The Afro-American

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN LEDGER VOL. XXI NO. 34 Mormons have Stuck Close to the Soil And Have Profited DESERT TURNED INTO A BLOOMING GARDEN Colored and White Mormons Open Doors To Wizard Salt Lake City, March 28.—For a long while I have been anxious to get right into the midst of the Mormons to see what kind of people they are, what they look like, what they are doing and in what respect they are succeeding. I have been spending two of the busiest days that I have ever spent in my life in the very midst of these people. They have been mighty interesting days and I have seen some mighty interesting people. The leaders of the Mormon church from President Smith down have gone out of their way to show me kindnesses and to make my trip here successful. I am not going to discuss the Mormon religion as I am not a theologian; I shall have to leave that to others. I am always interested in studying and observing people regardless of their religion. One of the Mormon bishops called to see me, and from him I got some mighty interesting information that ought to prove of value to our race. In speaking of the Mormons, my readers must remember that it was only 66 years ago, that, led by Brigham Young, 150 people came into this country when it was a wilderness. They traveled in ox carts over a thousand miles from the Missouri River. The Mormon church itself was organized in New York state only 84 year ago. From 150 people, hardy pioneers who entered Utah 66 years ago the number has grown year by year until in Utah there are now over three hundred thousand Mormons, and they have certainly made the desert blossom as a rose. I have never been among a more intelligent, healthy, clean, progressive, moral set of people than these people are. All through Utah they have turned the desert into gardens and orchards. Wherever one finds a Mormon colony there he finds evidence of hard work and wealth. The Mormon leaders here told me in detail about the policy that they pursued when they first came here, and here is a great lesson for our people in the South and throughout this country. From the first the Mormons consistently and persistently pursued the policy of having their people get hold of land, to settle on the soil and become farmers. They knew that of they once got possession of the soil and taught their people how to become successful farmers that they would be laying the foundation so secure that they could not be disturbed. Several of the leaders told me that when they first came into this country that there was a great temptation to exploit the gold, silver and cooper mines, but they would not let their people do this out held them to the soil. It is only within the last few year that the Mormons have begun to get wealth out of the mineral resources of the country notwithstanding they have known all along that this wealth existed. Now that they are in possession of the soil and have taught their people Venerable Prelate of the A.M.E. Church Had Been Ill For HONORED MANY TIMES BY HIS CHURCH. Flushing, N. Y., April 17.—Bishop William Benjamin Derrick, twenty-third bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, died at his home. Bishop's Court, Tuesday morning at 10:15 o'clock. He had been in ill health for the past year, but his illness did not reach an alarming stage until two months ago. Several weeks ago Dr. Daniel H. Williams, the noted surgeon, of Chicago, was cailed into consultation and it was then found out that the prelate's death was only a question of days. He is the second bishop of his church to die within a month. Bishop M. E. Salter being the other. The deceased was born at Antigua, West Indies, July 27, 1843. When very young, he attended a private school in his native town. He also attended a school conducted by Moravans for eight years, and in 1856, entered a private high school, where he remained for three years. He then began to learn blacksmithing but he finally prevailed upon his parents to allow him to go to sea. He arrived at Sandy Hook, New York City, May 20, 1860, after a 14-day voyage. An Irish sailor who called him 'nigger' received a severe pummeling from the future bishop. He made several trips along the New England coast and on one he fractured his leg in two places. Later he enlisted as a sailor on the flag ship Minnesota, of the North Atlantic Squadron. Among the many scenes of carnage that he witnessed was the terrific battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac, as well as the fall of Fort Sumter. After serving his enlistment of three years he wooed Miss Mary E. White, of Norfolk, Va., and married her. He joined church in the West Indie in 1854, and connected himself with Union Bethel A. M. E. Church, Washington, in 1864, having previously prepared himself for Episopal orders at Lady Micho Institute, St. John's. He was licensed to preach the same year. The late Bishop Daniel A. Payne appointed him pastor of Mt. Pisgah Mission, Washington, where he labored as pastor and teacher for one year. He was ordained and elder by the late Bishop J. P. Campbell at the session of the Virginia Conference, at Portsmouth, in 1867 He filled several appointments as the Virginia Conference, and win later transferred to the New York Conference. He was a fluent and interesting speaker and his sermons, especially pastor of the old Sullivan Street Church, New York City, attracted wide notice. He was also presiding elder in that conference. Shortly after the General Conference in 1888 when Dr. J.M. Towsend was appointed to the Land Office in Washington, the Boar of Bishops appointed Dr. Derrick to fill out the un-expired term of Missionary secretary In1892 he was elected to fill the office and held it, until elected Bishop in 1896 His first work as bishop was over Mississippi and Arkansas, where he made many friends, and reorganized Centedium on Page 4. The Proposed Remodeled Provident Hospital ```markdown ``` The contemplated improvements include a handsome new front, rearrangement of rooms and stairways and the addition of a number of other things that will make the institution a model of its kind. The plaus were drawn by John.C.Freund. N A. A. C. P. to Meet Philadelphia, April 17.—Preparations are practically complete for the fifth annual conference of the National Association for the Improvement of Colored People, which is scheduled to begin in this city next Wednesday evening. The conference will continue until next Friday night, when a large mass meeting will be held in Wither-spoon Hall, at which addresses will be made by U. S. S. Senator Moses E. Clapp, of Minnesota, and Justice Wendell Phillips Stafford, of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. The opening session will be held in Temple Keneseth-Israel, Moorfield Storey, president of the association presiding. Mayor Blankenburg will welcome the delegates and addresses will be made by Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, Oswald Garrison Villard, and Dr. W. E. DuBois, editor of the Crisis. Public Places Must Not Discriminate New York, April 17.—Leading men and women of the race here are praising Assemblymen Levy for his winning fight to have the civil rights law strengthened and Governor Suzler for signing the amended measure. Both gentlemen are Democrats, and have long been champions of equal rights for all. There have been a number of court actions against proprietors of theaters and other public places who refuse to serve colored patrons. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People made a quiet campaign against places that refused to accommodate colored patrons, and several conviction resulted. The amended civil rights bill carries stringent provisions against discrimination on account of race. On Thursday morning in the Central Congregational Church Rev. Dr. Sydney Herbert Cox presiding, "The Struggle for Land and Property" will be discussed by the following speakers: President John Hope of the Atlanta Baptist college. W. Ashbie Hawkins, of Baltimore; John Mitchell, Jr., editor of The Richmond Planet, and president of the Mechanics Bank of Richmond; and Dr. N. F. Mossell, superintendent of the Douglass Memorial Hospital of this city. The afternoon session will be held in the Friends' Meeting House, Fifteenth and Race streets, Bishop James S. Caldwell presiding. "The Problem of Work and Wages" will be the topic for Prof. Kelly Miller of Howard University. Dr. Dubois and Henry Wilbur, of this city. New York, April 17--Leading men and women of the race here are praising Assemblymen Levy for his winning fight to have the civil rights law strengthened and Governor Sulzer for signing the amended measure. Both gentlemen are Democrats, and have long been champions of equal rights for all. There have been a number of court actions against proprietors of theaters and other public places who refuse to serve colored patrons The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People made a quiet campaign against places that refused to accommodate colored patrons, and several conviction resulted. The amended civil rights bill carries stringent provisions against discrimination on account of race, creed or color politics in place of public resort. Any owner, lessee, proprietor, manager, agent or employee of a place of public accommodation, resort or amusement liable to punishment or refusal to accommodate persons on account of their creed or race. Rev. D. G. Hill, who is winding up his fifth and last year as pastor of Bethel A. M. E. Church, was tendered a farewell reception Friday night. A number of addresses were delivered extolling his work, after which a substantial purse was presented him. Among the achievements of his regime was the securing of the handsoune property now occupied by the congregation. HOW NEGROES STRIVE FOR EDUCATION Richmond, Va., April 18.—Problems concerning the education of both races, both in rural and urban communities, were discussed here at Conference for education in the South this week. The eagerness of Negroes for education and their willingness to cooperate with the white people in any effort to better the condition of their race were well expressed when Miss Virgina Randolph, supervisor of Negro schools in Henrico county, told a large audience of educators in the Young Men's Christian Association assembly, half. Tuesday how she worked to build up a school for the colored children of her county. She believed that as much industrial training as possible should be given them, she said, and so, lacking other facilities she set them to cutivating the "red clay hill," where the school stands. The soil was so poor that earth had to be brought from a distance; but the pupils persevered, and in time, with the help of contributions from the whites, they had a lawn, and later, trees and a hedge, all of which were planted and tended by the children. Miss Randolph's school was such a model in every way that she was made county supervisor. Jackson Davis, superintendent of schools in Henrico County, told of the efforts which the colored people are making everywhere to have better schools. The great difficulty, he says, is to obtain efficient teachers, as the compensation is very small and the employment for only a few months in the year. Commissioner of Education Claxton outlined a plan for rural schools both white and colored, which, he said, he believed would solve the rural educational problem. He recommended that the county buy tracts of land, of from twenty to forty acres, upon which the school building be established, and also a home for the teacher as in Swiss cantons. The teacher would receive a salary and also the income from the land, which he would be required to cultivate as a model and scientific farm. Thus the children would be taught agriculture in an adequate and practical manner, and the newest methods could be obtained from the county demonstration agents and other State officials. The school would be in a manner self-supporting. While the increment in the vale of the land would make the original purchase a good investment. He pointed out that better teachers are needed for rural schools than or city schools; because while the city teacher is but a cog in an efficient machine, the country teacher is the whole machine. The need for the industrial element in Negro education was brought out by several speakers, it being the concensus of opinion that the progress made in academic work was almost in proportion to the amount of industrial work given. The industrial work, gives a practical, interest, and application, which is necessary to hold the attention of the Nergo child. Toward the General Needs of the African Methodist Episcopal Church PROMINENT CHURCHMEN PRESENT (Staff Correspondence.) Washington, April 17.—The African Methodist Episcopal Church raised to ward general church needs $206,910.17 during the fiscal year ended March 31, according to the first annual report submitted by Prof. Jonhn R. Hawkins at the annual meeting of the financial board of the denomination, held here yesterday For detail and general array of facts the report made by Secretary Hawkins is considered to have been one of the best ever rendered. He was warmly commended by the members of the board for the business like system with which the affairs of his office are managed. The money received by the financial board is known as "dollar money" each member of a church being obligated to give $1.00 annually toward the general needs of the denomination. It does not include the thousands of dollars raised on Easter Day, Educational Day, for special missions, church extension and for the expenses incident to the running of each church of the denomination. Bishop H. B. Parks, who presided, made a brief address in calling the meeting to order. Following the election of Rev. R. W. Mance as recording secretary and Rev. W. T. Strong as vice chairman, the following committees were announced: Resolutions: —Revs. Allen, Singleton, Thornton, Townsend. Appropriation: —Revs. Anderson, Murray, West, Starks, Gilmere. Auditing: —Revs. Gilmere, Strong, Murray, Ransom, Mance. The amounts raised by each episcopal district follows: First, $14,252,69; second, $16,465; third, $6,899; fourth, $13,184.29; fifth, $14,550.20; sixth, $30,744.7; seventh, $138,556.20; eighth, $15, 799.56; ninth, $24,521.50; tenth, $12,563.83; eleventh, $17,360.19; twelfth, $15,064.63; thirteenth, $405; fourteenth, $4,910; and fifteenth, $1709.71. Of that money raised during the year, eight per cent $16,552.81, was turned over to the missionary department to aid it in its work. the same sum given to both the educational and church extension departments; 36 per cent, $74,487.66, retained by annual conferences for the aiding of superannuated ministers, widows and orphans and the remaining 40 per cent $82,-764.81 used for the payment of the salaries of the bishops and general officers and for other denominational needs. A generous sum was also given to the flood sufferers. Bishop Parks an other members of the board paid tributes to Bishop W. B. Derrick; who died Tuesday. Among the visitors introduced were Rev. A. L. Gaines, pastor of Trinity A. M. E. Church, Baltimore; Rev J. T. Jenifer, historian of the denomination; W. T. Vernon, president of Campbell College Charles Stewart, the well known newspaper correspondent; J. C. Napier, register of the treasury; Lewia E. Johnston, general secretary of Continued on page 4 Vivid Account of the Constructive Work Which the Mississippi Agricultural College Is Doing Among the Masses In Oktibbeha County, Friendly Relations Exist. Starkville, Miss.