The Afro-American

THE AFFAIR AMERICAN LEDGER VOL. XXIV. NO. 5 CITIZENS CLASH WITH POLICEMEN Philadelphia, September 23. The indignation that has been brewing among colored people here against the presentation of the racist hating play, "The Birth of a Nation," came to a head Monday night, when 500 colored people marched up and down Broad street, in the vicinity of the Forrest Theater, to voice their protest against the play. Rousing indignation meetings had been held during the day at the meetings of African Methodist ministers and at Zion Baptist Church. Cards urging the colored people and their sympathizers to gather in the vicinity of the theater were scattered broadcast and a considerable number were on hand at 8 P. M. to voice their opposition. A strong cordon of uniformed and plainclothes policeman were on hand to prevent any outbreak. The protestants marched up and down Broad street in an orderly way until nine o'clock. The crowd by this time had been greatly augmented, and the fun started. Some one threw a brick through a large plate glass window in the front of the theater and the police charged the protestants with drawn clubs. All who were not fortunate enough to get out of the way were hit over the head. Quite a number were treated at local hospitals for "broken" heads. Rev. W. F. Graham, pastor of Holy Trinity Baptist Church, was taken to Douglass Hospital and treated for scab wound. Several arrests were made, among which was Arthur Linn, charged with throwing brick through the theater window. The others were released in the night court for lack of evidence. The police fired a shot at one fleeing colored man. Director of Public Safety Porter ordered the play banned several weeks ago, but injunction proceedings were instituted to prevent his inference. MORGAN COLLEGE TO OPEN MONDAY Entrance examinations were held at Morgan College Friday. The collage will reopen this Monday. A large ent-ring class is the prosp-ct. B-sides the regular courses, aft-r noon courses in psychology, G-rman and other subjects will be given for teachers. The class in philanthropy will be continued during the year, a beginner's advanced course being offered. This class should be especially attractive to those interested in the various phases of social unplift work. The fee is $5. Persons desirous of entering the college course for teachers or those in philanthropy should communicate at once with the presid-nt, Dr. J. O. Spencer,'or Dean William Pickens. WANTS TO BE A CAPTAIN Chicago, September 23. — William E. Childs, who enjoys the distinction of being the only, colored police lieutenant in the United States, will shortly take an examination for a captaincy. He has been on the local police force for seventeen years and for eight years served as desk sergeant. He is now connected with the Bureau of Identification REV.ARMSTRONG NOT TO LEAVE? Says Charges Against Him Were False And He Will Preach at His Church This Sunday Rev. W. C. Armstrong denies the published report in last week's Afro-American Ledger that he had been suspended from the active work of the ministry by the committee of ministers that heard charges against his moral status. He says that it was not an ecclesiastic trial, merely an investigation. He claims that the allegations made by the women were not proven and that some of the ministers are his enemies. "I have always been a stickler for good morals in a minister," he says, "and whenever the morals of a man has been questioned by the Conference the ministers always say, 'Armstrong is behind those charges.' I went to Philadelphia to see Bishop Coppin Wednesday and he told me to go on with my work at Cowdensville and Mt. Winans. That means that I will be on hand there Sunday, and not Rev. S. T. Crawford, as some have heard." SON OF HAITIAN MINISTER-A BENEDICT Miss Lillian Burgess, a young white woman, and Maurice Menos, son of M. Solon Menos, Haitian Minister to the Unit d States, surpris-d their friends by coming to this city and getting married last Friday. The ceremony was performed by R-v. J. M. Wallace, of the Aisquith Street Presbyterian Church (white). A luncheon followed at the Belvedere. The young couple were accompanied to this city by, Mrs. Married Apted, who lives near the Haitian L gation on Rhode Island avenue, northwest. Mrs. Apted returned to Washington after the ceremony, while Mr. and Mrs. Menos went on to New York. The bride is an attractive young woman, and is a daughter of Littleton Burgess, of Warrinton, Va. The groom is 25 years of age and before coming here was connected with the Haitian Legation at Paris. NEW BUILDING DEDICATED Warren, Ark., Sept. 24.—The dedication of new main building and the laying of the cornerstone of Blackwell Chapel at Walters Institute will take place this Sunday. Bishop Alexander Walters, of whom the institute is named, will preach the dedicatory sermon. The new buildings replace the building destroyed by fire on April 24, 1914. Prof. James E. Eichelberger is principal of the school. FIRE AT LANGSTON Langston, Okla. Sept. 22.—An aftmath of the dismissal of Inman E. Page from the presid ncy of Langston University came with the burning of the mechanical building of the university a few days ago. Editor M lvin E. Chism who published in his newspaper, The Tribune, charges reflecting against the charact r of th- deposed president, is in jail for alleged criminal libl. Battling Jim Johnson from the South Sea Islands boxed a tenround draw with Soldier Kearns at the Clermont Rink, Brooklyn, Tuesday night. BALTIMORE, SATURDAY, SEPT. 25, 1915 NEGRO FARMERS TOO PROSPEROUS South Carolinians "Alarmed" At Increasing Acreage Going Into Possession of Colored Farmers. Columbia, S. C., September 23.—Taking a cue from the segregation laws enacted in cities and actuated by jealousy over the fact that colored men have either bought or are buying thousands of acres of farm lands, South Carolina is trying to secure the adoption of an amendment to the State Constitution which will give the General Assembly the right to curb this spirit of thrift and forsight on the part of the race. Clarence Poe, editor of the Progressive Farmer, has been the leading exponent of this rural s gregation idea, and he has claimed that it will be only a matter of time when the colored farmers will own the most of the rural South. Much of this land has lain idle on account of the migration of the whites to the cities and the thought of a large class of independent and successful colored farmers in the South, virtually owning all the land, has caused many of the whites who do not object to beholding the Negro to be a debtridden tenent farmer to lie awake o'nights. The proposed amendment to the State Constitution, which is manifestly aimed at the race, reads, in part: "The General Assembly by regulations applicable to all races, may provide that by vote of the qualified electors or of the freeholders of any prescribed district within a county, the lands in such district may be segregated to the ownership and use of a particular race. But the percentage of a race to any political race by districts shall not be greater than the percentage which the population of that race bears to the population of the State." The proposed amendment is cunningly drafted so as to give whites control of every political division in the State, which they now have. South Carolina has a total population exceeding 1,500,000, half of whom are colored. The colored people are for the most part disfranchised, however, but the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court knocking out the "grandfather clause" has made the political allies of Cole Blease and Ben Tillman somewhat fearful that the colored people may again get some measure of political power in the State. The prospects of the colored people buying all the land in some of the counties and thereby securing representation in the State Legislature and in Congress have nearly scared the Bourbons to death. The injustice of the act is apparent when it is noted that 90 percent of the population of Beaufort county is colored, while, according to the ratio that the colored population bears to the rest of the State, the race may be only allowed and own half of the property in that county. Of course, property interests would be affected, but it is expected that the colored people would be too scared to test their rights in the courts should the amendment prevail and the General Assembly pass the necessary legislation. LADIES AIR SOLIETIES TO MEET A convention of the Ladies' Aid Societies of the Baltimore district will be held at Asbury M. E. Church, Hagerstown, within the next few weeks. G.O.P. POW-WOW A "LOVEFEAST" Platform Pledges Party to State Sanitarium for Tuberculor Patients and Extension of School Term. Unlike the Democratic Convention held Thursday, the one of the Republicans at Ford's Grand Opera House Friday afternoon was a veritable lovefee. Party leaders from Garrett to Worcester were there—some erstwhile Warburton men, but all now singing the grand chorus, "Win with Weller!" Governor Goldsborough, Col. E. C. Carrington, Thomas Parran, Sydney Mudd, William F. Stone, W. F. Broening, R. B. Marchant, Adrian Posey, MePherson Scott, Dr. Ernest Lyon, Harry S. Cummings, H. M. St. Clair, Dr. William E.Alexander, John P. Forrester and a host of other Republican workers lent their assistance in seeing that things ran smoothly. Governor Goldsborough was permanent chairman and he pledged his efforts to bring about Republican success in November. Ovington E. Weller was placed in nomination by Robert Garrett, the latter making a ringing speech for the Republican gubernatorial candidate. Mr. Weller was given an ovation when he arose to speak. He pledged that, if elected, he would give the State a good business administration and said that he would endeavor to have the party redeem its pledges. A. A. Doub, candidate for attorney general, and Robert F. Duer, who was named as comptroller, were formally nominated. THE PLATFORM The party platform is a straight forward declaration of principles, and it pledges to carry out the reforms that have been agitated in various sections of the State. The principal planks are: 1. A strong endorsement of the home rule idea for Baltimore and an unequivocal declaration in favor of giving Baltimore the right to annex sufficient territory to provide for its present and future growth. 2. The adoption of the budget system and the abolition of useless offices. 3. A strong plank favoring the extension of the school year for all the children of the State and one favoring the giving to the colored population in the counties the same opportunities that are given the whites for good training. 4. Approval of Governor Goldsborough's stand on lynching and the urging of equal protection of the law for all classes, high or low, white or black. 5. The conservation of the health of the people was urged, as well as the establishment of a colored tuberculosis hospital. 6. The administration of Governor Goldsborough was highly endorsed as one of notable achievements for the welfare of the State. 7. The Democrats were scored for bringing in national issues in a State campaign. 8. Invisible government was denounced. 9. The appointment of a commission by the Democratic State Convention to take up the question of economical and efficient administration was criticised, the point being taken that the Governor should name one. The Republican platform was greatly pleasing to the assembled hosts the belief being freely expressed that it was much more direct and specific than that of the Democrats. PRICE THREE CENTS ATON BAPTIST MINISTERS GET TOGETHER MASONS HOLD BIG CELEBRATION Commemorating the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Order in Pennsyl- Philadelphia, September 24.—A two-day celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free Accepted Masons of Philadelphia came to a close tonight with a big reception at Musical Fund Hall. At the formal opening, Thursday, Former Director of Public Safety George D. Porter, now independent candidate for Mayor, delivered an address of welcome on the part of the city. In responding to Mr. Porter's address of greeting, Grand Secretary W. H. Miller scored the treatment given the colored people of this country. "The United States," he said, "gives the dark-skinned races the worst treatment of any nation in the world. The color-line is drawn more severely here than in any other nation. Ninety millions of whites have their feet on the necks of 10,000,000 blacks, and mean to crush out of them all hope of advance in American citizenship, in spite of the fact that we have made more progress than any other nation in equal time and with equal opportunities." and mean to hope of adenorship, in have made other nation equal oppo of the Triie speech of take. The er in every er in every er they are While the ministers discussed in an informal way the need for cooperation along all lines, the committee restled with a plan for concerted action on the part of all the ministers. Among the things proposed that the ministers agree upon uniform standard for the ordination of ministers and for the admission of members. It has been charged for some time that when one faction excluded a member that another faction stood ready to receive him with open arms. C. J. Perry, editor of the Tribune, commencing on the speech of Secretary Miller, said: "It is a great mistake. The colored races are happier in every way and are treated better in every way in this country than they are in any other country on the globe. Such is the testimony of Dr. Booker T. Washington." Grand Master John J. Scott, who presided, and a number of visitors from other jurisdictions also delivered addresses. An explemplication of symbolic masonry was given in the afternoon by Thomas W. Collins, grand lecturer for the State. A reception to the visiting ladies from the Adoitive Rite was given by the Heroines of Jericho and the Order of the Eastern Star. A big centennial banquet was given at night. ROSS ENDORSED FOR BISHOP. Cincinnati, O., September 22. The annual session of the Ohio Conference of the A. M. E. Church, which began at Brown Memorial Church last Wednesday, came to a close Sunday night with the announcement of the appointments for the ensuing year by Bishop C. T. Shaffer. The conference voted to not favor the election of bishops, unless some of the present bench became disabled or died before the next session of the General Conference. Should such a contingency, the conference delegates were instructed to vote for Rev. I. N. Ross, pastor of Ebenezer A. M. E. Church, Baltimore. DUBOIS IL FROM OVERWORK Washington, September 24.—Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, who has been here arranging for the production of a pageant depicting the progress of the race since emancipation, is ill from overwork. GETS LEAVE TO SEE DEAD CHILD GETS LEAVE TO SEE DEAD CHILD Ashdown, Ark., September 23:— William Philips, colored, was in jail when he received word of the death of his child. He begged sheriff to allow him to attend the funeral, which request was granted After the funeral William returned to jail --- Various Factions Decide to Bury Hatchet and Work in Unison For Upbuilding of the Denomination A get-together meeting among the various factions of colored Baptists in this city was held at Sharon Baptist Church Wednesday. There has long been a feeling among a few of the influential ministers that their brethren should bury the hatchet and work in union, and Wednesday's meeting was the result. The meeting was attended by over 40 ministers, representing the two Baptist ministerial meetings in this city and the three State Conventions. Among the few noted as absent were Revs. Harvey Johnson, P. C. Neal, D. G. Mack and F. R. Williams. After a preliminary discussion of the purposes of the gathering, the following committee was appointed to draft a suitable plan: Revs. A. B. Callis, W. J. Winston, J. R. L. Diggs, J. H. Taylor and W. M. Alexander. Dr. Alexander strongly opposed the suggestion for the adoption of a uniform standard for admission and withdrew from the committee. Rev. J. W. Jones was elected in his place. The committee finally brought in an acceptable plan. Dr. Alexander was one of the first to agree to the plan submitted. The Baptists in Maryland have been divided for a number of years, the cause of division being the desire on the part of some of the churches to act independently of the whites. For a few years the ministers on one side did not enter the pulpits of those on the other side. Not only were there two State Conventions, but there were two ministerial meetings in this city. About five years ago, the two ministerial meetings united and it looked for a time as if there would be only one State Convention in time. The spirit of division against manifested itself, however, and the ministers again separated. A little over a year ago the United Baptist Ministers' Conference excluded ministers who were members of the Emergency Baptist Convention. These ministers, augmented by a number from the Colored Baptist Ministers' Conference, formed another ministerial meeting. The other two meetings then reunited. RAISE HUBBUB OVER $6,500 PURCHASE BY COLORED MAN Leonia, N. J., September 24. Whites here are exercised because George S. Mills, a well-to-do colored man, bought a residence in the exclusive residential section, for which he