The Afro-American

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN LEDGER VOL. XXII NO. 4 ORGANIZATION HARD ON ITS POLITICAL RIVALS Will Do Anything to "Punish" Any One Who Dares Op- STONE-CUMMINGS RULE IS SUPREME A story of how the Republican organization sometimes "puts the screws" on men who dare oppose its program has just leaked out. Some of the organization folks in the Seventeenth Ward have been bragging about how they put "the screws" on David T. Harrod, who dared oppose Councilman Harry S. Cummings' candidate for State Central Committeeman in the recent primary fight. According to the way some folks look at it, Councilman Cummings means Collector Stone in the Seventeenth ward. In each primary a strenuous fight is made to keep things in line for the Customhouse Boss. It appears that when Mr. Harrod made the announcement that he was going to oppose the Stone-Cummings' candidate for comimteeman, some folks got busy and soon had Collector Stone on Harrod's trail. His employer was communicated with, and asked to make Harrod "haul in his line." He was invited to call on Collector Stone. When he met the latter, so the story runs, the boss begged him to get out of the fight stating that he considered his candidacy an opposition to his leadership. The Collector, it is said, also had a paper of withdrawal from the fight for Mr. Harrod to sign, but the latter refused, stating that such action would lower him in the estimation of the people. Before Mr. Harrod could get back to his place of employment after the interview with Stone, it is said, one of his employers had been telephoned and told that Harrod refused to budge. His employer was awaiting his return and proceeded to tell him that he would not stand for any of his employees mixing in politics. MR. HARRODS' VERSION When seen by a represnetative of the Afro-American Ledger, Mr. Harrod admitted that there was some truth in the rumors. "I got into the fight for State Central Committeeman" he said, "because there is a general belief that the management of affairs in the Seventeenth Ward should be changed. I had to work every night during the campaign, and therefore could not be accused of neglecting my employer's affairs. Beyond this, I have nothing to say. The bragging of some of the Stone-Cummings henchmen in the ward that they nearly made David Harrod lose his job has stirred to the depths many of those who have only been mildly opposed to the Stone-Cummings management of things. Through a few men the Collector has usually controlled the affairs of the ward. Many are tired of the present way of running things and there is already much serious talk of opposing Councilman Cummings when he seeks a renomination in 1915. He has been in the City Council at various times since the early Nineties and has served more years in that body than any of his colleagues. Mr. Stone has been politically active for over 30 years, and his early success was largely due to the loyalty of colored men. He has not been charged]with being politically friendly to the colored people since his rise however. Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 19— Memorial services will be held in the colored churches of this city and St. Paul this Sunday for Frederick L. McGhee, Player and race defender, who died one year ago today. SEGREGATION LAW AGAIN City Solons Draw Another Bill Which They Hope Will Escape Fate of Others The segregationists in the City Council have gotten busy, and as a result the committee on Police and Jail made a favorable report Monday night on the ordinance that was introduced last spring. In the absence of the full text of the decision of the Court of Appeals declaring the previous segregation law invalid, the new measure supposedly conforms with the limitations set forth by the court in its preliminary opinion. One of the new features is the inclusion of a clause that would prevent a colored man building a home in a section of the city where other colored people do not reside even if the man owns the whole block of ground. After making it unlawful to occupy any house in "section" of any block by either a white person or a colored person, if the remainder of the "section" is occupied by persons of the opposite race, and defining a block as both sides of the longitudinal part of any street of the city lying between the two nearest streets completely crossing it at each end, and a section as either side of such block, the ordinance provides that: "No new residence shall be erected in any section of the city unless a declaration be made in the application for permit to build stating whether such residence or residences shall be occupied by white or colored people, and that a permit shall not be issued unless at least a section occupied nearest to one end or the other of the section desired to be built upon shall be occupied partly or entirely by the race the building or buildings are to be occupied by. Violations of the provisions of the ordinance are to be punished by a fine of from $5 to $50 for each day the violation continues, or imprisonment in the city jail from 30 days to a year. It is expressly provided in this connection that the owner or agent of a building who shall permit it to be used in violation of the ordinance shall be deemed to be equally guilty of a misdemeanor with the person occupying the building and shall be subject to similar penalites. Provision is made for the joint occupancy of a block by white and colored people through the Police Commissioners who are given authority to declare such streets open to joint-residences on petitions filed on them and carriying a majority of the signatures of residents. The street adhering to this petition process "shall be open to occupancy by both white and colored persons, and shall remain until residents thereof shall be constituted entirely of colored people or entirely of white people, whereupon it shall again be subject to the operation of the exclusive clauses of the ordinance." A protest against the new ordinance was made before the City Council Committee on Police and Jail in June, and it seems probable that an additional protest will be made. Revs. A. L. Gaines, D D. Turpeau, D. N. Tate, J. W. Norris, J. W. McDonald and others attacked segregation at the monthly meeting of the Ministerial Alliance EXPOSITION HAS AUSPICIOUS OPENING Thousands of Persons Attend Exposition During the First Week BISHOP COPPIN DELIVERS OPENING SERMON Former Governor Pennypacker Delivers A Most Inspiring Philadelphia. September 9. Thousands of persons have visited the exposition, which is being held here to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the issuance of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The exposition opened Sunday afternoon and will continue for a month. Bishop L. J. Coppin, who has charge of the Baltimore A. M. E. and other conferences, preached the openng sermon. His sermon dealt largely with the status of the race during the past 50 years. Harry W. Bass was one of the speakers. Bishop J. S. Caldwell presided A big street parade was given Monday, starting at Broad street and Girard avenue and ending at the exposition grounds, Board street and Oregon avenue. Besides a float depicting Lincoln in consultation about the promulgation of the Emancipation Proclamation, there were others depicting progress made in the arts, industries and business. A detachment of war veterans was in line and the line was led by a platoon of mounted colored policemen. Andrew F. Stevens was marshall. At the exposition ground a number of addresses were delivered. After the invocation by the Rev. Dr. E. W. Johnson, a chorus of 2000 voices, conducted by Prof. F. A. Clark, sang patriotic songs. Harry W. Bass, presiding officer for the afternoon ceremonies, made national, was as planned originally. Director Porter spoke next, giving praise to the colored race for its achievements of the last 50 years, and extending the freedom of the city to visitors. W. Justin Carter made a stirring address depicting the cruelty of slave dealers. He said: Human bones unsepulchred are still bleaching in the sun, the remnants of slave dealers who robbed flesh and blood on another continent for the sake of gain. They severed tender relations, threw us into slave ships, treated us worse than dogs, and when we reached the American shores disposed of us at auction. PRAISE FROM PENNYPACKER. Ex-Governor Samuel Whittaker Pennypacker spoke in the place of Govenor Tener, who was to have been the chief speaker. Mr. Pennypacker spoke of the proimising future of the colored race in this country. Among his friends; he said, were colored mathematicians, musicians and artists. Considering the length of time the colored man had enjoyed freedom, his accomplishments and achievements were far greater than could have been expected. He criticised vehemently the American Bar Association, which recently held a convention in Montreal, for not allowing colored practitioners at law to enrol as members. He himself, he said, had resigned his membership in the association since it had drawn the colored line. Bishop J. S. Caldwell said: The city has given us the privilege of using these grounds for exposition purposes without charge. I think it would be a good idea for the city to allow us to retain these grounds and buildings for five years and establish here a park for colored people. Bishop Caldwell later said a committee of colored men might see the Mayor about this mater. Prof. R. R. Wrightt, of Savannah, Ga., a promoter of State fairs, also spoke. BASS MUST FACE CHARGE Philadelphia Politician Charged With Larceny of Five Hunderd Dollars Philadelphia September 18.—Harry W. Bass, member of the Legislature from the Seventh ward and secretary of the Emancipation Exposition Commission, was indicted last Friday for the alleged larceny of a check for $500 and a contract for $2,500 belonging to Lorenzo Harris, a colored sculptor. Harris was commissioned by Bass some months ago to make two stucco statues for the exposition for which he was to recieve $2,500. $500 was to be paid upon the signing of the contract and $1,000 upon the delivery of each statue. Senator Crow, a member of the exposition commission, it is said, sent a check, made out to Harris, when he received the contract. Harris, it is said, surrendered his duplicate contract when Bass told him that there was some details to be "fixed" up with the trust company on which the check was drawn before Harris could get it. Later Harris, it is alleged went to Bass and asked for his contract and $500. Neither was forthcoming and after an argument, Harris, who has only one arm, proceeded to do Bass up in the style that Jack Johnson finished Jeffries. The arrest of Bass for alleged larceny as bailee followed. Organization Opposes Buckner's Confirmation Washington, Sept. 18—Nothing has been done so far looking to the confirmation of Dr. G. W. Buckner, of Indiana as Minister to Liberia. It is said that the National Negro Democritic League is not pleased with the Buckner appointment, as the Doctor has never affiliated with the organization and the latter does not wish to be saddled with an appointment of which they have not approved. The active Negro democrats of Indiana are not in favor of the selection, not only because he local organization was not consulted, but for the highly important reason that if the Liberian olum goes to Buckner, it may act as a bar to the allotment of a second presidential appointment to the Negroes of the Hoosier state. The democratic organization is asking recognition for A. E. Manning, a democrat of long standing and who is very close to the Democratic National Committee, and is strongly endorsed by Thomas Taggart and others of like prominence. James T. V. Hill and Dr. J. B. Oliver are also mentioned in connection with federal offices in recognition for their services to the democracy. New York, Sept. 19-The New York News is the latest venture in the local newspaper field. It is edited by George W. Harris, who was connected with the Amsterdam News until a few weeks ago. Before his connection with the Amsterdam News, Mr. Harris was employed by the New York Age. PRICE THREE CENTS NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL Gabe E. Parker Will Succeed J. C. Napier as Register This Week. DEMOCRATS RECEIVE CALL FOR POW-WOW Special to the Afro-American Ledger. Washington, Sept. 19—Gabe E. Parker the newly appointed Register of the Treasury, is expected to take charge of the office this week. Register J. C. Napier goes to New Orleans today to speak at the State Fair, and to assist the Louisians in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the issuance of the emancipation proclamation. Mrs. Julia Mason Layton, the well known orator and fraternity worker, is attending the annual encampment of the Women's Relief Corps at Chattanooga, Tenn. She scored a hit seconding the nomination of Mrs. Isabel Ball for president of the W. R. C. Mrs. Layton at last accounts was a member of 24 separate and distinct organizations. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell is to spend the fall and winter at Oberlin, where her daughters Mary and Phyllis have matriculated. It is stated that Judge Terrell is to be reappointed on the bench of the Municipal Court. Misses Vivian Thompson, Mabel Wormley and Sadie Sumner have gone to Durham, N. C. to take charge of their schools. Daniel Freeman has been reelected president of the local branch of the National Negro Business League. Former Governor P. B. S. Pinchback who resigned a federal post at New York City on account of failing health, is now residing at 1341 U street. The public schools open next Monday. An enrollment of over 14,000 is expected. Joseph E. Johnson, formerly stenographer to Speaker Cannon in the House of Representatives, is preforming a similar service for the Board of Education, handling the work of Normal School, No. 2, of which Dr. Lucy F. Moten is principal. Rev. W. Bishop Johnson, for 31 years pastor of the Second Baptist Church, is at Nashville, at tending the National Baptist Convention. Howard Univeristy will open September 24. Miss Lilian Blanche Wright of Chiago, and Mr. Edmund A. Patten, of Texas have been given substantial promotions by the new Auditor of the Navy Department, Edward Luklow, of Wisconsin. It is said that the successor to Mr. Tyler believes that merit, rather than color, is the thing that should count, and plays no favorits either as to race or social pretensions. Robert D. Harlan, who opened a men's "Toggery Shop" a few months ago, has succeeded so well that he has leased the adjoining store and added a department for women's ware. Mr. Harlan has one of the best looking haberdasheries in the city. Misses Edith Meriweather, Beatrice Childs and Estelle Kennedy form the Washington colony of school teachers at Atlantic City this year. A. B. Cosey, of Newark, N. J., has called a conference of progressive colored democrats to meeting His Department in Fine Condition J. H. this city at the Y. M. C. A. on the 29th of this month, to consider matters of vital importance to the colored wing of the party. It is desired that a "National Negro Progressive Democratic Association" be organized and maintained. A limited number have been invited. According to plans announced, Mrs. Julia Mason Layton is to open early in the new year on 7th street above K, a completely stocked department store. It is understood that the necessary capital is arranged for, being furnished by a multi millionaire who has confidence in the ability of Mrs. Layton to make the venture "go." Mme. C. J. Walker the well known hair culturist, spent ten days here and has just gone to Nashville. While here she was the house guest of Mr. and Mrs, R. W. Thompson, 1337 Wallach place, and was the recipient of much social attention at the hands of Washington's appreciative citizens. Lawyer Thomas. L. Jones and wife have returned from a lengthy sojourn in Canada visiting Montreal and Toronto and stopping at Buffalo Cleveland and Detroit. The Association Tennis Club gave a delightfull picnic on the 18th at Green Willow Park. The reception committee was headed by Mr. Littleton Yarborough. Johnson's Department Washington, Sept. 18—Officials of the Department of Justice have just concluded a rigid investigation of the affairs of the office of the Recorder of Deeds, now held by Henry Lincoln Johnson. According to current gossip, it as found that Recorder Johnson had handled $417,00, during the three years and four months that he had been in charge of the office and that every penny had been satisfactorily accounted for. Inquiries made of the white employees revealed the fact that Mr. Johnson is regarded as a capable and courteous official. The investigation is also regarded as being most favorable to Mr. Johnson in view of the fact that his administration had been criticised by Southern whites. Philadelphia, Sept. 11.