amount to very much unless it is educative. The very plan of the organization we have very briefly sketched makes it educative in the highest degree. Fifteen persons assembled together can all be heard to their hearts content, and, from such heart and complete discussion of some proposed object inviting cooperation, may be able to present a united front. And, what is accomplished in one group is possible in every other group. Two or three thousand of our men and women intelligently organized for the study of our own problems in a short while, would make a distinct and helpful contribution to the solving of the larger problems which confront us, as a race, elsewhere. There seems to be a misunderstanding as to the registration and how to register. Some are under the impression that they cannot register as a Progressive, and if they register as Republican they must vote the Republican ticket. This is not true. A person may register as Republican, Democrat, Prohibitionist or what not, even unaffiliated, and then vote for the person of their choice. Simply because one registers under an affiliation does not prevent them from voting for the person of their choice. So if one registers as a Republican they can vote for the Progressive, Democrat or Republican. The Progressive party is a new one to all intents and purposes, and while it is a hard matter for some people to break away from old ties, yet if one has convictions they ought not to be afraid to express those convictions at any time and place where proper. If your simpathies are with the Progressives then have the manly courage to register and express those convictions in that manner. Let us be true to our convictions whether they are for one party or the other. Political Emancipation is as badly needed as physical emancipation. The old Party would like to keep us as an asset as if we could live on the past. If the old men will not see the light, the younger ones ought to. Baltimore should have a celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation if not until January first, the day when the proclamation went into effect. As a rule we are always behind, but it is not too late yet. WILLIAMS ALEXANDER LYONS JOLLY GAINES PROGRESSIVES TAFFYS BAND WAGON DEFEAT THE ELEPHANT—"Follow Me Fellers and You'll Wear Diamonds." THE FORUM. "A. N. R." Asks Some Pertinent Questions. To the Editor of the Afro-American Ledger, Dear Sir: I realize the worth of the Afro-American Ledger in dealing with the people and therefore will use it as a spokesman. There appeared in the Baltimore Times of last week, Mr. Hugh Macbeth's reasons for supporting Mr. Taft and his excuse for desertine Mr. Roosevelt, which in my judgment, he had to after Colonels baldwin, Carrington, Senator Dixon and the public found out what sort of man they had been dealing with. I met Mr. Macbeth last spring, in the Roosevelt headquarters soon after he had come back from his tour of the Eastern and Western shores of Maryland. He told me that the Nero rank and file to a man were with Roosevelt, and no sane man could support Mr. Taft after he had made his inaugural speech, when he considered the Negro question not in the face of a few but in the face of 100,000,-000 people, 10,000,000 of whom are Negroes, which represented the greatest Republic on the face of the globe. I am at a loss. Tell me who is insane, or has Mr. Macbeth gone insane? Mr. Macbeth came here a few years ago as an agent of the Douglas Shoe Company. Finding Baltimore a good place for the establishment of a colored paper, he organized the Baltimore Advocate, with himself as editor, after which he and his associates changed its name to that of the Baltimore Times. He began taking pot shots at every man or institution that he could, and the result was that, it is alleged, he was ejected from one of the ministerial meetings. We all know what position Mr. Macbeth put Senator Dixon in over the alleged affidavit that he said that he was going to produce, for which the public is still waiting to see. Colonel Baldwin wrote Mr. Macbeth a letter about his knocking Colonel Carrington, stating that he did not want Macbeth to praise him (Colonel Baldwin.) The Sunday News of Sept. 1st will coform me in the letter. As to the colored delegates, Roosevelt did what any other man of broad experience would have done. He did what was proper by throwing out the colored delegates, when they only represented a few crooked politicains of the South, and not an electoral vote. A part of the country that has been the Democratic bulwark and has not sent a vote to the Republican electoral college for more than twenty-five years. I therefore ask these gestions, and call for a explanation. Mt. Washington, Md. September 25, 1912. (The Afro-American Ledger does not profess to understand the mental and moral processes of Mr. Macbeth, nor his reasons for turning from being, an ardent Roosevelt shouter to a Taft apologist, and, therefore, cannot give the explanation asked for.) Miss Carrie Lark, 1014 Parr' avenue, has returned from a trp to Virginia. MANY BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES OPEN Jew Controls Trade In Vicinity Where Colored Business Men Should Hold Sway "I can't even buy a pair of socks today," sighed a colored man at the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Biddle street, last Saturday. "Mary, do tell me where I can buy some sugar and meat" said a lady who was looking in vain for a store that was open. All over the city small grocery stores, notion stores and other small business ventures were closed for the day. Down town big retail stores were closed and in the shopping district one half of the business places were closed. The whole city was compelled to wait while these stores were closed or it was Yom Kippur, the most sacred of Jewish holidays. The story is not about the holiday, however, but to give a faint idea of the immense part that the Hebrew plays in the commercial life of this and other communities. People who forgot that the holiday was coming, had, in many instances to work on short rations last Saturday, because their only storekeeper in the neighborhood was a Jew. The Negro out numbers the Jew in this community, yet he does not do as much business among his race as do the Hebrew merchants along Pennsylvania avenue. The Negro must eat, wear clothes, buy shoes, smoke cigars and purchase dresses and millinery. Nergo business places are needed by the hundreds. Right business methods will gain for them that patronage which largely goes to the whites. Small businesses will grow into big businesses, banks and other corporation will be established among the colored people, and the successful business man of the race will be able to enter the larger life of the community as have the Jews. Mr. Waiter, Mr. Driver, Mr. Bellhop and the rest of you that make a living by serving others think of the golden harvest that awaits you; if you will only go into business. Take courage, start in a small way, and in a few years you will be earning as much in one year as you now earn in tive. The great buying public is waiting now with dollars to give you, if you only have the store and the ware. Reisterstown Notes. Reisterstown, Md., Sept. 27 — The congregation of St. Luke A. M. E. Church worshipped at the Green Sprig M. E. Church last Sunday night. Rev. L. A. Carter preached. The second quarterly conference of the M. E. Church was held last Saturday night. Reports submitted by Rev. L. A. Carter showed progress. District Superintendent W. A. C. Hughes presided. Mrs. Robinson, of Richmond, Va., was tendered a reception by Rev. and Mrs. G. W. West a few evenings ago. Miss Lea Carter has returned from a visit to friends in Winchester, Va. STRIKERS FAIL TO CHANGE SCHOOL 91 Howl By White Delegation Fail to Change The Decision of The School Board. After a hearing had been given a delegation of whites who favored keeping the school of their race and a delegation of the race who argued for the needs of the colored residents the School Board decided Wednesday to give School No. 91, Argyle avenue, over to colored children. The announcement that the school was to be given over to colored children caused a number of the white residents to contend that other schools were located too far away from their homes, and the protest to the board was the result. The A. M. E Ministers' Meeting, upon the motion of Rev. J. W. McDonald appointed a committee Monday to go before the board and present the side of the race. The committee consisted of Rev. J. W. McDonald, pastor of the Pennsylvania Avenue A. M. E. Zion Church; W. E. Williams, of Grace Presbyterian Church; D. G. Hill, of Bethel A. M. E. Church; A. L. Gaines, of Trinity A. M. E. Church; M. F. Sydes, of Waters A. M. E. Church, and T. R. Sinkheld. Dr. J. T. McCarthy, of 656 W. Franklin street, was the spokesman of the whites. He told the School Board that all the whites were contending for was adequate school facilities. Dr. Rev. McDonald made a brief opening address for the colored delegation, in which he plead for better school facilities for the race. He introduced Rev. Williams, as the spokesman of the delegation. Dr. Williams mentioned the fact that school facilities for the race in this city are entirely inadequate; that the old tin factory, at Calhoun street was a menace to health and limb, and that the Colored High school was located in quarters that are entirely too small. He said that the neighborhood around School No. 91 was almost entirely occupied by the race, and the building would offer a partial relief to the inadequate school facilities for the colored people. Mrs. E. J. Wheatley presented some facts and figures concerning social conditions in the lower end of the Seventeenth ward, and declared that children would be in a better environment if sent to a school located as is the one on Argyle avenue. The board, after some deliberation decided to give the school to colored children. After the hearing was over, Dr. McCarthy and others assured the colored people present that no racial antipathy was intended, and that the whites