-In the northeastern part of Mississippi is located Oktibbeha county. According to the census of 1910 there were 19,676 people in the county. Of this number 12,675, or 66 per cent, were colored as against a little over 7,000 whites. Few white people live in the rural districts. They make up the majority of the population of the villages and large towns. Political offices, the professions, mercantile enterprises and the like furnish the most profitable kinds of employment for the majority of them. The vast majority of the colored people are farmers. For a great many years they used old and crude methods. This was due to a low degree of intelligence, and, like all illiterate people, they did not possess the necessary insight for initiative along new and progressive lines. Imitation rather than thought was at the basis or their farm methods, and the model was a heritage of antebellum days. How Shallow Plowing Hinders Growth. Aside from the evil effects of shallow plowing, there was left at the bottom in the middle of the seed bed a hard, unbroken strip of soil. This worked evil to the growing plant at the time when it needed loose, pulveterized ground in which to perfect its fruitage. This was especially true in the case of drought. These evils, coupled with that of planting the same crop on the same plot of ground year after year, made the soil very unproductive. Twenty-one years later, in 1912, many and conspicuous were the changes which had taken place. A new generation had grown up. This new generation was better dressed, somewhat better housed, better fed and possessed a higher degree of intelligence, as evidenced by facial expression and deportment, than that of twenty-one years ago. The change was even more marked, however, in their farm conditions. Many of the old hillsides which had formerly grown a stalk of cotton with only three or four bolls were covered with a rank growth of cotton. Large ears of corn were hanging from strong, healthy cornstalks. Influence of a Mississippi School. The Mississippi Agricultural college, at Starkville, was the cause of this upward trend. The college employs a number of colored men to work on the college farm. Working as they must under the direction of a trained agriculturist, these men learn through doing many vital principles of effective farming. They eventually start up farms of their own and thus carry with them the experience gained under trained teachers. Their success in the community where they live becomes an object lesson to the neighbors around. Many progressive colored persons have learned from this college the value and the method of raising their own work animals, cows and hogs. One farmer makes a specialty of raising fast horses, blooded cattle and a fine breed of hogs. He ships Poland China pigs to all parts of the south at a handsome price. His horses bring higher prices than most others in the county. He also raises and sells in small quantities and by the carlond alfalfa and Johnson hay grass and fine varieties of seed corn. A college for white boys has inspired and positively helped this country. A spirit of sympathy and good will has shown itself in conduct. Who can foretell the good that would result from similar efforts by the majority of the southern colleges for white boys? Let us hope that this will come about through the recent beginning of the social study of the colored race by two of our greatest southern universities and through the zeolous efforts of men like Dr. Weatherford to awaken the consciousness of the southern white students to the needs of the colored people. This would hasten the moral, social, economic and physical regeneration of the masses to the advantage of both races. Virginia Union University Prospars. Virginia Union university, Richmond, Va., widely known as one of the best institutions south for academic and theological training, is rounding out a most successful school year. The summer school will begin June 18 and continue through July. State examinations will be held from July 30 to Aug. WORK OF NATIONAL LEAGUE. Provides For Two Classes of Social Service Executives. In order to enable promising candidates, who wish to make social service a life work, to secure good training and practical experience for such work, the National League on Urban Conditions Among Colored People has made provision for two classes of fellowships-first, for executive supervision, and, second, for training in institutional management. These fellowships are open to those who have made a definite declaration to engage in social work of some form approved by the executive board of the league. Such workers include secretaries of industrial betterment organizations, recreation and playground supervisors, superintendents and managers of orphan asylums, day nurseries, probation secretaries and executives in similar lines of social betterment. Candidates are limited to those who have been graduated from a college of standing or have had an equivalent. The fellows get their study and experience in New York city, studying at the New York School of Philanthropy with privileges of some courses at Columbia university and engaging in practical social service activities under the auspices of the National league and in connection with the several agencies of the city. The fellowships in executive supervision afford a cash stipend sufficient to cover for a period of ten months the necessary living expenses in New York city. Tuition is made as a loan. The fellowships in institutional management have been in co-operation with the New York Colored Orphan asylum, where the fellow resides and in which he spends that part of his time given to practical experience. The course of training at the asylum is so arranged that he gets practical experience in the management of all parts of the institution, from the kitchen and laundry to the office and in the receiving and placing out of children. These fellowships furnish tuition, one-half of which is made as a loan without interest or time limit, and one-half outright, with sufficient cash to pay car, fares incident to study and work. For applications and further conditions of the fellowships those interested should write at once to Dr. George E. Haynes, National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, 281 Fourth avenue, New York city. LITERARY EFFORTS OF MINISTER AND AUTHOR Rev. W. N. Holt Completes New Volume of Religious Songs. The Rev. William N. Holt, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church at Rockville, Md., has completed a small volume containing hymns for use in churches and Sunday schools. It is a compilation of compositions made by the author, along with other hallelujah songs. Mr. Holt has also in preparation a book on the jubilee songs of the race, [Image of a man in a suit and tie]. REV. WILLIAM N. HOLT, which he will publish as a feature for the fiftieth anniversary of the freedom of the race. The Rev. Holt is a believer in race ideals and says the aspirations and achievements of a people should be kept constantly in mind. "The colored people have a rich heritage in their own music," says the Rev. Holt. "In fact, along this and other lines many members of the race have too little conception of what the race has done and is doing. All of our ideas seem to be centered in other races and their works. The best way, to my mind, to arouse race pride is to show results. "Most all the music used in our churches was written by another race, and the ideals are all of that race. There is no more reason why the musical compositions of our race should not be the chief music of our churches than that our pastors should be white men, as many have been. Race pride may best be cultivated by cherishing that which is distinctly race productions, whether in song, story or history. The Rev. Mr. Holt is a native of Calvert county, Md. He was educated at Zion academy, Anne Arndel county, Md., and Morgan college. Baltimore. He is now pursuing a course of study at Howard university in Washington. He has been a member of the Washington Methodist Episcopal conference for the past ten years and at one time pastored in Baltimore. THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER WORTHY EFFORT TOWARD PEACE Author of Important Document Dealing With Phases of Progress in Race Adjustment Tells Thrilling Story of Personal Struggles For Human Uplift Founded Upon Justice. Dr. Samuel C. Mitchell, president of the University of South Carolina, in "The Phases of Progress Toward Pence," published by the Maryland Peace society, makes some interesting statements concerning racial adjustment. Dr. Mitchell makes use of the following Biblical incident to illustrate his meaning: "When the disciples came upon the man born blind they, in a speculative mood, asked, 'Who did sin, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?'—a question typical of the view we once took of the presence of the African in America. "Who did sin—the slave catcher, the slave trader, the planter, the abolitionist or the fire eater—who did sin? How contrary to the disciples' was Jesus' attitude of practical helpfulness toward the blind man! 'Neither did this man sin nor his parents, but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.' "The south is coming to embrace the view that the African is, not the Achilles' heel of American destiny and that his presence here is not an accident, but an integral part of the purpose of God in bringing that race to share in the common inheritance of mankind. If so, the south today in its heroic struggle is tugging at a task of world significance. "This view strings with energy the arm of every man who is striving for a nobler social order here, founded upon justice and the spirit of mutual helpfulness. "There is no doubt as to the crucial nature of this struggle. On St. Helena's island, in South Carolina; there are 6,600 colored and fifty white people. "I can point you to a single county in Mississippi which I have known from boyhood where there are 45,000 colored and 5,000 white people. And more, those 5,000 white people are congregated chiefly at the county seat. In some of the outlying country districts there are only five white men to ninety-five colored. Does any one hold a harder post of duty in Christendom than these few white people, blood of my blood and bone of my bone, who have to officer the labor, to man schools and churches, to carry on government, to project social ideals, to furnish initiative in civilization, and to conserve the gains which it has cost millionnials of human effort to achieve, and which we Anglo-Saxons have inherited? "If the attempt to enable two peoples so unlike in color and character as the Anglo-Saxon and the African to live together on the same soil in the spirit of mutual helpfulness, proves to be the means of developing in both races such moral qualities as forbearance, faith in one's fellows, however lowly, the sense of human brotherhood and steadfast loyalty to justice, even in the case of the weakest, and an uncomparable faith in the capacity of men to grow under the influence of light, social order, and right ideals, the effort is worth all its costs." INFLUENCE OF THE PRESS. How Papers Published by Afro-Americans Are Reaching the Masses. In reference to the good results obtained by those who advertise in periodicals published by Afro-Americans it is worthy of note that the papers and magazines published by members of the race have maintained their integrity in spite of the wild clamor of race prejudice. They are developing a unique field of exclusiveness in that they are reaching the homes of our people in business and in the professions and uplifting the masses in the rural districts all over the country. It is estimated that fully 220,000 of our people are engaged in the various professions and trades which require training and skill. Over 97,000 are conducting commercial enterprises requiring large capital, and upward of a million farmers live in prosperous rural districts. The weekly race publications reach all of these people, who, during their leisure moments, read thoroughly the delights of the race in every walk of life: hence advertising in papers published by the race is profitable. Special Conference on Rural Schools. Leslie Pucknack Hill, principal of the Manusia (Va.) Industrial school, made the opening address at the conference on rural industrial schools, held at 26 Vesey street, New York, on Wednesday, April 16. The conference on Thursday took up the general problems which confront rural schools. Among the speakers were Dr. W. E. B. Du Bols, Dr. J. H. Dillard, J. H. Higson, C. E. Mitchell, W. T. B. Williams, R. C. Bruce, Dr. John Hope, Miss Emma Williams, Dr. Thomas J. Jones and their prominent educators. EDUCATOR AND BUSINESS MAN Career of a Virginian In Lone Star State. POPULAR WITH YOUNG FOLKS High Honor Conferred Upon Professor Wade C. Rollins by School Board at Prairie View State Normal and Industrial College—Bank Cashier and Devoted Churchman. Prairie View, Tex.—Texas is full of opportunities for the young colored men, and they are taking hold of them, and one by one, step by step, they are going to the front and are making good use of them. From the institutions of Texas some able men and women have graduated, and the state is recognizing the ability of its boys and girls by pushing them to the front. Foremost in this is the Prairie View State Normal and Industrial college in this town. Among the prominent men turned out and filling a prominent place right in the institution is Professor Wade C. Rollins, who is an example of the possibilities of the young men of today. Professor Rollins was born in Richmond, Va., but has spent most of his life in Texas. He attended the public schools of Galveston, where he got the foundation on which he has erected his manhood. With a good foundation and well prepared he entered the schoolroom as a teacher. He taught for five years in the public schools of Texas and then was elected to a position in Prairie View, where he remained for five years. In this position his ability was recognized by the members of the board, so that when it was decided to appoint a member of the race to the position of treasurer of the college to represent the state Professor Rollins was selected. During the past five years in his present position Professor Rollins has given entire satisfaction, and he is from time to time offered other impor- PETER H. BURKE PROFESSOR W. G. BOLLINS. tant positions. He is connected with many enterprises for the advancement of his race. He is one of the directors of the Farmers' Improvement bank, located at Waco. He is the cushier of the College Bank and Trust company, Prairie View, handling large sums of money for the community, students and teachers. In this connection he is also agent for the Weils Fargo Express company and is one of the few members of the race holding such position of trust. He is devoted to his church and is a lay reader in St. Augustine Episcopal church, Galveston, Tex. He is also connected with the Old Fellows and Masons of the state of Texas, and is a life member of the Texas Negro Business league, also a life member of the National Negro Business league. Among the young people of the state Professor Rollin is a favorite. He believes in the possibility of his race, and is constantly doing something to encourage the young men and women. No man has ever appealed to him for help while trying to get an education and was turned away unaided. Surrounded by his wife and five children, when he is not on duty he speaks his time at home. He shows what a man with ambition, industry, honesty and reliability can do in this section of the country, and that a man who has push and ambition is likely to win success. Press Association's Annual Meeting Plans thus far outlined by the executive committee of the National Negro Press association contemplate holding the first session of the annual meeting at the Hotel Dale, Cape May, N. J. on Monday afternoon, Aug. 13. Two sessions will be held in Philadelphia on the 19th, the day before the convening of the fourteenth annual gathering of the National Negro Business league. The Press association has increased its membership to eighty-one. Editors are joining the organization from all sections of the country, and the outlook is bright for increasing the membership to at least 100 within a very short time. Expert Embalming, Courteous Attendants, Shipping Funerals Specialty. Rubber Tire Carriages for hire for all occasions. ...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. 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Hill Street and $26 Druid Hill Ave. trons of the late Funeral Director and Embalmer THE STATE OR MARYLAND a tend Here And There By Our Special Correspondents {special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Crisfield, Md., April 17. -Rev. 6S. Spriggs and wife has returned from conference. Mrs. J. R. Pennick und-daughter, siiss Estella Critchett’ has returned from Philadelphia: where they at- tended the Delaware conference. Mrs. Carrie L. Brown has re- turned from Philadelphia where she spent the week: Mr. Henry Caulbourn, our «bar- hor ig out again after a short ill- ness. . Mr. Isaac H. Ward was ablé te attend church Sunday after a: spell af sickness. Mrs. Edna M. Wicks is very sick at her home on Locust street. Mrs. Maria Sterling of Hopewell js very sick and has been for some- time. Mrs. C E. Hern has returned home from Philadelphia where she pas been visiting her sister, Mrs. James S. Waters. For fancy groceries call to see our friend, Mr. C. 