The Afro-American

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN LEDGER VOL. XXI NO. 8: Dr. Booker T. Washington Emphasizes Need of Agricultural Training. WHITE FARMERS ARE BECOMING INTERESTFD. Annual Conference of Farmers Had Been Productive of Much Good. Tuskegee, Ala., Oct. 17—The work that Tuskegee is doing for community uplift is told in the annual report of Booker T. Washington, principal of the school. Dr. Washington details the effort of the school authorities to improve the public schools of Macon county, in which the institute is situated, and speaks of the improved farm methods which the school is trying to bring about. "One of the great needs of the South is agricultural education for its large rural population," says Mr. Washington in his report. "In proportion as farming methods are improved they will be better able to support their schools. To meet this need the Tuskegee Institute has carried on its annual Negro Conference, as stated, has established local conferences, promoted county and state fairs, and through the agricultural demonstration work has carried instruction to the farmers on the soil. "It is gratifying to note the increased interest that some of the white farmers of the South are taking in the subject of agricultural education for the Negro. At our last farmers' conference $250 in prizes were distributed to Negro farmers in Macon County. This money was given by the white planters and merchants and bankers of the county in order to encourage better farming. "The large increase in the amount of property owned by Negroes is. I am sure, due in no small part to the teaching that has gone out from the annual Tuskegee Negro conference and similar agencies. I find that the value of the domestic animals which the Negro farmers of the South owned increased during the past ten years from $85,000,000 to $177,000,000 or 108 per cent; poultry, from $4,000,000 to $5,000,000, or 25 per cent; implements and machinery, from $18,000,000 to $36,000,000, or 100 per cent; land and buildings, from $69,000,000 to $273,000,000, or 293 per cent. From 1900 to 1910 the total value of farm property owned by the colored farmers of the South increased from $17,000,000 to $493,000,000, or 177 per cent: Effect of Extension Work. "One indication of the effort of our extension work is the improvement of the personnel of the annual Tuskegee Nergo conference meetings. Whereas in former years it was made up for the most part of ignorant uncouth renters and croppers and a few owners, now it is composed largely of well-dressed, intelligent, progressive and wide awake owners, who are always eager to discuss forming methods. "At our last annual conference, some of the farmers brought photographs of the five-room and sixroom up-to-date houses in which they now live, and discussed intelligently the use of improved machinery and farm tools which they are now using. One dealer stated recently that the amount of improved farm machinery in his county used by colored farmers has increased within the past few years by at least 100 per cent." PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY IN THE INTEREST OF THE RACE. POLITICAL SLAVERY POLITICAL FREEDOM COLORED VOTE STAND·PATTERS PARTY OF PROGRESS Washerwomen Do Not Want to Wear Badges Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 17. — Colored washerwomen here are up in arms over the suggestion made by the police department that they be given badges with numbers. The suggestion was made, it is said, because a few persons who had employed strange women reported that articles had been stolen. The Atlanta Baptist Ministers' Association, in protesting against the suggestion, advises housekeepers to employ only washerwomen that they know, and argues against the proposed innovation as a humiliation. The joint presidency of Gammon Theological Seminary and Clark University has again been separated, and Dr. S. E. Ideman, who headed both schools, has been made president of Gammon Theological Seminary. Dr. W. W. Foster, former president of Rust University, Holky Springs, Miss. has been elected president of Clark University. Both men are white. Dr. W. W. Lucas, former field agent of the Board of Foreign Missions of the M. E. Church, has been elected assistant field secretary of the Epword League work of the denomination. He will succeed I. Garland Penn, who has taken the place of Rev. Dr. M. C. B. Mason as one of the secretaries of the Freedman's Aid Society. Hampton Institute Will Lose Indian Appropriation Hampton, Va., Oct. 17—Hampton Institute will lose this year the $160 that the United States government has given each Indian student. Heretofore the government also paid the traveling expenses of the Indian students. While this is regarded as an attempt to force all Indians to attend schools provided by the government, the Institute will continue to receive such students. Many lasting friendships have sprung up between Indians colored students. Booker T. Washington's first employment after graduation from Hampton was as supervisor of Indian students at Hampton. BALTIMORE, SATURDAY, OCT. 19, 1912. AT THE PARTING OF THE WAYS SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST A BISHOP SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST A BISHOP Bishop J. W. Stewart Suspended - Charged With Maladministration And Rebellion (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) (Special to The Afro-American League) Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 15—For the first time in the history of the Negro race, a bishop in a Methodist Church has been suspended by a trial committee sustaining serious charges. A trial committee composed of twelve elders from Texas, Louisiana and Alabama, presided over by Bishop J. W. Jaison of Texas, sustained charges of maladministration, rebellion against church laws and misapplying church and educational funds made against Bishop J. W. Stewart of this city and suspended him until the meeting of the general conference in St. Louis, in May, 1914. In accordance with the law of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America. Bishop Jamison announced that Bishop Stewart stood suspended in accordance with the findings of the committee and his work was divided so that Bishop E'S Williams assume charge of the Alabama Conference and Bishop L.H. Holsey the Florida Conference. Bishop Stewart has been presiding over the Alabama Conference since his election at the last general conference in Augusta. Friction has attended his administration of affairs in in Alabama ever since he took hold, arising particularly over money matters. He is charged by his enemies with amassing more than ten thousand dollars worth of property in the Birmingham district on his $2,000 salary and frequent charges of misapplying school funds have been made through the daiy and weekly papers of Birmingham. His greatest offense, according to his creations, was his action in forcing his self appointed board of trustees of Miles Memorial College to elect him treasurer as well as president of the board, to whom he never gave a satisfactory accounting. Just what action Bishop Stewart will or can take to restore his standing in the church is problematical. Roosevelt Sentiment Charleston, W. Va., Oct. 17 Roosevelt sentiment is on the increase in this state since the visit of Mrs. Julia Mason Layton, Mrs. H. B. Howard and Mrs. Mamie Eriscoe, the "flying squadron" of the Progressives. Many whites attended the meetings in various sections of the State and they were praised on every hand. Mrs. Glasscock, wife of the governor of the state, received the ladies Monday at the executive mansion, and after highly complimenting them had tea served. The "flying squadron" is now in Indiana. Lincoln Preparing for Thanksgiving Game with Howard. giving Game with Honor (Special to The Airo-American Ledger.) Lincoln University, Pa., October 17. There are 38 students enrolled in the freshman class of Lincoln University. Ten new men also entered with advanced standing. The entering class in the theological departments numbers 17. Prof. John H. Grim, an alumnus of Lafayette College, has been appointed instructor in biology. The football team is getting ready to contest for supremacy on the gridiron. A game will probably be played with Howard University on Thanksgiving day. Boston, Mass., Oct. 11 — Irving T. Howe, a student of the English High School, is regarded as a sprinter, who will excel the late, Dr. John B. Taylor, the famous colored runner at the University of Pennsylvania. Last Thursday he defeated his opponents at the Brockton Fair, winning the handicap and scholastic events, despite the fact that he started from scratch. PRICE THREE CENTS BAPTISTS DID NOT ENDORSE TAFT Prominent Baptists Say No Resolution Was Passed to That Effect Prominent members of the National Baptist Convention are indignant at published reports that the convention, at its recent annual session at Houston, Tex., passed that resolution to race journals all over the country headed "Baptists for Taft." An investigation was made by the Nashville Globe shows that the story of the passage of the resolution was a fake. The Globe has received the following message of denial from R. B. Hudson, of Selma, Ala., who was secretary of the convention: The convention did not endorse Mr. Taft, his administration or anything else. The record of the proceedings of the meetings on this matter are: Dr. E. J. Fisher, of Chicago, Ill., was recognized to offer a resolution. The resolution had reference to politics and was declared out of order." Dr. E. W. D. Isaac, secretary of the National Baptist Young People's Union, said: "The resolution in question was not voted on by the National Baptist Convention. Dr. E. J. Fisher, of Chicago, presented it, but President Morris ruled it out of order, and thus passed it from the notice of the convention. That having been done, the author of the resolution and any or all persons connected with getting it into public print are false to the denomination, and guilty of misdemeanor, for which they should be severely censured and punished." Drs. R. H. Boyd, and R. H. Clarke, are among others who denounce the attempt to make it appear that the Baptists endorsed Taft. Convicss Alleged to Have Been Furnished With Rope for the Job GUARDS SAY THEY WERE OVERPOWERED. Colonel Midnight Visits Scene of Dastardly Crime in Chey- Kansas City, Kans.—It is a wonder that we are able to hold our religion. The white man of this country is a small thing, and has but little regard for law or order, and yet he, with his saintly good self, brands the Negro as the criminal of the country and declares that he is unfit for citizenship. I do not mean to be coarse or anything like that, but I have my temper aused and this is a thing unlike me. I think you would feel just like I do, if you had been where I have been, and I do not feel that I ought to mingle the good of my trip out West with the evil, yet I have not been writing much and we have to mix up a little bit. You want to know why, all of this, and what has happened to me? Well it is like this, you see I have been out West, and I expected to find many good things there, which I did and then I found some things, the like of which has never been witnessed in the extreme south. In Wyoming a man of my race was accused of the usual crime, and the woman was said to be 70 years old. He was put in the State prison for safe keeping. The warden of the penitentay objected to him being admitted until he could hear from the Governor, and when ordered to let the prisoner in, he was put in. Now then, what happened. The next morning the prisoners or convicts lynched him right in the walls of the penitentary. The guards declared that they were overpowered by the convicts and the prisoner was taken from them. Do you believe that lie? Certainly not. These men were armed and the convicts were not, yet they overpowered them took a man from them and hanged him in their presence, yet they are unable to find the name of a single man who was present or who took part. These men were not masked, for this was impossible. I went to Cheyenne, looked into the matter, and I was so disgusted that I had to leave, because the devil got in me as big as the penitentary itself, and it was necessary for me to leave. Think of what happened and how it happened, and I am of the opinion that you will feel as I do about it. Now what redress have we? No more than if it happened in the extreme south. I talked with the Governor and he says he is investigating it, and perhaps some of the officials will lose their position. Now what are the facts. The guard arranged to have the prisoner lynched. I was told they were provided with a rope, and were told just how to go about getting him, and what to do. It was all well understood. The colored man was put in the pen in the afternoon, and the guards I am informed told the prisoners what had happened and told them where the man was located. This is civilized America, that will demand respect from all the other nations of the earth, and criticise lawlessness, and yet cannot keep down lawlessness in its own ranks. Shame unto this. SOUTH'S LARGEST BAPTIST SCHOOL Rapid Growth of Institution Under President Matthew W. Gilbert's Administration Indicates Efficient Management—Situated In a Thickly Settled District—Worth $125,000. Selma, Ala.—The Rev. Dr. Matthew W. Gilbert, president of Selma university, in this city, is one of the most widely known educators and clergymen among Afro-Americans. He has had a long and successful career both as an educator and a pastor. During his long life of usefulness and service he has brought honor and credit to the race and the denomination to which he belongs. Dr. Gilbert is one of the foremost churchmen of the Baptist denomination, and his election a few years ago [Image of a man in a suit with a tie]. to the presidency of Selma university, one of the largest Baptist schools of the country, testifies to the confidence and esteem in which he is held. As a scholar, preacher, educator and generally all round man of affairs Dr. Gilbert has few equals. He is a man of wide influence and numbers among his stance friends Booker T. Washington. Dr. Gilbert's thorough training amply fits him for his life's work. He was born in Mechanicsville. Sumter county, S. C. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and prepared for college at Benedict institute (now Benedict college) at Columbia, S. C. He then entered Colgate university from which he graduated in 1887, taking both the A. B. and M. A. degrees. After graduating from Colgate Dr. Gilbert returned south to begin his life's work. He was the first president of the Florida institute at Live Oak, Fla., and the founder of the Florida Baptist academy in Jacksonville, Fla. As a pastor he has been successful and has held some of the most important charges of the connection. For seven years he was pastor of the Mount Olivet Baptist church in New York, during which time he did much for the intellectual and spiritual life of the church. While in New York he took an additional course in Union Theological seminary, from which he graduated in 1907. He was later called to the pastorate of the First Baptist church in Knoxville, Tenn., where he remained two years. While at Knoxville within the space of two years he built one of the finest parsonages to be found in the connection, valued at $4,600. From Knoxville he was called to the presidency of Selma university. Dr. Gilbert has been at Selma two years, during which time the school has had a steady growth. Speaking of the school, Dr. Gilbert said: "During the two years I have been president the school has had a rapid growth. We had last year an enrollment of 600 students who came from various sections of the south. We have a strong faculty of twenty-two teachers and a property valuation of $125,000. The course of study has been enlarged. We have provided for the sanitary safety of the school by installing a sewer system." Situated as it is in the heart of the black belt of the south, it wields wide influence and has done much toward shaping the lives of young men and women of that section. Dr. Gilbert, as the head of the college, will reflect high credit upon the rating of the school. He is a man of strong and forceful personality and suggests in a striking manner the capable educator. He speaks fluently nine languages. Dr. Gilbert attributes a great deal of his success to Mrs. Gilbert, who is his constant companion in all of his work. NEW EDIFICE DEDICATED Training School Makes Progress. Dr. Powell Chief. Speaker. Washington. - The National Training School For Women and Girls in this city dedicated its new modern dormitory building on Wednesday evening, Oct. 9, with appropriate exercises. The institution is directed by Miss Nannie Helen Burroughs, whose efficient leadership as president has been wonderfully blessed with large results. The principal address at the dedicatory ceremonies was delivered by the Rev. Dr. A. Clayton Powell, the well known lecturer and successful pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist church in New York. The subject of Dr. Powell's address was "The Molding Influence of Woman." He said in part: "Woman, is the material masterpiece of God's creative genius, the mother of our nations and the queen of our homes. Under her benign Christian influence the dove of domestic peace flutters in the sunshine of love, and the marriage altar becomes as sacred as the oracles of God. No race can rise higher than its homes, and no home can rise higher than its mother. By the very virtue of the situation woman is the home maker. The husband is away all day at work and all night at the lodge or club. The home is therefore left under the molding influence of the mother. "Most people have a mistaken idea of what constitutes a home. When we see a fine house handsomely furnished, surrounded, by an artistically shaped lawn, we say, 'What a beautiful home!' This may or may not be a home. Brick houses, bay windows, fine rugs, brass beds, birdseye maple, costly drapery, fine works of art, do not make a home. God bless the homes that can afford them, but you can have a home without any of them. A Christian mother, an open Bible, a family altar where the children kneel once a day while mother carries them to God on wings of praying love—this is a home, whether it be a hut in darkest Africa or a brownstone front in American's best civilization. "This kind of a home is rapidly disappearing from our country in general and from the large cities in particular, and we are losing power with God on this account. 