The Afro-American

THE AFRICAN AMERICAN LEDGER VOL. XXII NO. 25 OPTIMISM THE WATCHWORD AT Y. W. C. A. Campaign To Rasie Ten Thousand Dollars In Ten Days On In ABOUT $2,000 NOW ON HAND Monster Mass Meeting To Be Held Sunday At Metropolitan M.E. Church That the $10,000 which the Colored Young Women's Christian Associations is trying to secure in order to set a larger building will be forthcoming is the opinion of the many women throughout the city, who are working in unison with the campaign. The campaign opened Tuesday with enthusiasm, and the workers reported over $500 that night. This with $500 that had been secured a month ago made the campaign start out with over $1,000 in cash and pledges. When the workers reported last Friday night, about $2,000 had been secured. The ladies are displaying a fine spirit, their winsome smiles, and pleas to aid in the uplift of their sisters winning them subscriptions. Supper is given the workers each night, the waitresses being teachers in the public schools, students of the High School, Teachers Training School and Morgan College beside other young women. A big mass meeting in interest of the fund which must be raised before the end of next week, will beheld at Metropolitan M. E. Church this Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The speakers will be Rev. George F. Bragg, Mrs. Addie Waits Hunton, general secretary in charge of the work among colored Associations Miss M. E. S. Colt, the retiring general secretary of the local white Women's Christian Association Miss Eva Bowles, who has charge of the work among urban associations; Councilman Harry S. Cummings, and Charles S. Ward, who is in charge of the campaign that the white Young Women's Christian Association is waving to secure $400,000. The ministers of the city for the most part are aiding in the campaign, and the tosci will again be sounded in local pulpits Sunday. A fine spirit was shown by Rev. Junius Gray, when he brought his congregation, Psalmist Baptist Church, to the Association, and held religious services. Dr. Gray and a number of his members then made a substantial subscription to the fund. CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY Exercises incident to the twenty-ninth anniversary of Sharon Baptist Church came to a close last Friday night. The congregation is one of the most flourishing in the city. Rev. Dr. W. M. Alexander is the founder and present pastor of the congregation. BISHOP MURRAY. VISITS ST. JAMES JUDGE DAWKINS HEARS APPEAL The hearing of the appeal that W. Ashbie Hawkins entered against the decision of the Public Service Commission denying colored passengers equal accommodations on the boats of the Baltimore, Chesapeake and Atlantic Railway was argued before Judge Dawkins in the Circuit Court Tuesday. The argument was on points in the separate car law, Attorney Hawkins insisting that the law provided equal accommodation for both races. These he argued, have never been given the colored people. Judge Dawkins intimated in his remarks that he would overrule the decision of the Public Service Commission should the inequalities be not discontinued. The matter was brought to the attention of the commission two years ago and a number of witnesses testified as to the unequal accommodations provided for colored passengers. BATHING FACILITIES IN NEW SCHOOL HOUSE? That an arrangement should be made between the School Board and Public Baths Commission whereby bathing facilities may be installed in the 24-room school building that will be shortly erected on Caroline, Jefferson and Spring streets is the opinion of a number of those interested in the work of the Equitable Improvement Association, an organization of East Baltimoreans. This association led the fight to secure a new school building and now purposes launching out along other lines for the improvement of East Baltimore and its citizens. It is pointed out by members of the association that there are no public baths maintained for colored people in their section of the city. An effort was made sometime ago to secure colored people a section of a building that was going to be erected for whites, but the City Council annulled the project. The whites have four public bathhouses, while the colored people have only the one on Argyle avenue. This is too far for East Baltimoreans to use. When approached as to his views on the project for baths, Mr. William Anderson, principal of the Jefferson Street School, heartily commended the idea. "The city would hardly buy a lot to build the race another bathhouse," he said, "but a portion of the school building could be used for such a purpose. It would prove a boon to many school children, and would be in line with the sentiment of Western and Northern cities which provide these facilities. It would be an economical arrangement, too. The Afro-American Ledger should push the project." Ground is being acquired for the erection of a new school, lots on Jefferson, Spring and Caroline streets having been secured. The building will be the largest colored public school building in the country. The new building will take the place of those on Jefferson and on Bond streets. MAJOR MOTON TO SPEAK HERE Major R. R. Moton, of Hampton Institute, will deliver an address before the Women's Civic League at Young's Auditorium, Druid Hill avenue, Monday at one o'clock. He will be the guest of honor at a luncheon given by the league. Major Moton will speak at MeCoy Hall at four o'clock the same day. [Name] Frederick Douglass,anti-slavery orator and foremost and incessant champion of the rights of the race, whose 97th birthday occurs today. He was born on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and spent the early days of his life in Baltimore. As associate of William Lloyd Garrison, Benjamin Lundy and others he helped to popularize the anti-slavery movement. After the Civil War he filled many positions of profit and honor. Mr. Douglass died in February, 1895, a man whose fame was world-wide. LOCAL BAPTIST TALK OF AMALGAMATION The suggested amalgamation of the Colored Baptist and the Union Baptist Ministerial Meetings is a thing of the distant future, judging by the expressions of a number of influential members of the former body. Several weeks ago the two bodies met in joint session at Sharon Baptist Church to consider plans for unity of action. A committee headed by Rev. Dr. W. M. Alexander, was appointed to draft plans to be submitted to both meetings. This committee met Wednesday afternoon at Clayton-Williams University, and it is claimed, that a divergence of views was manifested. A number of the members of the Colored Baptist Ministerial Meeting declare that the suggestion for harmony of action between the two bodies was brought about by a desire to embarass Rev. Junius Gray, president of the Emergency Baptist Association. D*. Gray has among the members of his association a number of the ministers who have been affiliated with the Union Baptist Ministerial Meeting. A member of the Colored Baptist Ministerial Meeting in discussing the matter, said: "I do not favor any concert of action until the other side have settled their own differences. Neither do I care to be a party to a scheme to 'get even' with any man. We are not interested in any fight that may be waged against the Emergency Baptist Association. I do not favor any concert of action until they have settled their differences." The meetings were united a few years ago, but differences arce after a number of the ministers voted to meet elsewhere than Union Baptist Church, and a split resulted. "Lincoln as an Orator" was the theme of an address by Judge Robt. H. Terrell, of Washington, at the Lincoln Dav service at Morgan College Thursday evening. The speaker gave quotation after quotation from the writings and speeches of the war President to show that he was opposed to human slavery. Judge Terrell was congratulated warmly for his interesting address. He arrived in the city early in the afternoon, and was the guest of honor at a dinner given by Councilman Harry S. Cummings. Though President Wilson has not reappointed him as a justice of the Municipal Court of the District of Columbia he expressed the belief that he would again be named for the position. He has exceptional strong endorsements for his retention. APPROPRIATION ASKED FOR INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL Special to the Afro-American Ledger Annapolis, February 13.—Senator Chesley of St. Mary's County, has introduced a bill in the State Legislature appropriating $8,000 for the establishment of a colored industrial school for St. Mary's county and providing for it maintenance. A bill was introduced last week appropriating $25,000 with which to establish a colored industrial and agricultural school for boys under 18 years of age The State is to appropriate $10,000 a year for its maintenance and Baltimore City $5,000. Boys accused of offenses may be committed there while waiting trial. A bill is now in the Legislatur increasing the terms of colored schools in the counties to a minimum of nine months. PRICE THREE CENTS HE WAS SOME WARM Philadelphia, February 13.—In the frigid weather of last night about the last thing that could be expected to happen did happen to the ambulance crew of the German Hospital. A hurry call for assistance came to the institution shortly after 9 o'clock, and, Dr. Deegnan answering it, arrived at Twenty-eighth street and Girard avenue to find the colored driver of a coal wagon calmly holding up a large crowd while he fanned himself with an immense palm-leaf. He regarded the doctor and his aides with complete disdain. He assured the medical men that he had nothing whatever the matter with him, and, resuming his seat, drove away. WHITES GET SOME OF THEIR OWN MEDICINE Atlanta Ga., February 12.—Recorder Nash R. Broyles upheld the validity of the Ashley race segregation law last Saturday when he ordered a Syrian who had moved into a "colored" block on Hardee street, to vacate. Protests had been made by colored residents, who desired whites to feel the galling effects of the law. City Attorney James D. Mayson represented the colored people. Following futile efforts to rent one of his houses in a "white" block to a colored tenant, James Carey instituted injunction proceedings a few days ago to test the validity of the law. The law is similar to the one in force in Baltimore. DR. LYONS LINCOLN DAY ORATOR IN NEW YORK New York, February 13.—In an address at the Lincoln Day celebration of the New York Historica Society last night Rev. Ernest Lyon, of Baltimore, made an exhaustive review of the Japanese immigration problem. The colored people of this country, he said, sympathize with the Japanese, but should not let their sympathies carry them away from the patriotism due their own country. He declared that the criterion for the greatness of the American people would be the emulation of the spirit of Lincoln and Douglas that of doing good unto one's fellow men. Dr. Lyon was accompanied by Dt. J. Edmonstone Barnes. SUCESSEUL ORGAN RECITAL Annapolis, Md., February 13—Woman's Day services will be held at Mt. Moriah A. M. E. Church this Sundav. A successful entertainment was given at the home of Mrs. Lizzie Thomas, on Clay street, for the benefit of the church. Rev. P. W. Wortham is pastor of the church. A successful organ recital was given at St. Philip's P. E. Church by Mrs. S. human and company. A parlor social was given for the benefit of the organ fund of the church by St. James Guild Tuesday evening. Mrs. Hester Garver is president of the guild. Sarah A. Boston, who has been ill for sometime, is convalescent. Mrs. Sophia Ladeth is ill at her home, 71. North street. NEWSPAPER MEN IN SESSION Nashville, Tenn., February 13. Newspaper men are here from various sections of the South to attend the midwinter session of the executive committee of the National Negro Press Association, which opened today. Secretary Henry A. Boyd told of his efforts to establish reciprocal news service and of the general plans for not only increasing the usefulness of Negro Journals, but of inculcating the spirit of cooperation among those engaged in journalistic work. THEY ARE LOOKING FOR CHIEF SAM Forty Emigrants On Way From Oklahoma To Africa Meet With Disapportment The Promoter Said To Be Wanted In Other Places For His New York February 13—After getting rid of their possessions in this country 40 pilgrims arrived here from Oklahoma Tuesday, ready to embark on a 318 foot steamship that the Akim Trading Company has recently purchased from the Munson Line, for the Gold Coast of West Africa. Chief Alfred Sam, moving spirit in the company, and whose efforts have been directed to selling stock and getting people interested in his luring recital of the possibilities of the Gold Coast was not with the party and he was said to be in Boston. After besieging the office of A. C. Smith who has the agency for the products that the company expects to ship to this country from West Africa, the pilgrims took possession of the vessel. It appears that a still larger number will await the steamer when it reaches Galveston, Tex. Chief Sam is a native of the Gold Coast and tells marvelous stories of its possibilities from a trade standpoint. His company is organized under the laws of Dakota, and has sold it is claimed, several hundred thousand dollars worth of stock at $25 a share. Chief Sam though gaining many believers has been severely attacked in some quarters, the aim being made that his scheme is visionary. SCHEME IS CRITICISED Duke Mohamed, editor of the African Times and Oriental Review, London, says that the Gold Coast is a British colony and no lad can either be sold or given away by the tribal chiefs. He also asserts that if the British Government allowed colonists to have their own town that it hardly allow them to govern them. Dr. J. Edmenstone Barnes, former Minister of Public Works, who arrived here Thursday from Baltimore, says that no where in Africa, save Liberia, are Negro colonists wanted. He points that, Africa has been apportioned out among European nations and that, for the most part, these governments want the natives kept in a state of subjection, and that the emigrations of colored people from the United States would hardy be looked upon with equanimity. An Englishman writing to a local daily from the Gold Coast states that Chief Sam is wanted there by the police for selling stock to the natives and asserting that he has enormous concessions of territory for emigrants from this country. MISS NERNEY HERE Miss M. C. Nerney, of New York was among the speakers at a meeting of the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People held at Young's Auditorium Thursday night. At a meeting of the executive committee yesterday (Friday) afternoon, she explained the plans for holding the annual session of the association here the first week in April. IDEAL CENTER OF EDUCATION What the Students Are Doing At Jackson College. Institution Situated In the Heart of a Densely Populated Section of Mississippi Is Meeting the Needs of the Masses In a Practical Way Through Extension Work. Jackson, Miss.-Of the 10,000,000 colored people in the United States 1,057,000 are in the state of Mississippi. The significance of this fact is hard to appreciate until one travels over the state getting well out from the towns and railroads. Jackson college, situated near the geographical center of this state, is working along lines and devising plans primarily to meet the needs of this people. These efforts are not necessarily heralded abroad, but they are, nevertheless, deeply laid plans and will mature. In the first place the college authorities realize that the larger life of this people cannot be touched directly by it; that it must be the work of the hundreds of boys and girls who go from this school out among the masses. While it is a missionary school, it feels AVER HALL, JACKSON COLLEGE. that by no means is it sufficient now to graduate boys and girls with a mere sense of their obligations. Added to this there should be developed a certain leadership power based upon personal initiative and actual experience. To the end that this may be acquired students at the college are encouraged in the formation of organizations which they control, and various enterprises to be handled by them. In the way of making headway at teaching a night school is operated at the college which affords opportunity for men and boys of the city who must work in the day. This school is conducted by students, and so for with marked success. The college community has also organized a self supporting kindergarten, to which the advanced students have access for inspection and practice work. In addition to the usual literary and debating student organizations, a Young Men's Christian association carries on an extension work in the neighborhood by furnishing teachers to the various Sunday schools. Here actual work of the leader and teacher is had. This organization also maintains a room for amusement of its members looking to the needs of the social life. The physical exercises and athletics for boys and girls are directly under the management of student organizations. The planning for and financing of these various games call for the exercise of executive and business ability. Football, baseball, basketball and lawn tennis are all handled in this way. These are only a few of the ways in which the student is given an opportunity to develop along some line into an individual. If he is to be a leader there, is no very good reason why he should not develop signs in his college community. The college authorities feel that the success attending these efforts thus far warrants not only their continuance, but material enlargement. Cheering Words From Bishop Greer. Bishop David H. Greer is giving splendid encouragement to the work of the eight schools in the south for Afro-Americans under the auspices of the American Church institute. In a recent speech Dr. Greer said: "I have so much confidence in the capacity of the Negro to solve his own problem and so much interest in his welfare that if I were a younger man I would give up my episcopal office and give all my years and all my time to this work of the American Church institute." Florida Baptists to Meet March 18. The first annual meeting of the Progressive Baptist-state convention of Florida will be held at the Mount Gilboa Baptist church in Bartow, Fla. for four days, beginning on Wednesday, March 18. The Rev. L. A. Johnson, pastor of the Mount Gilboa church, and his congregation are making duplicate preparations for the entertainment of delegates and visitors. The woman's missionary convention and the laymen's missionary movement will also meet at the same time. Pastor of a Chicago Church Condemna Attitude of Cemetery Officials. Chicago. — "How deep underground does the color line reach?" That is the question which Jenkin Lloyd Jones, pastor of All Souls' church and head resident of Abraham Lincoln Center, in this city, has propounded to the officials of Oakwoods cemetery in a recent letter. The query was the result of Mr. Jones' perusal of a folder mailed to him from the offices of the cemetery and containing a recital of its advantages as a place of last rest for Chicagoans. Near the end was a paragraph which set forth that the association did not desire among its patrons those whose skins are other than white, and its effect on the man who heads an institution named for the president who freed the slaves was immediate. He at once dispatched this letter: Mr. Fred M. Farwell, President, Oakland Institute Association: Woods Cemetery Association Dear St.