'T. Wicks and for aquick luneh call to see Mrs, George Hudgins and for a cheay and eacly breakfast call to see Mrs. Thoma: Stevenson, North dth street Captain George Tyler. left on the noon train Saturday for Beaver Dam. Miss Louisa James is very sich under the care of Dr. R W. J. Bar. ley. . Mrs, Sarah Wilson has returnec home from Massey, Va., where she has been for the past‘winter. Dr. R. W. J. Barkley was call te Princess Anne Friday to attend patient. Rev. J. S. Collins, pastor of the A.M. E. Church at Pocomoke wa: in town a few days the past week, Cumberland Notes. {Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Cumberland, Md., April 17—Rev. J. W, Waters, of MeKendre M, E. Church, who has been attending conference in Baltimore has re- rned for another year. . Miss Clara Myers. who has been spending the winter “in Atlantic Gity, has returned: home. Mrs, Mary E.' Williams, wife of Theodore Williams on Davidson street died ‘Thursday and was buried Sunday. She leaves a husband and three children. dirs, Irene Matthews is visiting her parents in Petersburg. W. Va. Mr. William Russell who has been vey ill at the residence of Mrs. Frances Bromery is much improved. Messrs, William Hollingsworth, George $. Douglass, Charles Miteh- ell, Charles Denson and. Ulysses R. Bromery were initiated into the Star of the West Masonic Lodge last week. . Mr, Ray Biggs wife of Aaron Biggs, 29 years old, ‘died Friday evening at her home in Ridgely, W. Va., and was buried Sunday morning. Mrs.Hattie Cooper was taken tc the Western Maryland Hospital very sick last Saturday. Mrs. Nan Washington is in ths sity visiting Mrs. Rosie Davis: Mr. Prank Marshall, of Berlin, Pa,, is visiting in the city. Fort Cumberand Lodge, No. 17¢ B.P.0. E, of W. donated $6.5¢ toward the flood sufferers. P Mr, Aaron Taylor, of Baltimore, was in the city to attend the funer: alof his sister, Mrs. Mary Wil Hams. - Leona, the seven year old daugh ier of Mys, Mary Cooper is serious ly ill with typhoid fever and pneu monia, Snow Hill Items. (Speciat to The Afro-American Ledger.) Snow Hill, Md. April 17.—Mrs. Alice Cottingham has returned from Philadelphia‘where she has deen visiting her children. The Lively Hood Club gave ‘a con- cert at the Odd Fellows’ hall Wed- nesday night. . Quite a large number of our peo- ple who attended the Delaware con- ference have a!| returned home: i Mr.Gordon Robins is on the sick list. Mrs. GeorigaWilson and daugk- ter, Miss Ola Wilson returned from a two weeks’ visit’at Pocomoke City. The Superintendent, Dr. C.. W. Pullstt, preached an able'sermon al the I.E. Church Sunday night: Mrs. Laveaia Jewett has return. ed home after being absent about two weeks, pac pes © Miss Henrietta Boyer has return: -ed from Philadephia. where he ‘ha been visiting friends: 02. so F | Cambridge Happenings» “(Special to The Afro-American’ Ledger.” Cambridge, Md. April 17.—Miss Beatrice Waters of Boston,’ Mass., is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Durham Clash. Mrs. Treacy E: Brown, who has beenv visiting her aunt, Mrs. Mary Green has retirned to her home in New York. e Mrs. Lulu Matthwes has.returned home after: having een called away. by the death of her sister in Phil- adepltria. :. Mrs. E: J. Jolley, mother of Dr. Jolley, is vistiing friends in Newark and Phladeplhia. Miss Olive Carney, . of “Philadel- phia, has returned. to her home, after a six weeks stay here the guest of her cousin, Dr. Jolley. : Owings Mills Briefs (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Owings Mills,Md,, Rev. Dr. Tur- peau, of Baltimore spoke at Mt. Pleasant Church in the interest of the temperance cause last Sunday. Miss, Florence Downs and Mr. Benjamin Harris, of Baltimore were the guests of Misses Leana and Min- nie Clark on Sunday. . The concert given at Odd Fellows Hall on Monday by a ‘committee of young people was a decided success. A Successful Raily Berkley, Md., April 17.—A suc- cessful rally has just ended at. Ho- sanna A. M: E. Church, The year has been: a successful one and the return of the pastor, Rev. P. O. Boundick, has been asked. Lissa The Quick and the Dead, The contention that even more depends on the man than on the lo- cation and surrounding circum: stances is well borne out by the fol- lowing story related by one of the better traveling men of the coun- try who recently visited the parlors of the Cut Rate Optical Company, 209 North Eutawstreet. He writes: “‘] recently spent an hour in the ‘establishment of the Cut Rate Opti- cal company, Baltimore. The place ison the ground floor in a good Nocation, though not in [the shop- ping district, proper. A great baad people go by there, however, on their way to market, or the big department stores on Lexington street, The optometry business is not: an easy one to push as .we.all know, and yet during the-hour in question, a dozen dropped into the place and it had the appearance of having callers in it the greater part of the day. : “About all of the other optome- trists in Baltimore were pessimis- tic. ‘Yes,’ they agreed, ‘trade is slow, business is bad and getting worse, but what can we do?” “she Cut Rate Optical.Co., hurts worse thanany other competition. “Tasked Samuel Berman, the owner of the Cut Rate Optical Company, bow business wes, and he said: “Pine; I have all of the work { can attend to, and am keeping Dr.§ Schwartz my assistant, ‘busy all of the time. 1 fitted 385 pairs of glasses in March, and it looks as if’ April and May would aggre- gate 1000 pairs: No, the other optometrists. and the department stores don’t hurt me any. As a matter of fact Iam: getting: busi- ness away from both of them. All I ask is to have them get the fig- ures anywhere else, and then come to me. My past customers know that it is cheaper to buy of me than of any other optometrist, whether an examination develops that they need $1,00 or $10 glass- es, and also that they have a chance for a come back if they are not sat- isfied with:my work, Heve ‘sold a $1, a $4 ana two $7 pairs.since you have been in here. Yes, . trade gis pretty good in this lively old town of Baltimore. “This live optometrist believe in advertising. He uses liberal space in the Afro-American’ Ledger and gets desired’ results, in the well read weekly edition. He has out sandwich men, and does consider- able other advertising besides. He reads the trade papersiand beloags to a bunch of organizations. “He is a live wire in many ways, and if he only had. a’ trompet he could play the part of the Angel Gabriel to, perfection, He is doing sbusi- ness all of the. time,. and then some. - ‘There are* live optometrists is dead cities, dead optometrists ix live cities,and live optometrists ir live cities ."When you. strike. one of the latter you will always finc a combination. which isa hummer. > Mrs. Shermnn Buried): Savannah, Ga., April’ 17.—The funeral of Miss Virginia Sherman, who died Jast Saturday. after a two ‘week illness, was held here yester- day’. She was ‘the: daughter of Rev. W.'P. Sherman,“editor ‘ofthe Sa- ‘vannah Inaependent.. ? } my : WMDNIGHT'S MUSINGS 20.782 La?) — as “EDUCATION. The Colonel Makes aLong Jamp __ Instruction given in Hair . -From Jacksonville to page Maes ane ~. Norfolk. Braids, Puffs, ete. Cor ~ Norfolk, Va.—It is a long stretch of country from Jacksonville, Fla., to this place, but I have made it, and have made it all in a week and did not have to walk any of the way but Iam just here, and will be ‘in Washington D. C., before you can read this letter, and will also be in Baltimore. Well, if you will recall I was in Jacksonville, when I took my pen in hand to write to you last week, an‘ was the guest of ‘Prof. N. W. Coliler and as the letter sent to you from-there was net published, last week, Im going to make this one very short so beth can go in this week... lam now headed for the National Baptist Sunday School Congress which promises to. be the best in its history, and Ido not mind telling you about it, because of the amount of ‘work which has been done and which they are still doing. All of this is for the uplift of my people, and 1 desire right jhere to express my thanks to Mr. Henry Allen Boyd. the secretary, who has been'so kind as to send meal] those letters about it -and invite me to be present. I” am going to be there if 1 have tc walk, I spent’all the time that was pos- sible sor one man to spend in Jack- sonville, and then bright and early Monday morning, 1 went by Rev. J- &, Ford, and he had me a whole chicken fixed up. in great style and I certainly did do some eating of its L enjoyed that whole chicken which was furnished me to, use between Jacksonvile and Denmark, S. C. I passed through Savannah, Ga., talked with some friends there and then on to Denmark, where 1 was met ai the stable and toted out to Voorhes Normal and Industrial College, had a few things to say to the students and then pulled out to Camden, S.C., where I spent the night with Rev. J. gW. Boylin, then on to the city of Raleigh, N. C., wheré 1 met Prof. G. A. Edwards, of Shaw Univers- ity, and had ¢ long talk with him. He is one of the men of my race who is doing something to help up the boys and girls of the race, and he was.as busy as.could be. He had been'getting ‘straight “some little kinks with a doctor, druggist and lawyer and. from him he has learn- ed some lessons that will last him until he reaches the, other world and if there is such.thing as medi- tating over there he will do some of it. Prof, Edwards nas been connect- ed with Shaw for a number of years. I met Mrs. Fisher, the wife of Dr. Fisher, and I (Shall have something to tell you about her and others when I return, Also about the wife of Prof. Edwards, and Shaw University, 1 am guing to be there sometime goon. 1 am glad to say to the readers that Iam get- ting better, but my doctor thinks that I should: not return right back into the South. He says that 1 have some malaria in my system which must come out. This may keep me from doing some things that I wanted to do. 1 wes going back to spend a little time with Bishop Connor in a meet- ing in Jackson, and also with Prof. |W. 'T. Vernon. I wrote Prof. Ver- nona letter from Kansas, but he did not.answer it. I suppose it_ is because he was too busy. From: Raeligh I went to Edenton, thence to Elizabeth City and from there.to this place. 1 shall tell you all about these things in my next letter. I atn not saying much be- cause 1 want to. save all for next |week, Iam going to tell you about L. W. Bright and his new wife. He'is married now and do- | ing well. On April 8th a decree was signed by’ Judge Gorter in Cirevit Court No. 2, granting Mary E. Carroll of 8105 Etting street an absolute divoree from Charles C. Carroll. “Tt was reported about two years ago'that the husband bad obtained a divorce from the wife, but on in- vestigation the report was found to be fals®, and Mrs. Carroll . makes this announcement in order,to place herself in a ;true light before: the public. : , Harry.B. Wolf, Esg., was: the attorney in the case. ‘Adv. . , Appointed Secretary Kansas City, Mo., April 18:— Mrs, Lydia Smith has beenfappoint- ed secretary of the Colored .Y. W. CA. She has been deeply-interest- ed in this kind of work for: years. ~ For a number of’ years she was.a correspondent forthe “Brooklyn NEY.) Bagios = Fae "" M, TREGOR& SONS: 9” . Superior. Hair Dressing - sPRINCESS COMB. AND HEATER.:... 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PARRISH, 95 Camden St.,Boston,Mass. ‘. Phone 888 R Tremont. ‘Mention this paper when writing, | MRS. MARY S. MILLER | Dressmaking. - 525 McMechen Street. ' a tne | BEAUTY PARLOR ‘£2 MRS. HELEN ASH-JOHNSON & Hair Culture, Massaging, Straightening Manicuring, Dyeing. 7 4817:N. CAREY STREET Office Hours: 8 A. M. to 7 P.M.” Phone: Madison 3551 M. , _ Other hours by appointment. er NOTICE—DOYYOU WANT LONG AND BEAUTIFUL HAIR? If so, - MADAM M..THOMPSON — So will treat your hair with Mme. C, J. Walker’s Wonderful Hair Grower, which is : 4 guaranteed to make f hair grow. ! 2143 DIVISION STREET The Baltimore School of Hairdressing: . Under the Management of o Mrs. Lucy S.. Day and Mrs. Susie E. Gross: OPENED FEBRUARY ‘Ist, 1913 Heir work taught in ‘all of its branches, ‘including, manicuring, fa- cialfand body Massage, Sealp Treatment, Dyeing and bleaching: For terms apply at ‘hair store 1308 N. “Fremont avenue or” 9016 Division Street. ‘Night'classes from 8 to'10p. m: Crescent’ Concert Orchestra. Let us furnish you, 4, 5 more pieces of music for your CHURCH FEgsTI- VALS of any kind to enliven: the occa- ‘sion. Absolutely SACRED music used at churches. We also piay for PAR- LOR Socials, Lawn-Fetes, Picnics. etc, Out-of-town engagements — solicited. ‘Mail orders receive our prompt atten- tien, i z Waverly Thomas, Pres., 1116 YN. Car- Sollton Ave.; Leroy Dayage, Vice Pres., ils E, Monument St.; -Thos. Francis, Cor. See:, 1428 Druid Hill-Ave.; Clar. ence Bowman, : Business Manager, 661 George 'St.; Ernest. Hoban, Director, 9] Schroeder St. ~'~ Foie In another -part of this“ paper will’ be seen ‘THE AFRO-AMERICAN BUSINESS; DIRECTORY. 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All communications intended for publication should be addressed to THE AMERICAN LEADER, 628 North Eutaw Street, Baltimore, Md. Advertising rates made known upon application. All Checks, Money Orders and Drafts should be made payable to THE AFRO-AMERICAN CO BALTIMORE, APRIL 19, 1913 Jupiter Pluvis has at last concluded to give us a halt. and has moved off to other climes. Hope he will stay away for some little time. The Liquor License Board seems to be getting at the root of the matter much faster than Brother Anderson. The way to get rid of a thing is to get rid of it. --- The city fathers are being troubled over the fact of losing some of their income because of the number of saloons being cut off. Wonder of of fewer arrests and less expense caring for criminals and other persons which expense caused by the saloon will not even up things in the end? Another week and the members of the African Methodist Churches will have reported at "Phillippi," their work good or bad. There will be a few changes in this city as several pastors have filled out their five years of service and will be subject to removal. Just who will fill their places is mere conjecture. However, we hope the "Godly judgement" of the good Bishop will not fail him at this time. If it does not then we will have cause for congratulation President Wilson is not moving very fast in making his colored appointments and those who are willing to serve at the Democratic "Pie" counter are no doubt waiting with considerable impatience until he shall make a move. In the meantime it is being rumored that a white man 'will be appointed to all the Haytien post. We hope this rumor will prove false. It has been a long time since a white man was appointed at this important post. We wait to see. J. P. MORGAN—THE MAN The passing of the great financier, John Pierrepont Morgan, gives occasion for a few pertinent observations. We overheard a conversation recently, going on between two persons who belong rather to the past than to the present with respect to common intelligence. The purport of the conversation was to the effect that the late Mr. Morgan, because he was so immensely rich, had no religion, and in all probability, had gone to the bad place. It is just this phase of stupid ignorance, preg- nant among so many of our people, which greatly burdens the work of race amelioration and enlightenment. Happily, the late Mr. Morgan will bejudged by a thoroughly competent judicial authority who can make no mistake whatever. We are content to leave him in the hands of a merciful and just God. Whatever the critics may have to say with respect to the character of this most eminent American, possibly the leading and most influential lay citizen of this country, one thing is certain, Mr. Morgan was thoroughly a man. In furtherance of this statement, many things could be cited but we desire to instance only one thing. If ever there was anything in America calculated to test the element of courageous manliness of any one, it is relation of such an one to what is commonly called the race problem. The late Mr. Morgan, was for a number of years, the senior warden of St. George's Episcopal Church. That means that he filled the highest office in that parish opened to any layman. Now, for quite a number of years, one of the chief members of the choir of that church was, and is, Mr. Harry Burleigh, a well known musician of the Negro race. His presence was not only not offensive to the late Mr. Morgan, but in arranging for his funeral he had it fixed that Mr. Burleigh should sing the anthem "Calvary" at the time his remains were retiring for the last time in that particular church. Another incident of the same kind. Mr. Morgan