'The crying need of America is not more schools, or more money, or more churches, or more eloquent preachers, but more mothers who will give God a place in the home.' FIFTY YEARS OF FREEDOM. The Anthony Burns Incident Recalls Many Thrilling Stories. Sept. 22, 1912, was the fifthieth anniversary of the signing of Lincoln's proclamation of freedom to the slave. The event recalls one of a thousand or more incidents of the dark days when bloodhounds, slave drivers, the slave pen and the auction block were the fashion. Anthony Burns, who was bought out of slavery by the abolitionists of Boston and presented to himself, took the gift with many expressions of gratitude and straightway went to Oberlin, O., to educate himself for the ministry. Upon his arrival at Oberlin he, chill-like, wrote back to Union to his old pastor for a letter of dismission from the church he so wickedly ran away from when he ran away from slavery. The pastor, Rev. John Clark, made the following answer: "The Church of Christ at Union, Fauquier county, Va. "Whereas, Anthony Burns, a member of the church, has made application to us by letter to our pastor for a letter of dismission in fellowship, in order that he may unite with another church of the same faith and order; and "Whereas, it has been satisfactorily established before us that the said Anthony Burns abscoured from the service of his owner and refused to return voluntarily, thereby disobeying both the laws of God and man, although he subsequently obtained his freedom by purchase, yet we have now to consider him only as a fugitive from labor (as he was before his arrest and restoration to his owner) and have therefore "Resolved unanimously that he be excommunicated from the communion and fellowship of the church of Jesus Christ. Done by order of the church in regular church meeting this 20th of October, 1855. "W. W. WEST, Clerk." Tuskegee Graduates: Making Good. In order to ascertain to what extent young men and women of the colored race use their education in the trades and professions for which they have qualified themselves, an investigation has been recently made and statistics compiled concerning the students and graduates of the Tuskegee (Ala.) institute. The result of the investigation showed that 96 per cent of the students and graduates of this school were following their chosen profession as teachers and industrial workers among their own people. They are making good and doing a work of primary importance among the masses. 2 CHALES H. MARSHALL, M. D. Who was elected a member of the Washington (D. C.) School Board. MRS. PERKINS CELEBRATES EIGHTY-FIRST BIRTHDAY. Daughters of Well Known Christian Worker Honor Her Natal Day. Brooklyn. — Mrs. Anna A. Perkins, a deaconess of the Concord Baptist Church of Christ and a well known missionary worker, recently celebrated the eighty-first anniversary of her birth. The birthday reception was given by Mrs. Perkins' three daughters, Mrs. R. H. Muse of New Haven, Coun.; Mrs. J. S. Parsons and Mrs. R. P. Hamlin of this city, with whom Mrs. Perkins esides at 433 Madison street. The principal guests other than the immediate family were selected from the deaconess board of the church and the Doreus Home Missionary society, of which Mrs. Perkins is the general secretary, in which capacity she has already rendered faithful services for the past twenty-two years. She is a woman of wide experience in Christian work and is noted for the many letters which she has written to persons in alliation whom she could not visit personally. Mrs. Perkins's peaceful and motherly disposition has won for her the honored title of "Mother in Israel." Besides her home duties and work in the church and Home Mission society, she was for more than a quarter of a century engaged in Sunday school work, from which she retired only a few years age. The Perkins family is well known throughout the northern- and New England states. Mrs. Perkins' granddaughters, the Misses Muse of New Haven, are well known vocalists. Mrs. J. S. Parsons of this city was for many years the organist of the Concord Baptist church and Sunday school and a popular music teacher. Mrs. R. P. Hamlin, wife of Mr. Robert P. Hamlin, international Y. M. C. A. secretary, is a public school teacher, gifted singer and the general secretary of the largest graded Sunday school among the Afro-Americans in Brooklyn. Mrs. Perkins is hale and hearty and bears up under the weight of her eighty-one years with true and patient Christian fortitude. Success of Dr. W. M. Moss at Concord The Concord Baptist church in Brooklyn is making elaborate preparations for the celebration of the second anniversary of the pastorate of the Rev. Dr. William M. Moss. The anniversary exercises will begin on Wednesday evening, Oct. 16, and end on Sunday, Oct. 20, at which time the pastor will deliver his annual sermon. The church is the largest in membership of any among Afro-American Baptists in the city. Dr. Moss has been eminently successful in his ministry at Concord. All departments of the work have increased in efficiency during his administration. Over 200 members have joined, and the financial status of the church is in a flourishing condition Cinchona Trees. The cinchona tree, from which quinine is obtained, grows at an elevation of 7,000 to 10,000 feet in the Andes. MR. WILSON'S APOLOGY. Afraid to Publish What He Said About Union Labor and Immigrants. The so called Wilson defense bureau has issued a long statement to the effect that Woodrow Wilson's published opinions in his books on the alleged inferiority of European immigrants and American workingmen generally to the Chinese and favoring Chinese immigration, etc., have been "misinterpreted." There is one ready and complete reply to misinterpretation, and that is to republish what Wilson said to let him speak for himself. This the Wilson defense bureau of the Democratic national committee carefully refrains from doing, and neither Wilson nor his apologists, therefore, can blame American workingmen in general and European immigrants in particular for concluding that Wilson meant just what his language meant when he expressed his bad opinion of trades unions and his preference for Chinese over Europeans. STEADY ADVANCE OF COLORED MEN WORK FOR BETTER RESULTS. Optimistic View, of Course, Taken by Afro-Americans In Respect to Their Duty to Make Every Reasonable Effort to Conserve the Best Interest of the Race. By education, long experience and constant effort to maintain his integrity as an American citizen the Negro is at last taking his rightful place in the ranks of all political parties with earnestness of purpose and a desire in so doing to conserve the best interests of the race in all sections of the country. If the highest ideals of our democratic form of government are ever to be realized all fair minded men, whether in the south or other sections of the country, must show their willingness to accord to the Negro the political rights which the constitution provides for all citizens without regard to race; color or previous condition of servitude. This is all the Negro asks of Democrats, Republicans, the "third" party or any other political organization. This attitude of colored men is in line with the views recently expressed by Colonel Henry Watterson, editor of the Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal. Mr. Watterson says: "A new generation of blacks has come upon the scene. These blacks are better educated. In the north they understand the situation. What do they owe the Republicans? In our opinion, nothing. "If they ever expect to help their brethren in the south this is a good chance to do it, because to the white people in the south they must look for substantial help and real advantage, and everything which allays race prejudice and brings the two people nearer together in friendly and neighborly intercourse will insure to the profit of the weaker in the life struggle. "The Courier-Journal has never sought to make a party profit out of the Negro. It is his friend and his neighbor, his fellow citizen and his fellow Christian. The whites cannot prosper if the blacks languish. We are, whites and blacks, in the same boat, and we must sit fair and row steady if we expect to be happy and make progress. "The white man should want nothing of the benefits of government for himself and his children which he is not willing to allow the black man for himself and his children. We are mutually dependent. We are bound to live together. We cannot get away from one another; hence a good working and living understanding is the basis of the common interest. "The black people long ago learned that some politicians had, no use for them except to vote them. Through forty years they have been paying a debt they but half owned. In the meantime the whites of the south have been aiding them in substantial ways. If they should turn about now and vote the Democratic ticket in the north or divide their vote they would be pursuing a wise policy. By this action they would be in position to assert at once their intelligence and their independence. The Columbia state of South Carolina opens its doors and welcomes the colored voters in and says in doing so it follows the advice of Alexander Stephens, General Gordon, Senator Zob Vance and Matt Ransom of North Carolina and others. There is nothing new or strange in the opposition we are meeting with in our effort to ally ourselves with the different political parties, says Bishop Alexander Walters. We have always met with strong opposition in our endeavors to better our condition. When the Negro asked for admission into the army at the beginning of the civil war he was told that he was not wanted; that it was a white man's war. Even the great Lincoln at first threw his weight against allowing the Negro to fight, bleed and die to save the Union and break the shackles from his own ankles and wrists. Did the Negro give up because he was not wanted? "No: he was told that he was making a fool of himself to offer himself to the nation, to enter the army, to die to help a people who did not want him. He was driven like a dog from the Union camp, but the Negro had sense enough to know that he would better his condition by being admitted to the army, allowed to fight for his country and his freedom, so he persisted in his efforts and was finally admitted." Afro-Americans Who Are Making Good In Beanfort, S. C., the postmaster, clerks, carriers and other employees are all Afro-Americans. They are honest and capable and render the government efficient service. Seven Afro-Americans are employed at the Greenville (Miss.) postoffice, with an aggregate annual salary of $6,300. Howard University's Official Force. The number of teachers and officers employed at Howard university in Washington is estimated at eighty-five. The aggregate amount of salary paid annually is placed at $59,223,60. ...JOHN H. TOADVIN... 142 W. HILL STREET, THE UP-TO-DATE UNDERTAKER Who can urnish a funeral for $10.00 and up; caskets for $3.00 and up. He can furnish you carriages for Funerals, Weddings, Parties, Reception, etc., from his own stables at the most reasonable rates. You need not come to see him, just call Husley, Funeral Director and Embalmer a generous public that I am still doing business in DUDLE ST. Thanking the public for all past continuance of the same. Carriage for hire for calls, and special attention given to all orders. EX. HEMSLEY, Mt. Vernon 2578 Main Office. E H. HOLLAND, Manager. C. & P. Phone: 692 Madison. K. B. PYE Sr. May St. Nr. Calvert. RAL DIRECTOR::: P. & P. PHONE Connected with 'any other [firm offered for the detection of] per-business under the name of Felix B. Pye Sr. WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY BALTIMORE, MD. Learning located in the city of Baltimore, the National centre of the highest rank. Our school is its powers and stands for the highest develop- best school for men and women, boys and girls, college, Theological, Academic, Normal. Prepara- session October 1st to June. For further inform- WILLIS J: WINSTON, President 424 W. Biddle Street, Baltimore, Md. THE— LIFE INSURANCE CO. Obridge, President Charles & Saratoga Sts., Balto., Md. Insurance Company in Maryland policies issued on ages from 2 to 79 weekly from the homes of the insured The Best Contracts The Old Reliable Alex. Hemsley, Funeral Director and Embalmer Wish to announce to the generous public that I am still doing business at my old stand, 578 W. BIDDLE ST. Thanking the public for all past favors and hoping for a continuance of the same. Carriage for hire for weddings, parties and funerals, and special attention given to all orders day or night. Yours, ALEX. HEMSLEY, Mt. Vernon 2578 Main Office. GEORGE H. HOLLAND, Manager. C. & P. Phone: 692 Madison. No Branches. Not Connected with any other firm A reward will be offered for the detectionof persons doing business under the name of Felix R. Rye Sr. CLAYTON WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY This is an Institution of learning located in the city of Baltimore, the Metropolis of the South; an educational centre of the highest rank. Our school is incorporated with full university powers and stands for the highest development of the race. This is the best school for men and women, boys and girls. Course of Instruction—College, Theological. Academic, Normal. Preparatory. Business and Music. Session October 1st to June. For further information send for Catalog. WILLIIS J: WINSTON, Presideut THE BALTIMORE LIFE IN F. S. Strobridge, I Home Office: Cor. Charles & Sarn The Leading Life Insurance Co Life Insurance Policies issued Premiums collected weekly from t Issues The Best The Old Relia The Leading Life Insurance Company in Maryland Life Insurance Policies issued on ages from 2 to 79 Premiums collected weekly from the homes of the insured The Republicans are getting in line; also people are selecting the best this country afford which will serve them better and antagonism less. Also when you select a hine see that you get a Singer Machine h or credit. $1.50 per month. The Republicans are getting in line; also the people are selecting the best this country can afford which will serve them better and the antagonism less. Also when you select a machine see that you get a Singer Machine. Cash or credit. $1.50 per month. AT BUTLER, Most Equipped Repair Shop Up Town 1211 DRUID HILL AVENUE. Phone, Madison, 3778.M. --- --- Summer Is Over Now Get Busy Summer Vacations for 1912 and everybody, even the schooling to get a "hike" on. How Business Man? Have You Fall Stock? Does Anyone Kill a House For Sale? Does An short, how many of the eight Colored People in Baltimore no you are in business? There are fully twenty who read the Afro-American week. Twenty thousand people in supporting race enterprises have the opportunity. We perience. What do they know your business? Why not le for 1912 are now memories when the school boy is commence- on. How about you Mr. Have You Arranged for Your Anyone Know It? Have You? Does Anyone Know It? In of the eighty-five thousand Baltimore know whether or business? are fully twenty thousand people Afro-American Ledger every thousand people who believe enterprises whenever they unity. We know this by ex- do they know about you or Why not let us tell them? Summer Vacations for 1912 are now memories and everybody, even the school boy is commencing to get a "hike" on. How about you Mr. Business Man? Have You Arranged for Your Fall Stock? Does Anyone Know It? Have You a House For Sale? Does Anyone Know It? 