—Howard P. Drew, the noted sprinter, carried cff_the honors in athletic meet here last Saturday. Garnett C. Wilkinson, of Washington, won the men's singles and Miss. Margaret Brooks of this city won in the women's singles. EDITOR YOUNG ON BUSINESS USAGE DANGER IN PRIZE CONTESTS Discusses Expert Methods of Solving Many Difficult Problems With Which Publishers Have to Contend—Value of a Good Traveling Agent Who Knows How to Get Results. The paper read by Mr. P. B. Young, editor of the Norfolk (Va.) Journal and Guide, at the recent meeting of the National Negro Press association created much favorable comment among the editors and correspondents who were present. The subject of Mr. Young's paper was "Expert Methods of Extending Newspaper Circulation and the Management of Agents." In discussing this important topic the speaker in part said: Publishers of papers for our people cannot afford to neglect the general news features. As a rule, this is not the field of the weekly publication, but the dailies do not cover in any satisfactory degree news of general interest, such as our national conventions and other meetings. This department of news is being specialized in a very satisfactory manner by Mr. N. Barnett Dodson through the Afro-American page, and many of our papers are using it to great advantage. I am convinced, after sufficient experimentation, that the general news feature is a splendid circulation builder among that large element of discriminating readers who also demand a good editorial page. Aside from the local and general news features as circulation builders, there is a number of office methods in use, among which are the prize contests, the premium methods and personal canvassing, in which enters the very knotty problem of agent management. The prize contest is a splendid sort of whirlwind campaign and usually results in a large increase of subscribers when conducted by an expert in C subscription contests. They rarely ever prove to be profitable when conducted by the newspaper management. The prizes must be of sufficient value to create the necessary enthusiasm among capable cavwassers. As an example of the efficiency of this method I refer to the contest conducted last spring by the Durham (N. C.) Reformer. The Reformer gave away a piano, a diamond ring and a scholarship as the principal awards. The contest netted an increase of about fifteen hundred subscribers within sixty days and left a handsome profit after paying expenses. The awarding of premiums is a very satisfactory method of obtaining renewals, but as a new subscription getter it has most of the faults of the prize contest. Personally I am opposed to prizes and premiums because I should want my paper to possess in itself enough merit to invite subscriptions. After experimenting with nearly every method known to the business of circulation building I am of the opinion that the house to house, man to man salesmanship is the best method of securing permanent subscribers. Good traveling agents with the ability to cover a lot of ground and possessing the best element of salesmanship are the best circulation builders. On my staff I have one who has written over 5,000 subscriptions—mostly yearly subscribers—within the past two years. This agent covers a district once or twice a year and invariably gets a renewal from every one whose subscription has expired. Whether it is the salesmanship qualities of the agent or the merits of the newspaper that get the subscribers I am not prepared to say, but I am inclined to the opinion that it is a combination of both. The difficulty in this method is in getting and holding such an agent. In Virginia and North Carolina we have tried very successfully a method of building circulation in the smaller cities and towns. Our plan is to secure an energetic and intelligent local agent and correspondent who knows everybody in the community and popular with the people. VACATION WORK AT HAMPTON. Students Profit by Special Course In Music Under Mrs. Hackley. Hampton, Va.—The class in oratorio conducted by Mine, E. Azalia Hackley at the Hampton institute for a month the past summer was a most creditable feature of vacation work at the institute. The oratorio concluded with a demonstration which included a musical "tug of war" between sorranos altos; tenors and bassos. There was also a musical "spell down" between the boys and girls on the oratorios "The Creation" and "The Messiah." Mrs. Hackley made six foot charts of the music and matter to be taught, which enabled the students to obtain much information with little effort. As the study of arithmetic cultivates habits of thought, so the intelligent study of music for the Negro, as well as other races, cultivates abstract mental habits which will control thought and emotion, to say nothing of the employment of the idle hour. There is no people so completely under the power of music and no people who could be so molded through the power of music as are the Afro-Americans. Mrs. Hackley recommends the study of oratorio especially because the religious character or oratorio music appeals to the musses of our people. They sing this class of music with marvelous feeling when they have absorbed its beauties and conquered its difficulties. An intellect is put into the construction of good music, so intellect must feel its reception, and to appreciate this music it must be studied intelligently. In the future Mrs. Hackley will devote her energies and time toward educating the masses of colored people in music. She will have a memorial normal school voice culture institute in Chicago especially to train vocal teachers for the colored schools, and she will hold vocal institutes in various sections of the country. Nearly the whole of 1912 was given to her musical mission. She instructed nearly 64,000 in her method of voice culture, in one day teaching 3,000 school children lessons in breathing and the elements of voice culture. Even in the rural schools the children grasped every point that she presented, and the teachers report that the lessons will never be forgotten. CONCORD BAPTIST CHURCH. Brooklyn Congregation Prospers Under Pastorate of Dr. William M. Moss. On Sunday, Sept. 7, the Rev. William M. Moss, D. D., began his fourth year as pastor of the Concord Baptist church in Brooklyn. The fact that the church property was free of debt when Dr. Moss took charge three years ago was no inducement to the pastor to take things easy, for he is naturally energetic and progressive and believes in making his own record. During the three years of his ministry at Concord Dr. Moss has increased the membership by 647 and with the co-operation of the board of trustees had plans drawn for a new church office. Funds for the erection of the new meeting house are being raised by subscriptions from among the members and friends, and a financial rally has been set for Sunday, Oct. 12. The church is making satisfactory progress along all lines of its work. In order that the out of town members may be kept informed on all matters pertaining to the building fund Church Clerk Peter H. Fisher has sent printed matter containing full particulars to each of them. PRESS ASSOCIATION NOTES. New Publications Enrolled at Philadelphia Meeting in August. The Boston Reliance, Minor F. Franklin editor, and the Advance, Providence, R. L. Filmore R. Pernell editor, were the New England publications which joined the National Negro Press association at the annual meeting recently held in Philadelphia, Dr. W. Alexander Cox of the Reliance staff joined the association two years ago at Little Rock, Ark. Among other publications enrolled were the Colored Man, Melvin J. Chishum, Baltimore; the Odd Fellows' Journal, W. J. Baylor associate editor; the Christian-Banner, G. L. P. Tallferro editor, Philadelphia; the Christian Review, R. W. Golf editor, Philadelphia. Several newspaper correspondents also joined the association. Big Business of Brooklyn Wyndham Bros., contractors, with headquarters in Birmingham, Ala., employ 100 men the year round. The payroll of the concern amounts to $2,000 per week and the yearly contracts from $250,000 to $300,000. The company does business in Alabama, Louisiana and Arkansas. The commercial credit of the concern is $50,000. For the first seven months of 1913 these contractors did a business of $265,000. Brooklyn's New Business Organization. The most recent business organization formed in Brooklyn is the Beehive Mechanical association. It has seventy-five members and has for its purpose the bringing together of carpenters, bricklayers, plasterers, painters and such like for mutual business interest. Brooklyn Lawyer Dies in Norfolk. Alfred C. Cowan, the well known Brooklyn lawyer, died in Norfolk, Va. Tuesday, Sept. 9, after an operation for appendicitis. Lawyer Cowan was on his vacation, accompanied by his wife. THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER NOTABLE WORK OF THE BAPTISTS Business End of Mammoth Religious Concern Recited by Secretary Richard H. Boyd, L.L. D., In Annual Report—Constructive Work of an Ex-slave Who Knows How to Manage. By N. BARNETT DODSON. Nashville. Teen—Blazing the way for a higher civilization among the Negro's religious and educational life. Richard Henry Boyd, D. D., LL. D., secretary of the national Baptist publishing board and the home mission board of the national Baptist convention, showed the remarkable progress made by the two boards under his direct supervision during the past few years. In making his reports to the national Baptist convention that is in session in this city observing the fifty years of freedom in the form of a religious jubilee Friday. Sept. 19, he showed conclusively that when it comes to the constructive part of the Negro, whether he be in the educational, religious or skilled labor world, he has played a remarkable part. With practically no aid and with only plaudits and flattering compliments from a stranger here and there RICHARD H. BOYD, LL.D. he has been able by the courage of his convictions to carry on a religious publishing business concern that has handled during this fiscal year 1913 over $200,000, giving employment to more than 200 individuals and operating a missionary department at a cost of over $4,000 for the past year. But the gigantic strides made by the boards have reached such a proportion that they appear to stagger one as they look up at the great heights attained in proficiency and excellence. The record of the institution, which is just seventeen years old, as shown in Dr. Boyd's report exceeds the old motto "Excelsior." In point of circulation this report shows that more than 12,000,000 copies of religious Sunday school periodicals have gone throughout the confines of the convention and that they have paid the government, railroads, express and telegraph companies more than $1,000 per month in the transmission of their mails, messages, products and output and that they are leading the entire race in the publishing and business world in the high grade, intricate printing and publishing machinery. The convention was loud in its applause in receiving the report of this ex-slave, who has known no university training except (what is often said of him that which he got out of the "swamp university," a school which he claims existed around the firesides in slavery times, where only a pine knot served as the lamp giving light by which to read. Dr. Boyd was twenty-one years old before he learned his alphabet, but lays no claim whatever to having accomplished anything except through prayer and perseverance and by the faith of his people. The National Baptist Publishing house, as the report shows, occupies seven brick buildings located at the corner of Second avenue north and Locust streets. Nashville, Tenn., and is the pride of more than 2,500,000 communicants in this denomination. It has often been said and was brought out very clearly in this report that they are supplying churches with everything the church may need, from a picture lesson card for little ones in the Sunday school to the finest grade of pastors' helps and religious books, or from a collection plate to the most expensive, well made high grade church pews. In the missionary department the report shows tremendous progress. Especially is this true in the work accomplished on the isthmus of Panama, where they have succeeded in establishing, organizing and erecting four handsome church edifices and built up a membership in the neighborhood of 1,000. In the Sunday school department the report says that one of the most astounding features was the modern and improved Sunday school methods maintained through their Sunday school congress, the last session of which was held at Muskogee. Okhl, for a week in June of this year under the most encouraging circumstances. Bishop Tyroe and Other Noted Divines and Educators Deliver Addresses. Philadelphia. - The program for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, Sept. 17, 18 and 19, at the emancipation exposition exercises in this city was full of interest and attended by great throngs of visitors. It was as follows: Wednesday, Sept. 17, religious congress. Bishop C. T. Shaffer, D. D., presiding. Prayer, Rev. H. C. McDuffey. Address, "Moral Condition of the Negro Race," R. L. Vann. Address, "Religious Condition of Negroes," Bishop Evans Tyroe, D. D. Five minute addresses by Revs. E. W. Moore, Matthew Anderson, Bishop G. L. Blackwell, W. L. Lee, I. N. Ross, Hon. J. C. Ashbury. Prayer, Rev. G. W. Morris, D. L. Address, Rev. G. W. Morris, D. L. of the Negro Cemetery, W. C. Church," Hon. J. C. Dinkey. Discussions. Rev. Scott Bond, S. R. Mossell, W. H. H. Butler. Sociological congress. Thursday, Sept. 18, Rev. Matthew Anderson, D. D., chairman sociological committee, presiding. Address of welcome, Hon. H. W. Bass, secretary of committee. Paper, "The Physique of the Negro," Professor Kelly Miller, dean Howard university. Paper, Professor Earl Finch, Wilberforce. Discussions by Drs. A. B. Jackson, R. W. Bailley, and N. F. Mossell. Dr. R. R. Wright, Jr., presiding 3 p. m. General subject, "The Problems of the Negro." Papers, "The Negro's Industrial Problem," Professor M. N. Work; "The Negro's Problem of Education," Professor W. I. Crogman; "The Problem of the Negro in the City," Dr. G. E. Haynes; "The Problem of the Negro in the Rural Districts," Henry Wilbur; "The Problem of the Negro in the North," Hon. E. J. Warling; "The Problem of the Negro in Politics," Hon. George White; "Discussions on the times each Mrs. S. M. Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, Mrs. R. W. Bailey, George W. Mitchell, Esa. and N. Carl Bolkar. Professor Carl Kelsey, University of Pennsylvania, presiding, 5 p.m. Prayer, Rev. J. F. Handy. General subject, "Race Adjustment." Papers, "Basis of Racial Adjustment," Dr. Simon N. Patten, "Basis of Racial Adjustment," Professor Alain Leroy Locker, "What the White Man Expects of the Negro." Rev. John Little; "What the Negro Expects of the White Man," Dr. G. V. Roman. Recognition, Rev. W. T. Hemsley. 10:30 a. m. Friday. Sept. 19, sociological congress, Bishop W. D. Chapelle presiding. Prayer Rev. P. H. Tabh. Prayer, R. H. B. H. General subject, "Race Prejudice." Papers, "What Is Race Prejudice?" Professor W. E. B. DuBois; "Race Prejudice." Professor J. P. Lichtenberger, Congressman W. S. Vare and Louis Post. Discussion, three minutes each. Rev. H. L. Phillips, Charles H. Brooks, David H. Lane, G. L. Blackwell and Mrs. G. E. Dickerson. Benediction, Rev. W. H. Davis. Rev. H. L. Phillips prebble. 2 p.m. Report of progress of Negroes in different states by special representatives appointed by governors. Paper, "The Emancipation and the Negro," Bishop C. S. Smith, D. D. Paper, "Social Justice for the Negro," Rabbi Joseph Kruskoff. Disc. Joseph W. Bass, Bishop G. L. Discikwell, Miss Carol R. LeCount, Miss Jessie Fainet. Benediction, Rev. Charles A. Blackwell. BUSINESS LEAGUE LAUDED. High Tribute Paid Our Race by John Wanamaker. One of the most important as well as enjoyable features of the recent meeting of the National Negro Business league, held in Philadelphia, was the visit by invitation to the big store of Mr. John Wanamaker by hundreds of delegates in a body. They were entertained in Egyptian hall, a part of the store which is devoted to the sale of musical instruments and various works of art. After music and speeches by the Hon. George H. White, Hon. J. C. Napier, Mr. J. H. Blodgett, President Washington and Vice President Charles Banks on behalf of the Business league Mr. Wanamaker delivered a very encouraging address in response. Mr. Wanamaker said in part: "The American people are becoming proud of their Negro brothers and sisters, who have proved their rights to citizenship. When they can stand up together as you are doing today no praise can be too great for them. "I cannot remember when this platform has had upon it a more distinguished body of men, and I came here simply to sit among you as one of the family. "This hall has held many meetings, but never one like this. I believe the story of this gathering should be set down in history to offset the story of William Lord Garrison and his treatment on this spot over half a century ago. I am one of those who would like to see colored women in the offices of the various business houses in our cities. They should be equipped to take their places in the stores as stenographers, cashiers and clerks." Named For Great English Statesman. In 1853 the Cincinnati conference of the M. E. church decided to establish a college for the higher education of the colored race. In 1856 Tawana Springs (sweet water), a summer resort three miles from Xenia, in Greene county, was purchased and named Wilberforce university in honor of the great English statesman and benefactor of the colored race. William Wilberforce Thus far, over a half century, Ohio has been contributing her quota of support toward higher education for Afro Americans. Capable Newspaper Correspondents. Franklin F. Johnson of Baltimore, George F. King of Wilson, N. C., and Cleveland G. Allen of New York city compose a trio of newspaper correspondents of whom the National Negro Press association is justly proud to number among its members. Each has worked his own way up from of security to prominence. I wish to announce to the general public that I have taken up the business of my late father and will endeavor to sustain the reputation he bore as an efficient undertaker and Embalmer. Thanking the public for all past favors and hoping for a continuance of the same. I am respectfully yours. FUNERAL DIRECTOR & EMBALMER Coaches to hire for all occasions Funerals from $75.00 UP Residence; 1131 Argyle Avenue OFFICE; 578 W. BIDDLE ST. 