was, and had been for years, a member of the General Convention, representing the diocese of New York. At the corporate communion, at the opening of the last General Convention, in 1910, in Cincinnati, the Presiding Bishop, Rt. Rev. Dr Tuttle, was the celebrant, and with others, he was assisted in that service by the Rt. Rev. Dr. Samuel David Ferguson, the Negro Bishop of Cape Palms, Liberia, Africa. The late Mr. Morgan, apparently as humble as the least known person in that great assembly, knelt at the chancel and received the "cup" at the hands of Bishop Ferguson a Negro Bishop. Such incidents, in themselves, are commonplace, but when considered in the light of that very real thing "race prejudice" emphasize the thorough manliness of the late Mr. Morgan. Whatever some of the critics may think of the "religion" of the late Mr. Morgan, we can but wish that very many prominent men in America, could possess that same type of thoroughly American manhood as would give them the same attitude towards "race prejudice" as evidently characterized the late John Pierrepont Morgan. The Christain religion is not a thing of emotion, but a genuine life. It is not whether a man is rich or poor, but rather whether the life of the man attests his Christianity in such tangible form of expression, as witness that he doth, most truly love God with all his heart, and his neighbor as himself. And, happily, again the Master alone is the judge in the premises. OUR YOUNG PEOPLE "A mother's heart. may prove a snare. The child she loves so well; Her hand may lead with tender care. Down the smooth road to hell Wherever one goes, in these days in all kinds of religious gatherings among the race, will be heard the lamentation that the young of the race are going to the bad, and that the future of our people looks mighty dark. Neither have we any lamentation for the youth of the race, or any special feeling with respect to a very dark future for it. But, surely, there is genuine ground for the fear expressed, and the phenomena indicating such a treud of affairs ought to be seriously studied, and the needed lesson clearly pointed out. Most anyone can get up and indulge in lamentation. Weeping is a very easy act. But what we need is neither lamentation or weeping; but, rather, clear thinking, comprehensive analysis, followed by heoric treatment. Why does it seem to tvery many honest and sincere people that we are going backward, that our young people are getting away from morality and religion? Certainly, affrist sight, there were appearances which seem indicative of scuh decline. As a matter of fact, however, such appearances are thoroughly deceptive. There is no decline but steady advance all along the line. And when we have said as much it is far from us to imply that there are no serious situations to be improved and righted. There is much work to be done along every line but certainly there does not exis any occasion for extraordinary alarm, or for singing the old dirge THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER Hark from the tomb a doleful sound. In the first place, so marvellous has been the moral and intellectual growth among us, that the moral sense of the race is now more keenly sensitive with respect to the great background of ignorance, immorality, and lack of thrift. Thirty or forty years ago, the class of ordinarily educated people among us was comparatively insignificant as compared with that same class of today. And the same thing is true with respect to that class among us having, in good faith, a liberal education. Then it was so very insignificant, that it hardly existed at all. With this wonderful advance of the moral and intellectual eye of the race a true conception of the magnitude of the work is progressively drawing upon us. Then again, in the light of all this advance, the race approaches many hitherto practices, then regarded as wrong, in an entirely different and new light. Hence, a natural adjustment, or rather, a readjustment of themselves to old forms and practices. Now with all this growing and expanding life of the race, the unfortunate thing is, the rulers in the Negro church have not always sought to adjust themselves to the natural changes which this advancing life demanded. One of the results has been friction, or indifference. While the rulers in the Negro church, for the church is the centre of Negro life, have not always taken as liberal view in such things as could have been desired, at the same time, many of the educated, and Christian, young people of the church, have absolutely failed in their duty in the premises. The duty of a young educated Christian man, or woman is not to become indifferent, or careless, and drop out of activity in such Christian organizations, because he or she finds opposition to the dominance of correct and more enlightened methods of administration, but rather, like true Christian men and women to bear faithful witness, to their convictions of truth and duty. If we can be courteous, persistent, and determined in arguing our views because of fundamental conviction of the righteousness of the cause we represent, then, in time, the effete and antiquated ideas of past generations will give place to that which ought and should obtain. We are never going to save our erring young people by mere protest, or prohibitory laws. What is demanded is the work of construction. And above all things we should desire the truth. If the mother takes the ground that all forms of amusements, or re-creation, are in their very nature wrong and sinfull, then, in gracious pity, we may well repeat to her, To the child she loves so well." Neither the preachers, or the young people have a monopoly on truth. It is freely admitted that both are sincere and terribly earnest. But, both are of age, possessing active minds, reading the same Divine Word, and thinking for themselves. Mankind must have re-creation and amusements. The danger lies in getting that kind which is destructive of the best and highest interest of man. We seek the truth, and this we must do with our Christianized intellects, and not with our feelings. Thus, the church must be brought into closer sympathetic touch with the pleasures and amusements of the people, and this is to be largely, but not wholly accomplished by the educated, and Christian, young women in our churches, becoming effectively serviceable and potential in the congregations where they worship. They are not there as ornamental figures, but as living, energizing men and women, who, having received special gifts and powers, are responsible before the Almighty, for a full use of the same in the amelioration of their less favored brethren. When such shirk this tremendous responsibility; when they, practically, cease to be active, and dropping off from regular attendance an cooperative effort in the churches; even go so far as to criticise before the world the short comings of the church, they thereby vindicate the wisdom of those who rule in church affairs for not entrusting them with a share of responsibility in things for which they have no sincere love of heart. The place to correct the evils is within, and not without. The outside is the sphere of operation of those who would destroy, and not cleanse and preserve. Mr. George A. G. Hill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Abram Hill, was quietly married to Miss Ida May Johnson at his home Middle River at 8:30 p.m., Thursday evening, April 10. After the wedding a reception was tendered the happy couple by the groom's parents. Rev. J.E. Hackett performed the ceremony. P. THE LATE BISHOP, W. B. DERRICK ************************************************************** DEATH COMES TO $206,900 RAISB Continued from page 1 the educational work in the state to do more efficient work. Where there were several schools in each state, he blended them, making one in Arkansas, Shorter College, Argentina, and in Mississippi, Campbell College, Jackson, Buildings were erected and efficient men placed at the head of each school. From the Eighth Episcopal district he was assigned to the first embracing, New England, New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia conferences. He was next sent to the third where he served two terms, and at the time of his death was in charge of Bermuda, the Islands, and Michigan. AN ELOQUENT SPEAKER. The dead prelate was a member of many organizations. He was repeatedly honored by his church, and represented at several Ecumenical Conferences. He enjoyed the distinction of having been one of the few colored divines to preach in Westminster Abbey, in London. He was also interested in political affairs, and was a prominent speaker in many Republican campaigns. In 1884 he was named for presidential elector at large from New York State. After some objection had been made of him on account of his foreign birth, he withdrew. He had a wide acquaintance with noted men, and he enjoyed the friendship of former President Roosevelt. He was one of those in the winning fight to abolish separate schools in New York during Roosevelt's term as governor. He was also interested in the civil rights bill in that state. Bishop Derrick had been honored by a number of institutions of earning including Wilberforce University, from which he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity in 1885. Born in the West Indies, he always affected the mannerisms of a Britisher. A tall bishop hat was an inseparable companion, and in other ways he had the ways of a Bishop of the Church of England. The bishop was always active in the work of the denomination, and his wide acquaintance was regarded as an asset for the church. His first wife died a few years ago, and he was remarried. The Bishop was not a wealthy man. Musicians Protective Association Organized The musicians of Baltimore have started protective association for musicians and now have a cosy office headquarters at 126 N. Pearl street. Aspecial meeting has been arranged for at Good Hope Hall Wednesday evenng, April 23, 1913, at 8:30 P. M., and at which time may points of important interest to the musicians of Baltimore will be expressed, and all musicians that play in bands and orchestras are cordially invited. Adv. Mrs. Johnson Surprised 'Continued from page 1 the Y. M. C. A.; Rev. I. N: Ross, this city; Ira T. Bryant, secretary of the Sunday School Union of the A. M. E. Church, and W. H. Hart at the law school of Howard University. SHOULD TEACH HYGIENE Mr. Hart in his address, declared that the death rate among city Negroes was alarming and urged that something be done to instill into the minds of the denomination the importance of having young men and women taught the necessity of following the laws of health. Professor Hawkins is the first layman to hold the position of financial secretary. He was elected to succeed Dr. John Hurst, who was elevated to the Bishopre last May. He has served his denomination in prominent capacities for the past thirty years. For a number of years prior to 1906 he was president of Kittrell College, N. C., and up from that time until last May served as educational secretary for his denomination. The present financial board of the denomination is composed of the following gentlemen: Bishop H. B. Parks, chairman; C. H. Murray, Catonsville, Md; J. Gilmere, Cleveland, O.; J. C. Anderson, Louisville, Ky.; J. R. Ransom, Topeka, Kan.; E. F. Singeton Savannah, Ga.; R. W. Mance, Beanfort, S. C; W. T. Strong, Vicksburg, Miss.; G. West, Montgomery, Ala.; E. J. Howard, Houston, Tex.; J. E. Stark, Tallahassee, Fla., V. M. Townsend, Arkadelphia, Ark.; W. Ellis, Chicago: F. M. Gow, South Africa; C. E. Allen, Detroit, Mich. Salisbury Items Salisbury, April 17.—Mrs. Douglass Jolly has returned from Philadelphia, after visiting her daughter, Mrs. Doreem, who is attending school here. Mr. Solomon Houson is able to be out again after being confined to the house for six months. Miss Ida Anderson, of Pocomoke City is visiting her cousin, Miss Sadie Anderson The members and friends of St. Lukes A. M. E. Church will conduct walking socials on Wednesday evening, April 23, for the benefit of the said church at the home of Mrs. Jacob Augusta, Mrs. J. L. Brichead, and Mrs. W. H. Dorman. Mrs. Renico Nelson is visiting her mother in Baltimore this week. Hagerstown Jottings Hagerstown, April 17.—Mr. Isaac Pindell and Mrs. Katie Saunders were quietly married on last Sunday afternoon in the presence of a few friends. Rev. David Johnson officiated. Rev. Edward Moore, of Asbury M. E. Church was returned for the fourth years as pastor. The Southland Nightingale, Jubilee singers rendered concerts in the city churches this week. Crowdehouses greeted them everywhere Mr. P. A. Pryor is the manager The building owned by William H. Daly at 1117 Pennsylvania avenue, recently leased by, the School Board as an annex of the Colored High School, will be thoroughly renovated before being used for school purposes. Thirteen Plays Prominent Part The number 13 was decidedly conspicuous at Bethel A. M. E. Church last Sunday morning. Thirteen days before that day the members of Shiloh A. M. E. Church, Waverly, held their farewell reception as members of the latter congregation. Thirteen members of Shiloh Church united with Bethel Church Sunday morning, and this event was just thirteen days before the Baltimore A. M. E. Conference will assemble in annual session. Rev. T. P. Sinkfield, who had charge of Shiloh Church, preached at the morning service, his sermon beginning at just thirteen minutes after eleven o'clock. The 13 new members presented Bethel Church $350 which they raised during the past thirteen months toward a contemplated new building fund for Shiloh Church. Rev. Sinkfield, who retires as pastor of the small flock is the thirteenth pastor that it had during the 37 years of its seperate existence, and Bethel Church, with which the faithful thirteen united, is situated in the 1800 block of Druid Hill avenue. And it might be further noted that last Sunday was the thirteenth day of April, and the year was 1913. Thirteen seems to have been as conspicuous in the events at Bethel Church last Sunday morning as it has been in the life of Woodrow Wilson. Tendercd A Farewell Reception Rev. Dr. A L. Gaines, who is winding up his fifth year as pastor of Trinity A. M. E Church, and Mrs. Gaines were given a farewell reception by the congregation Thursday night. Addresses of appreciation were delivered by Bishop H. B. Parks, Bishop John Hurst, Rev. George F. Bragg Rev. W. Edward Williams, Rev. P. W. Wortham, Rev. Dr. Howard, of Texas; Rev. Dr. Singleton, of Georgia, H. Cummings and others. In a neat address, Miss Annie Martin presented Dr. Gaines a purse, the gift of the members of the church. Mrs. George W. F. McMechen presented a gold coin, Mrs. Margaret Thompson made an address presenting Mrs. Gaines a silver service and Miss Minnie Quickley performed a like service in presenting Mrs. Gaines a purse. Several other presentations were made. Catonsville Notes Catonsville, Md., April 17.