only wanted adequate school facilities. Mrs. F. E. Liverpool, of 53 Laurens street, has returned home, after spending two weeks visiting friends in Philadelphia and Wilmington, Del. Every year we see progressive men organizing, cooperating and entering into working plans. At times we wonder how they get the business. It is because they organize and cooperate intelligently. This can be truthfully said of the Gold Bridge Investment and Loan Association. Seveal year ago a few progressive colored men of N. W. Baltimore, put their heads and dollars together and formed the previous named organization and incorporated the same under the laws of the State of Maryland, and by personal and close attention to business, have been enable to acquire considerable property in Baltimore City. They are negotiating for a piece of property suitable for an office. They buy and sell real estate and make loans on first mortgages. The officers are as follows: Samuel Garrett, President; Thomas B. Slater, Vice President; Wm. Booker, Jr., Fin. Secretary; John C. Westcott, Secretary; James W. Pipney, Treasurer, and George Dew. Repeting agent. Directors - Samuel Garrett, George L. Dent, Wallace L. Smith, Thomas B. Slater, William Rice, John C. Westcott, Charles H. Brooks, James W. Pinpney and William Booker, Jr. Teachers' Training School. In order to meet the great demand of the Sunday School of today for a better trained teaching force, there has been established in the Sunday School building of the Metropolitan M. E. Church an Inter-denominational Teacher Training School, which will be opened October 1st, 1912 fcr the benefit of Sunday School Superintendents and workers. Prominent instructors of experience and training will be in charge. This with the graduation of the work meeting the requirements of teachers now in active service and of prospective teachers, the location of the school central and easily accessible and the very small cost—the price of the text books used should induce many workers and students to enroll as pupils. Junior Elementary Classes (for those who have not taken any course) will meet Tuesday evening 8.15 to 9.15. Senior Elementary Classes (for those who have had previous instruction) Friday evenings 8.15 to 9.15. Advanced Classes (for graduates of any teacher training course and advanced Bible students) Friday evening 9 to 10. Those desiring information should apply to Geo. I. Simms, President, 1309 Division street. Florena K Owens, Secretary, 543 Presstman street. IN MEMORIAM. In sad, but loving remembrance of our dear sister, Ethel Sinclair Dent, who departed this life one year ago, September 20th, 1911. Oh, how we loved our sister dear, No heart on earth can tell; But Jesus loved her better, And called her home to dwell. Had he asked us, well we know We should say, O spare her; Yes with streaming tears shout pray Lord, we love her, let her stay. In love she lived, in peace she died, Her life was asked, but God denied. By her sister, Mrs. William E. Green. HALL—In sad but loving remembrance of my dear son, William A. who departed this life 4 years ago today, Sept. 21, 1908. Dear loving son, could you speak to me, And could you live again; My loving heart would then be healed. But this I wish in vain. By his mother, Mary E. Thomas. CAMPER—Priscilla R Camper, 808 Pierce street, departed this life in full triumph of faith, Sept. 20th, 1912. We thank her many friends for their kindness and beautiful floral tributes. Card of Thanks. I wish to thank the friends for their kindness towards my sister-in-law Elizabeth Diggs, during her illness and after her death. DIGGS—Elizabeth Diggs died Spet. 18th, 1912 and was buried Monday Sept. 16th. Her loving sister-in-law Martha Jones. The Passing of a Veteran. Rev. J. B. Tynes, of the Va. Conference P. E., passed away in the full triumph of faith—suddenly. The funeral was largely attended on Monday, Sept. 22. He was formerly an official of Waters Church, afterwards a graduate from Hampton. Young men, awake. SPECIAL NOTICES Dont miss the opening of Sharon Literary Society, Carey and Pressman streets, Monday night, Sept. 30th, 1912. Debate open to all: Subject: "What candidate shall the colored people support for president at the coming election." Admission free: Mr. Augustus Fields, President. Miss M. A. Booze. Secretary. Attention Longshoremen! By request Rev. J. W. McDonald, D. D., pastor of Pennsylvania Avenue A. M. E. Zion Church, between Dolphin and Hoffman streets will preach two special sermons for the LONGSHOREMEN on Sunday, Oct. 6th. 11 a. m., Subject: "Ezekiel's Wheel Within a Wheel." 8 p. m., "Dry Bones in the Valley." He will name all the ones in the human body. Everybody is cordial invited to hear these great sermons The John A. Holmes Chapter Epworth League of Metropolitan M. E. Church will reopen their service Sunday, Sept. 29, 1912 at 5 p. m., with an echo of the recent conventio held at Westminster, Md. Brilliant Programme. You are invited. Mr. James A. Harris, President. Mr. W. H. McClain, Secretary. Union rally of the Benevolent committees of St. Paul M. E. Church and the Rescue Mission Workers of Baltimore City at St. Paul M. E. Church, Sept. 29, at 8 p. m. $25.00 is to be raised by issuing 500 envelopes at 25 cents apiece, half of which is to be distributed by the church and the other half by the Rescue Mission workers. Proimnent speakers will be present. Music furnished by the choir, Mr. T. H. Franklin, leader. The presidents, with their organizations are cordially invited to be present. Mrs. A. R. H. Miller, President of Rescue Mission. Rev. S. H. Norwood, Pastor. GRAND RALLY Bishop Alexander Walters, D. D. On Sunday Oct. 13th, at Pennsylvania Avenue A. M. E. Zion Church, Rt. Rev. Alexander Walters, A. M. D. D., will preach two special sermons for the Knights of Pythians at 11 a. m. and 8 p.m. There will be a contest between Allen Lodge No. 4, and other lodges and courts, of Calanthe. No. 13. There will be a prize for the largest amount of money raised by one number and a prize for the number that brings the largest number of members. All friends cordially invited. The sermon at night, especially for the Knights of Pythias. A Successful Rally. The special rally that was held on last Sunday at Trinity A. M. E. Church under the auspices of the Day Nursery Association, was a great success. A very interesting program was rendered consisting of several able addresses on the urgent need of such work among our people in this city and the workers in charge received much comment for their noble efforts in having secured a building located at 953 Drudl Hill avenue which will be opened during the month of October with a trained worker at its head to pilot the work. The sum of $250.00 was collected with a large number of envelopes out, which when received will make the total receipts nearly $275.00 Come one come all and let us crowd Asbury Hall on Monday, Sept. 30, 1912. 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All Class Leader and classes invited. 3.30 p. m., Special sermon to the Bands by Rev. J. A. Briscoe. All bands invited. 4.30 p. m., Prayer Meeting, led by Asbury M. E. Band. 7.30 p. m., Sermon by Rev. D. G. Hill. 8.30 p. m., Farewell hand shaking. We t. ADVERTISE. A AMES MEM. M. E. CHURCH Dalton, KY Carey and Baker Sts. Rev. D. D. Turpean, Pastor. 11 a. m. Sermon by the Pastor. 2 30 p. m., Sunday School. 7 30 p. m., sermon by the Pastor. Every possible attention given to strangers—Seats Free W. A. Jones, Supt. The Epworth League will open Sun day, October 6th, at 5 P. M. EASTERN M. E. CHURCH McElderry St., and Patterson Pak Ave. Rev. S. R. Hughes, Pastor. Fourth Annual Women's Day Service. 11 a. m., Mrs. Mary F. Bond. 3 p. m., Mrs. Ida Nelson. 8 p. m., Mrs. Carrie Molock. The services will be interspersed with addresses and solos by our best talent. ASBURY M. E. CHURCH Lexington and East Sts. Rev. C. G. Cummings, B. D. Pastor. 9. 30 a. m. Bible Class 11 a.m., "Railroad Sermon" by the Rev. A. Young, of "King's Hill." Accompribed by his choir and congregation. 2:30 p.m., Sunday School. 3 P. M. 66th Anniversary Sermon of Friday night. Band, by Rev. Aquilla Brooks. Mrs. Lena Thomas. Pres E. L. WHATCOAT M. E. CHURCH, Franklin and Pine Sts. "King's Hill" Rev. Alfred Young, Pastor. Grand Rally. 11 a. m. Sermon by Rev. P. S. Henry. 8 p. m. Sunday School. Everybody welcome. 8 p. m. Sermon by Rev. J. Robinson of Sharon Baptist Church. Prayer meeting every Wednesday night. Everybody welcome W. C. Tongue, Supt. CENTENNIAL M. E. CHURCH Caroline and Bank streets. Sunday, October 6th, at 3 p.m. A special sermon will be preached by Rev. Ida Nelson in interest of Company N, benefit of the Fall Rally. All are invited. Adam Sinclair, Captain, Cora Handy, Lieutenant. Rev. Daniel Shaw, Pastor. CENTENNIAL M.E. CHURCH 8 p. m., Sermon by the Pastor. GILLIS MEM. M. P. CHURCH Stockton Street near W. Baltimor Rev. B. H. Knight, Pastor. 10 a. m. Class 11 a. m. Preaching by Rev. E. W. Scott, D. D. 2 p. m., Sunday School. 6.30 p. m., C. E. J. 8 p. m., Sermon by Rev. E. W. Scott, D. D. G. W. Fowler, Pres. C. E. D. T. H. McGowan, Supt. ST. JAMES U. A. M. E. CHURCH 808 W. Pratt Street. Rev. G. B. Singleton, Pastor. All singing and Praying Bands and congregations are invited to attend our all day's meeting, Sunday, Sept. 29th. Beginning with Class Meeting at 8 a.m. Preaching by the most able Divines all day, and the Rev. Alfred Carter will preach to the Tribe of Gideon at 8.30 p.m. All are welcome. Rev. George Singleton, Pastor. PENNSYLVANIA AVE. A. M. E. ZION CHURCH. Rev. J. W. MacDonald, D. D. Pastor. 11 a. m., Sermon by Rev. C. D. Hazel, Presiding Elder of the Washington district. 2.30 p. m., Sunday School. W. W. Brown, Supt. 3 p. m., Rev. Dr. G. W. Kennard. 6 p. m., Christian Endeavor. J. B. Alkins, president 8 p. m., Sermon by Pastor, subject: "Where are the Dead?" GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Dolphin and Etting Sts. Rev. W. Edward Williams, Pastor. The Manse, 623 W. Lanvale St. Services: 11 a. m., Sermon by the Minister, subject: "City Builders." 2.30 p. m., Sunday School. 