'Phone Mount Vernon 2578 No Branches. Not Connected with any other firm A reward will be offered for the detectionof persons doing business under the name of Felix B. Pye Sr. Phone, Mt. Vernon 3603 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. He can furnish you carriages for Funerals, Weddings, Parties, Receptions, sts., from his own stables at the most reasonable rates. You need not come to see him, just call BALTIMORE LIFE INSURANCE CO. F. S. STROBRIDGE, President Home Office: Cor. Charles & Saratoga Sts., Balto., Md.! The Leading Life Insurance Company in Maryland Life Insurance Policies issued on ages from 2 to 79 Premiums collected weekly from the homes of the insured Issues The Best Contracts The Old Reliable The Colored Sewing Machine Man,... R. H. Butler, the colored agent for Singer sewing machines, is here before the public catering for your fall trade. I have been made special agent by the company for colored trade. See me when wanting to buy a machine on small monthly payments. We have a new model just out, the best machine that the Singer Company has ever put on the market. Our people know or will know where to get their machine from. We are the only Singer machine people that want your trade: 1211 Druid Hill Ave. The most equipped repair shop up town. R. H. BUTLER'S. Phone:Mad. 4984-Y. C. and P. Phone, Madison692 GEO. H. HOLLAND Formerly Manager for the late Alexander Hemsley Funeral Director and Embalmer 517 Robert Street [ Will furnish funerals at a price that will suit you. Polite, courteous and expert attention guaranteed. a Carriages to hire for all occasions. Open day and night. To the Friends and Patrons ALEX. HEMSLEY B. I wish to announce to the general public that of my late father and will endeavor to sustain efficient undertaker and Embalmer. Thank you and hoping for a continuance of the same. SAMUEL T. H. FUNERAL DIRECTOR Coaches to hire for all occasions Residence; 1131 Argyle Avenue 01 'Phone Mount Vernon FELIX B. PY 102 E. Mulberry St. ::::FUNERAL DIRECTOR C. & P. PH No Branches. Not Connected A reward will be offered for the sons doing business under Felix B. Py Phone, Mt. Vernon Robert A.: ..Baltimore's Leading 506 ROGERS Expert Embalming, Courteous Attention Specialty. Rubber Tire Carriages for Both Phone. ...JOHN H. TO 142 W. HILL ST. THE UP-TO-DATE UN Who can urnish a funeral for $10.00 and He can furnish you carriages for Funerals, sts., from his own stables at the most rea come to see him, ju South 422 or South 396-Y. Mount Vernon 5138 THE BALTIMORE LIFE IN F. S. STROBRIDGE, Home Office: Cor. Charles & Sara The Leading Life Insurance Co. Life Insurance Policies issued Premiums collected weekly from Issues The Best The Old Relia .....The Colored Sewing M THE ```markdown ``` payments. We have a new model just out, Singer Company has ever put on the m will know where to get their machine f er machine people that want your trade 1211 Druid Hill Ave. The most equippe R. H. BUTLER'S. OUR PATRONS GE [Picture of a man with a mustache and a suit]. Arons of the late Funeral Director and Embalmer that I have taken up the business in the reputation he bore as an singer the public for all past favors I am respectfully yours. HEMSLEY & EMBALMER Funerals from $75.00 UP OFFICE; 578 W. BIDDLE ST. Lyon 2578 VE, Sr. Nr. Calvert. DIRECTOR::: ONE with any other firm in the detection of per- der the name of Ve Sr. Lyon 3603 Elliott ing Undertaker. S AVE. Fundants, Shipping Funerals for hire for all occasions. Day or Night. ROADVIN.... STREET, UNDERTAKER and up; caskets for $3.00 and up. Weddings, Parties, Receptions, seasonal rate. You need not just call 142 W. Hill Street and 826 Druid Hill Ave. INSURANCE CO. I., President Saratoga Sts., Balto., Md.' Company in Maryland on ages from 2 to 79 the homes of the insured Contracts THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF MARYLAND Happenings in VariousSections Gathered by Our Special Correspon- dents Cambridge, Md., Sept. 18—Mrs. Jacob B. Adams, of Washington and Mrs. Daniel H. Bantom, of Oxford, mother and sister of Mrs. Titus Stiles have returned to their homes after spending some time in this city. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Turner, of High street, spent Wednesday and Thursday as the guest of Mr. and Mr. Charles Turner, in Easton. Mr. J. Frank Barnes, of Oxford and Miss Pauline Barnes, of Baltimore, were the guests of Mrs. A. W. Turner last week. Miss Edna Wilson, who has been quite sick at her home on Bridge street, is rapidly improving. Mr. Joisah F. Henry left Sunday for Washington where he will visit his uncle. Snow Hill Happenings [Special to The Afro-American Ledger.] Snow Hill, Md., Sept. 18.—Mr. and Mrs. Othol Johnson have gone to Atlantic City to spend the winter. Mr. and Mrs. James Purnell spent Sunday in Berlin, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Clarcv Manuel. Mrs. Alice Robins and Mrs. Florence Woolford, who have been at Lakeside Park, N. J., all summer are home for the winter. Rev. J. $ ^{*} $ W. Jewett, spent a few days out of town last week. Part of the time was spent at St Michaels with his wife and child, who has been quite ill, but are much better now. Rev. D. Pane preached at West Brelin, M. E. Church Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Eva Kate Dandy and two children, of Wilmington, are the guest of Mrs. Charlotte Stevenson. Mr. and Mrs.Joseph Smith spent Sunday at Tinley's Chapel. Miss Emma Stocks, of New York, is visiting her mother,Mrs. Joseph Smith. Mr. William Blunt. of Princess Anne, Md., spent last week here, the guests of Mrs. Nellie Robertson. Messrs. Toy Purnell, George Robins and John Robins, all of Lewes, Delaware,spent several days here last week with their families. Miss Harriette Woolford is visiting relatives here. Miss Vietta Taylor has returned to school in Baltimore. Hagerstown Happenings [Special to The Afro-American Ledger. Hagerstown, Md., Sept. 18—The pastor and members of Ebenezer A M. E. Church worshipped at Quinn Chapel, Frederick, last Sunday. Rev. Johnson preached two aole sermons. The collection for the day amounted to over $40. Rev. John Porter is pastor of Quinn. Rev. C. L. Pate, of St. Paul M. E. Church, white, preached at Asbury last Sunday afternoon. The 2nd Christian Church has closed a very successful series of services celebrating the 19th anniversary of the church. Rev. F. C. Cothran is the pastor. Mrs. David Johnson, Miss Cora Johnson and Mrs. Mary V. Cooper have returned from Baltimore, where they attended the sessions of the W. M. M. convention. Mr. E. Milton Johnson and his little brother, David Jr., are visiting their grandparents in Baltimore. Miss Odessa Davis, of Baltimore, is the guest of the Misses Johnson. Mrs. Eva Wells is visiting friends in Baltimore. Mme. C. J. Walker of Indianapolis, spent a short time here last week as the guest of Mr. Jacob Wheaton. Mme. Walker is making a tour of the country in her large touring car. Mrs. Lula Goens Smith has recently purchased a fine home on Church street Mrs. Mary E. Hill fell and broke her arm recently just as she was about to start from her home to go to church. Mrs. Louvenia Lake and her daughter have returned home after a visit to friends in New York. Mr. William E. Nelson and Miss Mary Nelson, gave a course dinner in honor of Mr. Emmert Kenney, of Richmond last Tuesday evening. Those present were: Rev. and Mrs. David Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. George Robinson, Mrs. Mary Wright of New Orleans: Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Barnum, Mrs. Martha Franklin and Mrs. Mary Simpson Miss Gladiola Marshall of Baltimore, is the guest of Rev. and Mrs. F. S. Dennis. Catonsville Notes (Special) to The Afro-American Ledger.) Catonsville, Md., Sept. 18—Mrs. Stanley Hall and her son Herbert, were visitors in Catonsville Sunday. Mrs. Ellen Ryan visited her sister, Mrs. Eliza Hardy, Sunday. Mr. J. Croma Johnson is making quite an improvement on his barbershop. The funeral of Mr. John Williams, aged 73 years, who departed this life Friday, was held at Grace Church Monday afternoon. Rev. C. H. Murray left this week to spend his vacation in Long Branch and Boston, Mass. He will be away about two weeks. Mr. Spencer Lee of Providence, R. I., was the guest of his brother, Mr. Inmall Lee. Mr. Philip Holland left Monday to take charge of the school in Prince George County. Miss Frances Holland celebrated her nineteenth birthday Friday night with a reception. The guests, numbering thirty included many of her out-of-town friends. She was the recipient of many handsome presents. The Mortgage Club gave a successful lawn party Tuesday night at Odd Fellows' Hall. Mrs. Elizabeth Watkins is president. Crisfield Jottings (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Crisfield Md., Sept. 18—A new lodge of Pythians was set apart Monday night. The lodge starts with fifty members. Those taking part in the ceremonies included Grand Chancellor George A. Watty, Grand Keeper of Records and Seal Josiah Diggs, both of Baitimore; Grand Master of Exchequer H. M. St Clair, Rev S. S. Jolley and Dr. George O. Price, all of Cambridge. They set apart a lodge of 35 members at Hopewell Tuesday night. Anoter lodge will be instituted at Marion, in the near future. Frederick Breif (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Frederick, Md., Sept. 18.—Mrs. Lawrence W. Diggs, has returned from a pleaasnt visit to Atlantic City. Rev. S. M. Johnson held his second quarterly conference for Quinn A. M. E. Church recently. Rev. Davis Johnson, of Hagerstown and his members worshipped with Rev. John Porter, and his people at Quinn Chapel Sunday. Winchester Notes (Special to the Afro-American Ledger.) Winchester, Va., Sept. 18—On Friday the closing day of the Winchester Fair, the Tenth Calvary, entertained in their best style. While the entire regiment did exceedingly well, the drill by troop G. in their bright new uniforms was the best yet. Never has Winchester witnessed anything to equal it and the white people showered upon them praise and applause. Mr. and Mrs. James Laws held a reunion yestreday. Those present were Mrs. Lavinia Moore, San Antonio, Cal.; Mr. James Laws Knoxville, Tenn.; Mrs. Mary Laws Miss Katherine and Mr. Wm. E. Laws, of Baltimore; Mrs. Katherine Laws, of Winchester and Mrs. Mary Mackey and daughters, Carlie, Pa. Mrs. Mattie Wallace, of Baltimore, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Wm. H. Dirks. Mrs. Edna Blue, of Washington, D. C., is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Wm L. Good. Mrs. Harriet Lampkins is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Grace Johnson, of Baltimore. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cumbreland, of Harrisburg, Pa., have returned home. The Men's Day exercises at John Mann M. E. Church Sunday night were largely attended. The program was very fine. The number were: Solo, Rev. A. P. Shaw, pastor; paper, Mr. Lucien Hays Nickens; solo, Mr. Wm. L. Good; address, Sergeant Alexander, Troop G.10th Calvary solo, Rev. J. Luther Martin, an address, by Mr. C. Mount Lovett The music was under the direction of Mr. James E. Robinson The collection was over $15. The white people present requested that "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" be sung, which was done, the audience joining in he chorus. Mrs. Mary Bryan and daughter have returned from a trip to Washington where the went to visit relatives. [Name] 2 Thomas L. Jones, the well-known Washington attorney, who delivered one of the principal addresses at the Perry Celebration, held by the colored citizens of Buffalo. His address was favorably commended upon by the daily papers of that city. Mr. Jones has recently been in Canada, where he was warmly received. He was one of the few colored men that heard Lord Haldane deliver an address before the American Bar Association. Officers Elected At the regular monthly meeting of St. Mary's Male Beneficial Society last Monday night, the following officers were elected: John R. 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Hair Straightening. --- Afro-American-Ledger Members National Negro Press Ass'n Published Every Saturday AT THE AFRO-AMERICAN BUILDING, 628 N. EUTAW ST. BY THE Afro-American Co. J. H. MURPHY, Manager. C. & P. Phone, Mt Vernon 2833. UP-TOWN OFFICE: 1320 Druid Hill Avenue. O & P. Phone, Madison 342. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Payable In Advance One Year.....One Dollar Six Months.....Fifty Cents Three Months.....Forty Cents Single Copy.....Three Cents Postage Prepaid by Publishers. Outside of the United State the price is double. Entered at the Baltimore Post Office second-class matter We are not responsible for the return or preservation of unsolicited contributions on any subject. All articles sent to this office for publication, must have the writer's signature or otherwise such article will be ignored. Churches and others having news notices will please have the same in the office by Thursday to insure publication in the week's issue. Correspondents will please have all communication, in the office by noon on Wednesdays. All communications intended for publication should be addressed to THE AMERICAN LEDGER, 628 North Eutaw Street, Baltimore, Md Advertising rates made known upon application. All Checks, Money Orders and Drafts should be made payable to THE AFRO-AMERICAN CO. BALTIMORE, SEPT. 20, 1913 The Republicans have had their lovefeast also. When will the progressives have theirs? --- The "mountain labored and brought fourth a mouse." The Democratic convention has come and gone and the same old leaders and the same old ideas, learning nothing, and forgetting nothing, prevailed. Will the people be always contented to be fooled by a name? --- The prognosticators are at work and a long and a hard winter is predicted spurrirees are building nestssooner, rabbits have thicker hair, wild nuts are more plentiful, ad libitum, etc. & etc. This is enough to make any man who has not got his winter coal in the cellar and a good warm overcoat in the chest covered with camphor balls, get chilly even now. --- Many of the pastors who have been away on vacation have returned home, we hope with renewed vigor and with excellent health, prepared to take up the work left partially idle during the summer months, and give their parishoners the benefit of their renewed strength and energy. But what of that poor pastor who has not had a vacation? He ought to get help from somewhere. Who will help him? --- How we pity these poor segregationists. They seem to be unable to sleep at nights. We have a new Richmond in the field, a Mr. Curtis. A new candidate for public honors at the expense of the black man's rights- We predict, however, for him and his bills a defeat as bad if not worse than that of the West bill. All will go into the discard. We have got our eyes open on Brother Curtiss. So much has been said about Baltimore being behind the times. That it does not measure up to its opportunities along business lines. There is good reason for this. Baltimore is saddled with a Democratic ring, almost as bad as Tammany, in New York. Again it is burdened with a lot of bourbons who come here from the South and want to saddle on Baltimore their ideas of segregation and jim crow- ism. Here our city-fathers (?) are meeting night after night and instead of trying to do something to build of Baltimore, trying to find some way to satisfy a few pessimistic and chronic kickers by keeping prosperous colored people from living on decent streets. This is why Baltimore is behind in so many things it ought to be away up head in. BEHIND THE TIMES. The pastor of a church was recently commenting in his pulpit on the poor attendance at the class meetings of his church. From what we have been able to learn, this same condition prevails in most Methodist churches. The principal cause of the lax attendance on class and prayer meetings is that the class and prayer meetings have failed to keep up with the times. Class meetings are conducted today pretty much as they were forty or fifty years ago. The church has grown away from these meetings. The same is true of our prayer meetings. Nowadays, in order to have a revival we have to go out and get a man or woman who makes a business of conducting revivals. This was not true years ago. Every pastor was in himself a revivalist. Prayer meetings and class meetings were conducted in a way that led up to a periodical revival. The prayer meeting to certain extent has taken on modern ideas and methods with fairly good results, but the old fashioned class meeting remains the same, and this is why the attendance has been so small, and in all probability it will eventually be done away with altogether. If class meetings in the future are to be continued, they must be conducted along modern lines. Instead of the old fashioned tuning fork we have the modern pipe organ; instead of the old fashioned choir, we now have the modern vested choir, with pastor in gown hymn books in hand, and bibles in the pews. Modern ideas prevail and we believe with just as much interest, if not fervor, in the service. Why not modernize the class meeting? --- THE SOCIAL EVIL. The only proper way to cleanse a stream of water is by beginning at the head of the stream and cleaning out the fountain itself. Recently in this city we have heard a good deal about the social evil and how to get rid of it. A good many well intentioned persons believe the best way to get rid of it is by scattering it and breaking up the districts in which it abounds. Others