paid $6,560. Rumor has it that, two blocks on Grand avenue, where Mills' new home stands, may be given over to well to do colored tenants or buyers. A colored real estate dealer of New York city is said to be behind this project. THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER SUGGESTS CHANGE IN SCHOOL SYSTEM Taking the Economic Condition Among Our People In Philadelphia as an Example, Professor Thomas Makes Strong Plea For the Kind of Education Which Supplies Individual Needs. Charles M. Thomas, LL.B., in an able article which appeared in a recent issue of the Philadelphia Ledger discusses at length the need of vocational training for colored people. Professor Thomas article in part reads thus: "The time has come when the colored citizens of Philadelphia and every citizen should talk, discuss, investigate, agitate and enthusiastically support all forms of education which seek to improve industrial efficiency. Having passed the period of exploitation of extensive natural resources, this country, and especially in its urban centers, is facing an era of conservation and higher efficiency through elimination of waste and increased skill in its operatives preparatory to securing the perpetuity of the republic through unborn generations. An examination of the occupation statistics for the last census of the city of Philadelphia shows 510,871 males and 200,208 females engaged in the fundamental activities of agriculture, trade, transportation, domestic and personal service and clerical work. Of these persons about 58 in every 1,000 are colored males, and 106 in every 1,000 are colored females. How are these people employed and in what ways can public education aid them and consequently the community in which they live? For, unlike many of the foreign born elements of the city, the colored people spend their earnings where they make them. "Suffice it to say that these people have physical wants to be satisfied by foods, houses, woods, metals, textiles and clays and drugs, such as all men have, and they have spiritual aspirations to be satisfied by culture from social contact, travel, amusements, literature, music and art, but they have aimed to satisfy the more pressing wants and aspirations by the methods at hand, by imitation and, to a large extent, by accepting any and every opportunity offered by those to whom they could be of any service. "A few, through keener insight, better guidance or more friendly contact and the equality of opportunity, have blazed ways for their peculiar capacities to supply the wants and aspirations of those more able to secure what their capital would command. In fact, Philadelphia has been renowned among colored people for the number and fairness of its opportunities to secure diversified employment, and there are not a few families among its colored population who are beyond immediate want, if not able to aid others both by charity and employment. Using the method of trial and error, many have sought to increase their capacity to satisfy their greater wants by following the traditional curriculum of the free school system, only to find in many instances that such procedure made them aware of even larger wants and higher aspirations without proportionately increasing their power to satisfy them. "What is needed today is such a method of educating each and every child in this and each other American community so that he may not only know how to secure permanent and positive good in this life, but that he may know what constitutes such permanent and positive good in an economic age such as this now is and bids fair to remain. Education today must aim to inculcate character as just and equitable relations to one's fellows in all activities, to give training in the skillful and economic production of useful things and in rendering efficient service by maximum output with minimum expenditure of time and energy and to induce loyalty to the state and activity for its betterment. Such an aim can be realized at a cost not much greater than that now borne for a training largely literary and clerical, a training which neglects to a large extent the necessity for motor activity in the formation of the very ideas the schools claim to establish. "In the vocational schools the various activities may be subdivided, and the special fitness of students may be emphasized and provided for. An examination of the figures for colored males engaged in activities connected with transportation and the manufacturing and mechanical industries show an additional need for vocational training for them. Of the 43,554 total males engaged in transportation activities there are 5,676 colored males so engaged. This number is 20 per cent of all colored males reported occupied, but a quarter of that number are engaged as longshoremen and stevedores and one-third as drymen and teamsters and expressmen, thus constituting the colored males as one-twelfth of all the teamsters and expressmen and one third of all the longshoremen are stevedores in Philadelphia. "To what extent is the tradition: 'school system preparing the children; and relatives of these men to meet the newer conditions of motor transportation, which must replace the teamster and expressman, and the endless belts and almost human cranes and conveyers which increase with the progress of industry. As now conducted, such occupations are but slightly differentiated forms of labor. Consolidating all laborers as reported, there are 5,118 out of 5,676, or 88 per cent of all colored males engaged in transportation activities occupied as laborers of various kinds. "In the manufacturing and mechanical industries 5,115 colored males are reported as laborers, in agriculture 247, in quarry operations 80, thus making a total of 11,118 colored males reported as laborers out of 20,561 reported as occupied. Add to that condition the fact that but 20 apprentices are reported with such a differentiation of industry as 31 colored bakers, 43 colored blacksmiths, 148 brick and stone masons, 54 builders and contractors, 9 cabinet makers, 177 carpenters, 67 compositors and typesetters, 17 coopers, 30 electricians, 12 dyers, 2 engravers, 167 stationary engineers, 111 machists, 04 painters and glaziers, 18 paperhangers, 06 plasterers, 24 plumbers, 21 roofers and slaters, 30 showancers, 31 stonecutters, 71 tailors, 58 upholsters, and it becomes evident that were the colored youth not being trained away from trade activities by the traditional system of schooling there would be 500 apprentices among their journeymen rather than 20. "It is at this very point in industrial supply and demand that the vocational school is of prime importance, for it is well known that the older apprentice system is not favored by employer or youth in this day of sharply differentiated labor divisions and high speed. The vocational system helps the youth to select the activity for which he has both interest and capacity, and it not only trains him to a point of relatively high efficiency, but it gives him such a survey of collateral activities as to make him a more valuable assistant than is possible in a modern shop with its standardized output. "Let it be understood that the direction of colored youth into trade activities demands the enthusiastic support and the fierce co-operation of all classes through the respect to be granted, the credit to be given and the employment to be possible to those who leave such schools as fit to serve the community, the race and themselves. It does not take an economist to see that under present conditions in this country the men who handle the symbols of things, rather than those who produce them and actually transport them, are the men who take the larger share of the profits, but it does take an economist to point out to the youth who would make a short cut to wealth the fact that the men who take the profit must invest capital, foresight and courageously intelligent knowledge of market conditions in order to handle the symbols so as to make the profit. It is for the state to provide for the teaching of those facts. "All men may not be created equal, but they are created to struggle for equality, and a great industrial center like Philadelphia can increase its output and income while materially reducing its expense account from charities and corrections by investing in such modern educational machinery as continuation schools, part time schools and vocational centers for colored children and for all children." SUCCESSFUL SECRET ORDER. United Brothers of Friendship Hold Meeting at Princeton, Ind. The annual meeting of the grand lodge, United Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of the Mysterious Ten, recently held at Princeton, Ind., was largely attended. Reports from local lodges submitted by delegates showed a decided increase in most all departments of the order during the year. The order has a large membership in the United States and is among the oldest and most progressive secret societies operated by our people. The next annual meeting of the grand lodge will be held at Evansville, Ind. The election of officers resulted as follows: Grand master, B. B. Alexander, New Albany; deputy grand master, Noah Bell, Evansville; grand secretary, Dr. W. E. Brown, Indianapolis; grand treasurer, John Coleman, Indianapolis; grand recorder, L. E. Johnson, Newburg; chairman trustee board, James Smith, Jeffersonville; trustees, C. M. C. Willis, William J. Bryant, Indianapolis; state organizer, Hurt Alexander, New Albany; deputy state organizer, J. H. Fry, Evansville. Sisters of the Mystic Ten: Grand princess, Mrs. Cora A. Jackson, Indianapolis; vice grand princess, Mrs. Anna Riggs, Evansville; financial secretary, Mrs. Hattie Holloway, Evansville; recording secretary, Mrs. Laura Embree. New Albany; treasurer, Mrs. Mary Manson, New Albany; chairman trustee board, Mrs. Bell Street, Indianapolis. Indianapolis Y. M. C. A.'s Good Work. The employment department of the Young Men's Christian association at Indianapolis, Ind., secured positions of various kinds of employment for fifty men from Aug. 28 to Sept. 4. The membership of the association, is increasing, and the work in all departments goes forward with briskness as the members return from their vacations. Bankers Conduct Successful Tag Day. Anderson & Co., bankers at Jacksonville, Fla., recently conducted a "tag day" to increase the number of deposits at their bank. The plan was a success, and nearly 1,000 new accounts were opened. Charles H. Anderson, the cashier, is also treasurer of the National Negro Business league. NOTABLE WORK OF AUGUSTUS G. DILL Steps In the Career of a Native Ohioan Who Has Made Good In Many Fields. How the Crisis Magazine Has Increased In Circulation Under His Wise Management. By N. BARNETT PODSON. New York. — The progress which many members of our race are making as publishers of weekly papers, monthly magazines, church and Sunday school periodicals is indicative in the first place of two things—namely, intelligence and good business management. Without applying these two primary and highly essential elements to every detail of business of whatever sort, one need not expect to win success in any large degree. During the brief existence of the National Negro Press association our weekly and monthly publications and the men who are responsible for their M. AUGUSTUS G. DILL, A. M. appearance have been brought more prominently before the reading public than ever before. The patrons of these papers and magazines have become better acquainted with the editors and managers. Their interests have been quickened and their confidence in the management strengthened until hundreds of publishers are personally known to the readers of their periodicals throughout the country. On the other hand, this success, such as was outlined by Henry Allen Boyd, corresponding secretary of the organization, in his address before the recent meeting of the National Negro Business league, held in Boston, shows that the race is giving larger and more hearty support to the literature produced by its own members. The demand now is for more and better reading matter of the kind which interests and helps to educate the youth of the race in the home. This shows an intellectual growth which a decade ago it would have been considered almost fully to hint at in connection with many of our papers. Aside from the foregoing, however, we wish especially in this brief mention to speak of one of the oldest and certainly one of the most modest men connected with any of our publications in the capacity of business manager. That man is Augustus Granville Dill of the Crisis Magazine, at 70 Fifth avenue, this city. After a most successful career as a student, educator, musician and publicist, Mr. Dill was finally prevailed upon to become the business manager of the Crisis. He is a native of Ohio, having been born at Portsmouth about thirty-four years ago. Before he completed his college course Mr. Dill taught school in his native town, meeting with much success. In 1992 he decided to resume his studies and entered Atlanta university, where after four years of diligent study he was graduated with the degree of bachelor of arts. Mr. Dill after his graduation from Atlanta university entered Harvard college, where in 1908 he received the bachelor's degree. While at Harvard he taught in the evening schools of Cambridge. From 1908 to 1910 he held in the capacity of northern secretary and agent for Atlanta university. In the latter year Mr. Dill returned to Atlanta university, where he held the position of associate professor of sociology and was also organist of the school and editor of the Atlanta University Studies. In 1909, Atlanta university honored Mr. Dill with the master's degree. Mr. Dill took up his duties as manager of the Crisis in the early fall of 1913. He has proved himself to be a most experienced, capable and painstaking business manager. During the two years in which he has directed the affairs of this particular department of the best magazine from every point of view the race has to its credit in America it has increased in circulation from 24,000 per month in 1913 to its present circulation of 34,000. The Crisis is edited by Dr. W. L. B. Du Bois and is the organ of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Professor Aggrey Wins His Spurs at Columbia. WRITES CN MANY SUBJECTS Instructor at Livingstone College Spends Profitable Time In Studies at Famous New York University-Makes Good Impression on Both Faculty and Students at Summer School. BY JOHN E. BRUCE "GRIT." Professor J. E. K. Aggrey of Livingstone college, Salisbury, N. C., who during the vacation season was a summer student at Columbia university, has been giving the faculty and his fellow students in this great university some tangible evidences of the truth of Dr. Arthur, MacArthur's statement—viz, "The Negro is born to scholarship." Professor Aggrey's industry as a student, his splendid optimism, his large faith in God and in himself and his dogged determination to excel in whatever he undertakes to do have won for him the respect and admiration of his professors and his fellow students, many of the latter being southern white men and women who gladly acclaim the force of his genius and scholarship. In appreciation of his ability as a clear thinker and of his intimate knowledge of the habits and customs of the people of the west coast of Africa, of whom he himself is a native son, having been born on the Gold Coast, which has produced many able and capable men, such as J. Mensah Savbah and Casely Hayford, lawyers of the first rank in the colony, his instructor in sociology, Professor F. H. Giddings, selected him during the recent session of the classes to submit a thesis for the seminar course in sociology. He selected as his theme "Liberia-A Brief Sociological Study," which was a comprehensive and illuminating discussion of the social, religious, industrial and commercial customs of the Liberians. Professor Aggrey cited many instances to show the great humanity of the native African, his high moral character, his respect and reverence for native law, his keen sense of justice, his respect for womanhood, detestation of strong drink and his devotion to his marital vows. Rape, divorce and lynching are unheard on on the west coast save as the news of these things is brought into Africa by the American or English papers. Another thesis submitted by Professor Aggrey before his class in psychology, of which Professor Blisch is instructor, was, "Course In Educational Psychology and Advanced Course For Supervisors, Principles and Physicians"; also an intensive study in the diagnosis and treatment of exceptional children and men. On the study in eugenics the professor showed, quite to the satisfaction of his hearers, that the Africans have the larger knowledge of eugenics—a science as old as their civilization. He alluded to the work of the Poro and Bunda societies, which is scientifically exact to the smallest detail. For a thousand years or more the African people have known and appreciated the value of eugenics and have practiced it in the development of men and women who are as physically perfect as it is humanly possible for them to be. There are no insane or inebriate asylums, no homes for the feeble minded children or adults on the west coast of Africa because they are not needed. Miss Mary Kingsley, who lived among the Africans and in