—Mr. and Mrs. Harry Bailey, of Baltimore, were the guests of Mr. Louis Barnes, Sunday at 122 Winters avenue. Mr. Joseph Hall who formerly lived a Freedom, Carroll county is now making his home with his father, Mr. Julius Hall, 50 Winters avenue. Mrs. Wm. C. Perkins, and Mrs. Columbus Nuggent, of Gist, Md., while attending the M. E. Conference, were the guests of Miss Nellie Hall. Miss Midred Thompson spent several Sundays in Greenville, Md., visiting her parents. Miss Carrie Scott, of Pittsburg, and Mr. Herbert Frisby, and Miss Annie Russell, of Baltimore were the guests of Miss Mary Adams Sunday. Miss Elizabeth Jason is very ill at her home on Winters avenue. Prof. P. P. Bowman visited the Sunday School Sunday and lead several choruses. The Fern Leaf Social of Grace A. M. Church is arranging to give an entertainment next Thursday night. Rev. Charles H. Murray, pastor of Grace A. M. E. Church, was tendered a farewell reception last Friday night by the officers and members of his church. A purse was presented him. Rev. Murray leave Monday for his annual conference which convenes in Hagerstown next week. Chestertown Happeninga Chestertown, Md., April 16—The fourth quarterly meeting of Bethel A. M. E. Church was held last Sunday. Presiding elder R. E. Ford preached Sunday on "The Abundant Life'' At the quarterly conference on Monday night, creditable reports from all the departments were read. The stewardesses gave a collation in honor of the Presiding lder The return of the pastor was unaniomously asked for. Rev. and Mrs. Holland were in Centerville this week attending the convention of the district stewards of the Delaware Conference. Mr. L. Branch, the inspector for the Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore was here this week attending to the interests of the society. Mr. Charles Wesley, the piano and organ tuner and repairer, of Baltimore, spent several days here. IN MEMORIAM THOMAS—In sad but loving remembrance of our dear mother, Elizabeth Thomas, who departed this life April 14, 1903, 10 years By her son, H. L. Boyer and wife Rest, dear grandma, thy work is dler. Thy willing hand will toil no more; A faithful grandma, true and kind A better grandma you could not find By her grandchildren, Etta V., Maggie E. DODSON—In sad but loving remembrance of my dear son harry, who departed this life one year ago today, April $ , 1912. One sad and lonely year has passed Since my darling breathed his last, O how I miss the voice I loved so well Only a mother's heart can tell Dearest son, how I miss you Since from earth you passed away; And my heart is aching sorely Asl think of you each day By his loving mother and two little sisters. RIGDON—In sad but loving remembrance of my dear husband and father, Samuel Rigdon, who departed this life two years ago today, April 19, 1911. Gone but not forgotten. The one that we loved is missing The voice that we loved is still His place in our home is vacant And never can be filled. A beautiful life is ended A dear father laid to rest Safe in the arms of Jesus Safe in His gentle breast. By his wife and children. FOOKS—In loving remembrance of our dear uncle, Isaac W. Fooks, who died one year ago, April 20, 1912. Why should we call it death This cain sweet sleep of peace, When the tired head in slumber rests And life's sorrows cease? It is sweet to be remembered For the good he has done for us, And the pleasant words he uttered With each bright succeeding sun. By the Harman family. MORGAN—In sad and loving remembrance of our dear mother and grandmother, Hannah E., who died four years ago. April 16, 1909. Through her suffering she did not murmur For the Comforter stood by her side And said fear not, for I am with thee. With me thou shalt ever abide. By her son, James A. Morgan. Days of sadness still come o'er us. Tears of sorrow silently flow, but fond memory keeps our mother near us. Though heaven has claimed her four years ago. By her daughter and grand daughters. Mrs. Annie Sewell, and Adela, nee Morgan Brown. JOSEPH MOODY—In sad but loving remembrance of our dear husband and father, who died three years ago. April 18, 1910. There is such a sad longing down in our hearts. For the one whom death has taken away. Days of sadness still come o'er us Tears of sorrow silently flow. But fond memory keeps our father near us. Though heaven claimed him three years ago. By his wife and children. HENSON—In sad but loving remembrance of my dear husband Samuel Henson, who departed this life two years ago, April 12th 1911. My dear hsuband you are sleeping Far away from care and pain May you rest in Jesus keeping For we hope to meet again. Alone in the silent grave yard, Beneath the sod and dew Never for a moment forgotten In sorrow I think of you. By his loving wife, Eliza Benson. Card of Thanks. We, the officers and members of the Federal Association hereby publicly extend our thanks and appreciation to the ladies and gentlemen who so kindly favored us with their patronage and presence at our dance on the 11th inst., and earnesly solicit a continuance of the same. Walter M. Evans, Pres. Benjamin Morsell, Sect'y. The Seventh Annual Public Meeting OF THE PROGRAM Rev. D. G. Hill, D. D. Remarks by the Presi- t. Rhetta, M. D. Selected, Mrs. B. M. Rhetta John C. Robinson, M. D. "Impression Ability Suggestion." Solo, Selected, O. D. J. Paper. Walter G. Ale Orange, N. J. Sub Abuse of Patent M. Piano Solo, Selected, Mrs. Benediction. S Day's at First Baptist C Caroline and McElderry Sts. Sunday, April 20th, 1912==All Day Special program. OUR DOWN--NOW IS THE TIME TO At Matchless Flour, 19c. 12 lb. sack Matchless F sack Matchless Flour, 75c. Granuated Sugar, 5c. PRICES GUARANTEED. Invocation, Rev. D. G. Hill, D. D. Introductory Remarks by the President, B. M. Rhetta, M. D. Piano Solo, Selected, Mrs. B. M. Rhetta Paper, John C. Robinson, M. D. Subject "Impression Ability of Suggestion." Solo, Selected, O. D. Jones, D. D. S. Paper, Walter G. Alexander, M. D. Orange, N. J. Subject "The Abuse of Patent Medicines" Piano Solo, Selected, Mrs. B. M. Rhetta Benediction. Men's Day's at First Baptist Church Caroline and McElderry Sts. Sunday, April 20th, 1912==All Day Special program. FLOUR DOWN--NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY. 6 lb. sack Matchless Flour, 19c. 12 lb. sack Matchless Flour, 29c. 24 lb. sack Matchless Flour, 75c. Granulated Sugar, 5c. per lb. PRICES GUARANTEED. T. G. MARSHALL, DEALS Groceries & Provisions ...and Po 535 Dolphin St. ...THE LYRIC, Main Hall FRIDAY, MAY 9th. Wit, Wisdom and Presenting the Gorgeous Vanity, or in The ...BY 75 REFINED ARE Including The Famous Juvenile Tr Kerr's Orch Under Personal Supervision o Scale of Prices, 75c. & 50. Children Mr. John R. Williams, 1627 Druid Bill A DEALER IN Sales & Provisions, Butter, ...and Poultry... Dalphin St. Baltimore YRIC, Main Hall, Mt. Royal A RIDAY, MAY 9th, 1913, AT 8 P. Wit, Wisdom and Merry Fancies. Presenting the Gorgeous Fable, Entitled: Vanity, or in The Land of Nig BY REFINED AMATEURS The Famous Juvenile Troubadours and Mr. T. Kerr's Orchestra of 25 Personal Supervision of Mr. L. Ellsworth ages, 75c. & 50. Children under 12 yrs., 35c. Williams, 1627 Druid Bill Ave., Ticket Agent. Nor Groceries & Provisions, Butter, & Eggs ...and Poultry... 535 Dolphin St. Baltimore, Md. ...THE LYRIC, Main Hall, Mt. Royal Avenue... FRIDAY, MAY 9th, 1913, AT 8 P. M. Wit, Wisdom and Merry Fancies. Presenting the Gorgeous Fable, Entitled: Vanity, or in The Land of Night BY 75 REFINED AMATEURS 75 Including The Famous Juvenile Troubadours and Mr. T. Henderson Kerr's Orchestra of 25 Under Personal Supervision of Mr. L. Ellsworth Toomey Scale of Prices, 75c. & 50. Children under 12 yrs., 35c. Balcony only Mr. John R. Williams, 1627 Druid Bill Ave., Ticket Agent. None sold at door PETER H. MISSIONARY DAY—Penna. A. REV. J. W. MACDONALD, Pastor Preaching 11 a. m. by Rev. A. Walters, City; 8 p. m. liev. John A. Holmes, his Rt. Rev. Alexander Walters, D. D. A. Maryland Baptist State Missionary Soci- Stewart. Annie Dennis, President. EVERYBODY HELP ...GRAND FRESH! By the Colored Empty Stock Galilean Fisher West Bidn FRIDAY. EVENING Proceeds for Summer Work. Kern Admission 25 Cents. Mrs. Ida Hilton, Chairman. ANNIVERSARY & CELEBRATE Social, at the Fishermen's Aud Evening, May 1st and 2nd, 1913. Thursday Evening, a Literary Friday Evening, a Grand Recei Dr. T. Henderson Season Tickets, 35 Cents. THE FRIENDLY PROGRESS Final Informal Dance of the Seas- ium, Monday Evening, April 28th Committee of Arrangements: F. Paul L. Lewis. Music by Dr. T. H. Cards of Admission 25c. $75 Daniel FUNERAL DIRECT 594 W. BIDD Don't make mistakes any longer. Do family Undertaker who hasn't half the ness of Daniel Easton. Inspect my wi Lower Prices—Better Quality. My F OPEN ALL NIGHT 'Phone Mt Y. M. C. A. REV. J. W. MACDONALD, Pastor THIRD SUNDAY IN MARY Preaching 11 a. m. by Rev. A. Walters, D. D., Presiding Bishop, of New York City; 9 p. m. lev. John A. Holmes, his famous choir and congregation. 8 p. m. Rt Rev. Alexander Walters, D. D. Address by Mrs. Patience Harris. Pres. Maryland Baptist State Missionary Society and her Society. Solo Mr. R. W. Maryland. Annie Dennis, President. 12-19-in MACDONALD, Pastor a. m. by Rev. A. Walters, D. D., Presiding Bishop lev. John A. Holmes, his famous choir and congre ander Walters, D. D. Address by Mrs. Patience ist State Missionary Society and her Society. S onie Dennis, President. BODY HELP AND FRESH AIR BENE The Colored Empty Stocking and Fresh Air Malilean Fishermen Auditorium West Biddle Street FRIDAY. EVENING, APRIL 25th, 1913. For Summer Work. Kerr's Orchestra. Excellent Session 25 Cents. Fine Supper 15. Hilton, Chairman. Miss Ida R. Cummings. PERSARY & CELEBRATION—Given by the the Fishermen's Auditorium. Thursday day 1st and 2nd, 1913. Evening, a Literary Program and Supper evening, a Grand Reception. Dr. T. Henderson Kerr's Orchestra. Tickets, 35 Cents. Single Tickets. HENDLY PROGRESSIVE SOCIAL will normal Dance of the Season. At the Fishermen Evening, April 28th, 1913, from 8 to 1.3 see of Arrangements: Edward L. Slater, Jan wis. Music by Dr. T. H. Kerr's Orchestra. Words of Admission 25c. 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Mr. Richard Mack testifies. I have used Dr. Welsh's Medicine and round it to be all that it is represented to be. I have even gone to Johns Hopkins and where they have failed this medicine has brought me out. On sale at Stokes and Derrys, corner Druid Hill avenue and Oxford street. Also at Robinson's Drug Store, Pennsylvania avenue and Hoffman street. Welsh's Corn and Bunion Crue. Guaranteed. SPECIAL NOTICES SPECIAL NOTICE Baltimore Annual Conference. A. M. E. Church. Bishop Levi J. Coppin, D. D., presiding. To all whom it may concern: The ministers and members of the Baltimore Annual Conference A. M. E. Church will leave Union Station, Baltimore, Maryland, Tuesday, April 22nd, 1913, on the 8.50 a. m. train, in a special coach via Western Maryland Railroad, enroute for Hagerstown, Md., the seat of the Conference which will convene Wednesday morning, April 23rd. M. E. Sydes, President. John Offer Custis, Secretary. Baltimore A. M. E. Preachers' Meeting and Vicinity. MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE Meets at Grace Presbyterian Church, Monday, April 21st at 11 a.m. Presiding officer Rev. W. D. Wood. Essayist, Rev. J. W. McDonald. D. D. Subject:—"The Social Life of the Minister." Rev. W. Edward Williams, secretary. FASTORAL RESOLUTION Under the auspices of the members and friends in honor of Rev. L. S. Flagg, Monday evening, April 21st, 1913, at St. John's A. M. E. Church, Lexington street near Pine. Admission 15 cents. Reception free. Mrs. Rachael Hackett, President. Mrs. Sarah Bailey, secretary. SPECIAL PROGRAM—This Sunday at the A. C. E. League of Waters A. M. E. Church at 5.30 p. m., sharp. Program under the direction of Miss Lillian Hughes. By special request, Madam Lewis and Miss V. Woolford will sing "There is a Fountain Filled with Blood." Good music. Everybody welcome. Miss Mamie Woolford, President Mr. C. A. Carey, Secretary. 87th Anniversary and Reunion at Asbury M. E. Sunday School. Sunday April 27th. If o. interest to you, come to our 87th anniversary. See the beautiful decorations. Hear the inspiring addresses. Hear the sweet singing and meet our friends. Napolean B. Carington, Pres. Charles T. Stewart, Sec. Rev. George E. Curry, Pastor. WHATCOAT M. E. CHURCH; Franklin and Pine Sts. "King's Hill' Rev. Alfred Young. Pastor. Residence; 618 Dolphin Street. 11 a. m., Sermon by Rev. D. W. Hays, D. D., District Supt. 3 p. in., Sunday School. 4. 30 p. m., Epworth League. 8 p. m., Sermon by pastor. Everybody welcome. Prayer meeting every Wednesday ST. MATTHEWS M. E. CHURCH E 23rd Street Rev. R. A. Green, Pastor 11 a. m., Preaching by pastor. 2. 30 p. m., Sunday School 4 p. m., Jr. EpworthLeague. 8 p. m., Sermon by the Pastor. Mrs. Elizabeth Fuller, Pres. LadiesAid Rev. N. M. Carroll, D. D., Pastor. 11 a. m., Sermon by new Pastor. 2.30 p. m., Sunday School. Mrs. S. J. C. Ralph, Supt. 5 p. m., Epworth League. Mrs. Helen A. Cooper, President. Devotional and literary program. 8 p. m., sermon by the Pastor. All members are urgently requested to be out. 3.30 p. m. The celebrated choir of the 19th St. Baptist Church. Washington. D. C. will render a service of song This is one of the finest musical bodies in the country, it will be a treat for you to come and hear this noted choir. Silver offering at the door. 8 p. m., Epworth the League will render an excellent cantata. Everybody is invited GILLIS MEM. M. P. CHURCE Stockton Street near W. Baltimore. Rev. B. H. Knight. Pastor Men's Day. 10 a. m., Class. 11 a. m., Preaching by Rev. Jones. 2 p. m., Sunday School. 3 p. m., Ssrmon to the Singing Bands. 6.30 p. m., C. E. L. 8 p. m., Rev. Acquilla Brooks. G. W. Fowler, Pres. C. E. L. T. H. McGowan, Sunt ST. JOHN UNITED CHRISTIAN CHURCE 8 p. m., Sermon by the Presiding Elder. Rev. H. A. Jones. 6 p. m., Y. P. B. A. 7.45 p. m., preaching by Bishop, Rt. Rev. Samuel G. Kreamer. of New Jersey, Philadelphia and Baltimore District Music by the Choir. 8 p. m., Thursday. Preaching. All welcome. Prof. James A. Bell. Director. Sister Bessie Johnson. Organist. Rev. G. H. Whittaker. Pastor. $11 a. m., Sermon by the Rev. Alfre Conquest. 2.30 p. m., Sunday School. 8 p. m., Sermon by the Rev. J. B. Ferrell. Subject:- "Twive Gates of Heaven." All are invited. 3 p. m., Rev. Ida Nelson and the Holy Temple. 8 p. m., Rt. Rev. B. T. Ruly. Rev. Mrs. Lera Mason will be with us Tuesday the 15th inst. for several week. Rev. R. Thompson. P. E. Annual Spring Rally of the Enon Baptist Church, Park avenue between Lanvale and Dolphin streets, Baltimore. Md., April 20, 1913. The public is invited to attend this annual service and enjoy the sermons of the following ministers: Sunday, 11 a.m., Dr. J.P. Gregory, Pastor Union Baptist Temple, Atlantic City. 8 p. m., Dr. Randolph Payton, pastor Mt. Jesreal Baptist Church, Washington. 8 p. m., Dr. W. A. Jones, pastor Rock Creek Baptist Church, Tennalytown, Washington. Rev. Jones Watkins, D. D., Pastor Colored Young Women's Christian Association, 1200 Druid Hill Avenue. You are invited to attend the Services on Sunday, April 20th, 1913 at-5 p. m. Willing 'Workers' Day. Miss Margaret Williams will read an essay. Miss Emily Johnson will recite. Mrs. M. Minor, presiding. EXTRAORDINARY ANNOUNCEMENT The first Grand Recital of the Singing School of the A. C. E. League, Waters A. M. E. Church Sunday evening, April 27th, 7.30 p.m. Soloists: Mr. J. C. Right, of the Royal Conservatory of Philadelphia, and Madma Clara Lewis. Elocutionists, Madam S. E. Travers, of Coatesville. Pa., and Master Oliver Mitchell. With a trained chorus of fifty voices under the direction of Miss Mamie Wooford. Positively a Silver Offering at the door. Miss Mamie Wooford. Pres. C. A. Carey, See. Rev. M. F. Sydes, Pastor. HANDY MEM. A. M. E. CHURCH Cor. Baker and Bruce Sts. Rev. John Offer Oustis, Pastor. 1514 Druid Hill Ave. The Last Big Day of the Present Annual Conference Year. 9.30 a. m., Sunday School. 11 a. m. Special'Sermon. Subject; "The Transfiguration" 2.30 p. m., Sunday School. 3.30 p. m., The Famous Railroad Sermon by Rev. Alfred Young, D. D., of Whatcoat St. M. E. Church, "King's Hill" Come early to get a seat. Several organizations and clubs will occupy a special space. 6.30 p. m., A. C. E. League. Special program. Conference year farewell address by pastor. Mr. Samuel E. Robinson, Pres. S p. m., Last Sermon for the year by pastor. Subject-"Hand Writing on the Wall." Mrs. Annie M. Cooper, Pres. Pulpit Committee. Rev. P. J. Jordan, Pastor Services for Sunday, April, 20th, 1918 11 a. m., Special sermon by pastor. 2.30 p. m., Sunday School. We especially invite parents and friends we need your presence and cooperation. 4.30 p. m., Allen League. Good programme with excellent singing. Junior League Service. 8 p. m., Special farewell sermon, by pastor, and the reading into full membership all who have stood out their probation If you are looking for a Church, come to Allen. You will find a cordial welcome to all of our services. H. D. Brent, Supt. S. S. Wm. Butler, Pres. A. C. K. WATERS A. M. E. CHURCH Aisquith St., near Jefferson. Rev. Dr. M. F. Sydes, Pastor. 427 Aisquith Street 11 a. m., Sermon by Rev. Dr. R. C. Ransome, Editor of the A.M.E. Church Review. 3 p. m., Sermon by Rev. Mrs. Ida Nelson. 2.30 p. m., Sunday School 2.30 p. m., Sunday School 5.45 p. m., Special program by the Allen League. 7.30 p. m., Closing sermon of the conference year by pastor. All members are requested to bring in their conference claims, as this will be the last opportunity before the assembling of the Annual Conference. PAYNE A. M. E. CHURCH, Calhoun and Laurens Sis. Rev. J. G. Martin, Pastor. Residence: 1160 N. Calhoun St. Revival week, conducted by Evangelist Mrs. Anna Brown. 11 a. m., Preaching by Pastor. 2 p. m., Sunday School. 4 p. m., Boys' Brigade and Girls' Day Service. 6.00 p. m.. League service conducted by Junior League of Allen Church. Mr. Clifton Brown. President. 8 p. m. Closing Service for Conference Year. Fifty-cent Rally Day. All welcome. J. E. Neal, Pres of the League. C. E. Dorsey, Supt. Rev. A. L. Geines, D. D., Pastor 11 a. m., sermon by Bishop H. Blanton Parks, of Kansas. 2.30 p.m., Sunday School 6.30 p.m., A. C. E. League. 