-Your very attractive announcement of the cemetery with pretty pictures, duly received, for which accept my thanks. It is a beautiful place and the sadness of many visits has often been anecdoted by its beauty, but I was astounded and paired beyond telling by reading this sentence in your announcement: "Chapel, vaults and cemetery are for the exclusive use of people of the Caucasian race." Heaven save the mark! Can class prejudice and racial conceit go further? Pray, how deep underground does the color line reach? Is it to be presumed that St. Peter has also provided for the convienience of the "Caucasians" a rear gate entrance into kingdom come for the benefit of the colored people? Seriously, I am pained at the manifestation of what seems to me an insult to the Christianity we profess and the trust in God and belief in brotherhood that is inscribed or implied in a thousand monuments within your inclusion. Am I to understand that Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, the Hindu poet who has just received the Nobel prize for pre-eminent achievement in letters, were they to be presented at your gates would be denied the final courtesies which belong to the humbleest and most despised and wickedest of the race? It is not for me to be placed where my bones may crumble, but if it were for me to choose I would not care to have them under the ground from which are excluded many brave and dear friends of mine. Your sacrifice is sacred as the resting place of hundreds of men and women who bravely and willingly died for the establishment of the brotherhood that crossed lines and the sanctities of the human soul, whether incased in skins black, white, yellow or half tins. Very respectfully yours. JENKIN LLOYD JONES. FOUNDER'S DAY OBSERVED AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE Rabbi Stephen S. Wise Lauds Work of General S. C. Armstrong. Hampton, Va.—Dr. Stephen S. Wise, the distinguished rabbi of the Free synagogue, New York city, and champion of public righteousness, delivered at Hampton institute on Sunday, Feb. 1, a most eloquent address in commemoration of General Samuel Chapman Armstrong, who founded the Hampton school in 1885. Dr. Wise showed clearly that General Armstrong was a "statesman-educator of a democracy," "statesman-philanthropist," "statesman-visionary and idealist"—a man of radiant personality and a man who walked with God. "I have often thought," said Dr. Wise, "that no man in modern times could be more fitly likened to the great leader of my people than Samuel Chapman Armstrong. Moses was first liberator and emancipator, and he rested his eternal faith upon the word of God." General Armstrong fought in the war and helped to enunciate the Negroes. General Armstrong was not content, however, merely to lead forth another race from bondage. He set out upon the great life task of helping them to self mastery, self conquest and self reeducation. Dr. Wise showed that the greatest spring of character and achievement in the life of Mr. Armstrong was in the home in which he was born—the home of high enterprise and missionary endeavor. Dr. Wise made a strong plea for the colored people to go out from Hampton and magnify their own homes. He declared emphatically that houses, land, farm implements, money and position are as nothing beside the home. General Armstrong was not only prepared to face difficulties, but he had the statesman's vision which moved him to seek out and search out the hard and difficult places as well as accept them, not as obstacles and hindrances, but as spurs, as stimuli. Success of the Arcola Social Club. One of the most active of the many social organizations among the younger social set in Pittsburgh is the Arcola club. The receptions and entertainments given by the club are always well attended and managed in the most approved style. Much credit is due the following named members for the success of the organization: John Harris, George Douglass, Dr. W. T. Phillips, Scott Wood, Jr., Wilbur Clay, John Wiley, Bruce Brown, Albert Harris, George Brown, Reese Jackson and Roy McNeal. Frank Jenkins Wins High Honors. Frank Jenkins of the Far Rockaway (New York) high school is not only popular with his teachers and fellow pupils as the winner of the scholastic cross country championship, but for excellence in his literary work and deportment. Eighty-one boys from the fifteen public schools in the Far Rockaway section of Long Island participated in the recent cross country run in which Jenkins won championship honor. THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER PERSISTENCE IN BUSINESS WINS Review of Race Thrift In Kansas City, Mo. WORK OF BUSINESS LEAGUE Interesting Account of the Progress Which Afro-Americans Are Making In New Western Metropolis Against Great Odds—Success Due to the United Efforts of the People. Kansas City, Mo.-This city's fame throughout the self satisfied cast rests apparently upon its stockyards, its albatross and its beef barrons, and yet no city in the world, not even Paris, can boast of so beautiful and extensive a system of boulevards or more handsome residences, many of which are palaces that will rival the homes of New York millionaires which line Riverside drive. The colored people throughout the country have just as erroneous an idea of Kansas City's colored population, just as faint a conception or knowledge of the hustle and progress of the race in this city. If you want the very best evidence of race progress, of race loyalty and cooperation it is to be found in this city. There is an air of hustle among colored men and women rarely seen, and an evidence of business thrift and activity unsurpassed anywhere by our people. And withal there are culture and refinement the equal of those found in social famed Washington or at the presumed "hub of the universe"—Boston. The amount invested here by colored men and women in business enterprises is said to be $200,000, and more than $5,000,000 in real estate is in the possession of the race. This tells something of the progress made and being made by the race in this new metropolis of the west. There are thirty-two churches, ninety-one schoolteachers and twelve modern school buildings to conserve the educational desires of the race. Thirty physicians, four dentists, eight lawyers and six or ten pharmacists, with the ministers and teachers, form a professional coterie the equal of the same number of whites here or elsewhere. The race is represented actively in thirty-six different lines of business, and in every line success is being recorded, and the race unity prevailing assures continuation of this success. In my visit here I have been impressed with the mutual enthusiasm and confidence in the ability of the people to succeed against great odds. One reason assigned, and a very potent one, too, for the wonderful progress being made by the race in business is that this is the home of the banner local Negro Business league in the country and that it has for its president Fortune J. Weaver, one of the most active working men I have ever met. In Kansas City he is dubbed the "live wire." As indicating the activity of the Negro Business league it may be said that, although heretofore laying claim to the largest membership and greatest activity, since November last seventy-five new members have been added. The Kansas City Sun under the able management of Editor Nelson C. Creus constitutes another very helpful aid to race progress. Even the women have become incorporated with the business spirit, and quite a number of them are engaged in conducting business establishments. Among the many men engaged in business for themselves are Dr. E. S. Lee, McCampbell & Honston, F. J. Weaver, C. A. Franklin, A. W. Harris and John H. Fairley. Eighteenth street for several blocks and the intersecting and parallel streets of the immediate vicinity present a most busy and encouraging scene, with its many colored business establishments and offices of colored professional men and the throngs of loyal race men and women who conceive it to be their bounden duty to patronize them in order to afford increased opportunities for the young men and women of the race. One of the delightful and interesting characters among the colored men of this city is Professor J. D. Bowser. Although retired from active participation in the real bustling life of the city, he is as much interested as ever in the progress of the race. I have always observed when visiting a city that in proportion to the excellence of its schools and the activity of its local business league just in that proportion was the race making educational and material progress. Kansas City's colored schools are in a very excellent condition and are doing great work under the supervision of a most efficient corps of teachers, and the Western university, just across the river, under President H. T. Kealing, is most intimately associated in the work of betterment in Kansas City. The teachers, ministers, physicians, lawyers and dentists, while co-operating enthusiastically, to advance the material progress of the race, also serve to develop and maintain a charming culture which robs business of that too close application merely for the dollars and cents. There are 30,000 colored people in this city, and their high per capita wealth of $100 is the proof offered as to how well they have learned the lesson of getting something which other people want, which the wizard of Tuskegee has been so earnestly and effectively teaching. Talking about letting things in places no one would suspect, the way to do it is to put them in such plain view that the seer can look right at them. A good way is to give them to him. I never felt so much doubt as to my being litted for detective work as once when I was fooled by an old woman crook whom I knew to be guilty of what I was trying to prove on her. My chief told me one day that a number of banknotes had been stolen from a cashier's drawer, and he wanted me to get on to the thief. I interviewed the cashier, who told me that a certain man had been in the store when he placed the bills in the drawer and saw him do it. The cashier was called to the rear for a few minutes, leaving the man where he was outside the counter. When he returned the man was gone and so were the notes. Fortunately the cashier could give a pretty accurate description of the bills. They were all lives, all new and all on the same bank. The suspected man was arrested, but nothing was found on him but a little silver change. It was evident that he had got rid of the bills. I nosed around among his haunts for awhile, hoping to learn something. At several stores in the neighborhood I left a description of the bills and asked the proprietors to let me know if any of their customers presented one of them. Happening in at one of these stores later on I was shown a bill answering a description of those stolen. It had been paid for groceries by an old woman who lived near, she receiving $2 or $3 in change. I gave the grocer another bill for it and took it to the cashier from whom the money had been stolen. He identified it as one of the lost notes. Investigation showed me that the old woman and the man suspected of stealing the money were known to be cronies. She was a notorious receiver of stolen goods, and there could be no doubt that she was spending the stolen money. Doubless she had the whole or what was left of it in her possession, for the man who had been arrested for stealing it would not dare carry or pass any of it himself and would not be likely to have more than one confederate in the matter. Added to this, I was told by one of her neighbors that she knew the old woman had the money in her possession. I preferred not to take the chances of making a slip by getting out a search warrant, so I suddenly appeared at the woman's house, locked the door on the inside and went to work. Beginning in the garret, I found it pretty dark and called on the occupant for a light. She gave me a candle, making no comment on my proceedings whatever, taking the trouble to light it herself. Having finished the garret, ripping up loose boards in the floor and tearing away plastering, I descended to the second story, where I ransacked every nook and cranny. Being an old hand at the business, I looked especially in shoes, in crockery, in stoves—indeed, in any receptacle where one would ordinarily not expect a hiding place because it was in such plain view. I stretched an arm up a chimney and pulled a lot of soot down on me, but no bills. Coming on down to the main door, I looked in closets, under carpets, in everything hollow. Having finished this floor, I went through the cellar, extending my candle between the joists where they rested on the brick walls and turning over everything it contained. From the peak of the roof to the cellar floor nothing was found. Going to the main floor, I found the old woman peeling potatoes as inconveniently as if she were not under the slightest suspicion. Placing the candle on the table, I sat down on a chair to rest and think over what I had better do. I did not think to blow out the candle, which had burned low. In deed, it had reached some folded paper that had been wrapped around it bottom to keep it steady in the socket, which was too large for it. "Are you through with the light?" asked the old woman. "Yes. I confess you've beaten me. I know there are some stolen banknotes in your possession, but I can't find them." She blew out the candle and resumed her work of peeling potatoes. "Tell me where the stuff is, mother." I added after some thought, "and I'll get you off." "Oh, you'd better go over the house again. You might find it next time, and you may do enough damage to make it pay me to collect from you." She gave me a knowing look when she said this. I knew it meant something, but I was a trifle slow in interpreting it. "Oh, yes." I said presently. "You should be paid for the damage I've done. 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All Mail orders given be glad to call to see you. Ten MAMIE'E. JONES, Baltimore, Md. ble terms. Mad. 3322-M. R BUSINESS e* MARYLAND HAPPENINGS News Gathered in Various Sec tions of the State bv Our Correspondents. Htockville, Md., February 12,— euben Johnson has returned home. Rev. J. E. Carter preached at Jerusatems Church for Rev. J. C. Love Sunday. Rev. I. E. Roach preached a stirring sermen on the subject “Fire’’ Sunday. Mr. and Mrs, Henry Herbert were taken into the Zon Caureh by the pastor. A contest rally was held at Jerusalem Church. Otes Edmonds won the prize. Mrs. Catherine Wood, of Wash- ngton, has been visiting Miss Mary L. Young. Miss Young was on the sick list, aat is improving. Mesdames Ida Baker and-Fanny Smith were visiting friends Friday. Rev. C. E, Poole returned from ais charge Monday. Mrs. Effie Saunders gathered the young people at her home prepar- ing for a big performance. Mrs. Sophia Baker is doing splendid work in the Christian Endeavor Society assisted by Miss Mary Massy. Under the leadership of Mr. Henry Dulin and Mrs. Nannie Johnson,a handsome clock has been sresented to the A. M. E. Zion Church. NANTICOKE HAPPENINGS ‘pecial to the Afro-American Ledger Nanticoke, Md., February 11.