8 p. m., Second Sermon on "Power," by the Minister. Seats free. All welcome. Wm. Anderson, Supt. Mrs. Eutalia Reid Galloway, Directress. Miss Margaret Rusk, Organist. AZARIEN BAPT CHURCH Whatcoat st., near Presstman. Rev. Samuel N. Johnson, Pastor. Residence: 1833 Woonyear St. 11 a. m., Sermon by the Pastor: 2.30 p. m., Sunday School 8 p. m., Sermon by the Pastor. J. A. Giles, Clerk. JOHN WESLEY - M. E. CHURCH Sunday the 29th, at 11 a. m. Dr. Ernest Lyon will preach the 3rd of his series of sermons on the "Call of Illustrious Leaders." Subj: —"The Appointment and Ordination of Joshua, the Successor of Moses." The public is showing interest by the large crowd in attendance. Services at 3 p. m. and at 8 p. m. The public is cordially invited. A special feature of these services is the music rendered by the choir which is praised on every hand. EBENEZER A. M. E. CHUECH Rev. J. W. Norris, Pastor Old Folks's Home Day and Mid- year Conference. 11 a. m., Sermon by the Pastor. 2.30 p. m., Sunday School. 8 p. m., Sermon by the Pastor Stranger. All are invited. Oct. 3rd, Union Class Meeting. Oct. 4th S. S. Anniversary and Reception. Special program, refreshments free. Mr. Howard Brent, Supt. BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH Druid Hill Ave and Lauvale St. TRINITY A. M. E. CHURCH Lindor Ave. and Biddle St. TRINITY A. M. E. CHURCH Linden Ave. and Biddle St. Rev. A. L. Gaines, D. D., Pastor. 11 a. m. Sermon by the Pastor. Hurst, D. D. 2.30 p. m., Sunday School. 8 p. m., Sermon by the Pastor. T. J. Holliday, Supt. ST. JOHN'S. A. M. E. CHURCH, Lexington St. near Pine, Rev. L. S. Flagg, Pastor. 11 a. m. Sermon by the Pastor. 2.30 p. m., Sunday School. Bertha Fleming, Supt. 6 p. m., A. C. E. L., Chas. Roberts, President. 7.80 p. m., Preaching. Subject: "The Handwriting on the Wall." WATERS A. M. E. CHURC 11 a. m., sermon by pastor, subject: "Hand Writing on the Wall." 3 p. m., Special sermon by the pastor to the Willing Workers Association of First Baptist Church, subject: "Young People, the Hope of the future." 8 p. m., Preaching. Being the 5th Sunday, a general collection is taken for educational purposes. All the Tribe officers are requested to be present to receive their list of members in their company. Allen C. E. League will open Sunday Oct. 6, 5 p. m. You are cordially invited to attend the regular service on SUNDAY, SEPT. 27th, at 5 P. M. There will be Special Exercises by the Home Circle Organization. Miss Sadie Chew presiding Paper by Miss Alice Hill, subjec: Brotherly Love. Solo by Miss Annie Rev. James Wright, a student of Harvard University has been invited to address the meeting M. E. Murphy, President, E. E. Bright, Secretary. 10 a. m., Bible Missionary Institute 11 a. m., Preaching. 2.30 p. M. Hay, Dr. Alfred Young. 8.30 p. M. Jay, Dr. Alfred Young. Pastor Whatcotch M. E. Church King Hill will preach one of his famous Rail road sermons. Text: 'GO' A crowd will follow. 6.30 p. M. A. C. E. League. 8 p. m., Platform services, Mrs. S. B. Holmes, Presidem of the W. H. Missionary, Mrs. Rachas Taylor, presi- dent Ladies Aid Metropolitan Chu- can and Aux. and others. All are welcome. H. W. Hiner, Supt. Fourth Annual Woman's Day at Eastern M. E. Church, Meldenry street and Patterson Park avenue Sunday, September 29, 1912. 9 a. m., Union experience meeting. 11 a. m., Sermon, Rev. Mary R. Bonds, the evangelist of the A. M. E. Conference. 3 P. M. Sermon, Rev. Mrs. 1da Nelson, of Holy Spirit Temple. 3 P. M. Epworth League, Special service. 8 P. M., Platform services opened by Rev. Mrs. Carrie Molone, followed by others. All organizations churches and the public are coridally invited to be presen us. All welcome. President M. Josephine Wilson, Secretary Mrs. Anna Hammons. Pastor Rev. S. (S. to The Afro-American Ledger.) Philadephia, Pa., Sept. 5—Mayor Blankenburg received a delegation of fifty of the most representative of Philadelphia's businesses and professional men in interest of the Emancipation Celebration to be held in September, 1913. The Mayor expressed his great interest in the colored people and promised his hearty support for the Exposition. He will recommend an appropriation from the city and also recommend that free use of suitable buildings in which to hold the affair be granted the promoters. Hon. Harry W. Bass, as master of ceremonies, introduced the delegation's spokesman, Richard R. Wright, Jr., editor of the Christian Recorder, who outlined the progress made by the race since the emancipation from slavery and told of the proposed celebration. Rev. Henry Mr. Duffy, Bishop Tyree Bishop Tanner and Walter P. N. Hall spoke in endorsement. The visitors were delighted with the warm reception the Mayor gave their project. Among those present were: Bishop Evans Tyre, Bishop Benj. Tucker Tanner, Hon. Harry W. Bass, Sec'y of the Emancipation Proclamation of Pennsylvania, Hon. Richard A. Cooper, Rev. Chas. V. Monk, Rev. J. T. Smith, Mr. S. N. Francis James H. Williams, Rev. H. D. Brown, James A. Howard, Alex. W. Guinn, Rev. R. L. Cummings, Rev T. J. Noppins, Dr. Wm. A. Sinclair, Rev H. H. Cooper, James Irvin, Allen Turnago, C. K. Brown, P. A. Dutricle, Rev J. B. Gardner, Rev F. T. M. Webster, Chas. Fred. White, John C. Asbury, Esq.; Dr. H. L. Gowneus, Jr.; Dr. John P. Turner, Rev W. G. N. Watkins, Rev J. R. Reed, Dr. R. W. Baily, N. G. Nutter, Walter P. Hall, C. Edward Wells, Rev S. L. Sturges, Charles Brown, Rev H. S. McDuffy, Ira S. Ashe, E. J. Crane, Alex. G. McKenzie, Rev. Amos Brown, Rev E. T. Bruce, Rev. H. Y. Arnett, Dr. William M. Slowe, Walter W. Scott ard. Richard R. Wright; Jr. Opening of Atlanta Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 25—The Atlanta Normal and Industrial Institute opened here today with a large attendance, under the direction of Principal Richard D. Stinson. Principal Stinson has succeeded in interesting some of the wealthiest an most influential white men in the city in the financial needs of the school. Able teachers are employed, an instruction given in the academic branches, trades, domestic science and cooking. Every student must learn a trade and no worthy student will be turned away. A big rally in the interest of the school was held Sunday afternoon. Strong addresses were delivered. Mr. O. H. Clayburn, who spoke on "How the Negro Has Helped Himself Since the Civil War;" Judge O. H. Elkins, who spoke on "Education Should Make Better the Condition of the People;" Prof. R. H. Priites, Dr. L. H. Roberts and Principal Stinson, who made an eloquent plea for the need of education for the race. $2.00 reward will be paid for correct information of Maud Powell, al as Maud Fletcher, who disappeared on September 9. She is five feet, six inches in height, and has a good suit of hair and is brown-skinned. She carried two suit cases, and took along with her her six year old sister Essie Cooper. Send all information to S. Hundley, 415 N Pine street. JOHN WESLEY M. E. CHURCH Sunday the 29th, at 11 a. m. Dr. Ernest Lyon will preach the 3rd of his series of sermons on the "Call of Illustrious Leaders." Subj: —"The appoi tment and Ordination of Jesus, the Successor of Moses." The public is showing interest by the large crowd in attendance. Services at 3 p. m and at 8 p. m. The public is corrally invited. A special feature of these services is the music rendered by the choir which is praised o every hand. JAMES A. WRIGHT ORDAINED MINISTER. He Is A Graduate of Howard University and a Student at Harvard Aud Andover James A. Wright, a student at Andover Theological Seminary, Cambridge, Mass., was ordained to the ministry at Perkins Square Baptist Church Monday night. Rev. John W. Jones was moderator; Rev. G. R. Waller, catechizer, and Rev. James A. Fry, of Govans, was clerk. The ordination sermon was preached by Rev. W. J. Winston, president of Clayton-Williams University. O hers assisted in the ordination included: Revs. W. M. Alexander, who delivered the charge to the church; Rev. A. M. Molock, who delivered the charge to the candidate; Rev. A. B. Callis, who gave the right hand of fellowship, and Rev. G. R. Waller, who offered the ordination prayer. Rev. Mr. Wright has accepted a call to the Abyssinian Baptist Church Portland, Me. He will also complete his studies at the university. He is a Baltimore boy, and received the degree of bachelor of arts from Howard University, Washington, a year ago. Besides taking the course at the seminary, he is also taking a post-graduate course at Harvard University. Pythians Will Entertain The Maryland Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias and the subordinate lodges are planning for the entertainment of the session of the Supreme Lodge, which will be held here next August. The Grand Court of Calanthe and Subordinate courts are also expected to enter heartily into the effort to make the session a notable one. Grand Chancellor George A. Watty is most optimistic about the success of the session. "I have received every assurance," he told a representative of the Afro-American Ledger, "that the various lodges will co-operate in every way to make the gathering a big success. Our homes will be open to the thousands who will come, and the genuine Maryland hospitality will be in evidence. Mr. William H. Mayo, of Kentueky, who was here several weeks ago, told me that at least 15,000 visitors will be here from the West alone. Other sections of the country will also send large delegations." Anti-Saloon League Appeals For Funds The Anti-saloon League has sent out an appeal for $15,000 to aid it in its work for local option. The appeal states that only 5,000 of 200,000 members of churches committed to temperance, are supporting the work and that with 5,000 more or one in twenty, actually contributing the movement can sweep the State." Rev. D. D. Turpeau, who has been appointed to take charge of the league's work among the colored people, has received a number of letters of congratulation. One letter from a corporation, however, censured him for agreeing to take up a work which was thought the colored people had sense enough to stand aloof from." Chorister Fisher Mr. J. Edward Fisher, Chorister of Waters A. M. E. Choir, was tendered a surprise Monday evening in honor of his birthday by the members and friends of the choir, at their residence of Miss Mamie Cox. 621 N. Dallas street. Mr. Fisher was presented a handsome oriental smoking set. The presentation speech was made by Mrs. Florence Peters, Mr. Fisher responded fittingly. Among those present were: Mesdames Florence Peters Clara Lewis, Gertrude Lovell, Jennie Ellis. Emma J. Cox, Misses Nellie-Giles, Ruth M. Sydes, Mamie Jones, Mildred Dockins, Mamie Cox, Rev. Jackson, of New York, Rev. M. F. Sydes, Messrs. Cecil Lewis, G. W. Ross, William R. Cox, Dennis Miller and George Wilson. Miss Daisy Smith has left Asbury Park to visit the city of Philadelphia and will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Brown and Miss Blanche Webster and will return to her home, 1047 Argyle Ave., October 1. Fort Worth, Texas.