7.30 p.m., Farewell Sermon by the Pastor. T. J. Holliday. Supt. Miss A. L. Martin. Pres. BETHEL A. M. E. CHURCH Druid Hill Ave. and LanvaleSt. EBENEZER A. M. E. CHURCH Montgomery street, bet. Charles and 6:00 p. m., Allen C. E. League S p. m., a sermon to Brown's Circle from East Baltimore. Wayman's Circle. Mrs. Mary Galaway, President. J. W. Norris, Pastor 10 to 11 a. m., Pastor's Bible Class John Murray, Pres. of the League. Charles Tolson, Supt. Rev. M. F. Styles, Pastor Sunday, April 20th at 3 p. m., Rev. Ida Nelson and her choir and congregation will have charge of the service, under the auspices of the Women's Mite Missionary Society. Mrs. Susie Chase, 1st vice president; Mrs. Lavinia Henson, 2d vice president; Mrs. Matilda Slocum, Mrs. Hallie Anderson, Mrs. Alverta Moore. All other organiza- tions are cordially invited. G. P. Rodgers, Pastor. Preaching service in Young's Auditorium, Druid Hill avenue and Robert street, Sunday night, April 20th 8 p. m. Subject: "The need of counseling our Youth." Half hour song srevice. Come and bring a friend. ST. JAMES U. A. M. E. CHURCH Rev. G. B. Singleton, Pastor. The parents and friends of The St. James U. A. M. E. Church are cordially invited to attend a special sermon to the S. S. to be preached by an able divine, Rev. John Cornish, on Sunday April 20th, at 8 o'clock, P. M. Mrs. E. Mason, Superintendent, Mr. John Hall, secretary. Tretary. DR. WASHINGTON IN MORMON COUNTRY how to become successful farmers they say they can afford to go into mining. There are two parallels between the Negro and the Mormons. First, as my readers already know, the Mormons were most inhumally persecuted almost from the first organization of their church. This was especially true in Missouri and Illinois. Hundreds of their followers were put to death. The courts gave them little protection. The mob that either killed or wounded the Mormons was seldom, if ever, punished. They were an easy mark for any inhuman brute who wanted to either kill or wound them. Joseph Smith himself, the founder of the church, was murdered in Illinois. But out of this inhuman and unjust treatment grew the strength of these people. The more they were punished the more determined they became to succeed. Without opposition and injustice, I question whether the Mormon church would now be in its present flourishing condition. They were deprived of their property as well as their lives in their early years but the more they were persecuted the closer they banded themselves together and the more determined they were to succeed. Persecutions advertised this little sect to the world. The result was that through persecution their numbers increased instead of being diminished. The second parallel between the Mormon and the Negro is this. These people I am sure have been misrepresented before the world. I have learned, by experience and observation that it is never safe to pass final judgment upon a people until one has had an opportunity to get into the real life of the people. The Negro is suffering to day just as the Mormons are suffering and have suffered, because people from the outside have advertised the worst in connection with Mormon life and they have seldom called attention to the best in connection with the life of the Mormons. And then I have learned, too, that no person outside a race or outside a group of people can ever really know that race or that group of people until he gets into their homes and has a chance to observe their meh and women and their children, has a chance to partake of their hospitality and get into their inner life. There are many people today who consider themselves wise on the condition of the Negro, who are really afraid to go to a Negro home, who never go into a Negro church or Sunday school, who have never met the colored people in any social circle, hence such people know little about the moral standards and activities of the colored people. The same I am convinced is true regarding the Mormons. The people who speak in the most disrespectful terms of these people are the ones who know least about them. I am convinced that the Mormons are not an immoral people. No immoral people could have such strong, fine bodies as these people have, nor such vigorous and alert minds as they have. It has been my privilege to address schools and colleges and universities in nearly every part of America, and I say without hesitation that I have never addressed a college anywhere where the students were more alert, more responsive, more intelligent than is true of the students in these Mormon colleges. I was hardly prepared for the over generous and rapturous reception that was given me at the State University, the students of which for the most part are Mormons, and I had the same experience in addressing the private schools and other institutions conducted by Mormons. I met, for example, one of the daughters of Joseph H. Smith, the successor to Brigham Young and now the head of the church. I was told that she was one of 49 children but she was an intelligent, modest, fine young woman with a strong body and an alert mind. I was told that the other 48 children were just as healthy and strong and alert as she is. Just how many wives President Joseph H. Smith has or had I do not know. These Mormons have first class schools of every character, and they are pushing the matter of technical and industrial education to a stronger degree than we are in the South among the colored people. In fact, time and time again I was told that they learned their methods for the most part from Hampton, Tuskegee and similar institutions. I was nearly taken off my feet when i went into a class in the university and the teacher showed me a large piece of pasteboard, with the pictures of our students at Tuskegee at work in the various industrial [Name] departments: They said they were taking this as their model. The Mormons have recently begun a systematic effort to give their young people training in gymnastics with a view of strengthening their bodies. Here again the colored people, especially in the school of the South, can learn a great lesson. Everywhere in our colored schools we ought to have systemtic and constant training in gymnastics. There are about a thousand colored people in Salt Lake City and they are above the average intelligence and in other respects. The colored women especially strike me as exceptionally intelligent, more so I think than the men. They have here an Art and Music Club which I had the privilege of addressing, composed of very intelligent women. They have two good churches with very intelligent ministers. The main weakness in the life of the colored people in this city as in some others I have gone to, grows out of the fact that instead of having a commercial organization to promote the business and industrial interests of the colored people they have a club house for which I am told they pay a rental of $150 a month, where the men are encouraged to drink and gamble. It seems that they cannot throw away their money fast enough, but in order to help it along they rent a house for $150 a month for the purpose of helping them to dispose of their money faster. I have spoken to them plainly about this mistake, and I believe that a change for the better will take place. I met several colored men who have accumulated a respectable fortune and who are in good business enterprises. I think it will interest my readers to know that there are colored Mormons in Utah. I met several of these. Many of them came here in the old days, in fact Brigham Young brought colored people with him to this country, and they or their descendants have remained. Of course in the old days plural wives were not prohibited by law but I have made careful inquiry and could find no case where a colored man ever had more than one wife. It seems to have been the custom in the old days that a man could not take a second or third or fourth wife without the consent of his first wife and I was told that no colored woman in Utah would ever give her consent for her husband to take a second wife. I met one colored man who came out here in the early days who is now 82 years of age. He is a staunch Morman, and neither the Baptist church nor the Methodist church can get hold of him. He came here from Mississippi. He is a fine-looking old follow a kind of colored Brigham Young. He has a farm worth $25,000, and lives in the midst of a Morman colored colony of which he is the leader. I am told that the Mormon church treats the colored people well. I will, in my next letter, discuss the Mormons further and call attention to their creed, and so forth. Have At Last Secured License. The Standard Life Insurance Company of Atlanta, Georgia has at last secured license to operate in the State of Georgia. The insurance laws of Georgia require a deposit of $100,000 in registered municipal bonds with the state treasurer, the financial statement duly certified by a public accountant and approval by the insurance commissioner of the state. All this has been done and the company has now opened offices in the new Odd Fellows' Building at Atlanta. This is the first old time legal reserve life insurance company to do business with a paid up capital stock of $100,000 to write insurance on the lives of colored people and the only company of its kind operated, controlled, and officered by Negroes anywhere in the world. It reports that more than $400,000 in applications for insurance are waiting to be passed upon. NOTES INDICATING RACE PROGRESS. The Hcme Delicatessen and Grocery is the name of a new Negro grocery store in Chicago. Cannonville, Georgia is a Negro town owned and controlled wholly by Negroes. It has an industrial school and many businesses. CHEMICAL Hanford, California has a colored population of 250, owning approximately $20,000 worth of property. In Muskogee, Oklahoma the colored people are said to own and operate thirty-one brick buildings for business purposes. The Mosaic Templers of Arkansas are authorizing the erection of a four story brick temple, the structure to cost $50,000. --- A recent report the Douglas Industrial Association, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, lists its disbursements as $6,444.43; pay to azents $3,000.00; ledger assets; waiving deposits, fixtures, etc., $22,635.82. --- The Mutual Aid Board of the Grand Lodge United Brothers of Houston, Texas reports the total receipts for three months as $42,735.37. The managers set aside $20,000 to pay death claims for the quarter. Reports show that the grand lodge owns in its name property worth $200,000 two cities, which brings in a revenue around $800 a month. --- The Quick Printing Company is a thriving printing house of Birmingham, Alabama. Of the 132,685 inhabitants of Birmingham, Alabama, 52,305 are Negroes. A conservative estimate places the average earnings of the Negro labor of the city at $100,000 per month. A movement in the form of a reality company in this city has been launched to capture and handle more of this Negro money. محمد عبدالعزيز The North Dakota Coal Company is a Negro mining firm which, has recently fallen into the hands of Messrs. Ruffin and Adam of Chicago. The company is said to be installing $250,000 worth of new and up-to-date machinery, and will soon be in operation again. Much of the new machinery is the invention of Col. Ruffin. The company has purchased in addition to the mining machinery 1,000 acres of land. --- The Colored Citizens of Denver, Colorado have organized what is to be known as the Colorado Commercial Alliance. This organization is to act for the social and commercial interest of both the city of Denver and the State. The wage earning capacity of the Negro of Denver alone is $2,000,000. The alliance, while not engaged in business itself, will see to it that a good share of this money is circulated among Negro business men, promoting business and giving employment to Negro boys and girls. The Prudential Savings Bank of Birmingham, Alabama, celebrated its second anniversary by announcing total deposits of $50,000. This institution boasts of being the only one "of its kind in the country" to start business with a paid capital of $25,000. The bank carries burglary insurance and is bonded with the United States Guaranty and Fidelity Company. It does not loan to its officers and employees. The officers themselves are said to represent individually "a combined responsibility of more than $150,000." "A Back to the Farm" Association is being formed by the Negroes of New Orleans. The purpose of the organization is to raise a million dollars. With this they will purchase large tracts of land, which will be cut up into ten acre plots. They will erect cottages of not less than three rooms on each plot and furnish mules and equipment for farming. "Applicant to pay not less than two per cent per annum on the amount invested on his plot, which two per cent shall be credited as a part payment on the principals, and six per cent as interest charged on sale price of farm. All money paid on principal shall revert to the general fund. From such portion of the interest as may be necessary, industrial schools, non-sectarian in character, shall be erect 9 SISSIERETTA JONES, the Original Black Patti Who will appear at the Holliday Street Theatre next week. We examine your eyes scientifically, making glasses and a good frame or nose glasses for only ONE DOLLAR. And if your eyes need no attention we will frankly tell you so. We make the examination without causing you the least pain whatever. All the work we do is strictly high class, but our prices are the lowest in Baltimore. Toric-Curved Lenses $3.50 Value $2.50 With finger piece mounting give better sight and a wider field of vision. More becoming, giving you optical efficiency to the edge of the lenses instead of only through the center as with the old style flat lens. Invisible Bifocals Worth from $8 to $15 $5.00 Actually two pairs of glasses in one. No lines to collect oirt or segments to scale off. They add comfort and better appearance to the wearer and no one knows that you are using double glasses. THE CUT-RATE OPTICAL CO. 309=-NORTH EUTAW ST=-309 Open Till 8 P.M. Saturdays 10 P.M. The Same Side as Brager's Your Broken Lenses Duplicated While You Wait. The Best Advertising Medium in the State. Why not try it once and get results The Afro-American Ledger 628 N. Eutaw Street FAR WEAK $100 Every Pair of Eyes is deserving of the Greatest Care and Skill in Eye Examination and the Best Quality in Glasses. Our entire time, effort and equipment in our examination rooms and factory are aimed toward the goal of QUALITY GLASSES Quality Glasses do not necessarily mean Expensive Glasses, but they do mean Best Quality of Material, Accurately Ground and Designed FOR YOUR INDIVIDUAL EYE NEEDS. AFRO-AMERICAN BUSINESS DIRECTORY These are the men who are fighting our battles in the commercial world. Help them with your patronage. Help our own business enterprises to succeed. FITZHUGH HALL—Merchant Tailor. 402 Brudu Hill avenue Dyeing, Cleaning, Altering, Pressing Ladies and Gents Suits made to orde. M Verizon 8101. NIXON BROS. MERCHANT TAILORS Dyeing, Cleaning, Pressing, Repairing Suits and Overcoats made to order 1302 Pennsylvania Ave. Madison 3732M Work called for Madison 3778 M When you want a first class Sewing Machine you think of BUTLER The Sewing Machine Man 1211 DRUID HILL AVE. DELAWARE JANES Coal and Wood in large and small quantities 434 MOORE STREET G. B. MADDGX PRINTER 911 Druid Hill Avenue WE HAVE IT Madison 4125-2785 TERRELL & McNEILL PHARMACISTS "Different from the rest." Cor. Carey and Presstman Streets H. L. JOHNSON'S Baggage Express 544 Lanvale St. nr. Penna Ave. Res. 1526 Druid Hill Ave. near McMechen Street. Green's Prescription Pharmacy Cor. Carey and Winchester Sts. Prescriptions fl led at moderate prices. Cigars, Tobaccoos, Sodas, Sundaes. A Full Line of Patent Medicines. MISS C. V. TYLER DRESSMAKING With all kinds of plain sewing neatly done. Hours: 1 to 8 p. m. Wednesday and Thursday. 