whose honor the African society of London was organized, it is said, was so favorably impressed with the splendid work which the black women of the Buda society were doing that she sought to become identified with it. But this had to be denied her because she was white. No white man or woman possesses any first hand knowledge of the methods employed by either of these societies to give sound and healthy bodies to human beings. John C. Callhoun, who at his birth was attended by a black midwife and nursed at the breast of a black mammy, had more brain and more personal magnetism than a dozen Tom Dixons or ex-Governor Bleases. There's a reason, but we won't tell. It is gratifying to know that a member of the race has made such an enviable record in one of the greatest universities in this country that not only his classmates, but his professors, look upon him as an exceptional man, a painstaking and industrious student, a modest and refined gentleman, whose quiet and unassuming manners are indications of greatness and mental powers of a rare order. Professor Giddings in a letter to the writer of this article, speaking of Mr. Aggrey, says: "He is a man of ability and ideas. His record at Columbia has been excellent. He should do important work for his race. I shall be much disappointed if he does not." I think I can safely tell this distinguished author and educator that he will not be disappointed in this particular young African if his life be spared, for he has mapped out his work, and nothing save the grim reaper will prevent him from doing it, and doing it well. SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES THE Maryland Normal & Industrial School At Bowie, Maryland, will open its fifth annual session on September 21, 1915. Its diploma exempt the holder from further examination for teachers' certificates in the counties of Maryland and after two years, with the State superintendent's signature becomes a life diploma. This is a privilege not other school in the stat- is able to offer colored students. The school offers modern courses and modern conveniences for expenses that are more than reasonable. A few scholarships yet to be granted. For information write, D. S. S. GOODLOE. Principal. MORGAN COLLEGE & BRANCHES JOHN O. SPENCER, PRESIDENT. LOCATION: Corner Fulton and Edmondson Avenues. OPENS: September 24th, 1915. ENTRANCE AND DEFERRED EXAMINATIONS: Sept. 24th-25th COURSES: Regular collegiate, academic and normal. SPECIAL CLASSES: Meeting late in the afternoon and evening for teachers and others. College credits given when desired. Candidates for these classes please report to the Registrar at the College. Advance courses in Philanthropy, also beginners' class under direction of Mrs. Grace Howard Smith, who has recently done special work in the New York School of Philanthropy. DEAN: Prof. William Pickens, Lit. D., newly elected dean have charge of certain classes. PRINCESS ANNE ACADEMY, PRINCESS ANNE, MD. (Eastern branch of the Md. Agricultural College) COURSES: Academic, industrial, domestic sciience. PRINCIPAL: Thomas H. Kiah, A. B. VIRGINIA COLLEGIATE AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE COURSES: Academic, normal, domestic science. PRINCIPAL: Frank Trigg, A. M. 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Mrs. Maggie Levere spent the week visiting relatives and friends in Baltimore. Mrs. Francis Smith, of Atlantic City, was the week-end guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Hawkins. Mrs. Nellie Winder was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Proctor, of Riderwood, last Wednesday. Mrs. Nettie Winder spent last Sunday at Pen Mar. Rev. W. T. Brown was the guest of Mrs. Lillie Fowler, of Riderwood, last Thursday. The Misses Edna and Bessie Winder gave their mother, Mrs. Nettie Winder, a surprise on last Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. John Proctor, of Riderwood, entertained Mr. and Mrs. Richard Levere and family, of Philadelphia Sunday. Miss Georgia Henson spent Sunday at Fallston. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Foster entertained Miss Edna Hawkins and Mrs. Francis Smith at dinner last Friday. Mrs. Arraminta Justice of Baltimore worshipped at the camp of Mt. Zion A. M. E. Church Sunday. Those on the sick list are: Mr. Arch Smith, Mr. James Hawkins, Mrs. Mary Quickley, Mrs. Jane Avers. TRAPPE PERSONALS Trappe, Md., Sept. 23.—Mrs. Laura Rozier, of 694 Mulberry street, Baltimore, is spending a week with her cousin, Mrs. Mary Wesley. Mrs. Julia Hopkins has returned to her home in Baltimore after spending sometime as the guest of her brother, Mr. Joseph Chase. Master George Norwood spent last week visiting his uncle, Mr. William Norwood, of Lewes, Del. Rev. C. A. Norwood is on his vacation. Mr. John Boston and Mr. Walter McDaniel, of Easton, were Trappe visitors Sunday. Miss Ardella Dillehay is in the Easton Emergency Hospital suffering from appendicitis. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Cooper are the proud parents of a baby boy. Mrs. Sallie Bennett and Miss Lottie Stanley, of Baltimore, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pink- DENTON HAPPENINGS Denton, Md., September 23. Rev. S. R. Rodgers, of Georgia, preached at Bethel A.M. E. Church Sunday night. Miss Cornelia Fountain, who has been quite sick was carried to a hospital in Baltimore last Sunday. Miss Robert Jackson, of Baltimore, visited relatives and friends here Sunday. She was accompanied by little Miss Mabel O. Williams. Rev. James J. Baker, pastor of Bells A. M. E. Church, is in one of the hospitals in Baltimore, suffering from typhoid fever. The annual September rally at John Wesley M. E. Church began last Sunday. Mr. Alonzo Boston, a well known citizen of this town, died at Cambridge Hospital last Saturday night. His funeral took place from John Wesley M. E. Church, Tuesday. Rev. F. Johnson officiated. He is survived by his wife, one daughter, three brothers and one sister. Rev. J. O. Custis, of Baltimore paid a flying visit here last Friday, enroute to Pocomoke City, Md. Mrs. C. B. Casson has returned home from Catonsville, Md., and Washington. The Y. P.P. C. had a fine address delivered to them on last Sunday afternoon by Mrs. Adeline Lewis. Over $10 was realized. Mr. Thomas Cooper, of Baltimore, visited Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Bailey Sunday. BERKLEY ITEMS Berkley, Md., Sept. 23.—Mrs. J. W. Stump has returned home after visiting her sister in Camden, N. J. Mr. John Lee, of Pennsylvania, is visting his father,Mr. J. F. Lee. Is Visiting his home Miss Cora Newsome, of Baltimore, has been appointed assistant at Hosanna School. She began work Monday morning. Hosanna public school reopened Monday with a large enrollment. SALISBURY NOTES Salisbury, Md., Sept. 23.—The camp meeting season is drawing to a close, the last open air service was held Sunday at Lakeside Grove by Rev. J. Wilson and T. A. Talbert. Rev. J. D. Jackson, of the St. Luke A. M. E. Church preached at the Branch Church Grove Sunday at 3 p. m. Rev. S. H. Cooper held quarterly meeting at St. Luke's Church Sunday night. The people are preparing to hold their annual church camp which begins Sunday, October 3rd. Dr. Jackson will be assisted by the ministers of the community. A picnic and concert will be held at Woodside Park next Tuesday under the auspices of the Nonparels of the St. Luke's Church. A swimming match between two young girls will take place. Music will be furnished by the Union League Band. Children's Day exercises were held at St. James A. M. E. Zion Church The children were trained by Mrs. J. F. Stewart. Mrs. J. D. Jackson acted as mistress of ceremony. Rev. J. T. Watson, pastor. Rev. H. C. Pope gave his lecture and exhibition at St. Paul and John Wesley Churches, Wednesday and Thursday nights, respectively, last week. The teachers for the public schools are on the ground preparing for the opening season which begins October 6th. COCKEYSVILLE ITEMS Cockeysville, Md., Sept. 23. Miss Grace Tucker and sister, Mrs. Gertrude M. Walker, spent the week-end visiting relatives in Baltimore and Mt. Washington. The Mt. Pleasant Cornet Band will hold a musical at Odd Fellows Hall, Thursday September 30th. Mr. Henry Wright is very ill with typhoid fever. Miss Genevieve Randolph visited Miss Martina Robinson of 170 Dolphin street, Baltimore. Mr. John L. Foote has finished painting his house which adds much beauty to the community. CIVIL WAR VETERAN DEAD Belair, Md., Sept. 23.—Rev. Moses Opher, a retired preacher of the Washington Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died last Thursday, September 16; aged 70 years 4 months. He leaves a widow and four small children. He was a veteran of the Civil War. He joined the Washington Conference in 1892 and served in the active ministry twenty-two years when because of his mental and physical disabilities he was retired. Since which time, he had made his home at The Rocks, Md., where he passed away. 'His funeral was held in the Federal Hill M. E. Church, and was largely attended. This being the last church he had served as pastor the people were very much affected. In the absence of District Superintendent D. W. Hays, D. D., the funeral sermon was preached by Rev. C. H. Matthews, pastor of Ames M. E. Church, Belair, Sunday. Interment was in the Federal Hill Cemetery, Harford county, Md. SNOW HILL ITEMS Snow Hill, Md., Sept. 23.—Miss Annie Tull, who spent the summer at Ocean City, Md., has returned home. Mr. and Mrs. William Hutt, of Philadelphia, are home for a short stay. Miss Maggie Single, who spent the summer at Cape May, N.J., returned home. Mr. and Mrs. James Robins, who have been spending the summer at Spring Lake, N. J., came home last week. Rev. Dr. J. A. T. Faust, of the M. E. Church, preached at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church Sunday afternoon, and Rev. McBride, of Snow Hill Circuit, at night. Mr. and Mrs. George Harman, who have been visiting their parents left this week for Princeton, N. J., where they will spend the winter. Mr. Peter L. Henry, a student at Virginia Union University left Thursday to resume his studies at the University. Mr. Dewey Waters left Monday for Laurenceville, Va., to enter the Normal and Industria. School. Prof. S. H. Long and others addressed the Masonic Club here Thursday night. Mrs. Charlotte Brittingham is on the sick list. THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER The Women's Day at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church Sunday was a success. The leaders were Miss Laura Purnell, Mrs. Nancy Allen and Mrs. Lolo Wise. Mrs. Charlotte Brittingham was unable to take part on account of illness. Miss Helen R. Henry, who has been at Cape May, N. J., for the summer came home this week. Mrs. Mildred Blamer Robinson, of Baltimore, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Palmer. Dr. C. W. Pullet preached at the M. E. Church Sunday night. Miss Mabel Molock, of Berlin, has been appointed 3rd assi stant in the public schools. CRISFIELD NOTES Crisfield, Md., Sept. 23.—Joseph Gerald, a local minister filled the pulpit at Shiloh M. E. Church Sunday, in the absence of Rev. J. T. Wallace, who preached at Mt. Vernon. Mrs. Lucy Stirling has returned from Atlantic City. Miss Marian Tilghman, of Atlantic City, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Isabella Tilghman. Rev. John S. Collins and son Leon, of Eatson, were in the city last week. Mrs. Jennie Coulbourn is confined to her home as the result of accidentally running a needle into her foot. William A. Bowie, cashier of the Industrial Savings Bank, Washington, left for New York city after visiting Mr. and Mrs. Samuel D. Wilson. Mrs. Lydia G. Chase has returned to her home at 1400 Mosher street, Baltimore, after visiting her sister, Mrs. Rachel Wilson. Mrs. Bessie Mason, of 1421 Argyle avenue, Baltimore, was the guest of Miss Nellie F. Wilson a few days go. The Afro-American Ledger may be found on sale every Saturday at 10 S. 4th street. EASTON NOTES Easton, Md., Sept. 23.—Emory Dill, of Unionville, has just completed a handsome bungalow. Stephen Truxton, of Baltimore, was a visitor here last week. William Haige has returned to Washington. John Smallwood, of Baltimore, is visiting his mother. William Johnson was operated upon at the Emergency Hospital last Monday. Joseph Blackwell has returned to Baltimore after an extended stay here. Dr. W. C. Jason, president of the Delaware State College, autoed here and was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Holland. Mrs. Josephine Burke is improving after undergoing a second operation. Roy Hall is a visitor here. Henry Johnson has returned from Atlantic City. Mr. and Mrs. John Murray, of Germantown, Pa., were in the city recently. PRINCESS ANNE NOTES Princess Anne, Md., Sept. 23. Rev. J. U. King preached to a large congregation last Sunday at Princess Anne Academy, where he has been holding services during the summer, while his church was being thoroughly renovated. Miss Maude Anderson, of Philadelphia, after spending a week with Mrs. A. R. Jones, has returned home. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cordery spent Sunday at Eden, visiting Mr. and Mrs. George H. Furnis. Mr. Joseph Hayman, after spending several weeks with his parents at Denton, Md., has returned home for the winter. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Jones left for Baltimore Thursday. Mr. Joseph H. Lindsay, who has been visiting friends here left, Wednesday for White Hall, Md. J. N. Wilson was elected a member of the Republican State Central Committee by 700. BRIEF'S FROM BENNINGS Bennings, D. C., Sept. 23.—Miss Annie E. Holmes, the concert directress, elocutionist, soloist and pianist, is spending her vacation with Mrs. Sarah Jackson. Mrs. Marie Ayers has returned from a visit to King George county. Mrs. R. A. Greene is still spending her vacation at Hartford, Pa. Mrs. Peter is still on the sick list. NEWS FROM FREDERICK Frederick, Md., September 23. Mrs. Olivia Bull, formerly of Philadelphia, who has been spending sometime with Mrs. Elizabeth Maddox, Bentley, has returned to Middletown, Md. Misses Pauletta and Evelyn Bentley who were in Baltimore to attend the Epworth League Convention have returned home. Miss Margaret Cook, of Philadelphia, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. Georgia Cook, has returned home. Mrs. Clara Snowden, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. Catherine Murdock, has returned to her home in Pittsburgh. A play was given at Asbury M. E. Church Thursday night. Eleven Leekins was the author. Those who took part were Mr. Dixon, Clifton and Charlie Holland, Grayson Larkins and Ignatius Snowden. Miss, Pauline Johnson of Washington, daughter of Rev. David Johnson, is the guest of Edith Gray, Middletown. Men's day was observed at A. M. E. Church Sunday. $124.52 was raised. Rev. W. A. English is the pastor. Mrs. Laura Walker was the guest of Mrs. Anna Walter, Sunday. Mrs. Bruce and daughters, were the guests of Mrs. W. A. English Sunday. Rev. and Mrs. J. G. Bryan have returned from a business trip to Baltimore. POCOMOKE ITEMS Pocomoke City, Md., Sept. 23.—The Morgage. Rally was held at Mt. Zion M. E. Church Sunday. The pastor, Rev. J. W. Bond preached to a large congregation in the morning and in the afternoon Rev. E. T. Addison and congregation of St. John's A. M. E. Church were present. At night the Rev. W. A. Spellman and congregation of Unionville were present. During the three services the congregations laid on the table $175, to the credit of the trustees. Rev. J. O. Custis, evangelist of Baltimore Conference, was here and preached two able sermons at St. John's A. M. E. Church Sunday last. Mrs. Mary Ballard of Philadelphia, left Monday after spending a few days with her sister, Mrs. Esther Coston. Thieves entered the home of Mr. John Coulburn on Monday morning and made away with money amounting to about $90. Rev. C. A. Williams, of Crisfield, Md., made a visit to Rev. E. T. Addison the early part of the week. Mrs. Lizzie Collier and Mr. and Mrs. James Shorter, who have spent the summer at Ocean City arrived home this week. Prof. Stephen Dix and brother Seldum, who have spent the summer in the north, arrived here last week, and will soon take up their duties at the Princess Anne Academy. Prof. Oliver H. Bond left here Monday for Philadelphia. He will go to Camden, N. J., Tuesday to claim his bride, and return with her Thursday night to a reception to be given at the home of his parents, Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Bond. Mrs. Hannah Dix. is numbered among the sick this week. Miss Georgeanna Blake, of Snow Hill, is the guest of Mr. Major Bailey. Mrs. Mary Epps, who accompanied the remains of her son Samuel Gunby, to this city Monday last, returned to her home in Philadelphia Saturday. CHESTERTOWN BRIEFS Chestertown. Md., Sept.—Mrs. Margaret Miller and Mr. Marshall Pittman motored to Quaker Neck and were married by Rev. M. P. Sterling. The Reunion Social of Bethel A. M. E. 