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 experience. What do they know about you or your business? Why not let us tell them? THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER EUTAW STREET up Mt. Vernon 2833 628 N. EUTAW Or Call up Mt. Ven 628 N. EUTAW STREET Or Call up Mt. Vernon 2833 A. B. House For Sale Rooms for Rent Old Clothes for sale Furniture for sale Are you a Shoemaker Are you a Tailor Are you a Dressmaker Are you a Grocer 142 W. Hill Street and 826 Druid Hill Ave. "ADVICE If so advertise it in ? PRISONER LYNCHED IN PENITENTIARY. Continued from 1st Page I think I will let it drop here, but if it is the desire I can enter fully unto details. Well I have been out West. I have been to California, and I have gotten some good out of the trip, and have many, many new friends and will tell you some of the things. Already I have sent you one letter from California, and I feel like sending you another one, and will do so. You will recall that I told you that I was then the guest of Mr. N. G. Pitts, a friend of mine from Arkansas, and when I left him I found my way to another part of the world. The people certainly did give me a great time in the City of Los Angeles. It would take me a month to tell you about it. Now let me tell you about one Sunday there. I was up bright and early and had me something to eat, and then I went to Sunday School where I was invited to address the school and at 11 o'clock preached at the Tabernacle Baptist Church. After the preaching I took dinner with Mrs. Minnie Tucker, who is one of the workers lin the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of which the Rev. F. Jesse Peck is pastor. At 3 o'clock I spoke to the Y. M. C. A., at Wesley M. E. church. This was a meeting of men only, and leaving them, I went to the Forum and addressed them, and at So'clock preached at the First A. M. E. Church, and then after that had to make an address. Thus ended one day, in Los Angeles. In this many people heard me. Monday, I had invitations to dine, to ride, to visit to meet friends, and to set around in a general way. Monday night I went to Pasadena, and there was greeted by a large crowd at the Baptist church. In the afternoon was the guest of Rev. and Mrs. Jonhston, and Tuesday morning I spoke for all the preachers of Los Angeles, in their weekly meeting held in the Y. M. C. A., and was called the "Order of the Day." I had never been anything like that before, but I kept order just the same. Colonel Allensworth presented me, because he remembered my war record, and he has made a great record himself. Now what about Wednesday? well it was the busy day of my life, for I had many things to do and many places to go to be entertained. Mr. Shackelford, of Shackelford & Co., invited me to accompany him on a spin around, and it was accepted. I tell you he fixed up his automobile and got together Col. Allensworth, Rev. S. B. Doyle, of the C. M. E. Church, and Joseph L. McCoy of the Second Baptist Church. What a time we did have. The ride covered about 60 miles, seeing man of the places around and about the city. I could not start to tell you about them. Wednesday afternoon 500 women greeted me in the Baptist Church for a special lecture to them, and Wednesday night the people turned out in full to tell me good bye, for I must start for the East. They wanted me to remain longer, and many inducements were offered. California is full of opportunities for our people, especially Allensworth, Cal.; that I shall tell you later. Of course you will find prejudice here. I called at the office of the Salt Lake Route, informing the ticket agent that it was my desire to leave Thursday morning on the limited. That white man looked me right in the eye and said: 'I am sorry, but everything has been sold for that train, but I can let you have a standard or tourist, for the night train.' This was on Friday, and I wanted to leave the city the following Thursday morning, so I just looked him right back in the eye and replied, "Mister you do not believe that yourself, because if you had sold out a whole train a week in advance you would get up a second section to it. I am going on that limited Mister." Saturday I saw a friend of mine and said to him: "I want you my alibaster brother to get a ticket for the limited for your ebony brother, and 'nuf sed' for in a few minutes he was at the office and a few more minutes he returned with the tickets and I rode the limited as I told the man I would. I understand that they do all in their power to keep us off of it, but if we can get the tickets in any way of course we ride. Shackelford & Co., deal in new and second hand furniture, and they have a large buisness. Chas. S. Darden, and Walter S. Taylor are the lawyers I met. I am sure the people of Baltimore, will be pleased to note that I met Samuel William Thompson, an old Balti- more boy, who is doing well in California. He is a business man, and while he is doing a big business, he is mingling with his people and doing all he can to encourage the young men. He is the brother of N. D. Thompson, and Noah is out in Los Angeles doing business also. He has a large grocery and is doing some other business. He is one of the hustling young men on the coast, and put it down that he is going to be heard from in this world. He will just make you proud of him. I failed to say to you that I met Lawyer G. W. Wyckliffe, and the editor of our paper. I hope to say something about them later. I met Miss C. A. Spears, who is a wide-awake hustling newspaper woman. She is the managing editor of the Eagle one of the papers making sentiment for the people. She is indeed a bright young woman and is being heard from in the West. It means so much when we met our young women who instead of sitting around complaining and whining, will just educate themselves and then go right to the front. We need such women, and I want more of them to find a place and go at it. There is a place in the world for every man and woman. I congratulate Miss Spears. I met the editor of the New Age, the Editor of the Liberator, and then it will take me a long while to tell you about the other people I met. I hope to tell you about the other people I met and some of the things that claimed my attention in Denver, Colo. Time will not permit me to tell you about the treatment on the limited. I must tell you this though. They have a full train of bed cars and one they call Observation" car, a nice back porch, and I putmyself on it, and was looking out. The Division Superintendent was on that same train, and I am told that he started to make a fuss about that "nigger" occupying the whole porch by himself, but I said absolutely nothing. He called the porter to as me off but before doing so he asked the porter, "who is that nigger?" "I don't know, but I, am told that he is one of the leading lawyers of the country." That man said nothing else about my riding. I must stop here. No more at present. Have many things to say to you about my findings in California, after I have finished reporting to the office. Held Successful Revival. The Rev. W. H. Skipwith, B. D. the international preacher and singing evangelist, who has just closed a very successful revival at Perkins Square Baptist Church, Dr. F. R. Williams, pastor. The pastor in speaking of his meetings said, "that he has never had a man to do his church and the community more good than, Dr. Skipwith. The church has been greatly revived; backsliders reclaimed, and twenty, newly born souls have made the confession of faith in the Blessed Redeemer of which two thirds were baptized last Sunday. So impressive were the scenes at the baptizing until both saints and sinners were moved to tears. We feel safe in saying as some of the leading and best preachers of this country have already said that Dr. Skipwith is one of the best Evangelists of our race. First his sermons and illustrations are unquestionable, and his manners are pleasing to both the young and old in the pupil. Second, he is one of the best singers I ever heard in this work, being a composer of songs and music and can sing any songs; and the best of all he is a christian gentleman, to which the preachers who he has served, North, East, West, and South, of this country, can testify. Not only has he served the brethren well in this country but recently toured Europe, and made such a wonderful impression there until he is to go to London again in the near future, to speak at Spurgeon Tabernacle, and the Schorditch Temple. He will be a blessing to any congregation, regardless of denomination, as he preaches and sings for the whites as well as the blacks. With engagements five and eight months in advance. He may be located at 1913 Bainbridge street, Philadelphia, Pa. She Didn't Chatter. "That very quiet girl had a lot of attention paid her at the club ball. How is it she is so popular with that lively athletic bunch?" "I suppose it is because she is a dumb belle." -Baltimore American. Stage Milkmaids. "I thought I would introduce a real cow into my comic opera." "How did it work?" "Didn't work at all. The milkmaids frightened the cow."—Louisville Courier Journal. THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER. THE STORY OF MAUD AND BR'ER CROMWELL Very Gentle. John A. Cromwell, of 929 S. Sharp street, is a valiant-hearted man and a hearty Odd Fellow. The other day, he bought a gentle-looking mule that he intended using for heavy hauling. The mule's name is Maud. Mrs. Mule was placed in the stable in the rear of Mr. Cromwell's home. Mr. Cromwell was out in is yard on Thursday of last week taking a peep at the mule. "I will work that mule alright as he looks so gentle," he mused. Cromwell turned his head a moment, when he was startled by a commotion. The mule was braying and making a bee-line for his owner. Up the yard ran Mr. Cromwell with the mule a close second. He turned again and saw that the mule was nearing him. "Help! 'Murder! Police! I'll shoot him shrieked the valiant Mr. Cromwell." Mr. Cromwell mounted the steps leading to the kitchen, so did the mule, he passed through the kitchen, so did the mule. Here the similarity ends, for the mule retraced his steps and went back toward the stable. Mr. Cromwell passed through the dining room and parlor in a jiffy and as he reached Sharp street, he was still yelling "Help! Murder! Police! I'll shoot him." A policeman stopped Mr. Cromwell's flight. "What is the matter?" asked the policeman. "I'll shoot him!" said Mr. Cromwell excitedly. "Shoot who?" inquired the policeman. "Shoot that mule," said the gentleman who had beat the mule in a short but exciting race. Cromwell's heart stopped beating at a 2.40 clip, and he summoned up enough courage to have the mule removed from the stable in the rear of his home to a stall about a mile distant. "Say, Cromwell, do you intend driving that mule?" queried a friend a day or so ago. "I want nothing to do with that consarned mule," he said. "One thing I am glad of is that my wife wasn't home when the mule was in action. The only time she admires Maud is when she sees her in the comic supplement." Everything is quiet in South Baltimore and the police are not running around looking for supposed murderers. "UncleTom" Made Spee.h That a colored man's rise in life seldom makes his white acquaintances treat him with added dignity, is illustrated in the career of Attorney Thomas L. Jones. He is a native of Clarksville, Va., and the whites there are said to regard him highly. A few years ago he returned to his old home, and a big hall was engaged for him to deliver one of those addresses for which he is famous. A big audience of both races was out to greet 'Tom.' and the speech introducing him was delivered by a venerable white business man. "We are here to greet one of our boys, Tom Jones." said the speaker. "He has made good and I want all to hear from one of our boys. "The people here want to hear you Uncle Tom," he said turning to the visitor. 'Uncle Tom' delivered a rattling good speech, in which he praised the good white folks of Mecklenburg county. 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Mr. Roosevelt might have been killed but the principles he advo- ‘cates cannot be killed but will live despite assassins be they few or many. There are many other things needing our attention even in these strenuous times, our schools, segre- gation and jim-crowism. Do not let us forget them. ” Now that our leader is down and out for the present let us redouble our efforts in his behalf. He has proved himself a worthy leader, Jet us prove ourselves worthy fol- jowers. St is certaitfly gratifying the progress that is being made by the Progressive Party. The’ colored men are rallying as they have never rallied to any party Lefore under ‘the same circumstances. Let the good work go on. We do not know whether any ad- equate method of- punishing men who assasinate or attempt assassi- nation-of men prominent in public life, whether they be kings, princes, presidents ‘or even men high in public life, can be found asa deter- rent, but.one thing we do know, and that is that laws of some kind ought to be. passed that would bring them promply to their punishment and with as little publicity as pos- sible. -Men of this class who pro- fess to be cranks. ‘crazy or what- nots, are given just the thing they take the risk for and that is public- ity, and that isthe reward they seek to couple their names with that of some man bigh ' a pki life.” A quick triai and svt pun. isbment and the prohibition of their names and faces in the. news: papers ;would probably go a: long way as 2 preventive. \ Be that as.it may, something has got to We done and done quickly. —— T THE SPIRIT OF FREEDOM: What we:most need to ascertain, jn all men, is the spirit of freedom. What-we want to! feél is the sin *eerity,, the inward sincerity, of pro: fessions:made on our-behalf- For many, very: many, years to come, \ours will be a great’ straggle for ‘adjustinent to’ the manifold. exigen- ‘cies of American life, We area pradd: new : people... Thé “present jg: dcconstructive period - of . the _greatest-importance to’ us.\_ We aré: building up-our family. life, “and-we. ate -making.* friendships Swith: our white’: neighbors, whe can be of immense service tous, as we-in'return ‘can be of help to them. All this is new tous. }We are just fifty years from the corn field and cotton pateh. A civilized and. Christianized: nation -is.-not born ina day. It takes time, pa- tience, and co-operative help on the part of all men of good-will. .-What we Ido ‘not want is the spirit of indifference and opposi- ‘tion as -manifested, ‘in the past, by the Democratic party. ‘Neither are we needful of the spirit of hypocrisy asfpersistently. exhibited ‘towards us by the late “Republican ‘party, which was ever wont to extend the glad hand and frozen heart. We need neither the one or the other. We have reached the year of Jubilee, wherein we have Jearned to refuse the evi) and chase the good. With all of our deficiences we still have the ability to dicerne between the spitit of slavery and the spirit of freedom. : Wherever that spirit of freedom is exhibited we are able to clearly recognize the same. At the National Con- vention of the Progressive party, held in Chicago. last August, among other things uttered by the most illustrious American living, Theo- dore Roosevelt. he said: “We are in our own states. We are setting the. standard in border Southern States like West Virgin- ja and Maryland, and setting a standard. to which we can have a reascnable hope tha: our brethren of the South when we no longer attempt to drive them, when it is a matter of honorable obligation, with them as with us, of which we have a reasonable right to hope that they will themselves come up to and to which my correspondent, a delegate in this convention from Georgia, himself says that he believes that they will come up. In the*above extract we see most clearly the spirit of freedom, of fraternity, and of good will. ‘The ordinary man is not without a large share of common sense. No- thing further is necessny to thorougly understand the genuine spirit of the Progressive Party to- ward the wel! being of the colored race. ‘The party does not offer a gold brick. It does not seek to trick or cajole the {colored broth- er. It simply appeals to himas a man and a brother. It asks him to use his every day common-sence, which, if he does, he can not fail to see that the. professional colored politicians of the South, stand in league with the professional white politicians of the Republican party to keep up the estrangement be- tween the races, and ,in the. mean- time they proceed to help them. selves from the National poletical pie counter. All the while the great masses of our people are kept in the wilderness of racial amelioration. Thus, the ‘‘politi- cians’? are mad with Mr. Roosevelt beeause he has the boldness and the courage to pull away the evil of hypocrisy, and point the way to real genuine freedom for all both white and black. . THE WAY OUT At last away out is indicated which is thoroughly consonant with the common sense of man. Nor is the way out simply a theory. In Maryland and in West Virginia it has been realised with steady and increasing progress each succeed- ing *year. We need not go be- yond our own borders to find in- ication of the correctness of Mr. Roosevelt's Southern, poliey. We ‘may have in Marlyand very many things not altogether after our lik. ing, but with all that, in no’state, border or southern, has there been such steady advance in good feel- ing, and cooperation between the races than in the state of Maryland. After the late civil war, possibly no city in the South enjoyed more of the reputation of being cruelly prejudiced: towards the Negro than the city of Baltimore. How is it today. It is hardly worth the while to ask the question, when we con- sider the housing condition of our people the large increase of school teachers, professional and business men. and ‘note the pleasant rela- tions they have established with their white neighbors with whom they are constantly thrown in con- tact. We'have but to. note the fact that it was not so much the Repub- liean party which saved the day against the ‘‘disfranchising’’ amendments as it.was the great body of independent democrats, uch as Mr. Archibald H. Taylor, nd men of his quality. _ Just the ery same quality of Southeen lentlemen in Maryland who openly jenouneed the ‘‘disfranchising’” ct and organized to defeat it, are ‘the class of men Mr. Roosevelt ap- peals to’ to'interest themselves in the well: ‘being of our people ‘throughout the South. And ’ Mr. Roosevelt appeals both to.our ra- ‘triotism,and common sense, and in effect says to our struggling breth- | ren'in'the South, ‘‘Stand back and THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER let these gentlemen lead.the cause, and'yoti help them all you can, and very soon, we shall have entirely different conditions, and you will be able to secure genuine. protec- tion and security both to ‘life and property.’’ But, alas, the class of colored, men who have, grown fat at the Republican crib, with arrogance, and much’ self impor: tance, step, to, the front and to prevent such a policy. They abuse Mr. Roosevelt, and call him hard names. They advise our poor people to peucefully remain in slavery and civic death, in order that they may continue to receive the pickings from that poltical com- bination which has not the courage to seriously attempt justice” on be- half of a race of people who in their fidelity to it have brought about futher enstrangement of their white neighbors and friends among whom they must live.” Tt is not the class of colored men in the South engaged in industri- ous pursuits, and enjoying the good will of their white neighbors, who opposed this peaceful and righteous poliey ‘of Theodore Roosevelt, but chiefly those whose physical exis. tence is promoted by an abiding in- terest in political manipulations on behalf of the late Republican party, for its funeral rites will surely be solemnized next November, and its passing] will chronicle the new era of an honest and manly endeavor, upon the part of the best people of the South, both white and black, to get together, and with forbear- ance for each other, to work hearti- ly for the upbuilding of their common country. Theodore Rouse- velt is the man of the hour, and all Americans who cast their bal: lots for this peerless champion of the rights of man, black and white, will make no mistake. THE SHOOTING OF COLONEL: ROOSEVELT. The news of the shooting of Colonel Roosevelt at Milwakee last Monday night fwas a shock to the nation such as‘it had not felt since the attempt made upon the life of Mayor Gainor of New York and brings fresh to mind the stern fact such dangers ever dog the heels of the leading nen of our great’ Re- public and against such occurrences there is no safe guard. * ‘The nation rejoices and congrat- ulates both the Colonel and itself the tragedies of Guidean and Szhol- gosz were not repeated and the life of the only living ex-President has been spared. While we grieve over’ the rage of men whom fanaticisim leads on to such crimes we are glad for the Providence which spares a man whom the country cannot afford to loose at this hour. And, this is true the country over without re- gard to polical affiliation. All men honor and respect Roosevelt and read with eager eyes the bultetins from his bed side and in their hearts thank God that the assailant failed of his purpose. The press of the country has with great unanimity expressed the be- lief that the shooting was not the result of political animosity or the result. ot political debate but that a fool with a loaded gun, not know- ing what else to do, shot the Colon- el. We wish we could dismiss the sad event with the same ease but we cannot. The man may bea crank and he may be demented but these conditions are brought on by long brooding. dver ‘one’ idéa or what might be thought of as a_na- tional misfortune. For example several personsare reported to have gone erazy over the Titanic disas- ter. The mind will lose its poise if left to brood over perils and cal- amities . whether past or present and in some such way this poor fel- low was led to the jaws of crime. We must not forget that we are in the midst of one cf the most strenuouscampaigns that the coun- try has ever witnessed and many rash things ‘have been spoken and published. It must be remembered that-the press of the country and leading politicians have spread abroad many: intemperate sayings about the third term and have pro- phesied of the danger threatening the nation if Roosevelt should gain a third term in the Presidency. ‘Schank like many other well mean. ing people allowed these false representations to get on his mind and brooding over them lost the poise of his mind and felt that he ought to kill the man who is running as he termed it for the third term. The campaign when summed up ig war on Roosevelt from the Sen. ate Investigating “Committee to the last political club in the Jeountry whether Democratic or Republican. Schank’s bullet is ‘but another (expression of the bit. terness-;with which both the old parties have fought Roosevelt. The Republicans and and Demo- crats like Pilate and Herod have forgotten their quarrel and have turned their venomous vituperation land serorn upon Roosevelt whom they look upon as the common ene- my of both old parties. The sound of Schank’s sun’ was but the echo of the: madness of the mob’ whose work began at Chicago in June and as increased in venous and fury each hour since, ‘The gigantic undertaking of re- deeming the nation from the grit of the trusts and, bringing the people back to their rightful place to rule is the task before the Pro- gressive Party and it is not strange that such a struggle should cost the blood of the leader for there is no redemption of races or nations without the shedding of blood. In the mean time every loyal. Ameri- can says: Long live Roosevelt! —_— NEGRO MUSIC. The development of the Negro as he came under the influence of the white race does not show any material difference from that of other savage races under similar conditions. He adopted it to his intellectual capacity he caricatured it to acertain extent. He mixed it up with the old witeheraft and sorcery of his African ancestors. The Celts and ‘Teutons did the same, for all the church festivals of today and many of the church observances are concessions made by the priests to the neathen superstitions of their early converts. Did not_our great Martin Luther believe in a personal devil and are there not to- day people who will not sit down thirteen at a table! Freedom! Who is free? Ave we not all more or less shackeled But if proof positive of a soul in the Negro pecple should be de manded, it can be given, for they have brought over from Africa and developed in this country, even un- der all the unfavorable conditions Qf slavery, a music so wonderful, so beautiful, and yet so strange, that, like the gypsy music of Hun- gary, it isa once the admiration and despair of educated musicians of our race. Unique and inimit- able, it is only of this country, except that of the Indians, which ean elaim to be folk music. In it the Negroes pour out their joys and their sorrows in native but wonder- fully moving fashion; and in_ the face of stch testimony of emotional and esthetical beauty, who dare deny them wider future possihili- ties in the great work for liberation of mind and sou! which is now-go- {hg on? — Walter Damrosh, in Southern Workman. Fifty Years Hence’ For nearly fifty years the Negro has been the subject. for diseussion of the American people. He has sealed the walls of circumstance and prejudice, and like a miguty army has made a steady march from a state of ignorance and {llit- eracy until today we find him in the vanguard of the twentieth cen- tray progress. Whatever of grand- eur, achievements and advance- ments made by the American people, the Negro has played his part and proven himself to be intricately interwoven into the fabric of this eommonwealth and has further proven himself tobe anation with- ina nation. Inthe midst of our struggles of ante-bellum days we produced such matchless minds. erystalizing sentiment and bearing up the weight of a down-trodden race, as Hiram R. Reveis, of Knox College: J. Mercer Langston, of Oberlin College; Congressman Rob- ert T. Smalls, P. B.S Pinehback, Prof. R. 'T. Greener, former civil service examiner of New York and Blanch K. Brace. former member of thé U.S. Senate, and later register of the United States Treas- ury. These men stemed the tide and.came tothe front as leaders even in the days of our earlier his. tory, and today they ever. live in the hearts of their countrymen. Today we are found engaging in every avenue of business, number- ing nearly eleven million souls and have continually applied ourselves to industry we predict that in the next fifty years at our present rate of advancement that Negroes wil be masters and magnates of fin- lance. We further predict that ir |Philadeplhia, Columbus, Nashville, and Chicago, and other large cities, we shall see department Stores, national banks, building and loan and other industries, owned and controlled by Negroes. An¢ we further expect to see the bar- Tiers remove so that Negroes wil no longer be excluded from Sabor unions, ‘but the day will dawn whieh will bring an equal chance for every man to earn a livelihood, jand the halls of Congress agair Will resound with Negro eloquanec |and statesman who stand Zor prin [giple and noble purposes, who are hot afraid to speak the truth for al the people. When we shall have reached this plain, ; petts ‘differences. and prejuices thal now exist will-be’ but a, dream: ‘And the Negro will’ befseen ’as hhe really is'and valued forghis true worth to the body politic,o£, this country. a. ee Colored Appeal, ,Columbus. “Very few of our [business men,”’ says the ,Dallas Express, “‘have yet discovered the hidden force in constant advertising. “Keep ever- Jastingly at it, applies. with_double force in this respect. ‘There is a story to this effect that ta wide awake restaurant: keeper ¢put up thisfisign: ‘‘Open all night” His rival next door not to be out done put up this sign: ‘We never close’. ‘A Chinaman running a restaurant next door knew that he could not compete without advertising and he put up this sign ‘Me wake too.’ ‘The Negro- business man must show in every legitimate way that he is also awake.’” ———— Mavor Visits Schools A number of the colored schools were visited Friday by prominent city officials who made an inspec: tion of the sanitary and other con- ditions obtaining. ‘Those in the party included Mayor Preston, President John Hubert, of the Sec: ond Branch City Council Comptrol- ler Thrift and Mayor’s Secretary, Lee. The visit was the result of the insanitary conditions obtaining ina number of the schools being brought to the attention of Comp- troller Thrift by Mrs, B. J. Wheat- ley. Attempt Assassination Due to Abuse. | A number of newspapers and prominent men of the country pro- fess to see in the attemted assassi- nation of Colonel Roosevelt a direct result of the widespread campaign of abuse and misrepresentation that his enemies have heaped upon him. “The bullet was not fired ‘at Roosevelt,’’ says Alexander P. Moore, editot of the Pittsburgh Leader, ‘‘but at the heart of every liberty-lovmg red-blooded American citizen. The bullet may have been fired by a weak minded man; but it was aimed by the capitalistic press.”” “He is the victim of every possible seurrility,’’ says the St. Louis Standard “‘an hasbeen hound- ed mercilessly by character wreck- ers. No man in American history has been so bitterly assailed and so miserably treated by a pack of journalistic wolves. | Remember from this: day;the part played by such detestable and hated journals is almost an assassination. ’” Ralph Hall Ferris, of Detroit, Mich., formerly a prominent Re- publican worker, and now a Pro- reve, attibutes the shooting to the agitation of leading Republi- cans. “f myself,’" he says, “heard on Wall street that it might be good for the country if Providence should remove Colone] Roosevelt, and this talk has been frequent among Re- publican politicians and in Republi. can newspapers. Every: one has heard the expression what would happen to the Progressive Party it Roosevelt were to die, and a great many people have thought that suck an event would mean the death of the movement.’’ A Reception to Miss Fernandez & reception was ZIven DY MiSs Julia Fernandez at her home 727 Linden avenue, on Tuesday even- ing, October 15, 1912, from 8 to 10 p.m, Miss Fernandes is visit- ing here for two weeks The draw- ing room was beautifully decorated with cut flowers and plants. ‘The many callers wished Miss Fernan- des well, after which they were ush- ered into the dining room where an elaborate menu was served by Mr. Morris R. Wesley, theadwaiter of the Md. Country {Club. Misses Julia Fernandez. Sarah Fernandez, Daisy Walker and Flossie James. were the receiving party. _ Messrs Julius C. Johnson, Jr. and Marcel- lus Walker, master of ‘ceremonies. Miss Fernandez wwill leave next Tuesday for Philadelphia, Pa., and other points north, she making her home in New York for the winter. In sad but loving remembrance of my dear husband, Sheppard Haughton, who departed this life 12 years ago today, October 15th, 1900. “Days of sadness still come o’er me, ‘Tears of sorrow silently flow; Fond memories keep my husband . near me, Though Heaven claimed him 12 years. : By his loving wife, Mary Haugh. ton. _ Daly's Theatre — " October 25th ‘‘Robin-Hood’* in three reels (3000 ft.)gwill be. ex- hibited. This is positively . tne most gorgeous film ever’ exhibited in the city. It is said to: surpass “Bip. Van Winkle” which was shown here.on Friday nigt of : this week, DEMOCRATS WILL GET “I TARGE SIRE the coming Cection oe eee of Bishop Alexander Walters. presi- dent of the Naticnal Colored Dem- oeratic League. ‘The prelate was in the city Sunday and Monday, hav- ing just come from Illinois, where he spoke from the same platform with Woodrow Wilson at Spring- field and was the guest of honor at a banquet given by leading white ‘and colored Democrats of Chicago. “Tam of the firm opinion,’’the bishop told a representative of the Afro-Amercian Ledger, ‘‘that the election of Woodrow Wilson will be a help rather than a hind- anee to the race. We have every assurance that nothing will be done against the interests of the Ne- gro should the Democracy suc- ceed, but, on the contrary, ex- pect to sce things done which the Republicans have failed to do. “Considering what the Demo- crats ot the South have done against us asa race it takes 2 great deal of courage for colored men to espouse the cause of that party, but there are several con- siderations involved. ‘The great bulk of the people of our race live among Democrats, many of whom are personally, if not polit- ically, interested in ovr welfare. ‘The gulf that has been made be- tween the races in’ the South or account of differences .in politics should be bridged over, and there is no better time to start than now. We shuld keep in mind the fact that many Southern white mer are keenly alive to the situation that keeps them and the Negro apart politically, and are anxious that steps be taken for politica! ‘and civie unanimity between the races. These men may not get their names in the newspapers often and may no be leaders in matters ‘political, but they are patriotiemen who would rid their section of the blight of race prejudice in politics. These are the men who are quietly aiding us in our fight for the divi- sion of the vote of the race. “Thinking colored men of the South also realize the handicap placed upon the race by this condi- tion of affairs, They know that they and their ;neighbors ought to be in political sympathy, and they reatize the great harm done the race by this lack. White men of Democratic persuasion control the school funds, the courts and pass legislation inimical to the race, not so much because they are prejudic- ed to the race, but mainly because the race is regarded as hostile polit- ieal factors, “Those of us who are leading this fight are aiming for the devel- opement of the larger life of the race, believing that. any plans for the cooperation of the white and colored men of the South, will not only insure the henefit of the Southern whites but will mean the upbuilding of the race from a mor- al, intellectual and material stand- point. The day must come when a man’s race should not determine to what rolitical party he belongs, and in hastening that day the end of disfranchisement and other race proseriptive measuresare at an end, and in order to secure and retain the support of influential men of the race disfranchisement and other such laws are sure tu be repealed “Lhe National Democratic ‘man- agers are anxious for race support in this campaign, and have estab- lished theadquarters in New York and Chicago. Out West I was sur- prised by the growth of the Demo- eratic sentiment among the race, and am of the apinion that 35. per cent of the race’ yote will go to Wilson. Governcr Wilson is one of the fairest men that I have met, and he will make a president of whom the Negro will be proud. “‘L read the Afro-American Led- ger each week. In fact it is one of the few papers whose coming is eagerly awaited at my home. I must congratulate it for the fair- ness with which it has presented the riews of all the parties in this campaign, and as a newspaper that presents all sides of the news | must say that it has not an equal among race journals in this coun- _ANMUAL MEMORIAL SERVICES Gi the L 0. cf Good Samaritans and .D.