— The stork visited Mrs. Martha Wallace, Mrs. Pearl Barkley, and Mrs. O. E, Wallace and left them fine boys. Mrs. Laura Francis Elsey, Mrs. Bertha Elsey and Mrs, Laura J. Elsey are on the sick list. Samuel P, Barkley, James Nut- ser, Bradford Bradshaw and James ‘W. Dashiell are among our pro- gressive men. : The sevival closed with forty- =wo conversions. Mr. James Dashill and Mrs. Hertha Dashill were pleasant callers at the parsonage. Mr, Fred Elsey and Mr. Johr Srans have purchased two nice romes. SNOW HILL JOTTINGS Snow Hill, Md., February 12.— Mrs. Annie Jewett, who has been sisiting her son,Rev. J. W. Jewett, has returned to her home in Cris- field, Md. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Blake of Baltimore, are home for a few weeks visiting their friends. Mrs. Blake will remain while her hus- and will return in a few days. Mrs. Annie Purnell died Tuesday aight and was buried in the M. E. Vemetery Sunday afternoon. Rev. ), W. Jewett officiated. Miss Pauline Bishop. . who has deen here for several weeks return. ed to Philadelphia, Thursday. Mrs. Sarah Schooltields, of Wil- mington,Del., came home Wednes- fay to attend the funeral of her other, Mrs. Annie Purnell. Miss Helen R. Henry left here Monday to spend several days in Raltimore, with her sister, Mrs. Mamie Williams. Mrs. Rosa T. Purnell is on the sick list. _ Mr, Ernest Martin,of Baltimore, ts here for the winter. WINCHESTER NEWS Winchester, Va., Feb. 12.—The vevival at John Mann M. E. Church ‘was a success, there. being 16 con- verts, Mrs. Mary Martin Burke, of Philadelphia, has returned home after a most pleasant visit to her mother,Mrs. Mary Martin Strange. Mr. William Williams, an old resident, died last week and was buried Sunday afternoon from John Mann Church, Rev. A. P. Shaw, officiating, . Rev. Shaw held a. ‘‘Gorto- Chureh’’ Sunday Jast. The effort resulted in a goodly. attendance. Mt. Carmel Free Baptist Church vegan a revival Monday night. HARVE DE GRACE ITEMS Havre de Grace, Md.,. February i2.—Mr. Laura Mitchell-entertain- ed the young men on Thursday avening. After a delightful even- ing in games,singing and dancing, the guests were ushered into the dining room ‘where all the delica- cies of the season were served. Among those present were: Mrs. Nettie Bullock, Mrs. Sarah Whyte, Mrs. Ella James, Miss‘Leana Tay- lor, Peter Meads. Henry Skinner, James Mitchell, Lloyd Christie, Howard Whyte; Leo Jones, Harry Bodjey, Newton Bowser,John Skin- ner, Hammond Christie, Clifford Jones, Robert James, William James, Ernest Calloway, Harold Davis and Herman James. Mr. Warren Bowser, a studént of Lincoln University, is home suffering with a fractured limb. FAIRFIELD. HAPPENINGS | (Special to The Afro-Ainerican Ledger.) Fairfield, Md., Feb, 12.—Mr. ‘Holmes E. Reynolds, of Pittsburg, brother of Mrs. Walter W. Brown arrived here Saturday for a two week’s stay. He took a flying trip to Philadelphia and Atlantic City Monday. and stopped at &'ggharbor to investigate some real estate he has bought there, | Rev. W. H. Warp will close his revival services here next Thursday night. Mrs. Annie Graham, Baltimore spent last Thursday night with Mrs. Dovie A. Brown. Dr. John W. Widgeor and con- region of First Baptist Church went to Lendenhall St. Baptist ‘Church Sunday where he baptized ‘Mr. Stokes Palmer. | Mrs. Estella Hall and Miss iithel ‘Turner, teacners. of the public school, will have 2parents’ meeting next Tuesday night. The stork visited the home of Mr. and Mrs T. Dardon last Fri- day evening and left.a big fat boy. Mr. James Cunningham is still rejoicing over his Christmas morn- ing gift which was a big fat girl. Mrs. Katie Johnson and her mother, Mrs, Emily Gaskins, and Mrs. Pearlie Anderson are on the sick list. Mrs, John Hubbard, who was sent to Crownsville: for treatment, ‘is not much improved. NEWS FROM CUMBERLAND (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Cumberland, Md., February 12,—The remains of Mrs. Matilda Gales, who died in Baltimore last Saturday were brought here and the funeral held at the Ebenezer Baptist Church Wednesday Rev. Drs. G. W. M. Lucas and J. D. Jackson officiated. Mrs, Christina Banks has re- turned home after spending several months in Baltimore nurs: ing her sick mother, who has since greatly improved. Mrs. Amanda Palmer has return- ed jrom Magnolia, W. Va., where she has been for two weeks on a business trip. The Court of Calanthe held an installation meeting at the Odd Fellows’ Hall Thursday night. Miss B. B. Kennerly sang at the M. E. Church Sunday. Prof. G. W. B. Overton is assist- ing in the choir at the Baptisy Church. There will be a candle rally at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church next Sunday, under the manage- ment of W. R. Watts. Men's Day at Bethel A. M. B. Church was a great success. Ad dresses were made by the pastor, Rev. Dr. Jackson; Dr. Spurgeon Sparks and Mr. Leroy R. Edmonds. ‘The soieties are preparing for their annual thanksgiving service. The first will be the celebration of Peter Ogden Day at Bethel Church March Ist. On the sick list are Moses Lucas, Mrs; Nora Gates, Helen Hill, Hilda Brown and Ernest Williams. Mrs. Margaret Peck and Charity Baker and Mrs. Edith Sterling are im- proving. DENTON HAPPENINGS | {Special to Afro-American Ledg ¥ - ‘Denton Md., Feb. 12—Rev. J. G. Bryant was unable to fill his pulpit Sunday night owing to a severe cold. Rev. G. W. Bailey preach- ed_a very interesting sermon. Rev. F. T. Johnson, preached ‘Sunday morning to a crowded house at the M. E. Church, ~* Mr. Richard Bailey has removed to Baltimore, where he expects to ‘go in business. : Mr. William H. Holmes and Mr. witlim S. Ross . will play baseball in Philadelphia the coming season. | Mrs. Annie E. Williams is on the sick list. Mr. Richard Neal, father of Mrs. J. G. Bryant, is sick with kidney trouble. 5 Mr. Harvey Flamer is con- valescent, | Rey. J. T. Carpenter was in town last week in the interest of the National Benefit Assoriation. He engaged Mr. Joseph Hayman as agent for this section. Miss Bertie “Lewis, daughter of Mrs.. Wilhelmina Lewis, ‘was married to Mr. Leander Webb last Thursday night. i THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER POCOMOME HAPPENINGS | ST. MICHAELS HAPPEN (Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Foeomoke City, Md., Feb. 12.— Mr, and Mrs. Leven Ward visited friends in Princess Anne, Md., las week. Louise, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Merrill of Pocomoke City was buried from St. James M. E. Church on Friday morning, after a short illness. School No. 3, recently celebrated Armstrong Day in honor of the late Gen, S, C. Armstrong the founder and principal of Hamptor Institute. The program was a very interesting one. A short his tory af the school and one of Gen. Armstrong’s life were recited hy Misses Drucilla and Matilda Williams, Mr. Walter Scott, of Berkley, Va., was in this city visiting friends and acquaintances,. He left Monday for Norfolk, Va. Miss Willie Elliotte, of Rich- mond, Va., representing the order of St. Luke was in this Sunday and spoke at St. Johns Church on Mon- day evening. Conditions look bright for her to open a chapter here. Rev. Arnold Rabinson, of George- town. Mission, preached an able sermon at St. John’s A. .M. E. Church on Sunday morning toa large congregation. Prof. S, H. Long was away the latter part of last week looking after business matters. Mrs. Victoria Long arrived home Tuesday evening after spending several days in Philadelphia. Sunday was benevolent day at Mt. Zion M. E. Church, the col- lection for the day being $22. Mrs. Harriet Dennis is on the sick list. Mrs. Norman Long: is recovering from a short spell of sickness, Mr. John Grey recently opened an oyster saloon on Laurel St., where he asks the patronage of his friends and the public. EASTON: NOTES (Special to The Afro-Ainetican Ledger.) aston, Md... Feb. 12. —Mrs. Lottie Laws, ‘lied Tuesday from pneumonia. Mrs, Carolline Coxen was taken suddenly 111 Tuesday. Samuel Sewell is quite sick with a severe sore throat. Mr. George Skinner has moved to Philadelphia. Mr. Charles E, Holmes was taken to the Easton Emergency Hospital last Friday for an operation. He die4 Saturday. Mrs. Emma Rich was found dead in bed February 5th. —— : CHESTERTOWN EEWS (Geapelal te The Afre-American Ledger.) Chestertown, Md., Feb. 12.— The Colored farmers of Queen Anne, Caroline and Kent counties met in their second annual conven- tion in Janes M. E. Church last Thursday. ‘Their slogan was ‘‘Back to the Farm.'' The purpose of the convention is to interest the people in agricultural and domestic science. After devotional exercis- es in the morning conducted by Revs. J, H. Young and A. Brane Chase, many very helpful addresses were given. Mr. W. H. Swiggett discussed very ably strawberry growing; Mr. C. A, Royal, garden- ing; Mr. Wm. Ferrell, sweet potatoes, and Prof. McCue of the Delaware State Agricultural Col- lege delivered an address on potatoes and tomatoes, In the afternoon after devotional conducted by Rev. W. F, Cotton, Prof. Aekin, of Cheswood, told of corn growing; Dr W. F. Cotton, district superintendent of Wilming- ton district, Delaware conference told of stock raising. Gardening was further discussed by Mr. Howard Simpson; hot house work, hy Mr. R. Ferrell; round table talk, Rev. J. A. Jeffers; industrial work, Prof. P. W. Gibsen, and corn growing, C. H, Dickerson. At night after devotions by Rev. W. T. Spellman a very excellent concert was rendered by farmers and preachers. A selection from Dunbar, Rev. 'D, G. Caters; recita- tion, Mrs. Lucretia Henry; decla- mation, Rev. L. S. Moore; address Washer Woman,Mr. Daniel Miller; Mesdames Adams and Henson, en- livened the occasion with beautitul solos, Very helpful ,addresses on domestic science were delivered by Mesdames L. Kennard and Emma Miller, supervisors of industrial work of Caroline and Kent countiest , Allen Day was celebrated a. Bethel A.M. E. Church and Lin- ¢oln’s birthday at Janes M. E. Chureh, Sunday with great success. Mrs. Lila: Henson was called to Atlantic City this week to the bed- side of her mother-in-law, who is critically ill. : Rev: D. G. Waters ‘spent several days here as the guest of Miss Beatrice Prather. - . + Xe * Superior Hair Dressing PRINCESS COMB AND REATER... 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The Odd Fellows of St. Michaels will give a banquet on March 1. Reopening exercises were held at Trinity A, M. E. Zion Church Sunday. CATORSVILLE NEWS {Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Catonsville, Md., Feb. 12.—Tur- sell’s Juvenile Entertainers. will give a concert at St. Lukes Church, Ellicott City Tuesday night. Mr. Larkin Fields, who has been iH is out again, The Willing Workers of Grace A, M. E. Church’ gave a concert Thursday might at the church, [t was largely attended. Grace A. M. E. Sunday School is making arrangement for an enter- tainment to be given soun under the management of the officers of the school. The trustee of Grace A. M. E. Chureh takes this opportunity to thank all who attended their Men’s Day which was largely attended and a success, Mrs. Fannie Carter, who has been sick at the Maryland General Hospital, Baltimore, is rapidly im- proving. Mrs. Lulu B. Perkins, vice principal of the Catonsville High School,, whe has been sick for several weeks, is improving. Mrs. vohns, of Baltimore is teaching in Miss Perkins’ place. The Seven Wise Men of Catons- ville _bave rented a room in St. Mary’s Househo!d Hall and met the second Monday in every month, Mr. and Mrs. . Archie Ravling moved Monday to the home of Mr. and Mrs Calbert Woodland on ' Edmondson avenue. | Mr. Georg? Williams and Mr. Dewey Page, students of the Normal school at Bowie returned last. week after having been home sick, Mrs. Frank Burton has returned from a trip to Hartford county, where she was visiting relatives. The Mamie K. Bruce Improve- ment Club is arranging to hold a bazar at the school, February 25 and 26. a USE THE EUREKA COMB. PRICK_$1.50. - With Lamp Cap For Heating. . A combination of metal electrifying influences Straightening crimpy hale! 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The campaign for a new Domes- tie Seience Building is being push- ed rapidly on, every student and teacher being organized into com- panies for this work, Any en- couragement materially or other- wise from our well wishers will be greatly appreciated by faculty and students. Sunday evening at chapel how t eschool band under the leader- ship of Prof. John Elliott Smith gave a concert. The Band is planning short trips into the sur- rounding community. ‘fhe first trip will be made to Mt. Vernon. Rev. C. T. Covington, pastor, Thursday February 12th. The Week of Prayer for colleges was fittingly observed Thursday. Al) school work was suspended, Rev. J. W. Bond, of Pocomoke City, preached the annual sermon from the text: ‘‘What is a Man Profited if he gain the Whole World and Lose His Own Soul.’’ The sermon was strong and thoughtful. Rev. J. H. Nutter dined at the Academy Sunday. Prof. and Mrs. C. C. Reed. have recently leased a cottage in Prin- cess Anne. We wish the newly weds a happy, useful life. Mrs. John Elliott Smith has re- cently returned from her home in Florida where she was called to the death-hed of her mother. Mrs Smith has our. deepest sympathy. The teachers of Somerset county held a Very. interesting institute Saturday; February 7,at the public school building here., * MME. M. A. HUNTER | Beautifying Parlor .. 1324 Druid Hill Ave. Scalp Treatment. Facial Massage. Manicuring 25 cents Straightening a Specialty. Combings Made Up. Mme. Hunter will continue her-classes of instruction in above branches as usual. Sea ETE MRS. LUCY S. DAY Expert Worker in Hair. Wiggs and Toupees a Specialty Inetructions:given to a limited number daily. 1308 NORTH FREMONT AVENUE je ee —_—_—— ARE YOU INTERESTED IN YOUR HAIR AND SCALP? If so, let MISS S.E. WATSON treat it with Mme. C. J. Walker’s Wonderful Hair Grower, guaranteed to grow hair half an inch a month, no matter how short or stubby or in what condition the sealy may. be. 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All Checks, Money Orders and Drafts should be made payable to THE AFRO-AMERICAN CO MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION Old Boreas was a long time getting around, but he finally got here at last. Professor Ground Hog is a scientist of no mean merit. We will have to give it to him. Give those women that ten thousand dollars and be quick about it. The Maryland Legislature with its tremendous Democratic majority is liable to do most anything as is shown by the unseating of Ashburn and the seating of Harrison, both Democrats. However, so far, it has been fair to us as a people and we have no complaint to make, only hoping that it will continue as it has begun. Its effort, however, to the Anti-Vice bills, should be highly appreciated, and it is hoped that all of those offered by Senator Malloy, will be passed. --- No nation or people can rise higher than its women. Men may be what they may be, good bad or indifferent, and the world will jog along fairly well in some way or other, but if the whole mass is to be made better the work has got to start at the home, and in the home it is the mother which is to a large degree responsible for the future of the child. It is the mother that must do the training, and it is the mother that has got to be responsible for the future of the boy and girl that will go out from under the home roof. It stands to reason therefore that if the fountain is impure, the stream will be impure. We want good women and the way to get them is to start at the cradle to get them. Y. W. C. A. CAMPAIGN While it is somewhat unfortunate that the campaign for the Colored Young Women's Christian Association should be put on at this particular time when the Young Men's Christian Association is struggling so hard to complete the collections for its new building, at the same time, now it has begun there is nothing else to do but to give it the heartiest support. Certainly if there is any deserving institution among us it is the Y. W. C. A. And if there is any class of people in our midst who need just such agencies is the Y. W. C. A., it is the young women and girls of this city. Seemingly the prey of every unscrupulous man and woman, with little if any home training, compelled to work, in many instances, under anything else but favorable conditions, many of them are left to their own resources to rise or fall as the strength or weakness in them may determine. Hundreds of young women who have come to this city from country homes and from other cities and States, the Young Women's Christian Association has been a boon, a rock in a weary land and a shelter from the storm. Many a young woman has here not only found a home with pleasant surroundings but motherly care and the best moral and religious opportunities to make the best of themselves. For this if for nothing else the opportunity should be given this splendid work a chance to further develop and expand its now too cramped borders. And so we say to all and every, man and woman, while you may be obligated to the Y. M. C. A., and other organizations, do not pass the opportunity by to help this great work. But six days more remain in which to raise the ten thousand dollars the Association is asking for. It ought to be subscribed doubly