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All over the hillland and lowland Wild flowers lie dead in the clod. Where once stood the modest violet, Is the charm of the golden rod. "Langston Burned"—(news item heading) not a Negro but the state school at Langston, Oklahoma. The "Cleveland Advocate" is likewise dissatisfied with the misleading name of Thomas Dixon's Photo Play "The Dirt of a Nation" is suggested as nearer the truth. "Leg of colored woman turns white by Ether-freezing treatment" —Indianapolis Ledger. The above announcement by a physician at the annual convention of the American Association for the Study of Spondylotherapy caused a hubbub. It was explained that the Ether-fre zing was treatment for lumbago and not an experiment in bleaching. The newest thing under the sun in the way of Journalism is the "Tri-State Emancipator," edited by Isaac W. Howard of Salisbury, Md., as the organ of the Maryland Emancipation Fair Association, which holds its annual fair at Salisbury beginning October 19. Greetings to the new baby. "Water Million" reads one of the explanatory cards on the wall of the art section of the Lincoln Jubilee and Exposition at Chicago. Financially the Jubilee was a success, there were 135,000 paid admissions, but if the painting designate is as bad as the spelling, we fear there was more Jubilee than Exposition. Throuout the colored press of the country there is an oft expressed wish to reject the term "Negro" as indefinite and contemptuous and "colored" as nondescript, suggesting instead "African," of African descent, and "black." There is nothing in a name, but there is something in the idea back of the name. Let every human being of color be a man and his intrinsic worth will of itself determine the value of his name to the world. Change the man not the name. A month ago the country was treated to the spectacle of disunion in the ranks of the Bishops' Council of the A. M. E. Church. Last week police officers were called to the near riot in the National Baptist Convention in Chicago. "Is it that the preachers have lost sight of their religion and gone out into the world for profit and loss in this world's goods?" Asks the Natezche Mississippi. Weekly Reporter. We do not know what is in the minds of these preachers, but the saving of souls appears to be distant and remote. "Why not have a revival and convert some of our ministers," concludes the Louisville News. It is proposed to introduce a law in the forthcoming session of the Mississippi legislature to abolish public hangings. A move of this kind is certainly to be commended, in view of what recently happened in that state, where the hanging of two criminals was made the excuse for a picnic and several excursions, and where a jolly good time was had. Now let the Legislature pass a law making it an offence for which a good, round sum shall be paid in damages to the family of any man, woman or child illegally put to death, by a mob or otherwise, and we predict that lynching will be a past art in the State of Mississippi. In walking down Druid Hill avenue a few days ago we noticed a large number of new cement pavements being laid in front of premises, largely owned by members of our own race, but the source of our gratification was not so much that the dwellings were owned by members of our race, but they had race loyalty enough to employ members of our own race in putting down these new pavements. It simply emphasises what we have said time and again, that if our people will only go into business, there are enough of our people in the city of Baltimore to employ every grade of business, professional and mechanical skill can command, but the great trouble is that most of us are afraid to go into business for fear that we might lose the little we have gained. If this was true of all business people there would be no people in business, and then what would we do? We have the opportunity let us grasp it. THE COLORED DEAF AND DUMB One out of every 2057 persons in the United States is deaf and dumb according to the latest schedule issued by the Bureau of Census. "Persons who are deaf but not dumb, or persons who are dumb but not deaf are not to be reported", is the way the instructions to e.umerators read, and their failure to interpret it correctly caused the Census Department endless worry. The enumerators were uncertain as to whether deaf-mutes, who had learned to articulate should be reported, so that the final returns fell short of including all deaf mutes, but plainly included many who were not. The Bureau then sent special schedules to each of the reported mutes asking for certain information; 19,154 responded satisfactorily, so that it is with these special returns that the following summary deals. From the special returns one out of every 4801 persons in the United States and one out of every 9550 colored persons is deaf and dumb. The largest number of colored mutes is to be found in the region of greatest density—the South Atlantic States. North Carolina leads with 91, South Carolina has 84 and Virginia 83; Maryland has 72. Unlike blindness which is the result of old age and untreated diseases, loss of hearing and speech occurs most frequently at birth and next between the ages of two and three years. Of the colored mutes over 15 years of age 396 are single, 56 married and 10 widowed. None is divorced. The schedule offers no reason therefore, but it is evident that the deaf and dumb, who are married find it more difficult than normal persons to say everything they think. LIBERIAS' AWAKENING The little Negro Republic on the West Coast of Africa celebrated the 93rd Anniversary of its founding on July 26th last. Little realizing the task imposed upon these expatriated Americans in setting them in an unhealthy climate surrounded by barbarians and withdrawing the props of civilization, the world is accustomed to pointing the finger at Liberia as a colossal failure, indicative of the inherent incapacity of the Negro for self-government, pointing the moral of Negro shiftlessness. Analyzing the present position of the Republic, the Honorable Edwin J. Barclay, speaking on the occasion of the Independence Day Celebration at the Hall of Representatives in Monrovia, Liberia, denied the assertion that Liberia is a failure, but stated frankly before the president and assembld dignitaries, that government and governed had not done their full duty. His subject was the "Spiritual Ideals in the Life of a Nation" and he concluded that the failure of Liberia THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER was the failure to agree upon a common centralized ideal. Up to this time the Christian Liberian has insisted that the nation centralize around the concepts of the Christian faith. Christian sectaries form the least numerous of the religious cults in the Republic. Followers of Islam, say the Hon. Mr. Barclay representing the religion of self-surrender, "a virtue which the Christians hereabouts do not practice to any great extent" are increasingly aggressive, and more than this, there is a larger proportion of the population which is neither Christian nor Musselman. Africa is facing the possibility of eventually becoming Mohamedan, first because Christianity is divided, fighting not only herself but Islam's subtler appeal of an easier morality and wider tolerance; secondly because Christian propaganda is not sufficiently aggressive and progressive, its churches hugging the coastline and seldom venturing into the interior. Religions tolerance is the only hope for a Liberian future. In the place of a religious ideal Mr. Barclay suggests the development of a Liberian culture. His is the vision of an era when sane government, good schools, scientific methods and better understanding among the Republic's heterogeneous population will make of Liberia the champion of Africa's freedom and the forger of a union of the West African States. The following is his appeal to the older generation: "You who carry the history of the country and of the race in your heads, you who had large experience with the practical affairs of the State, it is yours to lay the foundation of this Liberian culture. Transfer these histories these reminiscences, the memoirs, to paper; formulate and publish by lectures, through the press, in pamphlets your theories and your philosophies. Interpret for us the native cults; tell us why we are here; set us examples of public spirit: show us, as you often try to tell us, that money is not the be-all and end-all of your existence; set up for us the ultimate ideal, feed us with these in season and out of season and your sons will no longer drift. They shall march forward with uplifted eyes and shoulders squared, to the hills whence cometh their racial and national salvation. They will no longer make you ashamed." * This is the awakening of Liberia, the realization of her calling to a high place in the destiny of Africa. LATE LITERARY NEWS "Footprints of a Black Man, Holy Land" by W. Sampson Brooks.-Eden Publishing House, St. Louis, Mo. 1915. This newest volume of the Holy Land is the result of the author's second trip abroad. Ten years ago appeared his first book in a seriocious vein, "What a Black Man saw in a White Man's Country" as a result of a tour of the British Isles, Norway and Sweden. In 1904, while pastoring at St. Stephen's in Chicago, the A. M. E. Church elected the Rev. Brooks as its delegate to the World's Fourth Sunday School Convention which convened at Jerusalem. On this second tour the American delegates bo the convention chartered a special treamer touching at Gibraltar, Alisiers, Athens and Constantinople geore arriving in the Holy Land and stopping at Alexandria, Naples and Rome on the return trip. "Footprints of a Black Man" attempts "to convey a clear vision of foreign lands, strange people, their peculiar ideas, customs, traditions and habitations" as they affected, impressed and interested the author in their observation. Little more than one-third of the book concerns itself with the Holy Land and for this reason "Footprints of a Black Man in the Old World" give an exact idea of what is to be expected. The narrative in no sense historical runs in very simple language with a directress that well serves as an introduction to a more serious study of the Holy Land. The author is a native of Lower Malborough, Calvert county, Md., and an early graduate of Morgan College. In the A. M. E. Church, he is known as the only man to raise $12,500 in two church rallies.—The Rev. Dr. Brooks is now pastor of St. Pauls A. M. E. Church, St. Louis. NOTICE All graduates of the Howard Normal School, The Baltimore Normal School or Maryland Normal and Industrial School are requested to meet at the Pythian Castle, McCulloh and Preston streets, Baltimore, Md., Saturday October 2, 1915. By order L. Gregory Hubert, Pres. FOR RENT—3rd story flat with bath and use of kitchen. Apply to 2216 Druid Hill avenue. Colored Schools in Maryland By HOWARD E. YOUNG Nothing will show the growth of a liberal sentiment toward the intellectual improvement of colored people more than the fact that within twenty years after the incorporation of the schools conducted by the Baltimore Association for the Moral and Mental Improvement of Colored Persons into the City system a fair grade of high school instruction was offered the Negro child. As is always the case with the inauguration of an advanced movement there are to be found those filled with skepticism as to the advisability and value of the new enterprise. But the eagerness with which the colored youth seized the opportunities thus afforded and the good use to which they put the training thus received very early justified the confidence reposed in them by their friends, and set at rest all doubt as to the propriety of the venture. As early as 1885, some attempt was made to introduce some high school subjects into the colored grammar school. Up to and including 1886 what is now termed the eighth grade constituted the first year's work in the high school. In 1887 a lot was secured on Saratoga street, between Charles and St. Paul, at a cost of $14,000 and the next year there was erected upon it a 24-room building at a cost of $24,000 that would comfortably accommodate a thousand pupils. Part of the new structure was for the use of the High School and about two-thirds of it for an elementary school. The Rev. Dr. Lewis Staley, a man of good scholarship, lofty ideals and earnest purpose, was placed in charge, which position he held until 1901, when the school was moved to Pennsylvania avenue and Dolphin street and placed under a colored faculty, Prof. Hugh M. Browne, the new principal, thoroughly reorganized the plant and started it upon its career as a modern high school. With it was combined the Colored Polytechnic School which had been brought into being through the energy an interest of Councilman Harry S. Cummings some years previous. No more difficult test of a man's ability to organize could have been given Prof. Browne than the problems presented in attempting to make this school go. There was no laboratory, no curriculum, no model after which to pattern, and everything belonging to the Colored Polytechnic was brought to the new building and thrown into one confused heap. But the new principal was equal to the task. He brought order out of chaos, and in an incredibly short time the whole machine was working with surprising smoothness. This, though wonderful, was not all. There was infused into the teaching body a spirit of work and mutual appreciation the like of which Baltimore had not experienced. Every Saturday morning scores of teachers could be found at the High School making apparatus for science work in their classes or listening to lectures on the practical application of science to life's every day problems. But this genius for organization which Mr. Browne possessed in such high degree brought about the speedy termination of his principalship at the Colored High School. The Institute for Colored Youth which for so many years had been located in Philadelphia, and of which the late lamented Mrs. Fannie Jackson Coppin was for so long a time the principal, was to be moved to the country and its facilities greatly enlarged. New buildings had to be planned and erected, courses of study had to be arranged and many other things had to be consummated before pupils could be received. The splendid work that had been done in putting the Colored High School on its feet had attracted wide attention. The result was an invitation to Prof. Browne to become the head of the new institution which was to be located at Cheyney, Pa. The strong appeal which this wider field of usefulness made could not be resisted and the work of Mr. Browne in Baltimore came quickly to an end. Influenced by the recommendations of Prof. Browne and others who knew of his wide experience the School Board acting upon the recommendation of the Superintendent elected as the next principal Dr. James H. N. Waring, at the time a supervising principal in the Washington schools. Dr. Waring took hold of the work with vigor, and as one absolutely certain of what he wished to do. So energetically and intelligently did he labor that it was not long before he had convinced Superintendent Van Sickle and the School Board that he was the right man in the right place. This resulted in his being given increased responsibilities and broader powers, which, in the main, were used in bettering the condition of the schools. Some of the improvements introduced during Dr. Waring's administration were the daily planning of school work by teachers, increased attendance at summer schools, the inauguration of an evening high school, mapping out definite units of work for accomplishments within a prescribed time, and inspiring his pupils to further prepare themselves in the leading colleges and universitieess of the country. It was upon the advice of Dr. Waring that Miss Corona Mason, afterward Mrs. Ralph Cook, a graduate of the school, went to Teachers' College, Columbia University and prepared herself to teach in her Alma Mater. Since that time several of the graduates have returned as instructors. Late in 1908 Dr. Waring resigned to take effect as soon as his successor should be elected, which action was taken in February, 1909 when Professor Joseph H. Lockerman, who had been vice principal, was a made acting principal. Almost as suddenly as this action had been taken another, another more important one, came about. Shortly after the beginning of the school term in the fall of 1909, the School Board separated the Training School from the High School, electing Mr. Lockerman to the principalship of the latter and Mr. Mason A. Hawkins, principal of the former. Mr. Dwight O. W. Holmes, who had brought the department of Physics to a high degree of excellence, was at the same time elected vice principal. Mr. Hawkins is a graduate of Morgan College and of Harvard University. His master's degree was secured from Columbia University in the city of New York. Among his instructors were such noted teachers as Drs. Wm. James, Paul Hanus, David L. Snedden and Hugo Munsterburg. Under the administration of Prof. Hawkins the enrollment has greatly increased, being 619 for the scholastic year 1913-14, and its scope considerably widened. It is now an accredited high school, its graduates being admitted to the best colleges without examination. At its last commencement there was graduated a class numbering nearly 80 persons, which was about ten times the number in the first class when Misses Fannie McCabe, Violet Thompson, Gertrude Weaver, Mollie Taylor, Minnie Neal, Nellie Anderson and Messrs. Wm. H.Murray and Walter Scott received their diplomas. Considered from the standpoint of good citizenship generally and for genuine usefulness to the colored