—Here I am striving to write to you one more time, but it may be that I may fall down before I get through with this letter. I am suffering much with a cold and it is to be hoped that I will get alright soon. It is hard to be sick and suffer and I am hoping that my trip to California will do me much good. I have been able to meet the National Baptist Convention, and have seen many big men and now I am headed for another part of this busy world. I must confess that I had a fine time at the convention, listening to the addresses and many other things that were said at the session. The convention opened on time, and there were present delegates from all parts of the country. None of the big preachers from New York, Boston, Baltimore or Washington were present. Revs. E. W. Moore, W. G. Parks, W. F. Graham, and A. R. Robinson, all of Philadelphia, were present and took part in the opening. It was indeed a fine opening, and deserved much to be said about it. The mayor of the city delivered a welcome address, and it was worth while. And then there were twenty-four other addresses delivered. In the afternoon, Rev. Dr. E. C. Morris delivered an address I referred to Dr. Morris and I am sure you will recall that he is president of the convention and has been for a long time. He is a good president, and when he was through with his address, he was again elected president of the convention without any protest. Each day brought many new and good things, and I could not keep up with them all. I was at every sessions of the convention. Rev. W. D. Miller, of Houston, pastor of Wesley Chapel A. M. E. Chuerh, was the representative of the African Methodists, and he was a good one. He made a common sense address, holding up his church, and received much applause. I am of the opinion that Dr. Millier will be at the head of his class or will be one of the bishops of his church. He is a safe leader. Now I come to another part of this meeting and this is the Women's Auxiliary, presided over by Mrs. S. Willie Layten, of Philadelphia. This one of the strongest organizations in the country. Strong because it is doing something tangible. Women of brain and thought are in this society. Miss Nannie Burroughs, is corresponding see etary, and is one of the strongest young women of the race. I do not know just where it was she entered this world, but I think it was about Washington, and then she got a thorough training before she went out into the world, and then when she started she was able to do something for the race. I have told you about the training school in Washington, and now in her report to the convention, she made a special appeal to the white women of the south, and that alone is worth much to the race. If you have not seen it I would suggest that you write to Miss Burroughs at Lincoln Helights, D. C., and have her send you one. It is worth getting hold of. I would like to have you present at the dedication of one of the buildings of the training school if you can make it convenient. Rev. Dr. C. T. Walker preached a sermon that was worth hearing, and I could mention the sermon preached by another member of the race, but cannot do so. Dr. Booker T. Washington was on hand and delivered an address, he was accompanied by his executive secretary, Emmet J. Scott, who is also secretary of Tuskegee Institute. Mr. Scott had many friends in Houston, who were delighted to see him. You see he resigned a position on the Houston Post to become secretary of Dr. Washington, and the Post was glad to welcome him back. He took pleasure in delivering to the Post a copy of the address to Dr. Washington, so that when I went to the office I had only to edit it. Copies for the other papers were turned over to me. Send all mail for me to 2355 E. Ninth street, Los Angeles, Cal. I am now in this place, and will leave here for El Paso, Mexico, and California, and will go to Kansas and then to Texas. I am booked to spend a few hours in Denver, Col. Hope this will meet your approval. I have a good many things to say to you yet. I am now headed for the South, then the West. I am not going to tell you all the places I am going, but you may look out for the letter. God bless you. In an article in the Phialdelphia Pubile Ledger, Cyrus Field Adams, assistant register of the Treasury, says that the Republican party has produced the only great men of the race and that the Democratic party has not had within its ranks a really great man of the race. His article follows: The real cause of the Civil War was the desire for the extension and pepetuation of that great blot upon the escutcheon of our country; human slavery. Prior to the advent of Abraham Lincoln and the Republican party about 4,000,000 Afro-Americans were held in bondage in the Southern States, then as now controlled by the Democrats, and when the Republican party elected Abraham Lincoln President, thus setting the stamp of disapproval upon the Democratic desires, these Democratic Southern States seceded from the Union and attempted to set up a confederacy with human slavery as the chief cornerstone. The Republican party determined that the Confederacy should be destroyed that the Union be preserved; and true to its principles and in keeping with his own declarations the Great Eamnicipator struck the shackles from the limbs of the bondmen. Following the freedom of the slaves came their enlistment in the army and navy of the Union, and by this act the names of nearly 200,000 Afro-Americans were added to the honor roll of those who fought for their country in the Civil War. The leaders of the Republican party, feeling that their work was far from completion, framed and passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Federal Constitution, and the States ratified their action, thus making slavery impossible and confirming the civil and political rights of the Afro-American people. Clothed by the Republican party with the right to vote, is it surprising that these newly made citizens voted with the party which had taken them from their former position as mere chattels and made the citizens of the great Republic? Through the Republican party Douglas, Bruce, Langston, Dunn, Pinchback, Rainey, Revels, Lewis, Delaney, Smalls and scores of other national charactercs, many of them former slaves, rose to eminence impossible without its aid in the period following the slaveholders' rebellion and in the present day the Republican party has given many Afro-Americans political prominence and recognition which they can obtain from no other party. The Democratic party has never produced any really great Afro-Americans. The Republican party stands firmly against disfranchisement. No State controlled by Republicans has disfranchised the Afro American The Republican party has taken a firm stand against jim-crow legislation and no State controlled by Republicans has ever passed a jim-crow or segregation law. LOCAL PREACHERS ORGANIZED A committee of local preachers of the Methodist Episcopal Churches mer on September 3rd, at 720 W. Mulberry street, and organized a permanent local preachers' organization of Baltimore City and vicinity. Those present were Bros. Arthur J. Smith of Asbury M. E. Church; L. A. Mallory, of Metropolitan M. E. Church; Samuel Rosner, of St. Johns A. M. E. Church; Samuel Hutchins, of St. Johns A. M. E. Church; Samuel Dixon, of Whatcoat M. E. Church; Jacob Douglas, Pavne A. M. E. Church; Palestine Henry, of John Wesley M. E. Church; James Williams, of Whatcoat M. E. Church, and Monroe White, of St. Johns A. M. E. Church. The following officers were elected: Arthur Smith, Ashbury, Pres. Samuel Hutchins, St. Johns, 1st Vice Pres.; James Williams, Whatcoat, Sec'y., and James J. Baker, Bothel, Tress. On Wednesday, October 2nd, 1912 there will be another meeting held at 720 W. Mulberry street at 8 o'clock. All local preachers invited. Adv. REGISTER! One day of registration has passed. This is to be an entirely new registration, and you want to vote at the coming election you must get your name on the poll books. Now is the time. Do not neglect it. ARE YOU A READER OF THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER? You may be a READER but not a SUBSCRIBER. We want your name on our books and we are going to make it worth your while not only to be a READER but a SUBSCRIBER. Now we are going to make you this offer. If you will send us your name and address on the blank below and enclose one dollar, Money Order, Check, Dollar Bill, or Stamps, we will send you THE AFROAMERICAN LEDGER from now until January 1st, 1914. Fifteen months for $1 00. The cheapest and best paper in the country. You get the news while it is news. You get your paper promptly. Mailed from the office every Friday evening in the year. One Dollar for Fifteen Months. Here's your chance. Do it yourself and do not tell Bill or any one else to do it, but do it today. T. G. MARSHALL, Groceries & Provisions, Butter, & Eggs ...and Poultry... Select Home Killed Poultry Wholesale and Retail Dealer WM H. BEYANS 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. Let me Serve You with Prompt Service MORGAN COLLEGE. AND BRANCHES THE COLLEGE—Baltimore, Md., Rev. Courses leading to