think the best way is to segregate it and thus bring it under control of the powers that be. Both are wrong as results will ultimately show. The only right way is to begin at the source. For many years there has been a double standard of righteousness, one for the man and another for the woman. This is wrong. Men should be held to as strict accountability as women for their wrong doing. This is not usually so. It is often said that young men must "sow their wild oats" and this sowing of wild oats often means the downfall and degreation of young women, while the young man goes scot free, and is looked upon as being only a "little wild," and that he will soon get over it and settle down. But when he has settled down, how many young women have been his victims only eternity will be able to tell. If we have a real desire to get at the bottom of this awful evil which is sapping the very foundation of our society and bringing disease and death to the community, destroying thousands of young women every year, the way to do it is to commence with the young man. Either by precept, example or law, bring him to realize the awful responsibility that rests upon him. Teach him that the young woman he marries has as much right to expect to find virtue in him as he has a right to expect to find in her the same. This is getting at the fountain head and until this is done, we may expect, (reformers and segregationists to the contrary notwithstanding) conditions to continue very much as they are at present. --- THE GUTH MURDER CASE There seems to be a great deal more in the Guth murder case than has been brought out up to the present. Judging from the statements made by Guth, he was the aggressor altho he seeks to put the blame on his victim. Here is a matter that should be sifted a great deal finer than we have reason to believe will be done by the police department judging from the fact that a house could be stoned and all the windows broken in a neighbor- hood not more than two blocks from the Police Station, and the police know nothing about it until next morning. Evidently the policeman was not doing his duty, for a thing that happened in the early hours of the night not to be known until next morning and then by the man of the day force. It does seem that there should be some accounting somewhere. Either the night man was not patrolling his post or he intentionally kept out of the way. In either instance here seems to be good room for inquiry by the authorities. Will the Police Board inquire into these matters. THEY SERVE WHO WAIT Such has been the political history of the Negroes in Maryland, that with the approach of any election they are most impatient in their efforts to "line up" for some party or candidate. Possibly we ought to qualify this statement somewhat. It is not so much the great bulk of Afro-American voters who are thus so impatient as it is the various groups of local leaders, acustomed to a certain kind of political activity. As painful as it must be to such groups of political workers, yet the naked truth is, ours is simply to serve by waiting. Thus far, there is no ground whatever for any special interest on concern upon the part of colored voters. If things continue as at present, each colored voter will have thrust upon him the difficult task of making a choice between political candidates, on both sides, equally indifferent with respect to things which specially and vitally concern the race. We cannot change this situation. But, it is possible, that 'ere long, matters may assume a different phase. Neither the so-called Republican party or the Progressive party are, either separately, or combined, adequate to the task of bringing re-relief, were they so minded. Hence there is little to hope for from such quarters. We had hoped that the struggle for control within the ranks of the Democratic party would have been so serious and aggressive as to result in a division, or split within their ranks. In such an event our opportunity would have been presented. Between ring methods and ring candidates on the one hand, and decency and efficient candidates on the other, at the path of duty ours would have been less difficult. It must however, come sooner or later and herein is the philosophy of our text, "They serve who Wait". Let us not forget, however, that "waiting' is not synonomious with idleness. Waiting constitutes a season of preparation. The peculiar character of the present political situation emphasizes the urgent need upon our part of preparation. Neglecting this, at a time when we expect not, the division in the present Democratic family will dawn and find us unprepared to avail ourselves of the advantages of the situation. Preparation does not mean the organization of campaign clubs upon the eve of an election, or the assembling of mass meetings of Negroes for the purpose of appointing a committee to wait upon the leaders. We must forget all our old methods which are out of date, and bring into being such agencies as are in keeping with the spirit and politics which now dominate public affairs. In a calm, dispassionate, and business like manner we need to organize ourselves for education and cooperation. We must organize not for the purpose of receiving and spending money or to appear prominent in public affairs but in the simplest way possible to inform one another in small groups of what is what, and how to act untidily in such a way as to effect the highest good of the many. Politics is only one phase, and possibly not the most important of the many civic concerns which pertain to our welfare. If an organization concerns itself with only the one phase of our common needs we shall hardly succeed in arusing such general interest as would make effective for good such organization. But, with a scope so general and unselfish as will be generally evident, there shall be the least difficulty in securing the cooperation of all truly patriotic citizens. Our present duty is not one of idle waiting for something to turn up, but rather is it the most gracious season for "turning up" something; some medium or method for a more intelligent and sincere cooperation upon the part of all our people ready to embrace any agency which sincerely and truly looks to the betterment of the race. John R. Auter, a well known Chicago attorney, was in the city this week. LATE LITERARY NOTES. The Rev. Dr. George F. Bragg, histographer of the Conference of Church Workers has recently put forth a most interesting booklet on behalf of the Negro Episcopate. In the introductory portion with respect to the late Bishop Whittingham of Maryland is the following bit of Maryland history: Says Dr. Bragg. "The witness of Maryland on behalf of church work among Negroes is peculiar to itself. Bishop William Murray Stone born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and a lineal descendant of Governor Stone of the Maryland Colonial government of 1648 was the first in the records of the church in this country to ordain a Negro in the ministry of the Church on Southern soil and that too in the presence of a white congregation on Eastern Shore in the year 1834." In this year of jubilee when we are celebrating fifty years of freedom it is peculiarly interesting to read of such an important historical event which occurred long before the proclamation of Abraham Lincoln. When Lee surrendered to Grant in 1865 there were only three colored men regularly ordained ministers of the Episcopal Church. These were Rev. Harrison H. Webb of St. James Church, this city the Rev. Samuel V. Berry of New York and the Rev. William Johnson Alston, of St. Thomas Church, Philadelphia. Mr. Alston moving to Ohio, was the first colored man in the Episcopal Church to regularly graduate from a Theological Seminary. In 1859 he graduated from Gambier, Ohio and was immediately ordained to the ministry by the Bishop of Ohio. Since that time colored men have graduated from every Episcopal seminary in the country save two located in the Southern states. Against the three colored priests at the close of the war there are now one hundred and fifty. The present effort in the Episcopal Church is to secure the necessary legislation whereby Negro Bishops may be consecrated for service in this country. It is not at all strange that there are colored people opposed to Negro Bishops since there are those opposed to Negro priests. Certainly if such prefer white men for their pastors it would hardly be expected that they would find pleasure in having Negro Bishops. However the outlook for Negro Bishops in connection with the New York General Conference next month is most promising indeed. In every instance in the Episcopal Church where colored communicants have the right of ecclesiastical franchise they have colored rather than white pastors. And it is equally true with respect to Negro Bishops. Negro Bishops in the Episcopal Church means Emancipation of the colored people connected with that church and when such emancipation has been secured such will become a power among their own race. Teachers Institute In Session Westminister, Md., Sept. 17—The Carroll County Teachers' Institute were entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Adams, of S. Court street. There were solos duetts and recitations rendered by Mrs. Alice Costley and Misses Gladis and Mary Costley, after which the teachers and friends were served with refreshments. Those present were: Mrs. Alice Costley, Mr. Jonas Thomas, Mrs. Mary E. Thomas, Western Chapel; Mrs. V. P. Cook, White Rock; Mrs. Ada Walters, Windfield; Mrs. J. Powell, Mrs. Thomas Bruce, Rev. J. O. Norris, Mrs. Wm. O. Brown Mrs. Gray of Baltimore; Misses Gladis and Mary Costley. PETER H. BURKE REV. DR. E. C. MORRIS President of the National Convention, who delivered a notable address Wednesday at the opening of the annual session of the convention at Nashville and the celebration of the semi-centennial of the issuance of the Emancipation Celebration, held in connection therewith. P. FATHER J. HENRY DORSEY Who will conduct mission at St. Monicas Catholic Church, Hill street, near Sharp, beginning this morning at 10.30 o'clock. Services will be held nightly next week. Father Dosey is a native of t his city and was ordained here in 1902. He is now stationed at St. Josephs, Ala. Colored Men Scarce At Republican Convention Colored men were rather scarce at the Republican State Convention held at the Auditorium Theater Thursday afternoon. There is usually a good representation from the counties, but colored county politicians seem to have been by otherwise this time. Anne Arundel county had several colored delegates however. Councillinn, Harry S Cummings was a member of the committee on resolutions. The platform, which was drafted some weeks ago, endorses the initiative and referendum and woman suffrage and declares for a longer term for colored schools in the counties. The plank relating the race fol- "We hold it essential for the preservation of the republic in it integrity that all citizens, regardless of nationality race, creed or station, should stand equal before the law. We further hold that the advancement of the best interests of the people makes it the duty of the State to provide equal opportunity for all our youth, without discrimination, to obtain a common school education." There were a number of former Bull Moosers in attendance and the platform has a progressive flavor. Charles R. Schirm, former Bull Mooser, read the resolutions. The candidacy of Thomas Parran for United States Senator was endorsed and John B. Hanna was reelected chairman of the State Central Committee. Oliver Merrott and A. M. Denhard were endorsed for State Comptroller and Clerk of the Court of Appeals, respectively. George A. Watty served as one of the secretarias of the convention. --- Entertained Third Regiment Mr. and Mrs. William Dorkins, of 605 N. Eden street, were the recent hosts at a reception given in honor of the crack Third Regiment of the Cincinnati Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias. The wives of a number of the company were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dorkins during the K. P. sesison. The reception was a fine affair, and the visitors were treated to genuine Maryland hospitality. Regiment has carried of all prizes for more than a decade. --- Church Celebrating Anniversary Annapolis Md., Sept. 19—Exercises incident to the fiftieth anniversary of Mt. Moriah A. M. E. Church are in progress. Rev. Dr. P. W. Wortham preached the anniversary sermon Sunday. Local Masonic lodges had charge of the services Sunday night. Prof. John R. Hawkins, financial secretary of the A. M. E Church, was one of the speakers this week. The exercises will continued for a month. Elected Officers At the meeting of the Shelburne Pleasure Club Monday, September 15th the following officers were elected: Leonard Stannmore, president; Clayton Smith, vice president; Walter Wilson, recording secretary; Julius Mason treasurer; Webster Bloxen, manager; Herbert Wise, secretary. News From Easton Easton, Md, September 18. Prof. R H. Gibson was in Baltimore this week. Mrs. John Deaver Boston has returned to Baltimore after visiting relatives here. A rally was held in Bethel A. M. E. Church Sunday. BOOSTS AND KNOCKS The Editor of Boosts and Knocks makes his bow to the readers of the Afro this week. Our column will be devoted largely to affairs of local interest. We intend to boost everything that deserves boosting and likewise knock] everything that deserves knocking. We shall not knock, however, for the pleasure of knocking, but in order that in the end we may be able to boost. Any communications in reference to what may appear in this column should be addressed to "Booster Knock" 628 N. Eutaw street, Baltimore, Md. What's the Matter With Home Products? It is a question with us whether our boys and girls get the proper consideration when appointments are made in the High School. It seems as if any one from any place is preferable to those who have grown up in the schools of this city and prepared themselves for teachers for service in the higher schools of learning. While we believe that teachers for the High School should be selected with the utmost care and that only the best material should be selected, regardless of where they come from, we believe just as firmly, that, when graduates of our own schools have prepared themselves for those positions, all things being equal, they should most surely be given the preference For the past few years the Baltimore High School has been considered by many as the training camp for young out of town teachers. These young men and women come here with no intention whatever of staying. They stay just long enough to get the necessary experience that will enable them to accept more lucrative positions elsewhere. This is bad both for the school and for the children. It will readily be conceded that the best results cannot be obtained where the faculty is being constantly changed. With young men and women, residents of this city, the products of our own schools, this constant changing would most certainly be minimized. They would be content to accept the salary the city offers for their services in order to be at home, and they would not so likely be urged away by offers of a little more money from schools in other cities. The city of Baltimore is expending an enormous amount of money each year for the education of her colored youth, in order that they may grow up to be useful citizens in the community in which they live. It is right, therefore, that those who are prepared, should be given every opportunity to show to the city that makes possible their education, that the money expended upon them has not been wasted. The ambition of any boy or girl who graduates from our high school to some day becomes a teacher in that high school is a laudable one and when by perseverance and hard work they have made themselves eligible to teach here, they should be given the preference at all times. We believe it is possible and hope the time is not far distant when the Baltimore Colored High School will be manned exclusively by Baltimore teachers. We are proud of the graduates of our high school. They have done well and will do better. Give them a chance, encourage them. Above all things do not discourage them by giving appointments to every Tom, Dick and Harry from some other city, who are no better prepared than they, and by so doing dampen the ardour and ambition of those who are coming after them. "Let down your buckets where you are." --- Now that the summer is over it is about time you folks who subscribed to the Y. M. C. A. fund were commencing to "dig" down in your "jeens" and pay up that money. For goodness sake, let us get rid of that matte and start on that building. The present Y. M. C. A. building it is a disgrace to Baltimore especially since other cities so much smaller than Baltimore, have buildings so much more pretentious. Wake up! Get busy! Pay up! Then there is Provident Hospital. Let us get busy and build us a first class hospital here. The Citizens' Committee certainly did some fine work in behalf of the hospital last spring. Get together again boys and put, in some more strong blows for a better hospital. Let the kickers kick. You are doing a laudable work and the masses of the people will stick to you to the end. Get your men in line Sir Bernard. Analyzing a Name. When Poincaré, the famous mathematician, was formally received into the French academy Frederic Masson in welcoming him gave the desirable mathematical tinge to his address by questioning the correctness of the name. Geometrically, he said, the notion of a square point was intolerable. Therefore it was obvious that "point carre" could not have been the true derivation of the name. It must have been "pont carre." The philologists took M. Masson seriously and began poking around in their musty records for a better original source than either "point carre" or "pont carre." And they soon found it in the person of Petrus Pugniquandrati, a student of record in the year 1403. Furthermore, in 1418 a French namesake of Pugniquandrati appeared in the person of one Jehan Polquarrre. From all of which it seemed plain that the original Poincarées were not square points, but clenched fists.