people of the city and State Baltimore never made a better investment than in establishing the Colored High School. THE TRAINING SCHOOL THE TRAINING SCHOOL For some years it had become evident to the school authorities that if they were to have a high grade of instruction in the schools some provisions for the professional training of teachers would have to be made. Mere graduation from high schools was seen to be an insufficient preparation for the work of teaching. It was quite time that not a few of the many who graduated from the high schools became successful teachers, but only the great Hereafter will disclose the number of children they crippled for life during their period of practice and experimentation. Many times during the incumbency of Superintendent Henry A. Wise, which began in 1882, a school to prepare teachers for their duties was recommended, but the time was not yet. In the late fall of 1900, however, the Board of School Commissioners authorized the organization of the Training School for Teachers, a branch school for colored pupils being instituted at the same time under the same faculty. The late Basil T. Sollers was made principal, while Professor David E. Werglein, now principal of the Western High School, was one of its leading instructors. The school began work in January, 1901; but when it reopened the September following it was merged with the Colored High School under the name of the Colored High and Training School. This arrangement remained, as has already been stated, until 1909 when it was separated from the High School and Prof. Joseph H. Lockerman became its principal. In 1904 the Train- ing School was moved to the new building erected that year at the corner of Mount and Saratoga streets. In the large number of efficient teachers which it has sent forth the school finds its justification for the liberal sums of money which have been spent upon it. No inconsiderable portion of the success which it has made however, is due to the excellent work of Miss Lucinda Cook and Miss Anna O'H. Williamson who only recently resigned to accept similar positions at Wil伯force, Ohio. At present the school has an enrollment of a hundred pupils, the largest class in its history. Fundamentally the need of colored schools is an enlightened public sentiment that recognizes the danger to civilization and the economic waste which ignorance entails upon any community in which it holds a prominent place; that the value of uplift is in direct proportion to the needs of the uplifted, and that the prime thought of every modern social welfare organization is that the strong ought to bear the infirmates of the weak and that increasingly wider sense we are our brother's keeper. The duties of colored ministers, teachers and the more intelligent members of the commonwealth among us will not be fulfilled until such a sentiment is awakened in those to whom have committed the responsibilities of government, community leadership and stewardship by reason of their preparedness and their possessions. This is to be accomplished not only through the presentation of earnest petitions and manly protests, but by so living in each locality that our lives of honor and of usefulness will be an absolute guarantee that any interest taken in our intellectual improvement will not be wasted, but will fall upon good ground yielding its sixty and its hundred-fold return. In the counties of the State there should be a minimum school term of not less than eight months and a minimum salary schedule of $300, providing for liberal increases for efficiency and length of service. The qualifications of colored teachers should be very high, since their work by its very nature is one of greatest difficulty. These conditions should be secured by State laws and not be left to the discretion of local school authorities. In the City of Baltimore there is urgent need of a closer and more inspiring supervision of teachers than now exists. Ample authority to get results should be given principals and they should be held responsible for its proper use. Every argument presented for the employment of colored teachers in colored schools applies with equal force to the need of colored supervisors. Colored supervisors of music, sewing, physical and manual training would prove a blessing and an inspiration to colored children, just as colored principals and grade teachers have done. Colored attendance officers, selected for their ability and interest in securing the benefits of education for delinquent colored attendance of the irregular and the truant. And if the time be not ripe for representation on the School Board, such as has been accorded every other large unit of population, it is at least ripe for an assistant superintendent, working under the present capable and enthusiastic head, to direct the energies, keep up the professional zeal and lead the fight to make the results of training the colored youth square with its ever increasing cost. On the other hand, the people need to be taught to fully appreciate the educational blessings which they now enjoy and to ever remember the tremendous sacrifices which were made to secure them. There is little the matter with the curriculum or with the modern methods of teaching, but there is grave danger that in our mad rush to make a showing in numbers we are sending children forward at a greater rate than is justified by their work. We should ever keep in mind that quality is more to be desired than quantity. As a result of this untoward tendency the High School is being jammed with pupils so poorly prepared as to make them a menace to the progress of those who look upon the work of education as a serious business. The great cost of secondary education may make it impracticable to maintain separate high schools for our boys and girls, but local conditions have been such as to force many parents to wish for the enactment and enforcement of such regulations as would prevent too much social intercourse between the sexes. We are now at the end of the journey. The articles of necessity had to be brief. But if they cause any to increase their interest in the work of Negro education the writer will be immensely pleased and the enterprise of the Afro-American Ledger in a measure rewarded. BOOSTS & KNOCKS The colored brother will be called upon in the coming election to furnish a large proportion of the Republican vote. If he does not furnish his thirty-three per cent, the daily papers will attribute the defeat of Candidate Weller to a disaffection among his ranks. Notwithstanding this large voting population in the ranks of the Republican party, this same colored brother is the smallest onion in the branch among the galaxy of nationalities forming the G. O. P. About four years ago, aided by the colored votes, Governor Goldsborough was elected. The only thing that differentiated his administration from a Democratic one was that no legislation was passed affecting the colored man's rights as a citizen. Judging Candidate Weller's future by the past, we will be able to expect hardly as much from him as we received from Goldsborough. We have waited anxiously to hear what Candidate Weller would have to say in reference to his attitude toward short school terms in the counties and a minimum wage for colored teachers, and—yes, patronage; but in vain. If he makes any declaration at all, it will probably be like the stuff one Woodrow Wilson got off when he was after garnering the colored vote, that "he will mete out equal and exact justice to all" which means that the colored man will get nothing. Still we are placed in the position that we must either support this "Disciple of Republicanism" or stay away from the polls—for we could certainly not vote for the candidate of John Walter Smith, whose activity in the cause of disfranchisement is well known. Verily the colored voter in Maryland is between "the devil and the sea." --- And still we have among the elergy and laity, a number of so-called "astute politicians." The daily papers announced the fact that the principal of the Colored High School has asked the School Board to take under "advisement" the formation cadet corps in the colored secondary school. We might also commend Principal Hawkins for securing out of the last "Green Bag" fifty per cent of the appointments in the High School for local teachers. There were two new teachers appointed this year. The proportion isn't so "worse" but it could have been better. Sometime in April "Health Week" was observed in this city. During that week, a prominent local physician urged that the next legislature should be appealed to for a sanitarium where tuberculosis and other diseases may be treated, and further advised that the start to gain this end be started at once. It would not be a bad idea (since the start has not been made yet) to quiz the would-be legislaturemen as to their sentiments regarding this question and then vote accordingly. "They are not dead but sleeping: The local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The Citizens' Committee of Provident Hospital. The Colored Business Men's Exchange. The Dental Clinic in colored schools. The Forum—(Dead) The Lincoln Republican League's announced intention of securing for the race a more potent influence in the councils of the Republican party. The promise of the Mayor of Baltimore City and the Mayor of the Seventeenth Ward that a new building for the Colored High School would be erected. An adequate site for Morgan College in the suburbs. The colored citizens who are going to organize a movement to defeat Coroner Algire, of Guth murder case fame, for election as Register of Wills. The Camp-Fire Girls of Waters A. M. E. Church gave a delicious repast consisting of cake, ice cream and punch and the latest delicacies of the season at the home of the president, Miss Marie Keene, 1648 Mullikin street, in honor of their guardian, Mrs. M. C. Bantum, who will shortly leave for Hampton, Va. We regret very much her departure. Reporter, Miss Magnolia Williams. IN MEMORIAM DeCOURSEY—In loving remembrance of my dear father, Rev. David L. De Coursey, who died 13 years ago, September 24, 1902. By his loving daughter, Maggie Madden. PERSONAL NOTES Mrs. Ella Chesley and daughter, 514 Oxford street, have returned from a visit to Atlantic City. Miss Grace Johnson, of 905 Myrtle avenue, has returned from a visit to Plainfield, N. J. Mrs. Edward Short, of 1812 Druid Hill avenue, who was operated on for appendicitis at Freedmen's Hospital, Washington, has returned home. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Lee, of 2225 Druid Hill avenue, are receiving congratulations on the birth of a daughter. Mother and daughter are doing nicely. Mr. William H. Wilson, of 1424 Druid Hill avenue, has returned from New Jersey, where he spent the summer. Rev. S. R. Hughes, pastor of Whatcoat M. E. Church, is preaching a series of topical sermons. Mrs. Robert D. Jennings has returned to Buchannan, Va., after spending several weeks with her mother, Mrs. Emily, of 1124 Russell street. The Congo Dance by the Inter-Collegiates, October 18th. C. Clarence Miller, manager of the printing establishment maintained by the Order of St. Luke at Richmond, Va., was a caller at the office of the Afro-American Ledger this week. Mrs. Marcellus Dobson, of 929 Pierce street, was a recent visitor to Chestr. Pa. Mrs. John E. Taylor, of 032 Pierce street, has returned from a visit to West River, Md. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lloyd after spending the summer at Seal Harbor, Maine, will return to their home 1205 Etting street, about the 1st of October. See the new dances illustrated by the Inter-Collegiates at Fish Hall, October 1st. The Chauffeurs Association Auto Dance at Fishermen's auditorium, October 4th. Prof. Blakes' Orchestra. All for 25 cents. Mrs. Annie R. Carr and little Nettie, of 920 Warner street, have returned home after a month's stay visiting friends in Kilmarnock and White Stone, Va. Mrs. Sarah Ringgold, of 920 Warner street, is confined to bed and is very ill, and has been ill for two weeks. Rev, C. E. O. Smallwood, pastor of John Wesley M. E. Church, Charlottesville, Va., is in the city spending a few days with his sister, Mrs. Estella Travas, 1221 Etting street. He was a caller at the Afro-American office. Purviance Classy Saturday and Wednesday classes at Pythian Castle. Latest modern society dances. Congo Schottische Trimax, Tango Square. Mrs. Blanch Lealsens, of 1616 Division street, after spending the summer in Atlantic City, the guest of Mrs. Jeanette Floyd and Mrs. Nellie Pippins, has returned home. Mrs. W. M. Minor and her son have returned home after spending the summer with her husband at Blue Ridge Summit, Pa. Master Lutherthaniel and brothers have returned home after spending their summer vacation on their fathers farm at Beaver Dam, Hanover county, Va., have returned to their home, 1721 Division street. Mr. John W. Ross, of 1337 N. Carey street, who has been confined to his home for the past two weeks on account of illness from injuries received during his employment, is now improved and able to be out again. Mrs. Mary L. Corporel, of 702 N. Eden street, has returned home from an extended trip to Chester, Novia Scotia and Halifax, Canada. Honk, the sound of the Auto Dance, Monday evening, October 4th, 8 to 1:30. Music by Prof. E. Blake's Orchestra. Mrs. Hortense Randall, of 1366 Woodyear street, left last Sunday for a few weeks stay as the guest of Mrs. Martha Hammond, Sharon Hill, Pa. The Baltimore City and Suburban Bus Company Is opened for all engagements such as straw rides, c:est hunt and carrying passengers to all parts of Maryland. Nightly or Sunday occasions solicited. Apply to WM. HUTCHINS. 1105 N. Carey St. or 231 S. Howard St. NOTICE—All members and friends of the State Federation of Maryland are requested to meet Monday evening, at 8 o'clock, Sept. 27th, at the Young Women's Christian Association. Please be present, Miss Ida R. Cummings, chairman Mrs. M. F. Handy, Pres. THE AFRO-AMERICAN LEDGER SEE GILBERT FIRST Cabinet Making, Furniture Repaired, Electric Bells Installed First Class Work Satisfaction Guaranteed Reasonable Prices Cabinet Work-A Specialty Mt. Ver 2833 628 N. EUTAW ST. Mad. 342 A CONGO DANCE GIVEN BY THE INTERCOLLEGIATES AT GALILEAN FISHERMEN HALL FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1st, 1915 SUBSCRIPTION 25 CENTS MUSIC BY EUBIE BLAKE'S ORCHESTRA WINFIELD M. BISHOP, CHAIRMAN NOTICE NOTICE Books Open for Dates==Good Hope Hall 655 W. LEXINGTON STREET Rates for Entertainments Reduced. Before booking dates for the season see us. Patronage Soicited. Board of Directors, Good Hope Hall, Bro. Wm. H. Garrett, Sec'y. The world's greatest Negro Violinist, the grandson of Frederick Douglass, will give the first and last violin recital of the season before his tour of the West, on Thursday Night, October 7th, 1915, at 8 o'clock To give both parents and children and all lovers of good music an opportunity to hear him. Mr. Douglass has consented to give this recital at a price of admission smaller than he has ever received from a Baltimore audience. ADULTS 15c. Children 10c. Maud Kelson, President Ladies Aid A. J. Mitchell, Pastor A BEAUTIFUL CANTATA GRADUATION DAY AT WOOD HILL SCHOOL Will be presented by the Dunbar Literary Circle of The First Baptist Church. Caroline and McElidery streets THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30th, 1915 Refreshments on Sale TICKETS 10 CENTS Mrs. Bertha D. Boyle, President Miss Magdalene Keys, Secretary Rev. P. C. Neal, D. Pastor SPECIAL NOTICE In justification to the interest of the internal Society and its members, the operatic the statement that the rumor regard and Fraternal Society discontinuing busi solutely untrue and without any foundatic Signed ion to the interest of the People's Benefit and Fraud its members, the operators desire to make publ that the rumor regarding The Peoples Benefit society discontinuing business or selling out is aband without any foundation. Signed In justification to the interest of the People's Benefit and Fraternal Society and its members, the operators desire to make public the statement that the rumor regarding The Peoples Benefit and Fraternal Society discontinuing business or selling out is absolutely untrue and without any foundation. Signed Alfred H. Pitts, C. H. Jones Alfred Nixon Maryland Federation CH Special service at Macedonia Baptist tember 26th, 1915, at 3 p.m. All return State Rally Cards. Mrs. M. Mrs. L. S. Penn, Sec. Mrs. Martha Thompson, Chair. Honk Honk ANNOUNCEMENT THE SOUND OF THE A Given by the Colored Chaufeurs Ass INCORPORATED Monday Evening. October 4th, 19 Galilean Fishermen's Auditorium Prof. Blake's Orchestra will furnis Don't Miss This Music Plenty of Refreshments of Piano & Vocal Studio-21 BALTIMORE, MARYLN Opening and Registration Day, October 1st, from 10 desiring to study are asked to register and arrange for at the beginning of the term for a good years work. Federation Christian Women Notice at Macedonia Baptist Church, Sunday, Sep- ter, 1915, 11 p.m. All are invited. Please Rally Cards. Mrs. M. F. Handy, President. Mrs. L. S. Penn, Secretary Martha Thompson, Chair. Ways and Means ANNOUNCEMENT Honk Honk FOUND OF THE AUTO DANCE The Colored Chauffeurs Association of Maryland INCORPORATED Evening, October 4th, 1915, From 8 to 1.30 Men's Auditorium Admission, 25 Cents George's Orchestra will furnish the best of music. Music Don't Miss This Dance Plenty of Refreshments on Sale Vocal Studio-2111 Druid Hill Av. BALTIMORE, MARYLAND Station Day, October 1st, from 10 a. m. to 10 p. m. All persons asked to register and arrange for lessons, etc. on that day. Start the term for a good years work. Maryland Federation Christian Women Honk Honk ANNOUNCEMENT Honk Honk THE SOUND OF THE AUTO DANCE Given by the Colored Chauffeurs Association of Maryland INCORPORATED Monday Evening, October 4th, 1915, From 8 to 1.30 Galilean Fishermen's Auditorium Admission, 25 Cents Prof. Blake's Orchestra will furnish the best of music. Don't Miss This Music Plenty of Refreshments on Sale Don't Miss This Dance Piano & Vocal Studio-2111 Druid Hill Av. Opening and Registration Day, October 1st, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. All persons desiring to study are asked to register and arrange for lessons, etc. on that day. Start at the beginning of the term for a good years work. ESLANDER V. THOMAS, Directress HOME-COMING WEEK Grace Presbyterian SPECIAL SERVE Monday, Sept. 27, 8 p. m., Session's Night iams. Choir and Congregation of Mt. Tuesday, Sept. 28, 8 p. m., Trustees' Night kins. Choir and congregation of Eno Wednesday, Sept. 29, 8 p. m., Pastoral A. M. Johnson, D.D. Choir and Congregat Thursday, Sept. 30, 8 p. m., Men's Night. Choir and Congregation of Metropolit Friday, Oct. 1st, 8 p. m., Odd Penny Nig Johnson, D.D. Special Music. Sunday, October 3rd. 11 a. m., Sermon by the Minister 3 p. m., Exercises by Sunday School. G. Grasty, Secretary City Char 8 p. m., Platform Meeting Addresses by Editor J. H. Murphy Dean of Morgan College. Monday, Oct. 4, 8 p. m., Free Reception to All members and friends are urged to Rev. W. Edw. William COMING WEEK Pice Presbyterian Church SPECIAL SERVICES 17, 8 p. m., Session's Night. Rev. Matthias Willand Congregation of Mt. Zion M. E. Church. 