appropriate Degrees PRINCESS ANNE ACADEMY—(The L. Anne, Md., Thomas H. Kiah, A. B. Courses, Courses in Agriculture, Daryi Domestic Science and Art, Hone Gard VIRGINIA COLLEGIATE and INDUS Frank Trigg, M. A., Principal. Norm Science and art. The schools all open Tuesday, Septo at once to the Dean or Principal. THE COLLEGE—Baltimore, Md., Rev. C. E. Young, D. D., Dean. Collegiate Courses leading to appropriate Degrees. Normal and Preparatory Courses. PRINCESS ANNE ACADEMY—(The Eastern Branch Md. Ag. Coll.) Princess Anne, Md., Thomas H. Kiah, A. B., Principal. Normal and Preparatory Courses. Courses in Agriculture, Darying, Carpentry, Blacksmithing, Printing, Domestic Science and Art, Home Gardening. VIRGINIA COLLEGIATE and INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE—Lynchburg, Va., Frank Triggy, M. A., Principal. Normal and Preparatory Courses. Domestic Science and art. The schools all open Tuesday, September 24th. Application should be made at once to the Dean or Principal. J. O. SPENCER, Principal. Keep Your Feet Comfortable! I beg to inform my custo mers and the public that I have secured a stock of the best Texas White Oak Leather. The best on the market, at a figure that enables me to quote reduced prices. Having many years of experience, I assure you that I can do better work than any shoemaker in my locality. Work done while you wait. Established 1898. C. & P. Phone. The Maryland Electric Shoe Repairing Factory, 705 Druid Hill Ave. Bet Orchard and St. Mary Sts. SAMUEL WAGENHEIM, Proprietor. 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. We Print The News While It Is News --- C. E. Young, D D., Dean, Collegiate Normal and Preparatory Courses. Eastern Branch Md Ag. Coll) Princess Principal. Normal and Preparatory ing, Carpentry, Blacksmithing, Printing, ening TRIAL INSTITUTE--Lynchburg, Va. al and Preparatory Courses. Domestic ember 24th. Application should be made J. O. SPENCER, Principal. Before You Buy, Sec J. Marsden Brown 1324 Druid Hill Avenue Dealer in Ladies and Gents' Clothing, Furniture, Rugs, and Carpets. Furs of all descriptions. Diamonds, watches and jewelry, a specialty. Mail orders promptly filled. Cash or Credit Just Three Weeks' Sale. Come Early and Get Your Choice of Clothing at M. C. BROWN. 2145 DIVISION STREET, (Private dwelling) Largest and Cheapest House in Northwest Baltimore. PRICES: SHOE SARKS for $100, size 38. Separate coats worth $150 will sell! for 75 cents, size 38. Shirt waists, size 36, for 25 cents. Children's school coats, 50c. to $1.00. Men's overcoats $1.00 to $4.00, only a few left. L dies' thin one-piece suits worth $1.00, will sell for 25 cents, size 36. Some worth $3.50 will sell for $1.75, size 38. Open for business from 8 A. M. to 11 P. M. DON'T FORGET TO REGISTER SINGLETON SUCCEEDS THE LATE DR. BOYD ONE OF NASHVILLE'S LEADING CITIZENS Nashville, Tenn.—Dr. J. P. Singleton, Nashville's oldest dentist in point of service, and who has been chairman of the executive committee of the People's Savings Bank and Trust company here since its organization, was unanimously chosen as president of that institution at a recent meeting of the board of directors, as the successor of the late Dr. R. F. Boyd. For many years Dr. Singleton has been one of the south's most prominent exponents of his race, and his selection to this high office is no surprise to those familiar with the man, and especially those conversant with the affairs of the People's Savings Bank and Trust company. It was by his own efforts that he acquired the prominent station in life he enjoys such as placed him in line to fill so important a position made vacant by the late Dr. R. F. Boyd, recognized as one of the greatest men of his race and day in the south. Although the possessor of much talent and considerable means, Dr. Singleton has always been extremely modest and unassuming, and gratification at his election is general not only in Nashville, but throughout this section as the confidence in which he is held by all assures for this banking institution a continuance of the firm foundation and sound business principles upon which it was placed through the leadership of its former lamented head. While a prominent member of the faculty of Mehary Medical college and also enjoying a first class dental [Name] PRESIDENT J. B. SINGLETON, practice in the city, he is one of Nashville's leading business men. Dr. Singleton is also president of the Star Realty and Investment company, a corporation which is doing a modern and high class real estate business in Nashville, being one of the most popular concerns of its kind that has been inaugurated here among the business men of the race. In addition to the functions performed by it in the capacity as agent, the company itself purchases tructs and subdivides and builds to suit its customers, allowing long time payments. The offices of the company are in the People's Savings Bank and Trust company building. The other officers of the Star Realty and Investment company are: J. W. Simmons, vice president; J. W. Work, secretary; W. D. Hawkins, treasurer; James Bumpass, attorney, and J. B. Mulleus, general agent. The People's Savings Bank and Trust company, while the youngest of the two local banking institutions, has a capital stock of $50,000 and has inside remarkable strides in the way of gaining a firm financial footing. It is now regarded as one of the strongest and safest banking houses operated by colored men in any section of the country. The present officers of the bank are: J. B. Singleton, president; W. T. Hightower, first vice president; D. A. Hart, second vice president; C. V. Roman, third vice president; A. M. Townsend, cashier; W. D. Hawkins, assistant cashier; S. P. Harris, auditor; T. Clay Moore, manager real estate department, and James Bumpass, attorney. The executive committee is composed of J. B. Singleton, W. T. Hightower, A. M. Townsend, J. B. Hale and J. W. Simmons. Buffraige League Honors Mrs. Clifford. The Equal Suffrage league of Brooklyn recently tendered an informal reception in honor of Mrs. Carrie W. Clifford of Washington in the partors of the Young Men's Christian association. Mrs. Clifford is widely known in women's club circles as a speaker and lecturer. She is also the author of a book of poems of rare merit. ZEALOUS YOUNG EDUCATOR. Bright Future Predicted For Thomas D. Rudnick at Jackson College D. Pawley at Jackson College. Jackson, Miss.-Thomas D. Pawley, who has been added to the faculty of Jackson college, in this city, is one of the most thoroughly educated men among Afro-Americans. He brings to the school a large experience gathered from the New England colleges in which he studied. He prepared for college at the Moody school, in North ampton, Mass., one of the most noted of the New England preparatory schools. He then entered Amherst college, from which he graduated in 1911. Actuated by a desire for higher education he entered Yale university, at New Haven, where he did postgraduate work in sociology and education. His work at Yale was largely along the line he will follow in his work at Jackson college. Mr. Pawley gives evidence of a brilliant future and bears the earmarks to a degree of the ripe scholar. Although a product of two of the largest and most influential of the New England colleges, he is extremely modest and unassuming in his manner. He talks reluctantly of his achievements, and it was with much difficulty that the above facts relative to his life were secured. He represents the progressive type of the young manhood of the race and believes in deeds rather than words. The scouring of the services of Mr. Pawley will mean much to the college and will give much tone to the academic side of the school. He worked his way through college, depending wholly on his own resources. He enters upon his new duties at the opening of the school well prepared. Jackson college is one of the largest schools in this section and wields a wide influence. Located as it is in the heart of the black belt region of the south, it acts as a beacon light and has guided many an ambitious youth to the right path of usefulness. The school has turned out many graduates, all of whom are doing excellent as educators and leaders among our people. YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION PROSPERS. Carlton Avenue Branch in Brooklyn Shows Judicious Management. At the first fall meeting of the committee of management of the Carlton avenue branch of the Young Men's Christian association in Brooklyn held the third week in September, reports covering the different departments of the work for the summer were rendered. The membership committee of which Mr. Elias Tighman is chairman reported an increase of thirty since the beginning of the fiscal year, March 31. Several new members have joined and there has been quite a prompt response upon the part of those whose membership expired during the summer months. Thus, with the number of new members secured and the renewal of expired membership, the branch is stronger numerically than it has been for the past six months. By the careful and judicious management of Secretary Turfus M. Meroney the financial condition of the association has been kept in good shape and the branch starts its fall work with a net balance of $133. Preparations for opening the night school are well under way, and a large enrollment of students is expected in October. The English branches are taught, and provision is made for classes in stenography and typewriting, also classes in German and French. These latter subjects will be taught by Secretary Meroney. CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH. Series of Anniversary Exercises Ends With Great Platform Meeting. With Great Fashion in the The series of services in celebration of the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Central Baptist church in Pittsburgh, has been well attended and very helpful to the church, its members and friends. The anniversary Exercises have been in progress for two weeks and will end on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 29, with a great platform meeting and financial rally. Dr. George B. Howard, the new pastor is meeting with much success at this church which he is building up in membership, influence and financial standing by the local assistance of the members. Mr. W. H. Shipwitt, the singing evangelist, assisted in the series of meetings to the delight of pastor and people. Taborians Honor Mrs. Montgomery. The annual meeting of the grand temple and tabernacle of Knights and Daughters of Tabor was recently held in Springfield. O. The sessions were harmonious and the reports showed gains in numbers and in finance. The members expressed their satisfaction for the services rendered the order by Mrs. Caroline Montgomery of McKeesport, Pa., by retiring her in the position of chief grand recorder for the third consecutive year. Brooklyn's Conning Musical Event. Musical circles in Brooklyn are much interested in the musical festival to be given at the famous old Bridge Street A. M. E. church on Thursday evening, Oct. 10. Among the well known professionals who are to take part in the exercises are Miss Minnie Brown, Mrs. Daisy Tapley and Professor James E. Wilson, the talented organist. FROM WAITER TO BIG REAL ESTATE DEALER D. S. ALSTON'S SUCCESS IN REAL ESTATE, Norfolk, Va.