—New York Post. Dust In Flour Mills. It has been many years since there has been an explosion of flour dust resulting in serious loss of life and great property damage. This is due to the fact that millers have learned more about the explosive nature of finely powdered material, and the former carelessness in providing receptacles for the dust has been succeeded by a system of dust catching and disposal which makes a flour mill perfectly safe from this danger. In old fashioned milling methods flour dust was turned into a room provided for the purpose, but large quantities were allowed to accumulate on the mill floor and become distributed over the machinery. When these deposits were disturbed the atoms floated about in the atmosphere, creating danger from fire and making it difficult for workmen to breathe. Asthma frequently resulted from this condition, and incipient explosions were not infrequent.—Northwestern Miller. "Bob White" Likes Music. A baby quail was captured and brought to the house. The large cage provided for him stood upon a square of oilcloth, and this was little Bob White's ranch. The door of his house was always open, but he seldom wandered beyond the limits of his own domain. One thing invariably tempted this little recoil to venture forth, this was the sound of music. Like a small boy racing after the band, the moment the tones of the piano reached his quick ear he started on a run, and the quick pat-patting of his tiny feet announced his approach. He would circle about the piano and, with a fluff-fuff of his short wings, mount to the keyboard. The little square corner at its end was his opera chair, where he cuddled down contentedly as long as the music continued, at times expressing his appreciation by a contented soft, purring sound.—Suburban Life. Money Value of a Woodpecker. The slaughter of migratory birds is surely followed by the increase of destructive insects. Among the best of the farmer's bird friends are the woodpeckers, especially the redheaded members of the species. In proof one careful observer says: "A pair of them nested in a dead cottonwood tree near my uncle's orchard one year. One day I watched them through a pair of opera glasses. The young birds were about half grown. The parents made ninety-six trips in one hour, each time with a worm. It is safe to say that they saved ninety-six apples in that hour—a box worth, say, $1. If the birds worked ten hours a day they were worth $10 to my uncle, or in the three weeks the birds were in the nest $210. Can a farmer afford to kill a woodpecker?"—Youth's Companion. How Capital Grows! Two centuries ago the sum of £5 was bequeathed for the education of the children of poor inhabitants of Lytham. In course of time the fund grew to nearly £500, and this sum was invested by the trustees of the Lytham charities in a plot of land which now forms the center of Blackpool. Within the last fifty years the corporation of Blackpool has paid about £100,000 for the freehold rights of small sections of this estate, and it is believed that in course of time the value of the property owned by the charities will reach £500,000—London Express. Naturally. An American motoring through a small Scotch town was pulled up for excessive speed. "Didn't you see that notice, 'Dead slow?'" inquired the policeman. "Course, I did." returned the Yankee, "but I thought it referred to your bloomin' town."—London Answers. Faith, Hope and Charity. "How did that ne'er do well manage to live?" "In hope that if he inspired enough faith he might live on charity."—Baltimore-American. Mother—Now, children, I want you to kiss Miss Lemon goodby. Elder Brother—Come on, Billy, be a sport. It'll be over in a second.—Life. Man. Petty Man. Knicker-There's plenty of room at the top. Bocker-Yes, but your wife lets you have only the bottom bureau drawer.-New York Sun. So She Did. "Jack proposed to me while turning the music for me at the piano." "Ah, I see! You played right into his hands." By the street of By and By one arrives at the house of Never.—Cervantea. Vacation is now over and we are ready for work. M. B. REV. JUNIUS GRAY, D. D. President of the Emergency Association and Corresponding secretary of the Mt. Bethel Baptist Association, is conducting evangelistic meetings with the Antioch Baptist Church, Mt. Horam, Bethlehem and Psalmist, with much success. These meetings will continue wherever Providence may afford the opportunity in Baltimore SPECIAL NOTICES SPECIAL NOTICE. Excelsior Lodge. No. 6, K. of P., will have their annual, sermon preached on Sunday evening, September 28th at 8 p.m., at Trinity A. M.E. Church, Linden avenue and Biddle street. All of the subordinate Ldoges, the Grand Lodge, Drill Ranks and Court of Calanthe are cordially invited to be present on said date. Sir Goerge A. Watty, grand chancellor and his cabinet; Mrs. Rosa Richardson, grand worthy councillor; General Lewis E. Williams, Brigadier General of Maryland. Sir. Samuel Christ, C. C. Sir. Wm. H. Johnson, Captain. Rev. L. C. Curtis, Pastor. Special Notice You are hereby notified to meet at Odd Fellows Hall, Winters Ave. Catonsville, Sunday, September 28, at 2;30 p. m. In full Masonic dress to assist Landmark Lodge, No. 40 in their special service, to be held at Grace A. M. E. Church, Catonsville, Rev. P. T. Perkins, of Washington Grove will preach the sermon. By order of J. P. Evam, M. W. Master Take Ellicott City or Frederick Road cars and get off at Winters avenue. Notice We have found it necessary to advertise our place as the Waiters and Cooks exchange having had so many callers during the previous year and half. We are located at 1102 Pennsylvania Ave. Call or phone to this address. The Afro-American Ledger Also on sale here. John T. Martin, Proprietor Cards of Thanks 1 We wish to thank our many friends for their kind attention during the illness of our husband and father; also the many floral designs and the deep sympathy that was extended. Mrs. Ida P. Johnson Miss Carlitta P. Johnson Mrs. John H. Thomas We wish to thank our many friends for kindness shown during the sickness and death of our sister and wife, Sadie E. Dent. Mr. Clarence Dent. Mrs. Blanche Leakins. Mrs. Tyson Boston. Memoriam CAMPER-In loving remembrance of our dear mother, Prisilla R., who died one year ago today, Sept. 20th, 1912. Thy hands are clasped upon thy breast; I have kissed thy loving brow, And in my aching heart I know I have no mother now. By her daughters, Laura Walker and Fannie B. Miller. DIED—Mary Elrann Robinson, departed this life on Tuesday, September 16, in Kent Co., Md. She was the daughter of Mr. Robinson. 438 Orchard street, this city. - ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ ▲ Rev. R. W. Fickland, pastor of Bethel A.M.I.E. Church, is recover ing from a brief illness. Mr. Thomas Smith, of 1115 W. Lexington street, has retruned from a visit to Cambridge announce the opening of Saturday Dancing Class; September 20th, 1913, Fishermen Auditorium, 411 W. Biddle St. Continuous Music, Competent Instructors and Chaperons FEE 20 CENTS Class will be held Sept. 27th, and Oct. 4th. 9-13-20 in THE MAGIC HAIR GROWER Agents Wanted. .....Good Money Made Selling It. I want an agent in every village and city to sell The Magic Hair Grower—A Wonderful Hair Dressing for Ladies. Used a Straightner, with or without Irons, 25 cents per box. One 25 cent box will prove its valve to any woman. I truly believe that any woman that uses one box of this Wonderful Hair Grower will be so well pleased that they will continue. Send 25 cents in Money Order and we will forward you by mail a full size box as a trial, and full directions how to use it. Persons wishing to become agents will send $1 00 and we will send them a supply to begin work at once and agents' terms. Send all money by Money Order to, --- $75.00 DANIEL EASTON $75.00 FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER 916 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE Don't make mistakes any longer. Don't be bound hard and fast to the old family undertaker who hasn't half the facilities and none of the progressiveness of Daniel Easton. Inspect my window display and see what I give you. OPEN ALL NIGHT 'Phone Mt. Vernon 5496--Day&Night A Great Monster Night And A Grand Time AT EBENEZER A. M. E. CHURCH TUESDAY, SEPT. 30th, 1913, 8 P. M. Dear Friends: You are cordially invited to attend divine worship and the great monster organization meeting that will be held at Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, Tuesday, Sept. 30th, 8 P. M. Rev. A. L. Gaines, D. D., the distinguished Pastor of Waters A. M. E. Church, will delivered the principal address of the occasion. Thanking you in advance, we are respectfully. Bishop J. Albert Johnson Club of Ebenezer A. M. E. Church. Isaiah Smith, Captain. Rev. J. W. Norris, D. D., Pastor. Special—A Grand Monster Organization March will begin at 7.45. Presidential March at 7.50. All are welcome. We come early. To the members of Executive Board of the Women's Federation: Please meet at the Y. W. C. A. Building, 1200 Druid Hill Avenue, Monday, Sept. 22nd, at 8 P: M. Business of importance to arrange for the annual meeting in October. DAY'S MEETING-All Day's Meeting at Brown's Grove, Sunday, Sept. 21st, under the auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society of Centennial and Mt. Zion M. E. Churches. Our many friends and the public in general are invited to go with us. Steamer Starlight leaves Miller's Wharf at 8.30 A. M. and 2.30 P. M. Reys, N. M. Carroll, D. D., and Matthias Williams, Pastors. For Sale 3 fine 3-story houses in the 1300 block N. Mount street One 3-story house in the 1000 block N. Carey street. These are bargains. GROSS & GRANT 2031 Division Street WANTED—A first class, sober, colored barber for white trade. $9 a week. Guarantee half over $16. Address S. H. Jones, M'g'r American House Barber Shop, Reading, Pa. For Sale—A splendid 3 story 9 room and bath house—2200 block of Druid Hill Ave., cemented cellar and furnace and in good condition. Terms $100 and the balance as rent. Adv. For Sale-A very desirable three story 9 room and bath house, Presstman street near Druid Hill Avenue, Cemented cellar and furnace sewer connections and in good condition, Terms $100 cash and the balance as rent. W. R. Parker. 917 Druid Hill Ave Fabrykin For Sale—A splendid 3 story 9 room and bath house, 1700 block McCulloh Street newly papered and painted and in good condition. Terms $125 cash and balance as $7.00 a week which pays all expenses. Will give a deed. Apply to William R. Parker. 917 Druid Hill Avenue. Adv. MRS. M. F. HANDY. Day at Eastern M. E. Church Patterson Park Ave. UMBER 28th, 1913 Produced by Mrs. Mary Wheatley. Brooks. Of Holy Temple, and Congregation. Special program rendered. Speakers, Mrs. Cornelia Anderson and others ons are cordially invited to orship with us. man of Platform Meeting. Mrs. Hattie Barnes, Secretary. s, D. D., Pastor. Meeting at Brown's Grove, Sun- nes of the Ladies' Aid Society of churches. Our many friends and to go with us. Steamer Starlight I. and 2.30 P. M. and Matthias Williams, Pastors. Special Notice Will Room and Board 8 GIRLS ages ranging from 6 to 16 years old, at my home' which is within3 to 5 minutes walk. of the Primary and Grammar Schools also the English and Latin High, and 15 minutes ride by trolley to the New England Conservatory of music--Boston, for the low fare of four dollars per week. For further information, address with enclosed postage, Mrs. Joseph Dorsey, Cambridge, Mass. 521 Broadway ARE YOU INTERESTED IN YOUR HAIR AND SCALP HAIR AND SCALE If So Let Mrs. S.E. Watson Treat it With Mme C. J. Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower Guaranteed to grow hair half and inch a month. A trial will convince you Anyone wishing to consult me can see me at my residence or drop me a card I have all of Mme Walker's Preparations for sale, Residence, 421 Saint Mary-St. Thousands of Ladies and Gents want to get married who have Thousands of Dollars, write for Particulars. JOHN C. WRIGHT 748 S. 15th, Street Phila. Pa. Phone, Madison 2783 or Address 1530 Druid Hill Avenue Have you seen MRS. MARIE FAULKNER who guarantees to make your hair grow. Have hundreds of references which can be given. One of the best Hair Creams known to Modern Chemistry. EASTERN M. E. CHURCH R. S. R. Hughes, Pastor 11 a. m., Preaching, Subject, "Apostrophe to the Dead." 2 p. m., Sunday School 7.30 p. m., Prayer Meeting. 8 p. m., Sermon by Rev. A. Smith. All are welcome JOHN WESLEY M. E. CHURCH Sharp St. near Montgomery Rev. Ernest Lyon, D. D., Pastor 10 a. m., Pastor's Bible Class. Those desiring to study the Bible are invited to attend. 11 a. m. Sermon by pastor. Subject, "The Judgment." All male captains are inyfted to be present. The roll will be called and amounts collected, will be announced. 3 and 8 p., m. Sunday School anniversary service. All are invited. Mrs. Jennie Mills, Supt. ASBURY M. E. CHURCH Rogers and Lexington Streets Ivy C. Fulton, Boston Rev. Geo. E. Curry, Pastor 11 a.m., Sermon by pastor. Subject, "The Three Crown's, a Question of Reward." Sunday School at 2:00 p. m. C. T. Stewart, Supt. 7 p. m., Epworth League. Echo Meeting of the Convention, 7.30 p. m., Preaching All cordially invited. WHATCOAT M. E CHURCH Franklin and Pine Sts."King's Hill 11 a.m. Preaching by pastor. Subject, "The Ped is too Short and the Covering too narrow." 3. p. m. Sunday School. 8 p. m. Sermon by Rev. J. J. Jones from the West. Tuesday night. Sept. 26th, Old Folk's Concert. Prayer meeting Wednesday night. J. F. Crowner Chorister, W. C. Tongue, Supt. Miss Edith Cooper, Pres. E. L. ST. MATTHEW'S M. E. CHURCH E. 23rd Street Rev. R. A. Green, Pastor 11 a. m., Sermon by the Rev. J. E. Williams. 2.30 p. m., Sunday School. 4 p. m., Epworth League. 8 p. m., Sermon by pastor. Mrs. Pearl M. Rice, Supt Mr. J. Fuller, Pres. E. L. Mrs. E. B. Fuller, Pres. Ladies' Aid St. Luke's Union A. M.E. Church THE HOMELIKE CHURCH Spring St. near McElderry Rev. Dr. C. Edward Brown, Pastor 515 North Caroline Street 9 a. m. Class Meeting. 11 a. m. Sermon by pastor 2.30 p. m., Sunday School 3.30 p. m., Sermon to the classes by Rev. G. B. Singleton. 4.20 Prayer meeting 8 p. m. Special sermon to G. U. O. B. S. S. & D. of by the pastor. Mid week services, preaching, prayer meeting every night, visiting bands. A welcome to all M.T. HERMON PRESBYTERIAN CH Cor. Mullinik and Spring Sts. Rev. T. H. Lee, Ph. D., Minister Residence, 552 Dolphin St. 3 p. m. Sunday School. W. B. Marshall, Supt. 8 p. m. Grand Fall reopening of Sunday night services. Special sermon by Rev. Dr. Geo. F. Bragg. Choice mmsie by the choir of St. James P. E. Church All are invited. Every possible attention given to visitor. AMES MEMORIAL M. E. CHURCH Carey and Baker streets Rev. D. W. Shaw, Ph.D., D.D., Pastor 6 a. m. Class Meeting, Thomas Lane Leader 11 a. m. Sermon by the pastor 2 p. m. Sunday School, Mr. Henry Johnson, Superintendent 8 p. m. Preaching and Song Service Wednesday, Sept. 24th Preaching by Rev. Dr. Williams of Antioch Baptist Church. Thursday night, Sept. 25th, Dark Night Service, sermon by Rev. Josiah Reason. Please bring Gospel Message No. 3. You are invited to attend the Services on Sunday, September 21st, 1913 Mr. Benjamin Locks, Graduate of Columbia University will make an address upon his proposed work. Miss Elizabeth Ireland will play a piano solo. Mrs. M. Minor will preside. M. E. Murphy, President E. E. Bright, Secretary. Mrs. H. C. Smith, Gen'l Sec. PARADISE CAMP-MEETING Sunday, September 21st, 1913 The old time fire is still burning. 11 a. m., Sermon and class. 3 p. m., Sermon by Rev. T. R. Sinkfield. 8 p.m., Rev. R. T. Leake. His congregation from Cowdensville. J. A. Briscoe, Pastor. Where are you going? To the Gold Dollar Supper and Old Folks Concert given under the auspices of the Sons and Daughters of Allen of St. John's A. M. E. Church, Lexington near Pine Monday evening, Sept. 22, 1913. Who will be the lucky person to get the Gold Dollar baked in a biscuit. For the benefit of the Fall Rally. Admission 15 Cents. Supper free. Refreshments on sale. Mrs. Daisy Beamer, Pres., Miss Susie Dennis, Sec., Rev. L. S. Flagg, Pastor. DAY'S MEETING At Brown's Electric Grove, under the auspices of the Ladies Aid Society of Asbury M.E. Church, Sunday, September 28th. Steamer leaves Miller's Wharf at 8.30 a.m.,and 2.30 p.m. Round Trip, 25 Cents. Miss Emam Jenkins, President Mrs. Martha Pinder, Treasurer Miss Priscilla White, Secretary Rev. G. E. Currur, Pastor. ALLEN A. M. E. CHURCH Lexington and Carlton Sts Rev. P. J. Jordan, D. D. Pastor 11 a. m. Sermon by pastor. 2,30 p. m. Sunday School. We invite Parents and friends to this service. 3 p. m. Sermon by Rev. John Offer Custis, of Handy Mem., to the Auxiliary Stewards. His choir and congregation will be present. 7 p. m. Sermon by pastor. H. D. Brent, Supt. S. S. We welcome friends and visitors to these services TRINITY A. M. E. CHURCH, Linden Ave. and Bidd Rev. L. C. Curtis, D. D. The parents are requested to send their children to school and on time. Endowment Day M. Sermon by Ferdinand. Subject, "Love of Knowledge and Proof of It." 2:30 p. m. Sunday School. Special Literary Program in the main auditorium. 