for the great good that will come to the community. SEGREGATION-WHAT IT MEANS Segregation in the last analysis is simply one expression of the determination of the dominant race in the South to preserve their political power and control. The whites can only maintain possession of the State machinery in the South through the political emasculation of the blacks. His emasculation can be secured only by the violent suppression of those normal agencies of progress, education, commercial and social activities, and the acquisition of wealth—which would inevitably force the colored people into the political equation. Hence grandfather clauses, which have sufficed in the past, now must needs be supplemented by other measures which will stay the march of progress. It is here that the Vardamans, Hoke Smiths, Tillmans, all have demonstrated their infamous and diabolical skill in devising schemes for the degradation of their helpless black brethren. Professing to believe that colored children cannot comprehend mathematics, or earn a foreign language, or master the sciences, men of the white South of the stripe of the benevolent educator and legislator Aswell of Louisiana—the State of darkest ignorance in the Union—are brazen enough to assert these things in the face of the facts that thousands of colored men and women have been graduated from Northern Colleges in successful competition with the best white minds of America, and are everywhere demonstrating their intellectual equality and even superiority before medical boards, bar committees, in teachers examinations, in civil services examinations and in business corporations. Notwithstanding the fact that colored children have repeatedly demonstrated their ability to pursue with equal success and profit any courses of study, from the lowest to the highest, that white children can pursue; and notwithstanding the further fact that educated colored men and women are of a far greater economic value to the State than ignorant ones, even though they may possibly decrease the number of farm laborers by increasing the number of farm owners; notwithstanding both of these facts the white soft boldly asserts that it is impossible to educate the colored child and makes little or no provision for colored schools. It is through this course that they hope to keep the blacks in ignorance and forever eliminate them as a political factor to be reckoned with. What a magnificent tribute to the real worth and character of the blacks of the South is seen in the fact that in spite of this infamous treatment they have reduced their illiteracy more than one-half! The dominant race in the South has sought to prevent the commercial and social development of the blacks to so humiliate and degrade them in their own eyes as to crush out all political ambition by such unholy schemes as would have done credit to the authors of the Spanish Inquisition. The jim crow laws, which are a disgrace to any people laying claims to any civilization whatever; the poison contract systems, which are retics of barbarism: the peonage practices which is slavery disguised; the plantation stores which are intended to keep the colored tenants forever in the hopeless bondage of endless debt; and all the long list of inquisitous practices, with and without the sanction of legislative enactment, have been devised by Southern men in this same spirit which seeks re- THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER gardless of the strain on their own morals or their violation of the laws of the land to keep in their own hands forever the control of the political machinery of the South. It matters not that in order to accomplish this result it means the degradation of men and women, and the moral and intellectual destruction of children, born and unborn. It matters not that in accomplishing, this result in the cities of the South the already completely segregated colored neighborhoods are left without sanitary improvements of even the most ordinary kinds. It matters not that housing conditions are so bad that it is practical impossible for those poor colored people who are forced to live in rented houses to retain in themselves or inculcate in their children ideas of decency, modesty, and morality. All these things matter not, for the colored people must be kept in such a mental and moral condition as to forever deaden any ambition to be more than "hewers of wood and drawers of water." What an awful toll will some day be demanded of those "who have done it unto one of the eats cf these my children:" Nothing more certainly arouses the active anomosity of the Southern white man than the exhibition of the evidences of prosperity on the part of a black neighbor. As long as the colored man lives in a one-room cabin; goes ragged and dirty; and drives a bony mule hitched to a rickety wagon; or as long as he is a drunken bum in the gutter, he excites no opposition and arouses no enoy. But if he is successful; builds a new house of some size; drives a good team or buys an automobile; opens a bank account; and sends his children off to school, he at once becomes dangerous and is a marked man. He will be lucky if his house escapes the torch, and in some places he will not be permitted to ride in his automobile. This is what segregation means—to strike down the successful, thrifty, colored people, who are demonstrating their fitness and their ability to participate in government affairs; to prevent at all hazard the colored people from acquiring the education, the commercial experience on the wealth which will in any way threaten white supremacy in the South—a supremacy which has been gained and is being maintained by methods which would bring the blush of shame even to barboric Russia. --- Rev. Dr. W. M. Alexander, pastor of Sharon Baptist Church, recently celebrated the twenty-ninth anniversary of the church and his pastorate with it. Few men have been of more worth to the community than Dr. Alexander, and the Afro-American Ledger congratulates the venerable doctor, the church and the community, for the valuable services he has been able to render. CAMBRIDGE HAPPENINGS Cambridge, Md., Feb. 12. —The Sunday school of Waugh M. E. Church had a unique Lincoln Day celebration Sunday. The program was mainly a survey of the life of Lincoln. Addresses were given by many of the scholars. The Bible class was represented by Mr. S. Q. Sanks, F. B. Butler, Cyrus St. Clair and R. S. Wilson. Dr. D. B. Hueston's class which is the class was represented by R. C. Jolley, T. H. Miles, Gordon Green, Maurice Maddox. The discussion was opened by Dr.Hueston. A fine quartet was given by Mr. Everett Wilson, Maurice Maddox, Sherlock Kiah and Brice Coleman. Mrs. George W. Ross, a member and official of Asbury M.E. Church was buried here Tuesday February 10th. The pastor, Rev. C. E. Curry, officiated. Miss Lillian Wilson, of Bridge street, is convalescent. Mrs. Annie Chase and daughtre, Mildred, of Ivytown, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Walker last week. Mrs. Jennie Jolly, who is teaching at Easton spent Saturday and Sunday here with her husband. Mrs. Edyth Slater has returned from a two week stay in Philadelphia. Miss Viola Foster is slowly improving after an operation. Miss Elvira Moulson, the domestic science teacher, has gone to Baltimore to accept a position there. Her departure is very much regretted. DEATH OF MRS. GIBSON Mrs. Sarah Gibson died at her home,923 Pierce street last Friday, after a six week illness. She is survived by her husband, Mr. Samuel Gibson; a daughter and a sister. Funeral services were held at Bethel A. M. E. Church Sunday afternoon, Rev. Dr. Lewis S. Flagg officiated. Interment was in Mt. Auburn Cemetery. LATE LITERARY NEWS THE NEGRO IN AMERICAN HISTORY. The above is the title of a volume now in press, published by Mr. John W. Cromwell, principal of the Alexander Crummell School, of the city of Washington. It is a book which all thoughtful school teachers, and other persons of a literary trend of mind should possess. Mr. Cromwell's entire life has been spent along the lines of historical literary research, and he is specially fitted for the task which he has taken to himself. The purpose of the volume is to furnish the teacher with supplementary material to incite our youth to more interest in the affairs of our country, their own growth and development. While it gives a broad survey of the history of America, from its discovery and settlement, through emancipation and civil war citizenship, it also includes detailed biographical sketches of eighteen colored men and women in widely different fields of endeavor. It is a book which should attain a very extensive circulation. Twenty-three papers, covering the population, business activities, and labor conditions, social conditions and problems, educational progress and needs of the American Negro are included in "The Negro's Progress in Fifty Years," the September number of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. As these papers are contributed by public officials, university presidents, professors of economics and sociology, resident physicians, supervisors of colored schools, and agents of educational funds of the highest standing from nearly all portions of the country and especially from the Southern states they constitute an invaluable survey of all the topics touched upon and are entitled to the careful and respectful consideration not only those especially interested in such subjects, but of all statesmen and publicists throughout the country. They show that the road is open to the ten million of Negroes now in the United States with their twenty-two Negro Universities, hundreds of "institutes," and thousands of students; and although it may be obscured at times, no one who reads "The Negro's Progress in Fifty Years," written by men of the highest calling and character, can doubt that Negro progress, as there recorded, will continue to the end and add to the common glory of both races. A FEAST IN STORE FOR MUSIC LOVERS Those who avail themselves of the opportunity to hear the rich and sweet songs of Negro composition, sung by Negros at the Y. M. C. A. Musical at Albaughs Theater on Tuesday, February 27th, will be delighted with Mr. Burleigh's latest choruses. "Dig My Grave" "Deep River" "Southland." These numbers have just been published. Were sung by the Chola Cantorium at Carnegie Hall and also by the Glee Club of New York under the direction of the well known Mr. Russell. The demonstration at Carnegie Hall to these numbers was almost unprecedented. Men and women clapped hands, waved their hats and even stood upon their seats, so great was the enthusiasm. Mr Burleigh will sing old spirituals and also many humorous Negro classics. Miss Abbie Mitchell will do Mr. Cook's well known "Exhortation" which is now being sung by White Choral Societies all over the country, also "Wid de Moon, Moon, Moon," and Rosamond Johnson's "Lil Gal" along with the most famous "Rain Song" and "Swing Along." The Afro-American Folk Song Singers will render for the first time some of Mr. Cook's manuscripts along with his popular and published songs which these vocalists can sing with an action and at the same time, fire and intensity which is almost lost by the Whites. The Du Bois Circle will act as ushers. FREDERICK NEWS Special to The Afro-American Ledger.) Frederick,Md., Feb. 12.—Esther E. Wise and Ada Course, president and vice president, respectively, of the Epworth League had charge of the charge of the Lincoln Day exercises of the Epworth League Sunday. A special program was rendered at the Boys and Girl's Day services at Quinn A. M. E. Church Sunday. The Helping Hand Club celebrated Lincoln Day. THE FORUM TIRED OF ANTI-SALOON ARGUMENT Dear Editor: I trust you might find room in the columns of your paper for my protest against the unchristian debate now being waged in your paper. It is indeed, lamentable that Rev. Johnson should overlook the good that the Anti-Saloon Legislation will do the colored race in Maryland and fight a good cause simply because a colored minister has been given charge of a colored department. I am sure the majority of the well thinkers of the race would rather have their own office than be stuck up behind a desk in a white man's office. I would like to ask Dr. Johnson if the same good cannot be done on Druid Hill avenue as at the corner of Fayette and Charles streets. Dr. Johnson holds himself aloof from a large number of his own denomination and nearly all of other denominations and refuses communion to those who are not of his faith and order. A member of our race refuses to mingle with us on religious ground and yet expects a white man to do more than he, how inconsistent. I pray that God will remove the jealousy or whatever petty idea that causes his attitude and lets have a united fight against the saloon and liquor. 1134 Carey street. WHY WAS THE VOTE NECESSARY? Baltimore, Md., February 11th. To the Editor of the Afro-American Baltimore, Md. Dear Sir:— Will you kindly give the Citizens Committee of Provident Hospital space in your valuable paper to definitely state to the public our position relative to Provident Hospital. At a called meeting of the Citizens Committee held on the above date a unanimous vote of confidence was given in our esteemed chairman. E. B. Taylor. A full and free discussion was held as to the functions and aims of our committee, and without dissent, a sub-committee was authorized to submit the following to the public. First:—That all the money raised by this committee by public entertainment is now on deposit in the Munsey Trust Company. Second:—That the Committee was organized as an Auxiliary to the Board of Directors of Provident Hospital in the Board's effort to rebuild the Hospital. That the Committee was not organized for any definite time or to raise any definite amount but simply to assist the Board. That we have been waiting for some action on the part of the Board in the matter of rebuilding that would give some definite token of a redemption of the promise made this committee at its organization. Third:—That the organization of this committee is intact, and the members stand ready to follow, the moment the Board of Directors of Provident Hospital make a move. Bespeaking a continuance of the confidence always shown by a generous public in all of our undertakings, we beg leave to subscribe ourselves. Chairman of sub-committee Wm. C. McCARD Wm. J. MORSELL. Sec. HEZEKIAH LIGHTFORD BURIED The funeral of Mr. Hezekiah Lightford, who died at his home, 920 Argyle avenue, was held at his late home on Monday of last week, Rev. Dr. Harvey Johnson officiating. Interment was in Mt. Auburn Cemetery. The deceased was a member of Union Baptist Church. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Annie Lightford; three daughters and seven grandchildren. One daughter, Miss Annabel Lightford, resides in New York city. MRS. ADDISON LAID TO BEST Mrs. Mary E. Addison, one of the most active members of Union Baptist Church, died at her home, 704 George street, Tuesday afternoon after a few months' illness. The deceased was born in Virginia 55 years ago, but had resided here for many years. She was an active worker in the Baptist Home and Foreign Missionary Society and other Baptist Organizations. Hei husband, J. D. Addison; four sisters and a brother survive. Funeral services were held at Union Baptist Church Thursday afternoon, Rev. Dr. Harvey Johnson officiating. Interment was in Mt. Auburn,Cemetery. We have often wondered why no effort is being made on the part our leading citizens in this city to commemorate the life and services of the immortal Douglass. It was here in Baltimore that this grand old man spent the early years of his life; It was here while working in a shipyard there was inculcated into his being the intense hatred of human slavery, which culminated in a life full of rich services for the freedom of his brothers. Surely there is no man whose life can better be held before our young boys as an example for emulation. And yet we in Baltimore year after year, let slip by the anniversary of this great man with almost no thought of his attainments and no care for the slandid services he rendered. Especially at this time when a another form of slavery is being imposed upon us, when segregation jim crowism, and other nefarious laws are being passed in an attempt to stifle ambition and impede progress, it would seem that it would be a good thing to take a little time each year and celebrate and commemorate the life of Frederick Douglass, and maybe in so doing catch some of the spirit and inspiration which made Douglass stand out as the mightiest champion for the cause of a defenseless people. Saturday will mark the 97th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Douglass and on Saturday no celebration will be held in Baltimore as a fitting tribute so valiantly won and richly deserved. Sometime ago a number of gentlemen were called together by the school Board to suggest names for the schools of this city. Notwithstanding the fact that enough names were suggested to give each one of the schools at least three names, there seems to be nothing further done in the matter. Ralph W. Tyler, who was at one time fourth Auditor of the Navy, and is now National Organizer of the National Negro Business League will sure have a job that will tax his ability to the utmost if he ever comes