--Never before in the history of Norfolk has there been such an interest manifested on the part of the Afro-American people residing in the tidewater section of Virginia in buying valuable real estate as the real estate records are daily revealing. Twenty-eight years ago there came to this city from North Carolina a youth who found a vacancy in one of the local hotels, and in accepting the job as a waiter this youth at once realized the opportunity for an ambitions Afro-American. After saving sufficient money this young man entered the grocery business for himself and continued in busi- [Picture of a man in a suit with a bow tie]. DENNIS S. ALSTON. ness until the Old Dominion Steamship company offered him a iterative position as one of its stewards. At this period Norfolk had become one of the leading shipping ports in the country and thousands of Afro-Americans were coming to this port to become a working factor in its commercial progress. With a keen business perception he resigned his position with the steamship company and entered the insurance and real estate business in this city. Throughout the south among business men Mr. Dennis S. Alston is known. He furnished his office for business, and it is not to be excelled from the point of necessary appointments by many of the leading firms doing this class of business in Norfolk. Mr. Alston invested in farm lands and suburban properties in the beginning and stimulated hundreds of young men to buy real estate and showed a large number of farmers that were only renting farms the great possibilities in owning their farms. By judicious investments he soon became the leading Negro capitalist in this section. When he entered business it was not possible for Negroes to get desirable property in this city, but today he is leading the vanguard that has procured respectable homes for Negroes, and his latest purchase was a piece of property in a section of the city where the Negro was not allowed to reside which is valued at over $7,000. This property adds to the civic beauty of Norfolk and is a "native ideal" for the race. He owns thousands of dollars of valuable real estate in various sections of the city and is reaching many of the young men of the city and helping them to become desirable factors by getting homes. The Negro in Norfolk is getting on to the spirit of progressiveness, and a number of commendable enterprises are being operated. This is largely due to Mr. Alston's unassuming way of helping to promote any commercial movement that will better the Negro's condition. He is president of the Ninth Ward Civic league, which led the fight for the annexation of certain parts of the county to the city in order to better conditions among Negroes, and after the annexation Mr. Alston stood out for certain improvements that were about to be defended the colored section. Consequently over thirty miles of sewerage are being added to the new part of the city, and the school facilities are 100 per cent better. Through Mr. Alston's indefatigable efforts Grace P. E. church, this city, of which he has been senior warden for fourteen years, has been rebuilt and is among the city's most beautiful church edifices. In the various movements against evil that are proscribing too many of the Negro youths he is a grimulent leader. SUNDAY SCHOOL. Lesson Xill.—Third Quarter, For Sept. 29, 1912. THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES. Text of the Lesson, Comprehensive Quarterly Review—Golden Text, John vi, 63—Commentary Prepared by Rev. D. M. Stearns. Lesson 1.—Malignant unbelief. Mark III, 20-35. Golden Text, John iii, 19. "This is the condemlenation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light because these deeds were evil." It seems to me that the talk against Christ in our day on the part of many religious people is as bad as was that of the scribes in this lesson. May the word and the will of God be so dear to us that we shall be to Him all that he desires. Lesson 11. — The seed in the four kinds of soil, Mark iv. 1-20, Golden Text, Jas. i. 21, “Receive with weakness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.” To know God is life. He reveals Himself by His word, and Jesus Christ is the Living Word, between whom and the written word there is the most perfect agreement. Receiving Him we become children of God, the children of the kingdom, for which we wait. Lesson 111. — The growth of the kingdom Mark iv. 26:32; Matt xiii. 33, Golden Text, Matt vi. 10, “The will he done in earth, as it is in heaven.” The title of this lesson is fortunate, as the kingdom has not yet begun and therefore cannot be growing. In all His parables about the kingdom we must remember His saying, “The mystery of the kingdom of God.” (Mark iv. 11). The church, which is His body, is the mystery which is now growing. LESSON IV.—The wheat and the tares, Matt. xxii. 34-43, 36-43. Golden Text, Matt. xxii. 30, "Gather ye together first the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my harm." Since the hair rest is the end of this age and the devil keeps at work till them, it should be clear to all who believe that the kingdom cannot come in this age. First the church is taken, then the age runs on till he shall come to close it. Lesson V.—The worth of the kingdom, Matt. xxii. 44-53. Golden Text, Matt. v. 23, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you." The parables of the treasure and the pearl set forth the preciousness of Israel and the wish to Him who gave up all for their sakes, for they will be the heavenly and earthly centers of His kingdom. *Lesson VI-1* troubled sea and a troubled soul, Mark iv. 35 to v. 20. *Golden Text*, Ps. xlix. 1, 2 (R. V). "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." See a weary man untroubled, peacefully sleeping in the midst of great trouble. See Him mightier than the storm or than a legion of demons, for He is as truly God as man, and all things shall yet be subject to Him. Lesson VII.-The Ruler's daughter Mark v. 21-43. Golden Text, Mark v. 41. "And He took the damsel by the hand and said unto her, Talitha, cum, which is, being interpreted. Damsel, I say unto the arse": Twelve years of life developing, suddenly, ended, but restored; twelve years of life wasting away suddenly made whole, for in Him is life. He is the life and the resurrection. Lesson VII.-The visit to Nazareth. Luke iv. 16-30. Golden Text, John i. 11 (R. V.). "He came unto His own, and they that were His own received Him not." Both his and the later visit to Nazareth (Mark vi. 1-6) resulted in their refusing Him, because they thought they knew Him too well to receive Him as the Messiah. Some one has said that they might have known Him better if they had not known Him so well. Lesson X.—The death of John the Baptist, Mark iv. 14, 20. Golden Text. Rev. ii. 10 (H. V.). "Be thou faithfull unto death, and I will give the crown of life." To my mind the story of John is, from the human side, in many respects one of the saddest in the Bible. A great man in the sight of the Lord, foretold centuries before he was born, filled with the Spirit from his birth, honored to hear the voice of God and baptize Jesus, yet killed to please Herodias. Lesson X.—The mission of the twelve, Matt ix. 35; 15, GoldenText. Matt. x. 40. "He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth Him that sent me." Another perplexing lesson to those who see only the earth side. Sent forth with blessing only for Israel, to be bestowed freely, promised hatred and persecution and probably death. Yet we know that "As for God. His way is perfect." (Ps. xvii. 30.) Lesson XI.-Judgment and mercy. Matt. xl. 20-30. Golden Text. Matt. xl. 28. "Come unto Me all ye that labor and are heavy inden, and I will give you rest." All spiritual things are hidden from unbelief and from the wisdom of this world. Only those who are like little children, the meek and lowly, can understand. Lesson XII.