°S. Will be held on Sundas, October 29th, 1912 at Allen A. M. E. Charch, West Lexington'street at 8 o clock P. M. . Members cand friends of the order are invited to be present. Sermon by Rey. P. J. Jordan, Pastor ei RJ Curtis, R. W. S. G.-Chief P. F. Brent, R. W. S. G. See. SPECIAL NOTICES oh Pe 4il members of the United Daughters of Ruth are requested vo attend Divine Service at Trinity 4. M.E Church, Sunday, Octo- ker 20, 1912 at 7 p.m. Rev._A. L. Gaines, Pastor. Mrs. H. A. Gontee, President. Mrs. E. J. Trexon, Secretary. The Russian Empire of Sharp Srrzet Memorial M. E. Church will heve a special sermon preached to whe women of Baltimore, by our pastor, on Sunday evening, October 2Gth, 1914, at 7.30 p. m. Interest of the rally. All female organza- tions are cordially invited to meet i the lecture room and march up ix 2 body. M. J. Naylor D. D. Pastor. Betelle C. Young Empress. LOOK! 28rd Anniversary READ! “Whatcoat M. E. Sunday School <Jcelebrate its 23rd annivers- ars, Sunday, Ovtober 20th, at 3 p. rb.’ Rev A. Young will preach the erniversary sermon. St. John A. M, E. Sunday School w;] turn out in full and also fur- meh music for the occasion. A eczamittee of three will be present rom our sister schools. Come one, come all. Everybody welcome. %. C. Tongue, Superintendent. oo The local branch of the Nation- z! Association for the Advance- meat of Colored people held a swell attended and enthusiastic rossting at the Y. M. C. A. Tues- sey afternoon. Plans for aiding in the fight against the segrega- tian’ ordinance were discussed. bs F. N, Cardoza presided a Mortgage Lifting Rally. The trustees of St. Paul's M. =. Church will hold their semi- eraual rally the fourth Sunday in is month, A thousand dollar mirigage must te closed. Members scrl friends will please take no- sos. Rev. Charles A. Norwood of ++ Delaware Conference will'preach a ve service. Come one! Come sylvester H. Norwood, pastor. Card of Thanks. * wish to thank my sister-in-law, Luoy J. Hines and my brother Ed- wird Hines: of 1907 Brunt street ior the pound party given for me a: I have been sick quite a while. ‘iso ] thank the many friends of Saltimore and Mount Washington jer assisting them, and the present- ing to me of $10.80 and 70 bls. Ser brother-in-law, Geo. H. Hines, “447 Brune street. Success Lodge No. 25 Knights ¢ Pythias held their annual smoker i Friday evening. October 11, 3°12. Sixty Sir Knigths :gracing ineir round table, toasts 2s fol- Sir Harry Smith—Progress and Advancement; Sir Wm. Smith— Moral and Religious Upbuilding, acd Sir James Winstead—The true scrit of Pythian Knighthood. Sir Calvin E. Cooper, C. C. Sir Charles Bennett, Chairman. Opening of Fail Display of . Millinery... Ladies’ latest style trimmed hats. all shapes. Also uutrimmed hats, pirds, feathers and flowers, Cail and examine our stock. MME. R. CREDITT 1187 N. Carey Street. Sharp St. Memorial M. E. Snurch Sunday, Oct. 21, 3:50 P. W. a characterestic sermon by the Eev. Solomon Belford on behalf of x22 Kingdom of Portugal in_inter- est of the fall Rally. Mrs. Maggie Farker. Queen. All the members ei the Kingdom are asked to be yresent and the public is invited +. hear this stirring evangelist. iia. m .Sermon by pastor. 8p. n.. Special sermon by. the pastor z: the women of the city. Mrs. Maggie Parker, Queen. Rev. M. J. Naylor, pastor. ..THE JOLLY FOUR... ——Will Give a Grana—— .. SOIREE & BOX NANCE... At Nazarite Hall, Calvert Street, Near Centre.. Monday Evening, Oct. 21, 1912 Musie by the Pickaninny Band, Prof. Simms, Leader. Yickets 15 Cts. Refreshments on Sale. Flandsome Souvenirs to the first 100 ‘tzdies entering the hall. South Baltimore is alive. Brown's Hall For Rent 167 W. Henrietta St. For Society and Concert Purposes George B. Brown, Proprietor. THE -AERO-AMERICAN. LEDGER: SPECIAL NOTICES —— Help us to help each other. Rally! Rally! Our Ebenezer must be paid for. Come and hear Dr. C. H. Step- teau. October 20 that lla. m. at Ebenezer A.M. E. Church. Don’t forget theconeret on Monday night. Notice—Women’s Day at Enon Baptist Church, 3rd Sunday in Oc- tober. All Christian women are jnvited. Rev. Jones Watkins, D. D., Pastor. Madame Carrie P. Wash- ington, President. Madame F. E. Butler, Secretary. Madame Vir- ginia Lawson, Directress. Special Notice! C. ¥. W. C. A., Sunday, October 20th, at 5 p.m. Special Rally for the benefit of the Day Nursery As- sociation.- Special Service, inter- | esting program. Please contribute liberally. Mrs. Melissa Miner, Presiding. Mrs. E. P. Calloway, Assisting. Mrs. M. &. Murphy, President. Miss Emma Bright, Secretary. The Ari Class of the Colored Young Women’s Christian Associa- tion will reopen its sessions on Monday, October 21st, at 8 P. M. Lessons in embroidery, stencilling, leather work and brass work will be given, Terms: 50 cents per month. One Jesson a week. Frances L. Murphy, Chair. Kate H. Brown, Emma E. Bright, Mazie M. Key. Great time at Centennial Epworth League!! Mrs, Annie E. Brown the noted Evangelist, will be present at the Riddick Chapter Epworth League, Sunday at 4.30 P. M. Grand Prograta, Come, bring a friend. Mme. Helen A. Cooper, President. Mr. C. W. Harris, 4th vice presi- | dent. Rev. Levi Miller. pastor of the Preston Street Gospel Misson, on Preston Street near Madison ave- ‘nue, will preach two special ser- pmons in which he will show how man mag lay hold of God by faith and prevail against Him. ‘The first sermon will be delivered at the Mission, Sunday October 20th, at /§ o'clock: and the second on the Sunday foliowing at the same honr. The subject of the first sermon: “Let Me Alone,’’and of the second, ‘Let Me Go.”” | A special welcome is extended to ‘those desiring to be'saved. Sunday Schoo! at 8 o'clock p.m. Revival | services, Thursday and Friday evenings at 8 o'clock. | Mr. Clarence H. Powell, presi- dent of the Colored Boys’ Brigade, | who has just returned from Massa- chusetts, wishes to praise Secre- ae Clarence C. Medley, Captain |Charles Moody and Lieutenant | Walter Haskins for the clever way in which they have conducted the | Brigad2 during his absence. He | says they have done great work. We are also glad to state that Mr. Evans Murray, of. Washington, D. C., has decided to become a mem- ‘ber of our Brigade. He is a form- ler member of the Boy Scouts o! | Washington, D. C. The Federation of Christian Wo- men will hold their 7th annual ses- sion Thursday and Friday October 24 and 25, 1912, at the First Bap- tist Cnurch, Caroline and McEI- derry streets. Rev. P. A. Neal, pastor. Al! organizations are in- vited to be present to help make it a great success. Annual sermon by Rev. P. A. Neal, Sunday October 27, at p. m. Mrs. M. F. Handy, president. Mrs. E. J. Truxon, recording sec- retary. The tenth annual Fal] Rally at Waters A.M. E. Chureh. Mrs. Ida Nelson will preach a special sermon to the tribe of Jessee for the benefit of Class No. 3, Sunday, November 3, 1912, at 3p. m. The subject will be the “‘ Thanksgiving Supper in Beulah Land’’. Wm. 4. Carpenter. Leader. Danie Brown, Assistant. Mary C. Dickerson, Secretary. M. F. Sydes, Pastar There will bea lecture by Mr. Dennis Kobbs at Gilles Memorial Church to assist Company Z: Mrs. Eliza Brown, Captain. October 23, 1912. THE FAMOUS JUVENILE TROUBADOURS Mr. L. Ellsworth Toomey. Director Sacred Service at Asbury M. E. Church Lexingten and East Street SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2ist, at 8 P. M. Positively a Silver Offering at the Door. | At Waters A. M. E. Church, No- ‘vember il'and 12, under the avs- ‘pices of the Stewardesses of the ‘church. All the ladies are request- ed to prepare their reports for con- ference, alsn to attend .the weekly rehearsals. s Mrs. Ella Woolford, Directress. Rev. M. F. Sydes, Pastor. * | Grand Semi-Classie Coacert at Galilean Auditorium THURSDAY. OCTOBER 24th. 1912. 8.15 P. M. Reception before and efzer Musicale KERR’S Orchestra will render catchy music for the reception Baltimore's favorites will appear presenting = MR. HOWARD M. GROSS, In Néw Draraatic Selections Miss MARGUERITE DORSEY, Baltimores Brilliant Yeuag Soprano MR. T..H. KERR. 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Rally Judges: Mrs. “A. R. Hi. Miller, Mrs. L. H. Davenpor and Mr. Join Henry Smith, Maly’ Rally! Rally!l!, tar WHATCOAT M. E. CHURCH, Franklin and Pine Sts.““King’s Hill” Rev. Alfred’ Young, Pastor. Ae i Ne 5 Fe CRs cae li a. m., Preaching. 8p. m., the twenty-three anniver- sary of the Sunday School. eee! the Pastor. The school will be visit by twenty-three committees. 4.30 p. m., Epworth League. Sp. m., the great Evangelist will preach; Rev. R. J. Williams, of Ches: ter, Pa., the ‘“Tinley’’ of the a. M. L. Church. Revival every night. Everybody weleome Miss E. M, Cooper. Pres. W. G Tongue, Sunt. i@- EASTERN M. E. CHURCH“ McElderry St., and Patterson Park Ave. Rev. S. R. Hughes. Pastor. lla.m., Sermon by Rey. Thomas Bryan. 3p. m., Sunday School. 6 p. m., Epworth League. § p. m., Sermon by the Pastor te the Franklin Association, a> ASBURY M. E. CHURCH “@ Lexington and East Sts. Rev. C. G. Cummings. B. D. Pastor. 9.90 2. m., Bible Class 11 a. m., Sermon by the Pastor, sub- jects The Power of a Transformed jife.?? 2:30 p. m., Sunday School. 3 F. M.. Sermon by| Rev. H. Brooks to Gur Post Relief Corps. 3 poms Epworth [eazve; Sp. m. Famous Juvenile Troubs- dours. "Strangers Cordially_Welcomed | Chas.. Stewart, Supt, | Mis. Lena Thomas. Pres. E. L. @rAMES MEM. M. £. CHURCH Carey aad Baker Sts. Rey. D. D. Turpeaw, Pastor. 112. m., Sermon by the Pastor. 2.30 p. m., Sunday School. & p. m.. Sermon by Pastor. Every possible attention given to strangers~-Seats Free Weal dones, Supt. i GILLIS MEM. M. P. CHURCi Stockton Street near W. Baltimor: Rey. B. H. Knight, Pastor. 10a m., Class ll a, m., Preaching by Rev. Artha White. * 2p. m., Sunday School. 3p. m.. Sermon to the Israelites. 6.30 p.m. C. E. L. 8p. m, Sermon by the Pastor or Stranger. G. W, Fowler, Pres. C.£. 1. ‘T. H. MeGowan, Supt. AUTRE TS —or— Bethel A. M.E. Church —WILL OPEN— Monday Night, November 4th With a Discussion of the Merits and Demerits of the Three Presidential Candidates WILSON TAFT ROOSEVELT By Mrs. A. R. H. Miller, MissSarah R. Jackson and Mrs. Ruth-Collett---.- ~~ - Come and Hear Them. Interspersed with National Airs Entertainment each night as follows: Tuesday, Nov. 5th-Mrs. Rebecca Palmer & Co. Wednesday, Nov. 6th—Mrs. Mary S. Roberts & Co. Thursday, Nov. 7th—Mrs. Mary A. Jones & Co. Friday, Nov. 8th—Mrs. Addie Fowler & Co. Monday, Nov. 11-Mr. Edw. H. Barnett & Co. Tuesday, Nov. 12th—Misses Esther and Violet Hil! & Co. Wednesday, Nov. 18—-Mr. and Mrs. James,Dockins & Co. Thursday. Nov. 14th—Mrs. Lydia Burke & Co. Friday, Nov. 15-The Sunday School . The Booths. beautifully decorated will be stocked with all the varities of the market. Take Your Lunch at the Fair. Season Tickets 25c. Single Tickets, 5c, Mr. V. Morton Chase, President. Mrs. Grace Westcott, Secretary Mrs. lydia Burke. Vice President ‘Mrs, Nancy Wilson, Treasurer Miss Annie Bell Burke, Assistant Secretary Rev. D. G. Hill, Pastor sa emma * Y¥.M. C. A. at ELKS’ HALL, Hoffman street, near Druid Hill Avenue. Meeting for Men, Sunday, Octo- ber 20th, 4.30 P. M. Rey. M. J. Naylor, Pastor of Sharp St. M. E. Church, Speaker. Music by Men’s Chorus. All men invited. Special Services. PENNSYLVANIA AVE. A. M. E. ZiON CHURCH. Sunday. October 20, 1912. Rev. J. W. MacDovald, D. D., Pastor. Subject: ‘'The Destruction of the Titanic’ vs *'Tie Wristless Handwriting on the Wall.” _ Special rausie: Solo, duet and chorus. Sunday School: 2.25 p. m., W. W. Brown, Supt. Variek Christian Endeavor at 6 p.m. Orchustra. J.B. Aikins, President. All cordially welcome. The 34th Anniversary Service OF THE— Baltimore Patriarchie, No. 9 G. U. 0. ODD FELLOWS Will be held at JOHN WESLEY M. E. CHURCH Sharp and Montgomery Streets SUNDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 20th at 8 O'CLOCK ‘A splendid program has been arranged for the occasion Members of the Order will meet in the lecture room of the church at 7.30 p. m. Clark Holmes, R. ¥. P. Captain J. H. Smith, Recorder | St. Paul M. E. Chareh, Sunday October 20, 1912. ‘AUB p. m.. a special sermon will ‘be preached by Rev. ida Nelson ia |jaterest of the Fall Rally. All ace invited. Mrs. Ellen Myers. Mrs Annie Seale Rey. §, H. Norwood. pastor. | EBENEZER A. M. E_ CHURCH | “Rey. J. W. Norris, Pastor. | Grand RaJly Day and Lecture to the K. of P. "Sunday, October 27, Grand Rally, all. day. At 3.307p. m., Honored Henry Lincoln Johnson, Recorder of Deeds in Washington,. will lecture to. the Grand United Order of the Knights of Pythias with their courts. All the captains will please report on date. Bro. Joseph Frisby, the sec- retary of the trustees’ board, will call:the roll. Grand Rally march at night, Those who desire to pay can do so in the fmorning. “Maren will be led by Mr. Geo. Pullman. - *. HANDY MEM. A. MoE) CHURCH Cor. Baker and Bruce Sts. Rev. John Offer Custis, Pastor 1514 Drnid-Bill Ave. Envolope Rally—Anniversary. 104, m., Biblical Missionary Insti- tute. 11a, m., Sermon by the Pastor. 2.80 p. m., Sunday School. 3B0_p. Special sermon by Ley. L. S. Flagg. D.D., pastor of St. John’s ALM. B. Church.’ Choir and :congre- Bebop. m, A. C. E, League. m,, A.C. E. : Rar" Samuel £, Robinson, Pres. Sp. m., Sermon, subject: {!Hand- writing on the Wall. - i All are welcome. ae 1H. W. Hiner, Supt. BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH Pensa Hilt Ave and“Laneals BE: ee ees eee ceed ae ged Bev. D. G. Bill, Pastor” 11a, m,, Sermon by'the Pastor, sub- ject: “The Great Objective Point.” 2.30 P. M., Sunday Sebool. 8.00 p. m.,' the Ureat Evangelist. of the A.M. B, Church, Mrs, Amanda Smith. All welcome to services PAYNE MEM, A. M. E; CHURCE Laurens aud Calhoun Streets Rev. J.G. Martin, Pastor. Residence: 1842 N. Calhoun Street Anniversary Day. lla. m., Preaching by the Pastor. 2,80 p. m., Sunday School, a'p. m., Breaching by Rev. D..D- Tarpeau, of Ames M, E> Church. Choir and congregaiion invited. 6.00 p.m... Opening of League. Special program. Sp. m., Preaching by Rev. S.. M. Johnson, Presiding Elder. : Mr. C..E. Dorsey, Supt. : Miss EL K. Brown, Supt. Primary Department. * Mr. J.E. Neal, President of League. Miss Emms Gilles, Sec’y. Fa elec lta a mca Rev. J. W. Norris, Pastor Ma. m, Sermon by Rev. C. H. Stepteau, D. D. | 2.30 p. m., Special Program in the Sunday School. "3.80 p. ™., the Pastor will preach to ‘the Grand United Order of Jobs and. ‘their Courts. 6 p.m., Allen C. E. League. 8 p. m.. Sermon by Kev. W. M. Ivy. All are invited. John Murray, Pres. of the League. Herbert Frisby, Supt.. Grand Rally, Sunday. October % ch. Come and hear the Hon. Henry Lincoln Jobnson's lecture to the Knights of Pythias. = WATERS A. M. E. CHURCH Aisquith St., near Jefferson. | Rev. Dr M.F. Sydes, Pastor. 497 Aisquith Street 41.2, m,, Sermon by.the Pastor. --9.30'p. m., Sunday Schoo! ip. im, Sermon by a Woman Evan- east . 3.40 p. m, Allen League, 7 Mi p.m, Special Sermon to the ‘Mi. Lebanon Lodge, F. & A. ML, by ‘tba Yastor. All are invited. "TRINITY 3. M. E, CHURCH,” Linden Ave. and Biddle St Rey, A. L. Gaines, D: D., Pastor. lla. m. Sermon by the Pastor. 2.30 p. m., Sunday School. 6.30 p. m., A. C. E, League. 7.20 p. m., Sermon by the Pastor. T. J. Holliday, Supt. Amelia Martin, Pres. of League ST. JOHN’S A. M. E, CBURCH,. Lexington St, near Pine, Rev. L. S, Flagg, Pastor. 11 a. m., Sermon by the Pastor, sub- ject: “The Thinking Man and His Worth to the World.” 2.30 p.m. Sunday School. Bertha fleming, Supt. 6p.m.,4.C.E.L, Chas. Roberts, President. 