to Baltimore and makes an attempt to revive the local league. I said in this column sometime ago that the local league was indulging in a Rip Van Winkle snooze. I hereby apologize for having made the wrong diagnosis. It's dead. With the projected Y. M. C.A. , Y. W. C. A. and Provident Hospital buildings, all on foot a tone time, Baltimore's colored population is rapidly awakening to its own possibilities. When they are completed they will certainly be monuments to the activity and aggressiveness of our citizenship. Let's push together. And with all the above activities, we manage to keep our pale face law-makers continually on the alert devising meaans to keep us down. But it's no use. We just won't stay put. BOOSTER KNOCK A toast, a toast to the days of yore, When the cause we love was young, A stirring tale this forgotten lore, As ever a bard has sung. How with little strength and with little wealth. But with faith and vision great, These women wrought without pay or pelf Knowest how to "labor and wait." There was one whose name joined with faith and hope, Made up the virtues three Could a fitter word be found to cope With our destiny's stern decree? There was one whose face was always bright And her name proclaimed the same, There are others too in the hot of light, Who gave to this work its fame. "'Tis good to look back,' says Froebel old, For it casts a color warm. Round noble names that had else been cold. Making them shine as the dawn. I count it true with this teacher wise, 'Tis good to look back, I ween If it gives us zest and courage to rise And push forward with braver mien. Especially composed by Miss M. Edyth Cooper and read by her at Y. W. C. A. workers' banquet last Friday night. In sad but loving remembrance of my dear daughter, Lucy E. Sorrell, who departed this life nine years ago, February 14. how hard we tried to save her, Put our cares were all in vain; Angels came and took her from us, She is with the Saviour, free from pain. She is gone, but was so young and fair She slumbers sweet, but knew no care Her heart was true, her life was young Yet not our will, but God's be done. Farewell, dear daughter, is an awful word Which pierces a mother's heart But oh, it is the will of God That our dear ones must part. So her dear Lucy Sorrell. In sad but loving remembrance of our dear daughter, Sadye M. Cooper, who died one year ago, February 10, 1913. Loved in life in death remembered. Sadye sleeps but not forever, There will be a glorious dawn; We shall meet to part no more On the resurrection morn. Never shall her memory fade Sweetest thoughts shall ever linger Round the grave where she was laid By her mother and sisters, Clara Cooper, Rosie, Belle and Helen. JOHNSTON—In sad but loving remembrance of my dear husband, Samuel Johnston, who departed this life two years ago, February 16. Two long years with all its changes Since death strangely bade us part. Cannot take thee from my memory Nor thy image from my heart. Oh could I open wide the grave and see, Thy face once more and hear Thy voice, is all I crave, As in the day of yore. By his wife, Nellie B. John sto. HALES—In sad but loving re- embrance of my dear husband, William Hales who fell asleep in Jesus February 11th, 1913, one year ago. Tis hard to break the tender cord When love has bound the heart Tis hard, so hard to speak the words. A mortal arrow pierced his heart, He fell but felt no fear. Dear husband how I miss you Miss you more than heart can tell. Every hour and day that passes Brings me nearer to you to dwell By his loving wife, Annie Hales. CONNOR—In sad but loving remembrance of my dear husband and our devoted father, Isaac H., who died seven years ago, Feb. 14, 1907. Seven long years with all its changes, Since death came and bid us part; But the years have not effaced my memory Not thine image from our hearts. My dear husband how I miss you; Miss you more than hearts can tell. But every hour and day that passes Brings me nearer with you to dwell. Mrs. Alfred A. Rohobet and Mrs. James A. D. Wilson and families desire by this means to thank their many friends for their kind sympathies and beautiful floral tributes, in their recent bereavement. --- I take this opportunity of thanking the many friends for their kindness to my father, Rev. George W. Ross, during his recent illness, and for their sympathy to the family at his death and for the many floral tributes. Julian W. Ross. Departed this life. Sunday, Feb. 6th, Sylvester Crowner, the beloved son of Mary and John F. Crowner, at the age of twenty-five. Remains were taken to Shadyside, West River. Mr. John F. Crowner is prominent in this city. He is chorister at King's Hill Church. The funeral of Mildred Maddox, the nine year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel B Maddox, who died last Friday after a brief illness, was held at the home of her parents, 911 Druid Hill avenue, Sunday afternoon. Rev Charles A. Evers, pastor of St. Barnabas Catholic Church, officiated. Interment was in the New Cathedral Cemetery. The floral offerings were numerous. The little girl was a pupil at the Division Street School. Riddick Chapter Epworth League of Centennial M. E. Church, Sunday. February 15th, 1914. Double Program of Best Talent, in charge of Messrs. John Ambrose and Henry Carroll, with Miss Evelyn Henderson, presiding. Come early to get a seat. Mine. Helen A. Cooper, President; Mr. C. W. Harris, 4th Vice President; Rev. N. M. Carroll, D. D., Pastor. The A. C. E. League of Bethel A. M. E. Church, will observe Allen Day this Sunday, February 15th, 1914, from 5:30 until 7 o'clock. All are welcome. Program: "Richard Allen," Bishop L. J. Coppin; Solo, Dr. O. P. Jones; Recitation, Miss May Brown; "Efficiency the Demand of the Age," Dr. J. H. Tompkins; Paper, Master Dever Young; Solo, Miss G. Dinnis; Topic, Miss Mary E. Beale; Solo, Mr. Wm. Holland; Remarks, Rev. L. S. Flagg. Wm. H. Coleman, President; Bessie Sampson, Secretary; Mary K. Owens, Treasurer; Rev. L. S. Flagg, Pastor. A special sermon will be delivered by the Rev. J. W. McDonald, pastor of Pennsylvania Avenue A. M. E. Zion Church, subject: "Valley of Dry Bones," on Tuesday evening, February 17th, at 8 p.m., at Trinity A. M. E. Church in interest at the "Queen's" Rally. All are invited. Mrs. Maggie Tucker, Chairman; Rev. L. C. Curtis, Pastor. The First Home Visit of the Youngest Daughter, Handy A. M. E. Church, to Mother Bethel on Sunday, February 22nd, at 3 p.m. Special sermon, Text 23:1, St. John 21:15, by the pastor, Rev. J. O. Custis. Every member and friend are expected to be present to help this church. Allen Day will be appropriately celebrated by Bethel A. M. E. Sunday School, Sunday, February 16th, 1914. Participants: Solo, Miss Alice Sampson; Solo, Miss Pauline Barnes; Solo, Dr. O. D. Jones; Essay, Miss Sarah R. Jackson. Thaddeus Copeland, Superintendent, Laura E. Campbell, Secretary, Rev. L. S. Flagg, Pastor NOTICE! Trinity A. M. E.---Special Service of the Allen C. E. League at 6:30 p.m. The Holmes Chapter Epworth League of Metropolitan M. E. Church, will be present and render part of the program. All are invited. A. H. Whittington, President, Rev. L. C. Curtis, Pastor. A special sermon will be preached to the Board Auxiliary of the G. U. O. of Odd Fellows at their hall on Biddle Street, Sunday, February 15th, 1914, by Rev. Alfred Young of King's Hill. All members of the Order are invited to be present. Mrs. R. A. Gipson, President, Mrs. E. Taylor, Sect'y. The Ministerial Alliance meets at Grace Presbyterian Church, Dolphin and Eight streets, Monday, February 17th, 11 a.m. To preside, Rev. L. Z. Johnson; Essayist, Rev. G. F. Bragg, Jr, subject: "Pioneer Negro History in North Carolina. W. Edw. Williams, Secretary. ATTENTION, LOCAL PREACHERS! The Annual Sermon of the Local Preachers Association of Baltimore will be preached by Rev. Dr. J. W. McDonald at Pennsylvania Avenue A. M. E. Zion Church next Sunday night, subject: "Hand Writing On the Wall." FOR RENT—A nice cottage at Mt. Winans, Md. with necessary outbuildings, also large lot. Apply to Hawkins & McMechen, 21 E. Saratoga Street. WANTED—200 persons and more to become members of Trinity A. M. E. Sunday School, Linden avenue and Biddle street. Our doors are always open to welcome strangers and visitors, and a corps of efficient teachers to give instruction on the lessons. Come and see us next Sunday. T.J. Holiday, Superintendent, Rev. L. C. Curtis, Pastor. Intelligent young colored woman wishes position as apprentice for hair dresser, has fair knowledge of the work. 1408 N. Mount street. NOTICE! Special announcement to my friends and the public. I am not connected with the dance on Feb. 16th at Fishermen's Hall. Yours, Edie L. Slater, 1616 Dtuid Hill Ave. THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER Run because its so different from the rest that you just can't afford to be neither late nor absent 6 A. M.—First Annual Visit of the Boys' Class to Brother Snowden's Class---the Adult Sunday Morning Class. 11 A. M.---Special Sermon to the boys by Rev. L. S. Flagg, the great energetic pastor of Bethel A. M. E. Church. Music by the Boys' Vested Choir of Waters', assisted by the Boys' Singing Society of Metropolitan Church. 3 P. M.---A stirring Sermon by the well known Rev. Mrs. Ida Nelson, pastor of Holy Temple. Rev. Mrs. Nelson will be accompanied by her vested choir and congregation. 5.45 P. M.---League. Special Program planned by the boys. Good Singing. Lively Music. Popular Preachers. 7.30 P. M....Extraordinary! Special! Extra! Part 1....A Festival of Music, Song and Elocution by leading boy and adult talent. Part 2....Grand Stereoicoun Exhibition of Great Beauty. Special Slides illustrating Poems, Papers, Hymns, etc.: awaits your pleasure. Special Selections by the Vested Choir of Water's, assisted by the Boys Singing Society of Metropolitan. Silver Offering At The Door OFFICERS:----Samuel Giles, President; Clarence Wicks, 1st Vice President; Silver Williams, 2nd Vice Presiden; Lyson Taylor, Secretary; Win. Spriggs, Assistant Secretary; Charles A. Cary, Director; Rev. A. L. Gaines, Pastor. Don't hall these cities; also Mr. R. Jasper, the well-known Lovie Joe. If you want to have a nice time and plenty of dancing for your money visit this 3' ll. This Ball is on the order of Northern Balls. Enter the corridors under a beautiful awning. See the electrical display and beautiful decorations inside. Women ushers. The best of attention given to ladies. Cards of Admission 35 Cents. Refreshments in Abundance Tickets at All Drug Stores. Mass Meeting APSTIST CHURCH, Carey and Prentice SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1912, 8 Addresses on Timely Topics by Prominent Welcome ANNUAL QUEEN'S SHOW Hospices of the Minnie L. Gaines' Sut Opening, Feb. 27, 1914 ATTRINITY A. M. E. CHURCH at the Lord's Chamberlain, Queen Guards. All will be Arrayed in Be- Jennie R. Ross, will announce the Countries. also the Bugle will be a. Grand March played by Mr. holding Rally Cards, Please Report. Free. Admin. Hompson, President; Mrs. Sarah L. Banks, Second Vice President; Mr. Mamie Bruce, Financial Secretary; Mrs. Lavinia Henry, Chairman of Curtis, D.D., Pastor. 1816—1916 GREAT ALLEN DAY CELEBRATION A. M. E. Churches of Baltimore and African Methodist Episcopal Druid Hill Avenue and Lanvale S. FEBRUARY 16th, 1914, will have Tables and Badges of the rendered by the Ministers of the c oppin. ADMISSION FREE or be Present. Master of Ceremonies, Rev. 10,000 Mass DAY AFTERNOON Metropolitan M. B. Archid Street Near Druid Hill Avenue SHARON BAPTIST CHURCH, Carey and Prestman Sts. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1912, 8 P. M. Spirited Addresses on Timely Topics by Prominent Speakers Everybody is Welcome Admission Free Come and See the Lord's Chamberlain, Queens, Maids, Pages, Flower Girls and Guards. All will be Arrayed in Beautiful Costumes. The Herald, Mrs. Jennie R. Ross, will announce the coming of the Queens and their Countries also the Bugle will be sounded by Mr. Clarence Bowman. Grand March played by Mr. Lewelyn Wilson. All Persons Holding Rally Cards, Please Report to Your Queen Mrs. M. Thompson, President; Mrs. Sarah Lewis., Vice President; Mrs. Laura Banks, Second Vice President; Mrs. Maggie Tucker, Secretary; Mrs. Mamie Bruce, Financial Secretary; Mrs. Rachel Pendleton, Treasurer; Mrs. Lavinia Henry, Chairman of Executive Committee; Rev. L. C. Curtis, D.D., Pastor. THE GREAT ALLEN DAY UNION CELEBRATION Of All the A. M. E. Churches of Baltimore and Vicinity At Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church Cor. Druid Hill Avenue and Lanvale Street MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16th, 1914, AT 8 P. M. Each church will have Tables and Badges of their Colors. The program will be rendered by the Ministers of the churches Address by Bishop L. J. Coppin. Let Every Member be Present. Master of Ceremonies, Rev. L. S. Flagg, D.D. Great $10,000 Mass Meeting SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT 2.30 At the Metropolitan M. E. Church Orchid Street Near Druid Hill Avenue SPEAKERS Las. S. Ward, the Great Campaign M ings Miss Eva Bowles W. A ry E. S. Colt Mrs. Addi AND BRING A P Mr. Chas. S. Ward, the Great Campaign Manager H. S. Cummings Miss Eva Bowles W. Ashbie Hawkins Miss Mary E. S. Colt Mrs. Addie Hunton ASBURY M. E. CHURCH Rogers Ave. and Lexington Street Rev. Geo. E. Curry, Pastor 11 a. m., Sermon by pastor. Sunday School at 2;00 p. m. C. T. Stewart, Supt. 5.15 p. m., Epworth League. 8 p. m., Sermon by pastor. All cordially invited. SHARP ST. MEM. M. E. CHURCH Irev. M. J. Naylor, D. D., pastor 10. a. m. Bible Class, T. H. Smith Director 11 a. m., Special sermon by pastor to the church membership. 2 30 p. m., Sunday School Lincoln and Douglass day celebration Address by Mr. P. D. G. Pennington. Special music. 8 p. m. Program entitled, "The True Way," will be rendered by the Senior Dept. of the Sunday School. Address by the Dean of Morgan College, Mr. Chas. Young. Revival services during the week. WHATCOAT M. E. CHURCH Franklin and Pine Sts., "King's Hill" Rev. Alfred Young, Pastor. Residence: 618 Dolpin Street 11 a.m. Special sermon by the pastor Subj. "Dearth in the pot" 8. p.m. Sunday School. 315 p.m. Sermon at Odd Fellows Hall, Biddle Street. 4.39 p.m. Epworth League 8 p.m. Sermon by "that Disciple Jesus Loved." Monday the 16th a grand concert by the choir. Admission 10 cents. Don't fail to come Prayer meeting Wednesday night. J. F. Crowner Chorister, W. C. Tongue, Supt. Thomas Johnson, Pres. E. L. EASTERN M. E. OHURCH Rev. S. R. Hughes, Pastor 10 a.m. Bible Class. 11 a.m. Sermon by pastor. Subject "The Pool." 2.30 p.m. Sunday School. 13 p.m. Sacred concert by the noted Sharp St. choir. Silver offering. 5 p.m. Epworth League. 8 p.m. Platform service, subject, "Why go to Church?" Pastor, and local preachers. CENTENNIAL M. E. CHURCH Caroline and Bank Sts. Rev. N. M. CARROLL, D. D., Pastor 11 a.m. Sermon by Rev. Jas. Martin 2.30 p. m. Sunday School. 3.30 p. m. Pastor, choir and congregation will visit St. Lukes, the Homelike Church. Sermon by Rev. Carroll. 5 p. m., Epworth League. 8 p. m., Rev. J. A. Jackson. Everybody welcome. Mrs. S. J. C. Ralph, Supt. Mrs. Helen A. Cooper, Pres. of L. AMES MEMORIAL M. E. CHURCH Carey and Baker streets Rev. D. W. Shaw, Ph. B., D.D., Pastor Residence: 1363 N. Calhoun St. 6 a. m. Great Experience Meeting Mr. Inomas Lane, Leader. 11 a. m. Gospel sermon by pastor. Subj. "The Angel-Sent Man" 2 p. m. Sunday School, Mr. Henry Johnson, Superintendent 5 p. m. Epworth League. Devotional and Literary. Mr. Wm. Powell, President. 8 p. m. Ten Stories of Interest to Boys, told by the pastor. 200 seats reserved for boys. Come and join us. Good music by the boys. Class meetings. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. Prayer meeting, Friday night. ST. MATTHEW'S M. E. CHURCH E. 23rd Street Rev. R. A. Green, Pastor 11 a.m., sermon 2.30 p. m., Sunday School. 3 p. m. Sermon to the Order of Seven Wise Men, No. 1, by the Rev. B.H. Knight, pastor of Gilles M. P. Church All the members of the Household are invited to be present. 4 p. m. Epworth League. 8 p. m. sermon by Rev. S. H. Brown. Mrs Pearl M. Rice, Supt Mr. J. Fuller, Pres. E. L. Mrs. Elizabeth Fuller, President of Ladies' Aid Association. GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Dolphin and Etting Sts. Rev. W. E. Williams, D. D., Minister The Manse, 623 W. Lanvale St. 11 a.m., Sermon 3.00 p. m., Sunday School. 8 p. m. Preaching. Gospel singing. Seats free All welcome Lecture and Prayer Service every Wednesday, 8 p. m. Mrs. Eulalia Reid Calloway Directress Miss Margaret Rusk, Organist. Wm. Anderson, Supt. Fremynt and China streets Rev. G. C. Singleton, Pastor 11.30 a. m., Sermon by pastor 2.30 p. m., Sunday School 8 p. m., preaching by pastor, sub. ject "O Wretched Man That I Am. Bro C. Taylor, Class Leader Sister E. Mason, Secretary Pennsylvania Avenue A. M. E. ZION CHURCH Rev. J. W. McDonald, Pastor 11 a, m. sermon by Rev. Mr. Lewis 2.30 p. m., Sunday School W. W. Brown, Supt. 4 p. m. Union Class Meeting 6 p. m. Varick C. E. Society. J. B. Alkins, President. 