7.30 p. m. An elaborate program. Offering at the door. All invited. All are Welcome to our services T. J. Holliday, Supt. EBENEZER A. M. E. CHURCH Montgomery street, bet. Charles and Hanover Rev. J. W. Norris, D. D. Pastor Educational Day. 11 a. m. Sermon by Rev. Charles A. Williams, of Crisfield. Md. 2,30 p. m. Sunday School 3 p. m., Special services will be conducted by Mary Calloway. 8 p. m. Annual Sermon by Rev. C. A. Williams to Musical Academy Society and the Progressive Circle of Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, Presidents, Wm. H. Caldwell, Annie E. Scott and Annie R. Jones. Charles Tolson, Superintendent PAYNE A. M.E. CHUROH Calhoun and Laurens Sts. Rev. J. G. Martin, Pastor. Residence: 1160 N. Calhoun St. 11 a. m., Preaching by pastor. 2.30 p. m., Sunday School 3.30 Sermon by Rev. McDonald of Penna. Ave. A. M. E. Zinc Church. His choir and congregation. 7:30 p. m. Sermon by pastor. Strangers are always welcome. Chas. E. Dorsev, Supt. James E. Nealv. Pres. A. E. L. WATERS A. M. E. CHURCH Aisquith St., near Jefferson. Rev. A. L. Gaines, D. D., Pastor. 427 Aisquith Street 2.0 a.m. Sunday School 8 p.m. Educational Mass Meeting Prominent speakers will deliver addresses, Prof. W. H. McAbee, Mr. Franklin Johnson, Mr. J. W. Woodus will preside. Special music by choir. ST. JOHN'S A. M. E. CHTRCH Lexington St. near Pine Rev. L. S. Flagg, Pastor 11 a. m., Sermon by pastor 2.30 p. m., Sunday School. Bertha Fleming, Sunt. Bernita Fleming, Supt. 6.30 p. m. Opening of A. C. E. L. Miss Minnie Carroll, Pres. Music by St. John's Orchestra. 7.30 p. m. Sermon. The junior choir will sing and appear in their vestments. GILLIS MEM. M. P. CHURCH Stockton Street near W. Baltimore St. Rev. B. H. Knight, Pastor. 10 a. m., Class. 11 a. m., Pastor. 2 p. m., Sunday School. 8 p. m., Preaching Subject, Voice Was Heard From Hell T. H. McGowan, Supt. GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Dolphin and Etting Sts. Rev. W. E. Williams, D. D., Minister The Morse, 633 W. Lewland St. The Manse, 049 W. Laverne U. Services: 11 a.m., Sermon by the Pastor, 12.30 p.m., Sunday School 8 p.m., Preaching Lecture and Prayer Service every Wednesday, 8 p.m. Mrs. Eulalia Reid Calloway, Directress Wm. Anderson, Supt. Seventh Day Adventist Church G. A. Rodgers Pastor Services every Sabbath, (Saturday) Sabbath School 10 a.m. Preaching 11.30 a.m. Sunday night, Sept. 14th, at 8 p.m., Special Service. Subject, "Are Sunday Laws for the Good of Society?" All are welcome to these services Marley Camp Meeting. The Annual Camp Meeting of Hall M. E. Church, Marley Neck, Md., will commence Sunday, Sept. 14th, and close Sunday, Sept. 28th. Preaching at 11 A. M., 2 and 7 P. M., by invited ministers. Prayer Meeting by the Union Praying Bands. Everybody invited. How to reach the Camp Ground from Baltimore on Sundays: Take auto stage at Beach street, Curtis Bay, from Curtis Bay Line cars. Leaving at 9 A. M. and every hour following the day for Camp. Round trip 30 cents. Launches from Flood's Pavilion every hour to Muhl's Landing; 30 cents round trip. Conveyances from Muhl's Landing to Camp Grounds, 20 cents round trip. Rev. E. W. S. Peck, Pastor, Henry Franklin, Manager. Wm. Pearman, Assistant Manager. Henson R. Hall, Sec'y. Greenbury B. Spencer, Astistant Sec'y. J. Garrison Edwards, Treasurer. Andrew Franklin, Chief Usher. Come and Buy Your Clothing From Mme. Brown-Wade, 2145 Division Street. Private dwelling Largest and cheapest clothing business in Northwest Baltimore. Ladies' dresses from $1.00 to $7.00. Separate coats, shirts and waists. One piece dresses from 25c. to $6.00. Men's separate coats 50c. Men, women and children's shoes from 25c. to $1.25 per pair. Evening and wedding gowns on hand. Open from 8 a. m. to 9 p. m. WANTED—At Handy Mem, A. M. E. Church, Baker and Bruce sts., 5 Local Preachers, 10 Extra Class Leader, 20 Extra Sunday School Teachers, 20 Parish Workers. See the pastor on Sunday at 11 a. m., 2.30 and 8 p. m. Nashville, Tenn.—All will have to agree that I am one of the most best men in the world, for you see where I was when I wrote to you the last time and the time before that and the time be fore that and see where I am when I write to you today and where have been since I wrote that letter and you will be forced to say "The Son do move." : I am right here in Birmingham, but before you can even get this letter I will be in Nashville, and will be in Nashville, when you read this letter and will leave there Monday for Omaha, Neb., and from there will jump to Chicago, and from there to Galveston, Texas. Now, what do you call this? You may answer when you get the time. In the letter I wrote to you last week, I was talking about an organization which has caused this Southland to open its eyes and wonder. "The Royal Circle of Friends of the World." I did not get to join it myself and I am going to try one time to get my name on their books. I am sure that I am a friend and I need only now to get in the Royal Circle. Well they have plenty money and they are just paying your widows and orphans right off when you die and you do ot have to sue for it nor place it in the hands of some lawyer to get a part of it for making the collection. You must prove that you are dead, and then the money is paid at once. I am sure that I told you that Dr. R. A. Williams, was at the head of the order, and his brother was the medical examiner. He look after your physical condition. You must come with good health and not too old to get in the order and when once in, if you should get in bad health they will not put you out, but look after you until you die, and then plank down some money to bury you and put you up a monument. I will never have one of them things because I started too late to make a mark. I will leave it for others. Mrs. Lula Blount, who is one of the leading women of our race is active in the order. She owns a fine drug store in Madison, Ark., which is the home of Scott Bonds, and she is one of the leading educators of the country and I am glad that I know her and know of her worth to the country, and to the people. But I must move. From Little Rock I went to Memphis, and had the pleasure of seeing some friends there. I was met by the leading undertaker there, Thomas H. Hayes and toted around the streets in his automobile. I certainly did enjoy that ride. We ended up at his home where his wife received me with a smile, asked about my private secretary and then served a fine lunch to both of us. Mrs. Hays is just a woman who knows her to treat the people who are friendly to her husband. That man is just full of friends. All kind of people seek to know him and to shake his hands and he shakes hands with all the people, and his wife is just like him. They worship the common people. With all of his home and money, he belongs to the people and the people belong to him. The Tabernacle Baptist Church had just purchased a contract for a parsonage, and they were warming it up. I went in bought some ice cream and other things, and then walked home with Misses Mattie Brown and Hattie Dobson, and when I returned Mr. Hays was waiting to tote me to the stable where I found the iron horse to tote me to New Orleans. I spoke there on Tuesday night, to men only, in the Franklin Street Baptist Church, of which the Rev.C.L.Fisher is pastor. Dr. Fisher is one of the leading preachers in Alabama, and I congratulate the church on being able to secure his services. He is just the right man in the right place, and he is going to make good. Already new people are being added to the church. I rode around with Dr. H. Roger Williams in his carriage and enjoyed getting around with him. I had the pleasure of meeting Miss Mabel Z. Mollison, stenographer and bookkeeper for Johnson and Allen the undertakers. Miss Mollison is the daughter of that great and good lawyer W. E. Mollison, of Vicksburg, Miss. M. B. Two prominent Pythians who suffered heavily from loss by fire at Hot Springs, Ark. I visited the office of Knox Brothers and found them as busy as could be burying the dead. These young men are certainly making good. I talked with them until I got through, and then there were other things to claim my attention. Lose All In A Fire. Word has been received in this city that the colored people of Hot Springs were hard hit in the recent fire there that caused $12,000,600 damage. The fire started in a section of the city, inhabited largely by colored persons, and spread ran- Out of Mobile into Mongomery, and while three I had to have a tooth half soled. I wanted to have this done in Mobile, but it was not ripe enough, and the doctor put something in it to make it get ripe by the time I got to Montgmery, but it did not get ripe then. Dr. W. F. Watkins, who is an expert in this tooth half soling business, put something in it, and told me to come back at 5 oclock, and at 5 oclock I was right there and he was there too. Now what happened I do not know, but he put something up in it, then twisted it around a time or two pulled it out and said he had the perve. I tell you we are making some headway in this country. Now just to think a man can take out the nerve business in a few minutes then half sole a tooth in a few more minutes, and told me to go. You see I have but two or three snags, and I am told to keep them. I am not able to buy new teeth, and then I may be like a friend of mine who got tickled and swallowed his own bought teeth, and the doctor had to pump them up. While in Montgomery I was the guest of Miss Hardie Martin and her mother, and called to see Dr. Newsom, and other friends. Then off to Birmingham where I had the pleasure of seeing Dr. U. G. Mason, and if you remember he use to be a member of the city officials. I mean to say that he was one of the city physicians, and he is one of the best doctors in the South. I had the pleasure of seeing him busy, and just going around for a few hours to see him go to see the sick. He has one of them go-in-a hurry cars, without horse or mule. I was right by his side; and some of the people (thought that was a new doctor in town. I called at the office of Windham Brothers, the contractors and building men. They were busy. One was out in Texas looking after business and the other was in town looking after business, and the office was in charge of Miss E. M. Cameron, bookkeeper and stenographer. She is a smart, polite and courteous young woman, knowing how to treat all the people who enter the office. While I was standing there I saw forty people enter and she treated them all the same. It means so much to have a young woman like this around. She is just the making of the office when they are away. Out to Tuggle Institute and found Mrs. C. A. Tuggle as busy as a hen with new chickens, getting ready to open school. Tuggle Institute is one of the schools in this country that is reaching the mark. Mrs. Tuggle is one of the great women of this age, saying nothing about race or color. I did not tell you that I met at the Business League in Philadelphia, one of the greatest men of our race, C. C. Spaulding, of the North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association, of Durham. He was busy organizing the insurance men who attended the convention. Just to think his company has $105,000 assets deposited with the insurance commissioner. I will have to tell you more about him later. J. O. MIDNIGHT. Pastor's Salary Raised. The First Baptist Church during the vacation of their pastor Rev. C. Neal, raised his salary to $75 per month. They also sent him as a delegate to the National Baptist Convention of which is holding its session at Nashville, Tenn., this week. THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGEN J. T. T. WARREN Stop Sufferin uffered heavily from loss by fire rings, Ark. Lose All In A Fire. Word has been received in this city that the colored people of Hot Springs were hard hit in the recent fire there that caused $12,000,600 damage. The fire started in a section of the city, inhabited largely by colored persons, and spread rapidly. Among the very heavy losers were Dr. C. M. Wade, superintendent of the Pythian Sanitarium, and J. T. T. Warren. Thier property was entirely destroyed and the sanitarium is a wreck. Both of these gentlemen are prominent in the affairs of the Knights of Pythais, and were in this city during the convention held here a few weeks ago. Plays Good Base Ball At Buena Vista Springs Hotel, the Buffalo Club made up a base ball team which has defeated the Pennsylvania team at Buena Vista all the summer. The Buffalo Club also gave its annual ball and minstrel show, which was more than successful, J. R. Askew, better known as the hair cutting king, president. James Hicks the "Tea Man," treasurer; W. H.Richardson, general manager; J. J. Mason, secretary; J. Deens, sergeant at arms, also champion plate pitcher. The "King" is home accompanied by his fellow officers, at his old stand and will be glad to have all his friends call, 466 Pennsylvania avenue. An Old Es.ablished Firm. Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 18. The firm of Goodridge Brothers, photographers, celebrated last week the fiftieth anniversary of its existence in Saginaw. This firm holds the record as the oldest establishment of the kind in Michigan. When the firm was founded half a century ago, it occupied quarters in the old Couse block, where the Eddy building now stands, but in 1871 removed to 220 South Washington avenue, its present location. Wallace L. Godridge is the only one now living of the three brothes who founded the studio back in 1863. He observed the anniversary of the firm's organization by giving a free sitting to every person who came to the studio. The Goodridge studio owns the largest collection of lumber camp pictures in the world and has done photographic work for practically every family in Saginaw. Masons At Union Bridge Union Bridge, Md., Sept. 18—Joseph P. Evans grand master of Masons of Maryland; William E. Fletcher, deputy grand master; Isaiah Smith, senior grand warden; Dr. Norris C. Burke, grand lecturer, and George T. Duppin, grand secretary, were the guests of Hiram Lodge, No. 11, of Libertytown, last Sunday. They were joined here by District Deputy Richard Walker, of Frederick, and Worshipful Master John W. Williams, of Landmark Lodge, Hagerstown. The visitors were met here by Joseph Howard and other members of Hiram Lodge, who took them in a touring car to the future place of meeting of Hiram Lodge. It was decided that the lodge would meet here permanently in the future, instead of Libertytown. Baltimore County News Special services celebrating the 52nd anniversary of St. James A. U. M. P. Church, Towson, will begin on October 5th and continue until November 9th. Rev. S. I. Mills, pastor of the church has arranged an elaborate program. Mrs. Isaac Gassaway and daughter, Mrs. W. I. Johnson, of Woodbourne avenue, Govans, are spending several weeks in Virginia. Anniversary services were held at Ruxton, M. E. Church last Sunday, at which time Rev. Dr. E. W. Scott filled the pulpit. TRADE PANCURAMARK If troubled with old standing, painful sores, sertoss burns, scalds, sore breasts boils, cuts, and all other eruptions, then give a trial the marvelous Pancura Salve for drawing, healing and pain reliefing. Panicura Salve has been in use in the old countroy over one hundred years. Panicura Salve is sold at drug stores. If your druggiat hasn't got it then send 25 cents, 50 cents, or $1.00 to the Pancura Chemical Co. Baltimore, Md. and we willsend prepaid. Fourteen classes of exhibits including African Industries, Health and Physique, Labor and House Service, Trades and Business, Agriculture, Professions, Education, Religion and women and Social Uplift. The most complete exposition of Negro progress ever made An historical pageant October 22, 25, 28; and 30 with 250 actors in full costume and orchestra music composed especially for the occasion by Major Charles Young of the United States Army and others. For further information address, The Emancipation Commiision, Cor. 7th Avenue and 131st. St. New York City WHEN IN BALTIMORE .Smith Smith's Hotel. 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Randall BAGGAGE EXPRESS 551 Laurens Street Near Pennsylvania Avenue FITZHUGH HALL—Merchant Tailors 402 Druid Hill avenue Dyeing, Cleaning, Altering, Pressing Ladies and Gents Suits made to order. Goods called for and Delivered Mt Vernon 5041 NIXON BROS. MERCHANT TAILORS Dyeing, Cleaning, Pressing, Repairing Suits and Overcoats made to order 1302 Pennsylvania Ave. Madison 8732M Work called for Madison 8778 M When you want a first class Sewing Machine you think of BUTLER The Sewing Machine Man 1211 DRUID H ILL AVE. 911 Druid Hill Avenue WE HAVE IT Madison 4125-2735 TERRELL & McNEILL PHARMACISTS "Different from the rest." Cor. Carey and Presstman Streets H. L. JOHNSON'S Baggage Express 544 Lanvale St. nr. Pennà Ave. Res. 1526 Druid Hill Ave. near McMechen Street Green's Prescription Pharmacy, Cor. Carey and Winchester Sts. Prescriptions filled at moderate prices. JACOB G. BECKETT 2231 DRUID HILL AVENUE Furniture and Pianos Carefully Removed in City or Country WM. A. JANIE'S CLEANING AND PRESSING ESTABLISHMENT 534 W. Biddle Street Cheapest rates. Work call for and delivered. L. H. DAVENPORT New and Second Hand FURNITURE, CARPETS, Etc. 1006 Pennsylvania Ave. GEORGE H. SIDDONS Pennsylvania Ave. cor George St Everything in Flowers Brown, Gross and Howard Dealers in Soda Water and Confe- tioneries. Lowneys and Hershey's Chocolates a specialty, All fresh stock In the Palm Garden of DALY'S AERDROME 115 Penna Av W. B. HARRIS 1362 North Stricker Street .GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS.... On Sale. Fine Full Stock. Call or Phone Orders Taken. Madison 4690 M. 