1379 N. Carey St. Baltimore, Md. L. H. DAVENPORT New and Second Hand FURNITURE, CARPETS, Etc. 1006 Pennsylvania Ave. GEORGE H. SIDDONS FLORIST Pennsylvania Ave. cor George St Everything in Flowers THOS. P. KELSON BAGGAGE EXPRESS 1510 Presstman St. 628 N. Eutaw St Madison 4102 M Quick and Efficient Service WM. R. PARKER Real Estate Broker and Investor Property bought and sold on easy terms 917 Druid Hill Avenue WM. L. FITZGERALD Real Estate Fire Insurance Accident Insurance 1206 Druid Hill Avenue. Phone C. H JOHNSON Real Estate, Broker and General Repairs to Property 519 ROBERT STREET Madison 4584 Y PROF. J. W. ALLEN TONSORIALIST DERMATOLOGIST Electric Emporium Electric Massage. Open 8 to 10 p.m. 420 DRUID HILL AVENUE Baltimore, Md. Phone WM. SYDNOR Plastering Cementing, Bricklaying, Roof Painting and Paper Hanging 532 LESLIE STREET J. S. EDWARDS Ladies and Gents Tailor Suits of all kinds made to order repaired, Cleaned and Pressed 1217 Park Avenue C. & P. Phone, Mad. 3874 Y. Frank J. Randall BAGGAGE EXPRESS 551 Laurens Street Near Pennsylvania Avenue J. R. Askew, the Hair Cutting King is now located with Basil Lowery, 746 Pennsylvania Ave. near Biddle St. He will be glad to receive the patron- age of his many friends, C. & P. Phone 4614 M. Mt. Vernon. SANITARY BARBER SHOP Everything Sanitary from Drinking Cups Up. WM. JOHNSON & SON 544 W. LANVALE STREET Cigars and Tobaccos of all Kinds DR. B. F. BROWNE, JR. SURGEON DENTIST 1380 North Carey Street next to Terrell and McNeill Pharmacy Office Hours—9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily Sunday by appointment. Phon s, Madison 4125-2785 WHITE INDORSED FOR HIGH POST MAN OF BROAD EXPERIENCE Friends of Spanish-American War Veteran Strongly Urge His Claims For Party Recognition Upon Grounds of Merit and Qualification—Able Lawyer and Brilliant Scholar. Philadelphia.—Many of the organization Democrats of Pennsylvania have of their own motion selected the versatile and well known Charles F. White of this city as their candidate for the Election mission. They are arrogantly pressing his claim upon the basis of adultery and efficient work done in the interest of the party. Mr. White was born Aug. 5, 1876, in Bumboldt, Teen, where he lived until he was six years of age, when his parents enigrated to Salem, Ill., the birthplace of Hon. William Jinnings Bryan. During the six years that his family lived in Salem he attended the public school, and he was also a member of the Presbyterian Sunday school there. It is interesting to note that the pastor of the Salem Presbyterian church at that time was the father of our present secretary of state. Moving from Salem about 1885, his parents settled in Springfield, Ill., where they have since lived and where [Image of a man in a suit and tie]. CHARLES FIELD WEEK young White was graduated from the grammar school. But, eager for training and service, Mr. White attended the Business college in Chicago, where he also joined the famous Ninth battalion, Illinois national guard, and later went to Cuba as a captain in the equally renowned Eighth Illinois volunteer regiment in the Spanish-American war. He is also an alumnus of Phillips Koeber accident, Excuse. N. H.; Wilson seminary, Eastington, Mass., and the University of Pennsylvania, being a graduate of the law department of the university. Mr White takes a positive interest in politics. He has always been involved with the emerging principles of the democracy. His active exposition of the cause in the last two presidential campaigns was the result of a logical development rather than a radical change. Count among other political party. During the last campaign, he was one of the active instruments in the organization of the colored contingent of the Woodrow Wilson Democratic League. This was one of the most efficient organizations in the state, and it was Mr White's good fortune to be its president. The party leaders, who are pressing his claims for appointment know that it took monumental courage and fearlessness for a colored man in Philadelphia to adopt advantage Democratic principles and the election of a Democratic president. Besides the Democratic organization leaders in Pennsylvania and other states, Mr. White has received special endorsement for the post of minister to Hull from University of Pennsylvania forces, among whom are to be honored Protest Edgar F. Smith and Dean William Prentice Lewis of the law department. Mr. White has particular accomplishments for the position. He is well-educated, spends the languages that are prevalent in Hull, is a lawyer in training, an extensive traveler, an author of copyrighted books, an inventor of patented devices and a man of varied practical experience. Suffice it to say that if his friends succeed in securing his appointment to this important post the government and race will be represented by a man of spandid ability and experience and one whose conscientious life besponses military services to all concerned. Success of Architect Samuel Plato. The success of Afro-Americans in special lines of work of the higher sort is distinctly encouraging. The most recent item in this respect is that of Samuel Plato, whose plans for the $5,000 Baptist church at Marion, Ind. have been accepted. This is not the first instance in which a member of this race has been engaged by an organization of white persons to do work which requires special skill and business. SKETCH OF AFRICAN LIFE Influence of Hampton Institute Upon Natives on Dark Continent. "For Unukulukulu's Sake" is the title of a little four act play which presents vividly and sympathetically present conditions in Africa and outlines the possibilities of improving African life. This sketch of African life has been worked out with considerable skill by Allen H. Gates and has been received beartly by white and colored people alike who recently saw it presented at Hampton institute by some native Africans and American Negroes. The first act shows the home life of an African chief in Liberia, surrounded by his five wives. An announcement of the approach of Europeans is the signal for a war dance by the suddenly assembled warriors. The second act pictures the witch trial of one of the chief's wives for theft, in which the witch doctor by a smelling out process discovers the guilty person to be a warrior, to whom he is about to administer poison when two European traders enter. The truders exchange rum, clothing and firearms for ivory and finally succeed in getting away with considerable of the chief's property while he is in a drunken stupor. Act three shows the same kraal in a state of semi-civilization. The witch doctor announces that one of the chief's warriors, who lies ill, will die unless the chief will consent to sacrifice to the gods his son and heir. The boy is led forth to be slain, but a missionary enters and cures the warrior through the aid and power of the great god. Unkulukulu, and the young prince is snared. The missionary teaches the Africans about the character of Unkuluuku, showing them that he is a god of love and not of hate and anger. The chief decides to send his son away with the missionary to America to study at Hampton institute that he may come back and teach his people more of the American's God and of Christian civilization. Act four shows a little Hampton in Liberia, where different trades are being taught the boys and girls by sons and daughters of Hampton. The effects of Christianity upon the home life and upon the character of the people is shown. The play ends with a chorus of boys and girls singing one of the closing choruses of the World in Baltimore pageant. IMPORTANT COMING EVENT FOR RELIGIOUS WORKERS. New England Baptist Sunday Schools to Meet June 10. Washington.—The twentieth annual meeting of the New England Baptist Sunday School and Baptist Young People's union will be held in this city for two days beginning on Tuesday morning. June 16. The sessions will be held in the Cosmopolitan Baptist church, N street, between Ninth and Tenth streets northwest. The board of managers will hold their meeting from 8:30 to 10:30 Tuesday morning, followed by the formal opening of the general convention. The address of welcome will be delivered by Chapman Walker, superintendent of the Sunday school of the above named church. Responses to the address of welcome will be made by delegates from Newark, N.J. and Boston. The treasurer's report and the annual election of officers in the afternoon will be followed by an open discussion on the subject "Texas Social Service Help or Hinder the Spiritual Growth of the Sunday School." The discussion will be opened by T. A. L. Jackson, D. P. S., of Providence, R. I. The program for the evening session will have many interesting features. The president of the convention will deliver the annual address, which will cover the various phases of the work of the organization. Dr. M. C. B. Mason, national organizer for the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People will speak on "Some Sunday School Problems," and there will be special music by representatives from several Sunday schools in this city. The general topic for discussion Wednesday morning will be "How Best to Safeguard the Morals of the Child." The final subject for consideration will be on the topic, "Have You End Any Conversions In Your Class Since the Last Annual Convention?" This is a personal question for each teacher and will be brought prominently before the convention as a parting bit of information concerning the spiritual growth of the different schools. Patriarchie No. 39 Holds Resception. The first public reception of Patriarchie No. 39. Second regiment of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows was held at Arcade hall, Pittsburgh, on Monday evening, April 14. Colonel John W. Anderson was in command. The drill corps executed some fine exhibition maneuvers. Beatrice's orchestra furnished the music for the occasion which kept the dancers in high glee throughout the evening. Chairman T. N. Morgan, W. H. Parker, J. W. Morgan and E. T. Bell were in charge of the arrangements and under their efficient management the affair was a great success. Ministers Called to Sit in Council. There will be held in Morristown, Tenn. from Wednesday, May 7. to Friday, May 9, a council composed of the ministers of the Tennessee, East Tennessee and North Carolina conferences of the M. E. church. Bishop Henderson will preside. THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER STAMFORD The Greater Electric Brown's Grove. The finest and best Resort that was ever opened in the State of Maryland for colored people. And with the many improvements this year makes it equal to any of the whites Books are now open and for choice dates apply at once. Would advise you to give committee authority to book dates when you send them out, as there will be no dates held in reserve. For further information apply to Mr. Brown can only be seen at the above mentioned address every Saturday night. Sunday and Sunday night. Phone. Mad. 2669-Mafter8 30 p.m. SUNDAY SCHOOL. Lesson III.—Second Quarter, For April 20, 1913. THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES. Text of the Lesson. Gen. xxxiii, 1-15. Memory Verses, 10, 11—Golden Text. Eph. iv. 32—Commentary Prepared by Rev. D. M. Stearns. When Laban learned that Jacob had fled he pursued after him in anger, but God came to him in a dream by night and said unto him, "Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad" (xxxi, 24, 29), so they had only some sharp words and parted, having erected a heap of stones as a witness that neither would pass that place to do the other harm. Three different names are recorded as having been given to that witness, one of which is much used today (Mizpah), but surely much misunderstood (xxxi, 43-55). Although no lesson has been assigned from chapter xxxii, the latter part of which is to me most profitable, the committee suggests the perusal of it, and surely no teacher will overlook it. How suggestive is the first verse, "And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him!" Was ever such an unworthy man so wondrous cared for by God? He more than made up to him the loss of wagges from Laban. He fortaleated Laban to harm him, and now, on his way to meet Esau, He sends a host of angels to still further assure him of heavenly protection, yet when he heard that Esau was coming to meet him he was greatly afraid and distressed (xxxii, 7). It would have been more honoring to God if he had said, "Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear" (Cs. xxxii, 3). His prayer in verses 9 to 12 sounds well, most of it, for he acknowledges God's mercies and plains His promises, but his plans following his prayer do look a little like his mother's plan of helping God out, though some might consider it showing his faith by his works. Yet the various drove of flocks and herds with which he hoped to appease Essa verse 20 hardly look like faith working fearlessly. The incident of xxii. 24-31 also looks as if there was a great deal of Jacob instead of the Lord in the whole plan. It is with us all, as it was with him, most difficult to put off our shoes, as both Moses and Joshua were told to do, and let the Lord manage all in his own way. Yet the Lord is ever leading us to this that: He may bless and use his more and more. This is a might abused story and is made by many to teach that Jacob prevailed by wrestling, but careful attention to the record will show that the Lord wrestled with Jacob to subdue him. He resisted until his thigh was put out of joint and then in conscious weakness, be clinging to the Mighty One saying, "I will not let Thee go except Thou bless me" so it was wounded offering to stretch that prevailed. "By his strength he had grown with God-yen, he had now The Greater Electric has ever opened in the State of improvements this year to open and for choice dates an authority to book dates when in reserve. For further information GEORGE or WALTER Mr. Brown can only be day night. Sunday and Sun I I have 50 houses in Northwest Baltimore for you to select a home Now is the time. Spring is here. Don't put it off, because they are going fast. Read this list and drop me a card. If you cannot call drop me a card and I will call to see you day or night. All mail orders promptly attended to. Phone St. 51. 1932. To wear these corsets means a perfect freedom from many ills that women are subject to. To try one pair means constant use. 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For particulars WILL 1416 ORLEAN STREET A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z meet him peacefully and cordially and therefore took all possible care to provide for the safety of his household, putting the most loved ones hindermost and the handmaids and their children foremost, preceded by the various droves. saying, "If Esau come to the one company and smite it then the other company which is left shall escape" (xxxii. 4; xxxiii. 1. 2). After all Jacob's fears (for he re-remembered well his wrong done to his brother twenty years before and the anger from which he had fled) how beautiful it is to read that "Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept" (xxxiii. 4). Thus God has many surprises for us when our fears are rebuked and we find forgiveness and peace and joy where the devil had told us we would why not you. Sell your Junk to and Metal Company in the city. Highest Prices paid. 1751 Orleans Street phone..... Wolfe 2225 dctor. 15-22-in. LE EASY TERMS Home Seeker Maltimore for you to select a home here. Don't put it off, because this list and drop me a card. 1 three story house 1300 block of Carey street. 1 two story house 1100 block of Calhoun street. 6 houses 1300 block Stricker St. 2 three story houses 300 block Mount street. 1 three story house 500 block of Mount street. 2 three story houses 1000 block Carrollton avenue and I will call to see you day or attended to. Phone St. Paul 1933. 1415 Myrtle avenue Estate Agent S READ! Electric Corset s means a perfect freedom from many subject to. To try one pair means con- fectual remedy for backache. nervous. All prices..... sh you with the Guaranteed Gem Hai Pomade. 25c. Electric Hair Brushes of Human Hair Goods. Lowest prices for catalogue. All Mail orders given I will be glad to call to see you. Ten RS. MAMIEE, JONES, Street Baltimore, Md. reasonable terms. Mad. 3322-M. your dates now for Electric Park 15-22-in. Half Block from Cars nient, best equipped and biggest musements for the enjoyment of near the city. We have added two ding gallery and merry-go-round. er buildings will shelter 4000. address LAM GREEN C. & P. Phone. Wolf 5287Y find only trouble. There is forgiveness with the Lord for all who turn to Him, and He does abundantly pardon. He, through Joseph, forgive all those cruel brethren. When first He met His disciples after they had all forsaken Him and died He said: "Peace be unto you. * * * Why are you troubled?" (Ln. xxvii. 