8 p. m., special sermon by Pastor subject "Hand Writing on the Wall" by special request, to the Local Preachers' Association of the city. Monday night. February 23d, preach- ing by Rev. B. J. Boiding, ex-pastor Come and hear these divines 7TH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH Druid Hill Ave. and Robert St. G. P. Rodgers, Pastor. Services every Sabbath—Saturday 10 a. m., Sabbath School 11.30 a. m., preaching service 8. p. m., Vesper Services Special Preaching Sunday night, 8 p. m., subject, "Faith Healing, Are the Sick Really Healed?" All are Invited to hear this subject. Excellent Song Service. Question and Answer Service after the discourse. BETHEL A. M. M. E. CHURCH Lanvale St, and Druid Hill Ave. Rev. L. S. Flagg, D. D., Pastor Parsonage: 1405 Argyle Ave. 11 a.m. Sermon by Bishop Coppin. 2.30 p. m., Sunday School. Installation of Officers and Teachers. 3 p.m. Rev. J. A. Briscoe, choir and congregation of St. John's A. M. E. Church. 6.30 p. m. A. C. E. L. Mr. Coleman, President 7 p. m. Praise Service. 7.30 p. m. Preaching Thad. Copeland, Supt. Grand rally all day WATERS A. M. E. CHURCH Aisquith St., near Jefferson. Rev. A. L. Gaines, D. D., Pastor. 427 Aisquith Street 11 a.m. sermon 2.30 p. m. Sunday School 5.45 p. m., A. C. E. L. 7.45 p. m., sermon J. F. Waters, Supt. Miss Mamie Woolford. Pres. A.C.E.L. ALLEN A. M. E. CHURCH Lexington and Carlton Sts Rev. P. J. Jordan, D.D. Pastor 11 a. m. Special sermon by pastor. 2,30 p. m. Sunday School. Mr. Clifford Brown, Teacher. 3 p. m. Sermon by Rev. McDonald to the choir. 4,30 p. m., Allen League Good pro- gram. Excellent music. 5 p. m., Class Meeting. 8 p. m. Sermon H. D. Brent, Supt. S. S. William Butler, Pres. League ST. JOHN'S A. M. E. CHURCH Lexington St. near Pine Rev. J. A. Briscoe, Pastor The Church on Wheels The Church on Wheels. St. Johns Church and people reached Philadelphia Sunday night and will reach New York Feb. 15. Come and go with us to the Holy Land. 11 a. m. Sermon by the pastor, subject "Questionable Love for Christ." 2. 30 p. m. Sunday School. 3 p. m. Going to see Mother Bethel with congregation and Choir. Sermon by Pastor. Subject, "The vision and the man." 6 p. m. Allen League 8 p. m. Sermon by the Plowman. Feb. 17. the revival will close. Come and see all the converts in white at the altar. EBENEZER A. M. E. CHURCH Montgomery street, bet. Charles and Rev. J. W. Norris, D. D. Pastor Stewardesses' Day. Mrs. Jennie Doughty, President 10 a. m. Pastor's bible Class. 11 a. m., Mrs. Edith Brooks will con- duct the services. 2,30 p. m. Sunday School. 3,30 p. m. Sermon by Rev. John A. Holmes, D.D. Choir and congregation 6 p. m., Allen C. E. League. 7,30 p. m., sermon by the Pastor Monday, Feb. 16, 8 p. m. all to Bethel John Murray, Pres. League Linden Ave. and Biddle St. Rev. L. C. Curtis, D. D., Pastor 11 a. m. Sermon by pastor 2;30 p. m. Sunday School. 6;30 p. m. A. C. E. L. 7;20 p. m., sermon by pastor. All are invited to attend the Union Allen Day Celebration at Bethel A. M. E. Church Monday, Feb. 16, 8 p. m. All are Welcome to our services T. J. Holliday, Supt. Albert Whittington, Pres. E. L PAYNE MEM A. M.E. CHUROH Calhoun and Laurens Sts. Rev. J. G. Martin, Pastor, Residence: 1160 N. Calhoun St. Woman's Day 11 a. m., Preaching by the pastor. 2;30 p. m., Sunday School 3;30 p. m. Platform meeting. Addresses by Mrs. Emma Truxon, Dr. M. E. Thomson and other ladies of note. 6 p. m., Allen C. E. League. Topic, "Why every one should sign a temperance pledge." Prov. 23:20, 21, 29:35. Temperance meeting. 7.30 p. m. Special sermon to Ruth Court, No. 27, O. C of K. of P. Strangers are always welcome. Chas. E. Dorsey, Supt. James E. Neal, Pres. E. L. St. Luke's Union A. M.E. Church THE HOMELIKE CHURCH Spring St. near McElidery Rev. Dr. C. Edward Browne, Pastor 515 North Caroline Street 9 a. m. Class. R. L. Carter, Leader 11 a. m. Sermon by Pastor. 2.30 p. m. Sunday School. Moses Johnne, Supt. 3.30 p. m. Sermon by Rev. N. M. Carroll, pastor of Centennial M. E. Ch. His choir and congregation will have charge of the service. 4 p. m. Classes 2 and 3. Sylvester Burkett and Geo. Johnson, Leaders, 6 p. m. League ST.MARK'S M.P. CHURCH Sharp St. near Montgomery St. Rev. Roy B. Mohr, Pastor 11 a. m., Preaching and Love Feast. 2 p. m., Sunday School. 3 p. m. sermon by pastor. 7 p. m., Christian Endeavor 8 p. m., preaching to the Order of Chakdeans by pastor. Mr. Ed. L. Bouldin, Pres. E. L. Mr Harry Carpenter cornetist. Miss Lydia Sc. t, Organist Universal Methodist Episcopal Church of CHRIST INSTITUTION 704 Lensor Street, Near Monument Rev. G. W. Kennard, D.D., Pastor Speciali Sunday Services. Come! 11 a. m., Rev. Aquilla Brooks, D.D. Hear him! 2.30 p. m., Sabbath School. Special Exercises. Rev. Green, D.D., of Fountain Baptist Church and congregation. Rev. Aquilla Brooks, Dr. G, W. Kennard. These able divines will speaea at this service. Also Madame Lovey Husketh will preside at the piano. A large gathind is expected for this occasion. 8 p. m. Rev. Aquilla Brooka, Special music will be rendered by the choir. Do not fail to be present at these services. A cordial welcome to all. James Fountain Smith, Church Clerk. COL. MIDNIGHT TRAVELING IN THE 'LONE STAR' STATE Attends Bishop J. M. Connea's Conference At Lake Charles And Thinks The Bishop Is A Great Man Vicksburg, Miss.—You know how I feel at all times when I strike Vicksburg, and I have just such a feeling over me now, and I feel good and happy, and hope that you are in good health. You recall the last time I wrote I was in Louisiana or Texas. I do not remember whether I wrote my letter from Lake Charles, or Beaumont, but I am inclined to think that it was sent from Beaumont and I am sending this one from Vicksburg. I have a few things to say to you this week if you are willing to listen to them, and I am in my right mind as I write to you. You will recall that I was in Lake Charles attending a conference presided over by Bishop J. M. Conner, and he was some presiding Bishop too. I am here to tell you, and when I got through with him I turned my attention to other matters. I had never been in Lake Charles before and you may know that I enjoyed being here. There were some good people in the conference and I went to see some of them in town. Mrs. Emily C Kinch, of Philadelphia, was on hand representing the Voice of Missions and the A. M. E. Church Review. I was indeed glad to have the pleasure of meeting her. She has been to Africa as a missionary and I am told that she was able to do some good work over there. I had the pleasure of shaking hands with her and to see what she was doing. Mrs. C. R. Thompson, was on hand also. She is the district president of the Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the A. M. E. Church, and believe me when I tell you she is one of the most talkingest women I have ever heard, and I was delighted indeed to hear her and to see what she was doing for God and the race. To meet these women, to hear them was to me a source of inspiration. I left the city Sunday morning for Beaumont, and wrote to you from that place if you will remember. Beaumont is an interesting place. Reaching town I went right to the Baptist church where I found Sunday school in session. Prof. T. T. Pollard is superintendent of the Sunday school, and he is principal of one of the public schools in town. He is just a great man and there is no getting away from this. I listened to bim and heard all he had to say about Sunday school work. Sunday morning I preached at the A. M. E. Church, and had a nice crowd. Rev. F. F. Washington, who is at the head of the church in Beaumont, is a great man and is doing a great work. I was delighted to see how he was in the hearts of his people. Next found me at the Live Oak Baptist Church looking after the interest of the Sunday school congress. The people are getting in line for this great meeting, and believe me when I tell you it is going to be one of the greatest sessions ever held in the history of the congress. Beaumont people are going to show how to do things. The white people are behind it, and they are going to make it go as soon as all the plans are arranged. I want to here congratulate the board for selecting Beaumont. Prof. T T. Pollard is happy over it, and the same can be said of Prof. Charlton, principal of the high schools and all the teachers. I am sure you are pleased to have this information. Beaumont is a hustling little city. I went with Prof. Pollard to see Editor Mike Welker, of the Beaumont Enterprise, and he told us that he was going to take good care of it, that he was in touch with Charles Stewart, who was going to cover it for him, and that Stewart knew his business. He said many good things about this member of our race, and I was of course delighted to hear them. Mondav night I spoke for the Business League, and I talked some business league talk. Of course I am not an official of the National Negro Business League, but I attend the meetings every year, and since I was invited to talk for them and understood something about the workings of the league, I talked league sense. They are going to send up a big delegation from Beaumont to the next session and I think that they will ask the people to come to Beaumont. This is a good place. They like Dr. Washington there, and that same Editor Welker had some good things to say about Dr. Washington. Texas ought to be interested in Tuskegee and in Dr. Booker T. Washington, because the greatest Negro secretary in the world is Emnett J. Scott, who is behind Dr. Washington and who is also secretary of the institute. I am not to throw bouquets at Mr. Scott, but will give him all he deserves. He is just a man and a great man at that. You can always reach him and get a pleasant word from him although he is busy. We need men like this. I visited the school in Beaumont and left there for Houston. I am not going to say much about Houston because it was at this place where Prof. W. I. Smith hung up the receiver on me. You see I have learned the cause since. He was out with the world and I guess I would have been too because he had lost his wife, and not by death. I was told much about this, but since it is a family affair I am not going to have anything to say. I met J E. McGirt in Houston and heard him speak. He is taking subscriptions for his new books which will be delivered to the subscriptions in five weeks. He is doing well in Texas. I met Mrs. Florence Sledge who was at one time florence McBride. From Houston, I went to Chapel Hill, had something to say to the school there, and left the next morning for Brenham. Enjoyed being in Brenham, then I met the people, talked education to them and left that same night for Corsicana, Texas. It was a close rub, because I had to change in Temple, going on the Sante Fe and changed over to the "Katy," making close connection. At Waco, I called on several friends, including Texas College, and witnessed some of the flood district, and left for Corsicana, where I was the guest of Prof. J. W. Jackson, principal of the high school and Rev. H. A. Carr, pastor of the A. M. E. Church. Talked to the school children, making a special talk to the boys. They seemed glad to have me. Well this was a nice trip. I again that same evening talked some Sunday School Congress and Business League. Left the same night, for Texarkana, spending a few hours in Texarkana, Ark., then to Shreveport, La., where I addressed one of the schools, spoke at night at the A. M. E. Chruch, to a big crowd at the A. M. E. Church, of which the Rev. F. B. Lampton brother of the late Bishop Lampton is pastor. He was delighted to have me present. He is one of the coming men in the A. M. E. Church and will be heard from I am here to tell you. So much for all this. I talked Business League and Sunday School Congress at these places. Then I left there Saturday morning for this place. At this place I was met at the stable by Frank Hughes, who is a man of some common sense and business sense. He is not a professor, but just a hard working man with some good real estate and family. The Lord was kind enough to give him a good wife, and he knows how to appreciate her. They have been blessed with three daughters, Ethel, Cornelia and Beatrice. They are being educated. Ethel, who will be graduated from the public school here this Spring, is organist for the Mt. Heredon Baptist Sunday School, of which Dr. E. P. Jones is pastor, and she is a fine young woman. The other girl is attending Jackson College, and the baby is in the public school here. Mrs. Hughes is a good, loving mother. I will have more to tell you about them in another letter. I think I will have to bring this letter to a stop. I see Senator Vardaman is having fits again. I will not say anything about him now. I think the devil will be able to use him when he gets him. Attarney W. Justin Carter, of Harrisburg, Pa., was in the city this week. Nice Distinction. In a restaurant in the Wall street district, where a stock ticker attracts a large crowd of interested men at the "opening" hour every morning, a young Japanese has become one of the regulars, and his remarks when the various tape wise oracles hold forth have afforded those who watch the eager group no little amusement. The questions why X. Y. Z continues to sag and the possibility of a cut in the dividend of O. P. B. seem as easy of solution to him as they are to veterans like Mr. Near Broke or Mr. Has Been. Mr. Once Ritch said to him recently, "Bet you a cigar A. B. C. goes higher before it goes down." "No," he said, "no gamble—only speculate," and he pointed a nervous finger at the ticker. New York Trib THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER SPECIAL NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC SPECIAL NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC Baltimore, Md. January 5, 1914 The card which appeared in the add column of the Afro-American issue of the 31st notifying the public that fifty or seventy-five thousand dollars would be advanced for the purpose of erecting an Apartment House in the sixteen hundred block of Druid Hill avenue was not official. Mr. C. W. Bosley, 306 Law Building, Mr. John W. Brown, 934 and 953 Calvert Building and I are officers of the Powhatan Apartment House Company. The company did not authorize anyone to place such an add in any paper. It is true that I have been negotiating for such an enterprise for one year, but quietly with little or no publicity for fear that some one might misunderstand my meaning and place some obstacle in the way of success. This company proposes to take up a new line of work different from any that has ever been attempted here in our city. Realizing the small amount of interest received on our money together with the limited working opportunities in practical business and financial lines this company will proceed to open the way in these lines for the colored people of our city by making it possible for the masses of our people to gain greater wealth. This Apartment House is to be used as the means of regaining the confidence of our people. The other matters will follow a little later on. We have in our city in the neighborhood of six hundred colored people with bank accounts, members of building associations and owners of property. We number in population about one hundred thousand. After confidence is restored from the fact that this company shall be safe and to invest in it, then our money will make money then we will be able to get on an average of ten dollars a piece invested, and this is a very small average; which would mean one million dollars to work for our good and this is not counting the unlimited amount that will be brought over from the whites to work with ours. Our dear teachers are doing a tremendous good thing by training hundreds and hundreds of young minds in many branches with little or no practical paying opportunities are open to them. This company is going to try to reach all, it is also going to be properly Bonded. The books are to be open to the stock holders to examine or they can send their attorney or an expert accountant and I would suggest as a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to let the person or persons who shall examine these books be a member of this association. Permit to me to say that Mr. Bosely and Brown are perfectly willing to act in keeping with the workings of the association. Mr. C. W. Bosley is an expert builder and a brother and he controls considerable wealth and is a man of well standing. Mr. John W. Brown is a Broker and an expert accountant controlling unlimited amount of wealth and is also a man of the best of standing socially and all otherwise. Any one desiring to have an interview with either will be gladly received at their offices at any time. HARVEY R. WILLIAMS, 1513 Presstman street. Phone: Mad. 3322 Y. Flogged Only Geniuses at Eton. Some of the hardships of life at Eton in bygone times might be regarded as complimentary to the sufferers. Only the best of the boys were called upon to bear them. The biographer of Dr. Parr records that the famous Eton "head" "believed in fogging for all offenses and even for absence of offense," but never punished stunted capacity or tried to extort much from mediocrity. 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New York.