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 Tobacco 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 8 p. m. daily Sunday by appointment. Phons, Madison 4125—2785 GEO. F. BLACKISTONE 1315 PENNA AVENUE Shoe Repairing While You Wait My work has no equal. My Prices can't be beat. Work called for aid delivered ALLEN J. JONES 1339 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE FIRST CLASS RESTAURANT Meals at all hours. Transient Boarding and Lodging Soda Water & Ice Cream. Mad. 3615 WM. H. LAYTON EXPRESS FOR HIRE 606 LANVALE STREET Baggage called for and delivered to all parts of City and R.R. Depots Telephone Madisou 373g Y 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 Mercers W.M. R. PARKER Real Estate Broker and Investor Property bought and sold on easy terms 917 Druid Hill Avenue Mr. and Mrs. William H. Gipson Formerly of 310 S. Sharp St. has opened a Grocery Store at 2008 Etting St., near Presstman, with a fine stock on hand at moderate prices. WASHINGTON AND LAND IN SOUTH LABORS OF MONROE N. WORK New York Emancipation Exposition Commission Employs Statistician of Well Known Southern School to Prepare Charts and Diagrams Illustrating Economic Progress of the Race. New York.—A New York paper, the latest addition to the ranks of the Nerophobe, philo-Vargaman journals of the metropolis, chose as the subject of one of its frequent anti-Negro fulminations a statement attributed to Dr. Booker T. Washington at the recent convention of the National Negro Business league relative to the vastness of the unoccupied lands in the south. The lands, it says, await the toil of black hands and the sweat of black braws to make them fields bearing fruit for the benefit of Major Bales of Cottonville and Colonel Julep of Minthoro. "This Washington." says the paper in question, in its usual surrealistic tone, "has a variable head for figures, but it will be interesting to know where he gets them. It may be that in the next twenty years or so the rural Negro population in the south will increase by 600,000, but that section now has lands awaiting that number of Negro settlers nobody will believe. Where does Washington get his figures, anyway?" He gets them from Monroe N. Work, the cipher man of Tuskegee institute, and he gets them from somebody who knows what he is talking about. For this reason also Mr. Work has been engaged to prepare charts and diagrams illustrating the economic and social progress of the Negro for the emancipation exposition to be held in this city next month. Historian Who Knows His Business Mr. Work knows about the vacant lands in the south, because, as he says, he was born "in the woods" of treedell county, N. C. His steady upward climb to the place he now holds has given him an intimate acquaintance PETER H. HARRIS MONROE N. WORK with the woods and fields of practically every southern scrae. In fact, he had so much to do with the soil in Dixie that it was not until he had reached his twenty-third year that he had a chance to go to high school at Arkansas City, Kaua. A lazy man would have said he was too old to go to school at that time of life, but Monroe N. Work stuck to it and rapidly overcame the disadvantages and lack of opportunity of his earlier years. Graduating from high school, he attended the Chicago Theological seminary. He then entered the University of Chicago, where in 1902 he received the degree of Ph. B. Another year of graduate study in sociology and economics brought him the M. A. degree, for which he presented a thesis on the "Negro Real Estate Owners of Chicago." Since 1906 he has taught at the Georgia State Industrial college, at Savannah, and at Tuskegee, where, in addition to his duties of furnishing the figures for Dr. Washington's lectures, he compiles the admirable Negro Year Book. Typical Son of the Sunny Southland. Mr. Work's career is typical of the possibilities for broad culture and all around development open to the ambitious and industrious colored man. Born on a farm, appreciating the importance of agricultural training for the Negro, Monroe N. Work knew that he could broaden his sphere of usefulness to himself and to society by going to high school to prepare himself for entry and a successful course of study in one of the leading institutions for higher education in the country. The New York communication commi- sion's best guarantee of the mea- nurey of his therapy and education is i instructing Neuro progress is his own prominent figure as a successful pro- gressive Negro. Those who seek it formation or have any to offer rela- tive to his work for the exposition should address him at Emancipation Preachment commission, 2217 Sevent avenue, New York city. LOTT CAREY CONVENTION. Influential Baptist Organization Holds Profitable Meeting In Washington. Washington.-The educational and missionary work which the Lott Carey Baptist convention is doing in West and South Africa was one of the interesting features of the recent meeting held in the First Baptist church in this city. The sessions were all well attended and the delegates from the various churches manifested great interest in each report submitted. Plans for the extension of its missionary and educational work were formulated and favorably received by the ministers and delegates after being discussed. The Siberian government ceded a tract in South Africa, on which a school and church will be built in the near future. The convention started a fund to aid in the erection of the proposed buildings. Provision was made to assist the work in South Africa. President C. S. Brown of Winston-Salem. N. C.. delivered a most timely annual address, which included accounts of the achievement of the convention during the year and a forecast of what should be attempted in the future. Jey, William M. Alexander of Baltimore, who has been corresponding secretary of the convention since its inception, gave a comprehensive report in detail of the trials and successes of the missionaries employed by the association, together with an itemized statement of the financial aid given these foreign field workers by the convention. The organization has raised over $40,000 for mission work. The Woman's auxiliary to the main body held its annual meeting at the same time. The reports from this meeting were most gratifying. It was freely admitted by President Brown and other officials that without the assistance which the woman's department gives each year it would be impossible for the convention to accomplish the great task of sustaining financially its missionary and educational work in the manner in which it has been able to do for the past year. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS HELD FINE BIENNIAL MEETING. Recent Gathering Was Harmonious. Hawkins Supreme Chancellor. Philadelphia.—After a most harmonious and successful session the thirteenth biennial meeting of the supreme judge of Knights of Pythias and the supreme court of Colonnthe, eastern and western hemisphers came to an end Saturady, Sept. 6. The business sessions were held at the Masonic temple. The reports submitted showed that the order was debt free and prosperous. The beneficial department was reported as having met all claims, amounting to $14,000, within the past three years. The offices of secretary and treasurer of the fraternal and beneficiary departments were created. The next session will be held in a New England city. The supreme lodge elected the following officers: W. Ashleigh Hawkins, Baltimore, supreme chancellor. W. H. Hillis, New York city, supreme vice chancellor; W. E. Grandison, Cambridge, Mass. supreme keeper of records and seal; W. W. Lawrence, Newbern. N. C. supreme master of exchequer; J. C. Anderson, Crewe, Va. supreme prelate; J. R. Farrar, Bridgeport, Conn. supreme master at arms; J. B. Marrin, Harrisonville, Va. supreme inner guard; W. H. Burton, Newbern. N. C. supreme outer guard; George E. Gordon, secretary of the beneficiary board; W. H. Heathman, Providence, R. L. treasurer of fraternal and beneficiary board; the Rev. W. Spencer Carpenter, Philadelphia, major general of the uniform rank; G. Fred Freeman, Cambridge, Mass. Solomon Tripp, Baltimore, and T. G. Schuyler, Boston, supreme trustees. The supreme court of Calcutta elected the following officers: Mrs. Jennie Ross, Baltimore. supreme worthy counselor; Mrs. Adaline Johnson, Philadelphia. supreme vice counselor; Mrs. Carrie Harris, New York city, and Mrs. Ella Tripp, Baltimore. supreme escorts; Mrs. Phoebe Stewart, Hartford. Conn. supreme orator; Mrs. Julia Hatch, Philadelphia. supreme receiver of deposits; Mrs. Elizabeth Wright, Philadelphia. supreme register of deeds; Mrs. Jessie Draper, New York, supreme register of accounts, and Miss Ida R. Cummings. Baltimore. supreme organizer of juveniles. St. Paul Church Burns Mortgage. The pastor and members of the St. Paul A. M. E. church in St. Louis are jubilant over the fact of having cleared their church property of debt. Dr W. Sampson Brooks pastorate of twenty-two months at this church has been a great blessing to the many members of this particular parish as well as to the denomination at large. During his brief ministry at the St. Paul church Dr. Brooks has raised over $14,600. Such a leader is worthy of the highest office in the gift of his denomination: Well Known Christian Worker Dics. Mrs. Isabella Quaries, a well known religious, charitable and social worker in Brooklyn, died on Saturday, Sept. 6. She was a teacher in the Concord Baptist. Sunday school for many years, a member of the Ladies' auxiliary of the society of Sous of Virginia. Linen Shower club and the Dorcas Home Mission society. THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER Billy Higgs and I, being in Paris when the warm season was coming on, thought we would go to Switzerland. We had both been in Europe several years studying languages and were well equipped with both French and German. So we concluded to tramp about, mingling with the people, and not give away the fact that we were Americans. We went to Interlaken by train and from there laid out pedestrian tours. One of the first we made was to Grindelwald and thence up the side of the mountain to Schilderg. There we got a good dinner, after which we walked up a short distance to a point where we could see the glacier. It was very wild and magnificent and all that, but seeing such sights is not what I am going to tell you about. In the afternoon we walked down the mountain to Lauterbrumen and shortly before we reached that place came up with a couple of Swiss girls dressed in the costume of the country. It occurred to both Billy and me that if we could walk the rest of the way with two pretty girls—no girl could be homely in the Swiss costume—it would be away ahead of trudging alone by our own uninteresting salves. As we passed them I bowed politely, took off my cap and, pointing to a mountain whose name I knew as well as my own, asked in German—the language mostly spoken in this part of Switzerland—what it was. "That's the Eiger," replied one of the girls. I boldly expatriated on the beauty of the scenery, envied those who lived always in the Alps, and as soon as I ran out of something to say Billy took up the dialogue. The girls did not seem averse to forming our acquaintance, and it was not long before we separated them. Billy walking beside one, I beside the other. We both pretended to be Germans of the lower class, though not Swiss. I got in as many nice things to my girl as I could think of, and she being to the country born and unsophisticated I didn't hesitate to lay it on thick. Every now and again I could hear Billy, who was walking with the other girl only a few yards ahead of me, doing the same thing. When we reached Lanterbrunnen the girls bid us goodbye, saying that they lived in a chalet beyond the town. We were near a refreshment house standing beside the road, and I invited them to go up on to the porch for a cheese sandwich and a glass of the beer they drink over there, which is so dreadfully mild that it wouldn't intoxicate a mouse. After a consultation apart from us they said they wouldn't mind being refreshed after a long walk, and we all four went up on to the porch, took a table and called for the beer and sandwiches. Billy was talking glibly about our life on the farm at home when one of the girls said: "You are not a farmer; neither is he. You are both gentlemen." I looked at Billy, and Billy looked at me. "How did you find that out?" I asked. "We have so many tourists about us all the time that we could tell their nationality no matter what disguise they might put on. You are not German either. Don't you suppose we can tell a German from a Frenchman or an Englishman?" "What nationality are we?" Billy asked. "You wear French clothes, but you are not French. You are either English or American. I think you are American." "By Jove, Billy," I exclaimed in the plain American language, "they're smarter than I thought they were." The girls were very much tickled that they had been able to tell our nationality. They asked us to teach them a little English. So I rold the one I had walked with to pronounce the words "I love you." She spoke them. "I love you," and asked me to translate them into German, but there was a look in her eye that made me suspect that she already had an idea as to their meaning. I told her they meant "Thank you." Meanwhile Billy was amusing himself by telling the girl to say "Kiss me," telling her the words mean "Good morning." Billy and I kept looking at each other, laughing over the fun we were having, and by and by the girls said they must go on home. We asked permission to attend them, but they declined. At parting one of them said: "We thank you for your kindness, gentlemen. Though we are only poor Swiss farmers' daughters, we seem to have amused you." "The thanks are due to you." I replied, "since you have given us a very pleasant hour." "Don't you think," said Billy, "that there was some shemanigan about those girls?" "What do you mean?" "Seems to me they know more than we think they do." A week later we were in the casino at Lucerne when I heard a woman's voice behind me speaking with the real American accent. "For heaven's sake, Julie, where have you been all this time? I've been looking for you everywhere." I turned, and there stood our Swiss-peasant girls. "Stunner" cried Billy, and the girls burst into a laugh. SUNDAY SCHOOL. Lesson XII.—Third Quarter, For Sept. 21, 1913. THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES. Text of the Lesson, Ex. xxxii, 15-20; 30-35—Memory Verses, 19, 20—Goider Text, i John v, 21—Commentary Prepared by Rev. D. M. Stearns, We may summarize Ex. xxv to xxxi, inclusive, as the Lord's instructions to Moses concerning the tabernacle, of which the principal vessel was the ark of the covenant containing the two tables of the law. We cannot think of Israel as a nation without a tabernacle or temple, and when finally restored we shall see a fulfillment of Ezekiel to civilii. The reason why of the tabernacle is seen in Ex. xvv. 5. "Let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them," and concerning the temple that is yet to be we read in Ezek. xiii. 7. "Son of man, the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever, and My holy name shall the house of Israel no more defile." Compare Rev. xxl. 3-5. The section concerning Moses with God in the mount ends with these words: "And He gave unto Moses when He had made an end of communing with Him upon Mount Sinai two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God" (Ex. xxli. 18). Today's lesson gives us the sad, sinful, earthly side of the story while Moses was absent scarcely six weeks. The people who had seen the love of God to them, and His power on their behalf in Egypt, at the Red sea, in the giving of the manna and quails and water from a rock, and had heard His voice out of the midst of the fire, could not live an ordinary, uneventful life for forty days without wondering what had become of God and of Moses, their leader. If we see special providences, special indications that God is working for us, handfuls of purpose dropped for us (Truth ii. 10), manifest tokens of His loving care, we are ready to sing and praise; but, if weeks or months or even days come and go and there is nothing out of the ordinary, do we give Him occasion to say of us: "Blessed are they that have not seen yet have believed," or "O ye of little faith!" When they came to Aaron with their complaint concerning the absence of Moses and their request for something visible to worship, what a splendid opportunity Aaron had to stand for God to remind them of the command they had just heard out of the midst of the fire—not to bow down to the likeness of anything, to call their attention to the daily manna as an evidence of the constant care of Jehovah and to insist that they worship the Lord their God and serve Him only. It seems as if Joshua would have done so, or a man like Daniel or his friends. How can we account for Aaron's listening to them, asking for their gold earrings, melting them into the form of a calf and deliberately fashioning it with a graving tool? (Verse 4.) When Moses rebuked Aaron for his great sin, hear part of his reply: "Thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief, for they said unto me, make us gods which shall go before us. * * * I asked for their gold, so they gave it to me; then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf" (verses 22:23). Then just think of the death of the 3,000, for which he was responsible (verse 25). This is called a temperance lesson, and if used as such it seems to me that the harm brought to many by the misconduct of one comes in here very strongly. But what shall be said of preachers who, to please the people and keep their position, either keep back the truth or teach what is not truth? All who stand before others as leaders should remember Gal. l. 10; I Thess. ii. 4. Notice how Moses stood with God in his showing them by a most striking object lesson how they had broken the law. in his grinding the calf to powder and making them drink it. in his call for those on the Lord's side to slay even their own kindred if guilty of worshiping the idol. The response of Levi is referred to in Mal. ii. 5-7. some of the words being "the fear wherewith he feared Me and was afraid before My name: " " " He walked with Me in justice and equity and did turn many away from iniquity." Their faithfulness that day is referred to by Moses in these words: "Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren not know his own children" (Deut. xxxiii. 