-The feeding of the 6000. Mark vl. 30-44. Golden Text. John vl. 25. "Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life." Instead of puzzling over that which is too deep or too high for us, here is something within reach of all. Do as the lid had and give our all to Jesus, that He may bless and multiply it and use us to give to the hungry the bread of Life. "All power is His." Daddy's Bedtime ARE you afraid of wasps? Yes: Jack and Evelyn were. A lot of we made their homes in a corner of the barn on one of the beams, you may be sure the children kept away from them. you might be sure the children had "Once when I was a small boy I knew a little fellow named Tommy Tompkins," said daddy. "Tommy was a wonderful boy, and he did his best to make the rest of think he was one. "We had an old chicken house where a lot of wasps had built their he "Every spring the wasps had a great time' building more cells and houses. "In each cell, we were told, the mother wasp would lay an egg would batch out after awhile into a baby wasp, and we were told also fore the little white cover was fastened to the opening in the cell so a baby wasp would be kept nice and warm until it was able to take care of the nursery would be stored with food for the babies to eat. the police work so well. "And what do you think the wasps feed their babies? Well, they give the nice fat spiders. Spiders are just as much afraid of wasps as flies are afraid of spiders. of spiders. "When the wasps catch a spider they sting him so he cannot fight. Then they drag him to their nest and stuff him into one of the egg cells. By and by, when the cell is full of spiders, the mother wasp will lay an egg in it. Then a warm curtain is spun over the mouth of the cell. When the baby wasp gours out of the egg it will eat these spiders." commons you know how a wasp can sting. Boys and girls are generally afraid of them, and they have good reason to be so. "Little Tommy Tompkins, however, became quite a hero in the neighborhood because he said he was not afraid of wasps and bees." "They don't bite me, wasps don't. Bees don't, neither, he would say." "If you made it very pleasant for Tommy Tompkins he would come over into your yard and with a bee came along hold out his little hand and let the insect settle there. The bees and wasps didn't sting Tommy, but now that I am grown up and know more about insects I don't think it so strange. The reason was he kept perfectly still, so that he did not frighten or anger them." "While there are some cross insects that sting folks without any seeming reason, usually if you stand perfectly still the bee or wasp won't hurt you. Of course if he has been stirred up by somebody or something before you come along he is going to take it out on you, so it is just as well to keep away from stinging bugs and not try to be a Tommy Tompkins." New and Second-Hand Furniture Stoves, Oilcloths, Mattings Carpets, etc. Packing and Shipping to any part of the city or country. C. & P. Phone Mt. Vernon 4010-M 12m-14-in 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. NOTICE! The attention of the public and pleasure seekers is called to the New Good Hope Hall, West Lexington St., between Pearl and Pine Sts. Patronage is solicited. Before booking your date for entertainments for the season you will be benefitted by consulting us. SPECIAL TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC: We hereby give notice that the renting of the Fishermen Auditorium, 401 W. 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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 2682 M. List of curers furnished on application. A woman is sitting on a chair and looking at a man who is sitting on a chair and looking at a woman. back and Evelyn were. A lot of war of the barra on one of the beams, kept away from them. All boy I knew a little fellow named he did his best to make the rest of me a lot of wasps had built their beast time building more cells and another wasp would lay an egg. My wasp, and we were told also I led to the opening in the cell so until it was able to take care of or the babies to eat. Feed their babies? Well, they give the much afraid of wasps as flies are afraid they sting him so he cannot fight. Then him into one of the egg cells. By and another wasp will lay an egg in it. Then both of the cell. When the baby wasp spiders. Boys and girls are generally afraid of so, became quite a hero in the neighbor of wasps and bees. Bees don't, neither, he would say. Tommy Tompkins he would come over on hold onto his little hand and let the as did not sting Tommy, but now that I seets I don't think it so strange. The it he did not frighten or anger them. That sting folks without any seeming will the bee or wasp won't hurt you. Of somebody or something before you come so it is just as well to keep away from Tompkins." ADVERTISERS CHESAPEAKE STEAMSHIP CO. "Chesapeake Line" ELEGANT PASSENGER STEAMERS "COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA." For OLD POINT COMFORT and NOR- FOLK, VA. Stormerville leave Baltimore daily ex- cept Sunday, at 8:30 P. M., and arrive Our Point, Comfort at 8 A. M., and Nor- folk at 7 00 A. M., where connection is made with the Rail Lines for all points South. "York River Line." ELEGANT PASSENGER STEAMER "ATLANTA" For WEST POINT AND RICHMOND, VA. and RICHMOND, VA. Streamer leaves Baltimore Tuesday Thursday and Saturday at P. M., and arrive West Point at 7:45 A. M., and Richmond at 9:30 A. M. Streamer cell at Gloucester Point, Yorktown, Clemente's Clay Bank and Almonds. STEAMERS LEAVE BALTIMORE FROM PIERS 18 AND 19 LIGHT STREET WHARF. Through tickets to all points may be secured, burgage checked and state rooms reserved from the City Ticket Offices. 119 E. Baltimore street, A. W. ROSSON, Agent 127 E. Baltimore St., or the General Offices, Light a d Lee street, GHSW. Mc. GHSW. General Friend Agent N. CHA'MAN A. M. Central Passenger Agent. 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 50 cents Gold $1.00. Crown and Bridge Work $3.00 to $5.00. EASY TERMS EXAMINATION FREE 118 W. LEXINGTON ST. McCall's Magazine and McCall Patterns For Women Have More Friends than any other magazine or patterns. 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Druid Hill Aye, and Dolphin St. Each member is urged to be present and report their card as the note from the house must be met. PROGRAM a. Report of the summer work. b. Plans made for the paying of summer debts. c. Plans made for the Xmas Treat. d. Echos from the Hampton Meeting of the N. A. C. W. e. Election of delegates to Annual Federation Meetinf. Each member is asked to come early and bring a friend. FLORENA K. OWENS, Cor. See y. IDA R. CUMMINGS, President. Tenth Anniversary! Tenth Anniversary! Tenth Anniversary and Reception to the Teachers of ALLEN A: M. E. SUNDAY SCHOOL, FRIDAY EVENING, OCT. 4th, 1912. All Sunday Schools are cordially invited to attend. Cards of Admission 15 Cents. Refreshments Free. Married Twenty Rev. and Mrs. George F. Bragg, Jr., on Friday evening September 20th, celebrated the 25th anniversary of their marriage, amidst music, flowers and a host of admiring friends. Mrs. Bradford, the well- known caterer, had charge of the affair, and it proved a most deli- ghtful occasion. Numerous were the tokens, and kind expressions, the Rev. Doctor, dions coming from the senior Bishop of the Eciscal Church, in this country, Bishop Tuttle, and from the venerable and much beloved Bishop Scarborough, of New Jersey. These prelates, as well as others, who sent beautiful expressions, appreciate the service Dr. Bragg has rendered the general Church all these years. The presents were many, beautiful and serviceable. A Quiet Wedding Miss Beulah Williamson, of North Carolina, and Mr. Albert Williams were the principals in a quiet wedding at the home of the groom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Williams, 521 W. Hoffman street, Monday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Jones Watkins pastor of Enon Baptist Church. Immediately after the ceremony they left on a brief wedding trip to Washington. A reception was given at the future home of the newly wedded couple, 521 W. Hoffman street, last night. There were about 50 guests present. Dr. Brown Chosen By an inadvertence, the name of Dr. Harry F. Brown was omitted from the last week's issue of the newy-elected officers of Monumental Lodge of Elks. Dr. Brunw was elected medical examiner, defeating Dr. C. H. Fowler by a vote of 24 to 16. Pastor Williams Surgrised The members and friends of Perkins Square Baptist Church met on Thursday, September 19, and gave their pastor Rev. F. R. Williams a grand surprise and welcoming home after his vacation. There were addresses by the various organizations of the church, concluded by the pastor responding followed with refreshments and all having a general good time. Mrs. Mary E. Douglas and Mr. Wm. Jones, committee of arrangements. Baltimoreans Need Y. M. C. A. In an address to the members of the Bible Class last Sunday afternoon, Rev. J. E. Moorland, an international secretary of the Y. M. C. A., praised the effort that is underway to raise $100,000 for a modern building for the association. He mentioned the work that had been done along that line in Chicago, Atlanta and Washington, and declared that he believed Baltimoreans were fully able to do likewise. "The men and boys here," he said, in closing, "need a modern Y. M. C. A. building; but to get it, the men here have got to have faith a plenty." The campaign for a building will open at Simth's Hall, 1120 Druid Hill avenue, on November 9. Miss Sydes Gets Appointment Miss Ruth M. Sydes, daughter of Rev. M. F Sydes, has been appointed instructor in domestic science at the Norfolk Mission College. She was formerly a student at the college. Miss Sydes was salutatorian in the graduating class of the Colored High School last June. Miss Harriett Tates, of West Roland Park, is a patient at Provident Hospital. Mr. J. Shepard is having a residence built on the Falls road, West Roland Park. Rev. Dr. E. W. Scott, president of the Colored M. P. Conference, preached at Tyson M. P. Church, West Roland Park, Sunday morning. Rev. J. D. Scribner tilled the pulpit in the morning and Rev. B. Mohr at night. Rev. Alfred Baker is pastor of the church. Miss Ella Smith is confined to her home, in West Roland Park, by illness. Mr. George Hayward, of West Roland Park, while working at Melvale, severely injured himself by falling from a wall. Rev. B. A. Biggs has left the M. P. Church to join the Colored M. P. Church. Misses Florence and Julia Boyd, of Ellicott City, have resumed their studies at the Maryland State Normal School. A handsome new brick church is being erected for the congregation of Grace A. M. E. Church, Catonsville. It will replace the structure that was destroyed by fire last April. Rev. C. H. Murray is pastor of the church. Miss Evelyn Henederson, of 18 N. Caroilne street, has returned from a visit to relatives in Virginia. King