18, 8 p. m., Trustees' Night. Rev. Dr. Jones Watand congregation of Enon Baptist Church t. 29, 8 p. m., Pastoral Aid's Night. Rev. Samuel D. D., Choir and Congregation of Trinity A.M.E.Ch. 30, 8 p. m., Men's Night. Rev. J. A. Holmes. Congregation of Metropolitan M. E. Church. 8 p. m., Odd Penny Night. Address, Rev. L. Z. D. Special Music. 3rd. mon by the Minister exercises by Sunday School. Address Mr. Nathaniel Fasty, Secretary City Charities. form Meeting by Editor J. H. Murphy and Prof. Wm. Pickens, of Morgan College. 8 p. m., Free Reception to members by Trustees. and friends are urged to be present. Rev. W. Edw. Williams, D. D., Minister. HOME-COMING WEEK Grace Presbyterian Church SPECIAL SERVICES Monday, Sept. 27, 8 p. m., Session's Night. Rev. Matthias Williams. Choir and Congregation of Mt. Zion M. E. Church. Tuesday, Sept. 28, 8 p. m., Trustees' Night. Rev. Dr. Jones Watkins. Choir and congregation of Enon Baptist Church Wednesday, Sept. 29, 8 p. m., Pastoral Aid's Night. Rev. Samuel M. Johnson, D.D. Choir and Congregation of Trinity A.M.E.Ch. Thursday, Sept. 30, 8 p. m., Men's Night. Rev. Dr. J. A. Holmes. Choir and Congregation of Metropolitan M. E. Church. Friday, Oct. 1st, 8 p. m., Odd Penny Night. Address, Rev. L. Z. Johnson, D.D. Special Music. Sunday, October 3rd. 11 a. m., Sermon by the Minister 3 p. m., Exercises by Sunday School. Address Mr. Nathaniel G. Grasty, Secretary City Charities. 8 p. m., Platform Meeting Addresses by Editor J. H. Murphy and Prof. Wm. Pickens, Dean of Morgan College. Monday, Oct. 4, 8 p. m., Free Reception to members by Trustees. All members and friends are urged to be present. Rev. W. Edw. Williams, D. D., Minister. House for SALE or RENT, very cheap, Three stories with store front. 22 N. Bruce street. Second floor flat FOR RENT, hot and cold water, private bath. Apply 414 N. Gilmor street. Small flats with modern conveniences with heat, 500 block Mosher street. Apply 521 Mosher street. 2t FOR RENT—Furnished room and flat with all conveniences. Apply 732 W. Saratoga street. FOR SALE—Large three story house in the 300 block of W. Hoffman street now open for inspection will arrange terms to suit buyer. See Arthur L. Johnson,1415 Myrtle avenue. FOR SALE CHEAP—Three story house 700 block N. Saratoga street in first class condition. Price $1550. Terms $100 cash, balance as rent. See A. L. JOHNSON, 1415 Myrtle avenue or phone, Md. 3664 Y. FOR SALE—Two 2-story houses 1900 block White street in first class condition. Can be bought on easy terms. Apply 1415 Myrtle avenue or phone Mad. 3664 Y. FOR SALE—Beautiful three story house in 600 block W. Lafayette avenue, 8 rooms and lath, sewerage connected. Gr. $48, furnace in cellar. Price $2000; $700 cash, balance on building association mortgage. For further particulars Apply to A. L. JOHNSON. 1415 Mytle avenue. AMES MEMORIAL M.E. CHURCH Carey and Baker Streets Rev. A. J. Mitchell, D. D., Pastor Parsonage 1363 N. Calhoun St. 6.30-9 a. m., Class. Thomas Lane, Leader. 11 a. m., sermon by Rev William Hoy. 2.30 p. m., Sunday School Henry Johnson, Supt. 4 p. m., Boys' Fally Day. Sermon by Rev G. A. Davis. All Scouts invited with their uniforms. 8 p. m., Sermon by Rev C. B. Bishop. Flashlights from Florida by the Pastor. All members and friends of the Church are requested to come out and help the boys on Boys' Day. The Boy Scouts will take the offering each service this day. ASBURY M. E. CHURCH East and Lexington Sts. Rev. George E. Curry, Pastor. Residence: 1880 E. Eager St. 11 a. m., Sermon by the pastor, subject: "The Baptism of Fire." 2. 30 p. m., Sunday School Mr. C. T. Stewart, Supt. 8 p. m., Sermon by the Pastor. Every one cordially invited. WHATCOAT M. E. CHURCH Franklin and Pine Streets Rev. S. R. Hughes, A. M., Pastor Parsonage, 1424 Argyle Avenue Something new every Sunday. 11 a. m., Preaching by the ractor. Subject: "The Color Line." 3 p. m., Sunday School. W. C. Tongue, Supt. 4 p. m., Class No. 5. J. W. Gibson, Leader 8 p. m., The Pastor. Subject: "What are they doing in Heaven." The 26th Anniversary the month of October. Wednesday night, Prayer Meeting. CENTENNIAL M. E. CHURCH Caroline and Bank Streets Rev. N. M. Carroll, D. D., Pastor The Great Revival Campaign. 11 a. m., Sermon by Rev. S. Douglass McDuffie, the Great Evangelist. 2.80 p. m., Sunday School. 8 p. m., the Pastor, choir and congregation will visit the First Baptist Church. Sermon by the Pastor of Centennial. 8 p. m., Preaching; by Rev. S. Douglass McDuffie. Revival services every night during the week connected by the Evangelist, Rev. S. Douglass McDuffie. Great time. Everybody welcome. Amen! EASTERN M. E. PIRE AND HOLY GHOST CHURCH McElderry Street and Patterson Park Avenue Rev. Alfred Young, Pastor Residence: 618 Dolphin Street 11 a. m., Sermon by the Pastor. 2 80 p. m., SunJav-School. 8 p. m., the Pastor, choir and congregation will visit Paradise Grove Camp. 5 80 p. m., Enworth League. 8 p. m., Sermon by Rev. Lewis Ford. SHARP ST. MEM. M. E. CHURCH Dolphin and Etting Streets Rev. M. J. Naylor, D. D. Pastor 10 a. m., Bible Class. T. H. Smith. Instructor. 11 a. m., Sermon by the Pastor. 2 p. m., Sunday School. M. Q. Dorsey. Supt. Rev. R. K. Wrench, Pastor 11 a. m., Preaching. 2 n. p., Sunday School. 2.45 p. m., Old Fashioned Lovefeast. 3.80 p. m., Sarmon by Rev. A. G. Read. The Willing Workers of Belt Street will be with us at the same time. 7 p. m., Epworth League. 7.80 p. m., the Sunday School will render an up-to-date program Mr. H. M. Washington, Snpt. Mrs. Elise Hall, Pres E. L. Mrs. E. B. Fuller, Pres. Ladies' Aid. Miss Ida Williams, Supt. Jr. League. Mr. K. D. Bagland, President of the Brotherhood. All are welcome. 3RD SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH Druid Hill Ave. and Robert Street Rev. G. P: Rodgers. Pastor Sabbath (Saturday) Service 10 a. m., Sabbath School. 11 30 a. m., preaching service. Special Sermon, Sunday night, Sept. 26th subject: "The Seven Trumpets." All invited: Questions answered. Special Sermon, Sunday night, Oct. 3rd subject: "Jew or Gentile—Which?" MT. CALVARY FIRST INDEPENDENT M. E. CHURCH Rev James L. William Pastor Residence: 614 W. Biddle St. This is the opening day for the First Independent M. E. Church. Services will be held at Galilean Fishermen's Hall, Biddle street, near Madison avenue. 11 a. m., Sermon by the Pastor. 8 n. m., Sermon by the Pastor or Stranger. A cordial welcome to all Bro. Walter Howard, Church Clerk. GILLIS MEM. M. P CHURCH Stockton St. near W. Baltimore St Rev. B. H. Knight, Pastor 10 a. m. Class. 11 a. m., Preaching by by G. W. Fowler. 2.80 n. m., Sunday School. 7 to 8 p. m., Prayer and Praise Services. 8 p. m., Sermon by the Pastor. T. H. McGowan, Sunt. THE LAST SUNDAY OF CAMP MEETING Rev. Wm. Harris and Solomon Bedford are to be with us. All city and country and city hands are invited. Automobile will move every hour from Reach street. Christ lay to the camp. Fare one way 20 cents. Silverter P. Norwood. Pastor, 574 Oxford St. Phoos. Mt. Vernon 4842 M. WATERS A. M. E. CHURCH Aisquit Street near Orleans Rev. A. L. Gaines, D. D. Pastor 11 a. m., Sarmon by Pastor Subject: "the Healing of the Water by Liliah." 2.30 p. m., Sunday School Session. 8 p. m., Sermon by the Pastor. J. F. Waters, Supt. J. W. Woodhous, Secretary EBENEZER A. M. E. CHURCH Montgomery Street near Charles Rev. I. N. Ross, D. D., Pastor 7 a. m., Class 10 a. m., Bible Class. 11 a. m., Preaching by the Pastor. 2.80 p. m., Sunday School. Charles Tolson, Supt. 6.80 p. m., Allen Christian Endeaver. J. Murray, President. 6 p. m., Preaching. Charles Henry, chorister. Thomas Mitchell, Organist. TRINITY A. M. E. CHURCH Linden Ave, and Biddle Street Rev. S. M. Johnson, D. D., Pastor 11 a. m., Sermon by Rev. J. B. St. Felix Isaacs, D. D. 2:30 p. m., Sabbath School. 3 p. m., Sermon by Rev. Junns Gray, D. D., pastor of Psalmist Bapt; Church, choir and congregation. 8 p. m., Sermon by Pastor to the Juvenile Court of Household and G. U. O. of O. F. T. J. Holliday, Supt. Rev. J. A. Briscoe, Pastor The People's Rally to free the church of $4,000. Come and register your name. Sunday, Sept. 26th 11 a.m. Sermon by Rev. J. A. Briscoe to the Captains. Subject: "The Use of Means" 2.30 p. m., Sunday School. 3 p. m., Sermon by Rev. E. S. Williams, D. D., his choir and congregation. 8 p. m., Sermon by Fev. D. J. Beckett, D. D., his choir and congregation. The friends of the town will have charge of the Pastor's table. FIRST INDEPENDENT A. M. E. CHURCH Cor. Orchard and Tessier Streets Rev. L. C. Curtis, D. D., Pastor Parsonage: 1232 Argyle Ave. 11 a m., Preaching by Psistor. 2.30 p. m., Sunday School. 4 p. m. Class meeting. 8. p. m., Preaching by the Pastor. Wednesday night Class. Everybody is welcome to our services ST. JOHN'S A. M. E. CHURCH Lexington Street near Pine Rev. P. W. Worthham, D. D., Pastor 634 George Street 11 a. m., Sermon by the Pastor. 2.30 p. m., Sabbath School. 5.30 p. m., Sermon by Rev. I. N. Ross, D. D. 6 p. m., A. C. E League. 8 p. m., Sermo. by the Pastor. Dr. J. C. Stewart, Pres. of A.C. E.L. Charles Oliver, Supt. THE PEOPLE'S UNION CHURCH Orleans and Ann Sts. Rev. C. Edw. Browne, Pastor. Residence: 1611 McElderry St. 9 a. m., Class. 11 a. m., Sermon by the Pastor 2.30 p. m., Sunday school. 3.30 p. m., Special Sermon by Rev. Ida I. Nelson. Her choir and congregation re invited. 4 p. m., Class. 8 p. m., Sermon by the Pastor. Tuesday and Wed. esday nights. Class. CHRIST INSTITUTION CHURC Dr. G. W. Kennard, Pastor 11 a. m., Sermon by Rev. Mrs. Boardley. ALLEN A. M. E. CHURCH Lexington and Carlton Streets Rev. P. I. Jordan, D. D. Pastor Second Quarterly Meeting Day. 11 a. m.; Sermon by the Pastor. 2.30 p. m., Sunday School. Parents and children are welcome. S. p. m., Sermon by the Pastor. C. Y. W. C. A., Sunday, Sept. 20th Helping Hand Day, Miss Emmia Mitchell, chairman. Miss Charlotte Davage, Pres. Miss E. E. Bright, Secretary. Mrs. H. C. Smith, Genl. See'y. MOORE'S RESTAURANT MOORE'S RESTAURANT Druid Hill Ave. & Oxford St. Boiled or Roast Dinners, Poultry Dinners, DINNER MENU RELISHES Olives Sliced Tomatoes Cold Slaw SOUPS Chicken Vermicillo or Tomatoes Baked Salmon Trout ENTREE Peach a la Conde ROAST MEATS Prime Ribs Beef Au Jus Roast Leg Young Lamb Boiled Beef Tongue with String Beans Stewed Chicken Supreme Sauce Select 3 VEGETABLES Select 8 White or Sweet Potatoes Stewed Tomatoes Lima Beans Mashed Turnip Green Peas Stringless Beans SALAD Lettuce and Tomatoes or Egg DESSERT Snow Pudding Baked Sweet Potato Marmalade Hawaiian Sliced Pineapple or Bananas Tea or Coffee CALL AGAIN Regular Dinner Served Daily INOS EON ERR Era GN eee Sia en er aN RE ER re Eee eel rot nee Ae eas, oe eo oe: ee ed eS eo THE COLONEL — ~ ALAS EP. JONES Se OTE eee ee ay ge bere T Week, because I am a Baptist and 1| was in that big mix-up in Chicago, and I thank God. that I got out ‘alive, and J am now ready to do ‘some more writing. I have 0 many things to say to you that it will take me a long time to say ‘them and it will take you a long time to read them, so.let us not try: to; tell it all at once but take time ‘and let you have it little by little. T want to first say that I went to that exposition held there’ in Chica- go known as the Lincoln Celebra- tion. ‘It showed the progress made by’ us in fifty years, and it would remind one that the progress cover- ed several ‘centuries. I am proud indeed that I am connected with this great big race, and would not ‘get out of it for the world. T find that it is the lot of many of my friends to pass, but I am not going to pass nor even try. It was a real exposition, and a crowning success. Over a hundred ' thousand people passed ‘through the gates and this was something worth while. You could look and look, and then there were things to amuse and entertain you, and I got all of this. | Col, James Hale Porter, was in his glory, because the exposition was'a success. This has been his ambition for years. I reeal! when he tried to have one of his own ac- cord, and made a failure, but this time he. came back right with the state behind it. Major R.R. Jack- son,. was on hand,and so was Rev. A. J. Carey. The people of Chica- go” just made it go. There were many people from both races there all the time. Perhaps’ no one in the whole ex- position. attracted more attention than ‘did Mrs. Annie Fisher, from :Columbis, Mo., a woman who.has: accumulated a small fortune on making biscuits. She had the busi- ness right there, and made the biseuits and. served them hot. I believe you call them ‘‘beaten bis- cuits,’’ or something like that. ‘They certainly did go well. Mrs. Fisher bad the picture of her beautiful mansion, In the-work she,; was assisted by her daughter, ‘her son-in-law and her friend, Mrs, Turner. She was invited to re- main over in the city of Chicago for another month. There was a bigtime in the exposition for all those.. who attended it, and the people. are. proud of the success. ‘There was a fine display from all parts of the world. ~ Our people have been inventing things for many years, and they “are on record in the patent office in Washington. I had, the pleasure of _meeting Henry E. Baer, who “has been-in that office for a num- per of years, He is called the “assistant examiner in the United States Patent Office. He has gotten out. a book that is worth having, and. if you failed to get it then Jyou have, missed something. It is the record of the patents for our people. for fifty years. You will jmow something of the inventions of our. race and what they are. I was-glad to see him, because he is a refined cultured gentleman. ‘But I must not take up the time ‘to- talk about the exposition alone, “for I am sure you want to know ‘something about the convention. But you have had a real good story about it in the papers, and there is put ‘little I. can say about it just now. I am compiling some facts and will‘let you have them in due ‘time. 1 am_ watching for develop- “ments. “T° am sure you will be surprised to. note the cheek of Rev. E. P. “Jones; D. D., of Odd Fellow. fame, “who. is known among the Odd Fel- lows'as ‘‘Mississippi’’ Jones... No- “pody has ever accused him of’ be- “ing. over burdened with religion, and never "will unless there is ¢ ‘wighty change. But. he tried’ to teapture: the convention. He has ° fried and tried to be Grand Master ‘“<o€* Odd: Fellows for America, but “has failed utterly, hence he thought “tthat he: saw: a chance .to be: “National President, » and attempted *to wrestle . from the hands of th Seonvention, the presidency of th 2 OO eee mae tae vention closed, and'then the city of Savannah, Ga., was selected for the next meeting. The rub was be- ‘tween Savannah and Muskogee, and the latter will have to wait another ‘time. | Jt was a pleasure to. me to get in the hands of. my friends, and to see just what they were doing. God bless them all. Perhaps I am going to lose some friends in this rnatter. I remained until the convention closed and then I turned my atten- tion to another part of the world. I met many. friends. 