9). This is part of what it means to be on the Lord's side, not simply giving a testimony in meeting, but standing against our dearest ones if they stand against God, even as our Lord said, "We that loveth father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me, and be that loveth son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me" (Matt. x. 37:39). Consider the pleading of Moses with the Lord before he came down from the mount, for up there the Lord told him of Israel's sin and how they had corrupted themselves and turned aside quickly out of the way (verses 7.14). Consider also his request to be blotted out of God's book rather than not have Israel forgiven (verses 31. 32), and think of the Lord.Jesus being actually made sin for us. The most beautiful cemetery in Baltimore. Owned and managed by the A. M. E. Churches of Baltimore and vicinity. Lots from $16.00 up. on easy terms. D*G. Hill, President J. G. Martin J. W. Norris, Vice President P. J. Jordan C. H. Murray, Treasurer Alfred Nixon A. L. 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Teacher training and organization will be discussed by Dr. Hartman of Chicago. Mrs. J. Woodbridge Earnes, of New York will discuss the graded lesson system and give light on difficult problems. Dr. E. L. Lewis, of New York will outline the perplexing "Boy Problem." Dr. C. C. Jacobs will discuss the difficulties and possibilities of religious education for the youth. In this institute, fountains of wisdom are opened at our doors. Let no one deny himself the pleasure and profit of the institute. Free and frank discussion of all subjects will be a feature of the meetings. --- Miss Evelyn V. Blackston was quietly married to Mr. George Denis at the parsonage of Macedonia Baptist Church, by Rev. D. G. Mack on Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis are both well known among the younger set in Baltimore, both being graduates of the high school, classes of 1911 and 1912 respectively. They will reside at 1138 N. Carrollton avenue, where they will be at home on the 21st of September from 4 to 7. CERTIFIED The Advisory Council of the Hagerstown District A. M. E. Sunday School held its first meeting on Thursday, September 11, at the residence of Miss Ella A. Brown, 1351 N. Calhoun street with District Superintendent E. A. Henderson presiding and Miss F. E. Gilbert, secretary. The following plan of work was adopted: Arouse interest in Sunday Schools throughout district; Help finance needy schools; Publish Sunday School magazine; Arrange quarterly institutes. Promote efficiency of Sunday School workers. Public meetings to be held during the next month at Winans, Wayman and Cowdensville were planned. Celebrate Birthday The second annual birthday reeption was given by Mr. and Mrs. William Harris, on 790 W. Mulberry street, Thursday September 4 1913 in honor of their daughter Edna S. Harris. The table was beautifully decorated and the evening was spent with much pleasure by her little friends. Quietly Married Miss Gertrude Wright, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Wright, and pupil in the Teachers Training school, of this city and Mr. Lewis Weaver were married at the residence of Rev. Dr. G. F. Bragg, Jr., rector of St. James Episcopal Church, Tuesday. They are making their home for the present with the groom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter T. Weaver, of 575 Presstman street. Off On A Visit Anita B. M. Turpeau, 10 years old, daughter of Rev. D. D. Turpeau, superintendent of the colored department of the Anti Saloon League, has gone to Central Alabama College, to be with Miss L.A Turpeau the sister of the Superintendent, who has been for the past few years an instructor in that institution. Dewitt Jr., who has been spending the summer at Mt. Kisco. N. Y., will return with his father, Rev. Turpeau who is in New York this week for a few days. Making Preparation For Session Preparations are being made for the holding of the annual session of the Council of Presbyterian Ministers, Elders and Laymen at the Madison Street Presbyterian Church next month. The speakers will include some of the best known churches in this section of the country J. REV W. M. ALEXANDER Who was reelected corresponding secretary of the Lott Carey Foreign Mission Society at its recent session. White Rowdies Interfere With Peaceful Propertyowners Encouraged by the attacks that a certain daily newspaper is making on colored people who seek better home in blocks occupied largely by whites, made an attack on a colored family Tuesday that had bought and moved into the dwelling at 709 W. Lanvale street. A similar attack was made on a colored family at 828 N. Stricker street. Windows were broken in each house, but no arrests were made. A mob prevented a colored family from moving into the 1100 block of Myrtle avenue. --- Prominent Minister Visits City Rev. Dr. J. Wiley, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church, Providence, was a caller at the office of the Afro-American Ledger a few days ago. He led the fight which resulted in W. A. Heathman, of Providence being sent as one of the Rhode Island delegates to the Perry Centennial. 一 James M. Seward who was taken ill in Brooklyn, N.Y., some weeks ago, is reported to be in an improved condition. Miss Alethea Weaver has returned from a visit to Atlantic City. Dr. R. M. Hall, of 16 Mosher street is a member of the Grand Jury for the September term. Mr. Eugene Thomas has returned from Canada where he spent the summer. Miss Hazel McBeth has returned from a visit to New York. Mrs. B. Wilson, of 902 Warner street left the city this week for a trip to Atlantic City the guest of her aunt, Mrs.Mary V. Warren. Mrs. Samuel R. Morsell, wife of Mr. Samuel R. Morsell, secretary of the Pittsburg Y. M. C. A., and son are visiting Mr. Morsell's father, 548 Lanvale street for a few days. Charles Hines of New York, is in the city for the race meet. Mrs. W. Ashbie Hawkins_ has ertured from Luray, Va. Mrs. Samuel T. Butler, of Division street and her little niece, Inez White, have just returned, home from a pleasant trip to Atlantic City and Philadelphia. They attended the opening of the Emancipation exposition at Philadelphia. Mrs. Emma Lester, who has been confined to her home, 1924 Druid Hill Avenue, as the result of a severe fall, is convalescing. Mrs. Amy Young, of 1014 Argyle avenue, has recovered from the effects of a bad fall Mr. William Jefferson, of 1106 Argyle avenue has gone to Essex county for a brief stay Elks Elect Officers Monumental Lodge of Elks elected the following officers for the ensuing six months Tuesday night: William H. Smith, exalted ruler; William L. Johnson, esteemed loyal knight; Richard Walker, esteemed lecturing knight; Edward James, inner guard; Nelson Price, secretary; Lewis E. Williams, financial secretary; Lawson N. Duffin, treasurer; Charles Wesley, organist; Morman Simms, master of social session; Edward Satchell, esquire, and Dr. Harry F. Brown, medical examiner. On Thursday September 11, Mrs Sarah Hardy was married to Mr. J. H. Robinson. Rev. R. Green. D. D. officiated. An elaborate reception was served on Monday evening, September 15. They will reside at 1706 Keyser street. Miss Roberta Hawkins has returned from Laura, Va. THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER STARLIGHT FITZHUH HALL, SARTORIALIST AND MERCHANT TAILOR 402 Druid Hill Avenue On account of increased busiess, on or about September 3rd. Will occupy the the store and building at 404 Druid Hill Avenue, next door to his present location good tailoring only. Phone Connection Free Refreshments Free Dr. Ker's Orchestra with Autumn creations Edward L. Slater, Joseph P. Chase, Conductors Cards of Admission 20 Cents Transfer ta Fredrick Road car west get off at Longwood Street. Car fare 5 cents. 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The regular business of the meeting and the programme was carried out. After which resolutions endorsing the good work of Rev. S. R, Hughes in securing the park and having improvements made suitable for the city churches and Sunday Schools for camp meetings and picnics; also recommended the Park to be a fit and proper place for church outings, and later a camp meeting association may be formed similar to that of Emory Grove, and cottages erected for tenants. There is now a great rush for lots. As high as forty lots have been sold in one day. The avenues and streets are being cut through and buildings going up at once. If you want choice lots, call on S. R. Hughes agent, 1427 Druid Hill Avenue. Don't delay. Adv. Training Class Now Open The International Teachers Training Alumni Association of Baltimore announces the resumption of the Union Teachers' Training classes for Sunday School Teachers and officers and prospective teachers of any denominations. Thursday, October 2, 1913, in the Metropolitan Sunday School building, Orchard street, near Druid Hill Ave. The only cost is the price of Text Books. For further information, Ask your pastor, or Geo l. Simms, Pres. 1309, Division Street. Florena K. Owens, Sec. 543 Presstman Street. Adv. The following dates have been booked: For Greater Brown's Grove SEPTEMBER 21. Centennial and Mt. Zion Churches. 28. Ladies of Asbury Church FITZHUH HALL, SARTORIAL 402 Druid I On account of increased busi- Will occupy the the store and bus next door to his present loc Phone Co A Holds Quarterly Conference The second quarterly conference was held at the Pennsylvania Avenue A. M. E. Zion Church Monday evening. Reports showed that the work, under the direction of Rev Dr. J. W. McDonald, was in a flourishing condition. The presiding elder of the Washington district, Rev. L. M. Blalock, filled the pulpit Sunday. Schools Resumed Work The public schools resumed work Monday, following the vacation period many of the teachers had attended summer schools and returned to their work with new vim The Carey Street School reported the largest attendance. At the High School, an enrollment of nearly 600 was reported. The annex for the High School, at 1119 Argyle avenue, is not ready for occupancy, a number of repairs having been delayed. The pubic night schools will resume sessoins next month The interior of Whatcoat M. E. Church, Franklin and Pine streets, is being refrescoed. Albert Johnson has charge of the work. The A. M. E. Ministers' Meeting will resume sessions at Bethel A. M. E. Church next Monday. Rev. Dr. J. W. Norris will read a paper dealing with civil and states rights. The annual session of the National Negro 'Nurses' Association was held here last week The next session will be held at Norfok. Miss M. F. Clark, Richmond, Va. was elected president. WATCH!!! For The Last MOONLIGHT. THURSDAY, SEPT. 25 LIST AND MERCHANT TAILOR Mill Avenue ess, on or about September 3rd. oldling at 404 Druid Hill Avenue, location good tailoring only. ↑ Mr. and Mrs. Philip Green also Mr. and Mrs. Augusts Austin of Philadelphia, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Edwards, 1619 McElderry street. Miss Alice W. Taylor of 1027 N. Carey street, has just returned from Newport, R. I., where she spent her vacation with her friend, Miss Helen Barton. Mr. Rossie M. Tolson has just returned from Narragansett Pier, R. I., where he spent the summer. Mr. and Mrs. Raglar spent Sunday with Mrs. E. Hill in Washington. Mr. James Todd, of 331 W. Preston street, is spending a few days in New York and Norfolk, Va. Mrs. Mattie Davis and son, of 2250 12 street Washington have spent the greater part of the summer in Jersey and are in Baltimore this week visiting Mrs. Thomas Webb, a sister of Mrs. Davis. They expect to return to Washington about September 20. Mr. James Hunter has returned home after spending a pleasant summer in Long Island, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. L. Easely, of Washington, is in the city visiting the parents of Mrs. Easely, Mr. and Mrs. Sampson of W. Biddle street. Mrs. Mayme Gross is visiting friends in Norfolk, Va. Dr. A. DeLeon, of Pottstown, Pa, spent Sunday the guest of Miss Gertrude Braxton. Mrs. Crotelle Payne, of 1130 Argyle avenue has returned home rom Atlantic City after spending the summer as the guest of Mrs Bessie Payne. Miss'Elizabeth Dove,of Williamsburg, Va., has returned home after spending a month with her uncleandaunt, Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Hill, of 1618 Division srteet. Mr. Walter Pinderhughes has returned from Boston, Mass., where he has been visiting relatives. Messrs. O. D. Hopkins and J. C. Mitchell are in the city enroute to Howard University. The Colored Young Women's Christian Association announces the opening lits of casses during the first part of October. Classes will be formed in embroidery sweing, domestic science, physical culture and Bible study. Dates will be announced later. Applicants many register with general secretary at any time. The Art Class will open October 6. The autumn work will open with a Home-coming and supper on October 10th. Miss Alice Hill, matron of the C. Y. W. C. A. has returned from her vacation in Washington. While in that city she was the guest of the local C. Y. W. C. A. She reported concerning the excellent work of the Day Nursery and Social Service Department as well as that of the Christian Association. 4. 40 Mr. and Mrs. Louis Wright, of 1230 Division street were greatly surprised this week on finding that their daughter Miss Flosise Wright, formerly of Greensboro, N. C., was married to Mr. Joseph B. Sawyer, of New Berne, N. C. They were quietly married at Alexandria, Virginia on July 28, 1913. They will reside at 1712 Druid Hill avenue. --- Only The Best. 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Mr. Thaddeus Copeland, of 1922 Druid Hill avenue, has returned from a ten day vacation much improved in heath. Mrs. R. F. Lee, Jr., formerly Miss Ella Morsell, and son spent part of last week in this city, visiting her aunt, Mrs. M. E. Denny, of 1915 Division street. Mrs. Mary V. Butler and her niece, Miss Inez White, have returned from a two week stay in Atlantic City and Philadelphi. Mr. Clarence Reed has returned from a trip to the Eastern shore of Virginia. Mrs. Elizabeth Gittings, of 770 Waesche street, has recovered from an attack of gastritis. Miss Alice Ward, of 625 George street, has returned home from Calvert Co., Md. Mrs. Florence Jenifer, of 1106 Etting street, has gone to Atlantic City, Philadelphia and New York for a short stay. Mrs. Lottie Harris, of George street, has gone to Chicago for an indefinite stay. Mr. and Mrs. James Murray, of 1831 Druid Hill avenue, have returned from a trip to Atlantic City. Captain and Mrs. W. Haynes have moved from 1834 Carey to 509 Laurens street. Mrs. Ida Lankford, of 503 Dolphin street, has returned from a visit to Queen Anne County. Miss Mary Martin, has returned to her home in North Carolina after visiting Rev. and Mrs. P. J. Jordan, of 1132 W. Lexintgon street. Mrs. Walter Williams, of 766 Waesche street has returned from a visit to Atlantic City. Mr. Charles H. Anderson, one of the largest fish and game dealers in Jacksonville, Fla., was in the city this week. Rev. E. H T. Bailey of Durham, N. C., was in the city Sunday. He filled the pulpit at Waters and Allen A. M. E. Churches during the day. Mrs. Mable Sample died at her home, 530 M-Mechen street, Friday morning after a lingering illness She is survived by her husband, mother and several brothers and sisters. Mr. John W. Goodin, 2315 Division street and Mr. Theodore Roberts, 863 Watts street are spending a few weeks on the Eastern Shore, at Ocean City and Easton, being the guest of Rev. Figets. Mrs. J. W. Goodwin and famil have returned from Georgetown, Pa., visiting friends. Mrs. Benjaimn Quigley 209 W. Hoffman street has returned home after joining her husband in New York and visiting relatives in Jamaica, L. I. Miss Martha Braxton, of Richmond, Va., is visiting her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. James Braxton, of Etting street. Mrs. Walter T. Weaver, of 575 Presstman street, is spending a few days in Atlantic City. Miss Mamie Thomas has moved from 1332 Etting street to 1924 Etting street. Mrs. Susie Bailey, of 551 Laurens street, has gone to visit her mother in Virginia. She will then be the guest of her mother-in-law. Mrs. Amanda Bailey, in North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Griggs, of 216 Dolphin street has returned from an extensive trip to Niagara Falls, Providence and New York. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Briscoe have moved to their new home 413 Robert street, which they recently purchased. Misses Marguerite and Claudia Thomas, of 1430 Division street have returned from a pleasant visit to Little Rock, Ark. For Rent-1 nice room on the second floor with owner. Furnished or unfurnished, 1809 Division street.