-The National Association For the Advancement of Colored People held a special public meeting in Cooper Union on Thursday evening, Jan. 29, to protest against the Smith-Levie bill now pending in the United States senate. The object of the measure is to provide a fund for agricultural colleges in the south among white people, but makes no provision for similar schools among the colored people. The meeting was largely attended by both white and colored people and was enthusiastic from the start. Ex-Congressman William S. Bennet presided. The speakers were Miss Lillian D. Wald. Oswald Garrison Villard and Dr. W. E. B. Dutlois. In his introductory remarks the Hon. Mr. Bennet said in part: "The supine indifference of the people, especially in the northern states, to the cruel injustice of the situation is precisely similar to the attitude of mind of the ancestors and predecessors of the same people in the fifties. We are worse than the 'Cotton Whigs'. The Cotton Whig simply closed his eyes to a deplorable situation and wanted everything left in status quo, so that he could make money. To do the Cotton Whigs justice, they realized that the abolition of slavery would be a PETER H. HON. WILLIAM S. BENNET. difficult procedure, and therefore their attitude was not entirely seismic. Ours is. We are denying justice to an aspiring and rising people simply because their rising costs us some personal inconvenience. We are proving ourselves hypocrites. "For years we have urged the Negro to improve and have assured him that as he did so he could take the position in organized society which his training warranted. He has acted upon the faith of our promise, and now that he is acquiring education, culture and property we are forgetting everything that we have said to him and attempting to segregate him, not only more because he lacks the requisite education, cultivation and means, but' for the maked reason that he is a Negro. "In the south we are denying him as a citizen the rights which the constitution guaranteed, and in the north by acquiescing we are consenting to the monstrous doctrine that for the purpose of being counted for representation in congress and in the electoral college the Negro is a man, a citizen and a brother, while for all other purposes he is a mere beast of burden. We forget one mushaken truth. Nation in all history which has suffered injustice to prevail, which has continued hypocrisy, which has been false to its own professions, but has lost in failure and in suffering—paid in the end to the uttermost farthing for such injustice and hypocrisy." Miss Wald said: "This question of segregation looms up in my mind as of mountainous significance. It involves an eternal principle, the principle of defying the human being which was proclaimed as the cornerstone of our national edifice and reiterated after the experience of eighty-nine years by the best American of them all at the close of the civil war. However helpless the nation collectively may be because of the prejudice and injustice among the individuals who constitute the nation, it commits the country to a standard, when it acts collectively. The attempted segregation at Washington and the immediate, widespread effect of it on the country at large, especially the south, are too important to let pass without letting the world know the judgment of social thinkers upon it. "The nation has taken a great fast upon itself when it sets out to harpo size the different elements that make up our country, that all may get together for one great purpose—free opportunity to each, that the best type may be developed. There must be confusion in the minds of many who come to us as to the difference between our high national motives and the acts of the individual. I do not want to add to the flame that has been kindled—far from it. Such contribution as I can make to this discussion is to dwell with all the emphasis within my power upon the wrong that we do ourselves when we wrong or degrade or in any way injure any of the people who are in our midst. We commit ourselves to a wrong or a degradation or an injury when we do not protest against it." Mr. Villard, chairman of the board of directors of the association, made the principal address of the evening. "This bill as it stands represents a radical step in the movement for rural discrimination against negroes in the south," he asserted. "Coming on the heels of the campaign for farm segregation, it makes it possible to deprive the Negroes of their share of federal appropriations for agricultural education by allowing southern legislatures to give the entire amount to white colleges. Members of the committee which framed the bill and of the house and senate," he said, "have admitted that this fact was taken into consideration and that the colored colleges would doubtless get little of the money. The only bill under which they have benefited was that of 1890, which provided for equitable division of the funds as does the Jones amendment to the Smith-Lever bill, for which the association is fighting now." Mr. Villard characterized the bill as one of the most vicious that have in a long time brought before the federal government the issue of ratifying a policy of race discrimination. Mr. Villard continued: "Now, I want to say few words to you about the extraordinary position in which the democratic party finds itself today, with its president preaching a 'new freedom' and a number of reactionary senators, congressmen and cabinet officers urging a new slavery. For the violent and Negro southern senators—it is to them I want to pay my respects tonight—are of the most reactionary kind. There is no more amazing spectacle in our public life than the ingerness with which they mouth the now familiar slogan that 'the people shall rule; that special privilege must cease; that we must have direct rule by the people; that the bosses must go; that Wall street must be put in its proper place and the alliance between big business and politics cease. "There are no bosses today comparable to them; there are none others elected to office who so clearly represent only a minority of the adults within their election districts or states; there are none others the country over as determined that all the people shall not rule, but only a fraction thereof. They are today before God and the nation the chief apostles of reaction—the Vardmans, Tilmanus, Hoke Smiths and all the rest of the Negro baiting crowd who have risen to enmity on the back of the Negro, defaming and oppressing him as they went. Then, when they fail to rise, you cheerfully assert that this proves the Negro incapable of advancing and half brother to an ox. You deprive the Negro child of all schooling, as 5,000 are deprived in Atlanta, turn him adrift to roam in slum streets, and then if he grows up an animal you say the responsibility is his; that that proves him a beast and his race inherently criminal. Never was there a more brazen assertion that a people cannot rise in the scale of civilization and a more determined effort to prevent their rising. "But, I have another indictment for these men. I claim that they misrepresent the heart and conscience and brains of the true south, the south of chivalry and fair play—a real south that has hain dormant, but is beginning now to stir. It is not for nothing that we have a Breckinridge of Kentucky foremost among our workers in the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People. It is of no little importance that our protest against the segregation of the races in Washington was upheld to the letter by another Breckinridge in his newspaper in Kentucky. It is of the utmost significance that the papers by southern men read before the southern sociological conference last spring and published under the title of 'The Human Way' voice the same sentiments to be heard at our National Association For the Advancement of Colored People meetings—for instance, denunciation of the jimcarry car and a demand for the ballot for the worthy black man. "It meant much when a prominent southern educator came to our annual meeting in New York last year and declared that what the Negro needed in the south was not less but more social equality, and a proposal for a national race commission to study the problem, which we laid before the president last May, was conceived by a Mississippi, now a resident of Texas. These are the men, we believe, who represent the quickening conscience of the new south which the anti-Negro senators and congressmen often misrepresent." Virginians to Organize In Newark, N.J. A movement has been started in Newark, N. J., to organize a mutual benefit society among resident Virginians. The movement was instigated by members of the society of the Son of Virginia, an incorporated institution in Brooklyn. Messrs. Allen W. Sydrum and John S. Pinkman of Newark have been requested by the Brooklyn organization to take charge of the work in Newark. CLASS ORATOR at HARVARD. How Alexander Jackson Won His Spurs at Noted University. Alexander L. Jackson, class orator at Harvard university, was born in Englewood, N. J., March 1, 1801, the son of hard working parents. His father died a few years ago; his mother still lives in Englewood, where she is self supporting and much respected. As a youngster Alexander did anything he could to earn money. He has sold newspapers, worked as a chauffeur and as a store clerk, tended furnaces, waited on table, tutored and tried his hands at many kinds of labor. SUNDAY SCH Lesson VII.—First Quan Feb. 15; 1914. THE INTERNATIONAL Text of the Lesson, Luke Memory Verse, 42—Golden vi. 7—Commentary Prepare D. M. Stearns. Young Jackson's school record is one of steady progress. He was graduated from Lincoln Grammar school, Englewood, in 1905, being the valedictorian of his class. He attended Englewood high school, 1905 to 1907, and was on the football team. He entered Phillips Andover academy in 1907. He worked his way through that institution, ran on the track team, won a three years' scholarship and was graduated in 1910, eleventh in scholarship in a class of 125 and was class orator. He entered Harvard in 1910, receiving the Price Greenleaf scholarship. He was a member of the freshman track team and varsity track team hurdler for three years and has won the varsity letter five times. His latest honor was his election as orator of the class of 1914. Speaking of his purpose in the future, Mr. Jackson says: "I intend to devote my life to the education of my race. I have specialized in education, English, economics and German with that end in view. I am also much interested in sociology and settlement work. I believe that the uplift of the colored man, like that of any one else, must come through education. As a boy I was impressed with that fact. I owe my earliest inspirations to Miss Lillian F. Hoover of Liberty school, Englewood, and I will never forget her kingly interest in me when I was her pupil." GEORGE R. CRAWFORD DIES. Preminent Business Man and Well Known Citizen Buried With Honors. George R. Crawford, who died recently at his home in Boston, was a native of lynchburg, Va. He was widely known and highly esteemed by his fellow citizens. His active career as a business man and useful citizen extended over a period of more than thirty years. He was a caterer by profession and an active member of the Ebenezer Baptist church, a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the New England lodge of Old Fellows and of the Ellen A. Blair Tabernacle. Order of Love and Charity. The deceased had been ill for several months, and his demise brought sorrow to his host of friends and family. He was a brother of the famous Crawford family—James B. David E. Joshua A. and Sampson L. Crawford and Madam L. C. Parrish, the only sister. He leaves a widow, Alice A. Crawford. Funeral services were held at the Ebenezer Baptist church. Rev. C. A. Ward and M. A. N. Shaw officiated, assisted by other clergymen. All Masonic, Odd Fellow and Love and Charity rites were performed. The interment was at Woodlawn cemetery. NEW WORK OF THE NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION Arrangements Made For the Operation of a Reciprocal News Service. For the purpose of doing more effective work the National Negro Press association has arranged its territory into zones by states for the benefit of all the members who take part in the reciprocal news service. The zones are as follows: Zone 1- New England, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, Massachusetts and Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. Zone 2- Virginia, North and South Carolina, West Virginia, east Tennessee, including Knoxville and eastern Kentucky. Zone 3- Western Kentucky, Tennessee see west from Knoxville to Memphis, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, east of the Mississippi river and Florida. Zone 4- Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Zone 5- Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Nebraska and Kansas. Zone 6- Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, California and Arizona. Zone 7-Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana, west of the Mississippi river. Literary Work of Mrs. Clara B. Hardy. "A Southern Man's Sacrifice; or, The Fate of a Mulatto Girl." is the subject of a well written and thoughtful short story by Mrs. Clara B. Hardy of St. Paul which appeared in a recent issue of the Twin City Star, Minneapolis. The plot in the story is cleverly conceived. Mrs. Hardy is a sister of Mrs. Mary B. Talbert, president of the Empire State Federation of Women's Clubs, Buffalo, N. Y. Summer School at Institute, W. Va. Professor Byrd Frillermann, president of the West Virginia Colored institute, located at Institute, W. Va., says that the summer school this year will have the largest attendance in the history of the institution. There will be two courses, teachers' review and a professional course. The session will begin June 15 and continue for six weeks. SUNDAY SCHOOL. Lesson VII.—First Quarter, For Feb. 15; 1914. THE INTERNATIONAL SERIES. Text of the Lesson, Luke xi, 37-54. Memory Verse, 42—Golden Text, Gal. vi, 7-Commentary Prepared by Rev. D. M. Stearns. When we remember that our blessed Lord knew all men and knew what was in, man and every thought of man's heart (John ii. 24, 25; Ezek. xi. 5) we wonder how He in His purity and righteousness could live among men as He did and not be utterly discouraged. But He came to save sinners, knowing that every imagination of the thoughts of man's heart is only evil continually and that every man at his best state is altogether vanity and that all man's righteousness is only fifty rags (Gen. vi. 5: Ps. xxxix). As to these Pharisees, if we note what He says of them in Matt. xxiii as well as in our lesson we wonder that He could think of entering one of their homes. If He was only a man, however good, He could not tolerate them, but being God in human form, God manifest in the flesh. He was not willing that even such should perish and would save them if they would let Him. But they, being ignorant of God's righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness, would not submit themselves unto the righteousness of God (Rom. x, 13). They rejected the counsel of God against themselves and derided Him. Yet when they invited Him into their homes He went, as in our lesson and in Luke vii, 26, but he was always "the faithful witness" (Tev. 81, 14) testifying to the love of God and the sinfulness of man. The word "Pharisee" means a separated one, but their separation was not from sin unto God, but from all who did not think as they did and wore to them common and unclean, as when one of them said, "God, I think thee that I am not as other men * * * or even as this publicien" (Luke vii, 11): We may become well acquainted with them by considering our Lord's estimate of them in the "woes" of our lesson and Matt. xxiii and 1sa. v. They knew not the love of God, but they did love the praise of men. Their religion was wholly outward, seeking only human approval, utterly regardless of what God thought of them or knew them to be (Matt. xxiii, 5, 28). Like their ancestors, they regarded not the work of the Lord, neither considered the operation of His hands. They cast away the law of the Lord of hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel 1sa. v. 12, 24. They honored God with their lips, but their hearts were far from Him, and they made His word of more effect by their traditions (Mark vii, 6, 13; Isa. xxix, 13; Ezek. xxxiii, 31). Their religion was from Cain, who was the human founder of all false religion and who was evidently in the mind of our Lord in the great woe chapter when He spoke of the blood of righteous Abel (Matt. xxiii, 25). The greatest hindrance to the gospel is not the worldly world, which birth in the wicked one (1 John v. 19), but the religious people whose religion is all outward, who know not what is to worship God in spirit and in truth, and who think more of what others think of them than of the approval of the Lord Jesus, and who are more sensitive to a reproach against themselves than to a reproach against the name of the Lord. These are the wicked who plot against the just, who watcheth the righteous and seeketh to slay him (i's, xxxvii. 