7.30 p. m., Preaching. "Cuesday, Oct. 22nd, the Great Evan- gelist, Mrs. Amanda Smith, will preach tor us. TWO SPECIAL SERMONS. @G- PENNSYLVANIA AVE. &. BL. E. ZION CHURCH. |Rev. J. W. MacDonald, D. D:, Pastor. site ES : Tit ps EA i ag Oe) =e ‘ | “ Sunday night, October 27th, by Rev. [ae C. Maxwell, D, D. | RAILROAD SERMON by Rev. Al- fred Young, D, D., giving all’ stations [on oth the’ Devil's Road-and the Gos- pel Road. Sunday night, Novomber 8d. | Severybody is cordially invited. | $A a | The Alles C. E. League of Wat= jers A. MM. E. Church, will render 2 brilliant program: this “Sunday. at 15.45 p. m. The topic. will be | opened for discussion’ by Mr. Wm. |Green. | Topic: ‘Christian Sociability."’ Rem. 14:16-19th; 13: 1-8." Musie and good singing. Everybody wel- come. |. Mamie Woolford,’ president. ‘C. E Carey, secretary. ‘Colored Young Women’s Ciris- tian. Association,. A ae * 3900 Druid Hill-Avenue, 3 ¥ou are'cordially invited to :attend the regular service on - SUNDAY, OCT. 20th, at 5 P.M. Willing Workers* Day. 0002 Mrs. Sarab. Fernandis,, social settle-» ment worker, will ‘make an address.’ A collection will belifted forthe: Day. Nursery. : Se 1pPaper iby Mrs. Raiff: 'selection--by.: Miss Julia Thoras. SAN Mrs. E. P. Calloway; presiding ©”. SMB. Morphy, President, 0. E.B. Bright, Secretary.” * COLORED PORTERS SHOW BRAVERY Although Hurt Themselves They Assist in The Work South Norwalk, Oct. 18 — In a railroad wreck near here last Thursday eight persons were killed. The train had been driven at top speed over a crossover, toppled 15 feet down an embankment, where the boiler burst and the coaches took fire. One colored porter who was pinned between two Pullmans displayed a heroic part by directing those trying to rescue passengers, while the trainmen were trying to extricate him. Another, Samuel Cleveland, with his left arm fractured and hanging lim, assisted in saving the lives of several passengers. St. Michael's Notes (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) St. Michaels, Md., October 1.—The local public schools opened Monday with two teachers in charge. Mrs. Helen Turner is principal. Miss Eva Bond has accepted a position to teach at Whitman, Md. Mrs. Josephine Bond, Daniel Chaney, Miss Florence Hopkins and Mr. Richard Hopkins have returned from the mountains where they spent the summer. Miss Beulah Chaney has gone to Laurel, Md., where she will be a teacher in the public school. Reieterstown News Reisterstown, Md., October 17. The Junior Choir of St. Lukes M. E. Church made its first appearance on the first Sunday in the month. The music was handled well by the little folks. Mrs. L. A. Carter is director of the choir. The Ladies Home Missionary Society met at St. Lukes on last Wednesday. Some of the most prominent ladies of Baltimore city were present. The meeting was very helpful and inspiring to all. The auxiliary of Reisterstown was reorganized with Mrs. John Burkett as president. Mrs. C. J. Woodalnd was the guest of Rev. and Mrs. L. A. Carter on last Wednesday. Mrs. Passey entertained a few friends on last Sunday evening. Miss Daisy Tucker was the recipient of many presents on her birthday last Saturday. Rev. and Mrs. L. A. Carter have gone to New York to spend the week. The are attending the grand encampment of the Moses. Rev. Bragg Preaches Sermon (Special to The Anti-American League) Snow Hill, Md., Oct. 17 — Mrs. Susan Bratten died Thursday, and was buried Saturday in the M. E. Cemetery. Rev. A. W. Puller, of Opelika, Ala., preached at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church Sunday and lectured Monday night. A fine son came to Rev. J. W. Jewett's house Sunday morning. The mother and son are getting on nicely. Rev. A. W. Puller, Mrs. Mary Q. Henry and Miss Helen R. Henry drove to Salisbury Tuesday to the Emancipation Celebration. Rev. Geo. F. Bragg, rector of St. James Parish, Baltimore, preached in Snow Hill, Wednesday night, at the public school building. Frederick News Frederick, Md., Oct. 16 — The Ten Night Entertainment at the M. E. Church is meeting with much success. "The Blues," led by Master Ignatius Snowdon, beat the "Reis" led by Master Claude Walker. "The Ten Captians," heading. "Woman's Day" which will take place Sunday the 20th, in Union A. M. E. Church, are expected to prove a great success. Rev. Jonh Porter was taken with a very serious case of acute indigestion Wednesday morning. He is now moving around a little. Edna Clark was buried from Union A. M. E. Church Sunday. Rev. L. J. Valentine officiated for Rev. Porter. The marriage of Mr. Arthur Keller to Miss Olevia Douglass took place in Atlantic City on October 16th. They will leave at once for a visit to New York and also his mother and sister in Baltimore, and on their return will reside at 411 N. Ocean avenue, Atlantic City, QUIT THE OLD PARTY! GOOD REASON FOR IT By Daniel W. Shaw Those who have followed the political discussions preceding and subsequent to the Republican convention, will not need to look for good reasons for leaving the Republican party and forming with the Progressives. The few followers of the Republican Party are trying to content themselves by saying the nomination of Mr. Taft was regular and honorable and was gotten or made in the same way nominations have been made for a generation past. Mr. Root had the temerity to declare in his notification speech that the nomination was regular and bore no scent of dishonesty. In thus speaking Mr. Root flew in the face of the sable facts of the great steal of the National Committee backed up by stolen delegates in the convention. When Mr. Root declared that Mr. Taft's nomination was reguar and made as all nominations had been made for a generation, he deliberately falsified the facts, which had been published to the ends of the earth. Mr. Root knew as all the world knew, the Republican Convention met tiths year under circumstances which had never before maintained. These circumstances gave the Convention a place among conventions and made it impossible to run the convention on the old plan. The fact that the people ha by their votes in a primary preferential contest expressed their preference for President, put an absolutely new condition on the last Republican National Convention, so that the old regime of STEAM ROLLER was out of place. The conditions at Chicago were new, because the people had by a vote of 4,500,000 declared their preference for Mr. Roosevelt as President. It as for a few political bosses to pick out a candidate as formerly, and put him up for President, the people had done that in a plain and most emphatic way. It was very much out of place for the hold over committee to convine and defeat the people's wishes and instructions. Republican voters had throughout the great Republican states declared for Roosevelt, and then the politicians stood out against the expressed will of the people and by highanded dishonesty defeated Mr. Roosevelt and stole the nomination for Mr. Taft, they drove the rank and file of the party out of theh ranks of the Republican Party, to find a new political home which subsequently crystalized into the progressive party. Now it is marvelous to hear men talking about saving the Republican Party. It is too late now. The men who were in charge of the Chicago Convention strangled the voice of the people and in that act assassinated their party. The Republican party is dead, slain by the political bosses at Chicago. The men who have hitherto formed the bone and sinew of the party found no other course but to form a new party where every man could vote his preference and have his vote counted. Now while I write, Colonel Roosevelt, leader of the Progressive movement and champion of the common people, lies in a hospital in a Western city with a bullet in his breast, smitten down by the hand of an assassin. That bullet is but the final expression of political vituperation and the foolish clamor against the third term. It is a restatement of the world old truth, redemption costs blood. The sound of the assasin's gun has been heard throughout the nation, and the common people, whose battle Colonel Roosevelt is fighting, will rise up on November 5th, and swing the Progressive Party into victorious column. It Will Not Worry Him. There is one big office holder here who is not likely to be financially worried if President Taft should fail of re-election and he loses his position. He is Robert H. Terrell, one of the justices of the Municipal Court, and familiarly known to the populace as "Judge." Judge Terrell's wife, Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, is said to have come into possession of a legacy of $150,000 through the death of her father, Robert R. Church. The reputed legacy has not changed the Judge's demeanor in the slightest, and he is handing down opinions from the bench. Should there be a change in the occupant of the White House and Judge Terrell desire a reappointment it is said that a large number of the members of the bar stand ready to endorse him. THE AFRO-AMERICAN-LEDGER Campaign By James L. Curtis, Esq. In twenty two States of the Union where the blight of constitutional amendments has neither eliminated nor rendered negligible the Negro vote, three hundred and twenty seven electoral votes hang in the balance, to preponderate according to the way the Negro casts his vote. Is the fetich of Republicanism more powerful with this class of voters, than existing conditions in the Republic, that by every rule of reason, every code of common sense, every law of logic demand its instant repudiation. Suppose it be conceded that in the dawn of Negro citizenship, the race found itself obligated to the Republican party for right conferred in the snape of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Federal Constitution, and thereafter resentfully sought to avenge itself on the Democratic party for its attitude in opposition to the conferring of these rights. Is there any reason on this account why the Negro should further be influenced by rights granted fifty years ago, when it is apparent that they were conferred, not as a result of the unselfish pursuit of right and justice by its sponsors, but as a political expedient to perpetuate itself in power, and that the other party that opposed the conferring of those rights, conversely, did so, not as the result of malvolent pursuit of wrong and injustice, but as a political expedient to gain the reins of power. When both the Democratic and Republican parties have reached the place here apparently neither is proud of the part it has played in this regard, and both are either expressly or impliedly apologizing for its former attitude, is there not intelligence enough in the Negro race to disregard the erstwhile attitude of both these parties which be numerous subsequent acts and their present pronouncements the disavow, and to take its stand in the present campaign of the current issues, not as Negroes, but simply as citizens of the Republic. The doctrine "TARIFF FOR REVENUE ONLY," to which the Democratic party is committed is manifesty in the interest of all those who toil with their_hands that is, the laboring class of people. What will benefit the white laborer, will "pro tanto" benefit the Negro laborer. The high protective tariff system of the Republican party is the mother of the trusts and monopoes that control the output of the necessaries of life. By killing competition, cornering the products of the farms and factories and fixing the costs of the same, it has brought upon us the present "high costs of living" with all of its direful consequences. The Beef Trust, the Wheat Trust, the Milk Trust, the Leather rust, the Egg Trust, and the poultry Trust, with which we are most concerned, "live and move and have their being" through the kindly offices of the Republican party. Thousands of tcs of beef, mutton, and pork, etc., are carefully laid away in cold storage repositories of the Beef Trust causing a fictitious scarcity in these commodities and creating a demand greater than the supply; the cost of meat is thus increased in apparent accord with the approved rule of political economy and the increased dividends, thereby earned, are divided among the controlling factors of the Beef Trust, and the "protection money" is paid to the campaign managers of the Republican party with scrupulus exactness; for the privilege of foisting upon us the "present high cost of living." That there is no scarcity of meat products and that the prices of the same are not regulated naturally by the law of supply and demand is abundantly proven by the exports of the same, revealing a large surplus production. Reliable statistics prove that within the past eight months beef, mutton and pork have been exported from the United States to the amount of more than three million of dollars, and that meat and dairy products have in the same period been exported to the amount of more than eighty millions of dollars. Official statistics show that from nineteen hundred to nineteen hundred eleven there was a rise in the wholesale price of fresh beef in the American market of thirty four per cent. and in the wholesale price of pork in the American market of thirty six per cent., while quotations for the London market show no substantial change in the price of either for the same period. The tariff protected meat trust of America charging the home consumer every penny it can exact from under a tariff which kills out side competition, and after "shaking down" the luckless American consumer to the "limit" under the high tariff system proceeds to feed everybody except the inhabitants of the United States for a price fixed and regulated naturally under competitive conditions. It is the veriest nonsense to say that the protective tariff has nothing to do with these things, while we in this country, where these meat prodcuts are produced are now and for a decade past have been paying famine prices for the same meat that forieen countries have been buying at a trifle more than half the prevailing prices here at home. The protection which the tariff affords the meat trust, enables this combination to stop foreign countries from selling meat products in America in competition with it, while the absence of such a protection or a material downward revision thereof, would enable meat producers from abroad to bring to our shores cattle, sheep and hogs, and sell them here in competition with the 'meat trust' which would sound the death knell to the high cost of meats that now afflicts us and would fix the prices of the same by natural laws and not by the capacity of the meat trust' aided and betted by the high protective tariff dogma of the Republican party. What is true of the meat trust is largely true of the dairy trust' and all the other trusts that control the necessaries of life. The tariff policy of Gov. Woodrow Wilson is calculated to destroy the systemresponsible for the unreasonable and unnatural cost of the necessaries of life, and the tariff polices of the Republican and Progressive party nominees are designed to prevent interference with that system. People of limited means of all races and creeds will inductually profit by a tariff policy that will reduce the high costs of living; can it be, that fifty years after slavery, the American Negro, with his boasted advance in education and special training in political economy and the science of government, will vote to his own material detriment and say he would rather be a victim of spoilation at the hands of the Republican party, than the object of benefice at the hands of the Democratic party. Is the twentieth century Negro such a dullard that he would rather be beggared by the Republican party than receive a bounty from the Democratic party. Is the Negro to vote in this campaign on sentiment or on business grounds. To ask the Negroes of this country to support Taft or Roosevelt in the present campaign is to aks them to give their aid to the continuance of the unconscionable prices demanded for the necessaries of life, thereby augmenting the swollen fortunes of the trust magnates, who under the iniquitous system of protective tariff, steadily grow richer, while the poor grow poorer. President Taft at Winona, Minnesota, in the Congressional election, nineteen hundred and ten, speaking of the Payne Aldrich, tariff bill, in which instead of revision "downward" as promised by the Republican platform, there was a "revision upward in all respects affecting the necessaries of life, said that "it is the best tariff law ever enacted. Ex-President Roosevelt says he believes in a permanent Tariff commission that will revise the tariff every dozen years or so; in accordance with the demands of exigencies. Gov. Woodrow Wilson says he is for such a tariff only, as will raise sufficient to meet the running expenses of the government; and as an earnest of his good intentions in this regard, demands the immediate"downward revision of the present tariff law with special reference to all schedules touching the necessaries of life.' There is an aphorism generally accepted as having universal application, to the effect that "the way to influence a mans conduct is to touch his pocket." If the foregoing shows that the triumph of Democracy in this campaign will benefit the pockets of the Negro voter, the conclusion is is invitable, either that the Negro will seek to promote his interests by supporting the Democratic party or else that he is not intelligent enough to be trusted with the right of suffrage. Issued by Thomas' Wallace Swann, Chairman of Publicity Bureau National Colored Democratic League, 546 Lenn. x Avenue, New York City. ARE YOU A READER OF THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER? 