36, 38). Note carefully all the brotherly kindness of this chapter and think of Him who sticketh closer than a brother. In verses 9, 11, we note that when Esau did not wish to accept Jacob's gifts he said: "I have enough, my brother," and when Jacob pressed them upon him he also said, "I have enough." The expressions are different, however, and in Young's translation the former is: "I have abundance," and Jacob said: "I have all things." Jacob's words form a larger significance than Esau. Telephone, Madison 345 Colored Young Womens Christian Association 1200 Druid Hill Ave. Bible Class, Tuesday nights at 8 p. m. led by Mrs. Grady. This is most helpful and instructive. Visitors welcome. Art Needlework Class, Monday nights at 8 p. m. Instructions in latest ideas in embroidery, crocheting, burnt wood, leather and brass work at very reasonable rates. Regular business meetings, Thursdays at 8 p. m. Employment Bureau Open from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. It is our endeavor to supply our patrons with reliable help. Phone Madison 435-Y. Strange young women of good character may obtain lodging at very low rates. Assembly room for rent for societies and entertainments. Mrs. M. E. Murphy, pres Miss Emma Bright, Sect. Miss Sadie Chew, Sect. of the Employment Bureau OLIVER J. CAULK ...House Painter... ...And Paper Hanger... 2143 Druid Hill Avenue. Madison 1029. House Painting Glazing, Graining, Enameling Floors. Stained-Varnished or Waxed. 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Carry Street, Baltimore, Md. C & P. Madison 2822 M. List of offers furnished on application. April 21st ORGANIZATION THE Act Laughable Musical Comedy SPER" BY JULIUS GLENN Beau Brummels Dance The Beau Brummel Club, an organization composed of a number of young men of Baltimore society were the hosts at an informal reception last Friday evening at 1520 Druid Hill avenue. The decorations were unique and pretty. The guests were variously entertained until midnight, when they were served with a menu consisting of salad, rolls, ham, cocoa, ice cream, cake, candy, and fruit. Punch was served during the entire evening. The dances introduced by the club were so unique until the night was far spent before the guests realized they must depart for their homes. The members of the club are: Lincoln Weaver, Louis Taylor, E. Jerome Payne, George Thomas, Allen Major, Carroll Williams, Collis Bryant, Nathaniel Goyens, Louis Perry, Howard Wilson, Clarence Griffin and Arnett Murphy. Empty Stocking Circle Busy The Empty Stocking and Fresh Air Circle are working hard to make the Benefit next Friday a big success. The committee is leaving nothing undone to give everybody a most delightful evening. The time is rapidly approaching when the days will be hot and the needy children must have a chance to go in the country and amid green fields, flowers and wholesome food, build up their wasted bodies. Everybody should lend a hand to make this summer's work the best. The farm is free of debt, a good garden is being cultivated, but a rainy daynavigation is needed aswell as things for the recreation ground. Toys will be thankfully received. At the meeting last month the reports given showed the Circle to be in a good condition. The following officers were elected for 1913: Miss Ida R. Cummings, president; Mrs. Kate Gwathney, vice president; Mrs. M. R. Bruce, Rec. secretary; Mrs. F. K. Owens, Cor. secretary; Mrs. M. Thompson, treasurer; Miss Mattie Callis, Fin. secretary; Miss A. L. Martin, chairman of Executive Board. Money For Flood Victims In response to a call by Joseph P. Evans, grand master of Masons in Maryland, a number of Masonic lodges in the State have contributed $105.60 toward the relief of sufferers from the flood in Indiana and Ohio. The lodge and the amounts contributed by each follow: Mt. Lebanon $10; Friendship; $5; Lamack, Salisbury, $5; Union, Crisfield, $2.50; Universal, Annapolis, $10; Progress Towson, $3; Fredericktonian, Frederick, $2.10; Robert H. Gillette, Pacomake City, $5; Shining Light, Berkley $4; Eureka, Mutual, Calvert Co. $10; Excelcor, Mt. Oilvet, Calvert Co. $2; Landmark, Catonville, $5; Star of the West, Cumberland $5; Montgomery Tabernacle, GalileanFishermen Rockville, $2 and Morning Star, $5. This money will be sent to W. W. Cordelle, grand master of Ohio, and D. W. Caine, grand master for Indiana, for distribution. Madam Hackley Coming The music department of Morgan College under the direction of Miss Louise Anderson is planning a rare treat for the music lovers of Baltimore in the appearance of Mme. E. Azelia Hackley, of Philadelphia, in a song recital and vocal demonstration. Mme. Hackley is known all over the country because of her charming personality and wonderful ability as an artist. Her appearance in Baltimore is sure to be an event of great importance. Watch this paper for further notice. Changes in M. E. Appointments Following closely the shake up in the Washington Conference, caused by Bishop Cranston making a great number of changes in the pastors, other important changes were announced this week. The changes include the sending of Kev. D. W. Shaw from Centenial M. E. Church to Ames Memorial Church to succeed Rev. Joseph Wheeler, who goes to Roberts Chapel, Alexandria, Va.; and the sending of Rev. N. M. Carroll to Centenial Church. Rev. C. H. Arnold is returned to Mt. Airy, Rev Bradley to Sykesville and Rev J. English is sent to West Staunton. Mr. and Mrs. Scott Entertain Mr. and Mrs. H. Pierson W. Scott, of 648 Mosher street entertained a few of their friends at their beautiful home on last Wednesday evening. The house was brilliantly illuminated throughout with beautiful red, white, blue and green electric lights. A very pleasant evening was spent by all. Those present were: Prof. and Mrs. S. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. A fine casker worth $65.00, in black cloth, steel gray or white, plush highly polished oak or walnut outside case; beautiful rubber-rired hearse; either black, gray or white; to match casket, as desired; hye heated car rings, new and up-to-date; fine burial robe, embalming, opening grave advertise funeral, six pairs of gloves, door crepe, candles, caudelabra, cruiser when desired, rue chair set, all of the latest designs. A. MISS ENOLA McDANIELS Arthur Stevens, Mr. and Mrs.Wal- batson, Mr. and Mrs. Luther right, Miss Luella Banks and sister. Physical Culture at Y.W.C.A. Miss Enola McDaniels, an instructor of physical culture in the public schools of Washington is giving lessons in physical culture at the rooms of the Colored Y. W. C. A. 1200 Druid Hill avenue, on Thursday evenings. The course is especially designed for working young women. Miss McDaniels is an alumna of the Colored High School. She received her training for her chosen profession at the Sargent School for Physical Culture, Boston. Mrs. Keene Buried The funeral of Mrs. Mary Keene, who died from paralysis at a local hospital Tuesday, was held at Sharp Street Memorial M. E. Church Thursday evening. Eulogies were delivered by Rev. M. J. Naylor and others The deceased was born on the Eastern Shore 74 years ago. She has a wide circle of friends, having with her husband Mr. John R. Keene, kept store at the corner of Courtland and Saratoga streets for years. She is survived by a brother, and a sister. Mrs. George A. Owens is a niece of the deceased. Mrs. Cora Johnson Mrs. Cora Johnson died at her home,539 Lafayette avenue, Thursday evening of last week, after a lingering illness. She was a native of this city and was educated in the public schools. She was the daughter of Mrs. Mary and the late Frank Elzey. Besides her mother, her husband, Mr. George T. Johnson; three brothers and two sisters survive. Funeral services were held at her late home last Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs Samuel E. Roberts, 911 Argyle Ave., entertained a few friends last Sunday night. The occasion being the 35th birthday anniversary of Mrs. Roberts. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. Edward James, Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Eliza 'Stinnat, Mrs. Harriet Roberts, and Messrs. Richard Morsell, Wm. Massey, John Decator, Dolbert Jackson and Luther Wright. DIVORCES GRANTED On April 5th, Judge Gorter, sitting in the Circuit Court, No. 2, granted an absolute divorce to Mr. Robert Jackson 819 Harford avenue, from Mrs. Janie Jackson, 918 Stirling street. Harry B. Wolf was the attorney for Mr. Jackson. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson were married March 15hh, 1905, by Revs. Henderson and J. H. Taylor, of the Mt. Sinai Baptist Church. Mrs. Margaret Henderson, of 1826 Drind Hill avenue was granted a divorce from her husband, Mr. Robert Henderson, on Tuesday, April 15, Judge Duffy signed the decree. # ```markdown ``` DON'T GO BLINDLY To places where the only idea is to obtain your money: We employ a specialist of many years' experience, a man fully qualified to give you the proper glasses, who can advise you intelligently. De is not a so-called "fake doctor." So be careful to come to an establishment with an established reputation. All our glasses are guaranteed. Kryptoks, Torics and Bifocal Glasses at reduced prices. Bring us your oculist's prescription and we will fill it for $1.00 less than others. We manufacture right here on the premises, and sell you direct, consequently give you the benefit of factory prices. Brown=Katz Optical Co. Baltimore's Leading Colored Undertaker In Prices Genuine $75 Complete, High-Class Funerals is due to best service, superior quality—one price paying for everything. Unsurpassed facilities for conducting finest funerals I am in no way connected with the Casket and Undertaking Trust, and I am not interested in the organized vicious attempt to slander and villify other persons and firms engaged in the burial of our dead. My many years in business in Baltimore, and the manner and way my business is conducted proves that I am for building up for cooperation between honest business and the public, not advertising that I alone do right, but happy to say I give the best for the smallest pay of any undertaker in Baltimore City today. I stand ready to prove this statement at any time. It will interest you to know that during the past four years, as a result of my fight for lower prices and against extravagance in funeral services, I have saved the colored people of Baltimore thousands of dollars. Before my advent into this war, widows and bereaved relatives were burdened with enormous exorbitant funeral bills. To remedy this condition I have waged a lone fight with great success. I have been encouraged by the support and cooperation of many of our best people, besides earning the thanks and good-will of grief-stricken relatives, to whom I have given service at a reasonable price. I have been consured and criticised by some misinformed persons for my attitude and position, but I have done "The Greatest Good to the Greatest Number" without regard to the "Other Fellow." Don't spend all of your Insurance and Society Money but patronize the Undertaker of courage and originality who has saved dollars for his patrons. 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Be sure and secure the best results as cheap as possible There is no other colored undertaker in Baltimore who furnishes an up-to-date funeral for $75.00. My aim is to please the public and save them all unnecessary expenses, and at the same time, give such inducements as will warrant you in calling again. Do not suffer yourself to be deceived. I guarantee my $75 proposition. I am indeed grateful to my friends for past favors and take advantage of this opportunity of thanking you for the same, and you may feel assured that I shall always seek to extend the same courtesy as in the past. Other complete funerals as low as $25. $30 and $50. High Grade Complete Funerals $100 and $125. Prompt attention paid to Country Funerals. Also prompt attention to work from other cities. I furnish Coffin and Grave and Carry the same to the Cemetery for $15 and $18. Bridal Coaches with Electric Lights Hacks for Hire. Private Ambulance 1222 DIVISION STREET Between Dolphin and Lanvale Sts. Baltimore, Md. Shipping Funerals, Complete $25, $35 and $50. Macison 4921-M C. & P. Residence Phone, Mad. 4067 NEVER CLOSED THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER A. M. E. CH U R C H. For the accommodation of persons desirous of attending A. M. E. Conference services at Hagerstown, Sunday, April 27, 1913, a special train will be run over the Western Maryland R. R. leaving Hilleen Station at 8 a. m., and Union Station at 8:05 a m. Tickets will be sold only to persons holding cards which may be obtained from the A. M. E. Pastors of the city. These cards must be presented to the ticket agent when ticket is purchased. To secure comfortable seats persons are advised to start from Hillen Station. TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC I wish to state that Mr. George Holland is in no way connected with the business of the late Alexander Hemsley, undertaker and emblamer. Yours respectfully, Samuel T. Hemsley, 578 W. Biddle street. 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Fayette Street. FOR SALE Beautiful house in 1300 block N. Carey Street. All improvements, Marble Steps Long Yard, etc. G. R. $67.83. Easy Payments. Homesekers Realt Co. 11 E. Fayette Street. FOR SALE 700 block Baker Street. Two story, 6 rooms and bath. Long Yard. Near Ames Memorial Church Easy terms Homeseekers Realty Co. 11 E. Fayette Street. FOR SALE A rare chance to own a home in 500 block Laurens Street. 3 story 8 rooms and bath. Rooms Private. G. R, $65.00 small cash payments balance as rent. Homeseekers Realty Co., 11 E. Fayette Street. HOUSE FOR SALE—A fine large house for sale all modern conviences. Cheap sale to the right party. Apply to 1013 Linden avenue. LICENSED FOR RENT Large airy flats in 1200 block Druid Hill avenue. 'Baths and electric lights. Apply 414 W. Hoffman street. Office hours 9 a. m. to 3 p. m. Popular Prices and DERRY'S Avenue corner Oxford DRUGS Colored Undertaker in Prices H. OWENS ER @ EMBALMER NERALS $75.00. Complete Be sure and secure the no other colored up-to-date fun. My aim is to please the penses, and at warrant you in. Do not suffer yourself. I am indeed grateful tage of this opp you may feel as same courtesy y. Other complete fire High Grade Comp Prompt attention paid to y I furnish Coffin and As a special inducement, we offer Gold Shell Eyeglasses or Spectacles, with patent nosepieces at $75 Mr Thomas B. Slater and Mrs. Elsie Thomas were quietly married in Annapolis on April 4, 1913. Their residence is 1113 Etting street, Baltimore. Mrs. Maude Washington, of Newark, New Jersey, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Henry Johnson, of 1378 Carey street. Bishop Murray makes a second and special, visitation to St. James Church on next Wednesday evening, April 28, to administer Confirmation to a class of persons. He was at St. James Church on the 9th of February last past. Mrs. Mary C. Hicks who has been confined to her home with a complication of diseases for one year is still very ill. Miss Julia Reid, of Philadelphia, is the guest of Mrs. Joseph L. Myers of 1030 Argyle avenue. Mrs. Bettie Cornish, of 1322 Druid Hill avenue, is in Philadelphia attending the funeral of her brother. Miss Rosa B. Dyson, of 1106 Etting street left the city Friday for a month's visit to her aunt Mrs. Lulu Nash, of Philadelphia. A meeting of a number of funeral directors was held at Good Hope Hall last Sunday afternoon, and an organization perfected with Clarence Wright, as president. Mr.G eorge W. Purnell, of 1621 Druid Hill avenue is spending a few days in Snow Hill, Md., visiting the family burying grounds of the Purnells, where he recently buried his beloved and faithful wife, Martha N. Purnell, who died December 19, with her daughter, Mrs. John B. Giles. While there he will put up his beautiful cottage for sale. THE Y. M. C. A. The Collectors for the new Y. M. C. A. Building Fund will be tendered a reception on Monday night the 21st, for the splendid service they have given the association during this first quarterly installment. The Building Fund Committee is asking the collectors to bring in $300 by Monday night so as to make the first payment $5000. The "pocket ball" team of the Washington Y. M. C. A. will play the team of our association on Saturday evening. The game will be called at 9 P. M. sharp. The men representing the association are J. R. Williams, Robert Brooks, and Dr. A. O. Reid. W. H. J. Beckett, and H. E. Young are the referees. PHARMACISTS Carey and Presstman Streets Originators of "Ambrosia and Sweatheart Sunsets" We are Competent to fill your Prescriptions Where Quality counts, we lead, therefore we invite competition. Watch for our Anniversary Celebration and Soda Fountain Opening. Only The Best. Bring all your prescriptions here. 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