1 was glad to have met them. I hada talk about the North Carolina Provident and Mutual Company, which is one of the largest.insurance companies in the world operated-by our people. It is strictly a business office, and is doing business in a business man- ner. C. C, Spalding, of Durham, is the secretary and manager, and he is strictly a business man, He has been able tobring this company before the public. J had the plea- sure of shaking hands with him during the National Negro Business League. in Boston, Mass., and I heard him make some address. have just afew things to say to you, I left Chicago and went to Quiney, Ill, and from there to Hannibal, and now I am in St. Louis, In St. Louis, Dr. W. T. Vernon has been drlivering some speeches, and you will believe me that man can make a speech. I am spending just a few hours with Rev. W. Sampson Brooks, D. D., pastor of the church here. Dr. Brooks is in line for elevation in the the episcopacy, and he will make a good bishop. If you want to send me a letter send it to 311 Antoine street, St. Joseph, Mo., as I will: be there in conference next week. When I sat down I had many things to say, but they have gone from me now. Wait until my next letter. Give my love to all the people in Baltimore and the office. Tell them I shal] keep them posted on the do- ices of the Baptists. NEWS FROM WINCHESTER Winchester, Va.,Sept. 23,—Revs. John R. Augustus, H. C. P, Baker and Meredith Amrstead have re- turned from the District Preachers’ Meeting, Staunton, Va. Rev. Armstead preached at Greenville, Sunday night. The Woman’s Day at St. Paul's A. M. E, Chureh, under the presi- dency of Miss Lucy Emma Parker, was the finest ever attempted in Winchester. Mrs. Imogen Cross,of New York, who ,has been visiting her sister, Mrs, James W. Stephenson, has te- turned. Mrs. Nancy E. Marker has re- turned home after a visit to friends in Philadelphia, New York and As- bury Park. Miss: Hattie Beamer has returned from a visit to friends in Harris- burg. Mother Anna Tokes conducted the spiritual meetings at St. Paul’s Church Sunday. $30. was raised. | Miss Eliza Boyd gave a social ir honor of Miss Alberta Robins whe has returned to her home in Balti more. Mrs. John H. Quiett and daugh ter, Miss Frances Quiett,have gone to Jamaica, Long Island and Nev York to spend the month with rela tives. The Preachers’ Alliance met at St. Paul’s Church, Tuesday. The Alliance will hold evangelis tie services at the several churche from October 24th to Novembe: 14th inclusive. Revs. W. P. Fisher, John H Quiett, Mr. Wm. L. Good, dele gate, the senior choir and numerou friends of Mt, Carme} Free Baptis Church attended the yearly meet ing at Martinsburg, W. Va., Sun dav. CECILTON NOTES $ Cecilton, Md., Sept. 23.—The Labor Day Celebration held by Happy Home Lodge of Odd Fellows and Lilly of the Valley Household ) of Ruth was a success, Addresses were’ delivered by Rev. J. Young of Chestertown, Md., and Rev. L. §, Tolson, of Galena, ‘Mrs, Mollie Alex. Wilson had as visitors during the summer, Miss Nonie Wilson and Mr. Perey Wil- son, of Chester, Pa.; Mrs. Lydia Gould and daughter; Mrs, Mamie Lomax-and Miss Evelyn Toney, all of Philadelphia; Mrs. Mary E. Pierce, of Hayden, Md.; and Mrs. Susie Gibles, of Centerville, Md. Mrs. Lydia Wilson of Philadel- phia, spent a few days as the guest of Mrs, Annie Edwards. Mrs. Florence Horse has removed from: 1002° Carrollton avenue to 1517N. Mount street. Rev, S.'S.' Crockett,” of Morris- town, N. J., spent several days in the city: this weeks = SS ‘Thirdly comes the poll-tax.’s.It ‘a combination of a poll-tax. ‘a literacy test and it operates t combination in’ a manner hig ingenious. If you wish to vote, you. sl gos your. poll-tax receipt fen fe three years. Then the judges DO IT NOW A 5 Get nto the habit of dding today elections may, if en yank things you pot of teenatrow: you to read a section 0! the con ZOt lessening trouble and sorrow. tation of Virginia. If you The ime go short we must hurry to do white, they often won’t.ask y solit tack that of usis exoected ” ssehru (Lf you are colored they usually ¥ He'll find there's been nothing neglected. —Brooklyn Advocate. —Chicago Defender. 7 “ey A cORRECTION |THE SPIRIT OF THE In our issue of July 31, the , poem. in this column, ‘Give me a OLD SLAVE QWNE rose today’” taken from the In- dianapolis ‘Freeman’? was erron- . . eously ascribed to that paper. We Jt is a matter of history tl are happy to make the correction; |many of the Southern slavehold Jasper Tappan Phillips, M. D. of|tefused for a time:to emancip Nashville, Tennessee is the author. | their slaves, following the:close mendes the Civil War. In the Washing! Star of Septemher 18, 1865,appe THE WARAND AFRICA [4) e 0 news item illustrat Evans Lewin, Librarian. of the Royal Colonial Institute of Eng- land, in an illuminating book just published on German colonies in Africa,urges America to also grab a part of the Dark Continent. Naturally, the. British official be- rates German ‘‘brutality’’in Africa. We: have no doubt that Germany’s reign there has been bloody and despotic. Sohas England’s Her hypocrisy may have covered it more. But that England’s rule in South Africa has: been tyrannous and op- pressive let Mr. Evans not deny. Belgium is now reaping a just retri- bution for her inhuman cruelties upon the robbed and murdered Con- goes. _ Italy’s colonies in northern Africa ‘have not been enjoying a reign of unalloyed pleasure and progress. But King Menelik, at Adowa, in Abyssinia, annihilating the Italian army, somewhat temper- ed the Italian’s rule. France alone deserves praise for her just and enlightened African policies. Yet all of them have robbed the Afri- cans, They have taken their lands and parcelled them out among themselves. Europe has no more right to Africa than Germany has to Belgium. Now imagine the audacity of England asking Ameri- ca to come and help rob the Afri- can some more. —New York News. ALL GOING THE SAME WAY Three men were hungry. Une said, ‘‘Bitte, geben Sie mir ein Stuck. Brot;’’ the second said, “Donnez-moi du pain, s’il_vous plait’’while the third said, ‘'Please give me a piece of bread,’’ There were different modes of expres- sion, but the same longing. Stil] the ignorant person who can only understand German, thinks that the Frenchman and the Englishman are wrong, because he does not understand their mode of expression. So men ‘hunger and thirst atfer righteousness."’ The Baptist has his-mode; the Presbyterian his; ‘they. may not understand, but. God ig not ignorant, and can read be- hind modesand manners, and meth- ods, into human' longings, human hungering and He understands. ‘So’ the Methodist ought to know Methodist doctrines, the Baptist, Baptist doctrines,and the more we know them, the more we will find we are closer together than we thought. We will find that whether we dip or sprinkle ox pour, we are expressing the same thing; we will be able to trace the relationship, and we will find that we are not only not enemies, but friends indeed, relations by the blood of Jesus Christ. —Christian Recorder. JUST. A FEW OF THE WAYS. IN WHICH THE SOUTH WILL STILL PREVENT COLORED PROPLE FROM VOTING How will the South control the Negro vote now that the Supreme Court has abolished the ‘‘grand- father way of doing it? A State Legislature can no longer grant special favors at the polling booths to men whose grandfathers could vote in the days when colored people could not vote. But ‘‘we are not going back to reconstruction, "” said a rationally distinguished Souther- ner, in the city of Washington. “We are not going to be ruled by the colored race.. We will prevent it.” Of course he will. But how? The first thought is the literacy test. Some'states haven’t been able 'to adopt it. - In Maryland it has been rejected three times, The uneducated whites combined with the colored people-to prevent it. But most Southern states can adopt it readily. North. Carolina. has it in very effective operation. Secondly comes the property test. In, Louisiana a man may. vote, though illiterate,.if he owns three thousand . dollars’ worth of’ proper: ty. An illiterate white man. i more likely than an illiterate Negr« to own. that amount of” property Thirdly ‘comes the poll-tax.”.It has a combination ofa poll-tax. and a literacy test and it operates that combination in a manner highly ingenious. If you wish to vote, you show your. poll-tax receipt for the last three years. Then the judges of elections may, if they please, ask you to read a section of the consti- tution of Virginia. If you are white, they often won’t.ask you. If you are colored they usually will. —Brooklyn Advocate. FELIX B. PYE, Sr. 102 E. Mulberry Street Funeral Director and Embalmer Phone, Mt, Vernon 8603 veo. SOHN: H. TOADVIN.... 142 W. HILL STREET, THE UP-TO-DATE UNDERTAKER Whe ean urnish » funeral for $10.00 and up; caskets for $3.00 and wy. He ean furnish youcarriages tor Funerals, Weddings, Parties, Receptioms, wte., from ois own stables at the most reasonatle rates. Vou need nF come to see him, just call South 422 or South 896-¥. ‘M42 W, Bill Street ani ‘Meant Vernon 5138 826 Droid Hill Ave, THE SPIRIT OF THE OLD SLAVE QWNERS It is a matter of history that many of the Southern slaveholders refused for a time-to emancipate their slaves, following the close of the Civil War. In the Washington Star of September 18, 1865,appears the following news item illustrative of this attitude: “Maj. W. B. Sargent, in charge of the office of the Freedman’s Bureau in Arkansas, in an official communication to Gen, Howard re- ports a case where a former slave- holder refuses to recognize the Emancipation Act. It appears that a freedman had. made an effort to get some things belonging to him from the premises of his former master, named Bird, and failing to do so made. application to the provost marshal of freedman ref- uges and abandoned lands for assistance, when a circular of the Freedmen’s Bureau, bearing the following endorsement of the pro- vost marshal, was furnished the colored man: ‘The bearer of this cireular will be allowed to take from the premises where his family resided everything that belongs to him. Any person interferring with him will be held accountable for the same.” “The colored man thus armed re- paired again to the premises of his former master, who, on reading the circular, returned it indorsed as follows: “The bearer of this cir- cular I consider my property still, having seen no enactment of the federal Congress nor of our state government authorizing any one to demand him of me, nor anything furished him while with me, When I am perfectly satisfied that the slaves have been. emancipated by such authority as is regarded as constitutional. by our higher courts of law and equity, then, and not until then, will I willingly,by word or deed, make any contract with a slave, nor regard them in any other light than as property of those who have either purchased or raised them.. Of course, I do not propose to interpose any force or impede in any way the constitutional authori- ties of the United States. Iam, captain, the owner of the boy who bears this note.’ Bird was after- ward arrested and lectured and dis- missed with a fine of $5 0.'" C, and P. Phone, Madison 692 SE GEO. H. HOLLAND 47 3, Formerly Manager for the late Alex- ey By ee ander Hemsley peas oe el : cine oa Ste Funeral Director and & es i Be dale a _— Bmbalmer ae _ $17 Robert Street a a Will furnish funerals at a price that’ ivan a pay will suit you. . Polite, courteous and “4s oS expert attention guaranteed. Ye Carriages to hire for ail occasions, ey Open da; and night, i To the Friends and Patrons of the late ALEX. HEMSLEY Funeral Director . and Embalmer wish to announce to the general public that Ibave taken up the business — of my late father and will endeavor to sustain ‘the reputation he bore as an efficient undertaker and Embalmer. Thanking the public for sil past favore and hoping for s continuance of thesame. I em respectfully yours SAMUEL T, HEMSLEY FUNERAL DIREC1OR & EMBALMER ° eT ENTE ER LO er Es SS ee oe ee ae AON as Sen ee ager BSR Ai A GaN ee ee erae ea ee ao oo eG . Wie i ta) OO Pee Cie ores ae aot By ee ACY Sine Rr ner iT gam ee Res Da Ee ee BG rah Sunrach CSUN arate Oana Coaches to hire for all occasions Funerals trom $75.00 Up MaiN OFFICE; 578 W. BIDDLE ST. ‘Phone Mt Vor non 2578 1 om desirous of toking this opportunity of thanking. my ‘many friends and patrons of og father the late SAMUEL W. CHASE for their past patronage and to announce that the business will be carried on ¥% the name of SAMUEL W. CHASE @ SON and that I premise to give all calls my pereonal. attention. guarante- ing most polite and courteous services atalltimes, whether in city or suburbs, and moet reasonable charges. Thanking you all again. for | your past patronage and asking @ continuance of the ame, I,remain : Yours respectfully : P.MORTON CHASE 1400 MOSHER STREET “+ Branch ‘Telephone Madiao n'1990 SH T STREET, SPARROWS POINT Alfred Nixon General Agent Jobn H. Holland, A gent 433 N. Gilmor 4t. Phone Sparrows Point 282 R Phone Gilmor 3361 M ANNAPOLIS ITERS Annapolis, Md., Sept. 23.—Mr. Charles R. Brown and Mr. Albert Polard entertained at the residence of Mr. Polard Tuesday evening at cards, Those present were: Mr. and. Mrs. Thomas Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Miller, Mr. and Mrs, Joseph Brown, Mrs. Albert Polard, Mrs. Martha Hughes, Mrs. Lizzie Little, Miss Gertrude Baden, Miss Mary Pinkney, Mr. Charles Oliver and Mr. John King. / Mrs. Johanna Cheers, of Balti- moer, visited her father, Mr. Mar- cellus Cobert,’ Sunday. Mr. Perey Adams, who has been visiting his mother, Mrs. Kate ‘Adams, has left h re to accept a position as teacher in Kittrel. Col- lege, Kittrell, N. C. Mrs: Louisa J. Scott, formerly of this. city, now residing in Lan- caster, Pa., is here visiting her daugher, Mrs. Laura A. Bulay. ‘Mrs. Julia ‘Pinkney and daugh: ters have returned home from ar extended trip through New Jersey. Rev. D. G. Hill,of the Baltimore district, preached Sunday at Mt, Moriah A. M. E. Church. It was the opening sermon for the $400( dollar rally. Rev. J. A. Briscoe preached Sun day evening to a large congrega. tion. . A recital will.be given at Mt Moriah A. M. E. Church on nex Wednesday evening. Mrs. Mary G. Johnson, Mis Jeannette Holland and Miss Clar: Hunter, who have been summering at Atlantic City,has returned home Mr. €. Stocks is much improve in health. Mrs. Lottie Brashers has return ed from Atlantic City. , Mrs. Mary Johnson entertained bridge party. Supper was serve the: following: Dr. and Mrs. T. ( | Stewart; Prof. and Mra: Bagley, 0 |New. York, Mr. and Mrs. Georg |Silence, of Washington; Mr. an | Mrs. Clarence Davis, Mr. Frederic | Ruse and Miss: Annie Sparks. T. G. MARSHALL, —DEALER IN— Groceries & Provisions,- Butter & Eggs ...and Poultry...§ 535 Dolphin St. Baltimore, Md. so J HE BEST [M PRINTING. AT THE PLANT OF THE Afro-American Co. 628 N. EUTAW ST. aT oRUIOHILL AV. SPECIALTIES—==> Letterheads : Envelopes Programmes Book ‘Work Poster Work. Placards : : Wedding : Invitations PRINCESS ANNE IN ITS 29TH YEAR --- Princess Anne, Md., Sept. 23. Princess Anne Academy is about to begin its twenty-ninth year of service in the education and training of the Negro youth. Twenty-nine years ago a few colored men intensely interested in their race, and assisted by a number of large hearted white men, seeing the great need and the large possibilities for good which could result from the locating of a school in this section, cooperated with the Centenary Biblical Institute, now Morgan College, Baltimore, and selected the site on which now stands Princess Anne Academy, Princess Anne, Md. Prof. Benjamin Oliver Bird, then an instructor in Centenary Biblical Institute, was appointed to organize and build up the school. Prof. Bird and his wife, Mrs. Portia A. Bird, a very estimable woman, were permitted to labor together in their chosen field eleven years only. But, during those brief years, from an old brick house, surrounded by a wilderness of brush and bramble which house was dormitory class room and principal's residence, he had been able to so impress the work of the school and his own passion for the uplift of the race upon the public as to create friends and prestige for the school. He soon secured a boy' dormitory, a girls' dormitory, a teachers' cottage, and a trader's building. The respect and reverence with which white and colored people of Princess Anne speak of Prof. Bird stand as a monument to the memory of the man who gave his life for his school. He loved his students; his students loved him. The years that have come and gone since the death of Prof. Bird have been years of work and struggle. Aside from the academic work there are a number of industries, one of which each student is required to pursue throughout the four years of work. Courses in agriculture, carpentry, printing, blacksmithing, domestic science and art are given and are carried to a high degree of efficiency. The academic work of the school is graded after the Maryland high school course, with the industrial work correlated. Efficient, wideawake instructors require careful pains taking work of each student. The music department was added two years ago with Miss E. Juanita Bowen, A. B., daughter of Dr. J. W. E. Bowen, as instructor. This has added new life to our work. Each year the choral club renders an elaborate cantata. The music rendered at commencement time is from the masters, closing always with the famous Hallelujah Chorus. The singing is an inspiration. The plant is a farm of one hundred and twenty acres on the main road, about a quarter of a mile from the town, Princess Anne. From an old run down farm, some parts of which would scarcely grow sage grass,you may now see beautiful gardens, rank fields of prize corn, fields of alfalfa growing in abundance. We welcome visitors at all times. Princess Anne Academy was first known as the D-laware Conference Academy. And, because of early association, has always been regarded with reverence and affection by the ministers of that body, and through them so regarded by the masses with whom they have labored. Very many members of the conference are alumni and they have always supported the school with money and students. They are loyal supporters now. There has just been completed on these grounds by their efforts a dormitory for girls with all modern conveniences, among which is a complete heating plant, covering both old and new dormitories. Each room and hall is equipped with radiators ensuring comfort and better health conditions. We are easily able to accommodate a hundred and twenty-five girls comfortably. After all, books, shop equipment lectures from teachers' desk and platform, the end desired is that all these incentives may be so received as to best bring out the fullest development individually, that each student may be sent out into life, into his community, a trained man or woman, able to assume and ready to accept the responsibility of his or her share of service to the community—a citizen. A thoroughly trained matron—Preceptress is in charge of the girls and careful chaperonage is insisted upon at all times. The boys' building is in charge of a competent disciplinarian. The moral tone of the school is of first importance to those in charge. We invite the patronage of the public and shall be glad to send catalogue and any other information to any one so d-siring. MRS. MARY R. KIAH. HAPPENINGS IN BALTIMORE COUNTY Towson, Md., Sept. 23.