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Her wide travel in following up her musical life has given her a large experience and acquaintance among the leading people of the country. She has served in various musical capacities, in all of which she displayed the earmarks of an efficient artist. It was when but a child in Chicago studying the piano that Mrs. Taplow gave evidence of her musical gifts. For a number of years she was a member of the Williams and Walker company when the talented aggregation was in the heyday of its success. She won a place among the talented of this company and accompanied Williams and Walker to London on their first trip abroad. While in London Mrs. Tapley made a deep impression upon the musical life of the city and made the acquaintance of some of the most elegant people in London. While in London Mrs. Tapley was the guest for a time of the late Coleridge Taylor, who regarded her as one of the most accomplished musicians he had met. It was while with Williams and Walker that Mrs. Tapley showed her ```markdown ``` MRS. DAISY ROBINSON TAPLEY. best efforts as a vocalist. Few musicians of the race are more versatile and have more thorough training than Mrs. Tapley. She is especially gifted as a singer and possesses a rich, cultivated contralto voice. She is an adept at the piano and plays the pipe organ with a rare musical touch. Her wide culture and proficiency in her art is due to the fact of her long study under noted musical critics. She is a western woman and was born in Michigan. At an early age she went to Chicago and began her musical course with a study of the piano under Emil Liebling. She later took up the study of the pipe organ under Professors Charles Rossey, Clarence Dickerson and Clarence Eddy, noted musicians of Chicago. After the completion of the first part of her musical education she became the organist of Quinn chapel, one of the largest and most influential churches of the race. She remained in this capacity for eleven years. She then took up the study of the voice under Pedro Tinsley, also of Chicago. After her stage career with Williams and Walker she made her residence in New York. She is one of the foremost music teachers of the city and numbers among her pupils scholars of both races. She has done much for the development of a high musical life among young women. She is the organizer and conducts the glee clubs of the Y. W. C. a. both of New York and of Brooklyn. She has done much in the way of composition, and her arrangement of folklore songs has met the approval of the most critical musicians. As music teacher in this city she has made a decided success, and as a teacher of little children she is especially considerate. Mrs. Tapley is a woman of a charming personality and of strong character. She is devoted to her mother and provides for her comforts. With all of her attainments Mrs. Tapley is modest and unassuming in her bearing. 4 REV. HARVEY JOHNSON MEDICAL ASSOCIATION NOTES. New Officers For Arkansas Organization—Dr. Barrabin Honored. The full corps of officers elected at the recent session of the Arkansas Medical association, held in Little Rock, consists of some of the best known and most skillful physicians among Afro-Americans in the southwest. The general officers are the following: Dr. J. G. Thornton, Little Rock, president; Dr. J. S. House, Sherrell, vice president; H. W. Douglass, D. D. S., vice president; R. Q. Canfield, Little Rock, third vice president; Dr. G. W. Ish, Little Rock, secretary; Dr. E. W. West, Hensley, recording secretary; Dr. A. A. Womack, Little Rock, corresponding secretary; Dr. D. J. Williams, Forrest City, treasurer. Dr. J. H. Barrabin of Marianna was elected to represent the Arkansas Medical association in the National Medical association in Nashville, Tenn., in 1913. Hot Springs was selected as the meeting place for the Arkansas association in May, 1913. School Year at Allen University. Allen university, in Columbia, S. C., recently opened for the school year of 1912-13 with a large enrollment. The new president, Rev. Dr. W. W. Beckett, has plans under way for extending the benefits of the school to a larger number of students. It is President Beckett's intention to make Allen university one of the best schools in the south. In addition to his duties president Dr. Beckett will have charge of the classes in mental and moral philosophy. He is well known for the able work which he did while secretary of missions for the A. M. E. church. Voters Defeat Grandfather Clause. The defeat of the grandrather clause amendment to the constitution of Arkansas in the recent state election was a decided victory for the cause of justice and fair play. The colored voters displayed splendid judgment throughout the campaign for the protection and preservation of the rights of citizenship) vouchsafed to them by the federal constitution. The Political Situation In Texas The Political Situation in Texas. The colored citizens of Texas who have recently announced their intention of voting the Democratic ticket at the general election in November have perfected county organizations through out the state. it is believed by some that the bulk of the colored citizens in the state will vote for Wilson and Marshall and Governor O. B. Colquitt. Business Confidence. In his speech of acceptance Woodrow Wilson asserted that the tariff has made the business men of the country "timid, frettful, full of alarms; has robbed them of self confidence and manly force until they have cried out that they could do nothing without the assistance of the government at Washington." Present day conditions challenge the accuracy of this statement. The excellent doctor would do well to point out some of the "timid, frettful" business men who are now "full of alarms" and who are lacking in "self confidence and manly force." Where can he find them? The country is at the high tide of prosperity. Business confidence is in evidence everywhere. The course of the Republican administration is directly responsible for this condition. Danger lies only in a change of administration, with the consequent change of policy that is promised. Then, truly, the business men of the country would be "full of alarms," and they would have justification. A Babylonian Ruse. Recent research has demonstrated that 4,000 years ago folks were complaining of the high cost of living in Babylon. And doubtless some Babylonian politician was trying to demonstrate that the way to reduce the cost was to elect him to office. Shooting Stars... The mean height at which shooting stars first become visible is eighty-one miles. The mean height of their disappearance is about fifty-eight miles. The mean length of their visible path is forty-five miles. A. Fitting Person. "Shakespeare ought to have made Hamlet give that speech about rather being a dog and buying the moon." "Why should Hamlet have said it?" "Wasn't he a great Dane?"—Baltimore American. FORTY YEARS PASTOR OF UNION BAPT. CHURCH Baltimore Congregation To Honor Dr. Harvey Johnsons' Long Pastorate Baltimore. — The Rev. Dr. Harvey Johnson will complete his fortieth continuous year as pastor of the Union Baptist church on the first Sunday in November. In the summer of 1ST2 a young man not yet thirty years of age, who had just been graduated from the old Wayland seminary, was asked to become pastor of the church. He agreed and on the first Sunday in November, 1ST2, entered upon his duties as pastor. From that time began a service for Baltimore and the whole race which has made the name of Dr. Harvey Johnson a household word in the United States. Always uncompromising in his attitude toward wrongs against the race, he was in the forefront of a number of battles that were waged in the interest of the race in this state. In 1876 two young men, James H. Wolff and Charles S. Taylor, came to Baltimore and hung out their shingles as attorneys in the old Douglass institute. The contention was made that they had no right to practice in the state courts, and Dr. Johnson helped to raise the funds necessary to test the case in the court of appeals. The decision was against the two colored lawyers, and as they had only the right to practice in the federal courts they soon left the state. Later Dr. Johnson found out that Charles S. Wilson, then a teacher in one of the county schools, was a graduate of the law school of Boston university. An attorney was secured, and the reverend minister almost single handed carried on the work which resulted in colored lawyers being given the right to practice law in Maryland after March, 1885. He was one of the pioneers in the movement that resulted in the placing of colored teachers in the public schools of Baltimore. He successfully fought that provision in the law which protected only white women, also discriminations on beats plying the Chesapeake bay, and was active in three disfranchisement fights in Maryland. He has aided many young men to prepare for the ministry, and the Clayton-Williams university, this city, is a monument to his interest in education and his liberality. Though other Baptist churches in Maryland contribute to the support of this school, Dr. Johnson and his congregation are the largest contributors. A movement is under way for a public recognition of the distinguished service rendered the race by Maryland's grand old man, Dr. Johnson's home, 1923 Druid Hill avenue, contains priceless records concerning the race during the past forty years. A number of his views have been incorporated in the "Nations From a New Point of View," a book which riddles some of the contentions made by whites regarding the race. --- How Prosperity Changed to Panie When Democrats Elected a President. In January, 1892, this country was prosperous, and all conditions indicated continuance of prosperity. In November of that year a Democratic president was elected. In 1893 the Democratic congress, convened in extraordinary session, began its anti-protection activities. After a time it enacted the Wilson low tariff law. In the early summer of that year came the panic. In the period from May 1 to July 23, 301 banks, with a total capital of $38,000,000, suspended. The total number of banks suspended in that year was 539. In 1892 the total amount of liabilities on account of business failure was $114,000,000. In 1893 the total was $346,000,000. In the year 1893 railroad properties whose aggregate value was $1,200,000,000 were in the hands of receivers. Between May 4 and Oct. 3 $378,000,000 was withdrawn from national banks. In this state alone withdrawals of deposits from savings banks were $34,000,000 in excess of deposits made. In the period from Jan. 1, 1892, to Jan. 1, 1896, there was a shrinkage of $1,400,000,000 in the total value of farm products and live stock in the United States. In that period prices were lower, but hundreds of thousands were wageless and other multitudes worked at low wages and on short time. They had little money or none with which to buy even the most ordinary necessaries of life in adequate quantity. Now, after twenty years, the Democratic party is again asking the electorate of the United States to put it in control of national affairs in order that the performances of its last period of control and their disastrous consequences may be repeated. The Republican party, under whose administration during sixteen years the country has become newly prosperous and more prosperous than ever it was before, pledges itself to maintenance of the policies which restored and promoted prosperity. There is a paramount issue. What intelligent American can besithe to waka his choice?—Albany Journal. SUNDAY SCHOOL. Lesson III.—Fourth Quarter, For Oct. 20, 1912. THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES. Text of the Lesson, Mark vii, 24-30; Matt. viii, 5-13—Memory Verses 27 28—Golden Text, John vi, 37—Commentary by Rev. D. M. Stearns. The two incidents of these lessons, though far separated as to the time of their occurrence, are both illustrations of great faith on the part of two people who were not of Israel—foreshadowings, no doubt, of the time when blessing shall go from Israel and her righteous king to all other nations, as set forth in Ps. lxvii and many other places in such wonderful words as these, "God be merciful unto us and bless us, that Thy way may be known upon earth. Thy saving health among all nations," and meantime contrasting the "little faith" or "no faith" of Israel with the "great faith" of those of lesser privilege. The story of the woman of Tyre and Sidon follows in the regular order of events, while that of the Roman centurion takes us back to a time just after the choosing of the twelve apostles. Both events are recorded by Matthew; the centurion also in Luke vii and the gentile woman in Mark in the lesson of today. The great words in each lesson are, to my mind, "O woman, great is thy faith, be it unto thee even as thou wilt," and "Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. * * * Go thy way, and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee" (Matt. xv, 28; viii, 10-13). Taking the story of the centurion first, we note that his servant, who was dear unto him, was sick unto death, and the messengers who came to Jesus on his behalf spoke of the centurion's love for the nation and how he had built them a synagogue; but the centurion himself said, either personally or by his messengers, that he was not worthy to have the Lord Jesus come under his roof, but that if He would only speak the word his servant would be healed. When the messengers returned to the centurion's house they found the servant whole that had been sick. He had been healed in the same hour that Jesus had said, "As thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee." As Jesus commended the centurion's faith He said to the people that many would come from all parts and share the kingdom with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, while many who supposed they were sure of it would find themselves cast into outer darkness. How essential it is that we become in God's way His children and know that our names are written in heaven (Luke x, 20; Rev. xx, 15; xxi S), for many who profess to be His will have to hear Him say, "I never know you, depart from Me" (Matt. vii, 21-23). Mark the poverty of spirit of the centurion, no self conceit or consciousness of the importance of his position, but evidently from his heart, "Lord, I am not worthy." Something of the spirit of him of Luke xviii, 13, 14, who went to his house justified. There is only one who is truly worthy, and when we take our right place before Him He is ready to honor all the faith we place in Him. As to the other incident I have often thought that Jesus went away off there to be refreshed by that woman's great faith, for knowing all things He knew all about her and her trouble, and the way she would come to Him and cling to Him and take no denial. Nothing please Him like faith, and without faith it is impossible to please Him. It is written that the centurion's servant was dear unto him, but here it is a mother pleading for her own daughter who must have been dear to her, and specially dear because of her affection, for the sick one in a home generally has the sympathy of all. As we think of those who are dear to us do we consider the words of our Father in heaven concerning His only begotten Son, "This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased?" (John iii, 16; Matt. iii, 17; xvii, 5). Let us also lay to heart that we do not honor the Father unless we honor the Son; and that since God spared not His own Son He will with Him also freely give us all things (John v, 25; Rom. vill, 32). Probably this distressed mother did not know these great truths, but she knew that she had a greatly allied daughter, she had heard of this wonderful teacher who could heal all diseases and cast out demons and had no doubt longed to reach Him, but He was too far away, and so her case seemed hopeless. But now He had come near to her, the blessing was within her reach, and as soon as possible she is at His feet beseeching Him for her daughter. To get the complete record we must put the accounts in Matthew and Mark side by side. To her first appeal Jesus answered her not a word. The disciples besought Him to send her away. He then said that He was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. She first cried unto Him as the son of David, now she says, "Lord, help me." 