12, 32), even as these men lay in wait for our Lord, seeking to catch something out of His mouth that they might accuse Him. The self righteousness of such people could not take them into the kingdom of heaven (Matt. v. 20), but would doom them to the outer darkness, where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matt. viii. 12). Never did our Lord turn away or say a severe word to a truly penitent sinner or one honestly seeking the truth, but to those who professed to be what they were not and yet were righteous in their own estimation He was severe. Yet even such, who thought they had need of nothing. He counselled to buy of him gold tried if the fire and white raiment and eye sage to cause them to see (Rev. ii. 17, 18). God requires an absolutely perfect righteousness, such as was found only in Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, without blench and without spot, with whom the Father was always well pleased, and anything less than this will not suffice. We can never attain to such righteousness by our own efforts, but how glorious is the truth in HI Cor. v. 21. "He has made Him who knew nothing of sin to be sin for us. in order that in Him we may become the righteousness of God." or as in I Cor. l. 30. 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HAPPENINGS OF LOCAL INTEREST MASSMETTING FOR CLAYTON-WILLIAMS A massmeeting in the interest of the Clayton-Williams University will be held at Psalmist Baptist Church, Riggs avenue and Woodyear street,next Thursday evening. Addresses will be delivered by Prof. Willis J. Winston, president of the university; Mrs. Anna L. McGuian, head of the newly created female and preparatory departments,and others will make addresses. The institution is supported by the colored Baptist churches of the city and State and is doing a commendable work. PYTHIAN LOAN ASSOCIATION At the annual meeting of the Pythian Loan and Savings Association held last Friday, a dividend of 6 percent was declared. The association has been in existence but two years and is having a steady growth. Its officers and directors are as follows: William I. Butler, Jr., president William H. Booker, vice president; William E. McKinnon, secretary; Dr. A. O. Reid, treasurer; W. Ashbie Hawkins, attorney; Walter C. Jones, George W. Stewart, Solomon Tripp, William W. Brown. The association meets every Friday from 7.30 to 9 o'clock p. m. at 1138 Druid Hill avenue. GUN CLUB AUXILIARY MEETS The Auxiliary of the Rod and Gun Club met on Friday, February 6, at the residence of Mrs. H. Hays, 641 Pitcher street. The meeting was largely attended and its members consists of a progressive group. The members of the Rod and Gun Club voted unanimously to give the auxiliary a collation on the 16 Inst. After the meeting of the above they were escorted to the dining room where the hostess served a collation. Mrs. Edward Smith is president; Mrs. Jerome Doman, vice president, and Mrs. L. Washington, secretary. PARENTS MEET AT HILL ST. SCHOOL A meeting of the Parents and Teachers' Club of the Hill Street School was held at the school Tuesday evening. Addresses were delivered by Councilmen C. H. Heintzman and Charles A. Jording and former State Senator Sproesser. Mr. Winfort Braxton gave several pianola selections. The officers of the club are: Mr. Jeremiah A. Stafford, president; Miss Cecie E. Combes, vice president; Miss R. B. Richardson, secretary, and Mr. Samuel Robinson, treasurer. MRS HILTON SURPRISED Mrs. Robert Hilton, one of the most faithful and efficient workers of the Colored Empty Stocking and Fresh Air Circle and whom the members call "Chairman of Committee on Results" was given a delightful surprise last Monday night by a number of the members and officers. Mrs. Hilton had been sick for several weeks and her friends took this method of showing their appreciation. The ladies rendered a short program and presented a beautiful picture to Mrs. Hilton after which refreshments were served. Mrs. Hilton was truly surprised as was Mr. Hilton, and she told the ladies she would never forget their kindness and her aim would be to do more for the circle whose object is to make the childhood of the needy better and happier. 43 CONVERSIONS AT MACEDONIA There was 43 conversions in the revival campaign that has just come to a close at Macedonia Baptist Church. A number were Baptized and took their first communion Sunday. Rev. D. G. Mack is pastor of the church. ENTERTAINS A FEW FRIENDS WITH AN ELABORATE DINNER Mr. and Mrs. John W. Goodin, of 2315 Division street gave a dinner on last Sunday evening the guests were Mr. and Mrs. Howard Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Merritt, Mr. and Mrs. James Booze Mr. and Mrs. John Spadley, Mr. Theo. Roberts, Mrs. Colbert. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Goodin, and their son, Mr. Howard Goodin were the hosts of the evening. The table was decorated with cut flowers and cut glass, with delicious fruits placed in the center of the table. and the many candelabras displayed, a color corresponding with the dining room which was red. WANTED-50 men at the Men's Bible Class, Bethel A. M. E. Sunday School Sunday afternoon, at 2:30 P. M., J. H. Murphy, teacher. A group of intelligent men met at the John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church, 1707 Orleans street, near Broadway and organized a Progressive Union composed of shares at $25 a share. They elected Capt. Thomas H. Johnson, president; John Hill, vice president; James Turner, financial secretary; Rev.W. I. Robinson, pastor of the church, recording secretary; James Allen, treasurer. The church will hold their regular services at the usual hours this Sunday. The first anniversary of the Ushers Board of Allen A. M. E. Church election of officers. Through the divine Providence they are doing a good work for their Master and trusting the prayer of the righteous will speed them onward and upward. Officers elected were: Mr. Wm. R. Brown, president; Mr. John E. Smith, vice president; Mr. George T. Johnson, treasurer; Mr. A. Hill, recording secretary; Mr. Edgar A. Moore, financial secretary. Adv. DOCTOR'S COACHMEN HOLD THIRD ANNUAL RECEPTION Over two hundred persons, including many handsomely dressed women, attended the third annual reception and banquet of the Doctors' Coachmen's Junior Association at the home of the Silver Spring Club Monday evening. The banquet served eclipsed in variety of good things the previous functions of the association. Toasts were responded to by Robert A. Ellitot; James Lomax; Christopher Johnson, Howard Morton, Harry A. Vodery, Fraudlin F. Johnson and others. Frank Richardson was toastmaster. Following the banquet a social hour took place, dancing was indulged in. The association was organized three years ago and has 67 members. It has a beneficial department and has over $900 in bank to aid members in distress or sickness. The members are substantial men and are well known in the community. The present officers of the association are: James Lomax, president Harry Sunkett, vice president; George Handy, recording secretary; Arthur Thompson, financial secretary; William Hall, corresponding secretary; Charles Jenkins, treasurer; Isaiah Pinkney, sergeant-at-arms; John Cromwell, marshal; John Butler, assistant marshal, and Henry T. Howard, chaplain. The committee in charge of the reception follows: George W. Woolford, chairman; Howard Morton, secretary; William Foster, Solomon Jefferson, Irvin Johnson, Oscar Williams, George Hawkins, Walter Jones and John W. Holliday. IN DOUBT ABOUT THE UNION OF BAPTIST MINISTERS BEING ONE CONFERENCE Dr. Junius Gray, of Psalmist Baptist Church, on Riggs Avenue, does not believe that there will ever be a real union among the Baptist Churches in Baltimore until something is done to help the struggling churches. Until that is done, it is impossible to have the union of the pastors and churches as we should have. Wherever there is a disposition on the part of anyone who is not willing to give the smaller churches and pastors the recognition they should have, it is natural that they will seek until they find someone to recognize them, they then will stand by the one who does give them recognition. I also wish to say that I have built two churches in thirteen years and four churches to be orphaned out from the Psalmist Church of which I am pastor. If there is any preacher in Baltimore who hopes to bring about a union, he must first let others see that his motives are right. I do not think that there is but one organized body of Baptists in Baltimore for the help of struggling pastors, and that is the Emergency Association. This association is destined to do much for the uplifting of churches and pastors. If you want union as it should be among baptist preachers and churches you must stop taking each others members a watch care members. No preacher or pastor could expect to have union if they are willing to recognize a member or members who have excluded from a regular organized Baptist church. I would like very much to see one Baptist ministers conference and one Baptist convention, but the conditions named above must first be complied with. NOTICE- Piano beginners instructed at home or at studio. For particular address M. W., Care of the Afro-American Co., 628 N. Euaw street. THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER Books are now open for dates. For Excursions on Steamer Starlight to Brown's Grove. The Steamer Starlight is the only Excursion Steamer that is absolutely owned and operated by Colored People in the United States. Brown's Grove is the best and finest Resort that was ever opened to Colored People in the State of Maryland and with the many improvements that are now in progress and will be completed by the opening of the Season makes it equal to any of the white resorts. Book Your Dates now as the great inducements over last year have already brought on a rush for dates. No disorderly Organiation need apply for dates. No disorderly Person will be allowed passage. For further information apply every Saturday night or Sunday to George W. Brown, 1451 N. Carey St., Phone Madison 2669 M, or Walter R. Langley, 1418 Jefferson St. EVENT EXTRAORDINARY! FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27th, 1914 Only Music Composed by Negro Authors Will be Sung TICKETS 25 CENTS, UP WISH TO ANNOUNCE THEIR FIRST DANCE OF THE SEASON Friday Evening, Feb. 20th, 1914, at Fishermen's Auditorium There will be 100 Checks given to the Ladies and the one holding the Lucky Number will receive a Handsome Prize. Music by Kerr's Orchestra Cards of Admission 25 Cents A fine casket worth $65.00, in black cloth, steel gray or white plush highly polished oak or walnut outside case; beautiful rubber-tired hearse either black, gray or white, to match casket, as desired; six heated car riages, new and up-to-date; fine burial robe, embalming, opening grave advertise funeral, six pairs of gloves, door crepe, candles, candelabra, crucifix when desired, rugs, chair s etc., all of the latest designs. Owing to the misunderstanding of the date the Royal Chauffeurs of Washington did not attend and the entertainment was a grand success thanks to the public in general. It has always been our aim to give the public satisfaction. or Maryland incorporated. Wm. Rich, president; Lewis Taites, secretary; Jack Nelson, general manager. ...Sacred Cantata... Under Auspices of The Mendels sohn Oratorio Society EBENEZER A.M.E. CHURCH Montgomery Street Mr. Wm. L. Wilson, Director Mr. Howard D. Brent, President REV. J. W. NORRIS, PASTOR REAL ESTATE FOR SALE It will pay you to get my list before buying. Start now if you desire to get a nice house centrally located. I have a large list of 2 and 3 story houses for sale. All mail orders promptly attended. For further particulars see Arthur L. Johnson 1415 Myrtle Avenue BALTIMORE, MD. PATRONS CARDS, giving bearer first choice of tickets to the Y. M. C. A. musical at Albaughs Theatre, February 27, are now on sale at the following places. Young's Pharmacy, Druid Hill avenue and Hoffman street. avenue and Derry, Druid Hill Stokes and Derry, Druid Hill avenue and Oxford street. Fennell's, Druid Hill avenue and Biddle street. Winstard's, Druid Hill avenue and McMechen street. Terrell and McNeil's, Carey and Presstman streets. Pope's, Presstman street and Druid Hill avenue. Dr. J. Edward Fisher's, I612 E. Monument street. Mr. Albert Johnson and son, 207 W. Henrietta street. Committee: W E. Emerson, W. A. Hill, Dr. H. E. Young, chairman. WANTED—Several honest, industrious people to distribute Negro Literature. Salary $60.00 per month. Prof. Nichols, Box 161. Naperville, Ill. STOP PAYING RENT ```markdown ``` Be your own landlord. Let us show you how your rent money will buy and pay for your home. Thousands of houses have been bought through us by satisfied customers. IT DOSEN'T PAY TO RENT Every cent you pay for rent is gone forever. You are never safely settled if you rent, as your house can be sold at any time. Now is the time to buy. it will pay you to call for our terms and list of property. Homeseeker's Realty Company 11 E. Fayette S Phone St. Paul 2370 STARLIGHT Talent: Afro-American Folk Song Singers of 25 Voices. Conducted by Prof Will Marion Cook Prof. Harry T. Burleigh, Miss Abbie Mitchell, Miss Lottie Wallace, Miss Lillian Evans. Mr. Claude Amos. and other Soloists whose Names Will Appear Later The Fer Que Ge Athletic Club OF THE C. Y. W. C. A. WILL GIVE A BENEFIT EXHIBITION under the Direction of Miss Enola McDaniels, THE COLORED YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ATSOCIATION CAMPAIGN FUND THE ARMORY, Over Richmond Market . . . Night, February 20th, 1914 BENEFIT EXHIBITION Under the Direction of Miss Enola McDaniels, FOR THE COLORED YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ATSOCIATION CAMPAIGN FUND AT THE ARMORY, Over Richmond Market . . . Friday Night, February 20th, 1914 MISS CECELIÄ CANNON, PRESIDENT MISS ELLA HAYES, SECRETARY GOOD MUSIC Baltimore's Leading Colored Undertaker in Prices JOHN H. OWENS UNDERTAKER @ EMBALMER Complete $73.00 FUNERALS $75.00. Complete ...YOUNG'S HAIR FOOD... STOKES and DERRY'S 1061 Druid Hill Avenue, Cor. Oxford DRUGS JUDICIOUSLY. TRY US. PERSONAL NOTES Eddie Green, the local comedian, was entertained by friends in Washington Sunday. Mrs. W. S. Haynes is confined to her home, 509 Laurens street, by illness. Miss Edith Williams, of 1338 Pennsylvania avenue, has returned from a month stay in Snow Hill, much improved in health. Mrs. A. Fisher Guinn, of New Bedford, Mass., is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Sarah Vodery, of 2028 Oak street. Mrs. Ida Warner, who has been ill at her home, 425 W. Hamburg street, is improving. Mr. John T. Nelson, of 545 La-vale street, who has been quite sick, is much improved. Don't forget the Demi Tasse Dance at Galilean Fisherman Hall, Friday, February 27th. Dr. Kerr Orchestra. Admission 25 cents H. Pierson W. Scott. president. The Y. M. C. A. at Albaugh's, February 27th. Eight private boxes, six seats each, will be sold at public auction on Wednesday evening, February 18, at 9:30 P. M., at the Y. M. C. A. building. Rev. A. L. Gaines has returned from Atlanta, Ga., where he attended the session of the Councils of Bishops of the A. M. E. Church. Mr. Charles H. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Pickett and Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Loving, of Washington were in the city last Sunday visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Amos McCorimck. 936 McDonough. Don't forget the Demi Tasse Dances at Galilean Fishermen's Hall, Friday, February 27th. Dr. Kerr' orchestra. Admission, 25 Cents. H. Pierson W. Scott, president. Mrs. Mattie Derry, who has been critically ill with pneumonia, is reported to be in improved condition. Mrs. H. T. Allen has been confined to her home, 616 W. Biddle street for three weeks. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Galloway extend their sincere thanks to their many kind friends for valuable and useful present received on the occasion of their 50th birthday anniversary. Mrs. J. Logan Jenkins entertained a number of ladies at an evening reception followed by a whist game. Thursday of last week in honor of Mrs. M. Allen Towles, of West Point, Va. Mrs. Jenkins was assisted in entertaining by Medames James Addison, Albert Peck and D. N. E. Campbell. Don't forget the Demi Tasse Dance at Galilean Fisherman Hall, Friday, February 27th. Dr. Kerr's orchestra. Admission, 25 Cents. H. Pierson W. Scott, president. Dr. H. J. Brown, former politician, and Samuel E. Young, past grand master of the Maryland Grand Lodge of Masons, who have been ill for sometime, are reported to be in an improved condition. Rev. J. O. Custis, who has been undergone treatment at Provident Hospital, is now at his home, 1514 Druid Hill avenue. The Rev. Mr. Royal has been placed in charge of Handy A. M. E. Church pending the complete recovery of Mr. Custis. A MAN IN A TUXEDO Miss Tena E. Bevans, of 932 Pierce street, has recovered from an illness which lasted seven weeks and now thanks her friends for thier kind attention. A very pretty wedding was solemnized Wednesday evening February 4, when Mrs. Janie Thomas became the bride of Mr. Ernest Grayon. The ceremony was performed at the residence of the bride 710 W. Saratoga street by Rev. P. J. Jordan and Rev. Alfred Young. Many friends extended congratulations and the gifts were numerous and handsome. Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Norris have returned home from a visit to their sister. Mrs. Maria Scott, of West Chester, Pa., who has been sick. Only The Best. Good prescription work requires experience and care. There is more in prescription compounding than mere throwing together of crude materials. They must be blerled carefully to get the greatest efficiency from the medicines. Let us have your next prescription. We save you money. Patent medicines at reduced prices FENNELL'S PHARMACY, DRUID HILL AVE. & BIDDLE ST BALTIMORE, M.D. ADVERTISE