—Rev. John Offer Custis, the evangelist of the Baltimore Annual Conference, is leading a revival at the Mt. Calvary A. M. E. Church which has already resulted in spiritual benefits to all that have attended. A singing band is assisting him. The attendance grows larger every night. The revival will last two weeks. Special meetings will be held for women and men. The regular monthly meeting of the local W. C. T. U., meets at the St. Jam-s A. U. M. P. Church, 3 p.m., Sunday, September 26. The principal address will be delivered by Mrs. Emma Truxon of Baltimore. The Star Club of Mt. Olivet Baptist Church had a special sermon preached to it by Rev. Dr. Pierson of Baltimore last Sunday afternoon. Dr. William Pickens, dean of Morgan College and Mr. G. Sumner Whyte, president of the Sunday School Convention of the Baltimore A. M. E. Conference, delivered very helpful addresses at the recent Sunday School fall opening at Mt. Calvary Church. Mt. Calvary Church has a boy's club and a girl's club which will be organized this week. Mrs. Victoria Miller, of Washington, and Miss Coral Burl, of Boston, Mass., visited Rev. and Mrs. Arthur G. C. Randall at the week-end. Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Q. Johnson will spend the winter in Baltimore engaged in business. Rev. Kenny Barnes of Mt. Olivet Baptist Church will deliver an address at the Baptist Sunday School Convention which meets this week. BRIDE TENDERED RECEPTION An event of interest was held at Washington last Friday evening at the First Baptist Church, Kelly avenue, where a wedding reception was given by Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Guffitte in honor of their maid, Mrs. Elizabeth Neville Clarie. The bride was dressed in white taffeta and lace, with hair ornaments of pearl surmounted by argrettes and carried a bouquet of ferns and white asters. The guests of honor were Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Guffitte, Miss Guffitte, the Misses Bennett, Mrs. John G. Henck, Miss Clark, and Mrs. John French. Mr. and Mrs. Clarie also entertained about fifty intimate friends, who presented her many handsome presents. Refreshments of chicken salad, ice cream, cake and bonsons were served, followed by dancing at the home of the bride and groom. CATONSVILLE HAPPENINGS Catonsville, Md., S. pt. 23.—Sunday will be observed as organization day at Grace A. M. E. Church and all the church socials will turn out at 8 p. m. to have a sermon preached to them. Mr. George Williams, son of Mr. and Mrs. Odin William left Friday to attend the normal industrial school at Bowie. Mr. Wilbert Washington, Herman and Milton Green, left last week for Chicago where they will remain all the winter. Messrs. Oscar Whiten and Wm. Adams took a motorcycle trip to Frederick Sunday. While there they visited Mr. Whiten's parents. Messrs. Lee and Earl Allen spat the week-end at West Liberty as the guest of their sister, Mrs. Bertha Gray. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander S. Smith have returned from their wedding tour. Mrs. Smith was formerly Miss Hel n Williams. Mr. Frank Smith is visiting in Asbury Park, N. J. He will return next week. Mr. Wesley Green has sold his automobile and is arranging to buy another which he will use as a Jitney Buss. EDUCATIONAL CLUB MEETS Fairfield, Md., Sept. 23.—At a meeting of the Educational School Club Monday night plans for raising funds to continue the running of the public school longer than January 31 were considered. The following officers were elected: W. W. Brown, president; G. I. Carson, vice president; Mrs. Martha Manns, treasurer; Archile Falkner, s cretary; Mrs. Scotia Tyler, assistant ecretary, and William Tyler, banker. Grief touched the hearts of Waters' boys last week when one of their most energetic members pass d away, on Monday, September 13, 1915. The impressive funeral was held at Waters A. M. E. Church Thursday, September 16th, at 11 A. M. Fitting music was rendered by the boys' w-sted choir of which the deceased, Mr. Clarence Howard Wicks was a member. Revs. A.L. Gaines Joseph Gwynn, and Abraham Hill officiated. The floral tributes were handsome. Resolutions were read from the Sunday School, the Boy Scouts, the choir and the boys Tuesday evening and Sunday afternoon classes. The pallet bearers were: Albert Bundy, Earl Bundy, Samuel Giles, George Allen, Lyston Taylor and Joseph Thomas. The d-ceased was actively connected with every branch of boys work at Waters and high tribute was paid to his stirling qualities and his noble work. Mr. Clarence Howard Wicks was nineteen years of age. He is survived by a mother, father, two sisters and a brother. The Boy Scouts of Baltimore were highly honored by a flying visit from Salisbury, Md. Scouts. The Salisbury Scouts came up 16 strong, in number, and expressed themselves as having enjoyed their trip. Each accepted an invitation to accompany Baltimore Scouts on the excursion and field day of September 10. Having returned from the excursion every available moment was spent in informal sight seeing trips around Baltimore. Deputy Scout Commissioner and Scout Master Moses Griffin deserve great credit for the excellent showing and refined conduct of their boys while in Baltimore. Salisbury boys are we welcome to visit us at any time they desire. All the colored Boy Scouts in Baltimore will turn out at Sharon Baptist Church to a special sermon by Rev. Alexander. Watch this column for date. Special Scout Choir of 50 voices to render music. Scout Commissioner Joseph Kelso of troop No. 2 very successfully presented a stereoptican illustrated concert "The Life of Christ from the Garden to the Gates," at Christ Institute. Mr. Kelso was assisted by Messrs. Albert Bundy, Earl Bundy, Hurst Pinkney and Scouts of troop 2. The boys received warm words of praise from Rev. Abraham Hill of Christ Institute. Patrol leader Ernest Henson of troop No. 5 was a welcome visitor to Waters Boys Sunday last. "Basket ball is in the wind now boys—who says play ball?" Mr. Samuel Giles, ex-senior patrol leader, and Patrol Leader David Nickens of troop 2, visited the Council Thursday last and caught some wisdom. Patrol Leaders Rufus Gardainer and Samuel Micky, and Scout Thircus Smith were also at the Council meeting and grew wise! Scout Eugene Merritt has a little "ki-hoodle" named "Spots". "Spots" is so fierce that he can make a police man step lively. Scout Samuel Castor has a wheel. He takes great delight in riding up and down town racing the mules. Scout Neal of troop No. 6 has won medals for his good work at his Sunday School. PRESIDENT GOODLOE RESIGNS HIS POSITION To the Members of the State Colored Teachers' Association: My duties and interests do not permit my remaining longer as President of the Association. I have therefore notified Mr. Howard Gross, first vice president and Mr. George B. Murphy, chairman of the executive committee, of my resignation which is to take effect immediately. Please accept my most earnest thanks for the help and inspiration coming to me through your interest in the Association and in the educational affairs it seeks to advance. Very truly yours, D. S. S. GOODLOE FAIRFIEDD HAPPENINGS Fairfield, Md., September 23. The Penny Club resumed its regular meetings. Monday night. Mrs. Annie Gillespie is president. The Literary Club held its opening session this Thursday night A. M. Carson and John Hall are on a short visit to their old home in Salisbury, N. C. They will also visit Norfolk, Va. JOHN A. BISHOP Funeral Director and Embal C. & P. Phone Mt. Vernon 854 W. A. RILEY ... Shaving Parlor ... All Styles of Hair Cutting 15c. Children's Hair Cutting 10c. Electric massage Electric Shampooing 1537 Penna. Ave., near Mechen C. & P. Phone Frank A. 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Send 10 cents for a sample jar. Agents wanted. Write for terms. Mme. L. C. PARRISH. 95 Camden St., Boston, Mass. Phone 888 R Tremont. This letter on white written We Buy Your Antiques Such as old fenders, candle sticks andirons, old vases and all kinds of mahogany furniture paying a good price for same. 1131 Pennsylvania Avenue Dealer in new and second hand furniture stoves of all kinds, oil cloth, mattings and carpets, backing and shining. If Your Business Isn't worth ADVERTISINC Advertise It For Sale SPORTS-ATHLETICS Sporting Events and Athletic News Gathered From All Parts Of The Country By SPORTSMAN SPORTING COMMENT The High School football team will inaugurate its season with a game on Thanksgiving Day with the Howard University Prep team on the latter's campus. The High School boys began practice at Druid Hill Park this week. The High School team has booked a game with the St. Mary's basketball team for the night after Thanksgiving. The local tennis season ended in a blaze of glory (for Reckling) Wednesday evening with the defeat of Ralph Cook the dean of the racquet wielders, by Ralph Reckling. All honor to Reckling, who had to defeat four good men to gain his title. We are looking forward to a whoopin' up basketball season this year, with the High School, St. Mary's, Dunbar and maybe Astorias, all fighting for the local championship. It has been said that St. Mary's will loose one of their most valuable players in the person of "Johnnie" Armstead. Well, there's some consolation in the fact that "there's as big fish in the sea, as has ever been caught." Basketball teams of both boys and girls have been organized in the Training School. Walter Webb, ex-Dunbar star is president. The would-be-teachers are planning to make athletics a feature of their work. Our esteemed contemporary the Baltimore News opines that because of the defeat of Chief Bender and his team at the hands of the Lincoln Stars last Sunday, the former star flinger of the Athletics must certainly be a candidate for the bushleaguers. The News evidently forgets that the Lincoln Stars might just as easily make Alexander or Matthewson look like candidates for the same organization if mere defeat would justify such action. NEWS OF THE RUNNERS Roy Morse, national 220-yard champion will in all probability be absolved from the charge of competing in the Canadian meet without permit. F. W. Rubien, chairman of the national registration committee of the A. A. U. has received a letter from C. D. Reidpath the A. A. U. commissioner a Buffallo stating that he, (Reidpath) gave Morse the permit to cross the border. Final decision will be postponed however until Morse explains why he asked for a permit from Buffalo instead of New York where his club is located. At the games of the Classified Association of the Street Cleaning Department at Celtic Park last Saturday P. J. White representing the Salem-Crescent Club of New York placed second in the 130 yard open handicap, from scratch. White could not overcome the 8 yards handicap of R. E. Ebersolie who finished in 13 1-5 seconds. James Ravenell, the St. Christopher runner made third place in this event. A. Goode, of the Alpha Physical Culture Club won the 1000 yard handicap run in the good time of 2m 13s. Goode had a leeway of 65 yards. The Champion Black Sox of this city defeated the crack Harfords, in a double header at the latter's oval Sunday, by the overwhelming scores of 16-3 and 12-2. The manager of the Black Sox has issued a challenge to any team in the state, white or colored, to contest for the championship of Maryland. The Cecilton (Md.) Giants defeated the Oliver Hill Stars last Tuesday by a score of 6-0. Harry Wilson, for a number of years pitcher of the Giants died at Cecilton Tuesday, September 14. His father, five sisters, and two brothers survive. The Jersey Champions and the Salisbury (Md.) Eagles played two games of ten innings each Friday and Saturday of last week at Salisbury. Both games resulted in a BASEBALL BRIEFS The Champion Lincoln Stars defeated the Harrisburg team at that place Wednesday, after an eleven-inning battle, 5-2. The Stars scored three runs in the last inning, sewing up the game. The Harrisburg team was composed of various International League players. The second game of the big series between Chief Bender's All Stars and the Lincoln Stars, colored champions of the world, will be placed next Sunday afternoon at the Lenox Oval, N. Y. Last Sunday's contest between these two teams resulted in a victory for the colored boys, after a ten-inning struggle. An error in the ninth inning cost the Benderites the game. Benders team was scheduled to play at Phoenixville, Pa., next Sunday but after their defeat at the hands of the colored boys, Bender insisted on a return game, "Wild Bill" Skyes, will be on the mound again for the Stars. The Lincoln Stars will clash with the crack Newbury team in the first contest Sunday. The Newburgs will use Walker a recruit recently secured from the Giants. RECKLING. TENNIS KING By playing four of the hardest matches of his career, and winning each decisively, Ralph Reckling was crowned king of the local tennis players in the final tournament of the season given by the Secretary of the Y. M. C. A., last Saturday and the first part of this week. Reckling gave an exhibition of stamina and skill, that has hardly been equalled on the local courts. On Saturday he eliminated Williams in three of the hardest and most stubbornly contested sets of the season. Williams won the first but Reckling took the next two. Their style of play was so nearly alike and ability so nearly even that the result was always in doubt. The first matches were played Wednesday of last week with the elimination of Jones by Hillen, and the victory of Dr. Rhetta over Cardoza in their first set. Cardoza was in fine fettle when they started to finish their match Saturday and played Rhetta off his feet, winning two straight sets. Previous to this, however McDaniels had little difficulty in eliminating Hillen, while Cook allowed Hawkins to secure one game in the thirteen. While there was little doubt as to the result of these matches it was that that the loosers would have made better showings. Braxton defaulted to Murphy, while Ross put Reid in the corner, so that the second round found Cardoza and Murphy, Weaver and Cook, Reckling and Ross, Hillen and McDaniels, opposing each other. In a most sensational contest Ross was compelled to bow to the coming champion, Reckling. Both men were compelled to put up the best that was in them to keep from being overwhelmingly defeated. Each was in fine form, and at the finish the victor deserved the spoils. Murphy started off with a rush in his match with Cardoza winning the first set 6-1 Cardoza turned the tables in the next set winning by the same score. Murphy bid fair to win the second set getting as far as 4-1 on his opponent, but Cardoza settled down while Murphy became erratic, playing brilliantly at times and then faulting point after point. After a hard struggle the match was decided in Cardoza's favor 7-5. Interest in the semi-finals centered in the Cardoza-Reckling match, there being little doubt as to the result between Cook and McDaniels. The former pair had been rivals ever since Cardoza defeated Reckling in early summer gaining 2nd place thereby. He had maintained this place although Reckling made several vain attempts to regain his former standing. Now however, was Reckling's chance to wipe out the sting of former beatings by one decisive defeat which would give him his standing until next year, and he seemed bent on performing that one trick if no other. Cardoza practically had the first set sewed up 5-2 with the score in points 40-15. With the loss of the next point and a seeming misjudgement on the part of the umpire of the following point, the game went to deuce. Within the winning of this game Reckling took heart and won the next five games and the set. Cardoza braced himself however and won the second set 6-2. The last set was a heartbreaker for Cardoza and all those who pried their faith in him. 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