Solomon Lodge No. 1 of Good Hope. The members are hereby notified to be present at your next meeting, Tuesday, Oct. 1st, 1912 without fail as business demands your attention. By request. Bro. W. H. Saunders, W. S. Sister Blanch Smith, Sec. CITY-WIDE LEAGUE. Meeting postponed. Meeting Owing to the fact that there will be meetings in various parts of the city during the week, the meeting that was to have been held on the 30th, at Moses Hall by the City Wide League, is postponed to the 7th of Oct., changed by order of the League. J. P. Evans, president. Clarence Bright, secretary. Read and Respond! Read and WM. H. TRUSTY The Expert Shoemaker is doing every- thing that can be done in the business. Shoes made to order; Old shoes made like new. Rubber work a speciality. M. H. TRUSTY Wherever Way Avenue 983 Druid Hill Avenue NOTICE! We are Selling, Terms to ...Suit... $10 down and $1 Per Week Building Lots and Small Farms All City Conveniencies to the HOME LOVING MAN AND WOMAN Realty Sales Company ```markdown ``` Mrs. ABBIE CROWELL Of Orange, N. J. Mrs. H. B. HARRIS Of Newark, N. J. THE Flying Squad HAVE YOU HEARD THEY? Corse you haven't, but you will opportunity to do so Monday tuesday nights, September 30 and October 1st. Monday Night, Sept. 30 ST. JAMES M. E. CHURCH Cor. Carey and Baker Sts. PENNA. AVE. ZION CHUR Pennsylvania Ave, near Dolphin St. Tuesday Night, October PENTENNIAL M. E. CHUR Caroline and Bank Streets ST. PAUL M. E. CHUR Saratoga Street near Carrollton Ave. FIRST BAPTIST CHUR Day, October 6th, at 6.30 SEATS FREE He and hear them sing for the Progressive I SPECIAL EXCURSION ...To BROWN'S GROVE. AND DOWN THE BAY Steamer Starlight. Last two Sundays of the Sundays, September 22nd-29th Special Sacred Music by The Goldfield Orch Only—11.30 A. M. and 2.30 P. M. Leave Grow for special trip down the Bay. TICKETS FOR ALL 25 CENTS. QUADRON FOR THEM? you will have Monday and November 30th Oct. 30th CHURCH Sts: N CHURCH Daphin St. October 1st CHURCH Sects CHURCH Baton Ave. CHURCH 6.30 P. M. E In sing and live Party. VERSIONS. GROVE.. DAY Days of the Season and-29th. Field Orchestra. Leave Grove at 5 P. M. Day. MENTS. Kers in Prices SON Balmers 5.00. Complete Seed gray or white plush, fruitful rubber-tired hearse, desired, five heated carc balming, opening grave candles, candelabra, cruc rest designs. $136.00 $63.00 Grade $100, $150, $175. In Hospitals. 100 Complete and Lanvale. 4067. The Flying Squadron HAVE YOU HEARD THEM? Of course you haven't, but you will have the opportunity to do so Monday and Tuesday nights, September 30th and October 1st. And PENNA. AVE. ZIONCHURCH Pennsylvania Ave, near Dolphin St. AND ST. PAUL M. E. CHURCH Saratoga Street near Carrollton Ave. AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Sunday, October 6th, at 6.30 P. M. SEATS FREE Come and hear them sing and talk for the Progressive Party. SPECIAL EXCURSIONS. ..To BROWN'S GROVE.. AND DOWN THE BAY On the Steamer Starlight. Last two Sundays of the Season Sundays, September 22nd-29th. Special Sacred Music by The Goldfield Orchestra. Two trip only—11.30 A. M. and 2.30 P. M. Leave Grove at 5 P. M. for special trip down the Bay. TICKETS FOR ALL 25 CENTS. PRINTING I YOU WANT IT I YOU WANT IT Ero-American Baltimore's Leading Colored Undertakers in Prices JOHN H. OWENS @ SON Undertakers & Embalmers Complete $73.00 FUNERALS $75.00. Complete A fine casket worth $65.00, in black cloth, steel gray or white plush; highly polished oak or walnut outside case; beautiful rubber-tired hearse; either black, gray or white, to match casket, as desired; five heated carriages, new and up-to-date; fine burial robe, embalming, opening grave, advertise funeral, six pairs of gloves, door crepe, candles, candelabra, crucifix when desired, rugs, chairs etc., all of the latest designs. POPULAR PRICES ERRY'S ner Oxford. STOKES & DERRY'S 1016 Druid Hill Avenue Corner Oxford. DRUGS ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` October 1, 2, 3 and 4 have been selected as Flower Days for the Blind. On these days, it is proposed to request every one to wear a flower for the sake of those who have been deprived of sight. The object is to draw the attention of everyone in Baltimore to the Md. Workshop for the Blind, which was established in 1908 to help those who have become blind after they were grown. were grown. During the past year, 125 blind men and women have been given training and employment and when the addition to the building, now being erected, is completed, there will be room to accommodate at least 250 $45,000 has already been pledged towards the amount needed to pay for, equip and enlarge the Workshop. $5,000 more is needed and it is believed that when the people of this city and state fully appreciate the work that is being done, the balance will be cheerfully contributed tributed. No charge will be made for the flowers, which have been donated by the growers, but if any, one wishes to contribute towards the fund of the Workshop, it may be handed either to the one distributing the flowers (who will wear a badge) or mailed to the Workshop in an envelope provided for that purpose. Night Schools To Open. The public night schools will open next Monday night. In all of the schools primary and grammar studies will be taught. At the Colored High School instruction will also be given in High School branches, cooking, sewing, millinery, trades, typewriting and shorthand The locations of the schools are as follows: Colored High School, Pennsylvania avenue and Dolphin street. School No. 101, Jefferson street, near Sharp. School No. 106, Hill street, near Sharp. School No. 114, Carey and School streets. School No. 113, Girard avenue and Sherman Place. A night school may also be opened at School 115, Waverly. Quietly Married. Rev. T. H. Camsey and Miss Annie Lyles were united in matrimony at the home of her mother, 2136 Division street. They will leave Wednesday for Cecil county, Md., where they expect to make their home. Leaves Money To Sharp Street. By the will of the late Miss Mary Reid Sharp Street Memorial M. E. Church has been left a legacy of a few hundred dollars. The Methodist Home for the Aged was also left substantial sum. The legacies will be formally turned over to the officials of the church and those of the home at Sharp Street Memorial Church this Sunday night. Miss Fannie Greene and Mr. Hillard Bobbitt, of Philadelphia, spent Sunday in Baltimore, visiting their mother-in-law, 1416 Division street. Rev. Mrs. Bertha Dickerson, of Claiborne, Md., has returned home after spending a few days with Mrs. Mary L. Trusty of 529 Dolphin street. Mrs. Mildred Jones, of 1416 Division street has returned from a trip to Philadelphia. Miss Mabel Bourne, of 1108 Etting street, has returned from a visit to Washington, D. C. Mrs. Clifton A. Jones, of St. Michels, was in town last week. Mrs. William C. Tolliver, of New York, spent a few days with Mrs. Alexander Williams, of 1032 Druid Hill avenue. Miss Bertha Cummings and Veronica Carter have returned from their vacation in Va. Miss Josepha Greene, of Lincoln, Neb., is the guest of Miss Hilder Turner, of 204 Myrtle avenue. Miss Eva Stanley, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Stanley, of 1412 Carrol street, departed this life in full triumph of faith Sunday, Sept. 22, 1912. Services were conducted by Rev. J. W. Norris, of Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, Tuesday, Sept. 24 Five doors from Lafayette, avenue Tobacco and Soft Drinks Quick Lunch Hot Bread a Specialty, Boarding and Lodging Open all Night 21 meals, $4.50 18 meals $2.50 W. L. Jones, Manager We Print The News While It Is News Mrs. Franklin W. Dennis, of 527 N. Paca street, has returned from Pen Mar, where she spent the summer. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Howard have returned to Philadelphia after visiting the former's mother, Mrs. Florence Howard, of 658 Sarah Ann street. Mrs. W. H. Stepteau and Mrs. Nannie Sheffey, both of Wytheville, Va., are visiting the former's son, Rev. C. H. Stepteau. Mrs. John A. McLurkin, of 818 S. Greene street, has been ill, is able to be out again. Mrs. W. H. Johnson, of 620 N. Caroline street, has returned from a ten-day stay at Atlantic City. Messrs. James A. Wright and Carl Murphy, students at Andover Theological Seminary and Harvard University, respectively, will leave for Boston today. Mr. Chas. S. Hargrave, of Lynn Mass., called in to see us this week en route from N. C. where he has been spending his vacation. Mrs. Amanda Langford, of 312 N. Pine street, has returned home after visiting her parents and relatives in Rehoboth and Pocomoke City, Md. Miss Juila Jones, of 1052 Argyle avenue, has returned from a trip to New Jersey and New York. Mrs. Lizzie Reid, of 747 Vine street, is able to be out after a few weeks illness. Mr. J. E. Friend and family have moved from this city to 906 S. street, Washington. Mrs. Lavinia Wongust has returned from Norfolk, Berkley and Roanoke. Va., attending the funeral of her uncle, the Rev. J. B. Tynes, late P. E., of the Virginia Conference. Mrs. Sarah Johnson of 1917 Division street, who has been spending the summer at Pikesville, Md., has returned home this week also her husband Mr. J. B. B. Johnson, has returned from a three month stay in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Pa. Mr. Edward Dickerson, of Philadelphia, Pa., who was in the city this week, the guest of his aunt, Mrs. Louisa Connor, of 425 W. Hamburg street, has returned home, after a pleasant stay. Miss Hattie Tyler, of 912 Park avenue, entertained at dinner Sunday, Misses Olive Talefero, Boston, Mass.; Edna Nutt, of Washington, D. C.; Winiona L. Cargill, of Macon, Georgia; Mattie White and Florence James and Lucy Robinson of Baltimore. Mr. William Harvey has returned home after spending two months at Atlantic City, N. J. He now resides at 1134 Druid Hill avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Manning, formerly of Baltimore, Md., is visiting friends, Mr. and Mrs. George Casey, i114 Argyle avenue, Baltimore, Md. 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