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Buy from your dealer, or by mail from McCALL'S MAGAZINE 236-246 W. 37th St., New York City Northeast-Singapore Copy, Premium Catalogues and Pattern Catalogues Inc. no report. He Told Her. Teacher—Willy, can you tell me the difference between caution and cowardice? Willy—Yes, ma'am. When you are afraid yourself that is caution, but when the other fellow's afraid that's cowardice. Brg a pM ASE Pe eke, ag Se i os ST NEWS IN BREE "A Day. Nursery was ‘opened at 958 Druid’ Hill’ avenue ‘Tuesday. ‘The: :children of working mothers will be looked after during the day. ~The Day Nursery. Association has -suceéeded in raising enough money among churches’aud individuals to “purchase. the:‘building, and it is planned to also do social settlement work... Glubs or hoth sexes will be organized’ and classes in cooking -and-sewing conducted. It is also expected that the Carrollton Neigh- borhaefand: fe Eva Jenifer Neigh- borhoall: Clubs: will also take up social eltenient work. Mrs! Sarah Collins Fernandes hag charge of the work on Druid Hill: avenue... After graduating rom Hampton Institute, she became -a teacher. in- Baltimore ‘county. She later taught in thecity, resign- ing to become the wife of Mr. John A. Fernandes. : Mrs: Fernandes became: interest- ed in'socia] service work and pur- sued: a “course in the New York Schoo! of Philanthropy. ., She-spent six years in. scttlement york in Washington and for the last five years had charge of a mixed work in’ Providence, R. I. Local colored: drug stores donated halfof-the proceeds from their so- da ‘fountains last Sunday. Roosevelt Adherents Hold Fort At Centennial Church A Roosevelt Demonstration with an‘audience packed to the galleries at Centennial M. E. Chureh last Monday: night, a genuine demon- stration for Roosevelt took place at the mention of his name by that most-eloquent of women, Madame “Annie R. H. Miller. :The app!ause forced the speaker to silence for several minutes. Mrs. Miller was making the opening address at the presentation: of the cantata entitled “‘Beauutiful City,’’ presented under he management of Mme, Helen “A. Cooper by a [large will deilled chorus,-uron’ the: successful issue of: which Mme. Cooper is to be congratulated. Mme. Miller elo- guently plead for the colored men to think and fall in line with the Progressive Party and elect Roose- velt. - Winchester Happenings Winchester, Va., Oct. 17 — Ihe Women’s “Day exercises held at Mount Carmel First Baptist Church, weré a suceess.. Several papers on important subjects were read. * Rev, Matthew Hogan, of Ohio, preached a forceful sermon at St. Paul A: M. E. Church, Sunday morning. The funeral: of Mrs. Cordelia Banks was held at St. Paul A. M. BE. Chureh,- Tuesday afternoon The, “pastor, Rev. W. W. Roberts, con- ducted the services, assisted by Revs, M. Armstead, S. Randolph, J. H. Quitt and A. P..Shaw. Fannie Esklick has. gone to. Duf- fieldto hold revival services. Birthday Reception Ten- dered Mrs. Maggie Jackson _An- evening of pleasure and Birth Day reception tendered. Mrs. Maggie Jackson by Mr. and Mrs. Ysaiah Pinckney at their residence, 1616 Mullikin street on Thursday, October 10th. Among their many friends in at- tendanee, were: ‘Mesdames-Edith Clark Drueilla Henson, “Addie Skinner, Matilda Scott, Memie -Jackson, Messrs Harry A. Vodery, John Roles, Wm. Carroll, Wm. Strawn, Harry Hen- son;-James Skinner, Howard Samp- gon, Fredereick Scott, James Reiley and-Walter Dorsey. - © At 10.45, luneh was served,,.the tables: bearing the !atest - delicacies of:the season. . The. guests were-de- -Jightfally. entertained by voéal’and ‘instrumental music’ furnished by Messrs Harry A. Vodery, J john Roles cand: others.“ it “<The guests participated ‘in danc- ing-until « the-wee hours*in™ the mornings) 8S) La ae ¥. M. C/A. Directors ep oSk-o< . 'Gempleting Plans .- The directors of the;Y.-M..C. A. “andithe “captains of-the-teams for sthe coming new buildiie campaign ‘niet’ on Wednesday: evening at the _ résidetice "of BE.’ B: Taylor,” 305 W. Biddle strect, ‘to-complete. thes: or- - ganization of teamis and make other plans.’ Refreshments where served Vafter the meetings.) /Thie’captains are: Dr.T.-S. Haw: “king Av O.-Reid'. To8.’Date,. W. 2g Greenwood, Dr-.J.\C.“Robinson, ‘Samuel‘Young, P..D. G. ‘Penning. “ton’and John: HS Toadvin: Two men retto be chosen geto 22 27 : aThe Colored -Chauffers’ Association... @ joy Spiel Dance @ At Galilean Fishermen Auditorium Monday Evening, October 2ist, 1912 : Admission'25cts.. ..--. Kerrs Orchestra: ‘Win.:D. Rich, President. Jack Nelson; See’y __ - -OMig DEPARTMENT. DAY CELEBRATION SUNDAY, ‘OCTOBER 20th. ... By Allen A. M..E. Sunday School At 2°30:0’clock. “The program, ‘will consist .of address: on: the - Sunday: School hy Miss Beulah Dorsey Address.in Home Depart- insnt Work; Mrs. A. R: H. Miller .. Solo by- Dr. 0.- D: Jones and others: -. Everybody welcome.. he, % “ Mr. Howard Brent, Supt. Rev: P. J. Jordan, Pastor WHAT THEY THINK OF ROOSEVELT | Rev. W...A. C. Hughes, D:.D., Chairman Executive . Committee, Maryland Auxiliary, Roosevelt Johnson Committee, Baltiznore, Md: Lam of the opinion that Theo- dore Roosevelt is ‘the greatest liv- ing American. . There is no doubt in my mind but that he will be elected, if he continues to demon- strate his intergity, honesty and uprightness “as evidenced liere a few. days ago when he appeared be- fore the Clapp'Investigating Com- mittee most of the members of which were hostile toward him. His direct enemies are forced: to concede that he is a man, of stir- ling character. Without doubt he is growing to be a favorite for the Presidential Chair among peoples of all races in this terri- tory which embraces the District of Columbia, Western and South- ren Maryland. ‘They do not. fail to state their preference, ‘as well as their purpose to.do all in their power to bring his election. A great. many office holders that would ordinarily be expected to support the Administration openly state their purpose to vote the Pro- gressive ticket: Iam happy to state that I ama believer in the Progressive platform. 1] am using my best endeavors to convince my people that it isto their interest to stand for the election of Roosevelt and Johnson, to further the inter- ests of the Progressive Party by helping to promote the pledges of asid Party. Some who have felt that it was proper to stand by the Republican Party bevause if past affiliation have been convinced that Progres- sive principles are the principles of righteousness, and their only hope for the future. | Yours for success, B.S. Will- ‘jams. Annapolis, Md. The Roosevelt Johnson Auxiliary Committee: — Yours received also the copies of the Afro-American Ledger, I shall give them out to the people. I am with you for the best man, and I believe that man_ is Colonel Roosevelt. I am willing to do anything in my power that we may win in November. . Yours troly, L. ©. Curtis. 1 am in favor of Colonel Rovse- velt for President, because the industrial and economic conditions of the country require the guidance of a tried statesman with a firm hand; because he is the only man of sufficient courage and strength to put, through a program which will insure the permanence of our free institutions and the mght of the people to rule; because the Progressive Party stands for equal suffrage and points the way for the emancipation of the colored voter. Daniel W. Shaw, pastor Centennial M. F. Chareh. If the colored voters desire a square deal and equal chance ir the race of life, and the doing away of the conditions which make it possible for the enactment of dis- criminating laws, such as the abominable disfranchisement, seg- regation and jim crowism, ‘ther vote for Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Johnson.. Rev. R. R. Riggs. a ‘A club of 72 Republicans, all ex- cept one of whom were registered, hes been found to be ardent Roose- velt men. . - : ‘The unregistered man says that he will register so that he can vote for Roosevelt. ALLEN A. M.E. CHURCH Lexingtoo and Carlton Sts. Rev.J.. J. Jordan, Pastor lia. m., Special Sermon by: Pastor, 2,30 p. m., Snnday School. 430 p- m., Allen League. 8'p. m., sermon by Pastor | At St.Paul M. E. Church, Sara toga street, near Carey, Womian’ Home Missionary Day, Sunday. October 20, 1912. 11 a. m., Special sermon. to- th women by Rev. Charles A. John- gon, of Morgan, College. 3.00 p. m., platform meeting, Mrs. Sarat B. Holmes, presiding. Addresses by Mrs, Emma J.‘Troxon, Mrs. Eliza J. Cummings, Mrs. Ida Nor- ris, Miss M. Josephine Henry and Miss Ida R. Cummings. Solo by Mrs. Helen Cooper. A paner by Mr. Wilbur Harris. Musie will be rendered by ithe Junior Singing Society of St.Paul’ M. BE. Chirch, W. H. Thomas, ‘leader. Mrs. Jo- hanna Tascoe will lead devotional exercises. Recitation Miss Ger- trade Fisher. . 8 p. m., special ser- mon by the pastor on ‘‘Missions.”” A special invitation is exterided to the presidents and their auxil- iaries of the other churches to par- ticipate with us: Mrs. Louisa Lynn, President, Mr. M. J. Camper. secretary, Rev. S. HW. Norwood, pastor. 4.30 p; m., Sermon to the Kings | Sons and Daughters of St, Pav! M. B. Church by Rev. Mrs. Ida Nelsorr, | pastor of Holy Temple accompanied iby her choir and’ congregation. ; These special efforts are in the in. | terest of the trustees semi-annual ‘rally the fourth Sunday ‘in this | month. Mrs, Elnora Myers, presi- dent, Mrs. Mamie Scott, secretary, Rey. S, H. Nurwood, pastor: BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY RESI- DENCE FOR RENT. A Sever room modern cottage, all conven: iences. Seven rooms, Bath, Toilet, Electric light. Apply to Dr. H. E. Young, 1100 Druid Hill avenue. | Rovms'for rent, with or without | board. i Apply 588 Wilson street. FOR SALE—Fine large — house on Linden avenue, up-to-date ané all conveniences. Apply 1013 Lin- _den avenue. ae | FOR RENT—An_ apartmeofot | three rooms, with water, hea | and gas. Nochildren. 1208 Argyle ; avenue. | OR SALE — bine suburbar | home, beautiful lawn and Howers, | room for garden, rich soil, henner | with wired yard. Five room house |in good repair. Piazza entire length of house, coal bin and store | house. One apple tree and a few | grape vines, nice shade, town water | ideal neighborhood, handy to two electric lines and large lot, size 64ft. front and 126 ft. deep. Prace $2,000. Apply to owner, Josept | Plummer. . 36 Bloomingdale avenue, Catons. villa, Md. FOR RENT — Furnished or un. furnished room for rent to settlec | man or woman, Apply after 7 p. A GRAND CONCERT ——BY THE—— MARRIED WOMEN of Sharp St. Mem, M. E. Church Monday evening, October 21, *12 Proceeds for the benefit of the Coronation Rally. Mr. L. E. Toomey, Director. Rev. M. J. Naylor, Pastor For Congress, 3rd District Wards 1, 2 8, 4, 5,6, 7,8 and 22 aid Precinets'9, 10, 11 ‘and 18 of the 18th. Ward, | Albert i. Sproesser, Republica \X Blection, Tuesday, Nov. 5th. Polls open 6 a. m. toSp. m. THE CHEUFFERS’ .CONVENTION AND DANCE. At Galilean Fishermen ‘Auditor- jum, Friday Even’g, Oct. 25th. Prof. Henderson Kerr's Orchestra. Admission at the door 35 Cts. Tickets bought before October 25th, 25 Cents. Albert Babbs, Pres, Robert Jasper, Manager. Mass Meetings IN THE INTEREST OF 5 ae PROGRESSIVE PARTY. Roosevelt Johnson MONDAY, OCT.:2ist—Beveriys : ' ~~ Long Green, Baltimore ‘County Boardley; Calvert.County 3, Union Baptist Church, Sparrows Point WEDNESDAY, OCT. 23rd— Cross Keys, West Roland Park Lauralay, Harford County. > ~ . THURSDAY, OCT. 24th— Faith Bapt. Church, ‘Ashland Ave.-and Dallas St. . Prince Frederick, Calvert County Aberdeen, Md. Fairfield, Anne Arundel County i Bowie, Md. 2 FRIDAY, OCT. 25th— Roosevelt-Johnson Progressive League, 1811 Mary- Jand avenue é Brentwood, Montgomery County Freetown, A. A. County Monkton : SATURDAY, OCT. 26th Chisolm Neck, Calvert County Chitrons Neck, Calvert County MONDAY, OCT. 28th t Parker’s Creek, Calvert County . TUESDAY, NOV. 1 St. Ingoes, St. Marys County WEDNESDAY, NOV. 2 Muse’s Store, St. Marys County NOV. 4+Shining Light, St. Marys County * Come out and hear the issues of the campaign discussed by Eloquent Speakers Jos. R. Baldwin, Treasurer By Request of over 300 Persons | —___—_—THE ANNUAL——-——— CHESTNUT HUNT : To Brown’s Grove On Ghfe Steamer Starlight —-+—WILL BE REPEATED—— SUN DAY, OCTOBER 20th Steamer will positively leave Miller’s Wharf 2.30 P. M. | ——ONE TRIP ONLY—— Round Tip ~ 25. Cents a i Grand: Star Concert and Reception By the Alphine Singing Society of Baltimore PROF. OSCAR JOHNSON LEADER Under the Auspices of the Lily of the Valley Court of Calanthe K, P. Galilean Fisherman Auditorium | Monday. Evening, October 28th 1912, at 8 P. M. ong 25 CENTS PROF. KERR’S ORCHESTRA Mrs. Ida Henry, Chairman Mrs: Martha Johnson, W.C. ‘Mrs. J. H. Ross, W. RB. D. : HOUSES FOR SALE on terms to suit on Druid Hill Ave,, Etting St., Divi- sion St., Argyle Ave., Myrtle Ave., Carrollton Ave., Carey St., Calhoun St., Stricker St., Mount St., and every cross street from Hoffman to Baker, Don’t buy before seeing my list. Call and see me, or tele ‘phone, or‘drop a postal. " : J. Welsh, 2024 W. Saratoga St., Telephone Giimor ' 2253. Call from 7 to9 P.M, Ly ————— — —— — ———:.)..20€«—¥QO0CC eQQNeNenN 2 Baltimore’s Leading Colored Undertakers in Prices . ; ‘4 JOHN H. OWENS @..SON : : Undertakers & Eimbalmers fh JFL Complete $73.00 FUNERALS $75:00. Complete |. Afine casket. worth $65.00, in black cloth, steel gray or white plush; highly polishes oak or walnut outside case; beautiful rubber-tired hearse, either black, gray or white, to’ match casket, as desired; five heated car- ‘riages, new and up-to-date; five burial robe, embalming, opening grave, ‘advertise funeral, six. pairs of gloves, door crepe, candles, candelabra, cru- cifix when desired, rugs, chairs ete., all of the latest designs. This funeral cost elsewher€.ssssnsasitsesnneectnensie,3136,00 é Our price.s..ssiseseecreB73.00 SAaVINg YOU...srreeess10B63.00 Other Funerals as low as $25, $35, $40,$50. Higher Grade $100, $150. $175. No charge for removal of remains from Hospitals, 5 $ Shipping Funerals, $25.00 and $50.00 Complete 7 : 1222 Division St.,bet; Dolphin andLanvale. : . Residence ‘C. & P. Phone, Madison 4067 is _ ae = : SET TAT~=\— —_—_~ POPULAR: PRICES Sy : se SS STOKES & DERRY’S é 1016 Druid Hill Avenue Corner. Oxford & ——D RUGS. PERSONALS ton,..Del., is .visiting her aun: ct 719 Pierce street. The stork visited. the home of Mr. and Mrs.. Richard R. Hicks, 625 Dolphin street, Tuesday of this week.and left a°10 pound baby hoy, The parents aré rejoicing therea:, ‘The Misses Louisa E. and Lillian D. Baker are at their home afzer having spent several months in As- bury Park,-N. J., and then spend- ing several weeks. with their aunt, Mrs. Cecelia Lester of Philadet- phia, Pa. Miss Alice W. Taylor and Miss ‘Alline M.D... Chandler’ vere seen on Howard Campus, Washingtsn, D. G., last Thursday. . They had e delightful time visiting there mzay friends. : Miss Georgia Jackson, who ‘23 béen to North Hatley, Canada, dur- ing-the summer months, was in the city-last week for a few days, visiting her sister Mrs. Jennie E. Johnson, of 409 N. Fremont ave- nue, She has. now gone to Naw York for the’ winter. Mrs. Alice Williams of 596 Ogston street has gone to New York for a week to attend the convention of the Moses. Mrs. Annie E. Hammond a? 709 George street has gone to New York §for a week to attend the convention of Moses. Mrs. Sarah Wright, of | 332 Hampson street, is home again rejoicing and {thanking the Lord after heing successfully operated on for a tumor weighing twenty pounds at the Johns Hopkins Hox pital. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Pierce. uf (Philadelphia were the guests of ie aunt Mrs. Cornelia Harris 2t 1329 Argyle, avenue on Sundey. jMrs. Pierce was formerly Nise Geraldine ,Tyree of this city. Miss Ada Simpson, of 1629 W, Lexington street, who was brought from Bellevue, Md., a month ago |vy Dr. Wilson,to Maryland General i Hospital, is much improved. Miss ‘Simpson is.still quite sick but it is {hoped that she will be well énough to be brought home ina week's time. Mr. James W. Butler and Miss | Bessie E. Burvell were married at ¥808 Eagle street Wednesday, Cct. 16, at 8 p.m.’ Rev. Jacob,Green performed the ceremony. _ Five handred persons attended |the Leaders’ concert: last Mondzy |night at Ebenezer A. M. E. }Church. . 1 —_— Gresham & Gresham character artists and Happy-Go lucky-Simpson a “Big Time Comedian.’” At Daly’s theatre this week. The ex- jhibition of feature pictures com- bined with the excellent vaudeville | features packed the house nightiy. Prof. Verona, World’s Greatest Business and Trance Medium. Greatest Born Meows Makss NO CHARGE if the object of your visit is not ex- plained: without deking a question. Can be seen on all matters of business love, courtship, marraige, investments, etc. By my advice I remove evil influence ‘witchoraft, spells, cure diseases and unite the bepareted, , never fail. "Pr algo teach hypnotism and how to be= jcome a medium. No matter wha’ your troubles:are or what you wish te Enow, this Gifted person can positive: jy help you......if you are hundreds of miles ‘away. A word to the wise is suf- cient. | Are you sick? 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